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64th New
York Infantry
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64th New York
Infantry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 27 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| Sixty-fourth New York Infantry. — Cols., Thomas J. Parker, Daniel C. Bingham,
Leman W. Bradley, William Glenny; Lieut. -Cols., Daniel G. Bingham, Enos C. Brooks, Leman
W. Bradley, William Glenny, Theodore Tyrer; Majs., Enos C. Brooks, Leman W. Bradley,
William Glenny, Lewis H. Fassett, Horatio N. Hunt, Theodore Tyrer, Albert F. Peterson. The
64th, the Cattaraugus regiment, was the outgrowth of the 64th militia and was recruited at
Gowanda, Randolph, Otto, Rushford, Ithaca, Little Valley, Wellsville, Owego, Olean and
Leon. It was mustered into the U. S. service at Elmira, in Dec, 1861, for three years;
left the state for Washington on Dec. 10; was quartered near the capitol; in Jan., 1862,
was assigned to the provisional brigade of Casey's division; on March 13, it became a part
of the 1st brigade, 1st division, 2nd corps, Army of the Potomac, and proceeded to the
Peninsula with the general advance under McClellan. The regiment was present during the
siege of Yorktown, but received its first real test at Fair Oaks, where it behaved with
great steadiness under a fire which killed or wounded 173 of its members. It was active in
the Seven Days' battles; then went into camp at Harrison's landing; arrived at Manassas
too late to participate in that battle; took a prominent part in the battle of Antietam,
where Gen. Richardson was killed and Gen. Hancock succeeded to the command of the
division. At Fredericksburg, in the famous assault of Hancock's division on Marye's
heights, the loss of the regiment was 72 in killed and wounded and immediately afterward
it went into camp near Falmouth. At Chancellorsville in May, 1863, the 64th was placed on
the skirmish line under Col. Nelson A. Miles and shared in the stubborn defense made by
the regiments under his command, for which they won the highest commendation. The regiment
moved in June to Gettysburg, where the division, under Caldwell, fought brilliantly on
July 2 in the celebrated wheat-field and on the 3d defended its position stubbornly
against Pickett's assault. It lost at Gettysburg 98 killed, wounded or missing out of 205
engaged. The 2nd corps fought in October at Auburn and Bristoe Station, where the 64th
suffered severe loss. It participated in the Mine Run movement and established winter
quarters near Brandy Station. During the winter of 1863-64 a sufficient number of the
regiment reenlisted to secure its continuance in the field as a veteran organization, but
after the original members not reenlisted were mustered out in the autumn of 1864 it was
necessary to consolidate it into a battalion of six companies. It served through the
Wilderness campaign, throughout the siege of Petersburg and in the pursuit of Lee's Army
to Appomattox, losing 16 in killed and wounded at Farmville. Out of a total enrollment of
1,313, the regiment lost during service 182 by death from wounds and 129 from other
causes. The division in which it served saw the hardest service and suffered the most
heavy losses of any in the army and the 64th was one of the finest fighting regiments in
the war. It bore without flinching the severest trials and won fame and glory for itself
and the state. It was mustered out at Washington, July 14, 1865. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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