3rd New York Artillery, Battery K

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1861
Organized at Auburn
December 20 Mustered in under Captain James R. Angell
1862
January-March Duty in the Defenses of Washington
March 27 Sailed for New Berne, N. C.
April 2 Arrived New Berne and asigned to Department of North Carolina
November 1-12 Expedition from New Berne to Tarboro
November 2 Action at Rawle’s Mills
December 11-20 Foster’s Expedition to Goldsboro, assigned to Artillery Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina
December 14 Actions at Kinston
December 16 Whitehall
December 17 Goldsboro
1863
January Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina
May Assigned to Defenses of New Berne, N. C., 18th Corps
July 4-8 Expedition to Trenton
July 6 Quaker Bridge
July 17-20 Expedition to Swift Creek
July 25-31 To Winton
1864
February 1-4 About New Berne
April Moved to Yorktown, Va. and assigned to Artillery, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James
May 4-28 Butler’s operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond Assigned to Artillery, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps
May 6-7 Port Walthall
May 9-10 Swift Creek
May 12-13 Proctor’s Creek
May 12-16 Operations against Fort Darling
May 14-16 Battle of Drury’s Bluff
May 17 Bermuda Hundred
June 15-18
First Assault on Petersburg.

Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin. Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps.
September 28-30
Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights
October-March Before Richmond
December Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps
1865
March 28-April 9 Appomattox Campaign
April 2-3 Fall of Petersburg and Richmond
April 3-9 Pursuit of Lee
April 9
Appomattox Court House

Surrender of Lee and his army.
June 30 Mustered out at Richmond, Va.