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109th New
York Infantry
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109th New York
Infantry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 34 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| One Hundred and Ninth New York Infantry. — Cols., Benjamin F. Tracy, Isaac S. Catlin; Lieut. -Cols., Isaac S. Catlin, Philo B. Stilson; Majs., Philo B. Stilson, George
W. Dunn, Zelotus G. Gordon. This regiment was organized at Binghamton, where it was
mustered into the U. S. service Aug. 28, 1862, for three years. The companies were
recruited in the counties of Tomkins, Tioga and Broome — the 24th senatorial
district. The regiment gained a splendid reputation for hard fighting, discipline and
efficiency, and is ranked by Col. Fox among the three hundred fighting regiments of the
war. He says: "The regiment left Binghamton promptly, proceeding to Annapolis
Junction, Md., where it was placed on guard duty along the line of railroad to Washington,
a few of the companies being stationed at Laurel, Md. It remained there the rest of the
year and during all of 1863. In the spring of 1864. the regiment was ordered to join the
9th corps, then assembling at Annapolis, and it accordingly took the field in the ranks of
that battle-tried command. It was assigned to Hartranft's (1st) brigade, Willcox's (3d)
division, — afterwards Harriman's brigade of Willcox's (1st) division. Col. Tracy
resigned May 20, 1864, and Col. Catlin, a gallant and meritorious officer, succeeded to
the command. The corps left Annapolis, April 23, 1864, and crossing the Rapidan on May
5th, the 109th was engaged the next day at the Wilderness, in its first battle, where it
lost 11 killed, 64 wounded, and 1 missing. In the charge of the 9th corps at
Spottsylvania, the regiment lost 25 killed, 86 wounded, and 29 missing; in the assault on
Petersburg, June 17, 1864, 26 killed, 81 wounded, and 20 missing; at the mine explosion,
July 30, 1864, 11 killed, 24 wounded, and 18 missing; and at the Weldon railroad, Aug. 19,
1864, 7 killed, 12 wounded, and 1 missing. The regiment was under fire at the battle on
the Boydton road, Oct. 27, 1864, with a slight loss in wounded and missing, but none
killed. It suffered severely while in the trenches before Petersburg, where for several
weeks it lost men daily, either killed or wounded. During its eleven months in the field
the hard fighting cost the regiment 614 men in killed and wounded, aside from the missing
or prisoners." Its loss by death during service was 5 officers and 160 men; by
disease and other causes, 164 men — total deaths, 329. The percentage of killed, 165,
to the total enrollment, 1,353, was 12.1. It was mustered out of service June 4, 1865, at
Delaney house, D. C. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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