Regular Army Direct Ancestor

[Cdoug96]

This guy here is my 3rd Great-grandfather, and I would like to know more about what the Regulars did the war, but I am having a hard time finding anything on them (other than a regimental "history" which is rather lacking in content). Can someone point me to more resources?

Sgt. William Myers (1832 - 1912)
Relationship: great, great, great grandfather

Regiments: 10th United States Infantry (Company I) and 26th New York Cavalry (Company G)
Rank: Pvt., 1st Sergeant
Enlisted in the 10th United States Infantry: 4 May 1855
Mustered out: 22 November 1862, for disability
Reenlisted in the 26th New York Cavalry: January 28, 1865
Mustered out: July 6, 1865
Burial: Soldiers Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Probable Actions:

10th US Infantry: Duty in Defences of Washington, D.C., till March, 1862. Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March, 1862. Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Gaines' Mill June 27; Turkey Bridge June 30; Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 28-September 2. Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Battle of Antietam September 16-17. Shepherdstown Ford September 19-20, Wounded Here?????

26th Cav.: Organized for one year's service on the Northern Frontier of New York. Company "G" organized at Plattsburg, N. Y., and mustered in February 11, 1865. Mustered out at Plattsburg, N. Y., July 6, 1865.

 

[Cdoug96]

Bump.

 

[rpkennedy]

I would take a look at Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War by Clayton Newell and Edward Coffman.

Another possible source might be Sykes' Regular Infantry Division, 1861-1864: A History of Regular United States Infantry Operations in the Civil War's Eastern Theater by Timothy Reese.

Ryan

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

This guy here is my 3rd Great-grandfather, and I would like to know more about what the Regulars did the war, but I am having a hard time finding anything on them (other than a regimental "history" which is rather lacking in content). Can someone point me to more resources?

Sgt. William Myers (1832 - 1912)
Relationship: great, great, great grandfather

Regiments: 10th United States Infantry (Company I) and 26th New York Cavalry (Company G)
Rank: Pvt., 1st Sergeant
Enlisted in the 10th United States Infantry: 4 May 1855
Mustered out: 22 November 1862, for disability
Reenlisted in the 26th New York Cavalry: January 28, 1865
Mustered out: July 6, 1865
Burial: Soldiers Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Probable Actions:

10th US Infantry: Duty in Defences of Washington, D.C., till March, 1862. Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March, 1862. Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Gaines' Mill June 27; Turkey Bridge June 30; Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 28-September 2. Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Battle of Antietam September 16-17. Shepherdstown Ford September 19-20, Wounded Here?????

26th Cav.: Organized for one year's service on the Northern Frontier of New York. Company "G" organized at Plattsburg, N. Y., and mustered in February 11, 1865. Mustered out at Plattsburg, N. Y., July 6, 1865.

Welcome !

2nd Bull Run, VA after action report:

No. 110.

Report of Maj. Charles S. Lovell, Tenth U. S. Infantry, of the battle of Bull
Run.

CAMP ON THE VANDERWERKEN FARM, VA.,
September 6, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to report the following as the operations of the
battalion of the Second and Tenth Infantry, under my command, in the battle
of Bull Run, on the 30th of August, 1862:

The battalion was formed in line of battle in the field on the left bank of Bull
Run Creek between 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning, and kept in that position
until about 3.30 o'clock p. m., when orders were received to fall back and
take a position on the right bank of the creek, in the timber, near the crest
of the ridge. After getting in position outside the fence I found Maj.
Andrews with the battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry on my left and the
Sixth Infantry in the woods on my right.

We were in this position some fifteen or twenty minutes before the enemy
opened his fire, which was intensely severe, upon us, and continued so about
three-quarters of an hour, when we were ordered by Col. Chapman,
commanding brigade, to fall back to the timber across the road. The enemy
managed to keep himself so completely concealed from our view in the
timber and thick underbrush that I only saw distinctly one set of his colors
during the action.

Both officers and men conducted themselves, without a single exception, in
the coolest and most determined manner, although the casualties were very
numerous, as will be seen from the list herewith inclosed.

The commissioned officers engaged were: First Lieut. and Adjt. A. W.
Kroutinger, First Lieuts. S. A. McKee, William F. Drum, George H.
McLoughlin; Second Lieuts. Ralph E. Ellinwood (wounded in right ankle),
Abraham Grafius, William Kidd (killed), and John H. Markely was badly
wounded in the groin, Second Infantry. First Lieut. George
S. Lauman, Second Lieuts. Robert G. Welles, William J. Fisher, and Claude
S. Robertson, Tenth Infantry, all except the latter commanding companies,
to all of whom my thanks are due for their unceasing encouragement given
to the rank and file.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

CHAS. S. LOVELL,
Maj., Tenth Infantry, Comdg. Second and Tenth Infantry.

ACTING ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-Gen.,
Second Brigade, Sykes' Division, Regulars.

Source: Official Records
PAGE 499-16 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., AND MD. [CHAP. XXIV.
[Series I. Vol. 12. Part II, Reports. Serial No. 16.]


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Captain Pliny Moore of Company G. Formerly Captain Of Co. C 16th NY Infantry

NEW YORK
TWENTY-SIXTH CAVALRY

Twenty-sixth Cavalry.-Cols., Burr Porter, Ferris Jacobs, Jr.;
Lieut.-Cols., Ferris Jacobs, Jr., William E. Beardsley; Majs.,
William E. Beardsley, Charles E. Rice, Josiah Grout, Jr., Edward
T. Bouve.

This regiment, known as the Frontier cavalry, was organized in
the states of New York, Massachusetts and Vermont under special
authority from the war department, to serve on the northern
frontier for one year. The five companies, G, H, I, K and L,
composing the N. Y. battalion, were recruited in the counties of
St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, Franklin, Clinton, Essex and
Erie, and were mustered into the U. S. service from Feb. 11 to
24, 1865.

Gov. Fenton appointed the field officers of the regiment, under a
ruling of the war department. The above companies were mustered
out under Col. Jacobs from June 29 to July 7, 865, having lost 3
men who died of disease.

Source: The Union Army, Vol. 2, p. 199