Twenty-eighth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry Memorial at Culpeper National Cemetery

The 28th New York Infantry Regiment, the "Niagara Rifles" or "Scott Life Guard", was an

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that served in the

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Service

The regiment was organized in

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, and was mustered in for a two-year enlistment on May 22, 1861. The regiment sailed aboard the steamship ''

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'' from New York Harbor for

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, on May 2, 1861. It arrived there four days later after a brief stop in

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. The regiment was mustered out of service on June 2, 1863, and those men who had signed three-year enlistments or re-enlisted were transferred to the 60th New York.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 2 officers and 46 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded, and 50 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 98 fatalities.http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnyinf3.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Private Isaac Sly of Lockport was the first man killed in this regiment. He was shot in the skirmish near Martinsburg on July 11, 1861.

Commanders

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Dudley Donnelly Until Killed at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862 *

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Edwin Franklin Brown as Lieutenant Colonel He Served until August 9th at Cedar mountain Until wounded, which saw his arm Amputated, then while in the hospital He was Captured Exchanged In October 1862 then he resumed command as Newly Promoted Colonel to the unit Mustered out. *

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William H. H. Mapes Commanded the Regiment at Antietam, The unit had about 65 men in it at the time.

Notes

References

The Civil War Archive

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