United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Infantry
The 117th New York Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 123 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 135 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| Organized at Oneida | |
| August 8 | Mustered in |
| August 22 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
| September | Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., and at Tennallytown Attached to Defenses of Washington north of the Potomac |
| October | Attached to 2nd and 3rd Brigade, Haskins’ Division, north of the Potomac |
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1863
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| April 16 | Ordered to Suffolk, Va. and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
| April 20-May 4 | Siege of Suffolk |
| May 3 | Providence Church Road, Nansemond River |
| June 24-July 7 | Dix’s Peninsula Campaign |
| July 1-7 | Expedition from White House to South Anna River |
| July 12 | Ordered to Folly Island, S.C. attached to Alvord’s Brigade, Vodge’s Division, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
| August 17- September 7 |
Siege operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, S.C., and against Charleston and Fort Sumter |
| August 17-23 | Bombardment of Fort Sumter and Charleston |
| September – April | Operations against Charleston, S.C., and duty on Folly Island, S.C. |
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1864
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| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Folly Island, Northern District, Dept. of the South |
| April | Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| May 4-28 | Butler’s operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps |
| May 5 | Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred |
| May 9-10 | Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church |
| May 12-16 | Operations against Fort Darling |
| May 14-16 | Battle of Drury’s Bluff |
| May 16-28 | Bermuda Hundred |
| May 28-31 | Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor |
| June 1-12 | Battles about Cold Harbor |
| June | Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps |
| June 15-18 | Before Petersburg |
| June 16 | Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond. Duty in trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda Hundred front. |
| September 28-30 | Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights |
| October 27-28 | Battle of Fair Oaks |
| November | Duty in trenches before Richmond |
| December 7-27 | Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C. attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 24th Army Corps |
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1865
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| January 3-15 | 2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Terry’s Provisional Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
| January 15 | Assault and capture of Fort Fisher |
| February 11-13 | Cape Fear Entrenchments |
| February 11 | Sugar Loaf Battery |
| February 18-19 | Fort Anderson |
| February 22 | Capture of Wilmington |
| March 1-April 26 | Campaign of the Carolinas. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, Dept. of North Carolina |
| March 6-21 | Advance on Goldsboro |
| April 14 | Occupation of Raleigh |
| April 26 | Bennett’s House. Surrender of Johnston and his army. |
| May | Duty in North Carolina |
| June 8 | Mustered out at Raleigh. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 48th New York Infantry |