United States Regiments & Batteries > New Jersey > Battery C First New Jersey Artillery


Battery C First New Jersey Artillery lost 8 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1863
Organized at Trenton, New Jersey
September 11 Battery C First New Jersey Artillery mustered in for three years Federal service under the command of Captain Christian Woerner.
September 25 Left State for Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C.
October Attached to Barry’s Artillery Command, 22nd Corps, Defenses of Washington
1864
May Attached to Abercrombie’s Command, Army of the Potomac
May 11-12 Moved to Belle Plain, Va.
May 13-24 Guard rebel prisoners
May 24-June 4 Moved to Port Royal, thence to White House Landing, York River
June Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Corps
June 20

Repulse of attack at White House

June 22 Charles City Court House
June 29

Siege of Petersburg

Joined 2nd Army Corps at Petersburg

July 27-29 Demonstration north of the James
July 27-28

Deep Bottom

August 13-20 Demonstration north of the James
August 14-18

Strawberry Plains

August 25

Ream’s Station

September In lines before Petersburg at Fort Sedgwick (Fort Hell); attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac
September 30 Actions at Fort Sedgwick
October 1 At Battery 16 and Fort Alexander Hays
October 3-12 Battery 16
November 22 At Fort Haskell
November 27 Fort Haskell
1865
January 31 At Forts Sedgwick and Haskell
March 29 Fort Sedgwick
April 1-2

Fort Stedman

March 28-
April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Fall of Petersburg

April 5-9 Pursuit of Lee
April 7 At Ford’s Station
April 14 At Wilson’s Station
April 20-May 2 Moved to Washington, D. C.
May 23 Grand Review
June 19 Battery C First New Jersey Artillery mustered out