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Battery “G,” 3rd New York Regiment Light Artillery

Organized from Company “G,” 19th Regiment Infantry, December 11, 1861.

Attached to Defenses of Washington, D. C., to March, 1862.

Unattached, Dept. of North Carolina, to December, 1862.

Artillery Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina, to January, 1863.

Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to April, 1863.

Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina, to May, 1863.


Service.

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., till March, 1862.

Sailed for New Berne, N. C., March 27, arriving there April 2, and duty there and at Washington, N. C., till May, 1863.

Action at Washington, N. C., September 6, 1862.

Siege of Washington March 30-April 20, 1863.

Three years men transferred to Battery “K” May 22, 1863.

Mustered out at Elmira, N. Y., June 2, 1863.

A new Battery “G” organized February, 1864.

Attached to Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to February, 1865.

Artillery Division, District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina, to April, 1865.

Artillery Reserve, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to July, 1865.


Service.

Duty at New Berne and other points in North Carolina till March, 1865.

Campaign of the Carolinas March 1-April 26.

Southwest Creek March 7.

Battle of Kinston or Wise's Forks March 8-10.

Occupation of Goldsboro March 21.

Bennett's House April 26.

Surrender of Johnston and his army.

Duty in the Dept. of North Carolina till June.

Mustered out at Syracuse, N. Y., July 7, 1865.

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