1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery A "Empire Battery"

Battery lost 4 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 9 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.

1861
	Organized at Utica, N.Y.
September 12	Mustered in under Captain Thomas H. Bates
October 31	Left State for Washington, D. C. for duty at Camp Barry
1862
March	Attached to 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac and moved to the Peninsula, Va.
April 5-May 4	Siege of Yorktown, Va.
May 5	Battle of Williamsburg
May 23	Bottom's and Turkey Island Bridge
May 24	Chickahominy
May 30	Bottom's Bridge
May 31-June 1	Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks Guns captured
June 15	Men transferred to Batteries D and H 1st New York Light Artillery and 7th and 8th Independent Batteries New York Light Artillery
	Captain Bates returned to Utica to reorganize and recruit the battery
1863
January	Duty at Camp Barry, Washington, D.C. attached to Whipple's Brigade, Sigel's Division, Dept. of the Susquehanna
July 4 and 30	Actions at Chambersburg, Pa.
	Lehigh District, Dept. of the Susquehanna
1864
May	Harrisburg, Pa., Dept. of the Susquehanna
July 29	Duty Mercersburg, Pa. (Section)
August	District of the Monongahela, Dept. of the Susquehanna
October	Chambersburg, Pa., Dept. of the Susquehanna
November	District of Philadelphia, Dept. of Pennsylvania
1865
June 28	Mustered out under Captain Bates