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Battery “M” 3rd United States Artillery

At San Francisco, Cal., till October, 1861.

Ordered to New York October 14, thence to Washington, D. C.

Attached to Battery “L,” Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, March to May, 1862.

Artillery, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to December, 1862.

Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1863, and Dept. of the Ohio to June, 1863.

Artillery Reserve, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to August, 1863.

Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1863.

Artillery, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, to January, 1864.

Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, to April, 1864.

Reserve Artillery, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1864.

Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D. C., 22nd Army Corps, to February, 1865.

District of Alexandria, 22nd Army Corps, to August, 1865.


Service.

Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4.

New Bridge June 19.

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Mechanicsville June 26.

Gaines' Mill June 27.

Turkey Bridge June 30.

Malvern Hill July 1.

At Harrison's Landing till August 16.

Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Alexandria August 16-23.

Maryland Campaign September 6-22.

Battle of Antietam September 16-17.

At Sharpsburg till October 30.

Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

“Mud March” January 20-24, 1863.

Moved to Newport News February 7, thence to Kentucky March 21-28.

Duty in District of Central Kentucky till June.

Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., June 4-14.

Siege of Vicksburg June 14-July 4.

Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10.

Siege of Jackson July 10-17.

Moved to Covington, thence to Crab Orchard, Ky., August 4-18.

Moved to Knoxville, Tenn., September 10-26.

Action at Philadelphia [1703] delphia October 16.

Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23.

Campbell's Station November 16.

Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 5.

Blain's Cross Roads December 17.

Strawberry Plains January 21-22, 1864.

Duty in East Tennessee till March.

Moved to Annapolis, Md. Rapidan Campaign May 4-16.

Battle of the Wilderness May 5-7.

Spottsylvania Court House May 8-16.

Ordered to Washington, D. C., May 16, and duty in the Defenses of that city and Alexandria, Va., till August, 1865.

3rd Regiment Artillery lost during the war 2 Officers and 39 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 67 Enlisted men by disease. Total 111.

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