3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery / Battery C
Regimental History and Service Record
Attached to Sherman's Expeditionary Corps to April, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the South, to July, 1862. U.S. Forces, Hilton Head, S.C., Dept. South, to September, 1862. U.S. Forces, Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. South, to January, 1863. District of Beaufort, S. C, 10th Corps, to June, 1863. St. Helena Island, S.C., 10th Corps, to July, 1863. U.S. Forces, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps, to October, 1863. Artillery, Gordon's Division, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps, to December, 1863. District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps, to February, 1864. Artillery, District of Florida, Dept. South, to April, 1864. Artillery, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to May, 1864. Unattached Artillery, 10th Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to June, 1864. Artillery 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to August, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 10th Corps, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Action at Port Royal Ferry, S.C., December 29, 1861. Venus Point February 15, 1862. Moved to Edisto Island, S.C., April 5. Operations on James Island, S.C., June 1-28. Action James Island June 10. Battle of Secessionville June 16. Moved to Hilton Head, S.C., June 28-July 1, and duty there until October. Expedition to Pocotaligo, S.C., October 21-23. Action at Caston and Frampton's Plantation, near Pocotaligo, October 22. Coosawhatchie October 22. At Hilton Head, S.C., until January, 1863, and at Beaufort, S.C., until June, 1863. Broad River April 8. Port Royal Ferry April 9. Combahee River June 1. Combahee Ferry June 2. Expedition to Darien June 5-24. Moved to St. Helena Island, S.C., thence to Folly Island, S.C., July 4-5. Attack on Morris Island, S.C., July 10. Operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg and against Fort Sumter and Charleston, S. C., until December. Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg September 7. Moved to Hilton Head, S. C., and duty there until February, 1864. Expedition to Jacksonville, Fla., February 5-7, and to Lake City February 7-22. Battle of Olustee February 20. Occupation of Palatka March 10. Duty at Jacksonville until April 30. Moved to Yorktown, Va., April 30. Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 5-June 15. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drewry's Bluff May 14-16. On Bermuda Hundred front May 17-June 15. Appomattox River May 28-31 and June 5. Before Petersburg June 15-19. Siege of Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Demonstration on north side of the James August 13-20, 1864. Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18. Laurel Hill August 17. Chaffin's Farm September 28-30. Darbytown and New Market Roads October 7. Fort Burnham December 10 and January 24, 1865. Fall of Petersburg and Richmond April 2-3. Duty in the Dept. of Virginia until June. Mustered out June 9, 1865.
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Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 1628-1629)
