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The 5th U.S. Artillery, Battery A was an
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that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit fought at Yorktown, the Seven Days, Antietam, and Fredericksburg in 1862. The battery fought at Norfleet House and
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in 1863 and at
Bermuda Hundred Bermuda Hundred was the first administrative division in the English colony of Virginia. It was founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1613, six years after Jamestown. At the southwestern edge of the confluence of the Appomattox and James Rivers oppos ...
, Cold Harbor, the Petersburg assault, Chaffin's Farm, the Petersburg siege, and the Appomattox campaign in 1864–1865.


Service

Organized and equipped July, 1861. Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac, March to May, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Horse Artillery, Artillery Reserve, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to September, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1863. U.S. Forces, Portsmouth, 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 May, 1864. Dept. of Virginia, to August, 1865.


History

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., until March, 1862. Mouth of Mattawoman Creek, Md., November 14, 1861. Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula March, 1862. Peninsula Campaign April to August. Siege of Yorktown April 5–May 4. Seven days before Richmond June 25–July 1. Gaines' Mill June 27. Golding's Farm June 28. Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing until August 16. Moved to Alexandria, Va., August 16–23. Maryland Campaign September 6–22. Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16–17. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30–November 17. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12–15. "Mud March" January 20–24, 1863. Moved to Newport News, Va., February, thence to Suffolk, Va., March. Siege of Suffolk April 11–May 4. Norfleet House April 15. Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24–July 8. Expedition from White House to South Anna River July 1–7. Duty at Portsmouth, Va., until April, 1864. Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4–28. Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 9–10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12–16. Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14–16. On Bermuda Hundred front May 16–28. Movement to Cold Harbor May 28–June 1. Battles about Cold Harbor June 1–12. Assaults on Petersburg June 15–18. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28–30. Occupation of Richmond April 3, 1865. Duty at Richmond and Lynchburg, Va., until August, 1865.


Commanders

* George W. Getty: (1861) * Adelbert Ames: (Seven Days) *Charles P. Muhlenberg: (Antietam, Bermuda Hundred, Petersburg, Appomattox) *James Gilliss: (Fredericksburg) *James E. Wilson (Cold Harbor)


See also

*
List of United States Regular Army Civil War units {{Short description, none The following is a list of the units of the United States Regular Army during the American Civil War. Infantry * 1st Infantry Regiment * 2nd Infantry Regiment *3rd Infantry Regiment * 4th Infantry Regiment * 5th Infantry ...


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* * * * * * ;Attribution * {{CWR United States Regular Army Civil War units and formations U Military units and formations established in 1861 Military units and formations disestablished in 1901