UNION NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS
3rd Regiment, New York Infantry
- Overview:
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Organized at Albany, N. Y., and mustered in May 14, 1861, for two years' service. Reorganized May, 1863. Left State for Fortress Monroe, Va., May 31, 1861, and duty there till July 30. Moved to Baltimore, Md., July 30, and duty there till June 6, 1862. Attached to Fort Monroe and Camp Hamilton, Va., Dept. of Virginia. to July, 1861. Dix's Command, Baltimore, Md., to June, 1862. Mansfield's Division, Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1862. Weber's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to September, 1862. Fortress Monroe, Va., Dept. of Virginia, to April, 1863. Suffolk, Va., 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept of Virginia, to July, 1863. Alvord's Brigade, Vodges' Division, Folly Island, S. C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South, to February, 1864. 2nd Brigade, Vodges' Division, Northern District Folly Island, 10th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, to May, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, to May, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, to June, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 24th Army Corps, to January, 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Terry's Provisional Corps, to March, 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, to August, 1865.
- Service:
- Action at Big Bethel, Va., June 10, 1861. Moved to Baltimore, Md., July 30, and duty there till June 6, 1862. Moved to Suffolk, Va., June 6, and duty there till September. Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va., and duty there till April, 1863. Moved to Suffolk April 19. Siege of Suffolk April 19-May 4. Siege of Suffolk raised May 4. (2 years' men mustered out May 21, 1863.) Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24-July 7. Expedition from White House to South Anna River July 1-7. Ordered to Folly Island, S. C. Action at Morris Island, S. C., August 3. Siege operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, S. C., and against Fort Sumpter and Charleston August 9-September 7. Bombardment of Fort Sumpter August 17-23. Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg September 7. Operations in Charleston Harbor against Forts Sumpter and Charleston September 8 to December 21. Bombardment of Fort Sumpter October 27-November 9. Duty on Folly Island, S. C., till April, 1864. Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Port Walthall May 7. Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 9-10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred May 16-28. Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 15-18. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16 to December 12, 1864. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30. Duty in the trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda front till September 27. Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28. In trenches before Richmond till December 7. Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C., December 7-27. 2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C., January 3-15, 1865. Assault on and capture of Fort Fisher, N. C., January 15. Sugar Loaf Battery February 11. Fort Anderson February 18-20. Capture of Wilmington February 22. Advance on Kinston and Goldsboro March 6-21. Duty in the Dept. of North Carolina till August. Mustered out August 25, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 36 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 83 Enlisted men by disease. Total 122.
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