The Battery lost 1 officer and 5 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 14 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
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Organized at Cleveland, Marietta and Camp Dennison, Ohio under Capt. Wm. L. DeBeck |
October 22 |
Mustered in |
1862 |
February |
Left State for West Virginia and attached to Cheat Mountain District, West Virginia |
March |
Attached to Cheat Mountain District, Dept. of the Mountains |
May 8 |
Battle of McDowell |
May 28 |
Franklin |
June 1-2 |
Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley, Strasburg and Staunton Road, attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia |
June 6 |
Harrisonburg |
June 8 |
Cross Keys |
June 9 |
Port Republic |
June |
At Middletown |
July |
At Sperryville |
August 16-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 21-23 |
Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 22 |
Freeman's Ford, Hazel River and Leary's Ford |
August 23-25 |
Waterloo Bridge |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run |
September |
Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C. attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 25-28 |
Expedition from Centreville to Warrenton Junction and Bristoe Station |
December 10-16 |
March to Fredericksburg, Va. |
1863 |
January 20-24 |
Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March" |
March |
Attached to Reserve Artillery, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
May 11 |
Capt. Lewis Heckman takes command of the battery |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery brought 118 men to the field serving four 12-punder Napoleons.
From the monument: "Arriving about noon July 1, 1863 this battery Capt. Lewis Heckman commanding, went into position here in reserve. When the 11th Corps began to retire, it engaged the enemy with great gallantry. After severe loss it was withdrawn. Casualties: 2 killed, 11 wounded, 2 missing." |
July-September |
Duty on line of the Rappahannock |
September 24-October 3 |
Moved to Bridgeport, Ala., transferred to Army of the Cumberland |
October 26-29 |
Reopening Tennessee River |
October 28-29 |
Battle of Wauhatchie |
November 23-27 |
Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign |
November 23-24 |
Lookout Mountain |
November 25 |
Mission Ridge |
December |
Assigned to Reserve Artillery and Garrison duty at Bridgeport and Stevenson, Ala., Dept. of the Cumberland |
1864 |
May |
Stevenson, Ala., District of North Alabama, Dept. of the Cumberland |
October |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, Defences Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland |
1865 |
March |
Assigned to Post of Stevenson, Ala., Dept. of the Cumberland |
July 3 |
Ordered home |
July 17 |
Mustered out |
