Information was extracted, in part, from the " NY in the War of the Rebellion 1861 – 1865", compiled by Frederick Phisterer, Albany, J. B. Lyons Company, State Printers, 1912.

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     July 19, 1862, Gen Jessie Segoine, as Colonel, received authority to recruit this regiment in the counties of Cayuga and Wayne;  it was organized at Auburn and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years August 20, 1862.  The men not to be mustered out with the regiment were transferred June 4, 1865, to the 4th Artillery.

     During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 8 officers, 150 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 2 officers, 65 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 2 officers, 177 enlisted men; total, 12 officers, 392 enlisted men; aggregate, 404; of whom 2 officers and 74 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy; it took part in the following engagements, etc:

Siege of Harper’s Ferry, W. Va.
  Maryland Heights
Gettysburg, Pa.
Falls Church, Va.
Lewinsville, Va.
Auburn, Va.
Bristoe Station, Va.
Blackburn’s Ford, Va.
Mine Run Campaign, Va.
  Robertson’s Tavern
Morton’s Ford, Va.
Wilderness, Va.
Spotsylvanis Court House, Va.
  Po River
  Salient
  Landron House
North Anna, Va.
Totopotomy, Va.
Cold Harbor, Va.
Before Petersburg, Va.
Assualt of Petersburg, Va.
Weldon Railroad, Va.
Deep Bottom, Va.
Strawberry Plains, Va.
Ream’s Station, Va.
Hatcher’s Run, Va.
Petersburg Works, Va.
Appomattox Campaign,Va.
  White Oak Ridge
  Fall of Petersburg
  Deatonsville Road
  Farmville
  Appomattox Court House