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Organized at Manchester |
September 21 |
Mustered in |
November 1 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. Duty at Munson's Hill, Defenses of Washington, D.C., attached to McDowell's Division, Army of the Potomac |
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March |
Attached to 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 10-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
March 16-April 9 |
Camp at Upton's Hill. Attached to Artillery, King's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
April 9-18 |
Advance on Falmouth, Va. |
April 18 |
Occupation of Fredericksburg |
May 25-29 |
McDowell's advance on Richmond |
June 1-21 |
Operations against Jackson. Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia |
July |
Duty at Falmouth |
July 28 |
At Fredericksburg |
August 5-8 |
Expedition to Fredericks Hall and Spotsylvania Court House |
August 5-6 |
Thornburg Mills |
August 16-
September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 21-23 |
Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 22 |
Rappahannock Station |
August 26 |
Sulphur Springs |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Battle of Bull Run |
September-October |
Maryland Campaign. Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam, Md. |
October 30-
November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
November 2-3 |
Union |
December 11-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February-April |
At Belle Plains |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May |
Attached to 3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
April 29-May 2 |
Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek |
April 29-30 |
Fitzhugh's Crossing |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
July 2-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery was commanded by Captain Frederick M. Edgell. It brought 111 men to the field serving 4 Ordnance Rifles and lost three men wounded
From the monument: "On this location Edgell's 1st New Hampshire Battery, Light Artillery, fired three hundred and fifty-three rounds of ammunition July 2nd and 3rd, 1863." |
July 12-18 |
Funkstown, Md. |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Kelly's Ford |
November 8 |
Brandy Station |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 |
Payne's Farm |
December |
At Brandy Station |
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March |
Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
May 3-June 12 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 10 |
Po River |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle" |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-19 |
Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve) |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration north of the James |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
August 20-30 |
Duty in the trenches before Petersburg |
September 1-7 |
At Fort Hill |
September 7
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At Battery 18 |
September 28 |
Non-Veterans mustered out |
October 22 |
Duty in the trenches before Petersburg |
November 5 |
Battery attached to 1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery as Company M but remained detached as a Light Battery in the field. |
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March 28 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 30-31 |
White Oak Road |
April 2 |
Sutherland Station and fall of Petersburg |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 7 |
Farmville and High Bridge |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
May 1-12 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 9 |
Mustered out |
