169th New York Infantry Regiment

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“Troy Regiment”

The 169th New York Infantry Regiment had 1,467 men enrolled during the Civil War. It lost 10 officers and 147 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 125 enlisted men to disease, of whom 25 died in Confederate captivity.

1862
Organized at Troy and Staten Island, New York under the command of Colonel Clarence Buel, Lieutenant Colonel John McConihe and Major Alonzo Alden.

  • Company A was principally recruited at Nassau, Troy, Schodack and Poestenkill
  • Companies B, G, H and I (the “Nail Factory Company”) at Troy
  • Company C at Troy, Brunswick, Hoosick, Pittstown, Easton and Poestenkill
  • Company D at Sandy Hill, Kingsbury and Fort EdwardCompany
  • Company E at Fort Edward
  • Company F at Whitehall, Lisbon and Fort Ann
  • CompanyK at Lansingburg and Troy
September 25 Companies A – E mustered in at Troy
October 6 Companies F to K mustered at Staten Island
October 9 Left New York for Washington, D. C.
October Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. attached to Provisional Brigade, Abercrombie’s Division, Defenses of Washington.
1863
February Attached to Military District of Washington, 22nd Corps, Department of Washington
April 18 Ordered to Suffolk, Virginia and attached to Foster’s Brigade, Division at Suffolk, 7th Corps, Department of Virginia
April 20-May 4

Siege of Suffolk

Lieutenant John Hughes and Provate Edwin Brock were killed or mortally wounded and Colonel Buel, 2 other officers and 4 enlisted men were wounded
April 24 Edenton Road
May 4

Siege of Suffolk raised
May 19-22 Expedition into Matthews County
June 4-5 Expedition to Walkerton and Aylett’s
June 5 Walkerton
June 24-July 7

Dix’s Peninsula Campaign

Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Corps
July 1-7 Expedition from White House to South Anna River
July 4

South Anna Bridge
July 12 Ordered to Dept. of the South, arriving at Folly Island, South Carolina. Assigned to Foster’s Brigade, Vodges’ Division, Folly Island, South Carolina, 10th Corps, Department of the South
July 28 Lieutenant Chales Palmer died of disease at Portsmouth, Virginia.
August 12-
September 7

Siege of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, S.C., and operations against Fort Sumter and Charleston.

The regiment lost 2 enlisted men wounded, 1 mortally.
August 17-23 Bombardment of Fort Sumter and Charleston
September 7

Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg
Setpember-February Operations against Charleston and picket duty on Folly and Black Islands, South Carolina.
1864
January Attached to 1st Brigade, Folly Island, Northern District, Department of the South
February 6-14 Expedition to Johns and James Islands attached to 1st Brigade, Vodges’ Division, District of Florida
February 20 Ordered to Jacksonville, Fla.
March 2 Expedition to Cedar Creek
March 15 Lieutenant Colonel McConihe was promoted to colonel, Major Alden to lieutenant colonel and Captain James Colvin of Company A was promoted to major
April 21 Ordered to Yorktown, Virginia. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Corps, Army of the James, Department of Virginia and North Carolina
May 4-28 Butler’s operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Corps
May 6-7 Port Walthall Junction, Chester Station
May 10

Chester Station

The regiment lost 12 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded
May 12-16 Operations against Fort Darling
May 14-16

Battle of Drury’s Bluff

Lieutenant Walter Birdsall and 7 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded
May 16 Port Walthall Junction
May 16-27

Bermuda Hundred

The regiment lost 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded. The regiment also lost 1 officer and 69 enlisted men wounded and 24 men missing since May 5.
May 28-31 Moved to White House, then to Cold Harbor
June 1-12

Battle of Cold Harbor

Colonel John McConihe and 23 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded and Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo Alden, Captain Daniel Ferguson, 2 other officers and 53 enilsted men were wounded.
June Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Corps.
June 15-18

First Assault on Petersburg

The regiment lost 14 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 57 enlisted men wounded and 3 men missing.
June 16 –
December 7

Siege of Petersburg 

The regiment lost 35 enlisted men killed and 76 wounded in the nine months in the trenchs exclusive of casualties listed below.
June 16 In trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda Hundred front attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps
June 17 Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo Alden was promoted to colonel and Major James Colvin promoted to lieutenant colonel, both with rank from June 1, and Captain Joseph Allen of Company C was promoted to major, with rank from June 3.
July 30

Mine Explosion (Battle of the Crater)

Captain Augustus Vaughn and 1 enlisted man were killed, 8 enlisted men wounded and 9 missing.
August 13-20 Demonstration north of the James
August 13

Dutch Gap

Lieutenant Norman Crippen was killed
August 14-18

Strawberry Plains

6 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 13 enlisted men wounded, and 1 man misisng
September 28-30
Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights

The regiment lost 8 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 23 wounded and 6 missing
October 27-28

Battle of Fair Oaks
November In trenches before Richmond
December 7-27

Expedition to Fort Fisher, North Carolina
1865
January 3-15

2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, North Carolina

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Terry’s Provisional Corps, Department of North Carolina.
January 15
Capture of Fort Fisher

Captain Daniel Ferguson, Lieutenants Samuel Cipperly, Thomas McGregor, Ryan Michael and 12 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded and Captain Charles Merrill and 37 enlisted men were wounded. Two officers and 26 enlisted men were killed by the explosion of the magazine in the fort after its capture.
February 11-13 Cape Fear Entrenchments
February 11 Sugar Loaf Battery
February 18-19 Fort Anderson
February 22

Capture of Wilmington
March 1-April 26

Campaign of the Carolinas

Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, Dept. of North Carolina.
March 6-21 Advance on Goldsboro
April 9-13 Advance on Raleigh
April 14 Occupation of Raleigh
April 26

Bennett’s House

Surrender of Johnston and his army.
May-July Duty In North Carolina
July 19 The 169th New York Infantry Regiment mustered out at Raleigh, North Carolina under the command of Colonel Alonzo Alden, Lieutenant Colonel James Colvin and Major Joseph Allen.