New York 86th Infantry, Company C (Union)
20/11/1861
Organized - New York 86th Infantry, Company C - New York
30/04/1863
Battle - Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Chancellorsville
On April 27, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg.READ MORE
05/05/1864
Battle - Wilderness - Spotsylvania County, Virginia; Orange County, Virginia
Wilderness
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
27/06/1865
Mustered Out - New York 86th Infantry, Company C - New York
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regiment -New York 86th Infantry (Union)
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