New York 165th Infantry (Union)
01/11/1862
Organized - New York 165th Infantry - New York
26/03/1863
Battle - Ponchatoula - Ponchatoula, Louisiana
17/04/1863
Battle - Vermillion Bayou - Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
21/05/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - undefined Jr.
21/05/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Thomas W. Sherman
Brigadier GeneralThomas W. Sherman
21/05/1863
Battle - Port Hudson - East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's final offensive against Vicksburg, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's army moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. Like Vicksburg, Port Hudson was located atop high bluffs at the river bank that commanded the river. On May 11th, Banks learned that some Confederates had been moved from Port Hudson to support the forces defending Vicksburg, so he sought to move upon the garrison before those troops could be replaced. Banks…READ MORE
08/09/1863
Battle - Second Sabine Pass - Jefferson County, Texas
With a de facto French government under Maximillian south of the Rio Grande, the Confederates hoped to establish trade between Texas and Mexico to obtain much needed supplies. The Lincoln administration, aware of Confederate intentions, sought to establish a military presence in Texas to discourage Mexican influence. A Union force in place near Beaumont, 30 miles inland from the mouth of the Sabine River, would cut the last railroad between Texas and the rest of the Confederacy and could possibly threaten…READ MORE
03/11/1863
Battle - Bayou Bourbeux - Carrion Crow Bayou, Louisiana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bayou_BourbeuxREAD MORE
08/04/1864
Battle - Mansfield - DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
The Red River Campaign of 1864 was one General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant's initiatives to apply simultaneous pressure on Confederate armies along five separate fronts from Louisiana to Virginia. In addition to defeating the defending Confederate army, the campaign sought to confiscate cotton stores from plantations along the river and to give support to pro-Union governments in Louisiana. By early April, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' Union army was about 150 miles up the Red River threatening Shreveport. C…READ MORE
09/04/1864
Battle - Pleasant Hill - Desoto Parish, Louisiana; Sabine Parish, Louisiana
11/07/1864
Leadership Change - Regiment - Major Felix Agnus
MajorFelix Agnus
11/07/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Leonard D. H. Currie
ColonelLeonard D. H. Currie
11/07/1864
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General William Dwight
Brigadier GeneralWilliam Dwight
11/07/1864
Battle - Fort Stevens - District of Columbia, DC
After his victory over Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace at the Battle of Monocacy in central Maryland on July 9th, Confederate Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early pressed his advantage and moved south toward the Union capital in Washington, DC. On July 11th, Early's exhausted Confederates reached the outskirts of Washington near Silver Spring. Skirmishers advanced to feel the fortifications that encircled the city, which at the time were manned only by Home Guards, clerks, and convalescent troops. During the night, Union reinfo…READ MORE
27/07/1864
Battle - First Deep Bottom - Henrico County, Virginia
Two weeks after Union forces arrived to invest the Confederate defenders of Petersburg, the battle lines of both sides settled into a stalemate. Since Cold Harbor, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was reluctant to mount a large 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. Determined to break the stalemate, Grant agreed to plans to blow up part of the Confederate def…READ MORE
19/09/1864
Battle - Third Winchester - Frederick County, Virginia; Winchester, Virginia
To clear the Shenandoah River valley of Confederates, Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan moved on Winchester in mid-September 1864. Sheridan's force of over 39,000 men was more than twice the size of Maj. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate army defending the valley. After Brig. Gen. Joseph Kershaw's division left Winchester to rejoin Robert E. Lee's army at Petersburg, Early renewed his raids on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Martinsburg in the lower valley, dispersing his four remaining infantry divisions. On Septem…READ MORE
19/10/1864
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Gouverneur Carr
Lieutenant ColonelGouverneur Carr
19/10/1864
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General James W. McMillan
Brigadier GeneralJames W. McMillan
19/10/1864
Battle - Cedar Creek - Frederick County, Virginia; Shenandoah County, Virginia; Warren County, Virginia
Also known as: Cedar Creek, Belle GroveREAD MORE
01/09/1865
Mustered Out - New York 165th Infantry - New York
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