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Battery “F” Light Artillery

Organized as Company “C,” 6th West Virginia Infantry. Detached as an Independent Battery April 8, 1863.

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army [1660] Corps, Middle Dept., to June, 1863.

Artillery, French's Command, 8th Army Corps, to July, 1863.

Camp Barry, Washington, D. C., 22nd Army Corps, to December, 1863.

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, West Virginia, to April, 1864.

Kelly's Command, Reserve Division, West Virginia, to July, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, West Virginia, to September, 1864.

Service.

Duty at Clarksburg, Cumberland, Md., and Martinsburg, W. Va., till April, 1863.

Moved from Martinsburg to New Creek April 26, 1863, and to Berryville May 31.

Return to Martinsburg May 31.

Action at Martinsburg June 14.

Retreat to Harper's Ferry, thence guard stores to Washington, D. C., July 1-4.

Duty at Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, July to December.

Ordered to Clarksburg, W. Va., thence to New Creek January 30, 1864, and duty there till May 31.

At Clarksburg till July, and at Maryland Heights till September.

Battle of Kernstown July 24.

Transferred to Battery “A,” West Virginia Light Artillery, September 14, 1864.

1908.

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