United States Regiments & Batteries > New Jersey


Battery C lost 8 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1863
Organized at Trenton, N.J.
September 11 Mustered in
September 25 Left State for Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Barry’s Artillery Command, 22nd Army 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 Army Corps
June 20 Repulse of attack at White House
June 22 Charles City Court House
June 29 Joined 2nd Army Corps at Petersburg for Siege of 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 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 Hascall
1865
January 31 At Forts Sedgwick and Hascall
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 Mustered out