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One Hundred and Forty-Sixth New York Infantry.
Ayres's Brigade —
Griffin's Division--Fifth 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 | 2 | | 2 | | | | 18 |
| Company | A | | 15 | 15 | | 14 | 14 | 174 |
| | B | 2 | 12 | 14 | | 23 | 23 | 181 |
| | C | | 10 | 10 | | 14 | 14 | 172 |
| | D | | 11 | 11 | | 22 | 22 | 173 |
| | E | 1 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 25 | 26 | 170 |
| | F | | 21 | 21 | | 22 | 22 | 180 |
| | G | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 13 | 13 | 151 |
| | H | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 13 | 13 | 152 |
| | I | | 10 | 10 | 1 | 22 | 23 | 170 |
| | K | | 10 | 10 | | 11 | 11 | 166 |
| Totals | 7 | 126 | 133 | 2 | 179 | 181 | 1,707 |
Total of Killed and wounded, 482; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 81.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 1 | Totopotomoy, Va. | 1 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 5 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 7 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 7 | Petersburg, Va. (assault, 1864） | 8 |
| Williamsport, Md. | 1 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 4 |
| Mine Run, Va. | 1 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 6 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 65 | White Oak Road, Va. | 13 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 7 | Five Forks, Va. | 5 |
| North Anna, Va. | 2 | | |
Present, also, at Rappahannock Station; Bristoe Station;
White Oak Swamp (1864);
Hatcher's Run; Chapel House;
Appomattox.
notes.--Recruited in
Oneida county, and organized at
Rome, N. Y. It was mustered into the service of the
United States on October 10, 1862, and proceeded immediately to
Washington.
In November, 1862, it joined the Army of the Potomac at Snicker's Gap, Va., where it was assigned to
Warren's Brigade,
Sykes's Division, Fifth Corps, a division composed mostly of regulars.
It marched with them to
Fredericksburg, where it participated in its first battle.
When the
Duryee Zouaves were mustered out, in May, 1863, the recruits of that famous regiment were transferred to the One Hundred and Forty-sixth; they numbered 283 men, and were a valuable accession.
In 1864, a similar transfer was made from the Forty-fourth New York when this regiment went home.
The regiment encountered its severest fighting at the
battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, where it suffered a terrible loss, not only in killed and wounded, but in captured men, nearly 200 having been taken prisoners.
Colonel Jenkins and
Major Henry H. Curran were killed in that bloody encounter, while the total loss of the regiment was 20 killed, 6 7 wounded, and 225 captured or missing. In 1865, the regiment was in
Winthrop's (1st) Brigade,
Ayres's (2d) Division, and was prominently engaged in that command at the battles of White Oak Road, and
Five Forks,
General Winthrop being killed in the latter engagement while leading a successful charge of the brigade.
The One Hundred and Forty-sixth was well drilled, and at one time wore a conspicuous Zouave uniform.
General Joseph Hayes, its last brigade commander, in taking leave of the regiment wrote,--that “associated for a long time with the infantry of the
Regular Army, the infantry of the
Regular Army, the One Hundred and Forty-sixth yields the palm to none.”
The war having ended, the regiment was mustered out of service July 16, 1865.
