One Hundred and Nineteenth Infantry.-Cols., Elias Peissner, John
T. Lockman; Lieut.-Cols., John T. Lockman, Edward F. Lloyd, Isaac
P. Lockman; Majs., Harvey Baldwin, Jr., Benjamin A. Willis, Isaac
P. Lockman, Charles F. Lewis, Chester H. Southworth.
This regiment was recruited and organized at New York city in the
summer of 1862, and was mustered into the U. S. service on Sept.
4-5, for three years. On the 6th the regiment left for
Washington, where it was attached to the 2nd brigade, 3d
(Schurz') division, 11th corps (Howard), and went into winter
quarters at Stafford, Va.
The total enrollment of the regiment was 69 officers, 981 men.
It lost by death during service, 6 officers and 71 men, killed
and mortally wounded; 2 officers and 92 men by disease and other
causes, a total of 171.
Source: The Union Army, Vol. 2, p. 135
Colonel Elias Peissner received authority, June 26, 1862,
to recruit this regiment; it was organized in New York city,
and there mustered in the service of the United States for
three years September 4 and 5, 1862. The companies were
recruited principally: A--Halleck Guard--B, C, D--Sigel Life
Guard, Siegel Sharpshooters--E, F, G, I and K in New York city,
and H at Hempstead. The men not mustered out with the regiment
were transferred to the 102d Infantry June 7, 1865.
The regiment left the State September 6, 1862; served in
the defenses of Washington, from September, 1862; in the 2d
Brigade, 3d Division, 11th Corps, Army of the Potomac, from
October, 1862; in the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 20th Corps, Army
of the Cumberland, from April, 1864; and was honorably
discharged and mustered out, under Col. John T. Lockman, June
7, 1865, near Bladensburg, Md.
Source: Phisterer, Frederick, comp. New York in the War of the Rebellion,
Regimental History
NEW YORK
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH INFANTRY
(Three Years)
1861-1865. Albany: J.B. Lyon Co., 1912,
3rd ed., 6 vols. (R,973.7447,qA2). Volume 6 is the index.