The Third New York Infantry Rgiment lost 1 officer and 36 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 83 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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April 25 |
Accepted for state service |
May 7 |
Received numerical designation |
May 14 |
Organized at Albany, N.Y., and mustered in for two years United States service under Colonel Frederick Townsend, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. Alford and Major Abel Smith |
May 31 |
Left State for Fortress Monroe, Va. and duty there. Attached to Fort Monroe and Camp Hamilton, Va., Dept. of Virginia |
June 10 |
Action at Big Bethel, Va.
The regiment lost 2 men killed and 27 wounded |
June 26 |
Colonel Townsend resigns to accept a commission as major of the 18th United States Infantry |
July 30 |
Moved to Baltimore, Md. and duty there quartered at Fort McHenry; attached to Dix's Command |
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June 6 |
Moved to Suffolk, Va. and duty there; attached to Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia |
July |
Attached to Weber's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
August 26 |
Lt. Colonel Alford promoted to colonel and Henry P. Hubbell commissioned lieutenant colonel |
September |
Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va., Dept. of Virginia, and duty there. |
November 29 |
Captain Floyd Eldridge of Company C promoted to major |
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April 19 |
Moved to Suffolk, Va., attached to 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept of Virginia |
April 19-May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk |
May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk raised |
May 21 |
2 years' men mustered out |
May 23 |
Lieutenant Colonel Hubbell resigned and Major Eldridge promoted to lieutenant colonel |
June 10 |
Captain John E. Mulford of Company K promoted to major |
June 24 |
Dix's Peninsula Campaign |
July 1-7 |
Expedition from White House to South Anna River |
July |
Ordered to Folly Island, S.C., attached to Alvord's Brigade, Vodges' Division, Folly Island, S.C.. 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
August 3 |
Action at Morris Island, S.C. |
August 9-September 7 |
Siege operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, S.C., and against Fort Sumter and Charleston |
August 17-23 |
Bombardment of Fort Sumter |
September 7 |
Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg |
September 8 -
December 21 |
Operations in Charleston Harbor against Forts Sumter and Charleston |
October 27-November 9 |
Bombardment of Fort Sumter |
November |
Duty on Folly Island, S.C. |
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February |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Vodges' Division, Northern District Folly Island, 10th Army Corps |
April |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James |
May 4-28 |
Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond; attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, then to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps |
May 7 |
Port Walthall |
May 9-10 |
Swift Creek or Arrow field Church |
May 12-16 |
Operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 |
Battle of Drury's Bluff
The regiment lost 5 men killed or mortally wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Eldridge was wounded. |
May 16-28 |
Bermuda Hundred |
May 28-31 |
Moved to White House, then to Cold Harbor |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor
The regiment lost 1 officer and 4 enlisted men wounded |
June 14 |
Colonel Alford dismissed |
June 15-18 |
Before Petersburg, attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps |
June 16 |
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
August |
Duty in the trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda front |
September 28-30 |
Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights
The regiment lost 6 men killed or mortally wounded, 15 men wounded and 5 men missing |
October 27-28 |
Battle of Fair Oaks |
November |
In trenches before Richmond |
December 7 |
Lt. Colonel Eldridge discharged for his Drury's Bluff wound and Major Mulford promoted to lieutenant colonel |
December 7-27 |
Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C.; attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 24th Army Corps |
December 8 |
Captain George Warren of Company C promoted to major |
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January 3-15 |
2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C.; attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Terry's Provisional Corps |
January 15 |
Assault on and capture of Fort Fisher, N. C, |
February 11 |
Sugar Loaf Battery |
February 18-20 |
Fort Anderson |
February 22 |
Capture of Wilmington |
March |
Advance on Kinston and Goldsboro |
March-August |
Duty in the Dept. of North Carolina |
April 9 |
Lieutenant Colonel Mulford promoted to colonel |
May 21 |
Major Warren promoted to lieutenant colonel |
June 30 |
Colonel Mulford resigns |
August 28 |
Mustered out under Lieutenant Colonel George W. Warren
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