United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Infantry
“Seward Infantry”
The 103rd New York Infantry Regiment lost 5 officers and 61 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 100 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861
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November- March | Organized at New York City |
1862
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March 5 | Left State for Washington, D.C. under Colonel Baron Frederick Von Egloffstein, Lieutenant Colonel Kasper Schneider and Major Julius C. Kretschmar |
March 6 | Duty in the Defenses of Washington |
March 21 | Moved to Norfolk, Va. and attached to Dept. of Virginia |
May 8 | Company C mustered out |
April | To New Berne, N. C. and assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of North Carolina |
April 4 | Major Kretschmar was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and Captain Benjamin Ringold of Company A was promoted to major |
April 13 | Action at Gillett’s Farm, Pebbly Run |
April 27 | Haughton’s Mills
The regiment lost 2 men killed or mortally wounded, and 3 officers and 3 men wounded, including Colonel Von Egloffstein, who was badly wounded and eventually forced to resign due to his wound. |
June | Lieutenant Colonel Kretschmar listed as absent due to illness; despite a surgeon’s certificate that he was sick with typhoid fever and dysentery he was listed as AWOL for July – September. |
July 2-6 | Moved to Newport News, Va. and assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. Major Ringold commanded the regiment with both Colonel Von Egloffstein and Lieutenant Colonel Kretschmar on medical leave |
August 2-6 | To Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg, Va. |
August 31- September 3 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
September 6-22 | Maryland Campaign |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Battle of AntietamCaptains Henry Sand and Williams Brandt and 36 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 58 men wounded, and 20 men missing, most in the charge on Burnside’s Bridge. From the War Department marker for Fairchild’s Brigade on the Antietam battlefield: On the morning of the 17th, Fairchild’s Brigade moved from its position southeast of the Burnside Bridge, down the left bank of the Antietam, which it crossed at Snavely’s Ford about 1 P.M., and forced the right of Toombs’ Brigade from its position on the high ground above the ford and, moving up the right bank of the creek, formed line on the left of Willcox’s Division a short distance northwest of the bridge. About 3 P.M. the Brigade, under a heavy fire of Artillery from Cemetery Hill and the adjacent heights, advanced from the ridge 450 yards east of this, reached the open fields west and gained the high ground about 400 yards northwest of this point, forcing the Brigades of Kemper and Drayton through the streets of Sharpsburg. Its position being endangered by the advance of A.P. Hill on its left and rear, it was withdrawn by the ravines to the Sharpsburg Road and thence to the bank of the Antietam near the Burnside Bridge. |
September- October |
Duty at Pleasant Valley, Md. |
October 27- November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
November | Lieutenant Colonel Kretschmar resigned for medical reasons, having been absent since June, but is listed as dismissed. Major Ringold was promoted to colonel. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of FredericksburgThe regiment lost 5 men killed, 10 men wounded and 10 men missing |
1863
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January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
February 6-9 | Moved to Newport News, Va. |
March 13 | To Suffolk |
April 12-May 4 | Siege of Suffolk. Assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
April 24 | Edenton Road |
May 2-4 | Suffolk |
May 3 |
Providence Church RoadColonel Ringgold, 1 other officer and 4 men were killed or mortally wounded, and 1 officer and 13 men were wounded. |
June 24-July 7 | Dix’s Peninsula Campaign |
July 1-7 | Expedition from White House to South Anna River |
July 28 | Ordered to Folly Island, S.C. and assigned to Alvord’s Brigade, Vodges’ Division, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
August 14-September 7 | Siege operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg on Morris Island and against Fort Sumter and Charleston, S.C. |
August 17-23 | Bombardment of Fort Sumter |
September 7 | Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg |
September | Operations against Charleston and duty on Folly Island, S.C. |
1864
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February | Assigned to 2nd Brigade, Gordon’s Division, Folly Island, S.C., Northern District |
April | Assigned to Folly Island, S.C., Northern District, Dept. of the South |
May 21-22 |
Demonstrations on James IslandThe regiment, commanded by Major Morrison, lost 8 men wounded, 1 mortally, and 2 men missing |
July 1-10 |
Demonstrations on James IslandThe regiment lost 10 men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 13 men wounded, and 1 man missing |
August, 1864 | Ordered to Washington, D.C. and assigned to 3rd Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
September 27 | Ordered to the Shenandoah Valley, Va. and assigned to 1st Brigade, Kitching’s Division (Provisional), Army of the Shenandoah |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
November 22 | Ordered to Bermuda Hundred, Va. |
December | Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond assigned to 1st Brigade, Provisional Division, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
1865
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March | Assigned to 1st Brigade, Infantry Division, Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Va. |
April 2-3 | Fall of Petersburg and Richmond |
April | Duty in the Dept. of Virginia |
December 7 | Mustered out at New York City under Colonel William Heine |