132nd New York Infantry Regiment

132nd New York Infantry Regiment Flag_of_New_York_(1778-1901).svg 250px October 4, 1862 (mustered in) to June 29, 1865 (mustered out) United States 1861 Union Infantry Battle of New Bern (1864)Carolinas campaign Battle of Wyse Fork 50px 5th Division, XVIII Corps 50px 2nd Division, XXIII CorpsNew York U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 131st New York Infantry Regiment 133rd New York Infantry Regiment The 132nd New York Infantry Regiment, the "Second Regiment, Spinola's Empire Brigade"; or "Hillhouse Light Infantry", was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service 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 to the 99th Infantry. The companies were recruited principally: A at New York City, Brooklyn and Newtown; B, F, I and K at New York City, Brooklyn and Staten Island; C and E at New York City; D at Brooklyn, Buffalo, Lewiston and the reservations of the Allegany, Cattaraugus and Tuscarora Indians; G at Suspension Bridge, Buffalo, New York City and Brooklyn; and H at New York city, Harlem, Buffalo and Kingston. The regiment left the state and served at and near Washington from September, 1862; at Norfolk, Virginia, then Suffolk, Virginia, from October, 1862; in the 1st Spinola Brigade, 5th Division, 18th Corps, from December, 1862; in the 2d Brigade, 5th Division, 18th Corps, from March, 1863; unattached, on outpost duty, near New Bern, North Carolina, from May, 1863; in Palmer's Brigade, Peck's Division, 18th Corps, from January, 1864; in Department of Virginia and North Carolina, from April, 1864; in the Provisional Corps, North Carolina, from March I, 1865; in the 1st Brigade, 2d Division, 23d Corps, from April 2, 1865; at Salisbury, North Carolina, from May, 1865; and was honorably discharged and mustered out, June 29, 1865, at Salisbury.https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/infantry-2/132nd-infantry-regiment 132nd Infantry Regiment New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center The regiment spent nearly its entire term of service in North Carolina, engaged in outpost and garrison duty. The regiment took part in engagements at various locations in the state, and in the Carolinas campaign at Wise's Forks, Snow Hill, and Bennett's House. The regiment sustained its worst losses at the battle of New Bern in February, 1864, when it lost 91 killed, wounded and missing. During this battle, three companies defended the bridge on Bachelor's Creek (a tributary of the Neuse River) against three successive attacks of the enemy, but were finally forced to retire when the enemy was reinforced, after 4 hours of hard fighting. The 132nd is credited with saving New Bern from capture on this occasion. Lieut. Arnold Zenette, the only commissioned officer killed, fell in this action. At the battle of Wise's Forks the regiment lost 24 killed, wounded and missing. Company D was known as the Tuscarora Company, being led by Lieutenant Cornelius C. Cusick, a chief of the Tuscarora.https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/army-logic-tuscarora-company-civil-war Army Logic: The Tuscarora Company in the Civil War NMAI Magazine Total strength and casualties The regiment left the state about 900 strong; during its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 1 officer, 6 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 7 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 1 officer, 159 enlisted men; total, 2 officers, 172 enlisted men; aggregate, 174; of whom 71 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy, and 28 through the accidental explosion of torpedoes at Bachelor's Creek, North Carolina, May 26, 1864. Among the troops were a number of men of color enlisted as cooks in 1863 and 1864 at New Berne, N.C.https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/application/files/6915/5310/0299/132nd_Infantry_CW_Roster.pdf 132nd Infantry Unit Roster Commanders Colonel Peter J. Claassen Lieutenant Colonel Charles E. Prescott Lieutenant Colonel George H. Hitchcock See also American Civil War United States List of New York Civil War regiments Battle of New Bern (1864) Carolinas campaign Battle of Wyse Fork Notes 40em References The Civil War Archive External links New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center - Civil War - 132nd Infantry Regiment History, photographs, table of battles and casualties, and historical sketch for the 132nd New York Infantry Regiment Civil War in the East 132nd New York Infantry Regiment "2nd Regiment Empire Brigade " National Park Service Regiment Details UNION NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS Headquarters, Outposts, Bachelor's Creek Near New Bern, NC Pencil sketch done in 1863 by its commander, George H. Hitchcock Account of the Battle of Bachelor’s Creek, NC with sketch by American Indian Union officer #cw150 CTCBS Infantry 132 Category:1862 establishments in New York (state) Category:Military units and formations established in 1862 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865