Federal Regiment

57th New York Infantry

Commanding Officers on the Antietam Campaign:
LCol. Philip J. Parisen
Maj. Alford B. Chapman

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Second Army Corps
  Division - 1st Division, 2nd Corps
  Brigade - 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps

Statistics

Initial Strength: 309; Killed in Action (KIA): 53;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 17.2%

Map Showing this Unit

Detail Map #9: Richardson's Division Attacks the Sunken Road (10-11 am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #35: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 15 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #34: Richardson's Division, Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 8 PM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #115: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #47: Brooke's Brigade, Richardson's Division - 17 Sep, 10 AM to 17 Sep, 2 PM
Tablet #121: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 6 PM
Tablet #116, cont: Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #44: Richardson's Division, Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 2 PM

More on the Web

Captain Gilbert Frederick's The Story of a Regiment: being a Record of the Military Services of the Fifty-seventh New York State Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (1895) is online in its entirety from the Internet Archives.

We have 74 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Bridges, John D.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Collins, Cornelius	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Commass, Joseph D.	WIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Cooper, Henry W.	KIA 09/17
A	Corp	Garretson, Charles K.	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Honsel, Henry C.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Iren, George	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Kennedy, John	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Ladlay, George	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Mesler, William P.
A	Corp	Miller, Andrew	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Murphy, John P.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Reed, Nathaniel	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Roy, John	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Wright, David	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Bice, Peter	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Carr, Henry	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Carr, John W.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Griffiths, Frederick	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Halstead, Edmund Rogers	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hanson, Silas W.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Kenyon, Richard	AWOL 09/17
B	Pvt	Lane, Thomas	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Moll, John	MWIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Savage, Charles C.	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Stockwell, William Seward	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Will, John	MWIA 09/17
C	Capt	Bell, John H.	WIA 09/17
C	Sgt	Frazer, Alexander	WIA 00/00
C	Pvt	Snyder, James	WIA 09/17
D	Capt	Britt, James Wallace	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Farrell, Denis	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Myers, Berthold	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Campbell, Joseph	WIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Risley, Charles	KIA 09/17
E	Corp	Tyrrell, Edward	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Bates, William	KIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Finlason, William H.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Bassett, James	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Eglington, William	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Hayley, Patrick	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Kenney, James	AWOL 09/17
G	Pvt	McQuirk, John	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	West, Benjamin	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Adams, Casper Korn	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Adams, Samuel	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Anderson, John	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Bender, Henry	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Chambers, Augustus	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Clark, Jesse L.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Clark, Jesse L.	WIA 09/17
H	Lt	Higbee, Henry H.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	McGowan, Franklin	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Stanford, Christopher	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Benjamin, Henry	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Brandt, James H.	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Folger, Henry H.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Gerard, John	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Homan, William	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Jepson, George	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Kelly, Martin	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Marion, William F.	KIA 09/17
I	Corp	Park, William B.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Reese, William	KIA 09/17
I	Corp	Ruland, Joel Edwin	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Simonson, John	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Bridge, Jeptha	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Bugbee, Henry F.	MWIA 09/17
K	Corp	Ferguson, Uriah L.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Jones, Evan Thomas	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Stilwell, Clark	MWIA 09/17
F&S	Maj	Chapman, Alford B
F&S	Lt	Favill, Josiah Marshall
F&S	LCol	Parisen, Philip John	KIA 09/17

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