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| | 26th NY Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War - NY Military Museum and Veterans Research Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | This regiment, Col. Burr Porter, was organized in the States of New York, Massachusetts and Vermont, under special authority from the War Department, for services on he northern frontiers for one year. |
 | | The New York battalion consisted of five companies, a, H, I, K and L, and under the rulings of the War Department, the field officers of the regiment were appointed by the Governor of this State. |
 | | These companies were mustered out and honorably discharged under Col. Ferris Jacobs, Jr.; L and I at Ogdensburg, July 1 and 3, 1865, respectively; H at Madison Barracks, Sackett's Harbor, July 7; K at Fort Porter, Buffalo, June 29; and G at Plattsburg, July 6, 1865; having lost by death of disease, three enlisted men. |
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