3rd New York Volunteer Infantry

3rd New York Volunteer Infantry (1898-1898) - Organized and mustered into the service of the United States at Hempstead, N. Y., May 17,1898, with 45 officers and 972 enlisted men.

• Assignments:
  • Assigned to First Brigade, Second Division, Second Army Corps, May 29

• Movements:
  • Left Hempstead May 28; arrived at Camp Alger, Va, May 29
  • Left Camp Alger August 3, marching to Thoroughfare, Va; thence to Camp Meade, Pa, arriving August 29
  • Left Camp Meade September 12; arrived at Elmira, N. Y., September 13
  • Furloughed for thirty days September 14.

Mustered out of the service of the United States at Elmira, Rochester, Geneva, Syracuse, Oswego, Niagara, Medina, Tonawanda, Olean, Hornellsville, and Auburn, N. Y., November 30 to December 10, 1898, with 47 officers and 1,222 enlisted men. Casualties while in service: Officers-died of disease, 2. Enlisted men-died of disease, 31; suicide, 1.

From:

• Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, Center for Military History, U.S. Army, Vol 1
  • The Organization of the Army during the Spanish-American War, page 509
  • Organization of Volunteers, page 581

See Also:

• Spanish American War
• Spanish American War Regiments
• Spanish American War Camps