Surrender
On April 19, 1865, during a minor combat action near Newton, North Carolina, the battery was forced to surrender after being overrun following the collapse of the Confederate infantry to whom they were in support. Of the just over 160 men that had served in the battery from the beginning of the war, only 11 remained at the time of their surrender.
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