23rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 23rd Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry


dates= May 10, 1861 to May 22, 1863
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Gainesville
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of South Mountain
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Chancellorsville

The 23rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the "Southern Tier Regiment", was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The regiment was organized in Elmira, New York on May 10, 1861 and was mustered in for a two year enlistment on July 2, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out of service on May 22, 1863, and those men who had signed three year enlistments were transferred to the 80th New York.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 17 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 53 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 72fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnyinf1.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.]

Commanders

*Colonel Henry C. Hoffman

ee also

*List of New York Civil War regiments

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionny.htm The Civil War Archive]

External links

* [http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/23rdInf/23rdInfMain.htm New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center - Civil War - 23rd Infantry Regiment] History, photographs, table of battles and casualties, and historical sketch for the 23rd New York Infantry Regiment.