The regiment was organized in Albany, New York, and was mustered in for a two-year enlistment on May 22, 1861.

The regiment sailed aboard the steamship Star of the South from New York Harbor for Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1861.

[2] The regiment was mustered out of service on June 2, 1863, and those men who had signed three-year enlistments or re-enlisted were transferred to the 60th New York.

[3] Private Isaac Sly of Lockport was the first man killed in this regiment.

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