Contents:

• Organized
• Companies
• Engagements
• Closing

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Organized:  

  November 14, 1861 at Auburn, New York.

Companies:

  Men were recruited principally in the counties of Cayuga &
  Seneca into Companies A through I.  Company K joined the
  regiment June, 1862.  In April, 1864 Company K was again
  organized to take the place of the one consolidated with
  the other companies April, 1864.  The men entitled to be
  discharged at the expiration of the term of service were,
  in November, 1864, ordered to Auburn, and there honorably
  discharged December, 1864.  The regiment was continued in
  service, but consolidated into a battalion of five com-
  panies, A through E; Company H transferred to A; I to B;
  K to C; G to D; and F to E.  In April, 1865, the 31st
  Independent Company of Infantry joined the battalion as
  its Company F.


Engagements:

  Date      Engagement/Comment
  ________  __________________________________________________

  1861

  11/14     Organized at Auburn, New York
  12        Served at Santa Rosa Isl & Ft Pickens, Florida

  1862
 
  01/01     Ft McRee & Ft Barancas, Florida
  05/09     Ft Pickens & Pensacola, Florida
              1 wounded
  05/28     Fair Oaks, Florida
  09        Department of the Gulf
  10/25     Donaldsonville, Louisiana
  10/27     Georgia Landing, Louisiana
              1 killed, 1 captured or missing

  1863

  01/14     Gunboat Cotton, Bayou Teche, Louisiana
              4 killed, 20 wounded
  03/14-15  Operations against Port Hudson, Louisiana
  04/12-13  Fort Bisland, Louisiana 
              4 killed, 13 wounded
  05/23     Seige of Port Hudson, Louisiana, from May through
            June a total of 40 died, 59 wounded, 4 captured or
            missing;
  05/27      16 killed - 1st assault
  06/14      24 killed - 2nd assualt
          
  09/08     Sabine Pass, Texas
              9 killed, 4 wounded, 72 captured or missing

  1864

  03        Red River Campaign, March through May
  04/02     Crump's Hill, 1 wounded
  04/07     Pleasant Hill
  04/28     Above Alexandria, 1 killed, 2 wounded
  06/04     Army of the James
  07/21     Before Richmond, Virginia
  08/23-24  Halltown, Virginia, 1 wounded
  09/19     Opequon, Virginia
             24 killed, 40 wounded, 9 captured or missing
  10/19     Cedar Creek, Virginia
              7 killed, 16 wounded, 32 captured or missing
  11/19     Ordered to Auburn, New York

  1865

            Department of Georgia
  01/11     Savannah, Georgia
  08/31     Mustered out at Savannah, Georgia.

Closing:

  The regiment lost by death, 53 killed in action, 43 of
  wounds, 109 of disease and other causes.  Captured or
  missing, 118.  Wounded, 155.