99th New York Infantry Regiment

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“Union Coast Guard”

The 99th New York Infantry Regiment lost 2 officers and 37 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 161 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
Organized at New York City under authority of War Department as the Naval Brigade, to be provided with gunboats to cruise along Atlantic coast. Companies G, H, I and K were recruited primarily from Massachusetts, and Companies A – E also contained many men from that state.
May 14 Six companies mustered into state service under Colonel William A. Bartlett, Lieutenant Colonel Harry D. Whitmore, and Major James Millward, Jr.
May 28 Edward T. Rawlings mustered in as major. The regiment left the state by the steamer Coatzacoalcos for Fortress Monroe, Va. Without uniforms, arms or equipment, they were not accepted into service by General Butler and were placed under guard in an open field.
June 5 After a confrontation with Colonel Bartlett, Major Burnett and 180 men returned to New York on the Coatzacoalcos
June 11 90 more men returned to New York on the steamaer State of Georgia
June 14 –
October 31		 Eight companies mustered into United States Service for three years
July 1 Captain Gustave Helleday of Company B promoted to major. James Milward mustered in as lieutenant
July Attached to Viele’s Command, Norfolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia
July 19
New Market Bridge

Major Rawlings was killed, Captain Edward Jenkins and Lieutenant Roswell Shurtleff were wounded and captured, and 3 enlisted men were wounded.
July 30 Fletcher’s Wharf, Pocomoco
July 31 Cherrystone Inlet
August 17 Major Burnett discharged
August 21 Regiment reorganized as Infantry under Colonel David W. Wardop, Lieutenant Colonel Gustave B. Helleday and Major Richard Nixon for duty at Fortress Monroe
August 28-29 Bombardment and capture of Forts Hatteras and Clarke
September 3 Major Whitmore discharged
September 16 Beacon Island
September 30 Company I organized
1862
January Designated 99th New York Infantry Regiment
January 7-
February 8		 Company B detached on Steamers Southfield and Hunchback with Burnside’s Expedition to Roanoke Island, N. C.
February 8
Battle of Roanoke Island

Company B, operating detached from the regiment, lost 3 men killed or mortally wounded and 7 men wounded.
March 7 Company K organized. Company D serving on U.S.S. Congress
March 8-9
Newport News, Va.

Destruction of U.S.S. Congress and U.S.S. Cumberland in Hampton Roads

The regiment lost 10 men killed or mortally wounded, 15 men wounded and 7 men missing from Company D, serving on the Congress.
March 14
Battle of New Berne, N. C.

Company B, detached from the regiment, lost 2 men killed, Lieutenant Thomas Hughes and 6 men wounded, and Lieutenant Charles Tillotson and 9 men captured
April 12-26 Siege of Fort Macon (Company B, detached)
May 10 Tranter’s Creek and occupation of Norfolk and Portsmouth
May At Camp Hamilton, Va.
June 28-July 4 Expedition from Fortress Monroe (Detachment)
June 30 Near Windsor Shade (Company I, detached on steamer C.P. Smith)
July 4
James River

Company I, detached on the steamer C.P. Smith lost 1 man killed and 6 men missing
August -October Duty by detachments at Fortress Monroe, Norfolk, Fort Wood and Sewell’s Point
August, 1862 – March, 1863 Company I detached on gunboats West End and Smith Briggs
August 19 Lt. Colonel Helleday dies of typhoid fever at Norfolk
September 28 Major Richard Nixon promoted to lietenant colonel and Captain John Bates of Company H promoted to major
October Duty at Norfolk and Suffolk, Va.
1863
February Assigned to Terry’s Provisional Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Army Corps
April Assigned to Reserve Brigade, Gurney’s 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps
April 12-May 4
Siege of Suffolk

The regiment lost 22 men killed or mortally wounded, and Captains James Hart and John White, 2 other officers and 45 men wounded
April 17 South Quay Road
April 28-30 Suffolk
May 1 South Quay Bridge
May 3 Providence Church Road, Suffolk
May 15-28 Operations on Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad
May 17 Near Providence Church
May 23 Antioch Church and Parker’s Cross Roads
June 5 Walkerton
June 16
Blackwater

Captain James Hart was killed and 2 men wounded near Franklin, Virginia
June 24-July 7 Dix’s Peninsula Campaign. Attached to Wistar’s Brigade, Yorktown, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
July 1-7 Expedition from White House to South Anna River
July 4
South Anna Bridge

The regiment lost 2 men wounded and 2 men missing
July Duty at White House, Yorktown and Gloucester
October Duty in the Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
1864
January 18-February 10 Operations about New Berne against Whiting
January 29-February 1 Expedition from Norfolk to Isle of Wight County (Detachment)
January 31 and February 1
Smithfield, N. C.

Captain Frederick Rowe was wounded and captured and 42 enlisted men were captured
February 1-4 Action at New Berne
February 1
Action at Batchelor’s Creek

Captain David Bailey, Lieutenant James Fleming and 52 men captured
February 2
Action at Beech Grove

The regiment lost 3 men captured
June 14 Old members mustered out and retuerned to New York under Lieutenant Colonel Richard Nixon. Regiment consolidated to 4 Companies, A-D.
July 2 Lt. Colonel Richard Nixon discharged and Major Bates mustered out
September 15 Regiment consolidated to 3 Companies, A-C.
December 10 Colonel Wardrop discharged
1865
January Assigned to Sub-District of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina
February Regiment consolidated to 2 Companies, A and B.
June 15 Men of the 132nd New York Infantry transferred in
July 15 Mustered out at Salisbury, N. C. under Captain Ervin A. Jones