The Civil War in the East

1st United States Artillery, Battery D

 

1861

February

Stationed at Washington, D.C.

April 15

Attached to Fort Washington, Md.

December 21

Ordered to Fort Taylor, Fla., Dept. of the South

1862

June 18-21

Moved to Hilton Head, thence to Beaufort, S.C. Assigned to District of Beaufort, S.C., Dept. of the South

July 4

Action at Port Royal Ferry

October 22

Pocotaligo, S.C. (Detachment)

September

Assigned to District of Beaufort, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. South

1864

April 3-12

Expedition against Charleston

April

Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. Assigned to Artillery, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army James

May 4-June 15

Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond, Va.

May 5

Occupation of City Point

May 7

Port Walthal

May 9

Swift Creek

May 10

Chester Station and Proctor's Creek

May 12-16

Operations against Fort Darling

May 14-16

Battle of Drury's Bluff

May 20-21

Defenses of Bermuda Hundred

May-June

Duty in the Defenses of Bermuda Hundred

June 9

Petersburg

June 15-19

Assaults on Petersburg

June 16-April 2

Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond

August

Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps

August 13-20

Demonstration north of the James River

August 14-18

Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains

August 16

Russell's Mills

September 28-30

Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights

October 7

Darbytown Road

October-April

Duty in trenches north of James before Richmond

October 27-28

Battle of Fair Oaks

December

Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps

1865

April 3

Occupation of Richmond

May

Moved to Rio Grande, Texas and duty at Duty at Ringgold Barracks

November

Ordered to Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor