5th Battery ("E") New Jersey Light Artillery
Battery lost during service 2 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 26 enlisted men to disease, a total of 28.
Timeline of the
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Organized at Trenton, N.J. |
September 8, 1863 |
Mustered in |
September 26 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. attached to Barry's Artillery Command, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps |
April 22, 1864 |
Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, |
May 4-28 |
Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond |
May 5 |
Occupation of Bermuda Hundred and City Point, Va. |
May 9-10 |
Action at Swift Creek (or Arrowfield Church) |
May 12-16 |
Operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 |
Battle of Drury's Bluff |
May 14 |
Clover Hill Station |
May 16-June 15 |
Operations about Bermuda Hundred |
June 9 |
Petersburg |
June 16-17 |
Bermuda Hundred front; Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
July 27 |
Deep Bottom |
August 13 |
Dutch Gap |
August |
Attached to Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps |
September 2-10 |
Before Petersburg |
September 28-30 |
Battle of Chaffin's Farm |
October 7 |
Darbytown Road |
October |
In trenches before Richmond |
December |
Attached to Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps |
April 3, 1865 |
Occupation of Richmond |
April |
Duty at Petersburg, City Point and Richmond |
June 11, 1865 |
Mustered out |
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