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134th New
York Infantry
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134th New York
Infantry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 37 View the Entire Book
Regimental History |
One Hundred and Thirty-fourth New York Infantry. Cols., George E. Danforth,
Charles E. Coster, Allan H. Jackson; Lieut.-Cols., Joseph S. DeAgreda, Allan H. Jackson,
Reuben B. Heacock, Clinton C. Brown, William H. Hoyt; Majs., George W. B. Seelye, Allan H.
Jackson, Edward W. Groot (declined), Gilbert H. Kennedy, William H. Hoyt, P. E. McMaster.
This regiment, recruited in the counties of Schoharie, Schenectady and Delaware, was
organized at Schoharie and there mustered into the U. S. service for three years on Sept.
22-23, 1862. It left the state on the 25th and was at once attached to the 2nd brigade,
2nd (Von Steinwehr's) division, 11th corps, which in December marched to Fredericksburg in
support of Burnside, but the 134th was not in the battle. It then went into winter
quarters at Stafford, Va. As part of the 1st brigade, same division and corps, it lost 8
wounded and missing at Chancellorsville. The regiment was heavily engaged at Gettysburg,
in the battle of the first day, and in the gallant defense of Cemetery hill on the second
day, meeting with a loss of 42 killed, 151 wounded and 59 missing, a total of 252 out of
400 in action. After the battle it accompanied the army on its return to Virginia and in
August was on detached service at Alexandria, Va. In Sept., 1863, it was ordered to
Tennessee with the 11th and 12th corps, and the following month was in reserve at the
midnight battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn. During the Chattanooga-Ringgold campaign it was
slightly engaged at Missionary ridge, losing 8 wounded and missing. It was then ordered to
the relief of Knoxville. and in April, 1864, was attached to the 2nd brigade, 2nd
(Geary's) division, of the newly formed 20th corps, with which it served in the Atlanta
campaign. It fought its first battle of the campaign at Rocky Face ridge, where its
casualties were 36 in killed and wounded. It was then in the battles of Resaca, Dallas,
Kennesaw mountain, Pine mountain, Golgotha, Kolb's farm, Marietta, Chattahoochee river,
Peachtree creek and Atlanta. At Peachtree creek the regiment lost 44 killed, wounded and
missing. After the fall of Atlanta it remained there until Nov., 1864, when it started on
the march to the sea, fighting at Sandersville and Greensboro, and sharing with a loss of
13 in the siege of Savannah, Geary's division being the first to enter the city on its
evacuation by Hardee. Early in 1865, it moved on its final campaign through the
Carolinas which ended with Johnston's surrender, then marched with the corps to
Washington, where it took part in the grand review, and was mustered out at Bladensburg,
Md., under Col. Jackson, June 10, 1865. The regiment lost during service, 5 officers and
84 men killed and mortally wounded; 3 officers and 91 men died of disease and other
causes, a total of 183. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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