3rd Independent Battery Light Artillery, "Mott's Artillery"
This battery was originally Company D — the howitzer company — of the 2d Militia, later 82d Infantry. It served detached from its regiment, and was known as Battery B, New York Volunteer Artillery, until, December 7, 1861 when it received its numerical designation from the State. It was recruited and organized in New York city and left the State, commanded by Capt. Thaddeus P. Mott, May 19, 1861. It was mustered in the service of the United States for three years, June 17, 1861, at Washington, D.C. and shortly thereafter detached from its regiment and converted into a light battery. At the expiration of its term of service the men entitled were discharged, and the battery continued in service. On June 24, 1865, commanded by Capt. W. A. Harn, it was honorably discharged and mustered out at New York city, having lost by death during its service, killed in action, 12 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 2 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 4 enlisted men; total, 18.
The battery participated in all the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac to the end of the war.
Original prints of this unit are in the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center.
New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Frederick Phisterer. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912.
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