New York 188th Infantry, Company K (Union)

10/4/64

Organized - New York 188th Infantry, Company K - New York

4/1/65

Battle - Five Forks - Five Forks, Virginia

The Union victory along the White Oak Road on March 31st threatened to destabilize the entire Confederate line west of Petersburg. General Robert E. Lee ordered Maj. Gen. George Pickett with his infantry division and the cavalry divisions of Col. Thomas Munford, Maj. Gen. W.H.F. Lee, and Maj. Gen Thomas Rosser to hold the vital crossroads of Five Forks, along the White Oak Road five miles west of the previous fighting there. Pickett's defensive line was not well constructed, and much of his cavalry force w…READ MORE

7/1/65

Mustered Out - New York 188th Infantry, Company K - New York

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regiment -New York 188th Infantry (Union)

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