Location: St. Lawrence, New York, United States

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Company I ⬅️ Company K ➡️ Field & Staff
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A free space page to add everything about Company K of the 106th New York Infantry Regiment during their service during the U.S. Civil War. We would like to add all the profiles of those who served in Company K along with any and all resources associated with this Company of men only.
All the men of Company K have been added below as of August 30, 2023.
Captain Alexander Bingham’s Company K in the 106th Regiment of New York State Volunteers
New York In The Civil War by the American Battlefield Trust on YouTube
History of 106th New York Regiment
UNION NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS 106th Regiment, New York Infantry
Organized at Ogdensburg, N. Y., and mustered in August 27, 1862. Left State for Baltimore, Md., August 28, 1862, thence ordered to New Creek, Va. Attached to Railroad District, 8th Corps, Middle Dept., to September, 1862. Railroad District, West Virginia, to January, 1863. Martinsburg, W. Va, Milroy's Command, 8th Corps, Middle Dept., to March, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps, to June, 1863. Elliott's Command, 8th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of tbe Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah, to June, 1865.
SERVICE: Guard and provost duty in Defences of the Upper Potomac, with Headquarters at New Creek, Va., till June, 1863. Expedition to Greenland Gap April 15-22, 1863. Fairmount April 29. Martinsburg, W. Va., June 14. Battle of Winchester, Va., and retreat to Harper's Ferry June 14-15. Guard stores to Washington, D. C., July 1-4. Join Army of the Potomac at Frederick, Md., July 5. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24. Action at Wapping Heights, Va., July 23. Duty on line of the Rappahannock and Rapidan till October. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Kelly's Ford November 7. Brandy Station November 8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle," May 12. North Anna River May 23-26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 17-18. Siege of Petersburg June 17-July 6. Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 22-23. Ordered to Baltimore, Md., July 6. Battle of Monocacy, Md., July 9. Expedition to Snicker's Gap, Va., July 14-24. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28. Near Charlestown August 21-22. Battle of Winchester September 19. Fisher's Hill September 22. Battle of Cedar Creek October 19. Duty at Kernstown till December. Moved to Washington, D. C., thence to Petersburg, Va., December 3-6. Siege of Petersburg December, 1864, to April, 1865. Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Sailor's Creek April 6. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. M arch to Danville, Va., April 23-27, and duty there till May 16. Moved to Richmond, Va., thence to Washington, D. C., May 16-June 2. Corps Review June 8. Mustered out June 27, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 10 Officers and 127 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 166 Enlisted men by disease. Total 307.[1]
Courier and Freeman, 12 April 1865 — Page 2
Some veterans enlisted with interesting occupations such as Benjamin C Thayer (1825 - 1901) whose occupation at enlistment was ax maker
Meet the 22nd Governor of New York during the U.S. Civil War Reuben Eaton Fenton (1819 - 1885)
Company K
Company K - principally recruited from Canton, Colton and Edwards, all of St. Lawrence County[2]
Name | Dates | Connected? |
---|---|---|
Azro James Banister | (1844 - 1864) | Yes |
Ira C Barber | (1828 - 1911) | |
Sumner Joseph Barber | (abt. 1841 - 1914) | Yes to wife. Needs parental lineage |
William J Barber | (1843 - 1903) | Yes |
John Bartley | (abt. 1837 - 1864) | |
Solomon Raymond Benham | (1828 - 1905) | |
Thomas Bergin | (1833 - 1888) | |
John W Billings | (1837 - 1864) | |
Alexander Bingham | (1817 - 1896) | Yes |
Daniel Booth | (1840 - 1921) | |
John Ira Boston | (1848 - 1913) | |
John S Brady | (1841) | |
Thomas Henry Brimson | (1839 - 1918) | Yes |
Harvey Brown | (1831 - 1864) | |
Francis M Buck | (1844 - 18 Oct 1863) | Yes |
Andrew Butcher | (1844) | |
Martin Cardinal | (abt. 1827 - 1881) | Yes |
Charles C Caldwell | (1844) | |
Peter Carroll | (abt. 1818) | |
William Garlick Clark | (1827 - 1906) | |
James Clohosey | (abt. 1840) | |
Andrew M Cole | (1833 - 1893) | |
Albert O Copeland | (abt. 1839 - abt. 1910) | |
Nelson Wallace Copeland | (1844 - 1920) | Yes |
John J Crossley | (1845 - 1893) | Yes |
Henry O Daniels | (1834 - 1908) | Yes |
Daniel D Davis | (abt. 1843) | Yes |
Alfred Day | (1845 - 1912) | Yes |
Harley Day | (1841 - 1903) | Yes |
Charles E Demmon | (1837 - 1915) | Yes |
Mathias Detamble | (abt. 1835 - 1895) | |
James B Downs | (1843 - 1927) | Yes to wife. Needs parental lineage. |
Perry Earl | (abt. 1837) | |
Eli P. Earl | (1842 - 1875) | |
John M Elliott | (1837 - 1863) | |
William B Fairchild | (1829 - 1884) | |
Morris Foley | (abt. 1845) | |
James H Fordham | (1841 - 1903) | |
Henry Form | (abt. 1844) | |
Henry Gaddis | (1837 - 1925) | |
Harvey Warren Gates | (1833 - 1864) | |
Henry VanBlake Gates | (abt. 1839 - 1915) | Yes |
Peter Gilligan | (abt. 1847) | |
George Glazier | (1816 - 1863) | |
Harvey Gleason | (abt. 1843 - 1862) | |
Edwin Alonzo Goodridge | (1840 - 1916) | Yes |
Ira Colby Goodridge | (1845 - 1926) | |
Justus P Gordon | (abt. 1832 - 1899) | |
Squire C Gordon | (1830 - 1901) | |
David Gotham | (1838 - 1864) | |
William Gotham | (1829 - 1864) | |
George K Haile | (abt. 1841 - 1863) | |
Benjamin Harding | (abt. 1845 - 1865) | Yes |
Hawley S Hepburn | (1840 - 1910) | |
Edward Ives | (1843 - 1864) | |
Albert Haley | (abt. 1861 - 1864) | |
Robert Francis Hooper | (1833 - 1924) | |
Surranus I Hunt | (abt. 1844) | |
Acil Johnson | (1838 - 1918) | |
Levi Orlando Jones | (1832 - 1897) | |
Lucious A King | (1840 - 1864) | |
Joseph Kinney Jr | (1845 - 1864) | Yes |
John Lappin | (abt. 1833) | |
William H. Leonard | (1841 - 1916) | |
William N Leonard | (abt. 1833 - 1863) | |
William H Lewis | (abt. 1835) | |
Silas Holden Littlejohn | (1831 - 1905) | |
John Alexander Loop | (1842 - 1862) | |
Leeman O Loop | (1840 - 1932) | |
Spellman Loop | (1838 - 1918) | |
Horatun S Maltby | (1842 - 1864) | |
Charles Loton Matthews | (1843 - 1936) | |
Lucian Matthews | (1840 - 1864) | Yes |
John Dean McBroom | (1834 - 1908) | |
Alexander McDonald | (abt. 1843) | |
William McFalls | (abt. 1826) | |
James McFerran | (1843 - 1891) | |
Martin Merron | (abt. 1839 - 1865) | |
Asa Murry | (1834) | |
Charles Nickerson | (1836 - 1916) | Yes |
Orson Nickerson | (1824 - 1907) | Yes |
Silas C.f. Norman | (1839 - 1914) | |
Henry H Oakley | (abt. 1843) | |
Edwin R Paine | (1824 - 1901) | |
Erskine Milford Parmelee | (1843 - 1923) | |
Daniel Peck | (1822 - 1903) | |
George B. Pelsue | (abt. 1820 - abt. 1879) | |
Orson James Pelsue | (1843 - 1903) | |
Louis Peterson | (abt. 1845) | |
Horace Pickit | (1841 - 1929) | |
Charles H Porter | (1839 - 1906) | |
Edson Potter | (abt. 1842 - 1918) | |
Charles Henry Remington | (1844 - 1897) | |
George C Richards | (1836) | |
John Robertson | (1831 - 1883) | |
John H Robinson | (abt. 1841) | |
Joseph C Robinson | (abt. 1839 - 1906) | Yes |
William Henry Robinson | (1846 - 1929) | |
Alonzo Mortimore Sampson | (1832 - 1900) | Yes |
Charles Sampson | (abt. 1844) | |
Israel Ambrose Sayles | (1836 - 1906) | |
John Lawrence Sayles | (1832 - abt. 1904) | |
George L Seaver | (1834 - 1917) | |
Edward Severance | (abt. 1830 - 1865) | |
Martin Showers | (1834 - 1864) | |
George B Simpson | (abt. 1844 - 1901) | |
Ira S Spaulding | (1843 - 1914) | |
Ozias W Spencer | (1844 - 1864) | |
James L Sprague | (1829 - 1908) | Yes |
Michael Stewart | (1825 - 1902) | |
Henry Judson Stowe | (1839 - 1917) | |
Benjamin C Thayer | (1825 - 1901) | |
John H VanNort | (abt. 1840) | |
James Birney VanOrnum | (1842 - 1918) | |
James Edward Vanornum | (1841 - 1907) | |
Simon B Wait | (abt. 1841 - 1904) | |
Warren B Wait | (1835 - 1862) | |
Henry H Welch | (abt. 1835 - 1894) | |
Francis Westcott | (abt. 1835 - 1892) | |
Isaac White | (1839 - 1864) | |
James A Wilcox | (abt. 1836) | |
Charles Willes | (abt. 1844) | |
Robert Everess Williams | (1841 - 1904) | |
Andrew Wilson | (1834 - 1865) | |
Frederick Woolever | (1840) | |
Hiram A Woolever | (1837 - 1887) | |
Henry Wright | (abt. 1818 - 1895) | |
Warren Moses Wright | (1842 - 1911) | |
William Moses Wright | (1842 - 1911) | |
William Young | (abt. 1831) |
Sources
- ↑ https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=UNY0106RI
- ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/106th_Regiment,_New_York_Infantry
- 106th Infantry Roster
- http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/MusterRolls/Infantry/106thInf_NYSV_MusterRoll.pdf
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United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890: Colton, St Lawrence, New York https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-5G6N-C?i=31&cc=1877095&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AK836-4YT
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