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2nd United States Regiment Artillery

Battery “a” 2nd Artillery

At Washington, D. C., January, 1861.

Expedition to relief of Fort Pickens, Florida, and return to Washington.

Attached to Blenker's Brigade, Miles' Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia, June to August, 1861.

Heintzelman's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861.

Blenker's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861.

Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1862.

1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, Artillery Reserve, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862.

Artillery, Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac, to February, 1863.

Artillery Reserve, attached to 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1863.

2nd Brigade, Horse Artillery, attached to 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1865.

Dept. of Washington, 22nd Corps.

Service.

Advance on Manassas, Va., July 16-21, 1861.

Battle of Bull Run July 21.

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

Moved to the Virginia Peninsula.

Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.

Near Williamsburg May 4.

Mechanicsville May 23-24.

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Mechanicsville June 26.

Gaines' Mill June 27.

Malvern Hill July 1.

At Harrison's Landing till August 16.

Coggin's Point July 31-August 1.

Moved to Fortress Monroe, thence to Alexandria August 16-24.

Maryland Campaign September 6-22.

Sugar Loaf Mountain September 11-12.

Boonsborough September 15.

Battle of Antietam September 16-17.

Shepherdstown Ford September 19.

Upperville and Bloomfield November 2-3.

Snicker's Gap November 3-4.

Markham Station November 4.

Amissville November 10.

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

Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church February 5-7, 1863.

Stoneman's Raid April 29-May 8.

Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3.

Emmettsburg, Md., July 4.

Williamsport and Hagerstown July 6.

Boonsborough July 8.

Old Antietam Forge July 10.

Falling Waters July 14.

Chester Gap July 21-22.

Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan September 13-17.

Culpeper Court House September 13.

Raccoon Ford September 14-16.

Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.

Groveton October 17-18.

Gainesville and Buckland Mills October 19.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

New Hope Church November 27.

Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864.

Barnett's Ford February 6-7.

Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.

Wilderness May 5-7.

Spottsylvania Court House May 8-21.

Cold Harbor June 1-7.

Gaines' Mill, Salem Church and Haw's Shop June 2.

Sheridan's Trevillian Raid June 7-24.

Trevillian Station June 11-12.

Black Creek or Tunstall Station and White House or St. Peter's Church June 21.

St. Mary's Church June 24.

Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 29, 1864, to April 2, 1865.

Lee's Mills July 12, 1864.

Demonstration north of the James River July 27-29.

Deep Bottom July 27-28.

Malvern Hill July 29.

Lee's Mills July 30.

Demonstration north of the James August 13-20.

Gravel Hill August 14.

Deep Run August 16.

Strawberry Plains August 16-18.

Dinwiddie Road, near Ream's Station, August 23.

Ream's Station August 23-25.

Poplar Grove Church September 29-October 2.

Arthur's Swamp September 30-October 1.

Boydton Plank Road October 27-28.

Reconnoissance toward Stony Creek November 7.

Stony Creek Station December 1.

Warren's Expedition to Weldon Railroad December 7-12.

Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.

Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.

Dinwiddie Court House March 30-31.

Five Forks April 1.

Namozine Church April 3.

Payne's Cross Roads April 5.

Amelia Springs April 5.

Sailor's Creek April 6.

Appomattox Station April 8.

Appomattox Court House April 9.

Surrender of Lee and his army.

Expedition to Danville April 23-29.

Moved to Washington, D. C. Grand Review May 23.

Duty at Washington, D. C., till----

1908.

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