Unit

Federal Regiment

28th New York Infantry

Organized: Albany, NY; mustered in 05/22/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Lockport, NY 06/02/1863

Commanding Officer:
Capt. William H. H. Mapes

Statistics for Maryland Campaign
  Initial Strength: 65
  Killed in Action (KIA): 2
  Wounded (WIA): 9
  Captured (POW): 1
  Losses, % of Initial Strength: 18.5%

Map Showing this Unit:
   Detail Map #2: Hood's Division Retakes the Cornfield

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit:
   Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
   Tablet #27: Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
   Tablet #28: Williams' Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
   Tablet #29: Crawford's Brigade, Williams' Division - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Twelfth (XII) Army Corps
  Division - 1st Division, XII Corps
  Brigade - 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XII Corps

History of the Unit:
The Regiment was organized at Albany in early May 1861 in response to the first call for troops at the outbreak of War. They were mustered into Federal service for two years on 22 May.1

In the Antietam Campaign:
By 4 September 1862, at the start of the Maryland Campaign, the Regiment had been decimated by casualties and disease. As a result, they were consolidated into 4 companies, commanded by Captains Fitzgerald, Fenn, Waller and Judd. Captain Mapes, recently returned from recruiting duty in New York was senior officer present and commanded the unit.

The Regiment saw no action at South Mountain on September 14th, and was only briefly under fire on the Federal right at Antietam on the 17th.1

We have 3 individuals in the AotW database for this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
C	Capt	Mapes, William H. H.
M	Pvt	McCarty, James	Died 09/24
Unk	Pvt	Coats, George	Died 00/00

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Notes

1 Boyce, Charles William, A Brief History of the Twenty-eighth Regiment New York State Volunteers, First Brigade, First Division, Twelfth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Buffalo: C.W. Boyce, 1896 [AotW citation 685]

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