Battery I lost 1 officer and 13 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 15 enlisted men to disease, a total of 29. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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Organized at Cincinnati, Ohio, as a Company of Light Artillery |
October -December, 1861 |
Engaged in guarding the fortifications and approaches to that city, back of Newport, Ky., Mr. Adams and Price's Hill |
December 3 |
Organized and mustered in as Battery I |
January 26, 1862 |
Left Cincinnati, Ohio, for Parkersburg, W. Va. |
February 3 |
Moved to New Creek. Attached to Milroy's Command, Cheat Mountain District, Va. |
February 11-16 |
Expedition to Moorefield, Va. |
February 12 |
Action at Moorefield |
March 26 |
Moved to Clarksburg, Va., then to Beverly |
April 25 |
Joined Milrow at Monterey, Dinwiddle Gap, Attached to Milroy's Independent Brigade, Dept. of the Mountains |
May 7 |
Shenandoah Mountain |
May 8 |
McDowell |
May 26 |
Franklin |
June |
Attached to 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia |
June 1 |
Strasburg |
June 6 |
Harrisonburg |
June 8 |
Cross Keys |
June 9 |
Port Republic |
June 10 |
Luray |
June |
At Middletown |
July 7 |
At Luray |
August 16-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 21-23 |
Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 22 |
Freeman's Ford and Hazel Run |
August 28 |
Battle of Gainesville |
August 29 |
Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run |
September |
Duty in the Defences of Washington and at Fairfax Court House attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
November 5-6 |
Manassas Gap |
December 10-16 |
March to Fredericksburg, Va. |
January 20-24, 1863 |
Burnside's 2nd Campaign "Mud March" |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville
Captain Dilger earned the Medal of Honor for his actions diring the battle. |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
From the monument on Howard Avenue:
This Battery Captain Huber Dilger Commanding marched with the 11th Corps from Emmittsburg to Gettysburg July 1. At once upon arriving it advanced rapidly to the Carlisle Road and having taken position near this spot, immediately engaged the enemy.
Reenforced by Wheeler's New York Battery Captain Dilger advanced twice from this position. Retired with the 11th Corps, but halted and again engaged the enemy before crossing the bridge into the town. During the remainder of the battle the Battery held the extreme right of Maj. Osborn's line on Cemetery Hill. Loss 13 wounded.
From the marker in the National Cemetery:
July 1. Arrived at Gettysburg before noon and went unto position west of the Carlisle Road. Engaged with two Confederate batteries which were finally silenced with a loss of five gun carriages. A Confederate rifled battery having opened fire Wheeler's Thirteenth New York Battery was added to the command of Capt. Dilger and a fierce artillery duel ensued. About 4 p.m. retired to take position on Cemetery Hill. One section was posted on Baltimore Street above the square in town to cover the retreating infantry until relieved by two pieces of Battery G Fourth U.S. Artillery. At 5 p.m. took position in the Cemetery next the Baltimore Pike facing westerly. Remained there until the close of the battle. One gun disabled.
Casualties wounded 13 men. 28 horses killed.
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July-September |
On line of the Rappahannock |
September 24-October 3 |
Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., transferred to the Army of the Cumberland |
October 26-29 |
Reopening Tennessee River |
October 28-29 |
Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn. |
November 23-27 |
Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign; attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland |
November 23 |
Orchard Knob |
November 24-25 |
Mission Ridge |
December |
Duty at Chattanooga attached to Garrison Artillery, Chattanooga, Dept, of the Cumberland |
April, 1864 |
Artillery, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland |
May 1 to September 8 |
Atlanta Campaign |
May 8-11 |
Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge |
May 8-9 |
Buzzard's Roost Gap |
May 14-15 |
Battle of Resaca |
May 18-25 |
Advance on Dallas |
May 25-June 5 |
Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills |
May 27 |
Pickett's Mills |
June 10-July 2 |
Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain |
June 11-14 |
Pine Hill |
June 15-17 |
Lost Mountain |
June 27 |
Assault on Kenesaw |
July |
Attached to Artillery Brigade, 14th Army Corps |
July 4 |
Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground |
July 5-17 |
Chattanooga River |
July 19-20 |
Peach Tree Creek |
July 22-August 25 |
Siege of Atlanta |
August 5-7 |
Utoy Creek |
August 25-30 |
Flank movement on Jonesboro |
August 31-September 1 |
Battle of Jonesboro |
September |
Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn. and garrison duty there |
March, 1865 |
Attached to 2nd Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland |
June 13, 1865 |
Mustered out |
