4th United States Artillery / Battery L

Regimental History and Service Record

Stationed at Fortress Monroe, Va., July, 1861. Attached to District Fortress Monroe, Va., Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1862. Artillery Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to April, 1863. Unattached, Artillery. 7th Army Corps, to June, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division; 7th Army Corps, to August, 1863. U.S. Forces, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to December, 1863. U. S. Forces, Yorktown, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to June, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, to August, 1865.

SERVICE.--Action at Newport News, Va., between "Monitor" and "Merrimac" March 8, 1862. Duty at Fortress Monroe until July, 1862, and at Suffolk, Va., to July, 1863. Expedition from Suffolk December 1-3, 1862.

• December 2, 1862 - Action at Franklin, Virginia

Expedition toward the Blackwater January 8-10, 1863. Siege of Suffolk April 11-May 4. Providence Church Road May 3. Duty at Portsmouth, Va., until December, 1863. Expedition from Portsmouth to Jackson, N. C., July 25-August 3. Moved to Yorktown, Va., December, 1863, and duty there until April, 1864. Wistar's Expedition from Yorktown against Richmond February 6-8, 1864. Expedition into King and Queen County March 9-12. Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Port Walthal May 6. Chester Station June 6-7. Swift Creek May 9. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Movement to Cold Harbor May 28-31.

• June 1-12, 1864 - The Overland Campaign
  • June 1-12, 1864 - Battles of Cold Harbor, Virginia

Assault on Petersburg June 15. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9, 1865. Fall of Petersburg and Richmond April 2-3. Duty in the Dept. o Virginia until August, 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 911, 932, 941, 1706)