United States Regiments & Batteries – New York – Infantry • Cavalry • Artillery
“First New York Fire Zouaves” “Ellsworth’s Zouaves”
The 11th 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 | Accepted into state service |
| April 29 | Laaves 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 breaks out near Willard’s Hotel, and the regiment, led by Colonel Ellsworth, puts 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, Va. Colonel Ellsworth enters an Alexandria hotel, the Marshall House, to remove a Confederate flag flying from its roof. As he returns down the stairs he is shot and killed by the proprietor, named Jackson, who is himself shot and bayonetted by Provate Brownell of Company A. |
| June | Duty near Alexandria |
| June 7 | Lt. Colonel Farham promoted to colonel and Major Cregier promoted to lieutenant colonel |
| June 15 | Adjutant Charles M. Leoser 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, Va. |
| July 17 | Occupation of Fairfax Court House. |
| July 21 | Battle of Bull Run
The regiment lost 2 officers and 34 men killed or mortally wounded, 73 men wounded, and 2 officers and 66 men missing. Colonel Farnham is mortally wounded, dying on August 14. |
| July 29 | Captain Stephen Stryker of Company B resigns to become colonel of the 44th New York Infantry |
| August 22 | Major Leoser promoted to colonel |
| September-October | Returns to New York for reorganization and recruiting, duty in New York Harbor and in Westchester County, N.Y. |
| September 21 | Lt. Colonel Cregier resigned |
| October 1 | Spencer Stafford mustered in as lieutenant colonel |
| November | Duty at Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia under Colonel Charles McK. Loeser |
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1862
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| March 5 | Captain Joseph McFarland of Company G promoted to lieutenant colonel |
| March 8 | Action between Monitor and Merrimac in Hampton Roads |
| April 17 | Colonel Leoser resigned |
| May 7 | Returned to New York |
| June 2 | Mustered out under Lieutenant Colonel Joseph E. MacFarland |
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1863
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| October 1 | Efforts fail to effect a new organization of the regiment, known as the J. T. Brady Light Infantry, in summer of 1863, and the men enlisted are transferred to the 17th New York Veteran Infantry |