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.
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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., |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |