United States Regiments & Batteries > New York
“Buffalo Light Artillery”
“Eaton’s Battery”
The 27th New York Independent Battery lost 2 Eenlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 17 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| Organized at Buffalo, N.Y. | |
| December 17 | Mustered in |
| December 22 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
| December | Duty at Artillery Camp of Instruction and in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. Attached to Defenses of Washington, D. C., and 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
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1863
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| July | At Philadelphia, Pa., attached to Dept. of the Susquehanna |
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1864
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| January | At Washington, D.C. attache to Camp Barry, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, D.C. |
| April |
Rapidan CampaignAttached to Artillery Reserve, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8-16 |
Spottsylvania Court House |
| May 16 | At Washington, D.C. attached to Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps |
| June 5 | Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| June 16-18 |
Grant’s First Assault on Petersburg |
| June 16 – April 2 |
Siege of Petersburg, Virginia |
| July | Attached to Artillery Brigade, 9th Army Corps |
| July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Battle of the Crater)The battery was commanded by Captain John B. Eaton. |
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1865
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| March 25 |
Fort Stedman |
| March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
| April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
| April 21-27 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| June 22 | Mustered out |
