Commanding Officers
Dates in parentheses are known dates, but not start or ending dates.
- Colonel Abram S. Vosburgh, 1852–1861
- Colonel Henry P. Martin, 1861–1862
- Colonel Charles H. Smith, 1862–1863
- Colonel H.L. Trafford, 1863–1866
- Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Rafferty, Commanding Officer (1864), 71st New York Volunteers. Wounded in Action June 25, 1862 in Fair Oaks, VA. Promoted to lieutenant colonel on February 10, 1864.
- Colonel Theodore W. Parmalee, 1866–1869
- Colonel Henry Rockafeller, 1869–1871
- Colonel Richard Vose, 1871–1884
- Colonel Edwin A. McAlpin, 1885
- Colonel Frederick Kopper, 1891
- Colonel Francis Vinton Greene, 1891
- Colonel Johnathan T. Camp (1895)
- Lieutenant Colonel Wallace A. Downs (1898)-1899
- Colonel Walter Delamater (1936)
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