Discusses moving a battery to Belle Plain during the Wilderness campaign. Written in pencil. Career artillerist Henry S. Burton emerged from the Civil War as a regular army brigadier general by brevet. The New York native had received his appointment to West Point from Vermont and was posted to the artillery upon his 1839 graduation. A veteran of both the Seminole and Mexican wars, he had also been a professor at West Point before the Civil War. After a year and a quarter as a prison commander, he joined the field armies and directed the reserve guns of the Army of the Potomac in the Wilderness campaign until the unit was broken up at Spotsylvaia. From then through Cold Harbor he was on inspection duty, then became a corps artillery chief during the early operatons against Petersburg, for which he was breveted brigadier general.