UNION MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS
16th Independent Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery
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Organized at Camp Meigs, Readville, and mustered in April 4, 1864. Left State for Washington, D. C., April 17. Attached to Camp Barry, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, to June, 1864. 2nd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps, to July, 1864. Camp Barry, 2nd Corps, to November, 1864. 1st Separate Brigade, 22nd Army Corps, to July, 1865.
- Service:
- Duty at Camp Barry, Washington, D. C., till May 14, 1864. At Fort Thayer till May 22. At Fort Lyon till July 10. At Fort Kearney during Early's attack on Washington, July 11-12. At Camp Barry till September 5. Ordered to Albany, N. Y., September 5, and duty at Troy Road Barracks till November 16. Moved to Washington November 16, thence to Fairfax C. H., Va., December 6. Duty at Fairfax C. H., and Station, and at Vienna till June 17, 1865. Ordered to Massachusetts and mustered out July 13, 1865.
Lost by disease 6.
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