Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A haziri 5th New York Independent Light Artillery na Brooklyn, New York na August 15, 1861. A họpụtara Elijah Taft ka ọ bụrụ ọchịagha ya n'afọ ahụ. E bu n'obi ka batrị ahụ soro Excelsior Brigade na BG Daniel Sickles. A na-akpọ batrị nke ise nke New York mgbe ụfọdụ First Excelsior Light Artillery. A kpọbatara 5th New York n'ọrụ gọọmenti etiti na November 8, 1861. Ọ gawara Washington, D. C. ụbọchị asatọ ka e mesịrị ma nọrọ ebe ahụ, na-ama ụlọikwuu n'akụkụ Ụlọ Nzukọ Alaeze, ruo March 1862. Mgbe ahụ ndị na-agba egbe ahụ hapụrụ maka Mpaghara Peninsula nke MG George B. McClellan. E kenyere ya na Reserve Artillery nke ndị agha nke Potomac n'okpuru Col Henry J. Hunt. Ebe akụrụngwa batrị ahụ erubeghị, Taft, ndị isi ya na ndị ikom ya jere ozi na batrị ndị ọzọ na Agha nke Yorktown,
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