Brief History
BATTERY G
Units Attached To
Date Unit
June 20, 1861
Organized at Philadelphia
August 05, 1861
Ordered to Washington, D.C.
August 1861 to March 1862
Attached to McCall's Pennsylvania Reserve Division, Army of the
Potomac
March 1862 to April 1862
Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
April 1862 to June 1862
Artillery, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock
June 1862 to August 1862
Artillery Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the
Potomac
August 1862 to September 1862 Artillery, 3rd Division,
3rd Corps, Army of Virginia
September 1862 to May 1863 Artillery,
3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
May 1863 to July 1863
3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac
July 1863 to April 1864
Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
April 1864 to May 1864
Camp Barry, 22nd corps
May 1864 to July 1864
1st Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Corps
July 1864 to January 1865
Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia
January 1865 to April 1865
1st Infantry Division, West Virginia
April 1865 to June 1865
3rd Brigade, Hardins' Division, 22nd Army Corps,
Engagements
Date Event
August 1861 to October 1861 Camp
Barry and in the Defenses of Washington
October 1861 to March 1862 Camp
Pierpont, near Langley, Va.
December 06 1861
Expedition to Grinnell's Farm
March 10-15 1862
Advance on Manassas, Va.
April 09-19
McDowell's advance on Falmouth
Until June
Duty at Falmouth and Fredericksburg
June 1862
Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula.
June 25-July 1
Seven days before Richmond
June 26
Battles of Mechanicsville
June 27
Gaines Mill
June 30
Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale
July 1
Malvern Hill
Until August 16
Duty at Harrison's Landing
August 16-26
Movement to join Pope
Until October 9
Duty at Washington, D.C.
October 9
Rejoined Division at Sharpsburg, Md.
November 1862
Movement to Falmouth, Va.,
December 12-15 1862
Battle of Fredericksburg
January 20-24 1863
"Mud March"
Until April 1863
At Falmouth and Belle Plains
April 27-May 6
Chancellorsville Campaign
April 29-May 2
Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek
April 29-30
Fitzhugh's Crossing
May 2-5
Chancellorsville
May 12 1863 to April 3 1864 Battery
attached to Battery "F" 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery
June 11-July 24 1863
Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign
July 1-3 1863
Battle of Gettysburg, Pa.
September 13-17
Advance to line of the Rapidan
October 9-22
Bristoe Campaign
October 14
Auburn and Bristoe
November 7-8 1863
Advance to line of the Rappahannock
November 26-December 2 1863 Mine Run Campaign
February 6-7 1864
Demonstration on the Rapidan
February 6-7 1864
Morton's Ford
Until April
At Stevensburg
April 1864
At Camp Berry, Defenses of Washington, D.C.
Until July 1864
At Arlington Heights, Va., as garrison of Forts Bennett, Cochran and
Haggerty
July 3 1864
Ordered to Frederick, Md.
July 6 to December 12, 1864
Infantry duty at Point of Rocks, Md.
Until April 16, 1865
At Maryland Heights
Until April 27
At Fort Lincoln, near Washington, D.C.
Until June
At Fort Foote, near Washington, D.C.
June 29, 1865
Mustered out at Camp Cadwalader
Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 16 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 14 Enlisted men by disease. Total 31.
SOURCE
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