The 22nd New York Infantry Regiment (not to be confused with the 22nd New York
National Guard
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) was a
volunteer regiment
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of the
Union Army in the
American Civil War
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.
History
The regiment was formed with 800 men in 1861 and was placed in a
brigade
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along with the
24th New York,
30th New York, 84th New York (
14th Brooklyn) (also known as the 14th New York State Militia), and for a number of months, the
2nd U.S. Sharpshooters (a regiment under the respected Colonel Henry A. V. Post). The brigade was the First Brigade in the
First Corps of the
Army of the Potomac, and Colonel
Walter Phelps and the regiments of the brigade referred to themselves as the
Iron Brigade of the East and served with the Division's more famous Fourth Brigade which would earn the title "
Iron Brigade of the West" in September 1862 during
Battle of South Mountain in the
Maryland Campaign.
Colonel
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Walter Phelps was chosen as the original commander of the regiment, and after his promotion to the brigade commander,
Major John McKie became regimental commander. The regiment suffered its first fatality when passing through
Baltimore
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, when a man was killed by
friendly fire during confusion among a mob. It would go on to serve in the Army of the Potomac's I Corps and
III Corps, and fight at the battles of
Second Bull Run,
South Mountain,
Antietam,
Fredericksburg, and
Chancellorsville.
The regiment was mustered out of service on June 19, 1863, and those men who had signed three-year enlistments were transferred to the
76th New York and
93rd New York.
Casualties
Casualties during the course of the war were as follows:
*Killed in action: 11 officers, 61 enlisted
*Died of disease: 1 officer, 27 enlisted
*Died as
POW: 1 enlisted
Spanish–American War unit
A unit with the lineage of the 13th New York State Militia, also designated the 22nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, served in the
Spanish–American War
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.
Gaines, William C., Historical Sketches Coast Artillery Regiments 1917-1950, National Guard Army Regiments 197-265, 245th Coast Artillery
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See also
* List of New York Civil War regiments
References
Citations
Sources
*Cunningham, Roger. '"Always a Storm Centre:" The Trials and Tribulations of Lt. Col. Asa Bird Gardiner.' The Journal of America's Military Past. (Fall, 2006) 5-28.
*Higley, Albert E. and Joan F. Aldous. The Civil War letters of Albert E. Higley. J.F. Aldous: 1986.
*McCoy, James. "Extracts from journal of Captain . . . Twenty-second regiment, New York state volunteers." In Fifth annual report of the New York state Bureau of military statistics, 1868, p. 544-59.
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1861 establishments in New York (state)
Military units and formations established in 1861
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