United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Eleventh New York Infantry Regiment
“First New York Fire Zouaves” “Ellsworth’s Zouaves”
The Eleventh New York Infantry Regiment lost 3 officers and 48 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 12 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| Organized at New York City from members of the fire departments of the city under Colonel E. Elmer Ellsworth, Lieutenant Colonel Noah Farnham and Major John A. Cregier | |
| April 20 | The Eleventh New York Infantry Regiment was accepted into state service |
| April 29 | Left the State for Washington, D.C. on the steamship Baltic |
| May 2-23 | Duty at Washington in the defences of the city. During this time a fire broke out near Willard’s Hotel and the regiment, led by Colonel Ellsworth, put out the fire to great applause from spectators. |
| May 7 | Mustered in for two years United States servce |
| May 24 | Occupation of Arlington Heights and Alexandria, Virginia. Colonel Ellsworth entered an Alexandria hotel, the Marshall House, to remove a Confederate flag flying from its roof. As he returned down the stairs he was shot and killed by the proprietor, named Jackson, who was himself shot and bayonetted by Private Brownell of Company A. |
| June | Duty near Alexandria |
| June 7 | Lieutenant Colonel Noah Farham was promoted to colonel and Major John Cregier promoted to lieutenant colonel. |
| June 15 | Adjutant Charles M. Leoser was promoted to major. |
| July 16 | Attached to Wilcox’s Brigade, Heintzelman’s Division, McDowell’s Army of Northeast Virginia |
| July 16-21 | Advance on Manassas, Virginia. |
| July 17 | Occupation of Fairfax Court House. |
| July 21 |
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)The regiment lost 2 officers and 34 men killed or mortally wounded, 73 men wounded, and 2 officers and 66 men missing. Colonel Noah Farnham was mortally wounded, dying on August 14. |
| July 29 | Captain Stephen Stryker of Company B resigned to become colonel of the 44th New York Infantry Regiment. |
| August 22 | Major Leoser was promoted to colonel. |
| September-October | The regiment returned to New York for reorganization and recruiting. Assigned to duty in New York Harbor and in Westchester County, New York. |
| September 21 | Lieutenant Colonel Cregier resigned |
| October 1 | Spencer Stafford was mustered in as lieutenant colonel. |
| November | Moved to the Virginia Peninsula. Duty at Newport News, Va., Department of Virginia under the command of Colonel Charles McK. Loeser. |
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1862
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| March 5 | Captain Joseph McFarland of Company G was promoted to lieutenant colonel |
| March 8 | Action between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia in Hampton Roads |
| April 17 | Colonel Leoser resigned. |
| May 7 | The regiment returned to New York. |
| June 2 | The Eleventh New York Infantry Regiment mustered out under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph E. MacFarland. |
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1863
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| October 1 | Efforts failed to effect a new organization of the regiment, to be known as the J. T. Brady Light Infantry. The men who enlisted were transferred to the 17th New York Veteran Infantry |