United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Infantry
“1st Regiment Metropolitan Guard”
The 131st New York Infantry Regiment lost 2 officers and 82 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers 87 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| Organized at New York City | |
| September 6 | Mustered in |
| September 14 | Left State for Annapolis, Md. Attached to District of Annapolis, Md., 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
| November 18 | Ordered to New Orleans, La. |
| December | Moved to Baton Rouge, La. and attached to Grover’s Division, Dept. of the Gulf |
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1863
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| January | Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, |
| March 7-27 | Operations against Port Hudson |
| March 27 | Moved to Donaldsonville, then to Brashear City, La. |
| April 9-May 14 | Operations in Western Louisiana |
| April 11-20 | Teche Campaign |
| April 12-13 | Fort Bisland |
| April 13 | Madam Porter’s Plantation, Indian Bend |
| April 14 | Irish Bend |
| April 17 | Bayou Vermillion |
| April 19-20 | March to Opelousas |
| April 25 | Moved to New Iberia |
| May 24-July 9 | Siege of Port Hudson |
| May 27 | Assault on Port Hudson |
| June 14 | Assault on Port Hudson |
| June 18 | Action at Plaquemine (Detachment) |
| July 9 | Surrender of Port Hudson |
| July 12-13 | Kock’s Plantation, Bayou LaFourche |
| July-March | Duty at Thibodeauxville |
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1864
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| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf |
| February 3-6 | Expedition from Brashear City (Detachment) |
| March 25-May 22 | Red River Campaign |
| May 1 | Alexandria |
| April 30-May 10 | Construction of dam at Alexandria |
| May 13-20 | Retreat to Mansura |
| May 16 | Mansura |
| May-June | Duty at Morganza |
| July 3-22 | Moved to New Orleans, La., then to Fortress Monroe, Va., and to Bermuda Hundred, Va. |
| July 23-28 | In trenches at Bermuda Hundred, Va. |
| July 28-29 | Deep Bottom |
| July 31-August 2 | Moved to Washington, D.C., then to Tennallytown |
| August 7- November 28 |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Assigned to Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
| September 19 | Battle of Winchester |
| September 22 | Fisher’s Hill |
| October 19 | Battle of Cedar Creek |
| October-January | Duty at Kernstown and Winchester |
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1865
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| January 5-22 | Moved to Savannah, Ga. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Grover’s Division, District of Savannah, Dept. of the South |
| March | At Morehead City and New Berne, N. C. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, Dept. of North Carolina |
| April | At Savannah, Ga., attached to District of Savannah, Dept. of the South |
| July 26 | Mustered out at Savannah, Ga. |