Company A
Private
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Regiment Name 108 N. Y. Infantry
Side Union
Company A
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Union service · new york
108th New York Infantry
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Company E
Private
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Company F
Private
Stephen Tracy Sabin – He enlisted on 26 July 1862 at Rochester, N.Y. as a Pvt. He was mustered in to Co F, 108 NY Vol, 26 July 1862. He sustained wounds at Gettysburg on 2 July 1863 and was transferred to Co F, Veterans Reserve Corps,
24th Inf. on 15 April 1864. Then discharged on 26 July 1865 at Washington D.C
Company G
Private
Killed in Battle of Antietam, Civil War. Byron Stone Holcombe was born on 24 September 1843 in Henrietta, Monroe Co., NY. He was the son of Alonzo Holcombe and Lois Stone. Byron Stone Holcombe died while his unit charged the 'sunken road' on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, Sharpsburg, MD, at age 18. He is buried in the Holcombe Family plot in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY. He was my Great Grand Uncle.
Company G
Private
Albert was injured in the Battle of Antietam on September 17th, 1862. He was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in 1898 at Danville, IL and died there in 1906.
Company I
Private
Charles Reiff was born in Bremen, Germany, and came to the United States at 19 years old. He enlisted in the 108th in Rochester, N.Y. He participated in Anteitem, Fredricksburg, and Chancellorsville, at which he was wounded. He participated in all battles of the 108th, including Gettysburg. He was captured at Reams Station on August 25, 1864, and sent to Libby Prison, Belle Island, and Salisbury, N.C. until he was a victim of Typhoid Fever, until on a prisoner exchange was sent to Baltimore, where he was discharged on May 13, 1865.
After the war he took up his former occupation, the manufacture of cigars, in Rochester, NY.