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The 48th New York Infantry was organized at Brooklyn, New York and mustered in for three years service on September 10, 1861, under the command of Colonel James H. Perry. The regiment was attached to Viele's 1st Brigade, Sherman's South Carolina Expeditionary Corps, to April 1862.
The unit was first sent to Key West, Florida, then to Fort Pickens, Florida, near Pensacola, Florida. [1] Soldiers from the 91st New York took part in the raid on Bagdad, Florida [1] August 7–10, 1862. [2] Later they were part of a raid into southern Alabama.
The 75th New York Infantry was organized at Auburn, New York and nine companies mustered in for three years service on November 26, 1861 under the command of Colonel John A. Dodge. Company K joined the regiment June 24, 1862. The regiment was attached to District of Santa Rosa Island, Department of Florida, to February 1862.
On June 15 the regiment left New York state and arrived at Santa Rosa Island, Florida by June 23, 1861 to reinforce the garrison of Fort Pickens.By this time, the garrison had already defended the fort from capture by Confederate troops.
Soldiers who didn't reenlist left in December, 1864. The regiment was consolidated into six companies, which received members of the 114th, 116th and 133rd New York Volunteer Infantry. The regiment served in William Dwight's division at Washington, and at Savannah, Georgia. It was then ordered to Hawkinsville, Georgia, and mustered out at Savannah.
The 79th New York Infantry Regiment was a military regiment organized on 20 June 1859, in the state of New York. Prior to the American Civil War it was one of the three regiments which formed the Fourth Brigade of the First Division of the New York State Militia. The 79th gained fame during the American Civil War for its service in the Union Army.
The regiment was organized at Delhi, N.Y., and mustered in on September 27, 1862. Left State for Washington, D.C., October 11, 1862. Attached to 3rd Brigade ...
The 3rd New York organized at Albany, received its numerical designation May 7, 1861, and was mustered into the U. S. service there on May 14, 1861, for two years. [6] In April, 1863, a number of the members of the regiment re-enlisted for one and two years; these and the three years' men of the regiment were formed into a battalion May 18, 1863, and retained in the service, while those whose ...