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Clark’s Battery

Location: Sickles Avenue at Excelsior Field.

Order of Battle: 3d Corps Artillery Brigade

Number Engaged: 6 Parrotts and 143 men; 1 killed, 16 wounded, 3 missing

Commander: Capt. Adoniram J. Clark (1838-1913)

Raised: Essex County

Monument Specifications: Granite monument with sculpted reliefs of napoleon tubes and sponge and rammers. The granite monument has a tapered top decorated with stars and is topped by a granite ball. The monument marks the position of Clark’s Battery on July 2, 1863.

Dedication Date: June 30, 1888.

Sculptor/Artist/Company: Frederick & Field, fabricator.

Main Inscription: CLARK’S BATTERY/BATTERY B/1ST NEW JERSEY/LIGHT ARTILLERY/3D CORPS/FOUGHT HERE FROM/2 UNTIL 7 O’CLOCK/ON JULY 2, 1863/FIRING 1300 ROUNDS/OF AMMUNITION/LOSSES, KILLED 1,/WOUNDED 16, MISSING 3/ERECTED BY THE STATE/OF NEW JERSEY 1888

Other Monuments and Memorials: Iron War Department tablet, South Hancock Avenue, north of Weikert farm. Text is as follows:

ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
THIRD CORPS
ARTILLERY BRIGADE
NEW JERSEY LIGHT ARTILLERY
2ND BATTERY
Six 10 Pounder Parrotts
Captain A. Judson Clark Commanding

July 2. Engaged in the action in a field near the Peach Orchard retired to the rear about 6.30 P. M. for want of support.

July 3. In line here with the Artillery Brigade during the heavy cannonading and the charge and repulse of Longstreet’s assault but was not engaged.

Casualties July 2nd Killed 1 Man Wounded 16 Men Missing 3 Men Total 20

Supplemental Materials: After Action Report of Capt. A. Judson Clark (will open a pop up window).

Regimental History ~ Dyer’s Compendium of the War of the Rebellion:

Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, N.J., and mustered in September 3, 1861. Left State for Washington, D.C., October 22, 1861. Attached to Hamilton’s Division, Defenses of Washington, to March, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1862. Artillery Reserve, 3rd Army Corps, to August, 1862. Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, to January, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, to May, 1863. Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps, to March, 1864. 2nd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.–Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C., until March, 1862. Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula March, 1862. Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4. Battle of Williamsburg May 5. Battle of Fair Oaks (or Seven Pines) May 31-June 1. Action at Fair Oaks Station June 21. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Oak Grove, Seven Pines, June 25. Peach Orchard and Savage Station June 29. White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30. Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison’s Landing until August 16. Moved to Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defenses of that city until November. Operations on Orange and Alexandria Railroad November 10-12. Near Falmouth, Va., November 28-December 11. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12–15. At Falmouth until April 27, 1863. “Mud March” January 20-24. Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church February 5-7. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24. South Mountain, Md., July 12. Wapping Heights, Manassas Gap, Va., July 23. Near Warrenton, Va., until October. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Auburn and Bristoe October 14. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Kelly’s Ford November 7. Brandy Station November 8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. At and near Stevensburg until May, 1864. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7. Spotsylvania May 8-12. Spotsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient (“Bloody Angle”) May 12. Harris Farm (or Fredericksburg Road) May 19. North Anna River May 23-26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864. Demonstration north of the James River August 13-20. Strawberry Plains August 14-18. Russell’s Mills August 18. Ream’s Station August 25. Watkins’ House March 25. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Hatcher’s Run March 29-31. Boydton Road, Fall of Petersburg, April 2. Sutherland Station April 2. Sailor’s Creek April 6, Farmville April 6-7. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Moved to Washington, D.C., May. Grand Review May 23. Mustered out June 16, 1865. Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 8 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 23 Enlisted men by disease. Total 32.