28th Regiment New York State Volunteer Infantry

The 28th Regiment New York State Volunteer Infantry, assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac, was organized at Albany, N.Y., on May 18, 1861, in response to the first call for volunteers and was mustered into United States service for two years on May 22, 1861. Ordered at once to the field, it served in the Shenandoah Valley and with the Army of the Potomac under Generals Patterson, Banks, Pope, McClellan, Burnside, and Hooker. A total of 1,010 were enrolled and total casualties reached 488. The regiment was mustered out at Lockport, N.Y., on June 2, 1863. At the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va., on Aug. 9, 1862, the regiment had 357 officers and men engaged and suffered 210 casualties: 57 killed and mortally wounded, 61 wounded, and 92 taken prisoner; every officer engaged was killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. Its other engagements and skirmishes included Martinsburg, Va., Point of Rocks, Va., Balls Bluff, Va., Winchester, Va., Columbia Furnace, Va., Banks Retreat, Va., Shenandoah Valley, Va., Manassas, Va., Antietam, Md., and Chancellorsville, Va.

Culpeper, Virginia · United States