Battery “A” First New Jersey Light Artillery (Hexamer’s Battery).

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New Jersey State Issue 1861:

Brass Cannon, Six Pounders                                                                                                      6

Fourth Quarter 1862:

Ten Pound Parrott Rifle Model 1861                                                                                         6

Colt Army Revolvers Old and New Model                                                                              15

Horse Artillery Saber                                                                                                                   123

First Quarter 1863

Ten Pound Parrott Rifle Model 1861                                                                                         6

Cold Army Revolvers Old and New Models                                                                           15

Horse Artillery Sabers                                                                                                                 27

Second Quarter 1863

Ten Pound Parrott Rifle Model 1861                                                                                         6

Cold Army Revolvers old and New Models                                                                            15

Horse Artillery Sabers                                                                                                                 27

Third Quarter 1863

Ten Pound Parrott Rifle Model 1861                                                                                         6

Cold Army Revolvers old and New Models                                                                            15

Horse Artillery Sabers                                                                                                                 27

Fourth Quarter 1863

Ten Pound Parrott Rifle Model 1861                                                                                         6

Cold Army Revolvers old and New Models                                                                            15

Horse Artillery Sabers                                                                                                                 26

Bullet Moulds, Casting One Round and Conical Ball                                                            4

First Quarter 1864

Ten Pound Parrott Rifle Model 1861                                                                                         6

Cold Army Revolvers old and New Models                                                                            13

Horse Artillery Sabers                                                                                                                 26

Second Quarter 1864*

No Report

Third Quarter 1864

No Report

Fourth Quarter 1864

No Report

 

ARMMENT HISTORY:

1861

Armed with six brass six pounders, which were hauled down from New Jersey with the unit.

1862

Four ten-pound rifled Parrott guns.

Two twelve-pound smoothbore howitzers.

First engagement: May 7th, West Point, Virginia.

Lost the Howitzers from the battle of Gaines’ Mill on June 29th through the battle of Antietam September 17th.

Added men from First New Jersey Volunteers Company “K”. (After South Mountain and Antietam—they were mostly Hoboken boys).

Two Parrott Rifled Cannons were issued to replace the Howitzers.

Nickname of the Battery is:  “German Battery”.  Because many of it’s members were drawn from the German-American population of Hoboken, New Jersey.

 

1863

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* It could be safely assumed that the issuing of Parrott’s & Howitzers, Revolvers and Sabers changed very little in the course of 1864.  Again, this is only an assumption.