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661 Series I Volume XL-I Serial 80 - Richmond, Petersburg Part I

Page 661 Chapter LII. THE RICHMOND CAMPAIGN.

Date. Company. Commanding officer.

1864

August 12 B, 1st Connecticut Lieutenant Cummings.

Artillery

17 A, 1st Connecticut Captain Gillett...

Artillery

18 M, 1st Connecticut Captain Pratt......

Artillery.

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22 B, 1st Connecticut Captain Brooker....

Artillery

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27 I, 1st Connecticut Lieutenant Jackson.

Artillery.

31 M, 1st Connecticut Captain Pratt......

Artillery.

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11 E, 1st Connecticut Lieutenant Logan...

Artillery

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28 M, Third Pennsylvania Captain Korte......

Artillery.

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28 M, 1st Connecticut Captain Pratt......

Artillery

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6 M, 1st Connecticut Captain Pratt......

Artillery

6 ......do.................. Lieutenant E. P.

Mason..

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15 C, 1st Connecticut Captain Pierce......

Artillery

Date. Armament. Locality and remarks.

1864.

August 12 One 100-pounder Parrott. Sent to Dutch Gap.

17 Four 10-inch Sent to Fort Morton,

mortars.... Two 4 1/2-inch near Petersburg.

guns.

18 Four 4 1/2-inch guns..... Sent to Fort

Sedgwick, Petersburg.

19 Sawyer field gun........ Sent to Dutch Gap

from Battery Pruyn.

22 Two Coehorns Sent to Dutch Gap.

24 Two 12-pounder howitzers. Received from Captain

One 20-pounder Parrott. Hart in accordance

One 32-pounder Navy gun with Special Orders,

One 8-inch siege Numbers 69,

howitzers. Three 10-inch headquarters Armies

sea-coast mortars. Two of the United States,

100-pounder Parrotts. dated August 4, 1864.

Three 8-inch mortars. One

12-pounder gun....

26 Added to Dutch Gap.

Transferred from

Battery Burpee to

Dutch Gap.

27 One 13-inch mortar..... Transferred from

Battery Burpee to

Dutch Gap.

31 Fourt 4 1/2-inch guns... Transferred to

Battery Numbers 17,

Petersburg.

Sept. 7 One 32-pounder Navy gun. Sent to Fort Monroe.

11 Three 30-pounder Parrotts. Added to Battery 5,

Petersburg.

12 Fourt Coehorns......... Added to Redoubt

Dutton.

27 One 20-pounder Parrott. Added to Battery

Drake.

28 Two 8-inch siege howitzers Transferred to Fort

Converse.

28 One 13-inch mortar Transferred to City

Point.

28 Four 4 1/2-inch guns.. Transferred to Fort

Morton.

Oct. 2 Eight 6-pounder guns.. Captured guns

received from

Eighteenth Army

Corps.

3 Eight 6-pounder guns.. Sent captured guns to

Fort Monroe.

5 One 8-inch columbiad. One Captured guns

32-pounder smoothbore Navy received from

gun. One 32-pounder, Eighteenth Army

rifled and banded. One 12- Corps.

pounder rifled Richmond

gun.

6 Four 4 1/2-inch guns.. Transferred to

Battery Numbers 17,

Petersburg.

6 Two 8-inch guns... Sent to Battery

Numbers 20,

Petersburg.

8 Four 4 1/2-inch guns. One Sent to Fort Monroe.

8-inch siege howitzer.

13 One 30-pounder rifled Captured gun received

Richmond gun. from Eighteenth Army

Corps.

14 One 8-inch columbiad. One Sent to Fort Monroe.

32-pounder smoothbore Navy

gun. One 32-pounder,

banded and rifled. One 12-

pounder rifled Richmond

gun.

14 Two 8-inch mortars.... Added to Battery

Numbers 20,

Petersburg.

Transferred from

Dutch Gap to Fort

Brady.

15 One 100-pounder Parrott. Transferred from

One 100-pounder Parrott. Battery Spofford to

Three 4 1/2-inch guns... Fort Brady.


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