United States Regiments & Batteries > New Jersey > Battery D First New Jersey Artillery
Battery D First New Jersey Artillery lost 6 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 26 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| Organized at Trenton, New Jersey | |
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1863
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| September 16 | Battery D First New Jersey Artillery mustered in under the command of Captain George T. Woodbury. |
| September 29 | Left New Jersey for Washington, D.C. At Artillery Camp of Instruction, Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Barry’s Artillery Command, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Corps |
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1864
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| April 23-24 | Moved to Fortress Monroe, thence to Gloucester Point, Va. attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 10th Corps, Army of the James, Department of Virginia and North Carolina |
| May 4-June 15 |
Butler’s operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond |
| May 5 |
Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred, Va. |
| May 9-10 | Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church |
| May 10 | Petersburg and Richmond Turnpike |
| May 12-16 | Operations against Fort Darling |
| May 14-16 |
Battle of Drury’s Bluff |
| May 16-30 | Operations at Bermuda Hundred; Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
| June | Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 10th Corps |
| June-August | Garrison Battery, Marshall, Bermuda Hundred front |
| August 15-16 | Near Malvern Hill attached to Artillery Brigade, 10th Corps |
| August 18 | Fussell’s Mills |
| September 16-27 |
Before Petersburg |
| September 28-30 |
Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights |
| September 29 | Varina Road |
| October | In trenches before Richmond |
| November 2-17 | Battery detached from the army for duty in New York during Presidential election |
| December | Attached to Artillery Brigade, 25th Corps |
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1865
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| April 3 | Occupation of Richmond |
| April 14 | Moved to near Petersburg |
| April | At City Point |
| June | At Richmond, Va. |
| June 17 | Battery D First New Jersey Artillery mustered out |