United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Infantry
The 136th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 2 officers and 71 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 91 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg on Taneytown Road across from the National Cemetery.
1862
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Recruited in Allegheny, Livingston and Wyoming Counties and Organized at Portage, N.Y. | |
September 25 | Mustered in |
October 3 | Left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
October 10 | Moved to Fairfax Station, Va., then to Fairfax Court House. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
November 1-20 | Movement to Warrenton, thence to Germantown, Va. |
December 10-15 | March to Fredericksburg |
December | At Falmouth, Va., |
1863
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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 GettysburgThe regiment brought 488 men to the field undder the command of Colonel James Wood, Jr. It lost 17 killed, 89 wounded and 3 missing. |
July 5-24 | Pursuit of Lee |
August 1 | Camp at Bristoe Station |
September 24-October 3 | Movement to Bridgeport, Alabama |
October 18 | Transferred to the 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 | Ringgold-Chattanooga Campaign |
November 23 | Orchard Knob |
November 24-25 | Tunnel Hill |
November 25 | Mission Ridge |
November 28 | March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn. |
December 17 | Duty in Lookout Valley |
1864
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April | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland |
May 1 to September 8 | Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign |
May 8-11 | Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge |
May 8-9 | Buzzard’s Roost Gap |
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 6-17 | Chattahoochie River |
July 11-20 | 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 |
1865
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January to April | Campaign of the Carolinas |
February 2 | Lawtonville, S.C. |
March 14 | Skirmish of Goldsboro Road, near Fayetteville, N. C. |
March 16 | Averysboro |
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 30 | March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va. |
May 24 | Grand Review |
June 13 | Mustered out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 60th New York Infantry. |