19th NEW YORK INDEPENDENT BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY

This battery was recruited at Lockport, Alabama, Wilson and Porter, NY; organized and mustered in the service of the United States for three years, October 27, 1862, at Elmira, NY. It left the State, commanded by Capt. William H. Stahl, October 29, 1862, and served at and near Washington, D.C., at Camp Barry, Artillery Camp of Instruction and 22d Corps, from November, 1862; at Suffolk, Va., 7th Corps, from April 19, 1863; in the defenses of Washington, 22d Corps, from June, 1863; with the 2d Division, 9th Corps, from March, 1864; in the Artillery Brigade, 9th Corps, from July, 1864; with the 1st Division, 9th Corps, in August, 1864. The battery was honorably discharged and mustered out, under the command of Capt. Edward W. Rogers, June 13, 1865, at Elmira, having during its service, lost by death, killed in action, 9 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 5 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 1 officer, 17 enlisted men; total, 1 officer, 31 enlisted men; aggregate, 32; and taken part in the following engagements, etc.:

1863

Siege of Suffolk, Va. April 19-May 4
1 enlisted man killed accidently in the field
Edenton Road, Va. June 11

1864

Wilderness, Va. May 5-7
Spotsylvania Court House, Va. May 8 - 21


Ny River, Va. 12


7 enlisted men killed in action, 3 enlisted men died of wounds, 6 enlisted men wounded and recovered

Landron House 18
North Ana, Va. 22-36
Totopotomoy, Va. 27-31
1 enlisted man wounded recovered

Cold Harbor, Va. June 1- 12
2 enlisted men died of wounds

Before Petersburg, Va. June 16-
1 enlisted man killed in action,
April 2 
2 enlisted men
1865 wounded and recovered,

Assault of Petersburg,Va. 

June 16- 3 enlisted men wounded 17 recovered

Mine Explosion, Va. July 30 3 enlisted man woundedrecovered

Weldon Road, Va. Aug. 18- 1 enlisted man wounded 21 recovered

Poplar Grove Church, Sept. 30-Va. Oct. 2
Hatcher's Run, Va. Oct. 27- 28

1865

Fort Stedman, Va. March 25

1 enlisted man killed in action, 2 officers and 12
enlisted men captured.
Fall of Petersburg,
Va. April 2

 OFFICERS OF THE 19th NEW YORK BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY

Captains:

 William H. Stahl, from September 13, 1862, to September 15, 1863.


Edward W. Rogers, from September 16, 1863, to June 13, 1865.

First Lieutenants:

 Edward W. Rogers, from September 10, 1862, to September 16, 1863.


Peter McGraw, from September 13, 1862, to September 29, 1863.


Alfred B. Losse, from December 14, 1863, to June 13, 1865.


Michael Long, from October 15, 1863, to May 15, 1865.


Governeur Morris, not mustered.

Second Lieutenants:

 Francis Rinn, from September 10, 1862, to January 15, 1863.
Ebenezer J. Stout, from September 13 to December 29, 1862.
Henry J.J. Fassett, from January 22 to January 29, 1863.
George Dashwood Jones, from February 6 to May 25, 1863.
Rufus Munson Grummon, from June 27 to October 15, 1863.
Henry H. Moore, from December 4, 1863, to May 15, 1865.
Richard A. Perry, from January 17 to June 13, 1865.
Gideon Richtmyer, not mustered.

Above was taken from Phisterer's, "New York in The War of the
Rebellion, 1861-1865," Third Edition, Vol. II, Published by
NY State Printer, J. B. Lyon, Albany, 1912, pgs. 1604-1605.