Battery K, Fifth U.S. Artillery

With the Army of the Potomac's Twelfth Corps at Gettysburg, Battery K, Fifth U.S. Artillery, with four 12-pounders under Lieut. David H. Kinzie, marched on July 1 to within a mile and a half of the town. At daylight on July 2 it took position to command a gap between the First and Twelfth Corps, and at 5 p.m. one section was placed on the summit of Culp's Hill, where it assisted in silencing Confederate batteries on Benner's Hill before rejoining the battery at the foot of Powers's Hill at 6 p.m. On July 3 at 1 a.m. it was posted with Lieut. S.T. Rugg's Battery F, 4th U.S. Artillery, on the south side of Baltimore Pike opposite the center of the Twelfth Corps line, and at 4:30 a.m. it opened fire on Confederates holding the line vacated the preceding night; firing continued at intervals until after 10 a.m., when the Confederates were driven out. The battery remained in the same position through severe shelling that came over Cemetery Hill in the afternoon, and suffered 3 men wounded.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States