United States Regiments & Batteries > New Jersey
Battery B First New Jersey Artillery lost 1 officer and 8 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 23 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
1861
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Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, N.J. | |
September 3 | Battery B First New Jersey Artillery mustered in |
October 22 | Left the State for Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Heintzelman’s Division |
1862
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March |
Peninsula CampaignOrdered to the Virginia Peninsula. Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown, Virginia |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks (or Seven Pines) |
June 21 | Action at Fair Oaks Station |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before RichmondAttached to Artillery Reserve, 3rd Army Corps |
June 25 |
Battle of Oak Grove |
June 29 |
Peach Orchard and Savage Station |
June 30 |
White Oak Swamp and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August | At Harrison’s Landing |
August | Moved to Washington, D.C. and duty in the Defenses of that city. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps |
November 10-12 | Operations along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad |
November 28-December 11 | Near Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863
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January | At Falmouth attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps |
January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
February 5-7 | Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville CampaignAttached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Corps |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgBattery B First New Jersey Artillery was commanded at Gettysburg by Captain Adoniram J. Clark. It brought 143 men to the field serving six 10-pounder Parrott Rifles. From the monument in Excelsior Field: Fought here from 2 until 7 O’clock on July 2, 1863, firing 1,300 rounds of ammunition. Losses, killed 1, wounded 16, missing 3. |
July 5-24 | Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va. |
July 12 | South Mountain, Md. |
July 23 |
Wapping Heights, Manassas Gap, Va. |
August | Near Warrenton, Va. |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe |
November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Kelly’s Ford |
November 8 | Brandy Station |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
December | At and near Stevensburg |
1864
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March | Attached to 2nd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the JamesAttached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Corps |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient (“Bloody Angle”) |
May 19 |
Harris Farm or Fredericksburg Road |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-18 |
First Assault on Petersburg |
June 16-18 |
Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
August 13-20 | Demonstration north of the James River |
August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains |
August 18 | Russell’s Mills |
August 25 |
Ream’s Station |
1865
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March 25 | Watkins’ House |
March 28- April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29-31 |
Hatcher’s Run |
April 2 |
Boydton Road, Fall of Petersburg and Sutherland Station |
April 6 |
Sailor’s Creek |
April 6-7 |
Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
May | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 | Grand Review |
June 16 | Battery B First New Jersey Artillery mustered out |