previous next

137th New York Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Binghampton, N. Y., and mustered in September 25, 1862.

Left State for Washington, D. C., September 25, 1862.

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862.

4th Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, October, 1862.

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1863, and Army of the Cumberland to April, 1864.

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.


Service.

Moved to Harper's Ferry, Va., September 27-30, 1862.

Duty at Bolivar Heights till December.

Reconnoissance to Rippon, W. Va., November 9.

Charlestown November 9.

Reconnoissance to Winchester December 2-6.

Charlestown and Berryville December 2.

March to Fredericksburg, Va., December 9-16.

At Fairfax Station till April 27, 1863.

“Mud March” January 20-24.

Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.

Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.

Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24.

Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3.

Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24.

Duty on line of the Rappahannock till September.

Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 4.

Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.

Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28-29.

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.

Lookout Mountain November 23-24.

Mission Ridge November 25.

Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27.

Duty at Bridgeport till May, 1864.

Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8.

Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.

Battle of Resaca May 14-15.

Near Cassville May 19.

Advance on Dallas May 22-25.

New Hope Church May 25.

Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 26-June 5.

Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.

Pine Hill June 11-14.

Lost Mountain June 15-17.

Gilgal or Golgotha Church June 15.

Muddy Creek June 17.

Noyes' Creek Juno 19.

Kolb's Farm June 22.

Assault on Kenesaw June 27.

Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.

Chattahoochie River July 5-17.

Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.

Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.

Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2.

Occupation of Atlanta September 2-November 15.

Expedition to Tuckum's Cross Roads October 26-29.

Near Atlanta November 9.

March to the sea November 15-December 10.

Near Davisboro November 28.

Siege of Savannah December 10-21.

Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.

Averysboro, N. C., March 16.

Battle of Bentonville March 19-21.

Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.

Advance on Raleigh April 9-13.

Occupation of Raleigh April 14.

Bennett's House April 26.

Surrender of Johnston and his army.

March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19.

Grand Review May 24.

Veterans and Recruits transferred to 102nd New York Infantry June 1.

Regiment mustered out June 9, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 121 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 163 Enlisted men by disease. Total 294.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Baker Lee (1)
Juno (1)
Johnston (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: