119th New York Infantry Regiment | |
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![]() 119th New York Infantry monument at Gettysburg Battlefield | |
Active | June 26, 1862 – June 7, 1865 [1] |
Country | United States |
Allegiance | Union |
Branch | Infantry |
Engagements | American Civil War
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Commanders | |
Colonel | Elias Peissner [2] |
Colonel | John Thomas Lockman [2] |
Lieutenant Colonel | Edward F. Lloyd [2] |
Insignia | |
2nd Division, XI Corps | ![]() |
2nd Division, XX Corps | ![]() |
New York U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 | ||||
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The 119th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Colonel Elias Peissner [3] [i] received authority, June 26, 1862, to recruit 119th New York Infantry was organized at New York City, [4] New York beginning June 26, 1862 and mustered in for three years service on September 4, 1862 under the command of Elias Peissner. The companies were recruited principally: [5]
The regiment was considered one of the German, or "Dutch," regiments in the XI Corps. The historian, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, joined it as regimental adjutant in November 1862, and wrote: "There are Germans who don't understand English, Frenchmen ditto, Swedes and Spaniards who don't understand anything, and Italians who are worse than all the rest together." [6] [ii]
The 119th was part of Hooker's command (XI and XII Corps) that transferred from the Army of the Potomac westward to reinforce the Army of the Cumberland around Chattanooga, Tennessee. [7] [iii] They then became the part of the Army of the Tennessee and remained with it until the end of the war.
The 119th New York Infantry mustered out of service June 8, 1865 near Bladensburg, Maryland. [8] Recruits and veterans were transferred to the 102nd New York Volunteer Infantry.
The regiment was attached to the following brigades: [1]
The official list of battles in which the regiment bore a part: [9]
The regiment lost a total of 166 men during service; six officers and 66 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, two officers and 92 enlisted men died of disease. [10] [4]