Wiedrichs Battery
Battery I, 1st New York Regiment Light Artillery, "Wiedrich's Battery"
Organization and Affiliations
- Organized at Buffalo, New York.
- Left Buffalo for Washington, D.C., October 16, 1861.
- Attached to Blenker's Division, Army of the Potomac to March, 1862.
- 3rd Brigade, Blenker's Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April 1862.
- 3rd Brigade, Blenker's Division, Mountain Department, to June 1862.
- Reserve Artillery, 1st Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.
- Artillery of the 3rd Division, 11th Army Corps, to October 1862
- Artillery of the 2nd Division, 11th Army Corps, to May, 1863.
- Artillery Brigade, 11th Army Corps, to October 1863.
- Artillery Brigade, 11th Army Corps. Dept. of the Cumberland, to January 1864.
- Artillery, 2nd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April, 1864.
- Artillery, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to July 1864.
- Artillery Brigade, 20th Army Corps, to June 1865.
- Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till March, 1862.
- Advance on Manassas, VA., March 10.
- At Fairfax Court House till March 24.
- Ordered to join Fremont in West Virginia, and pursuit of Jackson up the Valley, April and May.
- Near Strasburg, June 1.
- Union Church, June 5.
- Battle of Cross Keys, June 8.
- Near Port Republic, June 9.
- At Sperryville till August.
- Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia, August 16- September 2.
- Fords of the Rappahannock, August 20-23.
- Sulpher Springs, August 23-24.
- Plains of Manassas, August 27-29.
- Second Battle of Bull Run, August 30.
- Duty in the Defences of Washington till December.
- March to Fredericksburg, VA., December 10-16.
- Duty at Falmouth and Brook's Station till April, 1863.
- "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
- Chancellorsville Campaign, April 27-May 6
- Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1-5.
- Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.
- Pursuit of Lee, July 5-24.
- Near Bristoe Station till September.
- Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 2.
- Reopening Tennessee River, October 26-29.
- Battle of Wauhatchie, Lookout Valley, Tenn., October 28-29.
- Chattanooga-Ringold Campaign, November 23-27.
- Battle of Lookout Mountain, November 23-24.
- Mission Ridgem November 25.
- March to the Relief of Knoxville, November 28-December 17.
- At Bridgeport, Alabama till April, 1864.
- Atlanta Campaign, May 1-September 8, 1864.
- Operations about Rocky Faced Ridge, Tunnel Hill, and Buzzard's Roost Gap, May 8-11.
- Battle of Resaca, May 14-15.
- Adairsville, May 17-18.
- Cassville, May 19.
- Advance on Dallas, May 23-25.
- New Hope Church, May 25.
- Operations on line of Pumpkinvine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Jope Church and Allatoona Hills, May 25-June 5.
- Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain, June 10-July2.
- Pine Mountain, June 11-14.
- Lost Mountain, June 15-17.
- Gilgal (or Golgotha Church), June 15.
- Muddy Creek, June 17.
- Noyes' Creek, June 19.
- Kolb's Farm, June 22.
- Assault on Kenesaw, June 27.
- Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.
- Chattahoochie River, July 5-17.
- Peach Tree Creek, July 19-20.
- Siege of Atlanta, July 22- August 25.
- Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge, August 26-September 2.
- Occupation of Atlanta, September 2-November 15.
- March to the Sea, November 15-December 10.
- Siege of Savannah, December 10-21.
- Campaign of the Carolinas, January to April, 1865.
- Lawtonville, S.C., February 2.
- Averysboro, N.C., March 16.
- Battle of Bentonville, March 19-21.
- Occupation of Goldsboro, March 24, and of Raleigh, April 14.
- Bennett's House, April 26.
- Surrender of Johnston and his army.
- March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20.
- Grand Review, May 24.
- Mustered out June 23, 1865.
- Battery lost during service, 1 officer and 12 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded
- Also lost 1 officer and 15 enlisted men by disease.
- Total- 29.