United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Infantry
The 168th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 1 enlisted man killed and 11 oficers and 36 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1863
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Organized at Newburg, N.Y. from the 19th New York National Guard | |
January 23 | Nine companies mustered in for nine months service under Colonel William R. Brown, Lieutenant Colonel James Low and Major George Waller |
February 11 | Company I mustered in |
February 12 | Left State for Baltimore, Md. then moved to Norfolk, Va. Garrison duty at Yorktown, Va. attached to Busteed’s Independent Brigade, 4th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
April | Attached to King’s Independent Brigade, 4th Army Corps |
May 9 | Major Waller dismissed |
June 24-July 7 | Dix’s Peninsula Campaign; attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps |
June 5 | Walkerton, Virginia
Private William Avery was killed killed, 5 enlisted men were wounded and 2 missing |
June 9 | The regiment lost 1 enlisted man wounded |
July 9 | Ordered to Washington, D.C. then to Funkstown, Md. |
July 14 | Joined 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac at Hagerstown, Md. |
July 14-24 | Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va. |
August-October | Guard duty along Orange & Alexandria Railroad |
October 31 | Mustered out under Colonel Brown and Lt. Colonel Low |