United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Artillery and Engineers
The 2nd New York Heavy Artillery Regiment lost 10 officers and 204 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 247 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861
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Organized at Staten Island, N.Y. | |
August 23 | Company B was mustered in |
September 18 | Companies C & D were mustered in |
October 2 | Companies A & E were mustered in |
October 15 | Companies F, G and H were mustered in |
November 7 | Companies A-H left the State for Washington, D. C. |
November 18 | Company L was mustered in |
December 11 | Companies I and K were mustered in |
December 2 | Company L left State for Washington |
December 12 | Company M was mustered in |
December 12 | Companies I, K & M left the State for Washington |
December | Duty in the Defenses of Washington attached to Military District of Washington, D.C. |
1862
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March | Battery “L” detached and designated 34th New York Independent Battery |
March 5 | Gustav Waagner was appointed lieutenant colonel. Waagner had been an engineer officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army who had left the country after the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. He had served in the Western Theater under Grand and Fremont before coming east. |
March 5 | Lieutenant Colonel Gustav Waagner was promoted to colonel. |
May | Attached to Sturgis’ Command, Military District of Washington |
August |
Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 27 |
Action at Bull Run Bridge, VirginiaThe regiment supported Captain Albert von Puttkammer’s section of artillery as they attempted to stop Jackson’s men from looting the Federal supply base at Manassas Junction. After deploying and discovering that they were engaged against overwhelming numbers, the regiment made an orderly withdrawal, losing 7 men wounded and 53 missing. |
August 29-30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run |
1863 | |
January | Attached to Artillery, District of Alexandria, Va. |
February | Attached to Artillery, District of Alexandria, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
April | Attached to 1st Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
1864
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April | Attached to 2nd Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
May 15 | Ordered to join Army of the Potomac in the field. Attached to Tyler’s Heavy Artillery Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 29 | Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps |
May-June |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 18-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
May 19 |
Harris Farm or Fredericksburg Road |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 3 |
Assault at Cold Harbor |
June 16-18 |
First Assault on Petersburg |
June 16 – April 2 |
Siege of Petersburg |
June 22-23 | Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 27-28 | Deep Bottom |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve) |
August 14-18 |
Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains |
August 25 |
Ream’s Station |
October 27-28 | Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
December 9-10 | Reconnaissance to Hatcher’s Run |
December 9 | Hatcher’s Run |
1865
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February 5-7 |
Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run |
March 5 | |
March 25 | Watkins’ House |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29-30 | On line of Hatcher’s and Gravelly Runs |
March 31 |
Hatcher’s Run or Boydton Road and White Oak Road |
April 2 | Sutherland Station and fall of Petersburg |
April 5 | Amelia Springs |
April 6 | Sailor’s Creek |
April 7 |
High Bridge and Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
May 2-12 | March to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 | Grand Review |
June | Duty at Washington, D.C. attached to 1st Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
September 29 | Mustered out at Washington, D.C., and honorably discharged from service |