The 117th New York Infantry Regiment
lost 7 officers and 123 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 135 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War..
1862 |
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Organized at Oneida |
August 8 |
Mustered in |
August 22 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
September |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., and at Tennallytown Attached to Defenses of Washington north of the Potomac |
October |
Attached to 2nd and 3rd Brigade, Haskins' Division, north of the Potomac |
1863 |
April 16 |
Ordered to Suffolk, Va. and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
April 20-May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk |
May 3 |
Providence Church Road, Nansemond River |
June 24-July 7 |
Dix's Peninsula Campaign |
July 1-7 |
Expedition from White House to South Anna River |
July 12 |
Ordered to Folly Island, S.C. attached to Alvord's Brigade, Vodge's Division, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
August 17-
September 7 |
Siege operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, S.C., and against Charleston and Fort Sumter |
August 17-23 |
Bombardment of Fort Sumter and Charleston |
September - April |
Operations against Charleston, S.C., and duty on Folly Island, S.C. |
1864 |
February |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Folly Island, Northern District, Dept. of the South |
April |
Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
May 4-28 |
Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps |
May 5 |
Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred |
May 9-10 |
Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church |
May 12-16 |
Operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 |
Battle of Drury's Bluff |
May 16-28 |
Bermuda Hundred |
May 28-31 |
Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor |
June 1-12 |
Battles about Cold Harbor |
June |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps |
June 15-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 |
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond. Duty in trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda Hundred front. |
September 28-30 |
Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights |
October 27-28 |
Battle of Fair Oaks |
November |
Duty in trenches before Richmond |
December 7-27 |
Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C. attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 24th Army Corps |
1865 |
January 3-15 |
2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Terry's Provisional Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
January 15 |
Assault and capture of Fort Fisher |
February 11-13 |
Cape Fear Entrenchments |
February 11 |
Sugar Loaf Battery |
February 18-19 |
Fort Anderson |
February 22 |
Capture of Wilmington |
March 1-April 26 |
Campaign of the Carolinas. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, Dept. of North Carolina |
March 6-21 |
Advance on Goldsboro |
April 14 |
Occupation of Raleigh |
April 26 |
Bennett's House. Surrender of Johnston and his army. |
May |
Duty in North Carolina |
June 8 |
Mustered out at Raleigh. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 48th New York Infantry |
