HISTORICAL NOTES: The West Virginia 1st Light Artillery Regiment, Battery A was organized at Wheeling, W. Va., and mustered in June 28, 1861.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Attached to Army of Occupation, W. Va., to September, 1861.
Cheat Mountain, District West Virginia, to January, 1862.
Landers' Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862.
Shields' 2nd Division. Banks' 5th Army Corps, and Dept. of the Shenandoah, to May, 1862.
Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862. Slough's Command, Defences of Washington, D. C., to February, 1863.
Camp Barry, Defences of Washington, 22nd Army Corps, to July, 1863. Maryland Heights, 2nd Division, Dept. of West Virginia, to December, 1863.
1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of West Virginia, to April, 1864.
Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., to October, 1864.
1st Separate Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia, to July, 1865.
OFFICERS:
SERVICE:
At Elkwater till October, 1861.
Operations on Cheat Mountain September 11-17.
Action at Cheat Mountain September 11.
Cheat Mountain Pass September 12.
Point Mountain Turnpike and Elkwater September 12.
Greenbrier River October 3-4.
At Romney till January, 1862.
Expedition to Blue's Gap January 6. Hanging Rock, Blue's Gap, January 7.
At Paw Paw Tunnel till March.
Advance on Winchester March 7-12.
Battle of Kernstown, Winchester, March 22-23.
Cedar Mountain March 25.
Woodstock April 1.
Edenburg April 2.
Occupation of Mt. Jackson April 17.
March to Fredericksburg May 12-22, and to Front Royal May 25-30.
Front Royal May 30.
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., till July, 1863.
Ordered to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., thence to Charlestown.
Expedition to near New Market November 15-18.
Mt. Jackson November 16.
Wells' demonstration up the Shenandoah Valley December 10-25.
Duty at Harper's Ferry, Charlestown and Martinsburg till May, 1864.
At Maryland Heights till October 17.
Moved to Parkersburg October 17. Duty at Parkersburg, Charlestown and in the Kanawha Valley till July, 1865.
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