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Summary Statement, 4th Quarter, 1863 – Miscellaneous New York Artillery

Summary Statement, 4th Quarter, 1863 – Miscellaneous New York Artillery

Below the list of independent batteries are three lines covering returns from formations either outside the listed artillery organizations or under the other branches of service. These are always good stories, often alluding to lesser known aspects of the war:

Examining these three in detail:

99th New York, U.S. Gunboat “Smith Briggs”: Reporting from Fort Monroe, Virginia with one…

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Summary Statement, 3rd Quarter, 1863 – Miscellaneous New York artillery

Summary Statement, 3rd Quarter, 1863 – Miscellaneous New York artillery

As a convention, I prefer to work through each state entry starting with “regimented” batteries first (where regiments existed of course), then through independent batteries, and lastly through any miscellaneous lines.  However, to ease handling and processing of these snips for transcription, I’m going to turn next to the miscellaneous lines before going to the independent batteries.

You see,…