64th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 64th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the "First Cattaraugus Regiment", was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

64th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry
Active	December, 1861 (mustered in) to July 14, 1865 (mustered out)
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Battle of Yorktown Battle of Fair Oaks Seven Days' Battles Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Bristoe Station Mine Run Campaign Battle of the Wilderness Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse Battle of Cold Harbor Siege of Petersburg Battle of Deep Bottom Appomattox Campaign Battle of Farmville (Cumberland Church) Battle of Appomattox Court House
Insignia
1st Division, II Corps

Monument to the 64th New York Volunteer Infantry at Gettysburg

Service

The regiment was organized on November 13, 1861 by the state of New York. Since December 1861, it was in the federal service. It left the state on December 10 of the same year. In 1864, its term expired, the servicemen were discharged in September and October that year, and the regiment was reorganized into a battalion of six companies, for which new people were recruited. The regiment was finally honorably discharged on July 14, 1865. It lost in total 18 officers and 283 enlisted men.[1]

Between December 1861 and July 1865, the regiment was a part of the Army of the Potomac.

Commanders

• Colonel Thomas J. Parker
• Colonel Daniel C. Bingham
• Colonel Leman W. Bradley
• Colonel William Glenny

See also

• List of New York Civil War regiments

Notes

1. "64th Infantry Regiment Civil War First Cattaraugus Regiment". New York State Military Museum. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

References

• The Civil War Archive

External links

• National Park Service UNION NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS 64th Regiment, New York Infantry
• Antietam on the Web Federal Regiment64th New York Infantry