3rd New York Light Artillery / Battery E
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Washington, D.C., from 19th New York Infantry December 11, 1861.
Organized from Company "E," 19th Regiment Infantry, December 11, 1861. Attached to Defenses of Washington, D.C., to March, 1862. Unattached, Dept. of North Carolina, to December, 1862. Artillery Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina, to January, 1863. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to April, 1863. Defenses of New Berne, 18th Army Corps, to July, 1863. Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. Yorktown, Va., 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to May, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, to July, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., until March, 1862. Sailed for New Berne, N. C., March 27, arriving there April 2, and duty there until April, 1864. Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro December 11-20, 1862. Actions at Kinston December 14. Whitehall December 16. Goldsboro December 17. Deep Gully, N. C., March 13-14, 1863. New Berne March 14, Moved to Yorktown, Va., April, 1864. Butler's operations on south side of the James and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Port Walthall May 6-7. Swift Creek May 8-10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Proctor's Creek May 12-13. Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred May 16-June 15. Before Petersburg June 15-18. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 3, 1865. Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30. Before Richmond until April 2, 1865. Occupation of Richmond April 3. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House April 9. Mustered out at Richmond, Va., June 23, 1865.
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Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Page 1393)
