Battery K, Fifth U.S. Artillery

Battery K of the Fifth U.S. Artillery, part of the Army of the Potomac's Twelfth Corps under Lieut. David H. Kinzie, had four 12-pounders and on July 1 marched to within a mile and a half of Gettysburg. At daylight on July 2 it took position to command a gap between the First and Twelfth Corps; at 5 p.m. one section was placed on the summit of Culp's Hill and assisted in silencing Confederate batteries on Benner's Hill, and at 6 p.m. it rejoined the battery at the foot of Powers's Hill. At 1 a.m. on July 3 it was posted with 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 by the Twelfth Corps the preceding night. The firing continued at intervals until after 10 a.m., when the Confederates were driven out, and the battery remained in the same position, exposed to severe shelling that came over Cemetery Hill in the afternoon. Its casualties were five men wounded.

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