1st Battery, Vermont Light Artillery
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| Organization |
| Organized
at Brattleboro, Vermont Mustered in February 18, 1862
Left Vermont for New York City March 6
Sailed on Steamer "Wallace" for Ship Island March
10, arriving April 5
Attached to Phelps' 1st Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf, to
December, 1862, Artillery, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to June, 1863
Artillery, 3rd Division, 19th Army Corps, to September, 1863
Artillery, District of LaFourche, Dept. of the Gulf, to
January, 1864
Artillery, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Army of the Gulf,
to July, 1864.
Artillery, 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, to August, 1864 |
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| Service |
Until
May 16, 1863 |
Duty at Ship Island |
May
16, 1863 |
Moved to Camp Parapet,
Defences of New Orleans, Louisiana |
Until
January 17, 1863 |
Duty there |
May
6 to June 4, 1862 |
Center Section at Fort
Pike |
Until
May 19, 1863 |
Duty at New Orleans |
April
18-21, 1863 |
Expedition to Lake
Pontchatrain |
May
19, 1863 |
Moved to Baton Rouge,
Louisiana |
May
21-24, 1863 |
Advance on Port Hudson,
Louisiana |
May
24, 1863
to July 9, 1863 |
Siege of Port Hudson |
July
9, 1863 |
Surrender of Port Hudson |
July
11-12, 1863 |
March to Baton Rouge |
July 23,
1863 |
Return to Port Hudson |
Until
September 1, 1863 |
Duty there |
September
1, 1863 |
Ordered to New Orleans,
Louisiana |
September
3-11, 1863 |
Sabine Pass, Texas
Expedition |
September
16-23, 1863 |
Moved to Brashear City,
thence to Berwick City and to Fort Bisland |
September
28, 1864 |
Return to Brashear City |
Until
March 3, 1864 |
Duty at Brashear City |
March
3, 1864 |
Moved to Franklin |
March
10, 1864 to
May 22, 1864 |
Red River Campaign |
March
14-26, 1864 |
Advance from Franklin to
Alexandria |
April
8, 1864 |
Battle of Sabine Cross
Roads |
April
9, 1864 |
Pleasant Hill |
April
23, 1864 |
Monett's Bluff, Cane River
Crossing |
April
30, 1864
to May 10, 1864 |
Alexandria |
May
13-20, 1864 |
Retreat to Morganza |
May
16, 1864 |
Mansura |
May
18, 1864 |
Yellow Bayou |
Until
July, 1864 |
Duty at Morganza |
July
3, 1864 |
Moved to Baton Rouge |
July
28, 1864 |
Ordered home |
| August 10, 1864 |
Mustered out |
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| Regimental
Losses |
| 3 |
Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded |
| 51 |
Enlisted men by disease |
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| 54 |
Total lost |
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| Source:
Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. |
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