United States Regiments & Batteries > New York
The 30th New York Infantry Regiment lost 6 officers and 72 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 31 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861
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Organized at Troy, N.Y. under Colonel Edward Frisby, Lieutenant Colonel Charles E. Brintnall and Major William M. Searing. | |
June 1 | The 30th New York Infantry Regiment mustered in for two years service |
June 28 | Left the State for Washington, D.C. |
June 29 | Arrived in Washington and quartered at Caspari’s House |
June 30 | Moved to Camp Union at Brightwood |
July 23 | Crossed the Potomac, camping at Arlington |
August | To Upton’s Hill. Worked on forts and picketed the Leesburg and Alexandria Pike attached to Keyes’ Brigade, Division of the Potomac |
October | Attached to Keyes’ Brigade, McDowell’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
November 16 |
Doolan’s FarmA detachment from the regiment fought here and lost 1 enlsted man killed and 2 officers and 28 enlisted men captured |
1862
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March | Attached to Augur’s Brigade, King’s 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 10 | March to Centerville and Manassas, Va. |
March 11 | Lieutenant Colonel Brintball resigned due to disability. Major Searing was promoted to lieutenant colonel and Captain Morgan H. Chrysler of Company G to major |
March 15 | To Alexandria |
April 9-19 | McDowell’s Advance on Falmouth, Va. |
April 5 | To Manassas. Attached to 1st Brigade, King’s Division, Department of the Rappahannock, which became known as the “Iron Brigade of the East” and duty at Fredericksburg, Virginia. |
April 6 | Marched to Bristoe |
April 15 | To within 15 miles of Falmouth; skirmished with enemy and drove them across the Rappahannock. |
May 29 | Moved to Front Royal via Catlett’s Station, Bristo, Manassas Junction, Gainsville, Haymarket, Salem and Thoroughfare Gap |
June 1-21 | Operations against Jackson; attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps. Pope’s Army of Northern Virginia |
June 2 | To Falmouth |
June 15 | Arrived at Falmouth |
June 24 | Reconnoissance to Orange Court House. Skirmished with the enemy at Gordonsville and fell back to Falmouth |
August 5 | Supported Gibbon’s reconnoissance to Hanover Court House; repulsed attack by Confederate cavalry on forage train |
August 10 | To Culpeper and Cedar Mountain, arriving the day after the battle |
August 16 |
Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 18 | Fell back from the Rapidan, crossing the Rappahannock at the railroad station and holding the crossing against the enemy |
August 20-23 | Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 28 |
Thoroughfare GapPrivate Patrick Walsh was killed. Picketed the battlefield until next daybreak and returned to Manassas. |
August 29 |
Battle of GrovetonThe regiment lost Lieutenant Philip Rice and Privates William Seeley and Edmund Valley killed and 4 enlisted men wounded |
August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas)The regiment brought 341 men to the battle. it fought for two hours in an open field before the railroad embankment. It lost Colonel Frisby, Lieutenants Francis Dargen, William Morse, 2 other officers and 59 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 76 enlisted men wounded, and 2 officers and 34 enlisted men missing or captured.. Eight color bearers were shot down, and 36 balls passed through the flag. It was finally forced to withdraw when the regiment exhausted its 100 rounds per man and was reduced to scrouging from the cartridge boxes of the dead. |
September 6-22 |
Maryland CampaignAttached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 14 |
Battle of South MountainThe regiment lost 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 wounded out of 110 men engaged |
September 16-17 |
Battle of AntietamThe 30th New York Infantry Regiment was commanded by Colonel William M. Searing and brought only 49 men to the field. It lost 6 enlisted men killed, 5 mortally wounded, and 1 missing or captured. By the end of the day only 27 officers and men were still available for duty. From the brigade marker on the Antietam battlefield:Phelps’ Brigade formed line at 5:30 A. M. on September 17, and moved in support of Gibbon’s Brigade. When Gibbon deployed, 135 yards north of this in the Cornfield and on the plateau west of the Hagerstown Pike, Phelps’ Brigade (425 officers and men) halted 25 paces in his rear, in the Cornfield. After Gibbon advanced and became heavily engaged on both sides of the Pike, Phelps moved to the support of his left and fought on this ground. The subsequent movements of this Brigade conformed to those of Gibbon. After heavy loss it retired to the fields north of D. R. Miller’s and thence beyond the Poffenberger Lane. |
September |
Duty in Maryland.The regiment received 200 recruits and five new officers. |
September 20 | Lieutenant Colonel Searing was promoted to colonel and Major Chrysler to lieutenant colonel, both with rank to August 30 |
October 29 | Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
October 30 | Crossed the Potomac at the pontoon bridge at Berlin, crossed Bull Run Mountain, drove the enemy out of and occupied Warrenton. |
November 1 | Marched to Brooks Station on the Falmouth and Aquia Creek Railroad. Captain Albert Perry of Company F was promoted to major. |
December 7 | Two companies were consolidated and a new company joined regiment as Company F. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of FredericksburgThe regiment spent three days on skirmish duty on the left flank of the army, losing 2 enlisted men killed and 14 wounded out of 406 men engaged. |
1863
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January 20-34 | “Mud March” |
February | At Falmouth |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 |
Operations at Pollock’s Mill CreekThe regiment lost 1 enlisted man wounded |
May 2-5 |
Battle of ChancellorsvilleThe regiment lost 1 enlisted man wounded |
May 24 | Three years’ men were transferred to 76th New York Infantry Regiment, inclluding five officers who all became casualties at Gettysburg. |
May 28 | Left the front to return to New York |
June 18 | The 30th New York Infantry Regiment mustered out at the expiration of its term, under the commaand of Colonel Searing, Lieutenant Colonel Chrysler and Major Perry. |
June 23 | Colonel Chrysler was authorized to reorganize the regiment for three years service as a mounted regiment, at first called the Empire Light Cavalry but then designated the 2nd New York Veteran Cavalry |