New York 169th Infantry (Union)
13/09/1862
Battle - Charleston (1862) - Charleston, West Virginia
25/09/1862
Organized - New York 169th Infantry - New York
11/04/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Clarence Buell
ColonelClarence Buell
11/04/1863
Battle - Siege of Suffolk - Suffolk, Virginia
17/08/1863
Battle - Second Charleston Harbor - Charleston, South Carolina
05/05/1864
Battle - Wilderness - Spotsylvania County, Virginia; Orange County, Virginia
The first battle between Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee erupted late in the morning of May 5, 1864, as Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren's Union V Corps attacked Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps on the Orange Turnpike southwest of the old Chancellorsville battlefield. Although Federal infantry managed to break through at several points, the Confederate line held. Fighting shifted to the south as Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill's Third Corps engaged Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps and ele…READ MORE
10/05/1864
Battle - Chester Station - Chester, Virginia
16/05/1864
Battle - Port Walthall Junction, Virginia
31/05/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Alexander Piper, Colonel Jeremiah C. Drake, and Lieutenant Colonel Zina H. Robinson
31/05/1864
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Adelbert Ames, and Brigadier General Charles Devens Jr.
Brigadier GeneralAdelbert Ames
Brigadier GeneralCharles Devens Jr.
31/05/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Jeremiah C. Drake
ColonelJeremiah C. Drake
31/05/1864
Battle - Cold Harbor - Hanover County; near Mechanicsville, Virginia
After two days of inconclusive fighting along Totopotomoy Creek northeast of Richmond, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee turned their sights on the crossroads of Cold Harbor. Roads emanating through this critical junction led to Richmond as well as supply and reinforcement sources for the Union army. On May 31, 1864, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry captured Cold Harbor. The next day, Sheridan held the crossroads against a Confederate attack. With reinforcements from both armies arriving…READ MORE
15/06/1864
Battle - Second Petersburg - Petersburg, Virginia
As the Overland Campaign concluded, the strategic goals of Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant shifted from the defeat of Robert E. Lee's army in the field to eliminating the supply and communication routes to the Confederate capital at Richmond. The city of Petersburg, 24 miles south of Richmond, was the junction point of five railroads that supplied the entire upper James River region. Grant knew Petersburg was the key to the capture of Richmond and that Lee would be forced to defend it. Marching south from Co…READ MORE
30/07/1864
Battle - Crater - Petersburg, Virginia
Two weeks after Union forces arrived to invest the Confederate defenders of Petersburg, the battle lines of both sides had settled into a stalemate. Since Cold Harbor, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was reluctant to mount a frontal attack against well-entrenched Confederates. By late June, Grant's lines covered most of the eastern approaches to Petersburg, but neither side seemed ready to risk an offensive move. Part of the Union line was held by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's Ninth Corps. Some of Burnside'…READ MORE
14/08/1864
Battle - Second Deep Bottom - Henrico County, Virginia
As he had done in late July during the Battle of the Crater, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant called upon Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock and his Second Corps to attack Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces around Richmond to exploit suspected weaknesses in Lee's lines. In early August, Grant had detached the Sixth Corps from the Union lines around Richmond and Petersburg and sent them to the Shenandoah Valley under Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan. Sheridan's new army there was to counter Gen. Jubal Early, then operating in the v…READ MORE
20/09/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Louis Bell
ColonelLouis Bell
20/09/1864
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Robert Sanford Foster
Brigadier GeneralRobert Sanford Foster
20/09/1864
Battle - Chaffin's Farm - Henrico County, Virginia
27/10/1864
Battle - Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road - Henrico County, Virginia
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fair_Oaks_%26_Darbytown_RoadREAD MORE
07/12/1864
Battle - First Fort Fisher - New Hanover County, North Carolina
The first assault on Fort Fisher was made in December 1864 by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, who withdrew when he realized a direct assault on the fort would be costly, and that Confederate reinforcements were only a few miles away.READ MORE
13/01/1865
Leadership Change - Regiment - undefined Col. Alonzo Alden, and undefined Ltc. James A. Colvin
13/01/1865
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Alonzo Alden, Colonel Louis Bell 15 Jan, and Lieutenant Colonel Nathan J. Johnson
13/01/1865
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Adelbert Ames
Brigadier GeneralAdelbert Ames
13/01/1865
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Louis Bell 15 Jan
ColonelLouis Bell 15 Jan
13/01/1865
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Alonzo Alden
ColonelAlonzo Alden
13/01/1865
Battle - Second Fort Fisher - New Hanover County, North Carolina
By January 1865, Fort Fisher on the North Carolina shore was the last coastal stronghold of the Confederacy. The fort protected blockade running vessels entering and departing Wilmington, the South's last open seaport on the Atlantic coast. Maj. Gen. Alfred Terry was placed in command of a Provisional Corps from the Army of the James, and was supported by a Navy and Marine Corps force of nearly 60 vessels under Rear Adm. David D. Porter. Terry's orders were to renew operations against the fort that had fai…READ MORE
22/02/1865
Battle - Wilmington - Wilmington, North Carolina
19/07/1865
Mustered Out - New York 169th Infantry - New York
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