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

Organized at Rome, N. Y., February 22, 1862.

Joined Regiment in the Defenses of Washington.

Attached to Defenses of Washington 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 May, 1863.

Artillery Brigade, Defenses of New Berne, N. C., 18th Army Corps, to October, 1863.

Heckman's Command, Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to January, 1864.

U. S. Forces, Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to June, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to December, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, to June, 1865.


Service.

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

Sailed for New Berne, N. C., March 27, arriving there April 2.

Expedition to Swift Creek Village April 13-21 (Section).

Duty at New Berne till October, 1863.

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

Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro, N. C., December 11-20.

Action at Kinston, December 14.

Whitehall December 16.

Goldsboro December 17.

Expedition to relief of Washington April 7-10, 1863.

Action at Blount's Mills April 9.

Expedition to Swift Creek Village April 13-21 (Detachment).

Expeditions toward Kinston April 16-21 and April 27-May 1.

Wise's Cross Roads April 28.

Expedition toward Kinston May 20-23.

Gum Swamp May 22.

Raid on Wilmington & Weldon Railroad July 3-7.

Warsaw and Kenansville July 5.

Moved to Newport News, Va., October 16-18.

Duty there and in the Defenses of Portsmouth, Va., till June, 1864.

Ordered to report to Gen. Butler June 13.

Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.

Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864 (Reserve).

Bermuda Hundred August 24-25.

Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30.

Darbytown and New Market Road October 7.

Fair Oaks October 27-28.

In trenches before Richmond till March, 1865.

Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.

Fall of Petersburg April 2.

Pursuit of Lee April 3-9.

Appomattox Court House April 9.

Surrender of Lee and his army.

Duty in the Department of Virginia till June.

Mustered out at Richmond, Va., June 24, 1865.

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