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, a total of 13.
Timeline of the 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery A
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Organized at Utica, N.Y. |
September 12, 1861 |
Mustered in under Captain Thomas H. Bates |
October 31 |
Left State for Washington, D. C. for duty at Camp Barry |
March, 1862 |
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 |
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Captain Bates returned to Utica to reorganize and recruit the battery |
January, 1863 |
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. |
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Lehigh District, Dept. of the Susquehanna |
May, 1864 |
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 |
June 28, 1865 |
Mustered out under Captain Bates |
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