The Civil War in the East

150th New York Infantry Regiment
"The Duchess County Regiment"

The 150th New York Infantry Regiment lost 2 officers and 49 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 78 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument and a marker at Gettysburg.

Monument to the 150th New York Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1862

 

Organized at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

October 10

Mustered in under Colonel. John H. Ketcham, Lt. Col. Charles G. Bartlett, Major Alfred B. Smith

October 11

Left State for Baltimore, Md.

October

Duty at Baltimore, Md. attached to Defenses of Baltimore, Md., 8th Army Corps, Middle Department

1863

January

Attached to 2nd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps

February

Attached to 3rd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps

July

Gettysburg Campaign. Joined the Army of the Potomac in the field. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, then 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded by Colonel John H. Ketcham. It brought 609 men to the field, losing 7 killed, 23 wounded, and 15 missing.

 

From the marker in the Trostle Farmyard: "Charged to this point on July 2nd 1863, about 8 p.m. and drew off three abandoned guns of Bigelow's Battery."

 

Fromt he monument on Culp's Hill: "This regiment defended these works on July 3rd from 6.30 to 9 a.m. and from 10 a.m. to 12 m. and captured 200 prisoners"

July 5-24

Pursuit of Lee

August-September

Duty on line of the Rappahannock

September 24-October 3

Movement to Stevenson, Ala.

October-April

Guard duty on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, transferred to the Army of the Cumberland

1864

April

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland

May 1-September 8

Atlanta Campaign

May 8-11

Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge

May 14-15

Battle of Resaca

May 19

Near Cassville

May 22-25

Advance on Dallas

May 25

New Hope Church

May 26-June 5

Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills

June 10-July 2

Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain

June 11-14

Pine Hill

June 15-17

Lost Mountain

June 15

Gilgal or Golgotha Church

June 17

Muddy Creek

June 19

Noyes Creek

June 22

Kolb's Farm

June 27

Assault on Kenesaw

July 4

Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground

July 5-17

Chattahoochie River

July 19-20

Peach Tree Creek

July 22-August 25

Siege of Atlanta

August 26-September 2

Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge

September 2-November 15

Occupation of Atlanta

November 15-December 10

March to the sea

December 9

Montieth Swamp

December 10-21

Siege of Savannah

1865

January to April

Campaign of the Carolinas

March 16

Averysboro, N. C.

March 19-21

Battle of Bentonville

March 24

Occupation of Goldsboro

April 9-13

Advance on Raleigh

April 14

Occupation of Raleigh

April 26

Bennett's House. Surrender of Johnston and his army.

April 29-May 19

March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va.

May 24

Grand Review

June 8

Mustered out at Washington, D.C. under Colonel Alfred B. Smith, Lt. Col. Joseph H. Cogswell and Major Henry A. Gildersleeve. Veterans and recruits transferred to 60th New York Infantry.