List of Engagements of
the 67th New York Volunteer Infantry
The First Long Island Volunteers
Compiled by Historian Justin Parker
1862
Duty in the defense of Washington D.C., until March
March 11 - 15: March to Prospect Hill, VA
March 25: Ordered to the Peninsula, VA
March - July: Peninsula Campaign
April 5 - May 4: Siege operations at Yorktown, VA
May 5: Battle of Williamsburg (held in reserve)
May 31 - June 1: Battle of Seven Pines (engaged May 31)
June 25- July 1: Seven days before Richmond
July 1: Battle of Malvern Hill
Until August 16: At Harrison's Landing, VA
August 16 - September 1: Movement to Alexandria, VA
September 6 - 22: Maryland Campaign
September 16 - 17: Battle of Antietam (held in reserve)
September 19 - 20: Battle of Williamsport (engaged as skirmishers September 19)
Until October 20: Duty in Maryland
October 20 - November 19: Movement to Stafford Court House, VA
December 5: Movement to Belle Plains, VA
December 12 - 15: Battle of Fredericksburg (held in reserve)
Late December 1862 – Mid-April 1863: Winter quarters at Falmouth, VA
1863
January 20 - 24: Burnside's "Mud March",
April 27 - May 6: Chancellorsville Campaign
April 29 - May 2: Operations about Franklin's Crossing
May 3: Battle of Marye’s Heights (Second Fredericksburg)
May 3 - 4: Battle of Salem Church
May 4: Bank’s Ford
June 3 – July 24: Gettysburg Campaign
July 2 - 3: Battle of Gettysburg (engaged July 3)
July 5 - 24: In pursuit of General Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia
Until October: Duty on the Rappahannock Line
October 9 - 22: Bristoe Campaign
November 7 - 8: Advance to line of the Rappahannock
November 7: Second Battle of Rappahannock Station (engaged as skirmishers)
November 26 - December 2: Mine Run Campaign
December 1863 – January 1864: Winter quarters at Brandy Station, VA
1864
January – April: Prison Guard Duty at Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, Ohio
May 4 - June 15: Campaign from the Rapidan to the James (Overland Campaign)
May 5 - 7: Battle of the Wilderness (engaged May 6)
May 8 - 21: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
- May 10: Upton’s Attack on the “Mule Shoe” (held in reserve)
- May 12: Assault on the Salient or "Bloody Angle"
May 23 - 26: On the line of the North Anna River
May 26 - 28: On the line of the Pamunkey River
May 28 - 31: Operations around Totopotomoy Creek
June 1 - 12: Battle of Cold Harbor (engaged June 1)
June 17 - 18: Before Petersburg
June 17 - July 9: Siege of Petersburg, VA
The men of the battalion that had joined the regiment during the summer of 1861 and had chosen not to re-enlist for another 3 years departed for Brooklyn, New York June 20 and mustered out of service July 4, 1864. The 67th New York is consolidated down to five companies A-E.
July 9 - 13: Moved to Washington D.C.; Repulse of Early's Attack on Fort Stevens and the Northern Defenses of Washington
August 1: Transferred with the rest of 6th Corps into the Army of the Shenandoah
August 7 - September 1: Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign
The remnants of the First Long Island Volunteers are merged with the 65th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment "1st U.S. Chasseurs", where they form four of the ten re-organized companies of the 65th New York (companies A, B, D and E) September 1, 1864.
