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Battery “F” 5th United States Artillery

Organized September, 1861.

Attached to W. F. Smith's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.

Artillery, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1862.

Artillery, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863.

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, to December, 1863.

Camp Barry, Washington, D. C., 22nd Army Corps, to July, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to December, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, to May, 1865.

Dept. of Virginia, to----


Service.

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

Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March, 1862.

Warwick Road April 5.

Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.

Lee's Mills April 16.

Battle of Williamsburg May 5.

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Gaines' Mill June 27.

White Oak Swamp June 30.

Malvern Hill July 1.

Moved to Alexandria August 16-23.

Maryland Campaign September 6-22.

South Mountain September 14.

Battle of Antietam September 16-17.

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

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

“Mud March” January 20-24, 1863.

Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.

Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.

Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3.

Salem Heights May 3-4.

Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2-4.

Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Rappahannock Station November 7.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

At Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D. C., till July, 1864.

Joined 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, before Petersburg, Va.

Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, Va., July, 1864, to April, 1865.

Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30, 1864.

Chaffin's Farm October 29.

Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 2, 1865.

Fall of Petersburg and Richmond April 2.

Duty at Richmond and in Dept. of Virginia, till----

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