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Battery ā€œDā€ 1st United States Artillery

Stationed at Washington, D. C., February, 1861.

Attached to Fort Washington, Md., April to December, 1861.

Fort Taylor, Florida, Dept. of the South, to June, 1862.

District of Beaufort, S. C., Dept. of the South, to September, 1862.

District of Beaufort, S. C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. South, to April, 1864.

Artillery, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, to August, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps, to December, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps, to November, 1865.

Service.

Moved to Fort Washington, Md., April 15, 1861, and duty there till December.

Ordered to Fort Taylor, Florida, December 21, and duty there till June 18, 1862.

Moved to Hilton Head, thence to Beaufort, S. C., June 18-21, and duty there till April, 1864.

Action at Port Royal Ferry July 4, 1862.

Pocotaligo, S. C., October 22, 1862 (Detachment).

Expedition against Charleston April 3-12.

Moved to Gloucester Point, Va., April, 1864.

Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., May 4-June 15.

Occupation of City Point May 5.

Port Walthal May 7.

Swift Creek May 9.

Chester Station May 10.

Proctor's Creek May 10.

Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16.

Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14-16.

Defenses of Bermuda Hundred May 20-21.

Duty in the Defenses of Bermuda Hundred till June 15.

Petersburg June 9.

Assaults on Petersburg June 15-19.

Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.

Demonstration north of the James River August 13-20, 1864.

Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains August 14-18.

Russell's Mills August 16.

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

Darbytown Road October 7.

Duty in trenches north of James before Richmond till April, 1865.

Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28, 1864.

Occupation of Richmond April 3, 1865.

Moved to Rio Grande, Texas, May, 1865.

Duty at Ringgold Barracks till November, then ordered to Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor.

1908.

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