Battery F lost 1 officer and 17 enlisted men killed and 13 enlisted men to disease. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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August 5, 1861 |
Organized at Philadelphia under Captain Ezra Matthews and ordered to Washington, D.C. for duty in the Defenses of Washington |
October |
On the Upper Potomac between Edward's Ferry and Hancock, Md. Attached to Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac |
March, 1862 |
1st Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps and 1st Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah |
March 1-12 |
Advance on Winchester |
March 7 |
Reconnaissance toward Strasburg and action near Winchester |
March 21 |
Ordered to join Abercrombie's Brigade and moved to Warrenton Junction. |
March 24-April 27 |
Pursuit of Jackson up the Valley |
April 18 |
Rappahannock Crossing |
May |
Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
June |
Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia |
August 1-
September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
August 21-23 |
Fords of the Rappahannock
Private James Robinson was killed |
August 28 |
Thoroughfare Gap |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Battle of Bull Run |
September 1 |
Battle of Chantilly |
September 6-24 |
Maryland Campaign. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
Privates Seymour Donney and Edward Thompson were killed and Privates Peter Killion and George Laube were mortally wounded |
September-October |
Duty at Sharpsburg, Md. |
October 30-November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
January, 1863 |
Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps |
January 20-24, 1863 |
"Mud March" |
February-April |
At Falmouth and Belle Plain |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 |
Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek |
April 29-30 |
Fitzhugh's Crossing |
May 2-5 |
Chancellorsville. Attached to 3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
May 8 |
Lt. Robert B. Ricketts promoted to captain |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July |
Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
July 2-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery was commanded at Gettysburg by Captain Robert B. Ricketts. It brought 144 men to the field serving six Ordnance Rifles, and suffered 6 killed, 14 wounded and 3 missing
From the monument:
"July 2nd. Reached the field and took this position in the afternoon and engaged the Rebel batteries on Benner's Hill. 8 p.m. A Rebel column charged the Battery and a desperate hand-to-hand conflict ensued which was repulsed after every round of canister had been fired.
July 3rd. Engaged with the Rebel batteries on the left and centre of the line."
Sergeant Myron French and Privates Elijah Anderson, James Powryne and James Riggin were killed, Corporal John Christian was wounded and Corporal Oscar Larrabee was captured |
September 13-17 |
Advance to line of the Rapidan |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe
Corporal William Patterson was wounded |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign
Sergeant Francis Sider wounded |
February 6-7, 1864 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
February 6-7 |
Morton's Ford |
March-May |
Camp near Stevensburg, Va. |
May 4-June 12 |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Battle of Spottsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Battle of Spottsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
Line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy
Private Cyrus Appleman wounded |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor
Private William Coulter was killed |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 21-22 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration north of the James River at Deep Bottom |
July 27-29 |
Deep Bottom |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains |
September |
Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
December 1, 1865 |
Captain Ricketts promoted to major |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 17 |
Lieutenant John Campbell promoted to captain |
May |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
July 9, 1865 |
Mustered out under Captain Campbell |
