ALBERT SEELY

Last Name: Seely
First Name: Albert

18th Infantry Regiment
Civil War
New York State Rifles; Riflemen

History
The following is taken from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Frederick Phisterer. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912.

Mustered in: May 17, 1861
Mustered out: May 28, 1863

This regiment, Col. William A. Jackson, was accepted by the State and received its numerical designation May 13, 1861; was organized at Albany, and there mustered in the service of the United States for two years May 17, 1861. May 11, 1863, the three years' men of the regiment were transferred to the 121st N. Y. Volunteers.

The companies were recruited principally: A and E at Schenectady; B, F, H and I at Albany and immediate vicinity; C at Fishkill; D—<Walkill Guards — at Middletown and in Sullivan county; G at Canandaigua, and K at Ogdensburg.

The regiment left the State June 19, 1861; served at Washington, D. C., from June 21, 1861; in 2d Brigade, 5th Division, Army of Northeastern Virginia, from July 13, 1861; in Franklin's Brigade, Division of Potomac, from August 4, 1861; in Newton's Brigade, Franklin's Division, Army of the Potomac, from October 15, 1861; in 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac, from March 13, 1862; in the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac, from May, 1862, and, commanded by Col. George R. Myers, was honorably discharged and mustered out at Albany May 28, 1863.

During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 3 officers, 28 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 1 officer, 7 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 1 officer, 35 enlisted men; total, 5 officers, 70 enlisted men; aggregate, 75; of whom 3 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy