Civil War

96th Infantry Regiment
Civil War
Macomb's Regiment; Plattsburg Regiment

http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/96thInf/96thInfMain.htm

History
The following is taken from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Frederick Phisterer. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912.

Mustered in: February 20 to March 7, 1862
Mustered out: February 6, 1866

This regiment, Col. James Fairman, was organized at Plattsburg, and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years February 20 to March 7, 1862. In August, 1862, Company G was merged into Company C. January 27, 1864, Company D was consolidated with Company B. December 1, 1864, the men of the 92d Infantry, not mustered out with their regiment, were assigned to this, and reformed Companies D and G. At the expiration of its term of enlistment, the men entitled thereto were discharged, and the regiment retained in service. June 13 and 29, 1865, the men of the 118th and 184th Infantry, respectively, not mustered out with their regiment, were assigned to this.

The companies were recruited principally:

A at Chateaugay;

B, C, D, H and K at Plattsburg and vicinity;

E at Fort Edward; F at Chazy and Mooers;

G at Ticonderoga; I at Warrensburg.

The regiment left the State March 11, 1862; 
served in the 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 4th Corps, Army of the Potomac, from March, 1862; 
in 2d Brigade, same division and corps, from June, 1862; 
at Camp Hamilton, Va., from August, 1862; 
in Wessell's Brigade, 4th Corps, at Suffolk, Va., from November, 1862; 
in Hunt's, 1st, Brigade, Wessell's, 1st, Division, Department of North Carolina, from December, 1862; 
in 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 18th Corps, from January, 1863; 
in the District of Albemarle, Department of North Carolina, from May, 1863; 
in the District of Currituck, Va., from December, 1863; 
in the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Corps, Army of the James, from April, 1864; 
in the 2d Brigade, same division and corps, from July 25, 1864; 
in New York harbor in November, 1864; 
in 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 24th Corps, Army of the James, from December, 1864; 
in the 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 24th Corps, from June, 1865; 
in the Department of Virginia, from August, 1865; 
and it was honorably discharged and mustered out, under Col. Stephen Moffitt, February 6, 1866, at City Point, Va.

During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 7 officers, 41 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 3 officers, 19 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 2 officers, 158 enlisted men; total, 12 officers, 218 enlisted men; aggregate, 230; of whom 36 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy.

 History of Clinton and Franklin Counties 1978 reprint of 1880 edition
Company F, 96th Regiment - MOOERS, CLINTON COUNTY NY

TALLMAN, GEORGE
Date Enlisted: 20 Nov 1862
Notes: Died

TALLMAN, JAMES
Date Enlisted: 20 Nov 1862
Notes: Re enlisted same company and regiment Jan 15, 1864

TALLMAN, JOHN M.
Date Enlisted: 20 Nov 1862
Notes: Re enlisted same company and regiment Jan 15, 1864

SCARLETT, JAMES
Date Enlisted: 18 Nov 1861
Notes: Re enlisted Co L 1st Eng March 1, 1865

SCARLETT, JOHN
Date Enlisted: 18 Nov 1861
Notes: Promoted to Sgt, re enlisted

SCARLETT, RICHARD
Date Enlisted: 28 Nov 1861
Enlisted As: 2d Sgt
Notes: Re enlisted Co L 1st Eng Jan 1, 1864; died Jan 14, 1864 at Fortress Monroe, VA

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