United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Artillery and Engineers
Battery A lost 4 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 9 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| Organized at Utica, N.Y. | |
| September 12 | Mustered in under Captain Thomas H. Bates |
| October 31 | Left State for Washington, D. C. for duty at Camp Barry |
| December | Assigned to Casey’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
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1862
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| March | Attached to 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac and moved to the Peninsula |
| April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
| May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
| May 23 | Bottom’s and Turkey Island Bridge |
| May 24 | Chickahominy |
| May 30 | Bottom’s Bridge |
| May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Seven Pines or Fair OaksThe battery’s guns were captured |
| June 15 | The men were transferred to Batteries D and H, 1st New York Light Artillery and 7th and 8th Independent Batteries New York Light Artillery |
| Captain Bates returned to Utica to reorganize and recruit the battery | |
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1863
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| January | Duty at Camp Barry, Washington, D.C., then attached to Sigel’s Division, Dept. of the Susquehanna |
| July 4 and 30 | Actions at Chambersburg, Pa. |
| Lehigh District, Dept. of the Susquehanna | |
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1864
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| May | Harrisburg, Pa., Dept. of the Susquehanna |
| July 29 | Duty Mercersburg, Pa. (Section) |
| August | District of the Monongahela, Dept. of the Susquehanna |
| October | Chambersburg, Pa., Dept. of the Susquehanna |
| November | District of Philadelphia, Dept. of Pennsylvania |
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1865
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| June 28 | Mustered out under Captain Bates |