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122nd New
York Infantry
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122nd New York
Infantry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 36 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| One Hundred and Twenty-second New York Infantry — Cols., Silas Titus,
Augustus W. Dwight, Horace H. Walpole; Lieut.-Cols., Augustus W. Dwight, Horace H.
Walpole, James M. Gere; Majs., Joshua B. Davis, Jabez M. Brower, Alonzo H. Clapp, Morton
B. Marke. This regiment, recruited in the county of Onondaga, rendezvoused at Syracuse and
was there mustered into the U. S. service for three years on Aug. 28, 1862. The regiment
left the state three days later and was assigned to the 3d brigade, 3d division, 6th
corps. It was under fire for the first time at Antietam, but sustained no losses. In the
1st brigade of Newton's (3d) division, same corps, it was slightly engaged at
Fredericksburg, where a few men were wounded. It was engaged on the same field again, in
May, 1863, in the battle of Marye's heights, when the divisions of Newton and Howe carried
the heights at the point of the bayonet. At Gettysburg it went into action with Shaler's
brigade as a support to the 12th corps and sustained a loss of 44 killed, wounded and
missing. It was sharply engaged in November at Rappahannock Station, when the 6th corps
successfully stormed the enemy's intrenchments, losing 13 killed and wounded in the
battle. It then engaged in the Mine Run campaign, and during Jan. and Feb., 1864, it was
stationed on Johnson's island in Lake Erie, rejoining its corps in March, when Shaler's
brigade (1st), was assigned to Wright's (1st) division. It encountered the hardest
fighting of its experience at the Wilderness, where it lost 119 killed, wounded and
missing. At Spottsylvania its losses were 24 wounded and missing, and at Cold Harbor 67
killed and wounded. After taking part in the early assaults on Petersburg in June, it
accompanied the veteran 6th corps to Washington, at the time Early threatened the capital.
In the 3d brigade, 2nd division, it was there active at Fort Stevens, joined in the
pursuit of Early into Virginia and up the Shenandoah Valley, fighting at Charlestown, the
Opequan, Fisher's hill and Cedar creek. Its losses from July 12 to Oct. 20, 1864,
aggregated 110 killed and wounded. On Dec. 12, 1864, it was back in the trenches before
Petersburg and established its winter quarters near the Weldon railroad. It was actively
engaged at Petersburg with the 6th and 2nd corps, when the Confederates attacked Fort
Stedman, losing 16 killed and wounded, and closed its active service with the Appomattox
campaign, when it was active at the final assault on Petersburg, April 2, 1865, and at
Sailor's creek, where it fought its last battle. Maj. Jabez M. Brower was among the killed
at Cedar creek, and Col. Augustus W. Dwight was killed in the action at Fort Stedman. The
regiment commanded by Col. Walpole was mustered out near Washington, June 23, 1865. During
its term of service it lost by death 6 officers and 86 enlisted men killed and mortally
wounded; 3 officers and 85 enlisted men by disease and other causes, a total of 180. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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