Mustered in: October 30, 1861
Mustered out: July 17, 1865.
Colonel Charles R. Brundage, 33d State Militia,
received authority, July 5, 1861, to organize a regiment of infantry, of which
his regiment of militia should and did form the nucleus. The regiment was
organized at Ogdensburg October 25, 1861; it received its numerical designation;
and, October 30, 1861, Col. Wm. B. Hayward having succeeded Colonel Brundage, it
was mustered in the service of the United States for three years. At the
expiration of its term of service, the men entitled thereto were discharged and
the. regiment retained in service. In June, 1865, the enlisted men of the 107th,
136th and 150th Infantries, not mustered out with their regiment, joined this by
transfer.
The companies were recruited principally: A at Canton,
Hermon, Potsdam, Russell, Madrid, Colton, Parishville and Gouverneur; B at
Gouverneur, Macomb and DePeyster; C at Hammond, Morristown, Oswegatchie,
Edwards, Rossie, Russell and Fowler; D at Russell, Edwards, Pierrepont and
Canton; E at Malone, Bangor and Brandon; F at Ogdensburg and Heuvelton; G at
Madrid, Waddington, Louisville, Massena and Norfolk; H at Champlain, Mooers,
Ellenburgh, Altona, Chazy, Saranac and Lisbon; I at Lawrence, Stockholm and
Brasher; and K at Stockholm and Richville.
The regiment left the State November 4, 1861; served
between Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D. C., from November, 1861; under
General Dix in the so-called Railroad Brigade, at Baltimore and Relay House,
Md., from March, 1862; in 2d Brigade, Sigel's Division, Department of
Shenandoah, from June, 1862; in 3d Brigade, 2d Division, 2d Corps, Army of
Virginia, from June 26, 1862; in same brigade and division, 12th Corps, Army of
the Potomac, from September 12, 1862; in 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 12th Corps,
Army of the Potomac, from October, 1862; in 3d Brigade, 2d Division, I2th Corps,
Army of the Potomac, from April, 1863; on veteran furlough in December, 1863,
and January, 1864; in 3d Brigade, 2d Division, 20th Corps, from April, 1864; in
3d Brigade, Bartlett's Division, 22d Corps, from June, 1865; and, commanded by
Col. Lester S. Willson, it was honorably discharged and mustered out, July 17,
1865, at Alexandria, Va.
During its service the regiment lost by death, killed
in action, 2 officers, 37 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 1 officer,
27 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 5 officers, 96 enlisted men;
total, 8 officers, 160 enlisted men; aggregate, 168; of whom 3 enlisted men died
in the hands of the enemy.
Battles and Casualties Table from Phisterer
Monument at Gettysburg
Historical Sketch
Civil War Newspaper Clippings
Further reading
Cubbison, Douglas R. ""A Badge of Honor": the
Twelfth Corps Badge of Teamster Charles A. Severance." Military Collector and
Historian. V47 N2 (Summer 1995) pp. 90-92.
Eddy, Richard. History of the Sixtieth
regiment, New York state volunteers, from the commencement of its organization
in July, 1861, to its public reception at Ogdensburg as a veteran command,
January 7th, 1864. Philadelphia: [Crissy & Markley, printers], 1864.
Jones, Jesse H. "The breastworks at Culp's hill."
BandL III 316-17.
Meritt, Edwin Atkins. Recollections, 1828-1911.
Albany: J. B. Lyon co., printers, 1911.
Whittier, Edward, "The
Left Attack (Ewell's), Gettysburg." by Brevet Captain
Edward N. Whittier, U.S.V. Fifth Maine Battery. A Paper Prepared and Read before
the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, (MOLLUS) February 10, 1891.
