United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Artillery & Engineers
Battery D lost 1 officer and 12 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 14 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 Elmira, N.Y. under Captain Thomas W. Osborn | |
| September 6 | Mustered in |
| October 31 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
| November | Duty at Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
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1862
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| March | Ordered to the Peninsula, Va. attached to Hooker’s 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| April 5-May 4 | Siege of Yorktown |
| May 5 | Battle of Williamsburg |
| May 24 | Bottom’s Bridge |
| May 31-June 1 | Battle of Seven Pines (or Fair Oaks) |
| June 15 | Some of the survivors of Battery A transferred in after their battery was overrun and their pieces lost at Fair Oaks |
| June 25-July 1 | Seven days before Richmond |
| June 25 | Oak Grove |
| June 29 | Savage Station and Peach Orchard |
| June 30 | Turkey Bridge (or Malvern Cliff) |
| July 1 | Malvern Hill |
| July | Duty at Harrison’s Landing attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps |
| August 16 | Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C., near Fairfax Seminary, Munson’s Hill and at Fairfax Station |
| December | Rappahannock Campaign; attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
| December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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1863
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| January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
| January | At Falmouth |
| February | Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps |
| April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps |
| May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
| June 13 – August 1 | Gettysburg Campaign |
| July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe battery was commanded at Gettysburg by Captain George B. Winslow. It brought 116 men to the field serving six 12-pounder Napoleons, and lost 10 wounded and 8 missing in fighting in the Wheatfield. |
| July 23 | Wapping Heights |
| October 9-22 | Bristoe Campaign |
| 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 |
| November 27 | Payne’s Grove |
| November 28-30 | Mine Run |
| December-May | Duty near Brandy Station |
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1864
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| March | Attached to Artillery Brigade, 5th Army Corps |
| May 3-June 15 | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8 | Laurel Hill |
| May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| May 12 | “Bloody Angle” (Assault on the Salient) |
| May 23-26 | North Anna River |
| May 23 | Jericho Ford |
| May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
| June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
| June 1-3 | Bethesda Church |
| June 16-18 | Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins |
| June 21-23 | Weldon Railroad |
| August 18-21 | Six Mile House, Weldon Railroad |
| September 29 | Varuna Road |
| September 30-October 1 | Poplar Grove Church |
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1865
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| February 5-7 | Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run |
| March 28-April 9 | Appomattox Campaign |
| March 29-31 | Boydton and White Oak Roads |
| April 1 |
Five Forks |
| April 2 | Fall of Petersburg |
| April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
| May | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| June 16 | Mustered out under Captain Jas. B. Hazleton |