62nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

62nd Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry
New York state flag
Active	June 30, 1861 to 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry

The Anderson Zouaves was a New York volunteer regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

It was raised under special authority of the War Department in New York City by Col. John Lafayette Riker in May and June 1861, in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the insurrection in the rebellious Southern states of the United States of America. The regiment was named in honor of, and raised under the auspices of, Major Robert Anderson, "the hero of Fort Sumter". The regiment was later numerically designated the Sixty-second New York State Volunteers.

The regiment was mustered in at Saltersville (now part of Bayonne), New Jersey on June 30 and July 1, 1861, and was mustered out at Fort Schuyler, New York Harbor, on August 30, 1865. It lost during its term of service 3 officers and 85 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 2 officers and 82 enlisted men by disease. Total 172.

Three members of the regiment were awarded the Medal of Honor: Edward Brown, Jr., James R. Evans and Charles. E. Morse.

The regiment left New York from its Camp Astor on Rikers Island on August 21, 1861. The regiment embarked upon the steamer Kill-von-Kull by which the men and the camp equippage were transported the Elizabethport NJ, from where the regiment was transported to Washington by the Central New-Jersey Railroad. The regiment arrived in Baltimore at 9am the next morning where they disembarked in order to change trains. On their march through the town the regiment was cheered by the crowd. By 1pm the regiment and its equipment had been transferred to the carriages at the south bound depot and by late that day the regiment arrived in Washington.