28th New York Infantry Regiment

The 28th New York Infantry Regiment, the "Niagara Rifles" or "Scott Life Guard", was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

28th New York Infantry Regiment
ActiveMay 22, 1861, to June 2, 1863
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
EngagementsBattle of Winchester
Battle of Cedar Mountain
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Chancellorsville
New York U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865
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28th New York Volunteer Infantry Memorial at Culpeper National Cemetery, 1902

Service

The regiment was organized in Albany, New York, and was mustered in for a two-year enlistment on May 22, 1861.

The regiment sailed aboard the steamship Star of the South from New York Harbor for Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1861.[1] It arrived there four days later after a brief stop in Annapolis, Maryland.[2]

The regiment was mustered out of service on June 2, 1863, and those men who had signed three year enlistments or who re-enlisted were transferred to the 60th New York.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 2 officers and 46 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 50 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 98 fatalities.[3] Private Isaac Sly, of Lockport, was the first man killed in this regiment. He was shot in the skirmish near Martinsburg on July 11, 1861.

Commanders

See also

Notes
  1. "Movements of Troops and Vessels". Springfield Republican. May 3, 1861.
  2. "The Latest From Baltimore". Press. May 7, 1861.
  3. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnyinf3.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

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