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Company "B"

109th Infantry Regiment New York Volunteers

Company "B" was recruited mostly from the Tioga County towns at Candor, Richford, Newark Valley, Berkshire, Owego and Caroline (Tompkins, Co.) New York during the month of August 1862 in response to a national call for more troops by the fretfull General George Brinton McClellan to reinforce the defenders surrounding the Washington, DC area.  The recruits were to report to and assemble at Binghamton, Broome Co., NY for mustering in, outfitting and basic infantry training. Company B mustered in on 27 August 1862  Normally raw recruits would have been trained for about 45-60 days before being given any assignments..   However, with General Pope's humiliating defeat at the "2nd Bull Run" again near Manassas Junction, VA on 29 Aug., 1862 at the hands of General 's Lee and JEB Stuart; training was cut seriously short and the Regiment was ordered to leave Binghamton, NY on 30 August 1862 and report to Annapolis Junction, MD.  

Officers in Company B

Captain Robert H. S. Hyde, Commanding Officer; attained rank and appointed CO on 12 Aug 1862 to 7 May 1863 when he was discharged (unknown reason)

Captain Edwin Evans¹, Commanding Officer, attained rank and appointed CO on 16 Oct 1863 to the Regimental "Muster Out" on 4 Jun 1865 .

First Lieutenenant Benjamin C. Wade, Executive Officer; attained rank and appointed to XO on 27 Aug 1862 to 7 May 1863 when he succeeded to Acting Company Commander replacing the discharged Captain Hyde from 7 May 1863 to 16 Oct 1863; then replaced by newly commissioned Captain Edwin Evans (formerly Company D's 1st Sergeant) and reverted to Company B's Executive Officer from 16 Oct 1863 to the Regimental "Muster Out" on 4 June 1865.

Second Lieutenant George L Haynes attained rank Aug 1862; resigned commission on 10 Jan 1863

Second Lieutenant James L Rightmire attained rank Aug 1862; resigned commission on 31 Oct 1863

Second Lieutenant Charles Nelson² attained rank Aug 1862; discharged 11 Nov 1864

Second Lieutenant Frank L.Olmstead² attained rank Aug 1862; discharged 27 Feb 1865

Second Lieutenant Edwin Slosson attained rank 28 Feb 1865 to the Regimental "Muster Out" on 4 June 1865.

1.  Note: Edwin Evans b. abt 1840 in either Tioga, Tompkins or Broome Co., NY enrolled 20 Aug 1862, age 22, at Binghamton, Broome Co., NY to serve three (3) years.  He was mustered in as a Private in Company D of the 109th Infantry Regiment NY Volunteers.  He was promoted to 1st Sergeant of Company D (date rank attained presently unknown)                                                     2. Note:  it is presumed that 2nd Lt's Nelson and Olmstead were discharged from the service due to wounds. 

109th Infantry Regiment NYV Casualty Report
109th Infantry Regiment NY Volunteers Duty Roll:  57 Officers & 1,296 Men for a total compliment of 1,353

	Total Enrolled	Killed or Died of Wounds	Died Disease, Acc or POW	Total Killed or Died	Total as % of Company
Military Units	O+M=Total	Officers   Men     Total	Officers   Men     Total	Officers   Men    Total	Officers* Men** Total***

HQ Field & Staff	7+10=17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Company A	5+122=127	0	18	18	0	17	17	0	35	35	0.0	28.7	27.5
Company B	5+131=136	0	12	12	0	14	14	0	26	26	0.0	19.8	19.1
Company C	5+149=154	2	15	17	0	19	19	2	34	36	3.5	22.8	23.4
Company D	5+119=124	0	17	17	0	14	14	0	31	31	0.0	26.0	25.0
Company E	5+120=125	0	17	17	0	14	14	0	31	31	0.0	25.8	24.8
Company F	5+118=123	2	17	19	0	14	14	2	31	33	3.5	26.3	26.8
Company G	5+130=135	0	14	14	0	12	12	0	26	26	0.0	20.0	19.3
Company H	5+125=130	0	28	28	0	21	21	0	49	49	0.0	39.2	37.7
Company I	5+131=136	0	10	10	0	14	14	0	24	24	0.0	18.3	17.6
Company K	5+141=146	1	12	13	0	25	25	1	37	38	1.75	26.2	26.0

  *  Officers % are Officers Killed or Died as a percentage of total Officers in the Regiment rather than as a percentage of any Company.
 **  Men % are Men Killed or Died as a percentage of their repective Company's Total Enrollment of Men excluding Officers.
*** Total % is Total Killed or Died as a percentage of the Total Enrollment of their respective Company (all Officers and Men)

Regimental Casualty Totals and Comparisons

Item/Description

#

% Comparisons

Officers Killed or Died of Wounds	5	8.8% of the Officers or  0.4% of the total Regimental compliment
Officers Died of Disease, Accidents or as a POW	0	0.0%
Officers Wounded	20	35.1% of Reg. Officers or 1.5% of the total Regimental compliment
Men Killed or Died of Wounds	160	12.3% of enlisted/NCO ranks or 11.8% of the total Regimental compliment
Men Died of Disease, Accidents or as a POW	164	12.7% of enlisted/NCO ranks or 12.1% of the total Regimental compliment
Men Wounded	265	20.4% of enlisted/NCO ranks or 19.6% of the total Regimental compliment
TOTAL KILLED OR DIED	329	24.3 % of the Regimental compliment (of which 41 died in CSA Prison Camps)
TOTAL WOUNDED	285	21.1 % of the total compliment of the Regiment
TOTAL DEAD & WOUNDED	614	45.4% of the total compliment of the Regiment

The highly decorated 109th Infantry Regiment NYV was in the field under dangerous and deadly battle conditions for 11 months and 14 days from 4 May 1864 to 18 April 1865.  These gallant men had survived what history would term the bloodiest 6 weeks of the Civil War (Battle of the Wilderness) and were instrumental in the collape of General Lee's army and the CSA.

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