5th United States Artillery / Battery E
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.--
- May 4-June 12, 1864 -
The Overland Campaign- May 5-7, 1864 -
Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia[1]
- May 5-7, 1864 -
- May 8-21, 1864 -
Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia[2]- May 28-31, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the Totopotomoy River, Virginia - June 1-12, 1864 -
Battles of Cold Harbor, Virginia
- May 28-31, 1864 -
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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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 932, 933, 934, 940, 941, 1707-1708)
