Brief History
BATTERY D
Units Attached To
Date Unit
June 20, 1861
Organized at Philadelphia
August 05, 1861
Ordered to Washington, D.C.
October 1861 to March 1862 Attached
to Buell's Division, Army of the Potomac
March 1862 to September 1862 Artillery, 1st Division, 4th
Army Corps, Army Potomac
September 1862 to May 1863 Artillery,
3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac
May 1863 to June 1863
Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps
June 1863 to August 1863
Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C.
August 1863 to December 1863 Unattached, Artillery, Department
West Virginia
December 1863 to January 1864 1st Brigade, 1st Division, West
Virginia
January 1864 to April 1864
Wheaton's Brigade, Department West Virginia
April 1864 to January 1865
Artillery Brigade, Department West Virginia
January 1865 to May 1865
1st Separate Brigade, Department West Virginia
May 1865 to June 1865
2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia
Engagements
Date Event
August 1861 to March 1862
Camp Barry and in the Defenses of Washington
March 1862
Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula
April 05 to May 04, 1862
Siege of Yorktown
May 05, 1862
Battle of Williamsburg
May 31 to June 01, 1862
Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines
June 25 to July 01, 1862
Seven days before Richmond
June 29, 1862
James River Road near Fair Oaks
June 29, 1862
Savage Station
June 30, 1862
Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale
July 01, 1862
Malvern Hill
Until August 16, 1862
At Harrison's Landing
August 16-26
Movement to join Pope
August 26
Sulphur Springs
September
Maryland Campaign
September 16-17
Battle of Antietam, Md. (Reserve)
Until October 29
Duty in Maryland
October 29-November 19
Movement to Falmouth, Va..
December 12-15
Battle of Fredericksburg
January 20-24, 1863
"Mud March"
Until April
At Falmouth
April 27-May 6
Chancellorsville Campaign
April 29-May 2
Operations at Franklin's Crossing
May 03
Maryes Heights
May 03-04
Fredericksburg Salem Heights
May 04
Banks' Ford
June,1864
Ordered to Washington, D.C.
Until August, 1864
Duty at Camp Barry
August, 1864
Ordered to and duty at Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
August to November
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign
September 3
Berryville
September 19
Battle of Opequan, Winchester
September 22
Fisher's Hill
October 19, 1864
Battle of Cedar Creek
Until June, 1865
Duty at Maryland Heights and in Dept. of West Virginia
June 30, 1865
Mustered out
Lost during service 11 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
1 Officer and 18 Enlisted men by disease. Total 30.
SOURCE
Last Updated 07 June 2002
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