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One Hundred and Seventieth New York Infantry.
Murphy's Brigade —
Gibbon's Division--Second 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 | 1 | | 1 | | | | 15 |
| Company | A | | 13 | 13 | | 10 | 10 | 107 |
| | B | 1 | 17 | 18 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 127 |
| | C | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 8 | 8 | 93 |
| | D | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 10 | 10 | 92 |
| | E | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 11 | 11 | 96 |
| | F | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 12 | 12 | 89 |
| | G | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 8 | 8 | 100 |
| | H | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 9 | 9 | 96 |
| | I | | 13 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 87 |
| | K | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 10 | 10 | 100 |
| Totals | 10 | 119 | 129 | 2 | 96 | 98 | 1,002 |
129 killed == 12.8 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 481; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 48.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Suffolk, Va. | 2 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 11 |
| Carrsville, Va. | 1 | Weldon Railroad, Va., June 22, 1864 | 6 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 18, 1864 | 12 | Deep Bottom, Va. | 3 |
| North Anna, Va. | 43 | Ream's Station, Va. | 8 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | 4 | Boydton Road, Va. | 1 |
| Petersburg, Va., June 16-18, 1864 | 36 | Hatcher's Run, Va. | 2 |
Present, also, at Deserted House;
Suffolk; Edenton Road;
Totopotomoy; Strawberry Plains; Vaughn Road;
Farmville;
Appomattox.
notes.--When
General Corcoran returned from his year of imprisonment in
Richmond, he raised the brigade of Irish regiments known as the
Corcoran Legion, composed of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth, One Hundred and Seventieth, and One Hundred and Eighty-second (Sixty-ninth N. Y. S. M.) New York regiments.
The One Hundred and Seventieth was recruited in New York and
Brooklyn, and was mustered in at
Staten Island on October 7, 1862.
It embarked for
Fort Monroe in November, and after a few weeks' service on the
Peninsula went to
Suffolk.
It was actively engaged in the defence of
Suffolk, at which time the Legion was commanded by
Colonel Murphy, of the Sixty-ninth N. Y. S. M., and the division by
General Corcoran--the First Division, Seventh Corps.
It remained on duty in that vicinity until July, 1863, when the Legion (
General Corcoran commanding) was ordered to
Washington, where it performed garrison and outpost duty.
In May, 1864, it was transferred to the Army of the Potomac, and placed in
Gibbon's (2d) Division of the Second Corps, the Legion, under command of
Colonel Murphy, arriving just in time to take part in the closing battles around
Spotsylvania.
At the
North Anna the One Hundred and Seventieth encountered a severe musketry fire, its casualty list there being the largest of any regiment in that battle: loss, 22 killed, 55 wounded, and 22 missing; total, 99.
It met with another heavy loss at
Petersburg, June 16-22, 1864, where its casualties amounted to 22 killed, 111 wounded, and 3 missing; total, 136.
Most of this loss occurred in the assault of June 16.
The regiment was again hotly engaged at Ream's Station, where
Major Donnelly was killed.
From June, 1864, until the close of the war, the Legion, together with the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery, formed the Second Brigade of the Second Division, Second Corps.
