 Lieutenant Colonel Roswell Farnham and Major Levi G. Kingsley had held commissions in the 1st Vermont Infantry, along with a total of 65 officers and men.The regiment went into camp at Brattleboro on September 25, 1862, and was mustered into United States service on October 4.It left Vermont on October 7, and arrived in Washington, D.C. on October 10, and went into camp on East Capital Hill.