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First Vermont Heavy Artillery.
Vermont Brigade--
Getty's Division--Sixth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 2 | | 2 | | | | 21 |
| Company | A | 2 | 21 | 23 | | 54 | 54 | 192 |
| | B | 1 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 24 | 25 | 186 |
| | C | 2 | 17 | 19 | | 34 | 34 | 188 |
| | D | | 9 | 9 | | 28 | 28 | 194 |
| | E | | 12 | 12 | | 22 | 22 | 193 |
| | F | | 15 | 15 | | 52 | 52 | 192 |
| | G | | 8 | 8 | | 23 | 23 | 188 |
| | H | | 8 | 8 | | 51 | 51 | 188 |
| | I | | 9 | 9 | | 26 | 26 | 191 |
| | K | | 14 | 14 | 1 | 38 | 39 | 196 |
| | L | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 36 | 36 | 191 |
| | M | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 22 | 22 | 160 |
| Totals | 10 | 154 | 164 | 2 | 410 | 412 | 2,280 |
Total of killed and wounded, 583; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 167.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 12-21, ‘61 | 8 | Charlestown, W. Va. | 13 |
| Totopotomoy, Va. | 2 | Opequon, Va. | 20 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. (assault) | 37 | Cedar Creek, Va. | 24 |
| Cold Harbor Trenches, Va. | 10 | Petersburg, Va., March 25, ‘65 | 3 |
| Petersburg, Va., 1864 | 3 | Fall of Petersburg, Va. | 10 |
| Weldon Railroad, Va., June 23, ‘64 | 31 | Place Unknown | 2 |
| On Picket, Va. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
Fort Stevens, D. C.;
Fisher's Hill, Va.;
Mount Jackson, Va.;
Sailor's Creek, Va.
notes.--Organized at
Brattleboro, Vt., as an infantry command, but was changed to heavy artillery December 10, 1862, while on duty in
Washington.
The additional companies, L.
and M.
made necessary by this change, were recruited in July and October, 1863.
The regiment was assigned to garrison duty within the defences of
Washington, occupying Forts Slocum,
Totten, and
Stevens.
It remained at
Washington until May 12, 1864, when it moved, 1,500 strong, to join the Army of the Potomac.
Although nominally a heavy artillery regiment, it served as infantry, the only difference being in its larger organization; it had 12 companies of 150 men each, with a captain and four lieutenants for each company, forming three battalions with a major for each.
The regiment arrived at the front on May 15th, when it was assigned to the Vermont Brigade, and two days later it went into action near
Spotsylvania.
On June 1st,
Major Fleming's Battalion was engaged in the storming of Cold Harbor, with a loss of 13 killed and 107 wounded. In the affair at the Weldon Railroad, June 23d, the regiment lost 9 killed, 36 wounded, and 257 captured or missing, the captured men belonging to
Fleming's Battalion.
It was next engaged in
Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, where
Lieutenant Colonel Chamberlin fell mortally wounded in the fight at
Charlestown.
At the
Opequon, the regiment lost 8 killed, 85 wounded, and 6 missing; and at
Cedar Creek, 13 killed, 74 wounded, and 20 missing. Returning to
Petersburg, it was engaged in the final and victorious assault, with a loss of 5 killed and 45 wounded.
