1861 |
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First organized at Syracuse, N. Y. |
December 18 |
Mustered in under Captain Edward S. Jenney |
1862 |
January 21 |
Assigned to 3rd New York Light Artillery as Battery F |
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April 9 |
Again organized at New York City as "2nd Excelsior Battery" and mustered in under Captain John T. Bruen |
April 10 |
Left State for Washington, D. C. |
April |
Attached to Wadsworth's Command, Defenses of Washington, D.C. for duty in the Defenses of Washington |
June 28 |
Moved to Harper's Ferry, W. Va. and assigned to Artillery 2nd Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia |
July - September |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain
The battery lost 1 man wounded |
August 19 |
Rappahannock Station |
August 21-23 |
Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 23-24 |
Sulphur Springs |
August 29 |
Battles of Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run
The battery lost 1 man killed |
September |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington assigned to Artillery, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
November |
Assigned to Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
December |
Rappahannock Campaign |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
1863 |
January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February-April |
At Falmouth, Va. |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May |
Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville
Commanded by Lieutenant Samuel Lewis, the battery lost 13 enlisted men wounded and 5 captured holding off a heavy Confederate assault at Hazel Grove. During the final withdrawal to the river the battery wasordered to leave its guns and take the horses, but the men of the battery refused and saved its guns as well. |
May 12 |
Assigned to 1st Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac. Served by detachments with 1st New Hampshire Battery, 5th Massachusetts Battery, and Batteries C and G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery. |
June 2 |
Lieutenant Lewis resigned |
June 4 |
Captain John Bruen discharged
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July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
Temporarily attached to 5th Massachusetts Battery, the battery lost Privates Edward Fotheringham and John Verity killed and 3 men wounded |
July |
Reconstituted as an independent battery under Lieutenant Charles T. Bruen. Ordered to Washington, D.C., and duty at Camp Barry, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
1864 |
June 21 |
Transferred to 6th New York Independent Battery |
