Virginia: James City Artillery Battery
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Unit History
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Organized by the conversion of Company H, 32nd Infantry Regiment, to artillery service ca. September 1861.
Served as Company B (AKA: A), 1st Artillery Regiment, and as Company B, 1st Artillery Battalion, until January 18, 1865.
Armed with two 32-lb. Smoothbores from June 24, 1862, to July 1, 1862.
Served as heavy artillery in 1864-65.
Armed with three heavy guns on December 30, 1864.
Surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
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Field and Staff
- Commander: Alex Hamilton Hankins (Captain)
- Captain: Lucien W. Richardson
Assignments
- October 1861-April 1862: Artillery Battalion, Department of the Peninsula
- April-May 1862: Forces at Williamsburg [B.S. Ewell's], Magruder's Command, Department of Northern Virginia
- June 1862: Toombs' Brigade, Magruder's Division, Army of Northern Virginia
- June-July 1862: Lee's Artillery Battalion, Magruder's Command, Army of Northern Virginia
- July-October 1862: Brown's Regiment, Reserve Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia
- September 1862-February 1863: Artillery, French's Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- February-April 1863: Moseley's Artillery Battalion, French's Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- April-July 1863: Moseley's Battalion, Artillery, Department of North Carolina
- July-September 1863: Moseley's Artillery Battalion, Ransom's Division, Department of Richmond
- September 1863-May 1864: Chaffin's Bluff, Department of Richmond
- May 1864-February 1865: Chaffin's Bluff, Artillery Defenses, Department of Richmond
- February-March 1865: Chaffin's Bluff, Crutchfield's Artillery Brigade, Department of Richmond
- March-April 1865: Chaffin's Bluff, Crutchfield's Artillery Brigade, G.W.C. Lee's Division, Department of Richmond
- April 1865: Crutchfield's Artillery Brigade, G.W.C. Lee's Division, Army of Northern Virginia
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