154th New York Infantry Regiment

 

The Regiment lost 2 officers and 81 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 193 enlisted men to disease, a total of 278.

 

Timeline of the 154th New York Infantry Regiment

September 24, 1862

Organized at Jamestown, N.Y., and mustered in

September 30

Left State for Washington, D.C.

October 2

Duty at Fairfax, Va., attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

November 1-20

Movement to Warrenton, thence to Germantown

December 10-15

March to Fredericksburg, Va.

January-April 1863

At Falmouth, Va.

January 20-24

"Mud March"

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel B. Allen. It brought 274 men to the field.

 

From the monument: "July 1, 1863. July 2nd and 3rd, occupied position on East Cemetery Hill."

"Casualties. Killed, men 1. Wounded, officers 1, men 20. Captured or missing, Officers 9, men 169, total 200. Died while prisoners, 142."

 

A monument to Amos Humiston, an enlisted man from the 154th mortally wounded on July 1, is a short distance south of the regimental monument, on Stratton Street.

July 5-24

Pursuit of Lee

August-September

At Bristoe Station

September 24-
October 3

Movement to Bridgeport, Alabama. transferred to Army of the Cumberland

October 25-28

March along line of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad to Lookout Valley, Tenn.

October 26-29

Reopening Tennessee River

October 28-29

Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn.

November 23-27

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign

November 23

Orchard Knob

November 24-25

Tunnel Hill

November 25

Mission Ridge

November 28-
December 17

March to relief of Knoxville

January-May 1864

Duty in Lookout Valley

April

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

May 1-September 8

Atlanta Campaign

May 8-11

Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge

May 8

Dug Gap or Mill Creek

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

October 26-29

Expedition from Atlanta to Tuckum's Cross Roads

November 9

Near Atlanta

November 15-December 10

March to the sea

December 10-21

Siege of Savannah

January to April, 1865

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

May 24

Grand Review

June 11, 1865

Mustered out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 102nd New York Infantry.