First St. Lawrence County Regiment; First Northern New York Regiment.
This regiment, Colonel Thomas A. Davies, was accepted by the State and received its numerical designation May 9th, 1861; organized at Albany and there mustered in the service of the United States for two years May 15th, 1861. In May, 1863, the three years' men of the regiment were assigned to the 121st N.Y. Vols.
The companies were recruited principally:
The regiment left the state June 27th, 1861; served at Washington, D.C., from June 29th, 1861; in the 2d Brigade, 5ht Division, Army N.E. Va., from July, 1861; in Heintzelman's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, from August 4th, 1861; in Slocum's Brigade, Franklin's Division, 1st Corps, A.P., from Mar. 13th, 1862; in the 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps, A.P., from May, 1862; and, commanded by Colonel Joel J. Seaver, it was honorably discharged and mustered out at Albany, May 22d, 1863.
During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 1 officer, 83 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 4 officers, 24 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 1 officer, 83 enlisted men; total, 6 officers, 190 enlisted men; aggregate, 196; of whom 2 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy; and it took part in the following engagements, etc:
| Fairfax C.H., Va. | July 17, 1861 |
| Bull Run, Va. | July 21, 1861 |
| Pohick Church, Va. | Sept. 21, 1861 |
| Pohick Church, Va. | Oct. 4, 1861 |
| West Point, Va. | May 7, 1862 |
| Near Mechanicsville, Va. | May 22, 1862 |
| Chickahominy, Va. | June 1, 1862 |
| Seven Days' Battle, Va. | June 25-July 2, 1862 |
| Gaines Mills | June 27, 1862 |
| Garnett's and Golding's Farms | June 28, 1862 |
| Glendale | June 30, 1862 |
| Malvern Hill | July 1, 1862 |
| Crampton's Pass, Md. | Sept. 14, 1862 |
| Antietam, Md. | Sept. 17, 1862 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | Dec. 11-15, 1862 |
| Franklin's Crossing, Va. | April 29-May 2, 1863 |
| Marye's Heights and Salem Church, Va. | May 3-4, 1863 |
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