126th New York Infantry
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division
(Front):126th New York
Infantry.
3d Brig. 3d Div.
2d Corps.
July 3d 1863.
(Back):
The Regiment was in position two hundred yards at the left, July 2d until 7 p.m. when the Brigade was conducted thirteen hundred yards further to the left and the Regiment with the 111th N.Y. and the 125th N.Y. charged the enemy in the swale, near the source of Plum Run, driving them therefrom and advancing one hundred and seventy five yards beyond, towards the Emmitsburg Road, to a position indicated by a monument on Sickles Avenue. At dark the Regiment returned to near its former position. In the afternoon of July 3d it took this position and assisted in repulsing the charge of the enemy, capturing three stands of colors and many prisoners.
Number Engaged. Killed. Wounded. Missing.
Officers 30. 5. 9.
Enlisted Men 425. 35. 172. 10.
Total Engaged 455. Total losses 231.
(Left):The Regiment participated in
the following engagements.
Harper's Ferry - Tolopotomoy
Gettysburg - cold Harbor
Auburn Ford - Petersburg
Bristoe Station - Deep Bottom
Mine Run - Strawberry Plains
Morton's Ford - Ream's Station
Wilderness - Boydton Plank Road
Po River - Sutherland's Station
Spottyslvania - Farmville
North Anna - Appomattox
(Right):Colonel Eliakim Sherrill.
Born February 16th 1813.
Died July 4th 1863.Served as a member of Congress and State Senator.
Entered the U.S. military service as Colonel of the 126th N.Y. Infantry in 1862.
Mortally wounded July 3d 1863, while in command of his Brigade.
Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
