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United States Regiments & Batteries > New York

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“McComb’s Plattsburg Regiment”

The 96th New York Infantry Regiment lost 9 officers and 59 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 158 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1862
February 20- March 7	Organized at Plattsburg, N.Y. under Colonel James Fairman, Lieutenant Colonel Charles O. Gray and Major John E. Kelly
March 11	Left State for Washington, D.C.
March 28	Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula and attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
April 5-May 4	Siege of Yorktown Lieutenant Colonel Gray was in command for much of the campaign, with Colonel Fairman invloved in court martial proceedings.
May 5	Battle of Williamsburg
May 29	Seven Pines Major John Kelly and 1 enlisted man were killed or mortally wounded and 3 men wounded.
May 30	Fair Oaks
May 31- June 1	Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks The regiment lost 11 men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 26 men wounded, and 2 officers and 18 men missing.
June	Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps
June 25-July 1	Seven days before Richmond The regiment lost 1 man killed and 1 officer and 79 men captured.
June 27-29	Bottom’s Bridge
June 30	White Oak Swamp
July 1	Malvern Hill
July – August	At Harrison’s Landing Company G was merged into Company C.
August 16-23	Moved to Fortress Monroe
September 18	To Suffolk. Assigned to Wessell’s Brigade, Division at Suffolk, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia
September 25	Colonel Fairman was discharged from the army after lengthy court martial proceedings, and Lieutenant Colonel Gray was promoted to colonel.
October 3	Reconnaissance to Franklin on the Blackwater
December 4	Ordered to New Berne, N. C. and assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina
December 11-20	Foster’s Expedition to Goldsboro
December 14	Actions at Kinston Colonel Gray was killed and 1 officer and 5 men wounded.
December 16	Whitehall
December 17	Goldsboro
1863
January	Duty at and in the vicinity of New Berne, N. C. Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina
April 7-10	Expedition to relief of Little Washington
May	At Plymouth, N. C., and in the District of the Albemarle attached to District of the Albemarle, Dept. of North Carolina
July 5-7	Expedition from Plymouth to Gardiner’s Bridge and Williamston (Detachment)
July 26-29	Expedition from Plymouth to Foster’s Mills
October	Moved to Newport News, Va.and assigned to Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
October 13	Scout from Great Bridge to Indiantown, N. C.
December	Duty in District of the Currituck assigned to District of the Currituck, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
1864
January	Company D consolidated into Company B
March	Assigned to 1st Brigade, Heckman’s Division, 18th Army Corps
April 28	Ordered to Yorktown, Va. and assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James
May 4-28	Butler’s operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond
May 5	Occupation of Bermuda Hundred and City Point, Va.
May 8-10	Swift Creek or Arrow field Church
May 12-16	Operations against Fort Darling
May 14-16	Battle of Drury’s Bluff The regiment lost 1 officer and 4 men killed or mortally wounded, 8 men wounded, and 1 officer and 17 men missing.
May 16-27	Bermuda Hundred
May 27-31	Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor
June 1-12	Battles about Cold Harbor The 96th New York Infantry lost 7 officers and 9 men killed or mortally wounded, 43 men wounded, and 8 missing.
June 15-18	Assault on Petersburg The regiment lost 3 men killed or mortally wounded, and 1 officer and 6 men wounded
July	Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps
July 30	Mine Explosion. Petersburg (The Crater) The regiment was in reserve.
August – September	In trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda front
September 28-30	Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights The regiment lost 19 men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 57 men wounded, and 24 men missing.
October 27-28	Battle of Fair Oaks The regiment lost 6 men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 9 men wounded, and 2 officers and 33 men missing.
November	Duty in trenches before Richmond
December	Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps
December 1	Veterans and recruits of the 92nd New York Infantry transferred in
1865
April 3	Occupation of Richmond
June	Assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps. Men from the 118th New York Infantry and 184th New York Infantry transferred in.
July	Assigned to 1st Independent Brigade, 24th Army Corps
August	Assigned to Dept. of Virginia
1866
February 6	The 96th New York Infantry mustered out at City Point under Colonel Stephen Moffitt