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Ninety-Seventh New York Infantry--“Conkling Rifles.”
Baxter's Brigade —
Robinson's Division--First 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 | 1 | | 1 | 19 |
| Company | A | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 15 | 15 | 187 |
| | B | | 17 | 17 | | 14 | 14 | 201 |
| | C | | 13 | 13 | | 15 | 15 | 215 |
| | D | 3 | 15 | 18 | | 11 | 11 | 222 |
| | E | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 16 | 16 | 189 |
| | F | 1 | 26 | 27 | | 14 | 14 | 222 |
| | G | 2 | 16 | 18 | | 13 | 13 | 204 |
| | H | 2 | 17 | 19 | | 19 | 19 | 220 |
| | I | | 16 | 16 | | 23 | 23 | 207 |
| | K | 1 | 25 | 26 | | 16 | 16 | 219 |
| Totals | 12 | 169 | 181 | 1 | 156 | 157 | 2,105 |
Total of killed and wounded, 704; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 51.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Manassas, Va. | 15 | White Oak Swamp, Va. (1864） | 1 |
| South Mountain, Md. | 3 | Petersburg, Va. (assault, 1864） | 12 |
| Antietam, Md. | 37 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 16 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 6 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 10 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 16 | Hatcher's Run, Va. | 8 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 25 | Gravelly Run, Va. | 2 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 14 | Five Forks, Va. | 3 |
| North Anna, Va. | 1 | Picket Line, Va. | 1 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | 11 | | |
Present, also, at
Cedar Mountain;
Rappahannock; Thoroughfare Gap;
Chancellorsville;
Mine Run;
Totopotomoy; White Oak Road;
Appomattox.
notes.--Known also as the Third
Oneida, being composed almost wholly of men from
Oneida and
Herkimer counties.
It was mustered in at
Boonville, N. Y., on February 19, 1862, leaving that place on March 12th.
It arrived at the
National Capital on the 20th, where it went into camp at Fort Corcoran.
In April, 1862, it was assigned to
Duryee's Brigade, and in May took the field with
Ricketts's Division of
McDowell's Corps.
The Ninety-seventh was under fire at
Cedar Mountain and at
Rappahannock, losing a few wounded men in those engagements; but at
Manassas, under command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Spofford, it was actively engaged, losing 7 killed, 42 wounded, and 62 captured or missing; total, 111.
The regiment suffered its severest loss at
Antietam, where it was commanded by
Major Northrup, its casualties in that action amounting to 24 killed, 74 wounded, and 9 missing; total, 107.
The Ninety-seventh--then in
Robinson's Division,
Baxter's Brigade — made a gallant and successful charge at
Gettysburg, capturing the colors of the Twentieth North Carolina and 382 men. Its loss in that battle was 12 killed, 36 wounded, and 78 missing or captured.
The regiment was transferred to the Fifth Corps in March, 1864, and served afterwards in that corps until the end of the war. It was hotly engaged at the
battle of the Wilderness, in which it lost 15 killed, 71 wounded, and 13 missing; and at
Spotsylvania, where it lost 6 killed, 67 wounded, and 2 missing. In its various battles two color-bearers were killed and three wounded, while twenty more were killed or wounded in the color-guard.
The Ninety-seventh served in the Second Division (First Corps), known successively as
Ricketts's,
Gibbon's,
Robinson's, and
Crawford's (5th A. C.).
