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Battery “K” 1st United States Artillery

Stationed at Eagle Pass, Fort Duncan, Texas, January and February, 1861.

Moved to Fort Taylor, Florida, and duty there till January, 1862.

Moved to Washington, D. C.

Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1862.

2nd Brigade, Artillery Reserve, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862.

Reserve Artillery, 5th Army Corps, to December, 1862.

Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1862.

2nd Brigade, Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1864.

Camp Barry, D. C., to August, 1864.

Horse Artillery, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, to December, 1864.

Horse Artillery Reserve, Army of the Shenandoah, to April, 1865.

Cavalry Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah.

Service.

Moved to Virginia Peninsula March, 1862.

Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.

Battle of Williamsburg May 5.

Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, May 31-June 1.

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Malvern Hill July 1.

Moved to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28.

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 28-September 2.

Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30; Chantilly September 1.

Maryland Campaign September 6-22.

Battle of Antietam September 16-17.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 11-15.

At Falmouth, Va., till April, 1863.

Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.

Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.

Brandy Station or Fleetwood and Beverly Ford June 9.

Upperville June 21.

Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.

Williamsburg and Hagerstown, Md., July 6.

Boonsboro July 8.

Benevola or Beaver Creek July 9.

About Funkstown July 10-13.

Brandy Station August 1-4.

Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan September 13-15.

Culpeper Court House September 13.

Robertson's Ford September 15.

Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.

Jeffersonton October 12-13.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

Reconnoissance from Bealeton to Front Royal January 1-4, 1864.

Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.

Wilderness May 5-7.

Spottsylvania Court House May 8-21.

North Anna May 23-26.

Totopotomoy May 28-31.

Cold Harbor June 1-12.

Ream's Station June 21.

Wilson's Raid on Southside & Danville Railroad June 22-30.

Nottaway Court House June 23.

Sappony Church or Stony Creek June 28-29.

Ream's Station June 29.

Moved to Washington, D. C., July 12-14.

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28.

Near Kearneysville August 25.

Leetown and Smithfield August 28.

Smithfield Crossing, Opequan Creek, August 29.

Sevier's Ford, Opequan Creek, September 15.

Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.

Fisher's Hill September 21.

Milford September 22.

Mount Jackson September 23-24.

Port Republic September 26-27.

Battle of Cedar Creek October 19.

Duty in the Defenses of Washington and Shenandoah Valley till August, 1865.

1908.

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