2nd Battery "B" New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery

Proper Unit Name: 1st New Jersey Volunteer Artillery Battery "B"

Alternate Names

 * 2nd Battery "B" New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery (as listed in A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion - Frederick H. Dyer, 1908.)
 * Beam's Battery (until his death on July 1, 1862)
 * Clark's Battery
 * 1st New Jersey Light Artillery, Battery "B" (the "Light" was added to the name postwar)

Unit Type
Union Volunteer Light Artillery

Mustered In
September 3, 1861, Camp Olden, Trenton, NJ with 151 officers and men

Commanded by

 * Captain John E. Beam (3 September 1861-1 July 1862)
 * Brevet Major A. Judson Clark (29 August 1862-16 June 1865)

Equipped With

 * 4 - 10 pdr. Parrott Rifle & 2 - 12 pdr. Howitzer (Bronze), Oct. 23, 1861 - Early 1862.
 * 6 - 10 pdr. Parrott Rifle, Early 1862 - Sept. 1863.
 * 6 - 12 pdr. "Napoleon" Light Field Gun, Sept. 1863 - June 1865

Mustered Out
June 16, 1865

Casualties
1 Officer and 8 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 23 Enlisted men by disease. Total 32.