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Battery “H” 1st New York Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Elmira, N. Y., and mustered in October 10, 1861.

Left State for Washington, D. C., October 31, 1861.

Attached to Casey's Division, Army of the Potomac, November, 1861, to March, 1862.

Casey's 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1862.

Reserve Artillery, 4th Army Corps, Yorktown, Va., to July, 1863.

Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps, to October, 1863.

Artillery Brigade, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 5th Army Corps, to June, 1865.


Service.

Duty at Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D. C., till March, 1862.

Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15.

Moved to Newport News, Va., March 28.

Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.

Battle of Williamsburg May 5.

Reconnoissance to Seven Pines May 24-27.

Chickahominy May 24.

Seven Pines May 24.

Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks May 31-June 1.

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Long Bridge June 28-29.

Malvern Cliff June 30.

Malvern Hill July 1.

At Harrison's Landing till August 16.

Moved to Yorktown, Va., and garrison duty there till July, 1863.

Expedition to Gloucester, King and Queen and Middlesex Counties December 11-15, 1862.

Expedition to Matthews County May 19, 1863.

Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24 to July 7.

Action at Baltimore or Crump's Cross Roads July 2.

Moved to Washington, D. C., July 8, and duty in the Defenses of that city till September, 1863.

Joined Army of the Potomac in the field. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864.

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15.

Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Laurel Hill May 8; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.

“Bloody Ankle,” Assault on the Salient, May 12.

North Anna River May 23-26.

Jericho Ford May 23.

On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.

Totopotomoy May 28-31.

Cold Harbor June 1-12.

Bethesda Church June 1-3.

Before Petersburg June 16-18.

Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.

Six-Mile House, Weldon [1391] Railroad, August 18-21, 1864.

Poplar Grove Church September 29-October 1.

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28.

Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad. “Hicksford Raid” December 7-12.

Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9, 1865.

White Oak Road March 29-31.

Five Forks April 1.

Fall of Petersburg April 2.

Pursuit of Lee April 3-9.

Appomattox Court House April 9.

Surrender of Lee and his army.

Moved to Washington, D. C., May.

Grand Review May 23.

Mustered out June 19, 1865.

Battery lost during service 7 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 10 Enlisted men by disease. Total 17.

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