The battery lost 36 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
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Organized at Newburg, N.Y., as a part of the 10th Legion, 56th Regiment Infantry |
October 30 |
Mustered in |
December 7 |
Designated 8th Battery and left State for Washington, D.C. |
December |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. attached to Casey's Division, Army of the Potomac |
1862 |
March |
Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula and attached to 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 20-24 |
Operations about Bottom's Bridge |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks |
June |
Attached to 1st Brigade, King's Division, 4th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill. Attached to Artillery Reserve, 4th Army Corps, Yorktown, Va. |
July |
At Harrison's Landing attached to Artillery Reserve, Yorktown, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
August |
Moved to Yorktown, Va., and duty there and at Gloucester Point |
1863 |
June 24-July 7 |
Dix's Peninsula Campaign |
July 25 |
Expedition to Gloucester Court House |
October 4-9 |
Expedition to Matthews County |
October |
Garrison duty at Portsmouth, Va. |
1864 |
January |
Assigned to Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
May - June |
1 Section detached with Kautz's Cavalry Division, Army of the James |
May 3-28 |
Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
May 5-11 |
Kautz's Raid from Suffolk against Petersburg & Weldon Railroad (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
May 5 |
Wall's Bridge (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
May 7 |
Stony Creek Station (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
May 8 |
Nottaway Railroad Bridge (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
May 8-9 |
Jarrett's Station and Nottaway River (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
May 12-17 |
Kautz's Raid on Richmond & Danville Railroad (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
May 14 |
Flat Creek Bridge near Chula Depot (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
May 16 |
Belcher's Mills (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
May 17-30 |
Bermuda Hundred (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
June 9 |
Petersburg (section with Kautz's Cavalry Division) |
July 27-August 4 |
Expedition from Suffolk into North Carolina |
October 15-17 |
Expedition from Bernard's Mills to Murfree's, N. C. (Section) |
October 16 |
Blackwater (Section) |
1865 |
March 10-11 |
Expedition from Suffolk to Murfree's Depot, N, C. (Detachment) |
March 10 |
South Quay (Detachment) |
June 30 |
Mustered out at Norfolk, Va., |
