Wartime Service Record

Service:1

  • Duty at Annapolis, Md., July 27 to August 30, 1861.
  • Moved to Washington, D.C., thence to Tennallytown, Md., August 30-31.
  • March to Langley October 10, and duty at Camp Pierpont till March, 1862.
  • Reconnoissance to Dranesville December 6, 1861.
  • Action at Dranesville December 20 (Co. “A”).
  • Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15.
  • McDowell’s advance on Fredericksburg, Va., April 9-19.
  • Duty at Fredericksburg till May 31.
  • Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula June.
  • Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
  • Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Gaines Mill June 27; Charles City Cross Roads and
  • Glendale June 30; Malvern Hill July 1.
  • At Harrison’s Landing till August 16.
  • Movement to Join Pope August 16-26.
  • Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30.
  • Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
  • Battles of South Mountain September 14, and Antietam September 16-17.
  • Duty in Maryland till October 30.
  • Movement to Falmouth October 30-November 19.
  • Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.
  • “Mud March” January 20-24, 1863.
  • Ordered to Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defences there till June 25.
  • Rejoined Army of the Potomac.
  • Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.
  • Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
  • Williamsport July 13. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
  • Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
  • Rappahannock Station November 7.
  • Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.
  • Mine Run November 26-30.
  • Rapidan Campaign May and June, 1864.
  • Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Laurel Hill May 8; Spottsylvania May 8-12;
  • Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.
  • Assault on the Salient May 12.
  • Harris Farm May 19.
  • North Anna River May 23-26.
  • Jericho Ford May 25.
  • Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
  • Totopotomoy May 28-31.
  • Left front June 1.
  • Mustered out June 10, 1864.

Losses:2

Regiment lost during service:
6 Officers and 102 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
2 Officers and 64 Enlisted men by disease,

[Approximate] Total 174.

  1. Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of he Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources, Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908
  2. Ibid.