Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/229 Surname: ------------------------- Ann, I don't know about any photographs of the 151st Infantry from Niagara County, but this is what was written up on its history in the book, "Souvenir History of Niagara County, New York," by The Pioneer Assoc. of Niagara Co., 1902: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST INFANTRY On August 20,1862, Col. Franklin Spalding, of Niagara Falls, succeeded by Col. William Emmerson, received authority to recruit this regiment. The companies were recruited as follows: B at Niagara Falls, F and I at Lockport, G in the counties of Niagara and Orleans, H in the County at large, and K principally at Sumerset, Newfane and Lockport, 506 enlisting from the County. It was organized at Lockport and mustered in the service of the United States for three years, October 22, 1862. The regiment left the State October 23, 1862; it served in the Middle Department, Eighth Corps, at and near Baltimore, Maryland, from October, 1862; in West Virginia in the Third Separate Brigade, Eighth Corp, from February 1863; at South Mountain, Maryland, in June 1863; in Third Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps from July 10, 1863; in the First Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps, from August, 1863; in the First Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps, from April, 1864; and under Lieut. Col. Charles Bogardus, it was honorably discharged and mustered out June 26, 1865, near Washington, D. C. During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, five officers, seventy-five enlisted men; of wounds received in action, twenty-six enlisted men; of disease and other causes, one officer, ninety-nine enlisted men; total, six officers, 200 enlisted men; aggregate, 206; of whom twenty-three enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy [my interpretation is that they probably died in one of the Confederate prisons] and it took part in the following engagements, viz: [and then it lists the 31 battles that the regiment took part. Note: one of the Battles that they fought in was the awful Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.] Vee Housman Youngstown, NY