3rd New York Light Artillery / Battery I
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Washington, D.C., from 19th New York Infantry December 11, 1861.
Organized from Company "I," 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 May, 1863. Defenses of New Berne, N. C., 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to July, 1863. Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to February, 1865. Reserve Artillery Division, District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina, to April, 1865. Reserve Artillery, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty in the Defenses of Washington until March 27, 1862. Sailed for New Berne, N. C., March 27, arriving April 2. Siege of Fort Macon April 12-26. Bombardment and capture of Fort Macon April 25-26. Duty at New Berne until January, 1863. Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro December 11-20, 1862. Actions at Kinston December 14. Whitehall December 16. Goldsboro December 17. Duty at New Berne, N. C., until March, 1865. Expedition from Plymouth to Cedar Point and White Oak River July 13-16, 1863. (Old members mustered out June 2, 1863.) Operations about New Berne against Whiting January 18-February 10, 1864. Beech Grove and Batchelor's Creek February 1-3. Campaign of the Carolinas March 1-April 26, 1865. Southwest Creek March 7. Battle of Wise's Forks March 8-10. Occupation of Goldsboro March 21. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and army. Duty in the Dept. of North Carolina until June. Mustered out at Syracuse, N.Y., July 7, 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 1394)
