New York 79th Infantry, Company E (Union)
08/05/1864
Battle - Spotsylvania Court House - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Spotsylvania Court House
Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched the Union army south with the hope of capturing Spotsylvania Court House and preventing Robert E. Lee's army from retreating further. Lee's Confederates, however, managed to get ahead of the Federals and block the road. Fighting began on May 8th, when the Union Fifth Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren and the Sixth Corps under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick engaged Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Anderson's First Corps at Laurel Hi…READ MORE
01/03/1865
Organized - New York 79th Infantry, Company E - New York
14/07/1865
Mustered Out - New York 79th Infantry, Company E - New York
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regiment -New York 79th Infantry (Union)
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