United States Regiments & Batteries > New York
The 1st New York Independent Battery lost 2 officers and 16 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 38 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
1861
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November 23 | Organized at Auburn, N.Y. and mustered in under Captain Terrance J. Kennedy, First Lieutenants Andrew Cowan and William P. Wright |
December 4 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
December | Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. attached to W. F. Smith’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
1862
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January 23 | Sergeant Theodore Atkins was promoted to second lieutenant |
March | Attached to W. F. Smith’s 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 23-24 | Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va. |
April 5 | Action at Lee’s Mills |
April 5-May 4 | Siege of Yorktown |
April 16 | Lee’s Mills |
May 5 |
Battle of WilliamsburgThe battery lost 1 enlisted man killed and 2 wounded |
May | Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps |
May 12 | Captain Kennedy promoted to major, Third Artillery. |
June 21 | First Lieutenant Andrew Cowan was promoted to captain and Second Lieutenant William H. Johnson was promoted to First Lieutenant |
June 25-July 1 | Seven days before Richmond |
June 27 | Gaines’ Mill |
June 28 | Golding’s Farm |
June 29 | Savage Station |
June 30 | White Oak Swamp and Glendale |
July 1 | Malvern Hill |
July-August | At Harrison’s Landing |
August 16-24 | Moved to Fortress Monroe, then to Alexandria |
September 6-22 | Maryland Campaign |
September 14 | Crampton’s Pass, South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)The battery was commanded by Captain Cowan and brought four 3″ Ordnance Rifles to the field. It lost 1 enlisted man wounded. |
September 26-October 29 | At Hagerstown, Md. |
October 29 – November 19 | Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863
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January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
January 23 | First Lieutenant Andrew Cowan was promoted to captain |
February-April | At Falmouth, Va. |
April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 | Operations at Franklin’s Crossing |
May 3 | Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
May | Attached to Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
June 5-13 | Deep Run Ravine |
July 2-4 |
Battle of GettysburgThe battery was commanded by Captain Andrew Cowan. It brought 113 men to the field serving six Ordnance Rifles and lost 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and First Lieutenant William Wright and 1 other officer and 5 enlisted men wounded From the monument: Double canister at ten yards. |
July 5 | Near Fairfield, Pa. |
October 9-22 | Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 | Rappahannock Station |
November 26-December 2 | Mine Run Campaign |
1864
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January 9 | First Lieutenant William Wright was discharged due to his Gettysburg wound. Second Lieutenant Orasmus Van Ettan was promoted to First Lieutenant. |
February 27-March 2 | Reconnaissance to Madison Court House |
May 3-June 15 | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court HouseThe battery lost 3 enlisted men wounded and 1 missing |
May 12 | Assault on the Salient, “Bloody Angle” |
May 23-26 | North Anna River |
May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 | Battles around Cold Harbor |
June 5 |
Cold HarborFirst Lieutenant Van Ettan wounded |
June 17-19 | First Assault on Petersburg |
June 18-July 9 |
Siege of PetersburgThe battery lost 1 enlisted man mortally wounded and 1 officer wounded |
June 22-23 | Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad |
July 9-11 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
July 12-13 | Repulse of Early’s attack on Washington |
August 7- November 28 |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
August 12 | Cedar Creek |
August 21 |
Charles TownThe battery lost 1 enlisted man wounded |
August 28-29 | Leetown |
September 13 | Opequan Creek |
September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester, or OpequonCaptain Cowan and five enlister men were wounded. First Lieutenant William Johnson took command of the battery until he was mortally wounded, leaving Lieutenant Orsamus R. Van Etten in command of the battery. |
September 22 |
Battle of Fisher’s Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar CreekThe battery lost Second Lieutenant Henry D. Vaughn and 9 enlisted men killed or motally wounded and 13 enlisted men wounded. |
October-November | Duty at Kernstown |
November | First Lieutenant William Johnson died of his Winchester wounds at National Hospital in Baltmore. |
November 19 | Second Lieutenant William Sears was promoted to First Lieutenant. |
December 9-12 | Moved to Petersburg, Va. |
December | Siege of Petersburg |
1865
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March 25 |
Fort Fisher, PetersburgThe battery lost 1 enlisted man killed and 1 officer and 3 enlisted men wounded |
March 28-April 9 | Appomattox Campaign |
April 2 |
Assault on and capture of PetersburgThe battery lost 2 enlisted men wounded |
April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
April 6 | Sailor’s Creek |
April 7 | High Bridge |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
April | At Farmville and Burkesville |
April 23-27 | March to Danville |
May 18-June 3 | March to Richmond, thence to Washington, D.C. |
June 8 | Corps Review |
June 23 | Mustered out under Captain Cowan, First Lieutenants Sears and Van Ettan |