NINETIETH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY (VETERAN)

Hancock Guards; McClellan Chasseurs; McClellan Rifles

The Hancocks Guard, recruited by Col. Louis W. Tinelli, under authority from the War Department, dated August 19, 1861, were consolidated with the McClellan Rifles, recruited by Col. J. S. DeAgreda, with L. W. Tinelli, as Colonel. Company C of the McClellan Rifles was formed of the British Volunteers, recruited by Col. R. E. A. Hampson. The Secretary of War granted authority to Lieut.-Col. Robert B. Clark, 13^th Militia, to recruit a regiment; this authority was later transferred to Col. Joseph S. Morgan, who under it recruited the McClellan Chasseurs. The State authorities organized the 90^th Regiment at New York City November 20, 1861, by the consolidation of these two incomplete organizations, with J. S. Morgan as Colonel, L. W. Tinelli as Lieutenant-Colonel, and J. S. DeAgreda as Major. The McClellan Rifles formed Companies A to E, and the McClellan Chasseurs F to K. The regiment was mustered in the service of the United States for three years between September and December, 1861. April 6, 1863, Companies H and I, and in fall, 1864, Company B, were consolidated with the other companies. At the expiration of its term of enlistment the men entitled thereto were discharged, December 10, 15 and 17, 1864, at New York City, and the regiment, which had returned from its veteran furlough in September, 1864, with new Companies B, H and I, mustered in for one year, was retained in service, but, November 28, 1864, consolidated into a battalion of six companies, A, B, C, D, E, and F. June 3, 1865, it received, by transfer, the men of the 114^th, 116^th and 133^rd Infantry, not mustered out with their respective regiments.

The companies were recruited principally: A, B, and C at New York City; D at Clyde; E at Unadilla, Nineveh and Otego; F, I and K at Brooklyn, East New York and Long Island; G at Brooklyn and New York City; H at Brooklyn, Dunkirk and New York City; the second Companies B at Norwich; H in Chautauqua County; and I at Medina, Ridgway and Shelby.

The regiment left the State January 5, 1862; served at Key West, Fla., and in the Department of the South, and unassigned in 10^th Corps, from January, 1862; in 19^th Corps, from April, 1863; in 1^st Brigade, 4^th Division, 19^th Corps, from May, 1863; in 2^nd Brigade, 2^nd Division, 19^th Corps, from February 1864; in the 1^st Brigade, 1^st Division, 19^th Corps, from March, 1864; the nonveterans, while the regiment was on veteran furlough, with the 160^th N. Y. Volunteers in August and September, 1864; the regiment in the Army of the Shenandoah from October, 1864; in 1^st Brigade, Dwight�s Division, Washington, D. C., from April, 1865; in same brigade and division, Department of the South, at Savannah, Ga., from June, 1865; in 3^rd Brigade, 1^st Division, Department of Georgia, at Hawkinsville, Ga., from July, 1865; and at Savannah, Ga., in January, 1866, where it was honorably discharged and mustered out, under Col. Nelson Shaurman, February 9, 1866.

During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 2 officers, 33 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 25 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 8 officers, 183 enlisted men; total, 10 officers, 241 enlisted men; aggregate, 251; of whom 14 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy; and it took part in the following engagements, etc: