Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery

The Officers in Command of Battery B, 4^th U.S. Light Artillery

	Name of the Officer	Remarks
1.	Captain John Gibbon	Promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers, May 2, 1862.
	First Lieutenant Edmund C. Bainbridge	Transferred to 5^th U.S. Field Artillery, May 14, 1861
	First Lieutenant Joseph B. Campbell	Brevetted Second Lieutenant, promoted Second Lieutenant, and promoted First Lieutenant, June 24, 1861.
	Second Lieutenant John S. Hunt	Promoted First Lieutenant and transferred to Battery L, 4^th U.S. Field Artillery after arriving in Washington on October 21, 1861.
2.	First Lieutenant Joseph B. Campbell	Brevetted Captain, August 30, 1862 for gallant and meritorious service at Second Battle of Bull Run, Virginia. Brevetted Major, September 17, 1862 for gallant and meritorious service at Antietam, Maryland. Wounded on September 17, 1862 at Antietam, Maryland, does not return to duty.
2.	Second Lieutenant James Stewart	Promoted from First Sergeant, November 15, 1861.
3.	Second Lieutenant James Stewart	Wounded on July 1, 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
3.	Second Lieutenant James Davison	Temporally transferred from 5^th U.S. Field Artillery after Fredericksburg, Virginia. Wounded on July 1, 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, does not return to duty.
4.	First Lieutenant James Stewart	Promoted to First Lieutenant on July 3, 1863. Brevetted Captain, August 1, 1864 for gallant and meritorious service at Spotsylvania Court House and during the campaign before Richmond, Virginia. Brevetted Major, August 18, 1864 for gallant and meritorious service in the Battle on the Weldon Railroad, Virginia. Promoted to Captain and transferred to Battery A, 4^th U.S. Field Artillery on December 26, 1864.
	First Lieutenant Thomas Goodman	Served in the regular army artillery as an enlisted man before the war and was commissioned a First Lieutenant in 6^th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, Company K on September 9, 1861. He served with the battery for an unknown amount of time, on temporary duty. He was mortally wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia around May 9, 1864.
	Second Lieutenant John Mitchell	Promoted from First Sergeant, August 10, 1863.
5.	Second Lieutenant John Mitchell	Brevetted First Lieutenant, August 18 1864 for gallant and meritorious service in the Battle on the Weldon Railroad, Virginia. Brevetted Captain, March 29, 1865 for gallant and meritorious service during the operations against Petersburg, Virginia. Wounded on April 2, 1865 at Gravelly Run, Virginia.
5.	Second Lieutenant Joseph P. Vose	Temporally transferred from 2^nd U.S. Field Artillery.
6.	Captain James Stewart	Transferred from Battery A, 4^th U.S. Field Artillery on April 5, 1865.
	First Lieutenant John Mitchell	Promoted to First Lieutenant, October 13, 1865.
	Second Lieutenant Joseph P. Vose

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