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28th New
York Infantry
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28th New York
Infantry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 21 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| Twenty-eighth New York Infantry. — Cols., Dudley Donnelly, Edwin F. Brown;
Lieut. -Cols., Edwin F. Brown, Elliott W. Cook; Majs., James R. Mitchell, Elliott W. Cook,
Theophilus Fitzgerald. The 28th, the "Niagara Rifles," was composed of five
companies from Niagara county, two from Orleans county, one from Ontario, one from Genesee
and one from Sullivan, and was mustered into the U. S. service for two years on May 22,
1861, at Albany. A month was spent in camp at Camp Morgan and on June 25, the regiment
left the state for Washington. It was assigned on July 7 to Butterfield's brigade, Keim's
division of Gen. Patterson's force, which it joined at Martinsburg, W. Va. Camp was
occupied at Berlin until Aug. 20, when the force moved to Darnestown and remained there
until Oct. 20, when it was ordered to Ball's bluff but did not arrive in time to take part
in the battle. From Dec. 5, 1861, to Jan. 6, 1862, the regiment encamped at
Fredericksburg; was then at Hancock until March 1, and then moved to Winchester with the
1st brigade, 1st division, 5th corps, Army of the Potomac. Co. E participated in the
engagement near Columbia Furnace, Co. I in an encounter near Montevideo, and the entire
regiment was transferred to the Department of the Shenandoah in May. It marched to Front
Royal, Middletown, Newton, Winchester and Bunker Hill in May; to Williamsport and Front
Royal in June, and to Culpeper Court House and Cedar mountain in July. In the battle of
Cedar mountain the loss of the 28th was 213 killed, wounded and missing out of 339
engaged, and of these 41 men were mortally wounded. On Aug. 21, the regiment was again in
action at Rappahannock Station. On June 26 it was assigned to the 1st brigade, 1st
division, 2nd corps, Army of Virginia, and on Sept. 12, to the same brigade and division
of the 12th corps, Army of the Potomac. During the battle of Bull Run (second) the command
was posted at Manassas Junction and was then withdrawn to Centerville and Alexandria,
leaving there Sept. 3 for Maryland. At Antietam the command was closely engaged and the
commander of the corps. Gen. Mansfield, was mortally wounded. Gen. Williams succeeded him
in command and the corps went into camp at Harper's Ferry. On Dec. 10, the regiment
marched toward Dumfries, from there to Fairfax Station, then to Stafford Court House,
where it established winter quarters. The last battle of the 28th was at Chancellorsville,
in which the regiment lost 78 members killed, wounded or missing. Soon after it returned
to New York and was mustered out at Albany June 2, 1863. The total loss of the regiment
during its term of service was 68 members killed or died of wounds and 49 died from other
causes. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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