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Battery “B” 5th United States Artillery

Organized November, 1862.

Duty at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. Harbor, till June, 1863.

Attached to 1st Division, Dept. of the Susquehanna, June-July, 1863.

Unattached, Dept. West Virginia, to December, 1863.

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

Artillery Brigade, West Virginia, to December, 1864.

Reserve Division, West Virginia, to January, 1865.

1st Separate Brigade, 3rd Division, Dept. West Virginia, to April, 1865.

Artillery, 2nd Division, West Virginia, to July, 1865.

Dept. of Washington, D. C., to----

Service.

Ordered to Dept. of the Susquehanna June, 1863, thence to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., July, 1863.

Duty there and in the Dept. of West Virginia, till April, 1864.

Sigel's Expedition from Martinsburg, W. Va., to New Market, Va., April 29-May 15, 1864.

Battle of New Market May 15.

Hunter's Raid to Lynchburg, Va., May 26-July 1.

Lynchburg July 17-18.

Catawba Mountains June 21.

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

Berryville September 3.

Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.

Fisher's Hill September 22.

Battle of Cedar Creek October 19.

Duty in the Shenandoah Valley and in the Dept. of West Virginia, till July, 1865.

At Washington, D. C., till--

1908.

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