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26th New
York Cavalry
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26th New York Cavalry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 5 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| Twenty-sixth New York Cavalry. — Cols., Burr Porter, Ferris Jacobs, Jr.;
Lieut.-Cols., Ferris Jacobs, Jr., William E. Beardsley; Majs., William E. Beardsley,
Charles E. Rice, Josiah Grout, Jr., Edward T. Bouve. This regiment, known as the Frontier
cavalry, was organized in the states of New York, Massachusetts and Vermont under special
authority from the war department, to serve on the northern frontier for one year. The
five companies, G, H, I, K and L, composing the N. Y. battalion, were recruited in the
counties of St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, Franklin, Clinton, Essex and Erie, and were
mustered into the U. S. service from Feb. 11 to 24, 1865. Gov. Fenton appointed the field
officers of the regiment, under a ruling of the war department. The above companies were
mustered out under Col. Jacobs from June 29 to July 7, 1865, having lost 3 men who died of
disease. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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