The 98th New York Infantry Regiment was a unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
History
Regimental Organization Company A – recruited principally in Franklin County Company B – recruited principally in Franklin County Company C – recruited principally in Franklin County Company D – recruited principally in Franklin County Company E – recruited principally in Franklin County Company F – recruited principally in Wayne County Company G – recruited principally in Franklin County Company H – recruited principally in Franklin County Company I – recruited principally in Wayne County Company K – recruited principally in Wayne County
Time Line
Date Event January 25-February 8, 1862 Companies A, B, C, D, E, G and H organized at Malone, N.Y. and companies F, I and K organized at Lyons, N.Y. Organization completed at Albany, N.Y. March 8, 1862 Left State for Washington, D.C. under Colonel William Dutton, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Durkee and Major Albon Mann March 28, 1862 Moved to the Virginia Peninsula and attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac April 5-May 4, 1862 Siege of Yorktown, Va. April 29, 1862 Reconnaissance toward Lee's Mills May 5, 1862 Battle of Williamsburg May 21–23, 1862 Operations about Bottom's Bridge May 24–27, 1862 Reconnaissance to Seven Pines May 24, 1862 Chickahominy, near Savage Station, and Seven Pines May 31-June 1, 1862 Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks The regiment lost 11 men killed, 3 officers and 31 men wounded, and 26 men missing. June 1862 Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps June 25-July 1, 1862 Seven days before Richmond June 30, 1862 White Oak Swamp July 1, 1862 Malvern Hill July 1862 At Harrison's Landing. Assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps. Colonel Dutton died of typhus fever. Lieutenant Colonel Durkee was promoted to colonel and took over the regiment. August 16–23, 1862 Moved to Fortress Monroe September 18, 1862 Duty at Yorktown December 25, 1862 Moved to Morehead City, N. C. and assigned to Naglee's Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina January 1–21, 1863 At Carolina City and assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina January 28–31, 1863 Moved to Port Royal Harbor, S.C. February 10-April 3, 1863 At St. Helena Island, S.C., assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of the South. Colonel Durkee resigned, and Lieutenant Colonel Frederick M. Wead was promoted to colonel and took command of the regiment. April 3–11, 1863 Expedition against Charleston, S.C. assigned to District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina April 12–15, 1863 Moved to New Berne, N. C. April 17–21, 1863 Expedition to relief of Little Washington and duty in the District of Beaufort, N. C. October 16–18, 1863 Moved to Newport News, Va. attached to Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina December 1863 At Portsmouth, Va. January 1864 District of the Currituck, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina March–April 1864 Veterans on furlough March 1864 Assigned to 1st Brigade, Heckman's Division, 18th Army Corps April 26, 1864 Moved to Yorktown, Va. and assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James May 3–28, 1864 Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond The regiment lost 1 officer and 21 men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 57 men wounded, and 12 men missing. May 5, 1864 Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred May 8–10, 1864 Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 12–16, 1864 Operations against Fort Darling May 14–16, 1864 Battle of Drewry's Bluff May 16–28, 1864 Bermuda Hundred May 27–31, 1864 Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor June 1–12, 1864 Battles about Cold Harbor Colonel Wead, 1 other officer and 30 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 77 men wounded, and 3 men missing. Lieutenant Colonel William Kreutzer was commissioned as colonel, but the regiment did not have sufficient manpower for him to muster in. June 15–18, 1864 Before Petersburg The regiment lost 1 officer and 14 men killed or mortally wounded and 40 enlisted men wounded. June 18, 1864 Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin July 30, 1864 Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve) August–September 1864 Duty in the trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda Hundred front September 28–30, 1864 Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights The regiment lost 19 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 42 men wounded, and 1 man missing. October 27–28, 1864 Battle of Fair Oaks The regiment lost 3 men wounded. November 2–17, 1864 Detached for duty in New York during Presidential election of 1864 November 1864 Duty in trenches north of James and before Richmond December 1864 Assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps April 1865 Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps April 3, 1865 Occupation of Richmond and Provost duty in Richmond and in the Dept. of Virginia July 1865 Assigned to 2nd Independent Brigade, 24th Army Corps August 31, 1865 Mustered out at Richmond, Va. under Colonel Frederick F. Wead, Lieutenant Colonel William Kreutzer and Major William H. Rogers
Regiment losses
The 98th New York Infantry Regiment lost: by death and killed in action: 2 officers and 61 enlisted men of wounds received in action: 2 officers and 37 enlisted men of disease and other causes: 4 officers and 132 enlisted men total: 8 officers and 230 enlisted men aggregate: 238 of whom 22 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy
See also New York in the American Civil War List of New York Civil War regiments
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