8th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery

June 24, 1862

Organized at North Cambridge for six months' service and left State for Washington, D. C.

June 27

Arrived Washington D.C.; Attached to Cook's Brigade, Sturgis' Reserve Corps, Military District of Washington

July 1 to August 8

Camp near Fairfax Seminary, Va.

August 8-11

Moved to Alexandria, then to Aquia Creek and Falmouth

August 16-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia; attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

August 29

Battle of Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September 1

Chantilly

September 14

South Mountain, Md.

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

September 18

At Antietam Creek

October 5-9

Moved to Washington, D.C., to refit

October 21-26

to Pleasant Valley, Md.

October 26-November 19

Movement to Falmouth, Va.

November 29, 1862

Mustered out