admin 5th Heavy Artillery
204th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Regimental History
Organized at Pittsburg August and September, 1864.
Ordered to Washington, D. C., September, 1864.
Attached to District of Alexandria, 22nd Corps, to November, 1864.
1st Separate Brigade, 22nd Corps, to June, 1865.
Service.
Duty. in Northern Defenses of Washington, D. C., and along Manassas Gap Railroad, protecting supplies for Sheridan, and constantly engaged with Mosby.
Action at Salem October 4, 1864.
Rectortown October 7.
White Plains October 11.
Destruction of Manassas Gap Railroad October and November.
Duty in the Northern Defenses of Washington; 1st Battalion at Prospect Hill, 2nd Battalion at Vienna and 3rd Battalion at Fairfax C. H.
Duty on Bull Run battlefield in spring of 1865, burying nearly 2,000 dead.
Ordered to Pittsburg for muster out.
Mustered out June 30, 1865.
Lost
Regiment lost during service 3 Enlisted men killed and 46 by disease. Total 49.
Source: Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of he Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources.Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908