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119th New
York Infantry
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119th 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 Nineteenth New York Infantry. — Cols., Elias Peissner, John
T. Lockman; Lieut. -Cols. John T. Lockman, Edward F. Lloyd, Isaac P. Lockman; Majs.,
Harvey Baldwin, Jr., Benjamin A. Willis, Isaac P. Lockman, Charles F. Lewis, Chester H.
Southworth. This regiment was recruited and organized at New York city in the summer of
1862, and was mustered into the U. S. service on Sept. 4-5, for three years. On the 6th
the regiment left for Washington, where it was attached to the 2nd brigade, 3d (Schurz')
division, 11th corps (Howard), and went into winter quarters at Stafford, Va. At the
battle of Chancellorsville, Howard's corps was surprised and suffered severely, the 119th
losing 21 killed, 67 wounded and 32 missing, Col. Peissner being killed while rallying his
men. The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Col. Lockman, and was heavily engaged on
the first two days of the battle, losing 140 in killed, wounded and missing. After
returning with the army to Virginia, it was ordered with its corps on Sept. 24, to
Tennessee. It was present but not active at the midnight battle of Wauhatchie, fought
valiantly at Missionary ridge, and was then ordered with the corps to the relief of
Knoxville, enduring severe hardships and privations during the campaign. In April, 1864,
when the 11th corps was broken up, the regiment was assigned to the 2nd brigade, 2nd
division, of the newly formed 20th corps, commanded by Gen. Hooker, the veteran Gen. Geary
being in command of the division. It moved on the Atlanta campaign and took part in
numerous battles in the next four months, including Rocky Face ridge, Resaca, where the
brave Lieut.-Col. Lloyd was killed, New Hope Church, Kennesaw mountain, Peachtree creek,
and the siege of Atlanta. After the fall of Atlanta, it remained with the corps to hold
the city, while the rest of the army went in pursuit of Hood. On Nov. 15, the regiment
moved with Sherman's army on the grand march through Georgia to the sea and took part in
the siege of Savannah, Geary's division being the first to enter the city upon Hardee's
evacuation. Early in the year 1865, it moved on the campaign of the Carolinas, fighting at
Averasboro, Bentonville, Raleigh and Bennett's house, but sustaining a loss of only 4
missing. After Gen. Johnston's surrender, it marched on to Washington with the 20th corps,
where it participated in the grand review, and was mustered out at Bladenburg, Md., June
7, 1865, commanded by Col. Lockman. The total enrollment of the regiment was 69 officers,
981 men. It lost by death during service, 6 officers and 71 men, killed and mortally
wounded; 2 officers and 92 men by disease and other causes, a total of 171. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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