The Civil War in the East

1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery M

 

Battery M lost 13 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 11 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

Monument to Battery M, First New York Light Artillery on Powell Hill at Gettysburg

1861

 

Organized at Lockport, N.Y.

November 15

Mustered in at Rochester under Captain George W. Cothran

November 21

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

1862

March

Advance on Winchester, assigned to Artillery, Williams' Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps

March 12

Occupation of Winchester; assigned to Dept. of the Shenandoah

April 1-2.

Advance from Strasburg to Woodstock and Edenburg

April 1

Woodstock

April 1-2

Edenburg

April 7-11 and 14

Near Edenburg

April 19

South Fork of the Shenandoah

April 27

McGaheysville

April 28-June 17

Operations in the Shenandoah Valley

May 24

Middletown and Newtown

May 25

Winchester

May 25-26

Retreat to Williamsport

June

Assigned to Artillery, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of Virginia

August 9

Battle of Cedar Mountain

August 16-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 20

Beverly Ford

August 21

Rappahannock River

August 27-29

Plains of Manassas

August 30

Battle of Bull Run (Reserve)

September

Assigned to Artillery, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

September

At Maryland Heights

December 10-14

March to Fairfax Station

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

February-April

Duty at Stafford Court House

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign. Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The battery was commanded by Lieutenant Charles E. Winegar, and brought 96 men to the field serving four 10-Pounder Parrott Rifles. It was deployed on Powers Hill, providing support fire for the Twelfth Corps fighting on Culp's Hill and near Spangler's Spring. It suffered no losses.

October

Transferred to Army of the Cumberland

October 4

Guard Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad

October 26-29

Reopening Tennessee River

December 10

The battery re-enlisted.

1864

April

Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps

May 1 to September 8

Atlanta Campaign

May 8-13

Operations about Rocky Faced Ridge, Tunnel Hill and Buzzard's Roost Gap

May 14-15

Battle of Resaca

May 19

Cassville

May 25

New Hope Church

May 26-June 5

Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills

June 10-July 2

Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain

June 11-14

Pine Hill

June 15-17

Lost Mountain

June 15

Gilgal or Golgotha Church

June 17

Muddy Creek

June 19

Noyes Creek

June 22

Kolb's Farm

June 27

Assault on Kenesaw

July 4

Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground

July 5-17

Chattahoochee River

July 19-20

Peach Tree Creek

July 22-August 25

Siege of Atlanta. Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 20th Army Corps

August 26-September 2

Operations at Chattahoochee River Bridge

September 2-November 15

Occupation of Atlanta

November 15-December 10

March to the sea

December 10-21

Siege of Savannah

1865

January to April

Campaign of the Carolinas

January 29

Robertsville, S. C.

March 16

Averysboro, N. C.

March 19-21

Battle of Bentonville

March 24

Occupation of Goldsboro

April 14

Occupation of Raleigh

April 26

Bennett's House. Surrender of Johnston and his army.

April 29-May 20

March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond

May 24

Grand Review

June 23

Mustered out under Captain Edward H. Underbill