TWENTY-NINTH NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

Service

 

Organized at New York City and mustered on June 4 and  6, 1861.

Left New York State for Washington, D.C., June 21, 1861.

Advance on Manassas, Va., July 16-21, 1861.

Battle of Bull Run, July 21,1861.

Duty in the defense of Washington, D.C., till April,1862.

Movement to Winchester, Va., April 5-18, 1862.

Operations in the Shenandoah Valley till June 1862

Near Strasburg, Va., June 1,1862

Battle of Cross Keys Va., June 8, 1862.

Near Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862.

At Sperryville, Va., July 7 to August 8, 1862

Raccoon Ford, Va., July 24, 1862

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia, August 16-September 2, 1862.

Fords of the Rappahannock, August 20-23, 1862.

Sulphur Springs, August 24, 1862.

Battle of Groveton, August 29, 1862.

Bull Run, August 30, 1862.

Duty in the defense of Washington, D.C., till November 1862.

Moved to Centreville, Va., November 1-19, 1862.

Moved to support of Burnside at Fredericksburg, Va., December 9-16, 1862.

"Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.

At Stafford Court House till April 27, 1863.

Chancellorsville Campaign, April 27-May 6, 1863.

Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1-5, 1863.

Mustered out June 20,1863, expiration of term in New York City, New York.

Three years' men consolidated into a Company known as Independent Company 29th New York Infantry, and provost duty at Headquarters 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and Army of the Cumberland to April 19. 1864, when transferred to 68th Regiment New York Infantry.