Includes units where soldiers were primarily recruited from towns or villages within Orleans County.
INFANTRY UNITS
UNIT |
COMPANY |
AREAS |
NICKNAMES |
ROSTER |
| 27th New York | K |
Albion | Union Regiment | NYS Military Museum |
| 28th New York | D |
Medina | Niagara Rifles Scott Life Guard |
NYS Military Museum |
| 28th New York | G |
Albion | Niagara Rifles Scott Life Guard |
NYS Military Museum |
| 90th New York | I |
Medina Ridgeway Shelby |
Hancock Guard McClellan Chasseurs McClellan Rifles |
NYS Military Museum |
| 105th New York | C |
Holley | Irish Regiment LeRoy Regiment Rochester Regiments, Infantry |
NYS Military Museum |
| 147th New York | C |
Albion | Oswego County Regiment, 4th | NYS Military Museum |
| 151st New York | A |
Medina | Independent Rifles; Co. A | NYS Military Museum |
| 151st New York | D |
Albion | NYS Military Museum | |
| 151st New York | G |
Orleans County | NYS Military Museum | |
| 154th New York | A |
Carlton | NYS Military Museum | |
| 164th New York | B |
Ridgeway | Buffalo's Irish Regiment Corcoran Guard Corcoran Zouaves Corcoran's Brigade or Irish Legion |
NYS Military Museum |
CAVALRY UNITS
UNIT |
COMPANY |
AREAS |
NICKNAMES |
ROSTER |
| 2nd New York Mounted Rifles | A |
Ridgeway | Governor's Guard Mounted Rifles, 2d |
NYS Military Museum |
| 2nd New York Mounted Rifles | E |
Carlton | Governor's Guard Mounted Rifles, 2d |
NYS Military Museum |
| 2nd New York Mounted Rifles | L |
Barre Carlton Gaines Kendall Ridgeway Shelby |
Governor's Guard Mounted Rifles, 2d |
NYS Military Museum |
| 3rd New York | F |
Medina | Van Alen Cavalry Mix's Cavalry |
NYS Military Museum |
| 6th New York | G |
Albion | Ira Harris Cavalry Ira Harris Guard, 2d |
NYS Military Museum |
| 8th New York | F |
Carlton Kendall |
Rochester Cavalry Regiment | NYS Military Museum |
| 22nd New York | F |
Albion Barre |
Rochester Cavalry Regiment | NYS Military Museum |
ARTILLERY UNITS
UNIT |
COMPANY |
AREAS |
NICKNAMES |
ROSTER |
| 8th New York Heavy Artillery | A |
Medina | NYS Military Museum | |
| 8th New York Heavy Artillery | C |
Albion | NYS Military Museum | |
| 8th New York Heavy Artillery | K |
Clarendon | NYS Military Museum | |
| 14th New York Heavy Artillery | B |
Barre Ridgeway |
NYS Military Museum | |
| 14th New York Heavy Artillery | E |
Barre | NYS Military Museum | |
| 12th New York Light Independent Artillery | Kendall | NYS Military Museum | ||
| 17th New York Light Independent Artillery | Medina Ridgeway Shelby |
Orleans Battery | NYS Military Museum | |
| 25th New York Light Independent Artillery | Medina Ridgeway Shelby |
NYS Military Museum |
N.Y. Unit Information - regimental information from Phisterer's "New York in the War of the Rebellion"
Updated and reformatted by Matthew Ballard
December 28, 2025
Compiled & converted to HTML by Richard Callard
June 2002