12th New York Infantry Regiment

12th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment Flag_of_New_York_(1778-1901).svg 150px May 8, 1861 to June 2, 1864 United States Union Infantry 778,Hillhouse 1862 11As reported back to Adjutant General Hillhouse upon departure from New York on June 27, 1861 720Hillhouse 1863 1034As reported back to Adjutant General Hillhouse, on December 31, 1862, 772Sprague, (1864), Vol. I, p. 7Sprague, (1864), Vol. II, p. 11As reported back to Adjutant General Sprague, on December 31, 1863 Onondaga Regiment, Independence Guard Model 1842 Springfield Muskets (.69 caliber, smoothbore and rifled)Hillhouse 1862 11 Hillhouse 1863 1034On 18 Sep 1861, 846 Harper's Ferry rifled Model 1842s, percussion locks from manufacture and rifled. As reported back to Adjutant General on December 31, 1863. This was the number turned in when issued Springfields., 1861,Mink, Armament in the Army of the Potomac, (2008), p.76Mink, Armament in the Army of the Potomac, (2018), pp.77-78 Model 1861 Springfield Rifles Battle of Blackburn's Ford First Battle of Bull Run Battle of Upton's Hill Siege of Yorktown Battle of Hanover Court House Seven Days Battles Battle of Gaines's Mill Battle of Malvern Hill Second Battle of Bull Run Battle of Antietam Battle of Shepherdstown Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville Battle of Gettysburg Bristoe Campaign Mine Run Campaign Battle of the Wilderness Battle of Spotsylvania Court House Battle of North Anna Battle of Totopotomoy Creek 120px 1st Division, V Corps New York U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 11th New York Infantry Regiment 13th New York Infantry Regiment The 12th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service 3 Month Service of the 12th New York State Militia The 12th New York Volunteer Infantry is sometimes confused with the 12th New York State Militia, a distinguished regiment formed in 1847 and which left New York City on April 21, 1861, for three months' service under the command of Colonel Daniel Butterfield.http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/12thNYSM/12thNYSMMain.htm 12th Regiment, New York National Guard :: New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center The 12th New York State Militia was not the same regiment as the 12th New York volunteers, though in February 1862 it did furnish a five-company battalion for the 12th Volunteers, and Henry A. Weeks of the militia regiment took command of the 12th Volunteers as a result. Remaining 12th New York militiamen stayed in New York City with their regiment, which was activated for federal service twice more during the war. Compounding the 12th Volunteers/12th Militia confusion is the fact that Butterfield at one point commanded the brigade in which the 12th New York Volunteers served. Also, as indicated by inscriptions on the 12th New York's monument at Gettysburg, at least some of its veterans considered the two 12th New York regiments to be one and the same.http://gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/union-monuments/new-york/new-york-infantry/12th-44th-new-york/ Monument to the 12th & 44th New York at Gettysburg 2 Year The 12th New York Volunteer Infantry was organized at Elmira, New York and mustered on May 8, 1861, for two years' state service under the command of Colonel Ezra L. Walrath. On May 13, 1861, the regiment was re-mustered for three months' federal service and again re-mustered on August 2, 1861, for two years' state service. The regiment was attached to Richardson's Brigade, Tyler's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia, June to August 1861. Richardson's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October 1861. Wadsworth's Brigade, McDowell's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862. Butterfield's 3rd Brigade, Porter's 1st Division, III Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, V Corps, to May 1863. Headquarters, V Corps, to June 1864. The 12th New York Infantry mustered out of the service on May 17, 1863. Men who had enlisted for three years' service were consolidated into two companies and served duty as Provost Guard for Headquarters of V Corps under the command of Captain Henry W. Ryder. These two companies ceased to exist on June 2, 1864, when their members were transferred to the 5th New York Infantry as Companies E and F. Although transferred to the 5th, the two former 12th New York companies remained on duty at corps headquarters. Affiliations, battle honors, detailed service, and casualties Organizational affiliation Attached to:Dyer 1908 1410 Federal Publishing Company 1908 56–57 Col. Richardson's Brigade, Brig. Gen. Tyler's Division, Brig. Gen. McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia, June to August, 1861 Richardson's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861 Brig. Gen. Wadsworth's Brigade, McDowell's Division, Army of the Potomac (AoP), to March, 1862 Brig. Gen. Butterfield's 3rd Brigade, Brig. Gen. Porter's 1st Division, III Corps, AoP, to May, 1862 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, V Corps, AoP, to May, 1863 Headquarters, V Corps, AoP, to June, 1864. List of battles The official list of battles in which the regiment bore a part:Dyer 1908 1410 Phisterer 1912 1874 40em Battle of Blackburn's Ford First Battle of Bull Run Battle of Upton's Hill Siege of Yorktown Battle of Hanover Court House Seven Days Battles Battle of Gaines's Mill Battle of Malvern Hill Second Battle of Bull Run Battle of Antietam Battle of Shepherdstown Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville Battle of Gettysburg Bristoe Campaign Mine Run Campaign Battle of the Wilderness Battle of Spotsylvania Court House Battle of North Anna Battle of Totopotomoy Creek Detailed service Detailed description as follows:Dyer 1908 1410 40em 1861 Left State for Washington, D.C., May 29 Duty in the defenses of Washington, D.C., until July 16, 1861 Advance on Manassas, Va., July 16–21 First Battle of Bull Run July 21 Upton's Hill August 27 Duty in the defenses of Washington, D.C. until March 10, 1862 1862 Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10 Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March 22–24 Warwick Road April 5 Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4 Before Yorktown April 11 Reconnaissance up the Pamunkey May 10 Reconnaissance to Hanover Court House May 26 Battle of Hanover Court House May 27 Operations about Hanover Court House May 27–29 Seven Days before Richmond June 25-July 1 Battle of Gaines's Mill July 27 White Oak Swamp and Turkey Bend June 30 Malvern Hill July 1 Duty at Harrison's Landing until August 16 Movement to Fort Monroe, then to Centreville August 16–28 Pope's Campaign in northern Virginia August 28-September 2 Second Battle of Bull Run August 30 Maryland Campaign September 6–22 Battle of Antietam September 16–17 Shepherdstown September 19 At Sharpsburg, Md., until October 30 Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19 Battle of Fredericksburg December 12–15 Expedition to Richard's and Ellis' Fords December 29–30 1863 "Mud March" January 20–24, 1863 At Falmouth until April Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6 Battle of Chancellorsville May 1–5 Participated in the Gettysburg Campaign June 11-July 24, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg July 1–3 Bristoe Campaign October 9–22 Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7–8 Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2 1864 Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 2 Battle of the Wilderness May 5–7 Spotsylvania May 8–12 Spotsylvania Court House May 12–21 North Anna River May 23–26 On line of the Pamunkey May 26–28 Totopotomoy May 28–31. Casualties The regiment lost a total of 124 men during service; 3 officers and 61 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 59 enlisted men died of disease. Armament Soldiers in the 12th were armed with 778 National Armory (NA)In government records, National Armory refers to one of three United States Armory and Arsenals, the Springfield Armory, the Harpers Ferry Armory, and the Rock Island Arsenal. Rifle-muskets, muskets, and rifles were manufactured in Springfield and Harper's Ferry before the war. When the Rebels destroyed the Harpers Ferry Armory early in the American Civil War and stole the machinery for the Confederate central government-run Richmond Armory, the Springfield Armory was briefly the only government manufacturer of arms, until the Rock Island Arsenal was established in 1862. During this time production ramped up to unprecedented levels ever seen in American manufacturing up until that time, with only 9,601 rifles manufactured in 1860, rising to a peak of 276,200 by 1864. These advancements would not only give the Union a decisive technological advantage over the Confederacy during the war but served as a precursor to the mass production manufacturing that contributed to the post-war Second Industrial Revolution and 20th century machine manufacturing capabilities. American historian Merritt Roe Smith has drawn comparisons between the early assembly machining of the Springfield rifles and the later production of the Ford Model T, with the latter having considerably more parts, but producing a similar numbers of units in the earliest years of the 1913–1915 automobile assembly line, indirectly due to mass production manufacturing advancements pioneered by the armory 50 years earlier. Smithsonian, Civil War symposium, (2012)NPS, Springfield Armory NHS, (2010) and contract manufactured Model 1842 Springfield Muskets smoothbore muskets drawn from state arsenals.The smoothbore version was produced without sights (except for a cast one on the barrel band). Using a Buck and Ball cartridge, the smoothbore version of the 1842 musket was very effective during the American Civil War.Davide Pedersoli, .69 Ball, Buck and Ball, and Buckshot Cartridges (2014) At some point in the fall of 1861, the regiment, like others in its division, exchanged the smoothbore muskets for newer Model 1861 Springfield rifled muskets at the Washington DC arsenal. By the end of the first full year of hard campaigning, the regimented returned 720 Model 1842 smoothbore percussion muskets to the Adjutant General.Hillhouse 1863 1034 By theFredericksburg, the regiment reported the following survey result to U.S. War Department:Mink, Armament in the Army of the Potomac, (2008), p.76Interestingly, G Company, the largest, still had the 1842 smoothbores at Fredericksburg. A — 34 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) B — 35 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) C — 33 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) D — 35 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) E — 41 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) F — 33 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) G — 86 Springfield Muskets, model 1842, NA and contract, (.69 Cal.) H — 35 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) I — 37 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) K — 33 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) At the end of the next quarter, just before the Chancellorsville campaign, the regiment reported the following:Mink, Armament in the Army of the Potomac, (2018), pp.77-78 A — 35 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) B — 37 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) C — 33 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) D — 41 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) E — 47 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) F — 38 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) G — 86 Springfield Muskets, model 1842, NA and contract, (.69 Cal.) H — 41 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) I — 33 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) K — 54 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) On April 23, D and E Companies on duty at V Corps headquarters reported: D — 76 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) E — 90 Springfield Rifled Muskets, model 1855, 1861, NA and contract, (.58 Cal.) Shoulder Arms Gallery Commanders Colonel Daniel Butterfield - commander of the three-month regiment Colonel Ezra L. Walrath - first commander of the two-year regiment Colonel George W. Snyder Colonel Henry A. Weeks - commanded the 12th New York battalion of three-year volunteers that joined the two-year regiment in the field, and commanded the two-year regiment as a result Colonel Benjamin A. Willis Major Henry W. Ryder - promoted from captain January 1, 1864 Notable members Captain George W. Cole, Company H - major general by brevet after commanding 2nd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment. Private Boston Corbett, Company I - later famous for shooting and killing John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln, while a Sergeant in the 16th New York Cavalry RegimentMartell, Scott (2015). The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, The Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, chapter 2. Corporal James E. Cross, Company K - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of Blackburn's Ford Surgeon Henry Draper, Company S from May 31 to October 8, 1862Hughes, Stefan. Catchers of the Light, Volume 1 - Catching Space, ArtDeCiel Publishing, 2012, pages 546-546. 978-1-4675-7993-3 Assistant Surgeon John Christopher Draper, Company S from May 31 to October 8, 1862 Private Charles F. Rand, Company K - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of Blackburn's Ford George Truesdellhttps://www.cga.ct.gov/hco/books/Obituary_Record_of_Grads_Yale_1936-1937.pdf Bulletin of Yale University: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1936–1937 December 1, 1937 New Haven, CT 72 [George] Frederick Truesdell, B.A. 1895. See also American Civil War New York (state) List of New York Civil War regiments New York in the Civil War References Footnotes 50em Citations Sources 50em Ballard Ted 2004 Staff Ride Guide: Battle of First Bull Run http://www.history.army.mil/StaffRide/1st%20Bull%20Run/Overview.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20071213201134/http://www.history.army.mil/StaffRide/1st%20Bull%20Run/Overview.htm dead December 13, 2007 United States Army Center of Military History Washington, DC en pdf December 17, 2007 Detzer David 2004 Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861 https://archive.org/details/donnybrookbattle0000detz/mode/2up Harcourt Orlando, FL 978-0-15-100889-6 54611165 2004005227 1st en pdf July 11, 2024 registration Dyer Frederick Henry Frederick H. Dyer A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Dyer Pub. Co. 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Adjutant General's Office Annual Reports of the Adjutant General of the State of New York January 15, 1862 Albany, NY 1034 en https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/application/files/6115/8014/6697/AG_Report_1861.pdf 2020-04-10 registration sn94095328 1040003486 Hillhouse Thomas Thomas Hillhouse (American politician) Adjutant General's Report, 1862 New York (State). 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Lyon Co., Printers Albany, NY Historical Sketch from New York at Gettysburg - 12th New York Infantry Regiment 5038994 1st en pdf 344–357 July 11, 2024 Phisterer Frederick Frederick Phisterer Seventh Regiment of Infantry - Sixty Ninth Regiment of Infantry J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers New York in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1865 3 3rd 1912 Albany, NY 1873–1887 en https://archive.org/details/phisterernewyork03fredrich/page/1873/mode/1up July 11, 2024 registration 14013311 1359922 PDF Sprague John T. Adjutant General's Report, 1863 I New York (State). Adjutant General's Office Annual Reports of the Adjutant General of the State of New York February 1, 1864 Albany, NY 1–672 en https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/application/files/5515/8014/6791/AG_Report_1863_v1.pdf registration sn94095328 1039942785 Sprague, (1864), Vol. I, p. 7 Sprague John T. Adjutant General's Report, 1863 II New York (State). Adjutant General's Office Annual Reports of the Adjutant General of the State of New York February 1, 1864 Albany, NY 1–672 en https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/research/AG_Reports/AG_Report_1863_v2.pdf 2020-04-10 registration sn94095328 1039942785 Sprague, (1864), Vol. II, p. 11 Tilney Robert 1912 My life in the army three years and a half with the Fifth army corps, Army of the Potomac 1862-1865 https://archive.org/details/mylifeinarmythre00tiln Ferris & Leach Philadelphia, PA 903483450 12012940 1st en pdf July 11, 2024 2016 Twelfth New York Infantry Regiment https://civilwarintheeast.com/us-regiments-batteries/new-york-regiments-and-batteries/12th-new-york/ December 17, 2020 The Civil War in the East Civil War in the East, Twelfth New York Infantry Regiment 2016 2016 12th Regiment Infantry "Onondaga Regiment" "Independence Guard" http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnyinf2.htm#2 December 17, 2020 The Civil War Archive CWA, 12th Regiment Infantry "Onondaga Regiment" "Independence Guard" 2016 Springfield Armory National Historic Site http://www.museum.nps.gov/spar/vfpcgi.exe?IDCFile=/spar/DETAILM.IDC,SPECIFIC=9341,DATABASE=29426021, NPS.gov National Park Service (US Govt) 13 September 2010 NPS, Springfield Armory NHS, (2010) June 2025 medicmedic https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=UNY0012RI Battle Unit Details, 12th Regiment, New York Infantry nps.gov January 19, 2007 U.S. National Park Service May 13, 2024 NPS 12th Regiment, New York Infantry 2007 12th Infantry Regiment: Onondaga County Regiment; The Dozen New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs 2019 https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/infantry/12th-infantry-regiment NYSMM, 12th Infantry Regiment (2019) July 11, 2024 12th Infantry Regiment: Civil War Historical Sketch from The 3rd Annual Report Of The Bureau Of Military Statistics New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs 2019 https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/index.php/?cID=2028 NYSMM, The 3rd Annual Report Of The Bureau Of Military Statistics (2019) July 11, 2024 https://www.davide-pedersoli.com/rivista-dettaglio.asp/l_fr/idne_89/69-ball-buck-and-ball-and-buckshot-cartridges-of-the-us-army.html .69 ball, buck and ball and buckshot cartridges of the U.S. Army Davide Pedersoli & C. www.davide-pedersoli.com dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140706060949/http://www.davide-pedersoli.com/rivista-dettaglio.asp/l_fr/idne_89/69-ball-buck-and-ball-and-buckshot-cartridges-of-the-us-army.html 2014-07-06 Davide Pedersoli, .69 Ball, Buck and Ball, and Buckshot Cartridges (2014) 12th New York, 1st Quarter 1864 Ordnance Survey Research Arsenal https://app.researcharsenal.com/imageSingleView/7893 subscription Research Arsenal, 1st Quarter 1864, 12th NYVI July 13, 2024 Merritt Roe Smith 9 November 2012 Northern Weapons Manufacturing during the Civil War; keynote address of the 2012 Smithsonian Institution's Technology and the Civil War symposium C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?309361-1/northern-weapons-manufacturing-civil-war&start=1340 C-SPAN Smithsonian, Civil War symposium, (2012) External links Monument to the 12th New York Infantry and 44th New York Infantry at Gettysburg Category:Military units and formations established in 1861 Category:1861 establishments in New York (state) Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1861 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1864 Infantry 012