The Civil War in the East

6th Independent New York Battery Light Artillery

 

The 6th Independent Battery lost 8 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 9 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

Monument to the 6th New York Independent Battery at Gettysburg

1861

 

Organized at New York City as Artillery Company K, 9th Regiment State Militia Infantry, later known as 83rd Regiment Infantry

June 15

Mustered in

June 16

Left State state and served with its Regiment

September 15

Pritchard's Mills, Md.

September 24

Point of Rocks

September 25

Detached from Regiment

October 21-24

Operations on the Potomac

October 21

Ball's Bluff

December 7

Designated 6th Battery

December

Duty in the Defenses of Washington and on the Upper Potomac attached to Stone's Division, Army of the Potomac, then in Hooker's Division

1862

March

Moved to the Virginia Peninsula and attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

April 5-May 4

Siege of Yorktown

May 5

Battle of Williamsburg

May 31-June 1

Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks

June

Attached to Artillery Reserve, 3rd Army Corps

June 18

Fair Oaks

June 25-July 1

Seven days before Richmond

July 1

Malvern Hill

July

At Harrison's Landing

August 5

Malvern Hill

August 16-24

Movement to Alexandria and duty in the Defenses of Washington

December

Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

1863

February

Attached to 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac, serving with Pleasanton's 1st Division, Cavalry Corps

March 17

Action at Kelly's Ford, Va.

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

May

Attached to 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac

June 9

Brandy Station and Beverly Ford

June 21

Upperville

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

Commanded by Captain Joseph W. Martin. It brought 130 men to the field serving six 3" Ordnance Rifles, and suffered 1 man wounded.

September 10-11

Scout to Middleburg

September 13-17

Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan

September 13

Culpeper Court House

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

October 12-13

Warrenton or White Sulphur Springs

October 14

St. Stephen's Church, Auburn and Bristoe

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

November 27

New Hope Church

1864

May-June

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 7-8

Todd's Tavern

May 9-24

Sheridan's Raid to James River

May 9-10

North Anna River

May 11

Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern; Ashland Station

May 12

Richmond Fortifications

May 26-28

On line of the Pamunkey

May 27

Hanovertown

May 28

Hawe's Shop and Aenon Church

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

May 31-June 3

Cold Harbor

June 6

In Defenses of Washington, D. C.., 22nd Army Corps

September

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Attached to Horse Artillery, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Middle Military Division

October 8-9

Tom's Brook

October 19

Battle of Cedar Creek

October

Duty in the Shenandoah Valley

November 28-December 3

Expedition from Winchester into Fauquier and Loudoun Counties

December

Attached to 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, Army of the Shenandoah

December 19-28

Expedition to Gordonsville

1865

April

Moved to Washington, D.C. and duty in the defenses of that city attached to Horse Artillery Brigade, Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps

July 8

Mustered out