United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Artillery and Engineers
The 6th New York Independent Battery lost 8 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 9 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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1861
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| Organized at New York City as Artillery Company K, 9th Regiment State Militia Infantry, later known as 83rd Regiment Infantry | |
| June 15 | Mustered in |
| June 16 | Left State state and served with its Regiment |
| September 15 | Pritchard’s Mills, Md. |
| September 24 | Point of Rocks |
| September 25 | Detached from Regiment |
| October 21-24 | Operations on the Potomac attached to Stone’s Division, Army of the Potomac, |
| October 21 | Ball’s Bluff |
| December 7 | Designated 6th Battery |
| December | Duty in the Defenses of Washington and on the Upper Potomac attached to Hooker’s Division |
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1862
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| March | Moved to the Virginia Peninsula and attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| April 5-May 4 | Siege of Yorktown |
| May 5 | Battle of Williamsburg |
| May 31-June 1 | Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks |
| June | Attached to Artillery Reserve, 3rd Army Corps |
| June 18 | Fair Oaks |
| June 25-July 1 | Seven days before Richmond |
| July 1 | Battle of Malvern Hill |
| July | At Harrison’s Landing |
| August 5 | Malvern Hill |
| August 16-24 | Movement to Alexandria and duty in the Defenses of Washington |
| December | Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
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1863
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| February | Attached to 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac, serving with Pleasanton’s 1st Division, Cavalry Corps |
| March 17 | Action at Kelly’s Ford, Va. |
| April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
| May 1-5 | Battle of Chancellorsville |
| May | Attached to 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| June 9 |
Battle of Brandy StationCommanded by Captain Joseph W. Martin. |
| June 21 | Upperville |
| July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgCommanded by Captain Joseph W. Martin. It brought 130 men to the field serving six 3″ Ordnance Rifles, and suffered 1 man wounded. |
| September 10-11 | Scout to Middleburg |
| September 13-17 | Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
| September 13 | Culpeper Court House |
| October 9-22 | Bristoe Campaign |
| October 12-13 | Warrenton or White Sulphur Springs |
| October 14 | St. Stephen’s Church, Auburn and Bristoe |
| November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
| November 26-December 2 | Mine Run Campaign |
| November 27 | New Hope Church |
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1864
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| May-June | Rapidan Campaign |
| May 5-7 | Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 7-8 | Todd’s Tavern |
| May 9-24 | Sheridan’s Raid to James River |
| May 9-10 | North Anna River |
| May 11 | Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern; Ashland Station |
| May 12 | Richmond Fortifications |
| May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
| May 27 | Hanovertown |
| May 28 | Hawe’s Shop and Aenon Church |
| May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
| May 31-June 3 | Battle of Cold Harbor |
| June 6 | In Defenses of Washington, D. C.., 22nd Army Corps |
| September | Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Attached to Horse Artillery, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Middle Military Division |
| October 8-9 | Tom’s Brook |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| October | Duty in the Shenandoah Valley |
| November 28-December 3 | Expedition from Winchester into Fauquier and Loudoun Counties |
| December | Attached to 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, Army of the Shenandoah |
| December 19-28 | Expedition to Gordonsville |
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1865
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| April | Moved to Washington, D.C. and duty in the defenses of that city attached to Horse Artillery Brigade, Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps |
| July 8 | Mustered out |