The battery lost 1 officer and 12 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 14 enlisted men to disease, a total of 27. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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Organized at Elmira, N.Y. undr Captain Thomas W. Osborn |
September 6. 1861 |
Mustered in |
October 31 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
November |
Duty at Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
March, 1862 |
Ordered to the Peninsula, Va. attached to Hooker's 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 24 |
Bottom's Bridge |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Seven Pines (or Fair Oaks) |
June 15 |
Some of the survivors of Battery A transferred in after their battery was overrun and their pieces lost at Fair Oaks |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 25 |
Oak Grove |
June 29 |
Savage Station and Peach Orchard |
June 30 |
Turkey Bridge (or Malvern Cliff) |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July |
Duty at Harrison's Landing attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps |
August 16 |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C., near Fairfax Seminary, Munson's Hill and at Fairfax Station |
December |
Rappahannock Campaign; attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
January 20-24, 1863 |
"Mud March" |
At Falmouth |
January |
February |
Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 13 to August 1 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery was commanded at Gettysburg by Captain George B. Winslow. It brought 116 men to the field serving six 12-pounder Napoleons, and lost 10 wounded and 8 missing un fighting in the Wheatfield. |
July 23 |
Wapping Heights |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
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 Grove |
November 28-30 |
Mine Run |
December-May |
Duty near Brandy Station |
March, 1864 |
Attached to Artillery Brigade. 5th Army Corps |
May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8 |
Laurel Hill |
May 8-12 |
Spottsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
"Bloody Angle" (Assault on the Salient) |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 23 |
Jericho Ford |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 1-3 |
Bethesda Church |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 21-23 |
Weldon Railroad |
August 18-21 |
Six Mile House, Weldon Railroad |
September 29 |
Varuna Road |
September 30-October 1 |
Poplar Grove Church |
February 5-7, 1865 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29-31 |
Boydton and White Oak Roads |
April 1 |
Five Forks |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
May |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 16, 1865 |
Mustered out under Captain Jas. B. Hazleton
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