Brief History of the 146th New York Vol. Inf. Rgt.

146th New York Volunteer Infantry Reigment
"Garrard's Tigers" & "Fifth Onedia Regiment"

Colonels K. Garrard [Left] & J. Grindlay [Right]

Mustered into Service: October 10th, 1862 at Camp Huntington, Rome, New York for three (3) years Service.
Mustered out of Service: July 16th, 1865 near Washington, D.C.

REGIMENTAL ASSIGNMENTS
      October to November 6th, 1862: Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, D.C.
      November 6th, 1862 to March 1864: 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
      March 1864 to June 6th, 1864: 1st Brigade, 5th Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
     June 6th, 1864 to July 1865: 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS
      Colonel Kenner Garrard, Promoted to Brigadier General in July of 1863.
      Colonel James T. Jenkins, Killed in Action on May 5th, 1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia.
      Colonel James G. Grindlay

COPMANY ORGANIZATION
      Company A - Utica
      Company B - Vernon, Rome and Annsville
      Company C - Utica and Rome
      Company D - Boonville, Hawkinsville, Rome and Whitestown
      Company E - Camden, Augusta, Rome, Utica and Marshall
      Company F - Utica, Lee, Rome, Florence, Annsville, Ava, Marcy and Whitestown
      Company G - Clinton, Kirkland, Bridgewater and Plainfield
      Company H - Utica, Rome and Sangerfield
      Company I - Trenton, Remsen, Western, Westmoreland, Steuben, Lowell, Rome, Vernon and Verona
      Company K - Paris, Clayville, Utica, Marcy, Clinton, Deansville, Marshall and Whitesboro

REGIMENTAL LOSES
   Killed in Action
           Officers - 3
           Enlisted - 81
Died of Wounds received in Action
           Officers - 4
           Enlisted - 46
      Wounded and Recovered
          Officers - 13
           Enlisted - 167
     Died of disease or other causes
           Officers - 1
           Enlisted - 100
    Died as Prisoners of War
           Officers - 1
           Enlisted - 87
    Missing in Action & Captured
           Officers - 8
           Enlisted - 332
                  Grand Total - 843

SERVICE

Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till November, 1862. Joined Army of the Potomac at Snicker's Gap, Va., November 2. Rappahannock Campaign November, 1862, to June, 1863. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15, 1862. At Falmouth to April 27, 1863. "Mud March" January 20-24. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee July 5-24. At Warrenton, Beverly Ford and Culpeper till October. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Rappahannock Station November 7. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. At Beverly Ford, Va., till May, 1864. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7. Spottsylvania May 8-12. Laurel Hill May 8. Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient 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. Bethesda Church June 1-3. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864 (Reserve). Weldon Railroad August 18-21. Poplar Springs Church, Peeble's Farm, September 29-October 2. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad December 7-12. Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Lewis Farm, near Gravelly Run, March 29. White Oak Road March 31. Five Forks April 1. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. March to Washington, D.C., May 1-12. Grand Review May 23. Mustered out at Washington, D. C. July 16, 1865.

For Further Reading

Avery, John. "Yankee letters from Andersonville prison." Edited by Spencer B. King, Jr. GHQ XXXVIII (1954) 394-8.

Brainard, Mary Genevie Green. Campaign of the One hundred and forty-sixth regiment New York state volunteers, also known as Halleck's infantry, the Fifth Oneida, and Garrard's tigers. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915.Fowler, Philemon Halstead. Memorials of William Fowler. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & co., 1875.

Case, A Peirson. Notes on the taking and holding of Little Round Top at Gettysburg. Movements of the 146th N.Y. vols. on the field of Gettysburg, July 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1863. [Vernon, 1886].

Erdman, Albert. "A Chaplain's experiences." In War talks of Morristown veterans. Morristown: N. J.: 1887.

First reunion of the 146th regiment, N.Y. vols., August 5, 1886, Rome, N.Y. [Rome: Beers & Kessinger, 1886].

Grindlay, James Glass. "The 146th New York at Little Round Top." BandL III 315.

Memorials of David T. Jenkins and James E. Jenkins. Utica: T. J. Griffiths, 1889

North, Edward. Memorial of Henry Hastings Curran, Lieutenant-Colonel of the One hundred and forty-sixth regiment of the New York state volunteers. Albany: Joel Munsell, 1867.

Wright, Benjamin Franklin. "From the Wilderness to Richmond." Mollus-Minn. II 7-37.

Williams, George Forrester. "Crossing the lines." BandG I, (1893). 121-6

Into the Wilderness by Keith Rocco. The 140th & 146th New York Infantry Regiment's enter Saunders' Field at the Battle of the Wilderness, May 5th, 1864.

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