38th Virginia Light Artillery Battalion / Battery D

Regimental History and Service Record

~June 1863 - Organized by the assignment of the (Lynchburg) Virginia Artillery Battery
July 1, 1864-December 26, 1864 - Armed with four 12-lb. Napoleons
July 1-3, 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
April-May 1863 - Suffolk Campaign
April 17-20, 1864 - Plymouth Expedition
May 17-June 14, 1864 - Bermuda Hundred
June 1-3, 1864 - Cold Harbor
June 1864-April 1865 - Siege of Petersburg
- June 17, 1864 - Petersburg
April 9, 1865 - Appomattox Court House
- Surrendered

DESIGNATIONS

June-July 1863 - Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Pickett's Division / Artillery Battalion
July-September 1863 - Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Artillery / Dearing's Battalion
September-December 1863 - Department of North Carolina / Pickett's Division / Artillery Battalion
December 1863-May 1864 - Department of North Carolina / Dearing's Artillery Battalion
May 1864 - Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia / Dearing's Artillery Battalion
May 1864 - Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia / Whiting's Division / Artillery Battalion
May-June 1864 - Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia / Hoke's Division / Artillery Battalion
June-October 1864 - Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia / Read's Artillery Battalion
October 1864-April 1865 - Army of Northern Virginia / 4th Corps / Read's/Stribling's Artillery Battalion

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Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Virginia. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 12-13)