121st New York Infantry Regiment

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121st New York Infantry Regiment
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New York flag
ActiveAugust 23, 1862, to June 25th, 1865 [1]
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements American Civil War
Commanders
Colonel Richard Franchot
Colonel Emory Upton
Insignia
VI Corps (1st Division) badge VIcorpsbadge1.png
New York U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865
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Monument to the 121st Regiment at Gettysburg
Emory Upton EmoryUpton.jpg
Emory Upton

The 121st New York Infantry Regiment, commonly known as the "Onesers" or "Upton's Regulars", was a volunteer regiment recruited during the American Civil War from Otsego County and Herkimer County, New York. [2] The Hon. Richard Franchot was appointed colonel of the regiment and authorized to establish his headquarters at Richfield Springs, Otsego County. He proceeded without delay to organize the regiment, and on August 23, 1862, the regiment was mustered into the service of the Union Army. The command at that time consisted of 39 officers and 946 enlisted men. The 121st Regiment proceeded to Washington, arriving there on the morning of September 3, and was assigned provisionally to a brigade under Colonel Gibson with headquarters at Fort Lincoln.

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On the march to the South Mountain and Antietam battlefields the regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade, First Division, Sixth Corps and remained with the command during its entire term of service.

Colonel Richard Franchot resigned on September 25, 1862, and selected Colonel Emory Upton, at the time a first lieutenant in the Regular army, under whose command the regiment made a record second to none in the Army of the Potomac.[ citation needed ]

There is an interesting controversy concerning who captured Confederate Major General Custis Lee, son of Robert E. Lee, at the Battle of Sailor's Creek Virginia on April 6, 1865. Private Harris Hawthorn of the 121st New York claimed his capture and applied for and received the Medal of Honor for this act in the year 1894. The 37th Massachusetts Infantry disputed this award in the year 1897, claiming that Private David Dunnels White of their regiment was the actual captor of Major General Custis Lee. This entire matter is currently under review by the United States Army.

Organization

The companies were recruited principally from these towns and organized by region:

See also

Affiliations, battle honors, detailed service, and casualties

Organizational affiliation

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, VI Corps Division of the Potomac, to June, 1865. [3]

List of battles

The official list of battles in which the regiment bore a part: [3]

Detailed service

1862 [1]

1863 [1]

1864 [1]

  • Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15.
    • Battle of the Wilderness May 6–7;
    • Spotsylvania May 8–12;
    • Ny River May 10
    • Spotsylvania Court House May 12–21.
    • Assault on the Salient May 12.
  • North Anna River May 23–26.
  • On line of the Pamunkey May 26–28.
  • Totopotomoy May 28–31.
  • Cold Harbor June 1–12.
  • Before Petersburg June 16–18.
  • Second Battle of Petersburg June 16, 1864.
  • Jerusalem Plank Road June 22–23.
  • Moved to Washington, D. C, July 9–11.
  • Repulse of Early's attack on Fort Stevens and the Northern Defences of Washington July 11–12.
  • Expedition to Snicker's Gap July 14–23.
  • Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28.
  • Moved to Petersburg, Va., December 9–12.

1865 [1]

  • Siege of Petersburg December 12, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
    • Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5–7, 1865.
  • Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
  • Surrender of Lee and his army.
  • At Farmville and Burkesville till April 23.
  • March to Danville April 23–27 and duty there till May 24.
  • March to Richmond, thence to Washington, D. C, May 24-June 3.
  • Corps Review June 8.
  • Mustered out June 25, 1865.
  • Veterans and Recruits transferred to 65th New York Infantry.


Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Dyer (1908), p. 1452.
  2. Dyer (1908), p. 1452; Phisterer (1912), p. 3423.
  3. 1 2 Dyer (1908).
  4. Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga (1902), p. 829.

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