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Fifty-Ninth Newt York Infantry.
Hall's Brigade —
Gibbon's Division--Second Corps.
| Losses. | Officers. | En.
Men. | Total. |
| Killed and mortally wounded | 14 | 129 | 143 |
| Died of disease, accidents, etc. | | 65 | 65 |
| Died in Confederate prisons | | 62 | 62 |
| | | | |
| Totals | 14 | 256 | 270 |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| Battles. | Killed. | Wounded.1 | Missing.2 | Total. |
| Antietam, Md. | 48 | 153 | 23 | 224 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 5 | 39 | | 44 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 1 | 7 | 7 | 15 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. (4 cos.) | 6 | 28 | | 34 |
| Bristoe Station, Va. | | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Blackburn's Ford, Va., Oct. 15, 1863 | | 1 | | 1 |
| Mine Run, Va. | | | 1 | 1 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 2 | 8 | 4 | 14 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 4 | 23 | 5 | 32 |
| North Anna, and Totopotomoy, Va. | 5 | 27 | | 32 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | 9 | 27 | | 36 |
| Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 12 | 51 | 61 | 124 |
| Strawberry Plains, Va. | | 8 | 12 | 20 |
| Deep Bottom, Va. | | 18 | 5 | 23 |
| Ream's Station, Va. | | 4 | 37 | 41 |
| Boydton Road, Va. | 1 | 5 | | 6 |
| Farmville, Va. | | 2 | | 2 |
| | | | | |
| Totals | 93 | 406 | 157 | 656 |
Present, also, at
Malvern Hill (August 1862); Thoroughfare Gap (1863);
Williamsport;
Hatcher's Run;
High Bridge;
Appomattox.
notes.--Recruited in New York City, and in the counties of
Jefferson,
Lewis,
Putnam, and
Westchester.
It was organized at
Green Point (East New York) in October, 1861, leaving the
State on the 19th of November, following.
It was stationed for several months in the defences of
Washington, under
General Wadsworth, and remained there while the Army was on the
Peninsula; but in August, 1862, the Fifty-ninth joined
General McClellan's forces, which were then starting on their victorious
Maryland campaign, and was assigned to
Dana's (3d) Brigade,
Sedgwick's (2d) Division, Second Corps.
The regiment saw its first fighting at
Antietam, where it was engaged in
Sedgwick's bloody affair at the Dunker church.
It went into that action with 21 officers and 300 men, of whom 224 were killed or wounded.
Nine officers, including
Lieutenant-Colonel John L. Stetson, were killed or mortally wounded there, a loss of officers killed which was exceeded in only two other instances during the war; several other officers were wounded there, while seven of the eight
color corporals were either killed or disabled.
The regiment, becoming reduced in numbers, was consolidated into four companies in 1863, and took these four companies, only, into the fight at
Gettysburg.
It fought there in
Hall's Brigade of
Gibbon's (2d) Division;
Lieutenant-Colonel Max Thoman, commanding the regiment, was killed there.
The Fifty-ninth remained in the Second Division (
Gibbon's) until the end of the war.
General Alex. S. Webb commanded the brigade in the
Wilderness campaign and was wounded at
Spotsylvania.
He was succeeded by
Colonel H. B. McKeen who was killed at Cold Harbor.
Mustered out June 30, 1865.
