Civil War ided albumen 80th ny Infantry

  
20TH NEW YORK MILITIA, 35TH NEW YORK MILITIA, 80TH NEW YORK INFANTRY. Civil War albumen is 8" × 10" with a total of 12 1/4" × 14 1/4" in the frame. On the back of the photograph it is written in pencil: Brodwick Platt cousin of Roderick Platt. Also written by the photographer : #213 Platt #1. Platt served in the 80th New York Infantry known as the 20th NYS Militia, as a private. Comes in its original frame. There is no glass with the frame. Mustered out: August 2, 1861 Mustered in: September 20 to October 20,1861 Mustered out: January 29, 1866. The following is taken from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. On the return of the 20th Militia from its three months' service, Col. Pratt received authority to reorganize it at Kingston as a regiment of volunteers, and it was mustered in the service of the United States for three years between September 20 and October 20, 1861. December 7, 1861, it received its State numerical designation, and May 24, 1863, the three years' men of the 35th Infantry.

At the expiration of its term of service the men entitled thereto were mustered out and the regiment retained in service. November 6, 1864, a new company joined the regiment, taking the letter I. The companies were recruited principally in Ulster county; quite a number of men from the neighboring counties joined the regiment, however, and the men enlisted for James A.

Raney's Battery became part of it. The regiment left the State October 26, 1861; served in Wadsworth's Brigade from October, 1861; in McDowell's Division, Army of Potomac, from November, 1861; in 2d Brigade, McDowell's Division, Army of Potomac, from January, 1862; in Patrick's, 1st, Brigade, King's, 3d, Division, 1st Corps, Army of Potomac, from March, 1862; in 2d Brigade, same division, Department Rappahannock, from May, 1862; in 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 3d Corps, Army of Virginia, from June, 1862; in same brigade and division, 1st Corps, Army of Potomac, from September 12, 1862; in Patrick's Provost Guard Brigade, Army of Potomac, from January 7, 1863; in 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 1st Corps, Army of Potomac, from June, 1863; in Provost Guard Brigade, Army of Potomac, from July 16, 1863; in the Independent Brigade, 9th Corps, Army of Potomac, from March, 1865; on provost duty at City Point, Va. From April 7, 1865; at Richmond, Va. From April 22, 1865; at Norfolk, Va. From November 27, 1865; and it was honorably discharged and mustered out, under Col. Hardenbergh, January 29, 1866, at Portsmouth, Va. During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 5 officers, 81 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 3 officers, 39 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 156 enlisted men; total, 8 officers', 276 enlisted, men; aggregate, 284; of whom 22 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy; by the explosion of ammunition at City Point, Va.

August 9, 1864, the regiment lost, by death, 6 enlisted men. The item "Civil War ided albumen 80th ny Infantry" is in sale since Tuesday, September 24, 2019. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs".

The seller is "30odd6-56" and is located in Shirley, New York. This item can be shipped to United States.