Category: 25th Regiment, New York Infantry, United States Civil War

Categories: New York Infantry Regiments, United States Civil War

Organized at New York City May 11, 1861. Mustered in June 28, 1861, and left State for Washington, D. C., July 3, 1861. Mustered out June 26, 1863, and honorably discharged from service July 10, 1865. Three years men transferred to 44th New York Infantry. Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 54 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 25 Enlisted men by disease. Total 90. See: National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors Database.

"The 25th New York, also known as Kerrigan’s Rangers or the Union Rangers, carried with it a reputation for rowdiness. One officer in its division wrote that the regiment was “composed of New York roughs, Bowery boys, ‘Dead Rabbits,’ etc.” While this description is undoubtedly an overgeneralization, the original officer corps of the Rangers did include prominent New York underworld figures, including close associates of the notorious William “Bill the Butcher” Poole. Its commander, Colonel James E. Kerrigan, had been a suspect in Poole’s murder and was himself the former leader of an Irish American street gang called the Molly Maguires as well as a participant in the 1857 Dead Rabbit Riots. " See [1]

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