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Battery E First New Jersey Artillery lost 2 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 26 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1863
Organized at Trenton, N.J.
September 8 Battery E First New Jersey Artillery mustered in
September 26 Left the State for Washington, D.C. Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. attached to Barry’s Artillery Command, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Corps
1864
April 22 Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 10th Corps, Army of the James, Department of Virginia and North Carolina
May 4-28 Butler’s operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond
May 5 Occupation of Bermuda Hundred and City Point, Va.
May 9-10 Action at Swift Creek (or Arrowfield Church)
May 12-16 Operations against Fort Darling
May 14-16

Battle of Drury’s Bluff

May 14 Clover Hill Station
May 16-June 15 Operations about Bermuda Hundred
June 9

Siege of Petersburg

June 16-17

Bermuda Hundred front; Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond

July 27 Deep Bottom
August 13 Dutch Gap
August Attached to Artillery Brigade, 10th Corps
September 2-10

Before Petersburg

September 28-30

Battle of Chaffin’s Farm

October 7 Darbytown Road
October In trenches before Richmond
December Attached to Artillery Brigade, 25th Corps
1865
April 3 Occupation of Richmond
April Duty at Petersburg, City Point and Richmond
June 11 Battery E mustered out