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[Roster for 44th New York Volunteer Infantry]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08966.01 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript signed Date: February 1863 circa Pagination: 80 p. : Height: 41 cm, Width: 28 cm Order a Copy

Roster lists officers and enlisted men. For officers lists name, rank, date appointed, and and remarks on change in their status, such as death, discharge or promotion. For enlisted men lists name, age, hieght, complexion, eye and hair color, occupation, how, when, by whom, and for how long they enlisted, and remarks on change in their status, such as death, discharge or promotion. For those men killed, lists battle and date. The regiment, nicknamed "Ellsworth's Avengers," became part of the Army of the Potomac, and served in the Peninsular Campaign, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Gettysburg.

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