The Civil War in the East

4th Battery ("D") New Jersey Light Artillery

Battery D lost 6 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 26 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1862

 

Organized at Trenton, N.J.

1863

September 16

Mustered in

September 29

Left State for Washington, D.C. At Artillery Camp of Instruction, Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Barry's Artillery Command, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps

1864

April 23-24

Moved to Fortress Monroe, thence to Gloucester Point, Va. attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina

May 4-June 15

Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond attached to 10th Army Corps

May 5

Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred, Va.

May 9-10

Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church

May 10

Petersburg and Richmond Turnpike

May 12-16

Operations against Fort Darling

May 14-16

Battle of Drury's Bluff

May 16-30

Operations at Bermuda Hundred; Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond

June

Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps

June-August

Garrison Battery, Marshall, Bermuda Hundred front

August 15-16

Near Malvern Hill attached to Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps

August 18

Fussell's Mills

September 16-27

Before Petersburg

September 28-30

Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights

September 29

Varina Road

October

In trenches before Richmond

November 2-17

Battery detached from army for duty in New York during Presidential election

December

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps

1865

April 3

Occupation of Richmond

April 14

Moved to near Petersburg

April

At City Point

June

At Richmond, Va.

June 17

Mustered out