Civil War TT Union Lt/Colonel BBG Isaac S Catlin 109th NYVI Medal of Honor

  

A real special Tintype from a CDV album of then Lt Isaac Swartwood Catlin and Woman, who later became a General and won the Medal of Honor for Petersburg after losing a leg!!! Residence was not listed; 25 years old.

Enlisted on 4/24/1861 at Owego, NY as a Captain. On 5/14/1861 he was commissioned into "H" Co.

On 10/3/1862 he was commissioned into "C" Co. He was Mustered Out on 6/4/1865 at Washington, DC. Wounded 7/30/1864 Petersburg, VA (Right leg amputated).

1st Lieut & Adj 7/29/1862 (Not Mustered). Lt Colonel 7/29/1862 (As of 109th NY Infantry).

Born 7/8/1835 in Owego, Tioga Co. Died 1/19/1916 in Brooklyn, NY. Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA. He was awarded the Medal of Honor.

For action on 7/30/1864 at Petersburg, VA. (Heroic effort to rally the disorganized troops). Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc. Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue. Dyer: A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion.

The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War. (c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. The following was submitted by: John Heseltine. July 27, 1865 Isaac S.

Catlin applied for a pension. One Hundred and Ninth Infantry. This regiment was organized at Binghamton, where it was. 28, 1862, for three years.

The companies were recruited in the counties of Tomkins, Tioga. And Broome-the 24th senatorial district. Splendid reputation for hard fighting, discipline and.

Efficiency, and is ranked by Col. Fox among the three hundred.

Fighting regiments of the war. He says: The regiment left Binghamton promptly, proceeding to. Where it was placed on guard duty.

Along the line of railroad to Washington, a few of the. Companies being stationed at Laurel, Md.

Rest of the year and during all of 1863. In the spring of 1864, the regiment was ordered to join the 9th. Corps then assembling at Annapolis, and it accordingly took the. Field in the ranks of that battle-tried command.

Assigned to Hartranft's (1st) brigade, Willcox's (3d). Division, -afterwards Harriman's brigade of Willcox's (1st). Tracy resigned May 20, 1864, and Col. And meritorious officer, succeeded to the command. Left Annapolis, April 23, 1864, and crossing the Rapidan on May.

5th, the 109th was engaged the next day at the Wilderness, in. Its first battle, where it lost 11 killed, 64 wounded, and 1. In the charge of the 9th corps at Spottsylvania, the regiment.

Lost 25 killed, 86 wounded, and 29 missing; in the assault on. Petersburg, June 17, 1864, 26 killed, 81 wounded, and 20.

Missing; at the mine explosion, July 30, 1864, 11 killed, 24. Wounded, and 18 missing; and at the Weldon railroad, Aug. 1864, 7 killed, 12 wounded, and 1 missing. The regiment was under fire at the battle on the Boydton road. 27, 1864, with a slight loss in wounded and missing but. It suffered severely while in the trenches before. Petersburg, where for several weeks it lost men daily, either. During its eleven months in the field the hard fighting cost. The regiment 614 men in killed and wounded, aside from the. Its loss by death during service was 5.

Officers and 160 men; by disease and other causes, 164. The percentage of killed, 165, to the.

Total enrollment, 1,353, was 12.1. It was mustered out of. Service June 4, 1865, at Delaney house, D.