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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.
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 Excelsior Brigade was a military unit in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Mainly composed of infantry regiments raised in the state of New York primarily by former U.S. Representative Daniel Sickles, the brigade served in several of the Army of the Potomac's most important battles in the Eastern Theater, including Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
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.)
The 42nd New York Infantry Regiment, also called the Tammany Regiment, was a regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War which was formed up in mid-1861 and mustered in on June 22, 1861. It was organized by the Tammany Club, a New York Democratic Party club.
A unit with the lineage of the 13th New York State Militia, also designated the 22nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, served in the Spanish–American War. [2] It mustered out on November 23, 1898. [3] On February 19, 1902, the regiment was converted into a regiment of engineers retaining its number. [3]
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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.