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1st New Jersey Battery ( “a” ) Light Artillery (Hexamer's Battery).

Organized at Hoboken, N. J., and mustered in August 12, 1861.

Left State for Washington, D. C., August 20, 1861.

Attached to Kearney's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861.

Franklin's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.

Artillery, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1862.

Artillery, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, to May, 1863.

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, to June, 1863.

4th Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to October.

1863.

3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, to March, 1864.

1st Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, to May, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, to July, 1864.

Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to December, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, to June, 1865.


Service.

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

Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15, 1862.

Advance from Alexandria to Bristoe Station April 7-11.

Embarked for the Virginia Peninsula April 17.

Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 19-May 4 (on transports).

West Point May 7-8.

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

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Battles of Gaines' Mill June 27.

Brackett's June 30.

Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale June 30.

Malvern Hill July 1.

At Harrison's Landing till August 16.

Movement to Manassas August 16-26.

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 26-September 2.

Bull Run Bridge August 27.

Chantilly September 1.

Maryland Campaign September 6-22.

Crampton's Pass, Md., September 14.

Antietam September 16-17.

Duty in Maryland till October 30.

Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

Duty near Falmouth, Va., till April 27, 1863.

“Mud March” January 20-24.

Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.

Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.

Battle of Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg. May 3.

Salem Heights May 3-4.

Banks' Ford May 4.

Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24.

Battle of Gettysburg July 2-4.

Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap October 5-24.

Duty on line of the Rappahannock and Rapidan till October.

Bristoe Campaign [1355] October 9-22.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

Payne's Farm November 27.

Duty near Brandy Station, Va., till May, 1864.

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

Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7.

Spottsylvania May 8-21.

North Anna River May 23-26.

On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.

Totopotomoy May 28-31.

Cold Harbor June 1-12.

(Temporarily with 18th Army Corps.) Before Petersburg June 16-18.

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

Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864.

At City Point July 9-26.

Demonstration north of the James July 27-29.

Deep Bottom July 27-28.

Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25, 1865.

Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.

Fall of Petersburg April 2.

Sailor's Creek April 6.

High Bridge, Farmville, April 7.

Appomattox Court House April 9.

Surrender of Lee and his army.

March to Danville April 23-27, and duty there till May 18.

March to Richmond, thence to Washington, D. C., May 18-June 3.

Corps Review June 8.

Mustered out June 22, 1865.

Battery lost during service 3 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 12 Enlisted men by disease. Total 15.

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