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864gag: Union Artillery Detonation of the Mine Siege of Petersburg 30 July 1864

                         Union Artillery
                     Detonation of the Mine
                       Siege of Petersburg
                          30 July 18641 

                       Commanding               Ammunition
Co  Artillery Bat'n     Officer     Armament     Expended
 B  1st Connecticut   Cpt.Booker   6 4.5" guns      216
 M  1st Connecticut   Cpt.Pratt    6 4.5" guns      331
 A  1st Connecticut   Cpt.Gillet   4 8" mortars     259
 C  1st Connecticut   Cpt.Brown    6 4.5" guns      300
 A  1st Connecticut  Lt. Patterson 6 8" mortars     217
 C  1st Connecticut   Cpt. Pierce 10 10" mortars    360
 C  4th New York      Lt.McPherson 6 Coehorn
                                    mortars         315
 I  1st Connecticut   Lt.Jackson   4 8" mortars     337
 I  1st Connecticut   Cpt.Burton   3 30pdr
                                     Parrotts       176
 D  1st Connecticut   Cpt.Brigham  4 30pdr
                                     Parrotts        65
 D  1st Connecticut   Lt.Williams  5 Coehorns       121
 F  1st Connecticut   Cpt. Dow     3 30pdr
                                     Parrotts       206
                                   4 8" mortars     174
 G  1st Connecticut   Cpt.Osborne  1 13" mortar      19
 G  1st Connecticut   Lt.Sargeant  2 8" mortars     136
                                   5 Coehorn
                                      mortars       334
 K  4th New York      Cpt.Gould    6 Coehorn
                                      mortars       267

(Order of Battle From the George Nafziger Collection)2

Source:

  1. U.S. War Department, The War of the Succession, A Compilation of
    Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Government Printing Office; Washington D.C. 1882
  2. George Nafziger Order of Battle Collection
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