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Battery “M” 5th United States Artillery

Organized November, 1861.

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

Reserve Artillery, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to December, 1862.

Reserve Artillery, Yorktown, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to May, 1863.

Unattached Artillery, 4th Army Corps, Yorktown, Va., to July, 1863.

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July, 1864.

Artillery, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, to September, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, to December, 1864.

Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., to January, 1865.

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


Service.

Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4, 1862.

Duty at Yorktown, Va., till July, 1863.

Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24-July 7, 1863.

Expedition from White House to Bottom's Bridge July 1-7.

Joined 6th Army Corps, July, 1863.

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.

Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.

Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania Court House May 8-21.

Assault on the Salient May 12.

North Anna River May 22-26.

On line of the Totopotomoy May 28-31.

Cold Harbor June 1-12.

Operations against Petersburg June 17 to July 9.

Jerusalem Plank Road June 22.

Movement to Washington, D. C., May 9-12.

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 6-November 28.

Battle of Cedar Creek October 19.

Duty at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., till April, 1865, and in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., till August----

The 5th Regiment of Artillery lost during service 7 Officers and 87 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 145 Enlisted men by disease. Total 240.

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