7th New York (Independent) Light Artillery Battery
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Windsor as an Artillery Company for the 56th Regiment Infantry, and mustered in October 30, 1861. Left State for Washington, D.C., November 7, 1861. Designated 7th Independent Battery December 7, 1861. Attached to Casey's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1862. Artillery, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to September, 1862. Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1863. Norfolk, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to March, 1864. U.S. Forces, Yorktown, Va., 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to June, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, to January, 1865. Ferrero's Infantry Division, Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Va., to April, 1865. Dept. of Virginia to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., until March, 1862.
- March 17-September 2, 1862 -
The Peninsula Campaign
- April 5-May 4, 1862 -
Siege of Yorktown, Virginia
- May 5, 1862 -
Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia
[1] - May 20-23, 1862 -
Operations about Bottom's Bridge, Virginia
- May 24, 1862 -
Skirmish at Savage's Station, Virginia
- May 24-27, 1862 -
Reconnaissance to Seven Pines, Virginia
[2] - May 31-June 1, 1862 -
Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia
- June 25-July 1, 1862 -
The Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
- April 5-May 4, 1862 -
Moved to Camp Hamilton, Va., and duty there until August. At Norfolk, Va., until October and at Portsmouth, Va., until July, 1863. At Norfolk until March, 1864. Expedition from Norfolk to South Mills and Camden Court House, N. C., December 5-24, 1863. At Yorktown, Va., March to May, 1864. Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred 16-30. Before Petersburg June 15-18. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30, 1864. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9, 1865. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House April 9. Duty in the Dept. of Virginia until July. Mustered out July 22, 1865.
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Regiment Statistical Information
- Battery lost during service 4 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 27 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 897, 899, 900, 901, 902, 903, 904, 1397-1398)