82nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 82nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment , the " Second Militia , " " Second Regiment N . Y . S . Light Infantry , " or " State Guards " , was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 2d Regiment Militia failing to be ordered to the front under the first call , organized in New York City as a regiment of volunteers , Col . G . W . B - . Tompkins , under special authority from the War Department ; and was mustered in the service of the United States for three years at Washington , D . C , between May 20 and June 17 , 1861 . Company A was mustered out and consolidated into the other companies ' July 15 , 1861 ; a new Company A joined in September , 1861 ; Company D , the howitzer company of the regiment , served mostly detached from it , until it was finally converted into the 3d Battery of Light Artillery , and , in September , 1861 , was replaced by a new company . The regiment was recruited principally in New York City , turned over to the State in September , 1861 , and received its numerical volunteer designation December 7 , 1861 . The men not entitled to be mustered out with the regiment were , May 22 , 1864 , formed into a battalion of five companies , those of A and C forming Company A ; those of B and G forming Company B ; those of F and I forming Company C ; those of D and H forming Company D , and those of E and K forming Company E , and June 28 , 1864 , the men of the 42d Infantry , not mustered out with their regiment , were transferred to this battalion , which was finally , July 10 , 1864 , transferred to the 59th Infantry . The regiment left the State May 18 , 1861 ; served at and near Washington , D . C . , from May 20 , 1861 ; in 2d Brigade , 1st Division , Army of Northeastern Virginia , from July , 1861 ; in Stone ' s Brigade , Division Potomac , from August 1 , 1861 ; in Gorman ' s Brigade , Stone ' s Division , Army of Potomac , from October 15 , 1861 ; in same , 1st , brigade , 2d Division , 2d Corps , Army of Potomac , from March , 1862 . The regiment was quartered near the capitol until July 3 , 1861 , when it crossed into Virginia and engaged at Bull Run , with a loss of 60 in killed , wounded and missing . After passing the winter in the defenses of Washington , it moved to the Peninsula with the general advance under McClellan in March , 1862 . It participated in the siege of Yorktown ; the battle of Fair Oaks ; the Seven Days ' fighting ; was next active in the Maryland campaign and suffered severe losses at Antietam in the advance of Sedgwick ' s division , upon the Dunker Church . Out of 339 men engaged , 128 were reported killed , wounded or missing . The regiment arrived at Falmouth , Virginia late in November ; participated in the battle of Fredericksburg ; returned to its camp at Falmouth ; was active at Chancellorsville in May , 1863 ; after a short rest at Falmouth marched to Gettysburg and there suffered fearful loss , 192 members out of 365 engaged , Col . Huston being numbered among the dead . It next participated in the engagements of the 2nd corps at Auburn and Bristoe Station in the autumn and in the Mine Run campaign , and went into winter quarters at Brandy Station , Virginia . Camp was broken for the Wilderness campaign late in April , 1864 , and the regiment was in action constantly until after the first assault on Petersburg , where it lost 1 man killed , 9 wounded and 111 missing . On June 25 , 1864 , the term of service expired and the original members not reenlisted were mustered out , the remainder of the regiment being consolidated into a battalion of five companies . The regiment was conspicuous for its dash and daring and became famous for its fighting qualities . Total strength and casualties . The total enrollment of the regiment was 1 , 452 members ; during its service the regiment lost by death , killed in action , 5 officers , 129 enlisted men ; of wounds received in action , 5 officers , 38 enlisted men ; of disease and other causes , 5 officers , 84 enlisted men ; total , 15 officers , 251 enlisted men ; aggregate , 266 ; of whom 24 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy .