United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Artillery & Engineers
The 4th Independent Battery lost 5 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 1 officer and 11 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
1861
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Organized at New York as Company L, Artillery Company, Serrell’s New York Engineer Regiment | |
October 25 | Mustered in at Staten Island, N.Y. |
October 25 | Left State for Washington, D.C. Designated Battery C and later Battery D, New York Light Artillery |
November | Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. |
December 7 | Designated 4th New York Battery |
1862
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January | Attached to Hooker’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
March | Ordered to the Peninsula, Va. and attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May | Attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks |
June 25-July 1 | Seven days before Richmond |
June 25 | Battle of Oak Grove near Seven Pines |
June 29 | Peach Orchard and Savage Station |
June 30 | White Oak Swamp and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July | At Harrison’s Landing |
August 16-26 | Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville |
August 26-September 2 |
Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 27 |
Bristoe Station |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton (Brawner Farm) |
August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run |
September | Duty in the Defenses of Washington at Fairfax Station, Va. |
November 10-12 | Operations on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad |
December |
Rappahannock Campaign |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863
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January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
February 5-7 | Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church |
February-April | At Falmouth |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 3-August 1 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe battery brought 135 men to the field serving six 10-pounder Parrott Rifles under Captain James E. Smith. From the monument to the battery at the Devils Den: July 2, 1863 2 to 5 p.m. At the time of the assault by Hood’s Division of the Confederate army this battery supported by the Fourth Maine Infantry, formed the extreme left of the Third Corps line. Three guns of the two sections in action on this crest were captured by the Confederates. The third section was in position to the right and continued the action until nearly 6 p.m. From the nearby marker: Fourth New York Independent Battery July 3 Not engaged. Killed 2 men wounded 10 men missing 1 man |
July | Attached to 1st Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
August | On line of the Rappahannock and Rapidan |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
December 4 | Battery broken up under Special Orders No. 538. Men transferred to 1st New York Engineers, 5th and 15th New York Independent Batteries |