The Fourth Alabama Painting by Don Troiani

Third Brigade, First Division

Members of the 79th New York Infantry

Members of the 79th New York State Militia

Seventy-ninth New York State Militia
Redesignated Seventy-ninth New York Infantry

COLONEL J CAMERON
LIEUTENANT COLONEL S M ELLIOT
MAJOR D MCCLELLAN

Company A: CAPT. W MANSON
Company B: CAPT. J A FARRISH
Company C: CAPT. T BARCLAY
Company D: CAPT. D BROWN
Company E: CAPT. D MORRISON
Company F: CAPT. J CHRISTIE
Company G: CAPT. J LAING
Company H: CAPT. J E COULTER
Company I: CAPT. R T SHILLINGLAN
Company K: CAPT. H A ELLIS

Sources

"Although the services of the Highlanders were among the first tendered under the call for 75,000 men for three months service, and authority had been given to prepare at once for the field, the membership was so small that stronger regiments were sent first."

The Seventy-ninth Highlanders, New York Volunteers in the War of Rebellion 1861–1865, by William Todd (of Company B)

New York in the War of Rebellion, 1861–1865 (Volume 1), byFrederick Phisterer

Notes

The 79th New York State Militia, failing to be ordered to the front for three months, organised, under authority from the War Department, as volunteers at New York City where it was mustered in for three years on 29 May, 1861. In January, 1864, members of the 51st New York Infantry, and of the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry, 50th Pennsylvania Infantry and 100th Pennsylvania Infantry, were attached to the regiment, serving with it about two months. On 13 May, 1864, the men not entitled to be mustered out were formed into two companies, A and B; those entitled to be mustered out at the expiration of the term of service of the regiment proceeded to New York City and were there discharged, under Lieutenant Colonel J More, on 31 May, 1864. In November, 1864, the men enlisted by Colonel S McK. Elliott joined the companies in the field as Companies C and D; in January, 1865, another company, E, joined, and in March, 1865, Company F was organised in the field from recruits received. The regiment was mustered out near Alexandria, Virginia, on 14 July, 1865.

The Military District of the Potomac was established on 25 July, 1861 by consolidating the Military District of Washington and the Department of Northeastern Virginia and redesignated the Department of the Potomac on 15 August, 1861. The 79th New York Infantry was assigned to Smith's Brigade, Army of the Potomac, in August, 1861, under the command of Brigadier General W F Smith.