19th New York (Independent) Light Artillery Battery
Regimental History and Service Record
"Stahl's Battery"
Organized at Lockport, N.Y., and mustered in at Elmira, N, Y., October 27, 1862. Left State for Washington, D.C., October 29, 1862. Attached to Defenses of Washington, D.C., and 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, to April, 1863. Unattached, Suffolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to June, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, to July, 1863. Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps, to March, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 9th Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C.. until April 16, 1863, Ordered to Suffolk, Va. Siege of Suffolk April 17-May 4. Action at Suffolk April 17. Siege of Suffolk raised May 4. Duty at Suffolk and in the Dept. of Virginia until July. Ordered to Washington, D.C., and duty in the defenses of that city until March, 1864.
- May 4-June 12, 1864 -
The Overland Campaign
- May 5-7, 1864 -
Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia
- May 8-21, 1864 -
Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
- May 22-26, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the North Anna River, Virginia
- May 26-28, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the Pamunkey River, Virginia
- May 28-31, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the Totopotomoy River, Virginia
- June 1-12, 1864 -
Battles of Cold Harbor, Virginia
- June 1-3, 1864 -
Battle of Bethesda Church, Virginia
- June 1-3, 1864 -
- May 5-7, 1864 -
Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864. Weldon Railroad August 18-21. Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Fort Stedman March 25, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Assault and capture of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit to Appomattox.
- Moved to Washington, D.C., April 21-27.
- May 23, 1865 - Grand Review
- June 13, 1865 - Mustered out of federal service
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Regiment Statistical Information
- Battery lost during service 14 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 16 Enlisted men by disease, Total 31.
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 932, 933, 934, 936, 938, 939, 941, 1400)