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5th United States Regiment Artillery

Battery “a” 5th Artillery

Organized and equipped July, 1861.

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

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

Artillery, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1863.

Artillery, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1863.

U. S. Forces, Portsmouth, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864.

Artillery, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to June, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, to December, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, to May, 1864.

Dept. of Virginia, to August, 1865.


Service.

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., till March, 1862.

Mouth of Mattawoman Creek, Md., November 14, 1861.

Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula March, 1862.

Peninsula Campaign April to August.

Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Gaines' Mill June 27.

Golding's Farm June 28.

Malvern Hill July 1.

At Harrison's Landing till August 16.

Moved to Alexandria, Va., [1707] August 16-23.

Maryland Campaign September 6-22.

Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17.

Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 17.

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

“Mud March” January 20-24, 1863.

Moved to Newport News, Va., February, thence to Suffolk, Va., March.

Siege of Suffolk April 11-May 4.

Norfleet House April 15.

Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24-July 8.

Expedition from White House to South Anna River July 1-7.

Duty at Portsmouth, Va., till April, 1864.

Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28.

Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 9-10.

Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16.

Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14-16.

On Bermuda Hundred front May 16-28.

Movement to Cold Harbor May 28-June 1.

Battles about Cold Harbor June 1-12.

Assaults on Petersburg June 15-18.

Siege operatoins against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.

Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30.

Occupation of Richmond April 3, 1865.

Duty at Richmond and Lynchburg, Va., till August, 1865.

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