United States Regiments & Batteries > New York
The 13th Independent Battery lost 1 officer and 11 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 16 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
1861
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Organized at New York City | |
October 15 | Mustered in under Captain Emil Sturmfels |
October 17 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
October | Duty on the Upper Potomac attached to Baker’s Brigade, Stone’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
December | In the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Blenker’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
1862 |
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March | Attached to Blenker’s 2nd Division 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April | Operations in the Shenandoah Valley attached to Blenker’s Division, Dept. of the Mountains |
April 18 | Reconnaissance to Rappahannock River and action at Rappahannock Crossing |
May 15 | Captain Sturmfels resigned and Julius Dieckman mustered in as captain. |
June 8 | Battle of Cross Keys |
June | Attached to Reserve Artillery, 1st Corps, Pope’s Army of Virginia |
June 1 | Private Edmund Russell killed resisting an officer at Wordensville, Virginia |
July 22 | Occupation of Luray |
August 16-September 2 | Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 21-23 | Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 29 | Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run |
September | Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D, C. attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
December 10-16 | March to Fredericksburg, Va. |
1863
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January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
February-April | At Brook’s Station |
April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
May | Attached to Artillery Brigade, 11th Army Corps |
May 26 | Captain Dieckman resigned. First Lieutenant William Wheeler |
July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe battery brought 118 men to the field serving four Ordnance Rifles, and lost eight wounded and three missing. |
July 5-24 | Pursuit of Lee |
August | Near Bristoe Station |
August 12 | First Lieutenant Wheeler promoted to captain |
September 24-October 4 | Movement to Bridgeport, Ala. Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 11th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland. |
October 26-29 | Reopening Tennessee River |
November 23-27 | Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign |
November 23-24 | Orchard Knob |
November 24-25 | Mission Ridge |
November 28-December 8 | March to relief of Knoxville |
December-April | Duty in Lookout Valley |
1864
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January | Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 11th Army Corps |
May 1-September 8 | Atlanta Campaign. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland. |
May 8-11 | Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge, Tunnel Hill and Buzzard’s Roost Gap |
May 8 | Dug Gap or Mill Creek |
May 14-15 | Battle of Resaca |
May 19 | Near Cassville |
May 25 | New Hope Church |
May 26-June 5 | Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills |
June 10-July 2 | Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain |
June 11-14 | Pine Hill |
June 15-17 | Lost Mountain |
June 15 | Gilgal or Golgotha Church |
June 16 | Corporal Peter Duffy killed at Pine Knob |
June 17 | Muddy Creek |
June 19 | Noyes Creek |
June 22 |
Kolb’s FarmCaptain William Wheeler killed |
June 27 | Assault on Kenesaw |
July 4 | Ruff’s Station, Smyrna Camp Ground |
July 5-17 | Chattahoochie River |
July 26 | First Lieutenant Henry Bundy promoted to captain |
July 19-20 |
Peach Tree CreekSergeant John O’Connor, Corporal James Lynch and Private Augustin Kollin were killed |
July 22-August 25 | Siege of Atlanta |
August 26-September 2 | Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge |
September 2 | Occupation of Atlanta |
September | Ordered to Murfreesboro, Tenn., and duty in that District attached to Post of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland |
December 4 | Overall’s Creek |
December 5-12 | Hood’s attack on Murfreesboro |
December 7 | Wilkinson’s Pike, Murfreesboro |
December | Attached to Defenses Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland |
1865
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March | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Sub-District, Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland |
April 1 | Private George Muller was killed in an accident near Tullahoma, Tennessee |
July 28 | Mustered out under Captain Henry Bundy |