United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Artillery and Engineers
Battery K lost 2 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 15 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. | |
November 20 | Mustered in under Captain Lorenzo Crounse |
November 21 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
November-April | Duty at Camp Barry attached to Defenses of Washington, D.C. |
1862
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April | Moved to Harper’s Ferry for duty there and in the Shenandoah Valley attached to the Railroad Brigade, Middle Department |
May 25 | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Sigel’s Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah |
May 28 | Charlestown |
May 28-30 | Defense of Harper’s Ferry |
June 28 | Attached to 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia |
August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
August 16- September 2 |
Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 21-23 | Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 22-24 | Beverly Ford |
August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run |
September | Attached to 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 16-17 | Battle of Antietam |
September-December | At Maryland Heights |
October | Attached to 1st Division, 12th Army Corps |
December 12-16 | March to Fredericksburg |
1863
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January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
February | Attached to Dept. of Washington, 22nd Army Corps |
April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign. Attached to 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 1-5 | Battle of Chancellorsville |
May 12 | Attached to 4th Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe battery was commanded by Captain Robert H. Fitzhugh. It brought 149 men to the field serving six Ordnance Rifles and suffered 7 wounded. |
July | Attached to 3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve |
October 9-22 | Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 | Mine Run Campaign |
1864
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March | Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to 1st Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve |
April | Assigned to Camp Barry, 22nd Army Corps |
July | Attached to 2nd Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
October | Attached to 1st Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
1865
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June 20 | Mustered out under Captain Walter Stocking |