United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Infantry
The 153rd New York Infantry Regiment lost 1 officer and 38 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 10 oficers and 122 enlisted men wounded and 1 officer and 160 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| Organized at Fonda, N.Y. | |
| October 17 | Mustered in under Colonel Duncan McMartin, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Armstrong and Major Edwin P. Davis |
| October 18 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
| October | Guard and police duty at Alexandria, Va., and at Washington, D.C. Attached to Provisional Brigade, Abercrombie’s Division, Defenses of Washington and then District of Alexandria, Defenses of Washington |
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1863
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| February 18 | Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong was discharged |
| April 21 | Colonel McMartin was discharged for disability and Major Davis was promoted to colonel |
| May 1 | Captain William Printup of Company C was promoted to lieutenant colonel and Captain Alexander Strain of Company G was promoted to major |
| August | Attached to Martindale’s Command, Garrison of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps |
| November 17 | Lieutenant Colonel Printup was discharged for disability |
| December 4 | Major Strain promoted to lieutenant colonel |
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1864
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| February | Ordered to Dept. of the Gulf and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Army Corps |
| March 1 | Adjutant Stephen Sammons promoted to major |
| March 10-May 22 | Red River Campaign |
| March 14-26 | Advance from Franklin to Alexandria |
| April 8 | Battle of Sabine Cross Roads |
| April 9 |
Pleasant HillThe regiment lost 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 24 wounded and 4 missing |
| April 23 | Monett’s Ferry, Cane River Crossing |
| April 26-May 13 | At Alexandria |
| May 13-20 | Retreat to Morganza |
| May 16 | Mansura and Avoyelle’s Prairie |
| May-June | Duty at Morganza |
| July 1-12 | Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va., then to Washington, D.C. |
| July 12-13 | Repulse of Early’s attack on Washington |
| July 14-23 | Snicker’s Gap Expedition |
| July | Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
| August 7-November 28 | Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
| August 27 | Major Sammons was discharged and Captain Jacob Klock of Company E promoted to major |
| September 19 |
Third Battle of WinchesterMajor Jacob Klock and 18 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded and Captains John De Wandelaer and John Lassell, Lieutenants Hiram Argersinger and Cornelius Burns and 47 enlisted men wounded |
| September 22 |
Battle of Fisher’s HillThe regiment lost 3 enlisted men wounded |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar CreekThe regiment lost 16 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Strain, Lieutenants George Hodges, James Veeder, 3 other officers and 48 enlisted men were wounded, and 10 men were missing |
| November-April | Duty at Middletown, Newtown and Stephenson’s Depot |
| December 3 | Captain George McLaughlin of Company H promoted to major |
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1865
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| January 4 | Lieutenant Colonel Strain discharged for disability from his Cedar Creek wounds at hospital in Annapolis, Maryland |
| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Provisional Division, Army of the Shenandoah |
| February 2 | Major McLaughlin promoted to lieutenant colonel |
| February 8 | Captain Charles Putman of Company C promoted to major |
| April 5 | Moved to Washington, D.C.Attached to 2nd Brigade, Dwight’s Division, Dept. of Washington |
| May 23-24 | Grand Review |
| July | Ordered to Savannah, Ga. and duty in the Dept. of Georgia |
| September 9 | Major Putman died of typhoid fever at Savannah |
| September 19 | Adjutant Abram Davis promoted to major but not mustered |
| October 2 | Mustered out at Savannah, Georgia under Colonel Davis, Lieutenant Colonel McLaughlin |