62nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment The Anderson Zouaves was a New York volunteer regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . It was raised under special authority of the War Department in New York City by Col . John Lafayette Riker in May and June 1861 , in response to President Abraham Lincoln ' s call for 75 , 000 volunteers to suppress the insurrection in the rebellious Southern states of the United States of America . The regiment was named in honor of , and raised under the auspices of , Major Robert Anderson , " the hero of Fort Sumter " . The regiment was later numerically designated the Sixty - second New York State Volunteers . The regiment was mustered in at Saltersville ( now part of Bayonne ) , New Jersey on June 30 and July 1 , 1861 , and was mustered out at Fort Schuyler , New York Harbor , on August 30 , 1865 . It lost during its term of service 3 officers and 85 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded , and 2 officers and 82 enlisted men by disease . Total 172 . Three members of the regiment were awarded the Medal of Honor : Edward Brown , Jr . , James R . Evans and Charles . E . Morse . The regiment left New York from its Camp Astor on Rikers Island on August 21 , 1861 . The regiment embarked upon the steamer Kill - von - Kull by which the men and the camp equippage were transported the Elizabethport NJ , from where the regiment was transported to Washington by the Central New - Jersey Railroad . The regiment arrived in Baltimore at 9am the next morning where they disembarked in order to change trains . On their march through the town the regiment was cheered by the crowd . By 1pm the regiment and its equipment had been transferred to the carriages at the south bound depot and by late that day the regiment arrived in Washington . On August 23 , the Anderson Zouaves marched through Washington and on to Meridian Hill where they were reviewed the next day by William H . Seward . On September 13 , 1861 the regiment was brigaded with the 6th New Jersey , the 55th New York , Gardes Lafayette and the 102nd Pennsylvania ( the Old 13th Pittsburgh Washington Infantry ) , under the command of General John J . Peck . On September 26 , the regiment broke camp in obeyance to an order received the previous evening and marched two or three miles to the village of Kalorama on Rock Creek , where , on the rocky , sloping ground of Swartz ' Farm the brigade established Camp Holt . After two weeks in this location , October 9 , 1861 , the Anderson Zouaves along with the rest of Peck ' s brigade was moved to Tennallytown where it replaced McCall ' s Division of the Pennsylvania Reserves , which had crossed the Chain Bridge into Virginia the day previous . On October 1 , 1861 , while at Camp Tennally , the regiment ' s Lieutenant Colonel , William S . Tisdale , was discharged due to disability and was replaced by David J . Nevin , the captain of company " D " . The Anderson Zouaves spent the winter in camp at Tennallytown , until it took part in the Advance on Manassas on March 10 , 1862 . The regiment marched to Prospect Hill where it lay for three days , before returning to its old camp at Tennallytown . On March 26 , the regiment broke camp once again , this time to embark aboard transports at Georgetown harbor for McClellan ' s Peninsula Campaign .