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157th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

157th New York Infantry Regiment

Colonel Philip P. Brown, Jr., received authority, August 13, 1862, to recruit this regiment in the then 23d Senatorial District of the State. It was organized at Hamilton, and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years September 19, 1862. June 22, 1865, the men not to be mustered out with the regiment were transferred to the 54th Infantry.

The companies were recruited principally:

A at Hamilton, Madison, Sherburne and Georgetown;
B at Oneida;
C at Hamilton, Cincinnatus, Marathon, Cuyler, Taylor, Willet, Solon, Freetown and Pitcher;
D at Scott, Preble and Homer;
E at Cortland, Virgil, Harford and Cortlandville;
F at Smyrna, Smithfield, Lebanon, Georgetown, Hamilton, Eaton and Madison;
G at Canastota, Lennox, Clockville, Wampsville, Oneida and Hamilton;
H at Homer, Truxton and Cortlandville;
I at Sullivan, Smithfield and Hamilton;
K at Cortlandville, Marathon, Harford, Freetown and Virgil.

The regiment left the State September 25, 1862.

Service dates are as follows:

From October, 1862 - 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 11th Corps
From July 13, 1863 - 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, nth Corps
From August, 1863 - 2nd Brigade, Gordon's Division, 10th Corps, on Folly and Morris Islands, S. C.,
From January, 1864 - in Schimmelpfenning's Division, 10th Corps
From February, 1864 - 1st Brigade, Ames' Division, 10th Corps, then in the District of Florida
From June 15, 1864 - at Beaufort
From September 5, 1864 - on Morris Island, S. C.
From October 22 to November 28, 1864 - at Fort Pulaski, Ga
From November 1864 - 1st, Potter's, Brigade, Coast Division, Department of the Gulf
From February 1865 - at Georgetown, S. C.
July 10, 1865 - Commanded by Col. James C. Carmichael, it was honorably discharged and mustered out at Charleston, S. C.

During the American Civil War the 157th guarded the "Immortal 600" Confederate officers at Fort Pulaski, GA. This was a special group of prisoners that were there for the "purpose of retaliation". Col. Brown and his men, though, treated the prisoners better than their orders specified and this led to an official reprimand for Col. Brown, much to the Confederates' dismay.

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