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.
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 |
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 CampaignAttached to Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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 CampaignAttached 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 |
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 WildernessCaptain Winslow was wounded in fighting on Orange Plank Road. Lieutenant Shelton then took command of the battery. Two guns were temporarily captured, but when the Confederates pulled back they were unable to remove them from the field during the day. They were left between the lines to be brought off by men from two North Carolina regiments after dark . |
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 |
Battle of Cold Harbor |
June 1-3 | Bethesda Church |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 21-23 | Weldon Railroad |
August 18-21 |
Six Mile House, Weldon Railroad |
September 29 |
Varuna Road |
September 30-October 1 |
Poplar Grove Church |
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 |