11th New York Infantry Regiment
"First New York Fire Zouaves" "Ellsworth's Zouaves"

The Eleventh New York Infantry Regiment lost 3 officers and 48 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 12 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
	Organized at New York City from members of the fire departments of the city under Colonel E. Elmer Ellsworth, Lieutenant Colonel Noah Farnham and Major John A. Cregier
April 20	Accepted into state service
April 29	Laaves State for Washington, D.C. on the steamship Baltic
May 2-23	Duty at Washington in the defences of the city. During this time a fire breaks out near Willard's Hotel, and the regiment, led by Colonel Ellsworth, puts out the fire to great applause from spectators.
May 7	Mustered in for two years United States servce
May 24	Occupation of Arlington Heights and Alexandria, Va. Colonel Ellsworth enters an Alexandria hotel, the Marshall House, to remove a Confederate flag flying from its roof. As he returns down the stairs he is shot and killed by the proprietor, named Jackson, who is himself shot and bayonetted by Provate Brownell of Company A.
June	Duty near Alexandria
June 7	Lt. Colonel Farham promoted to colonel and Major Cregier promoted to lieutenant colonel
June 15	Adjutant Charles M. Leoser promoted to major
July 16	Attached to Wilcox's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia
July 16-21	Advance on Manassas, Va.
July 17	Occupation of Fairfax Court House.
July 21	Battle of Bull Run The regiment lost 2 officers and 34 men killed or mortally wounded, 73 men wounded, and 2 officers and 66 men missing. Colonel Farnham is mortally wounded, dying on August 14.
July 29	Captain Stephen Stryker of Company B resigns to become colonel of the 44th New York Infantry
August 22	Major Leoser promoted to colonel
September- October	Returns to New York for reorganization and recruiting, duty in New York Harbor and in Westchester County, N.Y.
September 21	Lt. Colonel Cregier resigns
October 1	Spencer Stafford mustered in as lieutenet colonel
November	Duty at Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia under Colonel Charles McK. Loeser
1862
March 5	Captain Joseph McFarland of Company G promoted to lieutenant colonel
March 8	Action between Monitor and Merrimac in Hampton Roads
April 17	Colonel Leoser resigns
May 7	Returned to New York
June 2	Mustered out under Lieutenant Colonel Joseph E. MacFarland
1863
October 1	Efforts fail to effect a new organization of the regiment, known as the J. T. Brady Light Infantry, in summer of 1863, and the men enlisted are transferred to the 17th New York Veteran Infantry

11th New York Infantry Regiment "First New York Fire Zouaves" "Ellsworth's Zouaves"

11th New York Infantry Regiment
"First New York Fire Zouaves" "Ellsworth's Zouaves"