The Civil War in the East

1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery C

 

Battery lost 4 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 18 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument and a marker at Gettysburg.

Monument to Battery C, First New York Light Artillery at Gettysburg

1861

 

Organized at Elmira, N.Y.

September 6

Mustered in

October 31

Left State for Washington, D.C. for duty in the Defenses of Washington attached to Wadsworth's Command, Military District of Washington

1862

August 26

Action at Manassas Junction

August 27

Bull Run Bridge

September 14-18

March to Antietam attached to 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September-October

Duty near Sharpsburg

October 30-November 19

March to Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

February-April

Duty near Falmouth

March 6

Rappahannock Station

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 5th Army Corps.

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

From the monument: "Held this position from about 4:30 p.m. July 2, to 4 a.m. July 3rd, 1863. On the morning of July 3rd transferred to the left flank of Big Round Top."

 

From the marker: "Battery C 1st New York Light Artillery, Four 3 Inch Rifles, Capt. Almont Barnes commanding. July 3 At 3 a.m. moved to and occupied this position until the close of the battle."

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock

November 7

Rappahannock Station

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

November 27

Robertson's Tavern

November 28-30

Mine Run

December-April

Camp near Rappahannock Station

1864

April

Attached to 3rd Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

May 3-June 15

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 8

Laurel Hill

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 12-21

Spottsylvania Court House

May 16

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 5th Army Corps

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 23

Jericho Mills

May 26-28

On line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 1-3

Bethesda Church

June 16-18

Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins

August 18-21

Weldon Railroad

1865

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign. Artillery Reserve, attached to 9th Army Corps

April 2

Assault and capture of Petersburg

May

Moved to Washington, D.C.

May 23

Grand Review

June 17

Mustered out