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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., First battery Massachusetts Light Artillery. (search)
engaged in the march to Fredericksburg, Va., in November and in the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. The battery was in camp at White Oak Church, Va., during the winter of 1863; engaged in the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863, Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863, and Mine Run, Nov. 30, 1863; in winter quarters at Brandy Station during the winter of 1863-64; many of the men enlisted here for an additional term of service. The battery was engaged on the Po River on May 9, 10 and 11, 1864, and in operations in the Shenandoah Valley, also the battles of Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor, Va. Having lost 40 men sent home during August, the battery was active in the battles of Opequon and Fisher's Hill, Va.; after this engagement the veterans not reenlisted left the battery, while the remaining men participated in the engagement of Cedar Creek, and, after a short interval, 85 of these were transferred to the 9th Mass. Battery, there completing their term of service.