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117th New
York Infantry
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117th New York
Infantry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 35 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| One Hundred and Seventeenth New York Infantry. — Cols., William R. Pease,
Alvin White, Rufus Daggett; Lieut. -Cols., Alvin White, Rufus Daggett, Francis X. Meyer; Majs., Rufus Daggett, Francis X. Meyer, Egbert Bagg. This regiment, recruited in Oneida
county in the summer of 1862, rendezvoused at Rome, where it was mustered into the U. S.
service from Aug. 8 to 16, for three years, and left the state on Aug. 22. It was
stationed at Tenallytown, Md.. until April, 1863, when it was ordered to Suffolk, Va., in
the 1st brigade, Getty's division, 7th corps, and subsequently participated in the
Peninsular campaign of 1863. It was then ordered to join the 18th corps (the 7th corps
having been discontinued), Department of the South; later joined Vogdes' division, 10th
corps, on Folly island, S. C; and took part in the siege of Fort Wagner and the operations
about Charleston harbor. In April, 1864, the regiment was ordered to Virginia, where it
joined Gen. Butler's Army of the James, being assigned to 1st brigade, 2nd division, 10th
corps. Sailing up the James river, it disembarked at Bermuda Hundred and was engaged at
Swift creek, Drewry's bluff and Bermuda Hundred, losing 20 killed, 62 wounded, and 7
missing at Drewry's bluff, Col. White being among the wounded. While at Cold Harbor it was
temporarily attached to the 18th corps, but on its return to the James rejoined the 10th
corps, and soon after took part in the initial assault on the works of Petersburg, losing
54 in killed, wounded and missing. It was present at the mine explosion, and then
recrossing the James fought gallantly at the battle of Fort Harrison, losing 15 killed, 76
wounded and 33 missing. In the 1st (Curtis') brigade, 2nd (Foster's) division, it was
heavily engaged on the Darbytown road, in October, losing 6 killed, 42 wounded, and 4
missing. When the 10th corps was discontinued in Dec, 1864, Curtis' brigade was placed in
Ames' (2nd) division, 24th corps, with which the regiment sailed in Butler's expedition to
Fort Fisher, N. C., where Cos. B and H captured 230 men of the 4th N. C. reserves during a
reconnoissance. Reembarking, the troops returned to Virginia, but were at once ordered
back to Fort Fisher, the second expedition being commanded by Gen. Terry. The 117th took a
conspicuous and highly honorable part in the final assault on Fort Fisher, sustaining a
loss of 92 in killed and wounded. During February it was in the actions at Cape Fear
river, Fort Anderson and Wilmington, and in March and April, as part of the provisional
corps, it engaged in Gen. Terry's Carolina campaign, which closed at the Bennett house on
April 26. The regiment remained on duty at Raleigh, N. C, until June 8, 1865, when it was
mustered out under command of Col. Daggett. About 250 recruits and reenlisted men were
transferred to the 48th N. Y. During its term of service the regiment lost by death 9
officers and 129 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded; 1 officer and 136 enlisted men
by disease and other causes, a total of 274, of whom 21 died in the hands of the enemy. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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