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The 2nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was recruited and organized in Troy, New York to serve two years [8] beginning on April 15, 1861. The regiment was originally raised to be commanded by New York native, George L. Willard [9] [note 5] serving in the 9th U.S. Infantry [10] who was offered the regiment on April 24.
165th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment "2nd Battalion Duryée's Zouaves" or "Smith's Zouaves" 166th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment: Failed to complete organization. Recruits were transferred to the 176th New York Volunteer Infantry on November 13, 1862. 167th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment: Failed to complete organization.
The 105th Infantry traces its origins to the 2nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, first formed in 1898. (An earlier 2nd New York Volunteer Infantry, known as the Troy Regiment, had served in the Civil War; this was a different regiment with no connection to the later 2nd.)
That regiment became part of the 1st Infantry through the consolidations of 1815. For the history about the original 2nd Infantry Regiment please refer to the page for the 1st Infantry Regiment. At the end of the War of 1812, an act of Congress dated 3 March 1815 reduced the size of the Regular Army to a maximum of 10,000 men. [2]
The regiment was raised in July 1862, and was finally organized at East New York by consolidating with the Thurlow Weed Guards as part of the Spinola Brigade, and nearly all the men recruited for the 53d N. Y. Volunteers, second organization; it was mustered in for three years October 4, 1862, at Washington, DC; June 15, 1865, the men not to be mustered out with the regiment were transferred ...
The 2nd New York Regiment was authorized on May 25, 1775, and formed at Albany from June 28 to August 4 for service with the Continental Army under the command of Colonel Goose Van Schaick. [1] The enlistments of the first establishment ended on December 31, 1775. [2] The second establishment of the regiment was authorized on January 19, 1776. [3]
The 2d Regiment Militia failing to be ordered to the front under the first call, organized in New York City as a regiment of volunteers, Col. G. W. B-. Tompkins, under special authority from the War Department; and was mustered in the service of the United States for three years at Washington, D. C, between May 20 and June 17, 1861.
The regiment was mustered into service in the autumn of 1861 at Fort Schuyler in New York [3] when the government approved the commissioning of an Irish Brigade. [4] Its men were gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey from the various Irish masses of those states. In the beginning, the 88th was not one regiment, but two.