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76th New
York Infantry
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76th New York
Infantry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 29 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| Seventy-sixth New York Infantry. — Cols., Nelson W. Green, W. P. Wainwright,
Charles E. Livingston; Lieut. -Cols., John D. Shaul, Charles E. Livingston, Andrew J.
Grover, John E. Cook, Charles A. Watkins; Majs., Charles E. Livingston, Andrew J. Grover,
John E. Cook, John W. Young. The 76th, the "Cortland Regiment," recruited
principally in Cortland and Otsego counties, was mustered into the U. S. service at
Albany, Jan. 16, 1862, for three years. It left the state the next day for Washington, was
assigned to the 3d brigade of Casey's division and served in the vicinity of Washington
during the first winter. It suffered its first severe loss at Manassas in Aug., 1862, when
it served with the 2nd brigade, 1st division, 3d corps, losing in the several engagements
of Gen. Pope's campaign, 147 in killed, wounded and missing. It was active at South
mountain and Antietam, its brigade and division having been assigned to the 1st corps,
with which it accompanied the cavalry advance through Philomont, Union and Upperville, Va.
It participated in the battle of Fredericksburg, went into winter quarters near Falmouth
and during the Chancellorsville movement, lost 3 men while guarding bridges. At Gettysburg
the regiment took a prominent part and suffered the loss of 234 in killed, wounded and
missing. Previous to this battle the ranks had been reinforced by the addition of the
veterans and recruits of the 24th and 30th N. Y. infantry, but after Gettysburg they were
again sadly thinned. The regiment participated in the Mine Run fiasco, and at Brandy
Station in Jan., 1864, was transferred to the 1st brigade of the same division, returning
to its old brigade in March, and was later assigned to the 2nd brigade, 4th division, 5th
corps, and broke camp in April for the Wilderness campaign, in which it suffered its
greatest loss during the first two days — 282 killed, wounded or missing. It
continued to see hard service at Spottsylvania, the North Anna, Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor
and Petersburg, where it took part in the siege operations until the end of its term of
service. It was mustered out by companies, July 1, Oct. 11 and 20, Nov. 8 and 18, Dec. 1,
1864, and Jan. 1, 1865, the veterans and recruits being transferred to the 147th N. Y.
infantry. The regiment lost during its term of service 175 by death from wounds and 166 by
death from accident, imprisonment or disease, of whom 56 died in imprisonment. It ranks
among the "three hundred fighting regiments." |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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