88th New York Infantry Regiment
"Meagher's Own" "5th Regiment Irish Brigade"

The 88th Regiment lost 15 officers and 136 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 69 enlisted men t0 disease, a total of 223. The regiment is honored on the Irish Brigade monuments at Antietam and Gettysburg. There is also a monument at Gettysburg to the 88th's Chaplain, Father WIlliam Corby.

Timeline of the 88th New York Infantry Regiment

	Organized at Fort Schuyler, N.Y. by combining the 2nd and 4th Regiments of the Irish Brigade, with Colonel Baker of the 2nd taking command of the regiment and Colonel Meagher of the 4th taking command of the brigade. The regiment was recruited from Irish immigrants, a large number of whom had served in the British Army, and the regimental number was chosen in honor of the British 88th Connaught Rangers. Many of the officers had served in the 69th New York State Militia and were veterans of Bull Run.
November 18, 1861	Mrs. Meagher presented the regiment with their colors in front of the Archiepiscopal Palace on Madison Avenue.
December 16	Left State for Washington, D.C. under Colonel Henry M. Baker, Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Kelly and Major James Quinlan. The regiment was armed with smoothbore buck and ball muskets on General Meagher's theory that fighting would be at close range.
December-March	Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. at Camp California near Alexandria. Attached to Meagher's Brigade, Sumner's Division, Army of the Potomac
March, 1862	Assigned to Meagher's 2nd Brigade, Richardson's 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
March 10-15	Advance on Manassas, Va
April	Ordered to the Peninsula, Va.
April 16-May 4	Siege of Yorktown
May	Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps
May 21	White Oak Swamp The regiment lost 1 enliste man killed and 4 men wounded.
May 31-June 1	Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines The regiment lost 1 officer and 7 men killed or mortally wounded, and 1 officer and 16 men killed. Major James Quinlan earned the Medal of Honor when he "led his regiment on the enemy's battery, silenced the guns, held the position against overwhelming numners, and covered the retreat of the 2d Army Corps."
June 25-July 1	Seven days before Richmond The regiment lost 2 officers and 17 men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 50 men wounded, and 58 men missing.
June 27	Battles of Gaines Mill
June 29	Peach Orchard and Savage Station
June 30	White Oak Swamp Bridge and Glendale
July 1	Malvern Hill
July-August	At Harrison's Landing
August 16-30	Movement to Fortress Monroe, then to Alexandria and Centreville
September 6-22	Maryland Campaign
September 16-17	Battle of Antietam The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Kelly. It charged the infamous Sunken Road, or Bloody Lane, and lost 2 officers and 25 men killed, 8 men mortaly wounded, and 2 officers and 65 men wounded out of 302 men engaged.
September 22	Moved to Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
October 16-17	Reconnaissance to Charlestown
October 20	Leutenant Colonel Kelly was promoted to colonel.
October 29-November 17	Advance up Loudoun Valley and movement to Falmouth
December 12-15	Battle of Fredericksburg The regiment lost Major Wiliam Horgan, 3 other officers and 24 men killed or mortally wounded, 8 officers and 85 men wounded, and 6 men missing. Major Horgan had led his men forward in the attack on Marye's Heights in spite of a shattered jaw and other wounds, falling only 20 paces from the stone wall of the Confederate defences.
December-April	At Falmouth
January 20-24, 1863	"Mud March"
April 27-May 6	Chancellorsville Campaign
May 1-5	Battle of Chancellorsville The regiment lost 5 men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 18 men wounded, and 19 men missing.
May 19	General Meagher resigned, and the 88th's Colonel Kelly took command of the brigade. The regiment was consolidated dur to losses into a battalion of two companies (A and B) under the command of Captain Denis Francis Burke.
June 11-July 24	Gettysburg Campaign
July 1-3	Battle of Gettysburg Commanded by Captain Denis Francis Burke while Colonel Kelly commanded the Irish Brigade. The 88th brought 126 men to the field in two companies (A and B) and lost 1 officer and 6 men killed, 1 officer and 16 men wounded and 4 men missing. From the monument: "The brigade entered the battle under command of Colonel Patrick Kelly 530 strong, of which this contingent, composing three battalions of two companies each, numbered 240 men. The original strength of these battalions was 3,000 men. The brigade participated with great credit to itself and the race it represented, in every battle of the Army of the Potomac in which the Second Corps was engaged, from Fair Oaks, Jule 1, 1862, to Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865."
July 5-24	Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap
August	Duty on line of the Rappahannock
September 13-17	Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan
October 9-22	Bristoe Campaign
October 14	Auburn and Bristoe One man was wounded
November 7-8	Advance to line of the Rappahannock
November 26- December 2	Mine Run Campaign One man was wounded
November 28-30	Mine Run
December-May	Duty at and near Stevensburg
January 1864	Only 74 survivors remain when the regiment reenlisted. They returned home to recruit, and returned 440 strong to rejoin the brigade.
February 6-7	Demonstration on the Rapidan
May 3-June 15	Campaign from the Rapidan to the James
May 5-7	Battle of the Wilderness The regiment lost 2 officers and 14 men killed or mortally wounded, 34 men wounded and 2 men missing.
May 8-12	Spottsylvania The regiment lost 6 men killed or mortally wounded, 16 men wounded, and 3 men missing.
May 10	Po River Lost 1 man mortally wounded
May 12-21	Spottsylvania Court House
May 12	Assault on the Salient or "Bloody Angle" Lost one man killed.
May 18	Landron House Lost 4 men killed or mortally wounded
May 23-26	North Anna River Lost 1 man mortally wounded
May 26-28	On line of the Pamunkey
May 28-31	Totopotomoy Lost 1 man mortally wounded
June 1-12	Cold Harbor The regiment lost 1 officer and 3 men killed or mortally wounded and 7 wounded.
June	Assigned to Consolidated Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps
June 16-18	Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins. The regiment lost Colonel Patrick Kelly and 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 15 enlosted men wounded, and 1 officer and 29 enlisted men missing.
June 22-23	Jerusalem Plank Road Lost 3 men killed or mortally wounded
July 27-29	Demonstration north of the James
July 27-28	Deep Bottom
August 13-20	Demonstration north of the James
August 14-18	Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom the regiment lost 2 men killed or mortally wounded, and 11 men wounded
August 25	Ream's Station The regiment lost 1 officer and 2 men wounded and 2 officers and 10 men missing.
October 27-28	Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run
October 27	Front of Forts Morton and Sedgwick
November	Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps
December 9-10	Reconnaissance to Hatcher's Run
February 5-7, 1865	Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run
March 25	Watkins' House The regiment lost 1 men killed and 4 m3n wounded.
March 28-April 9	Appomattox Campaign The regiment lost 4 men wounded.
March 30-31	Hatcher's Run or Boydton Road
March 31	White Oak Road
April 2	Sutherland Station and fall of Petersburg
April 6	Sailor's Creek First Lieutenant George W. Ford of Company E earned the Medal of Honor for capturing a Confederate flag.
April 7	Farmville
April 9	Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army.
April	At Burkesville
May 2-12	Moved to Washington, D.C.
May 23	Grand Review
June 30, 1865	96 survivors mustered out under Lieutenant Colonel Denis F. Burke near Alexandria, Virginia

88th New York Infantry Regiment "Meagher's Own" "5th Regiment Irish Brigade"

Timeline of the 88th New York Infantry Regiment

88th New York Infantry Regiment
"Meagher's Own" "5th Regiment Irish Brigade"