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

January 14, 1865, Col. Nathan G. Axtell received authority to recruit this regiment for one, two and three years' service; it was organized at Albany, and there mustered in the service of the United States; Companies A, B, C and D March 13; E, F, G and H March 28, I April 3, and K April 8, 1865.

The companies were recruited principally: A and B at Albany and Utica; C at Troy, Albany and Utica; D at Schenectady, Kingston and Poughkeepsie; E at Plattsburg, Poughkeepsie, Troy, Utica and Schenectady; F at Plattsburg, Kingston, Schenectady, Poughkeepsie, Troy and Jamaica; G at Schenectady, Albany, Troy, Goshen and Kingston; H at Schenectady, Plattsburg, Poughkeepsie, Troy and Albany; I at Schenectady, Plattsburg, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Troy, Albany and New York city; and K at Tarrytown, Jamaica, Kingston, Troy and Albany.

The regiment left the State in detachments in March and April, 1865; served in the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, Army of the Shenandoah, from March, 1865, and was honorably discharged and mustered out, under Lieut.- Col. Barent Van Buren, August 28, 1865, at Cumberland, Md.; having lost by death of disease and other causes, 26 enlisted men.