126th New York Infantry

The 126th New York Infantry, in the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 2d Corps, was positioned two hundred yards to the left on July 2d 1863 until 7 p.m., when the brigade moved thirteen hundred yards farther left and the regiment, with the 111th N.Y. and 125th N.Y., charged the enemy in the swale near the source of Plum Run, drove them out, and advanced one hundred and seventy five yards beyond toward the Emmitsburg Road to a position indicated on Sickles Avenue, then returned near its former position at dark. On the afternoon of July 3d it took this position and helped repulse the enemy's charge, capturing three stands of colors and many prisoners. The regiment reported 30 officers and 425 enlisted men engaged, with losses of 5 officers killed, 9 wounded, 35 enlisted men killed, 172 wounded, and 10 missing, for 455 engaged and 231 total losses. It participated in engagements including Harper's Ferry, Gettysburg, Auburn Ford, Bristoe Station, Mine Run, Morton's Ford, Wilderness, Po River, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomoy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains, Ream's Station, Boydton Plank Road, Sutherland's Station, Farmville, and Appomattox. Colonel Eliakim Sherrill, born February 16th 1813, died July 4th 1863; he had served as a member of Congress and State Senator, entered U.S. military service as colonel of the 126th N.Y. Infantry in 1862, and was mortally wounded on July 3d 1863 while commanding his brigade.

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