Battery C, Fifth U.S. Artillery

Battery C, Fifth U.S. Artillery, part of the Army of the Potomac's Artillery Reserve in the First Regular Brigade under Lieut. Gulian V. Weir, arrived at Gettysburg from near Taneytown on July 2 and in the afternoon was ordered to the front, where by direction of Major General W.S. Hancock it took position 500 yards farther forward and by order of Brig. General John Gibbon opened fire on Confederates on the left front. The Confederates in front advanced to within a few yards with no infantry opposing them, and three of the guns were captured and drawn off to the Emmitsburg Road before being recaptured by the 13th Vermont and another regiment. On July 3 the battery remained in the rear of the line until Longstreet's assault, when it moved up to Brig. General A.S. Webb's line and opened with canister at short range on the advancing Confederates. At 6.30 p.m. it returned to the Artillery Reserve. Its casualties were 2 men killed and 2 officers and 12 men wounded.

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