The National tribune., 1896-08-20
The Cd Pa. Art.

This regiment was organized in January,
1862. under authority granted Charles An
geroih by the War Department. AT the
time OF It's muster the officers were Col
Charles Angeroth, Lieut-CoI. J. Fl. Ober-
tuffer, and Major William Caudidus. Three
OF the companies, ID. G., and II, were ordered
to Fort Delaware on Jan. 9, and during the
latter part of the month the remaining COM
panies went to Washington, where they we're
assigned to duty on the Notifications sur
rounding the city. In the Fall of 1862 The
regiment was joined by two companies,
which were designated as l. ard nj. In the
Spring of 1864 new regiment was organ
lied from the surplus men of the old regi-
ment, and was known "a the I'd Provisional
Heavy Artillery. The Provisional regiment
was assigned to duty with the Ninth Corps,
and took part IN the battles of the Wilder
ness. nSIay the old regiment, which was
still on duty near Washington, was ordered
to JOIN the Eighteenth Corps at Cold Har-
Dor. The regiment was divided into three
bartalions, under command of Capt. Jones,
Maj. Anderson, and Mi Sadler. The I'd
battalion, under command of Capt. Jones,
was holly engaged at Petersburg on the 18th
of June, and last 10 killed and 90 wounded.
Among the wounded was Capt. Jones. Capt.
Mcclure, of Go. F, succeeded him in COM
mand. During the Summer the regiment
performed dufy in the trenches, and during
the three months lost more than half its
strength. The Provisional regiment, num-
berns about 400 men, Joined the old regi-
nent III S ptember. The PROFESSIONALS per-
formed hard service. They were in the
charge at the time of the mine explosion and
dashed into the crater. The 1st and I'd bat
tall n- of the old regiment charged Fort
Harrison ON the Goth of September, and lost
more than 200 in killed, wounded, and
missing. Among the killed was Maj. An
derson. The original term of service ex-
pred in January, 1865. A large number
ie-enlisted, and with the recruits formed an
agere; ave OF over 1000 After the evacua-
ton OF Petersburg the regiment was ordered
to duty i'll that city, and on the surrender of
the reneI army it did duty in soul ern Vir-
gInia Il wa mustered out in January, 1866.
at City Point, Va. The total number of
deaths was GIG.
The 10th N. Y. Battery.
First organization: Capt Edwin s. Jenny
recruited and organized battery in No
vember and December, 1861. known under
this designation. Jan. 81, 1862, it was trans
ferred to The Sd N. Y. Art. as Battery + of
the same
Second organization: The ID Excelsior
Battery, recruited and organized for the
Excelsior Brigade under authority of the
War Department, dated Oct. /, 1861, in
New York City, and there mustered in the
Unried STATES service for three years, April
8, 1862, was designated by the State aui hor-
ties the 10th Battery. The men enlisted
for the Sd Excelsior Battery, which failed
to complete its organization, were transfer
red to this battery, which. commanded by
Capt. John 7. Bruen, left the State April 10,
1862. 1t served at and near Washington, ID.
c., from A ri, 1862; with the Second Corps,
Army of Virginia, from June, 1862; with
the First Division, Twelfth Corps. Army of
the Potomac, from Sept. IL. 1862; with the
Third Division, Third Corps, from Decem-
her, 1862; in the Artillery Brigade, Third
Corps, from May, 1868; in the Artillery Re-
serve, Army of the Potomac, from May II,
1868; in detachments with the LIST N. III.
battery, Battery E, 1st Mass, and Batteries
c and G. 1st r. /. Art, from June, 1868; in
the defense. of Washington, ID. c., Twenty
second Corps, from July, 1863; and, June
81, 1865, commanded by Lieut.. L. G. Bruen,
it was transferred to the 9th N. Y. battery.
The battery lost two men killed and nine
men died.
The LIST N. j. Battery.
The battery was organized at Hoboken,
N. j., Aug. IL, 1861, for the three-years'
service. On the expiration of lis term it
veteran zed and was retained until June %,
1865, when it was mustered out. Capt.
John Hexamer commanded during the bat
tery's earlier service. Capt. Augustine N.
Parsons succeeded Capt. Hexamer, and was