The Civil War in the East

1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery H

The battery lost 7 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 10 enlisted men by disease, a total of 17.

 

Timeline of the 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery H

October 10, 1861

Organized at Elmira, N.Y., and mustered in under Captain C. E. Mink

October 31

Left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to Casey's Division, Army of the Potomac

November

Duty at Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C.

March, 1862

Attached to Casey's 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

March 10-15

Advance on Manassas

March 28

Moved to Newport News, Va.

April 5-May 4

Siege of Yorktown

May 5

Battle of Williamsburg

May 24-27

Reconnaissance to Seven Pines

May 24

Chickahominy and Seven Pines

May 31-June 1

Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks

June 25-July 1

Seven days before Richmond. Attached to Reserve Artillery, 4th Army Corps, Yorktown, Va.

Juno 28-29

Long Bridge

June 30

Malvern Cliff

July 1

Malvern Hill

July - August

At Harrison's Landing

August 1862

Moved to Yorktown and garrison duty there

December 11-15

Expedition to Gloucester, King and Queen and Middlesex Counties

May 19, 1863

Expedition to Matthews County

June 24 to July 7

Dix's Peninsula Campaign

July 2

Action at Baltimore or Crump's Cross Roads

July 8

Moved to Washington, D. C, for duty in the Defenses of that city attached to Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps

September

Joined Army of the Potomac in the field.

October

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

February 6-7, 1864

Demonstration on the Rapidan

March

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 5th Army Corps

May 3-June 15

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 8

Laurel Hill

May 12-21

Spottsylvania Court House

May 12

"Bloody Ankle," Assault on the Salient

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 23

Jericho Ford

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

Six-Mile House, Weldon Railroad

September 29-October 1

Poplar Grove Church

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

December 7-12.

Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad. "Hicksford Raid"

March 28-April 9, 1865

Appomattox Campaign

March 29-31

White Oak Road

April 1

Five Forks

April 2

Fall of Petersburg

April 3-9

Pursuit of Lee

April 9

Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army.

May

Moved to Washington, D.C.

May 23

Grand Review

June 19, 1865

Mustered out