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“The Duchess County Regiment”
The 150th New York Volunteer 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.
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1862
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| 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 |
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1863
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| 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 GettysburgThe 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. From the 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 |
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1864
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| 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 |
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1865
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| 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. |