38th New York Infantry Regiment | |
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Active | June 3, 1861, to June 22, 1863 [1] [2] [3] |
Country | United States |
Allegiance | Union |
Branch | Infantry |
Size | 939, [4] [note 1] 740 [5] [note 2] , 772 [6] [note 3] |
Nickname(s) | 2nd Scott Life Guard |
Equipment | Harpers Ferry rifles (.58 caliber, rifled) [7] , model 1855, 1861 Austrian Rifled Muskets [1] [8] |
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Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Col. J. H. Hobart Ward Col. James C. Strong Col. Régis de Trobriand |
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New York U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 | ||||
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The 38th New York Infantry Regiment was a two-year infantry regiment in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War.
The 38th New York Infantry was organized at New York city by Colonel J. H. Hobart Ward who was appointed by the State of New York May 25, 1861. It mustered in the United States service at East New York for two years, June 3 and 8 (Company I), 1861. The 18th Militia furnished men for one company. In September, 1861, ninety-seven men of the 4th Me. Volunteers were assigned to the regiment. December 21, 1862, the regiment was consolidated into six companies, A, B, C, D, E and F, and the same day the 55th New York Infantry Regiment, consolidated into four companies, joined by transfer, forming new Companies G, H, I and K of the regiment. June 3, 1863, the three years' men of the regiment, all in the four companies G, H, I and K, were transferred to the 40th New York Infantry Regiment, and became Companies A, E and H of the latter. [9]
The original companies were recruited principally:
The regiment left the State June 19, 1861 and returned to New York city to muster out on June 22, 1863.
The official list of battles in which the regiment bore a part: [11] [1] [2] [3]
Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 72 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 39 Enlisted men by disease. Total 117. [10] The regiment's bloodiest battles were First Bull Run, Williamsburg, Seven Days, and Fredericksburg. [13]
Soldiers in the 38th were initially armed with Model 1841 Mississippi rifles. [4] [note 4] These rifles had been manufactured by the Harper's Ferry Arsenal and by contract in 1844 in Windsor, Vermont by the Robbins and Lawrence Armory (R&L) [14] which had also made the 1855 modifications of increasing the bore to .58 and fitting them with a sword bayonet. [15] [note 5] On July 7, 1861, companies A through F exchanged these rifles for rifle-muskets at the Washington DC arsenal. [1] By the end of the first full year of hard campaigning, the regiment reported the following survey result to U.S. War Department: [8] [16]
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
The men of the regiment were initially issued the standard blue sack coats, sky blue infantry trousers, and the sky blue infantry winter overcoat.
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