Battery "G"

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was a light artillery

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that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The battery was organized at Cincinnati, Ohio and ordered to join McClellan in western Virginia in July 1861. It was afterward attached to 3rd Brigade, Army of Occupation, Western Virginia, to September 1861. Cheat Mountain District, Western Virginia, to December 1861. Defenses of Washington, D.C., to March 1862. Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May 1862. 2nd Brigade,

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, Artillery Reserve,

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, Potomac, to September 1862. Artillery Reserve,

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, Army of the Potomac, to November 1862. Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May 1863. 1st Regular Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June 1863. Artillery Brigade,

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, Army of the Potomac, to October 1863, and Army of the Cumberland to November 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to March 1864. 1st Division, Artillery Reserve, Department of the Cumberland, to October 1864.

Detailed service

Western Virginia Campaign July 6–17, 1861. Moved to Cheat Mountain and duty there until December 1861. Action at Greenbrier River October 3–4. Blue's Gap January 7, 1862. Moved to Washington, D.C., and duty there until March 1862. Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula. Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4. Seven Days Battles before Richmond June 25-July 1. Bottom's Bridge June 28–29. Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing until August 16. Movement to Fort Monroe, then to Alexandria August 16–23. Maryland Campaign September 6–22. Battle of Antietam September 16–17. Shepherdstown Ford September 19. Moved to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12–15. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1–6. Gettysburg Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1–3. Moved to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 3. Reopening Tennessee River October 26–29. Battle of Chattanooga, Tenn., November 23–25. Bushy Knob November 23. Orchard Knob November 23–24. Missionary Ridge November 25. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., February 1864, and post duty thru until October. Transferred to Battery I, 4th U.S. Light Artillery October 1864. Remounted as a battery at Washington, D.C., February 1865, and duty in the defenses of that city until August.

Commanders

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Albion P. Howe Albion Parris Howe (March 13, 1818 – January 25, 1897) was an American officer who served as a Union general in the American Civil War. Howe's contentious relationships with superior officers in the Army of the Potomac eventually led to his bei ...

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Charles H. Morgan - succeeded Cpt Howe * 1st Lieutenant

Marcus P. Miller Marcus Peter Miller (March 27, 1835 – December 11, 1906) was a career officer in the United States Army. A Union Army veteran of the American Civil War and a U.S. Army veteran of the American Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, Philippine–A ...

- succeeded Lt Morgan * 1st Lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson - succeeded Lt Miller; mortally wounded in action at the Battle of Gettysburg * 1st Lieutenant Eugene A. Bancroft - commanded after Lt Wilkeson was mortally wounded in action * 1st Lieutenant Christopher F. Merkle - succeeded Lt Bancroft

References

* Dyer, Frederick H. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'' (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. ;Attribution * {{CWR

External links

Battery G, 4th U.S. Light Artillery marker at Antietam Battlefield

Battery G, 4th U.S. Light Artillery monuments at Gettysburg Battlefield
United States Regular Army Civil War units and formations U Military units and formations established in 1861 Military units and formations disestablished in 1865

Service

Detailed service

Commanders

See also

References

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