UNION NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS
30th Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery
- Overview:
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Organized from Battery "B" 1st Independent Battalion New York Light Artillery March 16, 1863. Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863. 2nd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to July, 1863. 1st Division, Dept. of the Susquehanna, to August, 1863. Artillery, Martinsburg, W. Va., to December, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of West Virginia, to January, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, West Virginia, to May, 1864. Artillery Brigade, West Virginia, to July, 1864. Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, to January, 1865. Camp Barry, Washington, D. C., 22nd Army Corps, to June, 1865.
- Service:
- Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6, 1863. Duty at Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg, W. Va., till April, 1864. Sigel's Expedition from Martinsburg to New Market April 30-May 16, 1864. Battle of New Market May 15. Hunter's Raid to Lynchburg May 24-July 1. Advance to Staunton May 24-June 5. Piedmont
June 5. Occupation of Staunton June 6. Lexington June 12. Lynchburg June 17-18. Catawba Mountains and Salem June 21. Charlestown July 19. Kernstown, Winchester, July 24. Bunker Hill and Martinsburg July 25. Duty at Harper's Ferry and vicinity till January, 1865, and in the Defences of Washington, D. C., till June, 1865. Mustered out June 23, 1865.
Battery lost during service 7 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 11 Enlisted men by disease. Total 18.
Predecessor unit:
NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS
BRICKEL'S 1st BATTALION GERMAN LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Organized at New York City and mustered in Company "A" August 26, Company "B" August 12, Company ¿C" September 11 and Company "D" September 20, 1861. Left State for Washington, D. C., October 12, 1861. Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1862. 3rd Brigade, Artillery Reserve, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862. Artillery Reserve, 5th Army Corps, to December, 1862. Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1863.
- Service:
- Duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C., till March, 1862. Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March -. Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4. Near New Bridge June 20. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Mechanicsville June 26. Gaines' Mill June 27. Garnett's Farm June 28. Turkey
Bridge or Malvern Cliff June 30. Malvern Hill
July 1. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Alexandria August 16-28. Maryland Campaign September-October. Battle of Antietam
September 16-17. Movement to Falmouth October-November. Battle of Fredericksburg
December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. Battalion organization discontinued March 5, 1863, and Company "A" designated 29th New York Independent Battery Light Artillery. Company "B" designated 30th New York Independent Battery Light Artillery. Company "C" designated 31st New York Independent Battery Light Artillery, and Company "D" designated 32nd New York Independent Battery Light Artillery (which see).
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