Battery E lost 2 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 21 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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August 5 |
Organized at Philadelphia under Captain Theodore Miller and ordered to Washington, D.C. |
August-September |
Duty at Camp Barry and in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to W. F. Smith's Division, Army of the Potomac, |
October |
Attached to Buell's Division, Army of the Potomac |
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March 10-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March |
Moved to the Virginia Peninsula |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines |
June |
Attached to Reserve Artillery, 4th Army Corps |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps |
June 25-29 |
Defense of Bottom's Bridge |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July 4 |
Captain Miller promoted to A. Adjutant General. Lieutenant Thomas G. Orwig takes command of the battery |
July |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 11 |
Lieutenant Orwig promoted to captain |
August 16-24 |
Retreat from the Peninsula |
September |
Garrison duty at Yorktown and Gloucester assigned to United States Forces, Yorktown, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
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June 26-July 8 |
Dix's Peninsula Campaign |
October 4-9 |
Expedition to Matthews County |
December 11-15 |
To Gloucester Court House |
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April |
At Williamsburg, Va. and in Defenses of Yorktown |
July 5 |
Ordered to join Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps in the field for siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
August |
Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps |
September 21 |
Captain Orwig resigns. Lieutenant Henry Wildey takes command of the battery |
September 28-30 |
Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, and Fort Harrison |
September 30 |
In trenches before Richmond |
November 1 |
Lieutenant Wildey promoted to captain |
December |
Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
April, 1865 |
Duty dismantling forts and removing Ordnance |
July 20, 1865 |
Mustered out under Captain Wildey |
