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12th New
York Independent Battery
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12th New York
Independent Battery Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 15 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| Twelfth New York Independent Battery. — Capts., William H. Ellis,
George F. McKnight, Charles A. Clark. This battery was organized at Albany and was there
mustered into the U. S. service for three years on Jan. 14, 1862. It continued in service
after the expiration of its term as a veteran organization. Commanded by Capt. Ellis, it
left the state on Jan. 17, 1862, and was stationed at Washington until the summer of 1863,
when it was assigned to the artillery brigade of the 3d corps, with which it participated
in the pursuit of Lee's army, after the battle of Gettysburg, being engaged at Wapping
heights; was active in the minor engagement at Kelly's ford; took part in the futile Mine
Run campaign; and in the same brigade, but attached to the 2nd corps, it fought through
the battles from the Wilderness to Petersburg, losing 3 men at Spottsylvania, 4 at the
North Anna, 1 at Cold Harbor, 11 at the Weldon railroad and 11 at Reams' station. From
Sept., 1864, it formed part of the artillery reserve, Army of the Potomac, and took part
in the final assault on Petersburg, April 2, 1865. It was mustered out under command of
Capt. Clark, at Albany, N. Y., June 14, 1865, having lost 19 killed and died of wounds,
and by disease. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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