The Civil War in the East

Battery A West Virginia Light Artillery "Daum's"

1861

June 28

Organized at at Wheeling, W. Va..

July

At Elkwater. Attached to Army of Occupation, W. Va.

September

Attched to Cheat Mountain, District West Virginia

September 11-17

Operations on Cheat Mountain

September 11

Action at Cheat Mountain

September 12

Cheat Mountain Pass, Point Mountain Turnpike and Elkwater

October 3-4

Greenbrier River

October

At Romney

1862

January 6

Expedition to Blue's Gap. Attached to Landers' Division, Army Potomac.

January 7

Hanging Rock, Blue's Gap

January

At Paw Paw Tunnel

March 7-12

Advance on Winchester. Attached to Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps

March 22-23

Battle of Kernstown, Winchester

March 25

Cedar Mountain

April 1

Woodstock

April 2

Edenburg

April 17

Occupation of Mt. Jackson

May 12-22

March to Fredericksburg. Atached to Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock

May 25-30

To Front Royal

May 30

Front Royal

June

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Slough's Command, Defenses of Washington

1863

February

Attached to Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps

July

Ordered to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., then to Charlestown. Attached to Maryland Heights, 2nd Division, Dept. of West Virginia.

November 15-18

Expedition to near New Market

November 16

Mt. Jackson

December 10-25

Wells' demonstration up the Shenandoah Valley. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of West Virginia,

1864

January

Duty at Harper's Ferry, Charlestown and Martinsburg

April

Attached to Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.

May

At Maryland Heights

October 17

Moved to Parkersburg

October

Duty at Parkersburg, Charlestown and in the Kanawha Valley. Attached to 1st Separate Brigade Dept. of West Virginia.

1865

July 27

Mustered out