Country United States Branch Infantry | Allegiance Union | |
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Active August 20, 1862, to June 4, 1865 Part of II Corps, Army of the Potomac Campaigns Gettysburg Campaign
Bristoe Campaign
Mine Run Campaign
Overland Campaign
Appomattox Campaign | ||
The 111th New York Infantry Regiment was organized at Auburn, New York, to answer the call by Abraham Lincoln for 300,000 more troops to fight in the American Civil War. Over the next three years, this regiment lost the fifth greatest number of men among all New York regiments.
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History
Jesse Segoine was authorized on July 18, 1862, to begin recruiting a regiment of men within the Cayuga and Wayne Counties, New York. As Segoine was able to raise the men, he received a commission of Colonel and commander of this, the 111th New York Infantry Regiment. The regiment was raised in almost a month's time, and mustered into service in Auburn, New York, on August 20, 1862.
Regimental organization
Company A – Principally recruited from Wayne County.
Company B – Principally recruited from Wayne County.
Company C – Principally recruited from Wayne County.
Company D – Principally recruited from Wayne County.
Company E – Principally recruited from Wayne County.
Company F – Principally recruited from Cayuga County
Company G – Principally recruited from Cayuga County.
Company H – Principally recruited from Cayuga County.
Company I – Principally recruited from Cayuga County.
Company K – Principally recruited from Cayuga County.
Time line
Gettysburg Campaign – June 25 – July 24, 1863
Two companies were left on guard at Accotink bridge, the remaining eight, numbering 390 men, joined the Second Corps on the march to Gettysburg.
Bristoe Campaign – October 9–22, 1863
Mine Run Campaign – November 26 – December 2, 1863
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James – May 3 – June 15, 1864
Appomattox Campaign – March 28 – April 9. 1865
The regiment lost 81 casualties in the last campaign of the war
Regiment losses
Over the 111th Regiment's time in service, total enrollment was 1,780 soldiers. Ten officers and 210 men were killed and mortally wounded in battle. The total of 220 men who were killed and died of wounds is only exceeded by four other New York regiments — the 69th, 40th, 48th and 121st. In the entire Union Army, that number is only exceeded by 24 other regiments. Disease and other causes took another 2 officers and 177 enlisted men. This raises the total sacrificed to reunite this nation to 404. It should be noted that 2 officers and 74 men died while in the confinment of Confederate prisons.