6th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment "Anthony Wayne Guard"
The 6th New York Heavy Artillery lost 5 officers and 130 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 6 officers and 275 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1862 |
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Organized at Yonkers, N.Y., as the 135th New York Infantry Regiment |
September 2 |
Mustered in |
September 5 |
Left State for Baltimore, Md. Attached to Defenses of Baltimore, Md., 8th Army Corps, Middle Department for duty at Fort McHenry |
October 3 |
Designation changed to 6th Heavy Artillery |
1863 |
January |
Companies B, E, F, I, L and M assigned to Defenses, Upper Potomac.
Companies A, C, D, G, H and K at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., |
March |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps |
June |
Attached to 3rd Provisional Brigade, French's Division, 8th Army Corps |
July |
Pursuit of Lee, attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps |
July 23 |
Wapping Heights, Va. |
August |
Attached to Artillery Reserve and Headquarters and ammunition train guard, 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 |
1864 |
April |
Attached to 1st Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
May-June |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spottsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House |
May 13 |
Attached to Kitching's Heavy Artillery Brigade, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 19 |
Harris Farm (or Fredericksburg Road) |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomy |
May 30 |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 2 |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps |
June 3 |
Bethesda Church |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16-July 9 |
Siege of Petersburg |
August |
Ordered to Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defenses of that city. Attached to 1st Brigade, Hardin's Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
September to December |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 27 |
Attached to 1st Brigade, Kitching's Provisional Division, Middle Military Division |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October |
Duty in the Shenandoah Valley |
December 3 |
Moved to Bermuda Hundred, Va. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Provisional Division, Army of the James, and 2nd Brigade, Infantry Division, Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Army of the James |
1865 |
January 24 |
Fort Brady |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign. Assigned to 2nd Brigade, Ferrero's Division, Dept. of Virginia |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April |
Duty in the Sub-District of Roanoke, District of the Nottaway, Dept. of Virginia |
May |
Attached to Sub-District of Roanoke, District of the Nottaway, Dept. of Virginia |
June |
At Petersburg, Va. |
August 24 |
Mustered out near Washington, D.C. |
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