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One Hundred and Twelfth New York Inf.--“Chautaugua Regt.”
Curtis's Brigade —
Ames's Division--Tenth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 3 | | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 16 |
| Company | A | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 12 | 12 | 144 |
| | B | | 7 | 7 | | 26 | 26 | 136 |
| | C | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 20 | 20 | 171 |
| | D | | 18 | 18 | | 14 | 14 | 146 |
| | E | | 14 | 14 | 1 | 26 | 27 | 154 |
| | F | | 12 | 12 | | 12 | 12 | 143 |
| | G | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 18 | 18 | 145 |
| | H | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 16 | 16 | 157 |
| | I | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 25 | 25 | 133 |
| | K | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 20 | 20 | 136 |
| Totals | 9 | 122 | 131 | 3 | 190 | 193 | 1,481 |
Total of killed and wounded, 451; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 23.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Deserted House, Va. | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 54 |
| Suffolk, Va. | 3 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 18 |
| Carrsville, Va. | 1 | Chaffin's Farm, Va. | 14 |
| Black's Island, S. C. | 1 | Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864 | 11 |
| Fort Wagner, S. C. | 2 | Hatcher's Run, Va. | 1 |
| Olustee, Fla. | 1 | Fort Fisher, N. C. | 15 |
| Proctor's Creek, Va. | 3 | Faissons, N. C. | 1 |
| Drewry's Bluff, Va. | 4 | Picket Line | 1 |
Present, also, at
Seabrook;
John's Island;
Petersburg Mine;
Cape Fear;
Fort Anderson;
Wilmington.
notes.--Upon its organization, the command of the regiment was tendered to
Colonel Drake, who was then a captain in the Forty-ninth New York Infantry.
He was a graduate of Rochester University, a clergyman, and had left the pastorate of a Baptist Church in
Westfield, N Y., at the first call for troops.
The One Hundred and Twelfth was organized at
Jamestown, N. Y., from companies raised in
Chautauqua county, and was mustered into the
United States service, September 1, 1862.
The regiment embarked, September 16, 1862, for
Fort Monroe, proceeding from there to
Suffolk, Va., where it sustained a severe loss by disease.
In June, 1863--then in
Foster's Brigade of
Getty's Division — the regiment marched up the
Peninsula on a campaign memorable for the heat and long, rapid marches.
In August, 1863, it went to
Folly Island, S. C., taking part in the operations about
Charleston Harbor; then, on February 23, 1864, sailed for
Florida, encamping at
Jacksonville until April 21st, when the
Division embarked for the battle-fields of
Virginia.
Arriving at
Yorktown, it was assigned to
Drake's (2d) Brigade,
Ames's (3d) Division, Tenth Corps, Army of the James, and soon after sailed up the
James River to
Bermuda Hundred, where it disembarked on the 6th of May.
Lieutenant-Colonel Carpienter, a very popular officer, was mortally wounded at
Drewry's Bluff (May 16th), and
Colonel Drake, who was in command of the brigade, was killed at Cold Harbor, where, in an assault, the regiment lost 28 killed, 140 wounded, and 12 missing. At Chaffin's Farm, its casualty list showed 6 killed, 38 wounded, and 16 missing; and at Darbytown Road, 4 killed, 28 wounded, and 3 missing. In December, 1864, it sailed with
Ames's Division to
Fort Fisher, N. C., where it took a prominent part in the assault on that stronghold, and where
Colonel Smith was killed.
