Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaritea te 5th New York Independent Light Artillery i Brooklyn, New York i te Akuhata 15, 1861. I tukuna a Elijah Taft hei rangatira mo tana rangatira i muri mai i te tau. I hangaia te papahiko hei mahi tahi me te Excelsior Brigade i runga i te BG Daniel Sickles. I ētahi wā e kīia ana te 5th New York Battery ko te First Excelsior Light Artillery. I whakauruhia te 5 o Niu Ioka ki te ratonga a te kawanatanga i te Noema 8, 1861. E waru nga ra i muri mai ka wehe atu ki Washington, DC, ka noho ki reira, ka noho tata ki te Capitol, tae noa ki te Maehe 1862. Kātahi ka wehe atu ngā kaipatu pupuhi ki te pakanga o te Peninsula o MG George B. McClellan. I whakawhiwhia ki te Reserve Artillery o te Army of the Potomac i raro i a Col Henry J. Hunt. I te mea kaore i tae mai nga taputapu o te papahiko, ko Taft, ko ana rangatira me ana tangata i mahi tahi me etahi atu papahiko i te Pakanga o Yorktown,
Ko te Pakanga o Ngā Pini e whitu me ngā Pakanga o ngā Rā e whitu.