The Civil War in the East

7th New York Independent Battery Light Artillery

 

The 7th New York Independent Battery lost 4 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 27 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1861

 

Organized at Windsor as an Artillery Company for the 56th Regiment Infantry

October 30

Mustered in

November 7

Left State for Washington, D.C.

November

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. Attached to Casey's Division, Army of the Potomac

December 7

Designated 7th Independent Battery

1862

March

Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula and attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

April 5-May 4

Siege of Yorktown, Va

May 5

Battle of Williamsburg

May 20-23

Operations about Bottom's Bridge

May 24

Seven Pines and Savage Station

May 24

Chickahominy

May 31-June 1

Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks

June

Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps

June 25-July 1

Seven days before Richmond

June 29-30

White Oak Swamp

July 1

Malvern Hill

July

Moved to Camp Hamilton, Va.

August

At Norfolk, Va.

September

Attached to Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia

October

At Portsmouth, Va.

1863

July

Assigned to Norfolk, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina

December 5-24

Expedition from Norfolk to South Mills and Camden Court House, N. C.

1864

March

At Yorktown, Va., assigned to U.S. Forces, Yorktown, Va., 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina

April

Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James

May 4-28

Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond

May 12-16

Operations against Fort Darling

May 14-16

Drury's Bluff

May 16-30

Bermuda Hundred

June

Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps

June 15-18

Before Petersburg

June 16-April 2

Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond

September 28-30

Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights

December

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps

1865

January

Attached to Ferrero's Infantry Division, Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Va.

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Fall of Petersburg

April 3-9

Pursuit of Lee

April 9

Surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House

April-July

Duty in the Dept. of Virginia

July 22

Mustered out