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Battery “C,” 1st New York Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Elmira, N. Y., and mustered in September 6, 1861.

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

Attached to Wadsworth's Command, Military District of Washington, November, 1861, to September, 1862.

3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863.

Artillery Brigade, 5th Army Corps. to April, 1864.

3rd Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May 16, 1864.

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

Artillery Reserve, attached to 9th Army Corps, to June, 1865.


Service.

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., to August, 1862.

Action at Manassas Junction August 26.

Bull Run Bridge August 27.

March to Antietam, Md., September 14-18.

Duty near Sharpsburg till October 30.

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

Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.

“Mud March” January 20-24, 1863.

Duty near Falmouth till April 27.

Rappahannock Station March 6.

Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.

Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.

Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.

Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Rappahannock Station November 7.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

Robertson's Tavern November 27.

Mine Run November 28-30.

Camp near Rappahannock Station till April, 1864.

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

Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7.

Laurel Hill May 8.

Spottsylvania May 8-12.

Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.

North Anna River May 23-26.

Jericho Mills 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.

Weldon Railroad August 18-21, 1864.

Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.

Assault and capture of Petersburg April 2.

Moved to Washington, D. C., May.

Grand Review May 23.

Mustered out June 17, 1865.

Battery lost during service 4 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 18 Enlisted men by disease. Total 22.

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