26th New York Infantry Regiment
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Active | May 21, 1861, to May 28, 1863 |
Country | United States |
Allegiance | Union |
Branch | Army |
Type | Infantry |
Engagements | Battle of Cedar Mountain Second Battle of Bull Run Battle of Chantilly Battle of South Mountain Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville |
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The 26th New York Infantry Regiment, the "2nd Oneida Regiment", was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service[]
The 26th New York was organized in Elmira, New York, under command of Colonel William H. Christian and was mustered in for a two-year enlistment on May 21, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out of service on May 28, 1863, and those men who had signed three year enlistments or who re-enlisted were transferred to the 97th New York.
Total strength and casualties[]
The regiment suffered 5 officers and 101 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 42 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 148 fatalities.[1]
See also[]
- List of New York Civil War regiments
Notes[]
- ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnyinf3.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
References[]
Taylor, Paul. Glory Was Not Their Companion: The Twenty-Sixth New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishers, 2005.
Taylor, Paul, editor. "Give My Love to All Our Folks:" Civil War and Post-War Letters of Clinton DeWitt Staring and Charles E. Staring. Mancelona, Mi.: Deep Wood Press, 2007. C. DeWitt Staring served in the 26th NYSV.
External links[]
- New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center: History, photographs, table of battles and casualties, and historical sketch for the 26th New York Infantry Regiment
- The Civil War Archive
- Units and formations of the Union Army from New York (state)
- 1861 establishments in New York (state)
- Military units and formations established in 1861
- Military units and formations disestablished in 1863
- 1863 disestablishments in New York (state)
- American Civil War unit and formation stubs