Id’d Civil War Quartermaster Rank Straps

Enlisted on 12/10/1861 at Cattaraugus, NY as a 1st Lieutenant.

On 12/10/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff NY 64th Infantry

He was discharged on 2/28/1862

Promotions:

* 1st Lieut 12/10/1861 (1st Lieut and Quartermaster)

Other Information:

born 5/19/1812

died 11/12/1871

Buried: Liberty Park Cemetery, Cattaraugus, NY

Federal Pension Information:

His Widow (Mary A Babb) applied for a pension on 10/1/1885 from the state of NY

application # 331,325

After the War he lived in Cattaraugus, NY

Bingham, Leman W. Bradley, William Glenny; Lieut.-Cols., Daniel

G.  Bingham, Enos C. Brooks, Leman W. Bradley, William Glenny,

Theodore Tyrer; Majs., Enos C. Brooks, Leman W. Bradley, William

Glenny, Lewis H. Fassett, Horatio N. Hunt, Theodore Tyrer, Albert

F.  Peterson.

The 64th, the Cattaraugus regiment, was the outgrowth of the 64th

militia and was recruited at Gowanda, Randolph, Otto, Rushford,

Ithaca, Little Valley, Wellsville, Owego Olean and Leon.  It was

mustered into the U. S. service at Elmira in Dec., 1861, for

three years; left the state for Washington on Dec. 10; was

quartered near the capitol; in Jan., 1862, was assigned to the

provisional brigade of Casey’s division; on March 13, it became a

part of the 1st brigade, 1st division, 2nd corps, Army of the

Potomac, and proceeded to the Peninsula with the general advance

under McClellan.

The regiment was present during the siege of Yorktown, but

received its first real test at Fair Oaks, where it behaved with

great steadiness under a fire which killed or wounded 173 of its

members.  It was active in the Seven Days’ battles, then went

into camp at Harrison’s landing; arrived at Manassas too late to

participate in that battle; took a prominent part in the battle

of Antietam, where Gen. Richardson was killed and Gen. Hancock

succeeded to the command of the division.

At Fredericksburg, in the famous assault of Hancock’s division on

Marye’s heights the loss of the regiment was 72 in killed and

wounded and immediately afterward it went into camp near

Falmouth.  At Chancellorsville in May, 1863, the 64th was placed

on the skirmish line under Col. Nelson A. Miles and shared in the

stubborn defense made by the regiments under his command, for

which they won the highest commendation.

The regiment moved in June to Gettysburg, where the division,

under Caldwell, fought brilliantly on July 2 in the celebrated

wheat-field and on the 3d defended its position stubbornly

against Pickett’s assault.  It lost at Gettysburg 98 killed,

wounded or missing out of 205 engaged.  The 2nd corps fought in

October at Auburn and Bristoe Station, where the 64th suffered

severe loss.

It participated in the Mine Run movement and established winter

quarters near Brandy Station.  During the winter of 1863-64 a

sufficient number of the regiment reenlisted to secure its

continuance in the field as a veteran organization, but after the

original members not reenlisted were mustered out in the autumn

of 1864 it was necessary to consolidate it into a battalion of

six companies.

It served through the Wilderness campaign, throughout the siege

of Petersburg and in the pursuit of Lee’s Army to Appomattox,

losing 16 in killed and wounded at Farmville.  Out of a total

enrollment of 1,313, the regiment lost during service 182 by

death from wounds and 129 from other causes.

The division in which it served saw the hardest service and

suffered the most heavy losses of any in the army and the 64th

was one of the finest fighting regiments in the war.  It bore

without flinching the severest trials and won fame and glory for

itself and the state.  It was mustered out at Washington, July

14, 1865.

Source:  The Union Army, Vol. 2, p. 97

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New York

SIXTY-FOURTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY (VETERAN).

First Cattaraugus Regiment.

(Three Years)

This regiment, Col. Thomas J. Parker, was organized by the

State November 13, 1861, at Elmira, and there mustered in the

service of the United States for three years, in December,

1861.  The 64th State Militia formed the nucleus of the

regiment.  At the expiration of its term of service, the men

entitled thereto were discharged in September and October,

1864, and the regiment retained in service, but at the same

time consolidated into a battalion of six companies, A, B, D,

E, G and H.

The companies were recruited principally: A at Gowanda; B

at Randolph; C at Otto; D at Rushford; E at Ithaca; F at Little

Valley; G at Wellsville; H at Owego; I at Olean, and K at Leon.

The regiment left the State December 10, 1861; served in

the Provisional Brigade, Casey’s Division, Army of the Potomac,

from January, 1862; in Howard’s, 1st, Brigade, Richardson’s,

1st, Division, 2d Corps, Army of the Potomac, from March 13,

1862; in 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 2d Corps, Army of the

Potomac, from June, 1862; in 1st Brigade, 1St Division, 2d

Corps, from September, 1862; in the 4th Brigade, 1st Division,

2d Corps, Army of the Potomac, from February, 1863; and it was

honorably discharged and mustered out, under Col. William G

Lenny, July I4, 1805, near Washington, D.C.

Horatio Babb

Commissioned on 12/10/1861 at Cattaraugus, NY, as a 1st Lieutenant into the Field & Staff, 64th New York Infantry, as the Regimental Quartermaster. He was discharged on 2/28/1862.

Federal Pension Information:
His Widow (Mary A Babb) applied for a pension on 10/1/1885 from the state of NY
application # 331,325

Parents
Thomas Babb b. 19 January 1762 d. 2 September 1838
Susan Rand b. 1790
Wife: Mary Ann DeMeritt b. 20 August 1811