1st New Jersey Volunteer Artillery Battery "B"
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Also known as the 2nd New Jersey Battery, Beam's Battery (until his death on July 1, 1862), Clark's Battery, and 1st New Jersey Light Artillery, Battery "B".
Unit Type: Union Volunteer Light Artillery
Mustered In: September 3, 1861, Camp Olden, Trenton, NJ with 151 officers and men
Commanded by:
- Captain John E. Beam (9/3/1861-7/1/1862)
- Brevet Major A. Judson Clark (8/29/1862-6/16/1865)
Equipped With:
- 4 - 10 pdr. Parrott Rifle & 2 - 12 pdr. Howitzer (Bronze), Oct. 23, 1861 - Early 1862.
- 6 - 10 pdr. Parrott Rifle, Early 1862 - Sept. 1863.
- 6 - 12 pdr. "Napoleon" Light Field Gun, Sept. 1863 - June 1865
Mustered Out: June 16, 1865
Casualties: 1 Officer and 8 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 23 Enlisted men by disease. Total 32.
Dyer's Regimental History
Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, N.J., and mustered in September 3, 1861.
Left State for Washington, D.C., October 22, 1861.
Attached to Hamilton's Division, Defences of Washington, to March, 1862.
Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1862.
Artillery Reserve, 3rd Army Corps, to August, 1862.
Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, to January, 1863.
Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, to May, 1863.
Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps, to March, 1864.
2nd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1864.
Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE
- Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till March, 1862.
- Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula March, 1862.
- Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4.
- Battle of Williamsburg May 5.
- Battle of Fair Oaks (or Seven Pines) May 31-June 1.
- Action at Fair Oaks Station June 21.
- Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
- Battles of Oak Grove, Seven Pines, June 25.
- Peach Orchard and Savage Station June 29.
- White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30.
- Malvern Hill July 1.
- At Harrison's Landing till August 16.
- Moved to Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defences of that city till November.
- Operations on Orange and Alexandria Railroad November 10-12.
- Near Falmouth, Va., November 28-December 11.
- Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12--15.
- At Falmouth till April 27, 1863.
- "Mud March" January 20-24.
- Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church February 5-7.
- Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
- Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.
- Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24.
- Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3.
- Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24.
- South Mountain, Md., July 12.
- Wapping Heights, Manassas Gap, Va., July 23.
- Near Warrenton, Va., till October.
- Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
- Auburn and Bristoe October 14.
- Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
- Kelly's Ford November 7.
- Brandy Station November 8.
- Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.
- At and near Stevensburg till May, 1864.
- Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15.
- Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7.
- Spottsylvania May 8-12.
- Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.
- Assault on the Salient ("Bloody Angle") May 12.
- Harris Farm (or Fredericksburg Road) May 19.
- North Anna River May 23-26.
- On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
- Totopotomoy May 28-31.
- Cold Harbor June 1-12.
- Before Petersburg June 16-18.
- Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
- Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864.
- Demonstration north of the James River August 13-20.
- Strawberry Plains August 14-18.
- Russell's Mills August 18.
- Ream's Station August 25.
- Watkins' House March 25.
- Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
- Hatcher's Run March 29-31.
- Boydton Road, Fall of Petersburg, April 2.
- Sutherland Station April 2.
- Sailor's Creek April 6, Farmville April 6-7.
- Appomattox Court House April 9.
- Surrender of Lee and his army.
- Moved to Washington, D.C., May.
- Grand Review May 23.
- Mustered out June 16, 1865.
Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 8 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 23 Enlisted men by disease. Total 32.
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Primary Resources
- CivilWarWiki: Chancellorsville Report of Capt. Clark - 1st NJ Artillery
- CivilWarWiki: Gettysburg Report of Capt. Clark - 1st NJ Artillery
- CivilWarWiki: James City Skirmish Report of Capt. Clark - 1st NJ Artillery
- CivilWarWiki: Kellys Ford & Brandy Station Action Report of Capt. Clark - 1st NJ Artillery
- CivilWarWiki: Richmond Campaign Report of Capt. Clark - 1st NJ Artillery
- Book: History Of Battery B, First New Jersey Artillery, Michael Hanifen, 1906 - Google Book Edition
