Battery A West Virginia Light Artillery

United States Regiments & Batteries  * West Virginia

“Daum’s Battery”

1861
June 28 Organized at at Wheeling, W. Va..
July At Elkwater. Attached to Army of Occupation, W. Va.
September Attched to Cheat Mountain, District West Virginia
September 11-17 Operations on Cheat Mountain
September 11 Action at Cheat Mountain
September 12 Cheat Mountain Pass, Point Mountain Turnpike and Elkwater
October 3-4 Greenbrier River
October At Romney
1862
January 6 Expedition to Blue’s Gap. Attached to Landers’ Division, Army of the Potomac.
January 7 Hanging Rock, Blue’s Gap
January At Paw Paw Tunnel
March 7-12 Advance on Winchester. Attached to Shields’ 2nd Division, Banks’ 5th Army Corps
March 22-23
Battle of Kernstown, Winchester
March 25
Cedar Mountain
April 1 Woodstock
April 2 Edenburg
April 4 Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, Department of the Shenandoah
April 17 Occupation of Mt. Jackson
May 12-22 March to Fredericksburg. Atached to Shields’ Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock
May 25-30 To Front Royal
May 30 Front Royal
June Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Slough’s Command, Defenses of Washington
1863
February Attached to Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps
July Ordered to Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., then to Charlestown. Attached to Maryland Heights, 2nd Division, Dept. of West Virginia.
November 15-18 Expedition to near New Market
November 16 Mt. Jackson
December 10-25 Wells’ demonstration up the Shenandoah Valley. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of West Virginia,
1864
January Duty at Harper’s Ferry, Charlestown and Martinsburg
April Attached to Reserve Division, Harper’s Ferry, W. Va.
May At Maryland Heights
October 17 Moved to Parkersburg
October Duty at Parkersburg, Charlestown and in the Kanawha Valley. Attached to 1st Separate Brigade Dept. of West Virginia.
1865
July 27 Mustered out