TWENTY-NINTH NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

Assignment

From Date To Date Army Corps. Division Brigade
July 16,1861 August 3,1861 McDowell's Army. of Northeastern Virginia   5th 1st
August 4,1861 October 14,1861     Division of the Potomac Blenker's
October 15, 1861 January 1862 Army of the Potomac   Hooker's 3rd
January 1862 March 1862 Army of the Potomac   Blenker's 2nd
March 1862 April 1862 Army of the Potomac 2nd Blenker's 2nd
April 1862 June 25,1862 Mountain Department   Blenker's 2nd
June 26, 1862 September 11, 1862 Pope's Army of Virginia 1st 2nd 1st
September 12,1862 June 20, 1863 Army of the Potomac 11th 2nd 1st

Source: Phisterer, Frederick, comp. New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Vol 3. Albany, NY: Weed and Parsons, 1890. E523P582v3. Page 2063.

The 29th Regiment

“Astor Rifles” or “First German Infantry”

Organized at New York City and mustered in June 6, 1861. Left state for Washington, D.C., June 21, 1861.

Attached to Blenker’s Brigade, Miles’ Division, McDowell’s Army of Northeast Virginia, to August, 1861.

Blenker’s Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861.

Blenker’s Brigade, Hooker’s Division, Army of the Potomac, to January, 1862.

2nd Brigade, Blenker’s Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.

2nd Brigade, Blenker’s 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1862.

2nd Brigade, Blenker’s Division, Dept. of the Mountains, to June, 1862.

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Pope’s Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.

11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1863.

 

Source: Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Vol. 2 Dayton, OH: Mourningside, 1978. Ref.: