1861 |
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Organized at Providence |
June 6 |
Mustered in under Captain William H. Reynolds |
June 19 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Burnside's Brigade, Hunter's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia |
July 16-21 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
July 21 |
Battle of Bull Run |
July 28 |
Moved to Sandy Hook, Md. and duty there and at Berlin and Darnestown |
August |
Assigned to Dept. of the Shenandoah |
September 16 |
Moved to Harper's Ferry |
October 16 |
Action at Bolivar Heights attached to Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac |
1862 |
October-March |
At Muddy Branch and Poolesville, Md. |
March 22-April 1 |
Moved to Washington, then to Hampton, Va. attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April - August |
Virginia Peninsula Campaign |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 29 |
Peach Orchard and Savage Station |
June 30 |
Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-28 |
Movement to Alexandria |
August 28-31 |
March to Fairfax C. H. |
August 31-September 1 |
Cover retreat of Pope's Army from Bull Run to Washington |
September |
Maryland Campaign |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Antietam |
September 22 |
Moved to Harper's Ferry and duty there |
October 16-17 |
Reconnaissance to Charlestown |
October 16 |
Action at Charlestown |
October 30-November 17 |
Advance up Loudoun Valley and movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 11-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863 |
January-April |
Duty at Falmouth |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 3 |
Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army Potomac |
July 1-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery was commanded by Captain William A. Arnold and brought to the field 139 men serving six 3" Ordnance Rifles.
From the monument: "July 2nd & 3rd, 1863. 4 killed, 24 wounded." |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 14 |
Bristoe Station and Auburn Heights |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
December
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At Stevensburg, Va. |
1864 |
February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
February 6-7 |
Morton's Ford |
May-June |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 10 |
Po River |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania C. H. |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
Line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
May 31 |
Shallow Creek |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 18 |
Non-Veterans mustered out |
June 21-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve) |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
September 30 |
Transferred to Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Artillery |
