Sue Pawley wrote: > > Hi Folks, > Rather ashamed to have to ask you people a question of this calibre. > Im trying to research a probable ancestor that served in the Civil War, WW > Church, given as a Drummer, New York State Engineers. > Ive been the entire day going through web sites, cant find info on NYS > Engineers. > Did these New York State Engineers serve under some other company or > regiment or something and is this why I cant find them? > Thanks for putting up with me. > Sue Pawley > trottr@icanect.net
Not a stupid question at all ... as far as I know there was only the one
regiment of volunteer Engineers in the federal army, and this was the
50th NY. I believe they or at least some of them were originally the
15th NY Engineers, but this was absorbed in the 50th. This was a
regiment raised like all the others, and many of them were recruited in
this part of upstate NY, between Rochester and Elmira. I know some of
the recruits from Yates County worked to build the bridge at
Fredericksburg before the Union assault.