Company A – recruited principally in Franklin County[1] Company B – recruited principally in Franklin County [2] Company C – recruited principally in Franklin County [3] Company D – recruited principally in Franklin County [4] Company E – recruited principally in Franklin County [5] Company F – recruited principally in Wayne County[6] Company G – recruited principally in Franklin County [7] Company H – recruited principally in Franklin County [8] Company I – recruited principally in Wayne County[9] Company K – recruited principally in Wayne County[10]
Time Line
Date
Event
January 25-February 8, 1862
Companies A, B, C, D, E, G and H organized at Malone, N.Y. and companies F, I and K organized at Lyons, N.Y. Organization completed at Albany, N.Y.
March 8, 1862
Left State for Washington, D.C. under Colonel William Dutton, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Durkee and Major Albon Mann
March 28, 1862
Moved to the Virginia Peninsula and attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
April 5-May 4, 1862
Siege of Yorktown, Va.
April 29, 1862
Reconnaissance toward Lee's Mills
May 5, 1862
Battle of Williamsburg
May 21–23, 1862
Operations about Bottom's Bridge
May 24–27, 1862
Reconnaissance to Seven Pines
May 24, 1862
Chickahominy, near Savage Station, and Seven Pines
May 31-June 1, 1862
Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks
The regiment lost 11 men killed, 3 officers and 31 men wounded, and 26 men missing.
June 1862
Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps
June 25-July 1, 1862
Seven days before Richmond
June 30, 1862
White Oak Swamp
July 1, 1862
Malvern Hill
July 1862
At Harrison's Landing. Assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps. Colonel Dutton died of typhus fever. Lieutenant Colonel Durkee was promoted to colonel and took over the regiment.
August 16–23, 1862
Moved to Fortress Monroe
September 18, 1862
Duty at Yorktown
December 25, 1862
Moved to Morehead City, N. C. and assigned to Naglee's Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina
January 1–21, 1863
At Carolina City and assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina
January 28–31, 1863
Moved to Port Royal Harbor, S.C.
February 10-April 3, 1863
At St. Helena Island, S.C., assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of the South. Colonel Durkee resigned, and Lieutenant Colonel Frederick M. Wead was promoted to colonel and took command of the regiment.
April 3–11, 1863
Expedition against Charleston, S.C. assigned to District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina
April 12–15, 1863
Moved to New Berne, N. C.
April 17–21, 1863
Expedition to relief of Little Washington and duty in the District of Beaufort, N. C.
October 16–18, 1863
Moved to Newport News, Va. attached to Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
December 1863
At Portsmouth, Va.
January 1864
District of the Currituck, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
March–April 1864
Veterans on furlough
March 1864
Assigned to 1st Brigade, Heckman's Division, 18th Army Corps
April 26, 1864
Moved to Yorktown, Va. and assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James
May 3–28, 1864
Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond
The regiment lost 1 officer and 21 men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 57 men wounded, and 12 men missing.
May 5, 1864
Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred
May 8–10, 1864
Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church
May 12–16, 1864
Operations against Fort Darling
May 14–16, 1864
Battle of Drewry's Bluff
May 16–28, 1864
Bermuda Hundred
May 27–31, 1864
Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor
June 1–12, 1864
Battles about Cold Harbor
Colonel Wead, 1 other officer and 30 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 77 men wounded, and 3 men missing. Lieutenant Colonel William Kreutzer was commissioned as colonel, but the regiment did not have sufficient manpower for him to muster in.
June 15–18, 1864
Before Petersburg
The regiment lost 1 officer and 14 men killed or mortally wounded and 40 enlisted men wounded.
June 18, 1864
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin
July 30, 1864
Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve)
August–September 1864
Duty in the trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda Hundred front
September 28–30, 1864
Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights
The regiment lost 19 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 42 men wounded, and 1 man missing.
October 27–28, 1864
Battle of Fair Oaks
The regiment lost 3 men wounded.
November 2–17, 1864
Detached for duty in New York during Presidential election of 1864
November 1864
Duty in trenches north of James and before Richmond
December 1864
Assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps
April 1865
Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps
April 3, 1865
Occupation of Richmond and Provost duty in Richmond and in the Dept. of Virginia
July 1865
Assigned to 2nd Independent Brigade, 24th Army Corps
August 31, 1865
Mustered out at Richmond, Va. under Colonel Frederick F. Wead, Lieutenant Colonel William Kreutzer and Major William H. Rogers
Regiment losses
The 98th New York Infantry Regiment lost:
by death and killed in action: 2 officers and 61 enlisted men
of wounds received in action: 2 officers and 37 enlisted men
of disease and other causes: 4 officers and 132 enlisted men
total: 8 officers and 230 enlisted men
aggregate: 238 of whom 22 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy[11]