The Civil War in the East

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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