United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Infantry
“The Mountain Legion”
The 156th New York Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 56 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 164 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| Organized at Kingston, N.Y. | |
| November 17 | Mustered in under Colonel Erastus Cooke, Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Sharpe and Major Louis Schaffner |
| December 4 | Left State for New Orleans, La. |
| December | Camp at Carrollton, La. attached to Sherman’s Division, Dept of the Gulf |
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1863
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| January | Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division. 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, then 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 19th Army Corps |
| January 31 | Major Schaffner resigns |
| February 1 | Captain Thomas Fowler of Company B promoted to major |
| February 11-19 | Expedition to Plaquemine |
| February | At Carrollton |
| March 6 | Moved to Baton Rouge |
| March 7-27 | Operations against Port Hudson |
| March 28 | Colonel Cooke discharged and Lieutenant Colonel Sharpe promoted to colonel |
| April 1 | Moved to Algiers |
| April 9 | To Berwick City |
| April 9-May 14 | Operations in Western Louisiana |
| April 11-20 | Teche Campaign |
| April 12-15 |
Fort Bisland near CentrevilleLieutenant Nelson Freer and 4 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded and 17 enlisted men wounded |
| April 17 | Vermillion Bayou |
| April 20 | Opelousas |
| May 5-18 | Expedition from Opelousas to Alexandria and Simsport |
| May 22-25 | Moved to Port Hudson |
| May 25-July 9 | Siege of Port Hudson |
| May 27 |
Assault on Port HudsonThe regiment lost 1 enlisted man killed |
| June 3-8 | Expedition to Clinton |
| June 14 |
Assault on Port HudsonThe regiment lost Lt. Colonel Thomas Fowler and 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and Captain Matthias Euen and 22 enlisted men wounded |
| June 23-24 |
Brashear CityThe regiment lost 2 enlisted men killed and 1 missing |
| July 1 | Lt. Colonel Fowler died of his Port Hudson wounds in New Orleans. Captain William Van Wagenen of Company C promoted to major |
| July 9 | Surrender of Port Hudson |
| July 11-15 | Moved to Baton Rouge, then to Donaldsonville, and attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Army Corps |
| August 13 | Captain John Donaldson of Company G died of disease at Baton Rouge |
| August 14 | Major Van Wagenen dismissed to date July 1. captain |
| August 15 | At Baton Rouge |
| September 15 | Lieutenant William Steadman of Company D died of disease at Baton Rouge |
| November 19 | Captain Alfred Neafie of Company D promoted to lieutenant colonel |
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1864
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| February | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps. Dept. of the Gulf |
| March 19 | Captain Howard Cooke of company B died of disease in St. James Hospital in New Orleans |
| March 23-May 22 | Red River Campaign |
| March 25- April 12 |
At Alexandria |
| April 1 | Captain Matthias Euen of Company E promoted to major |
| April 9 |
Pleasant HillThe regiment lost one enlisted man killed |
| April 23-24 | Cane River |
| April 30-May 10 | Construction of dam at Alexandria |
| May 2 and 9 | Actions at Alexandria |
| May 13-20 | Retreat to Morganza |
| May 16 | Mansura |
| May | At Morganza |
| May 30-June 5 | Expedition from Morganza to the Atchafalaya |
| June 1 | Atchafalaya River |
| July 5-29 | Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va., then to Washington, D.C. |
| August 5-November 28 | Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign attached to the Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, 19th Corps, 2nd Division, 3rd Brigade |
| September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester (or Opequon)Lieutenant Colonel Neafie commanded the regiment while Colonel Sharpe commanded the brigade as brevet brigadier general. The regiment lost 29 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and Colonel Sharpe, Lieutenant James Mack and 79 enlisted men wounded. |
| September 22 |
Battle of Fisher’s HillThe regiment lost 4 enlisted men wounded. |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar CreekCaptain Johannes Le Fevre, Lieutenant Christopher Larkin and 15 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, Captain James Hoyt, Lieutenants Peter Halwick and William Seaton and 25 enlisted men were wounded, and 46 men missing. The colors were saved from capture when Captain Alfred Cooley stripped the colors from the staff and brought them off the field. |
| October | Duty at Kernstown and Winchester |
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1865
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| January 5-22 | Moved to Savannah, Ga. and attached to 3rd Brigade, Grover’s Division, District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. of the South |
| March 5 | Moved to Wilmington, N. C and attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio |
| March 10 | To Morehead City |
| April 8 | Moved to Goldsboro |
| May 2 | To Savannah and attached to District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. of Georgia |
| October 23 | Mustered out at Augusta, Ga. under Colonel Sharpe, Lieutenant Colonel Neafie and Major Euen |