1st Vermont Infantry Regiment

1st Vermont Infantry Regiment 1st Vermont Infantry Regiment flag.jpg May 2, 1861 to August 15, 1861 August 15, 1861 USA 1861 United States United States Army Infantry American Civil War Battle of Big Bethel John W. Phelps Colonel Peter T. Washburn Lt. Col. Vermont U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 N/A 2nd Vermont Infantry Regiment The 1st Vermont Infantry Regiment was a three months' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the eastern theater, in and around Fortress Monroe, Virginia. History Responding to President Abraham Lincoln's call in mid-April 1861, for 75,000 men to serve for three months to help put down the rebellion, Governor Erastus Fairbanks ordered the recruitment of the regiment. The regiment was organized from militia companies from the following towns, as follows:Adjutant General 1892 5 A – Swanton B – Woodstock C – St. Albans D – Bradford E – Cavendish F – Northfield G – Brandon H – Burlington I – Middlebury K – Rutland Captain John W. Phelps, of Brattleboro, an 1836 graduate of the United States Military Academy, and a 23-year veteran of the regular army, was chosen to command the regiment and commissioned as a colonel.Benedict 1886 Vol. I 28 Militia Captain Peter T. Washburn of Woodstock, later Adjutant General and Governor of Vermont, was appointed lieutenant colonel.Benedict 1886 Vol. I 29 Among the officers were Roswell Farnham, William Y. W. Ripley, and Albert B. Jewett.Benedict 1886 Vol. I 30Haynes 72 The ten companies rendezvoused at Rutland, on May 2, 1861, and went into camp on the fairgrounds south of the city, called Camp Fairbanks, in honor of the governor. The regiment was mustered into United States service on May 8,Dyer 1908 42 and the next day departed for New York City, where it arrived on May 10.Benedict 1886 Vol. I 34 Rutland businessman Horace Henry Baxter, then serving as Adjutant General of the Vermont Militia, used personal funds to ensure that 1st Vermont soldiers were equipped and paid, and he rode at their head as they left Vermont. On May 11, the regiment embarked the steamer Alabama, and arrived at Fortress Monroe on May 13.Adjutant General 1892 5 On May 23, the regiment made the first reconnaissance upon Virginia soil by United States troops, marching six miles from Fortress Monroe to Hampton. On May 26, the regiment took the steamers Cataline and Monticello, up Hampton Roads to Newport News, where they made camp, which ended up being their home for the rest of its stay in Virginia. On June 10, five companies of the 1st Vermont, along with five companies of the 4th Massachusetts Infantry, were at the Battle of Big Bethel.Crockett 1921 Vol. III 509Dyer 1908 1094 On August 4, the regiment embarked the steamers Ben de Ford and . R. Spaulding, and sailed to New Haven, Connecticut, then took a train to Brattleboro, arriving there on August 9. The men were paid off and mustered out on August 15 and 16.Adjutant General 1892 6Crockett 1921 Vol. III 509 The regiment mustered in 38 officers and 743 enlisted men. One enlisted man was killed in action, four died of disease, and one died due to an accident. One officer resigned his commission, four enlisted men were discharged for disability, and two deserted. Five-sixths of the members of this regiment subsequently enlisted for three years. Two hundred and fifty served as field and line officers in Vermont and neighboring states' units. See also American Civil War Vermont Vermont in the Civil War Battle of Big Bethel Vermont National Guard Notes 40em References 60em Adjutant General Vermont Theodore S. Peck, BGEN Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and lists of Vermonters Who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-66 Press of the Watchman Publishing Co. 1892 Montpelier, VT 886 https://archive.org/details/cu31924080774148 302368404 Benedict George Grenville George Grenville Benedict Vermont in the Civil War, Chapter I - XX Free Press Association Vermont in the Civil War. A History of the part taken by the Vermont Soldiers And Sailors in the War For The Union, 1861-5 I 1886 Burlington, VT 674 https://archive.org/details/02209277.3300.emory.edu 2209277 Crockett Walter Hill Vermont The Green Mountain State, Chapter XXX-XXXIV The Century History Company, Inc. Vermont The Green Mountain State III 1921 New York, NY https://archive.org/details/vermontgreenmou02crocgoog 9412165 Coffin Howard Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil War Countryman Press 1995 Woodstock, VT 376 https://norwich.on.worldcat.org/oclc/42706499 9780881503494 42706499 Dyer Frederick H A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Dyer Pub. Co. Des Moines, IA 1908 B01BUFJ76Q https://archive.org/details/08697590.3359.emory.edu Haynes Edwin M. 1894 A History of the Tenth Regiment, Vt. Vols. https://archive.org/details/historyoftenthre03hayn/page/n121/mode/2up Rutland, VT The Tuttle Company Internet Archive Haynes U.S. Department of War Operations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Apr 16-Jul 31, 1861 U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC 1880 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies II-VIX 857196196 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924077730186 External links Vermont In The Civil War Vermont National Guard Library and Museum Vermont Military Records Project, Vermont Public Records Division CTCBS Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Vermont Category:1861 establishments in Vermont Category:Vermont in the American Civil War