5th United States Artillery / Battery E

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Regimental History and Service Record

Organized May, 1862, and on duty at Fort Hamilton, N.Y. Harbor, until June, 1863. Ordered to Dept. of the Susquehanna, and duty in Pennsylvania until April, 1864. Ordered to Washington, and attached to 3rd Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac, to May, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to July, 1864. Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to June, 1865. Dept. of Washington, D.C., to ?.

SERVICE.--

Siege of Petersburg June 17, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Jerusalem Plank Road June 22, 1864. Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9, 1865. Assaults on and fall of Petersburg April 2, 1865. Sailor's Creek April 6. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. March to Danville April 17-23, and duty there until May. Moved to Richmond, thence to Washington, D.C., May 18-June 3. Corps Review June 8. Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C., until ?.

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