150th New York Infantry Regiment

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“The Duchess County Regiment”

The 150th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment mustered 1,277 during the American Civil War. It lost 2 officers and 49 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 78 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument and a marker at Gettysburg.

1862
August 27 Organized at Poughkeepsie, New York.

  • Company A was primarily recruited at Poughkeepsie, Amenia, Washington and Pleasant Valley
  • Company B at Poughkeepsie
  • Company C at Clinton, Stanford, Pleasant Valley, Poughkeepsie and Washington
  • Company D at Hyde Park, Pine Plains, North East, Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck
  • Company E at Dover, Pawling and Poughkeepsie
  • Company F at Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Red Hook and Milan
  • Company G at Poughkeepsie, Beekman, Union Vale and Fishkill
  • Company H at Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park and Clinton
  • Company I at Washington, Poughkeepsie, Stanford, LaGrange, Amenia and Union Vale
  • Company K at Rhinebeck, Poughkeepsie and Fishkill
October 10 The 150th New York Infantry Regiment mustered in under the command of Colonel John H. Ketcham, Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Bartlett and Major Alfred B. Smith
October 11 Left New York for Baltimore, Md.
October Duty at Baltimore, Maryland attached to Defenses of Baltimore, Maryland, 8th Corps, Middle Department
1863
January Attached to 2nd Separate Brigade, 8th Corps, Middle Department
February Transferred to 3rd Separate Brigade, 8th Corps, Middle Department
July

Gettysburg Campaign

Joined the Army of the Potomac in the field. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac, then to the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps
July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded by Colonel John H. Ketcham. It brought 609 men to the field, losing 7 killed, 23 wounded, and 15 missing.

From the marker in the Trostle Farmyard to the 150th New York:

Charged to this point on July 2nd 1863, about 8 p.m. and drew off three abandoned guns of Bigelow’s Battery.

From the monument on Culp’s Hill to the 150th New York.

This regiment defended these works on July 3rd from 6.30 to 9 a.m. and from 10 a.m. to 12 m. and captured 200 prisoners
July 5-24 Pursuit of Lee
August-September Duty on line of the Rappahannock
September 24-October 3 Movement to Stevenson, Alabama.
October-April Transferred to the Army of the Cumberland and assigned to guard duty on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad,
December When the 145th New York Infantry Regiment disbanded Companies A, D and F were transferred to the 150th New York. Colonel Alfred Smith later wrote “About 100 as good men as ever went to the war came to us from your regiment.”
1864
April Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Corps, Army of the Cumberland
May 1-September 8

Atlanta Campaign
May 8-11 Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge
May 14-15

Battle of Resaca
May 19 Near Cassville
May 22-25 Advance on Dallas
May 25 New Hope Church
May 26-June 5

Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills
June 10-July 2 Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain
June 11-14 Pine Hill
June 15-17

Lost Mountain
June 15 Gilgal or Golgotha Church
June 17 Muddy Creek
June 19 Noyes Creek
June 22 Kolb’s Farm
June 27

Assault on Kenesaw
July 4 Ruff’s Station, Smyrna Camp Ground
July 5-17 Chattahoochie River
July 19-20

Peach Tree Creek
July 22-August 25

Siege of Atlanta
August 26-September 2 Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge
September 2-November 15

Occupation of Atlanta
November 15-December 10

March to the sea
December 9 Montieth Swamp
December 10-21

Siege of Savannah
1865
January to April

Campaign of the Carolinas
March 16 Averysboro, North Carolina
March 19-21

Battle of Bentonville
March 24 Occupation of Goldsboro
April 9-13 Advance on Raleigh
April 14 Occupation of Raleigh
April 26

Bennett’s House

Surrender of Johnston and his army.
April 29-May 19 March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Virginia.
May 24 Grand Review
June 8 Mustered out 36 officers and 524 enlisted men at Washington, D.C. under the command of Colonel Alfred B. Smith, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Cogswell and Major Henry A. Gildersleeve. One hundred seventy six Veterans and recruits transferred to the 60th New York Infantry.