The Civil War in the East

3rd Battery (C) New Jersey Light Artillery

Battery C lost 8 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1863

 

Organized at Trenton, N.J.

September 11

Mustered in

September 25

Left State for Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Barry's Artillery Command, 22nd Army Corps, Defenses of Washington

1864

May

Attached to Abercrombie's Command, Army of the Potomac

May 11-12

Moved to Belle Plain, Va.

May 13-24

Guard rebel prisoners

May 24-June 4

Moved to Port Royal, thence to White House Landing, York River

June

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps

June 20

Repulse of attack at White House

June 22

Charles City Court House

June 29

Joined 2nd Army Corps at Petersburg for Siege of Petersburg

July 27-29

Demonstration north of the James

July 27-28

Deep Bottom

August 13-20

Demonstration north of the James

August 14-18

Strawberry Plains

August 25

Ream's Station

September

In lines before Petersburg at Fort Hell; attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

September 30

Actions at Fort Sedgwick

October 1

At Battery 16 and Fort Alexander Hays

October 3-12

Battery 16

November 22

At Fort Haskell

November 27

Fort Hascall

1865

January 31

At Forts Sedgwick and Hascall

March 29

Fort Sedgwick

April 1-2

Fort Stedman

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Fall of Petersburg

April 5-9

Pursuit of Lee

April 7

At Ford's Station

April 14

At Wilson's Station

April 20-May 2

Moved to Washington, D. C.

May 23

Grand Review

June 19

Mustered out