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1st New York Regiment Light Artillery

Battery “a,” 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Utica, N. Y., and mustered in September 12, 1861.

Left State for Washington, D. C., October 31, 1861, and duty at Camp Barry till March, 1862.

Attached to 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1862.

Moved to the Peninsula, Va., March, 1862.

Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4.

Battle of Williamsburg May 5.

Bottom's and Turkey Island Bridge May 23.

Chickahominy May 24.

Bottom's Bridge May 30.

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

Guns captured May 31.

Men transferred to Batteries “D” and “H” 1st New York Light Artillery and 7th and 8th Independent Batteries New York Light Artillery June 15, 1862.

Battery reorganized at Utica, N. Y.

Duty at Camp Barry, Washington, D. C., January to June, 1863.

Whipple's Brigade, Sigel's Division, Dept. of the Susquehanna, to January, 1864.

Actions at Chambersburg, Pa., July 4 and 30, 1863.

Lehigh District, Dept. of the Susquehanna, to May, 1864.

Harrisburg, Pa., Dept. of the Susquehanna, to August, 1864.

District of the Monongahela, Dept. of the Susquehanna, to October, 1864.

Chambersburg, Pa., Dept. of the Susquehanna, to November, 1864.

District of Philadelphia, Dept. of Pennsylvania, to June, 1865.

Duty at Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Chambersburg and Allegheny City, Pa., June, 1863, to June, 1865.

Mercersburg, Pa., July 29, 1864 (Section).

Mustered out June 28, 1865.

Battery lost during service 4 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 9 Enlisted men by disease. Total 13.

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