Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: Na faavaeina le 5th New York Independent Light Artillery i Brooklyn, i Niu Ioka iā Aokuso 15, 1861. Na tofia Elijah Taft e avea ma kapeteni i le tausaga lava lenā. Na fuafua le maa e auauna atu i le Excelsior Brigade i le BG Daniel Sickles. O nisi taimi e taʻua ai le 5th New York Battery o le First Excelsior Light Artillery. O le 5th New York na faaaofia i le auaunaga a le malo tele i le aso 8 Novema, 1861. Na malaga atu i Uosigitone, D. C. i le valu aso mulimuli ane ai ma nofo ai i inā, ma tolauapi latalata i le Capitol, seʻia oo iā Mati 1862. Ona ō lea o le ʻautau e tau i le Peninsula Campaign a le MG George B. McClellan. Na tofia i le vaega o le Reserve Artillery o le Army of the Potomac i lalo o le pule a Kolone Henry J. Hunt. E leʻi taunuu mai meafaigaluega a le maa, o lea na auauna ai Taft, o ana alii ofisa ma isi tagata i isi maa i le Taua i Yorktown,
O le Taua i le Vaomatua e Fitu ma Taua i Aso e Fitu.