Wartime Service Record

Service:1

  • Duty at Tennallytown, Md., till October 10, 1861, and
  • at Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va., till March, 1862.
  • Expedition to Grinnell’s Farm December 6, 1861.
  • Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15, 1862.
  • McDowell’s advance on Falmouth April 9-19.
  • Duty at Fredericksburg till June.
  • Moved to White House June 11-13.
  • 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.
  • Antietam September 16-17.
  • Duty in Maryland till October 30.
  • Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
  • Battle of Fredericksburg Decem,her 12-15. “Mud March” January 20-24; 1863.
  • Ordered to Washington, D.C., February 6.
  • Duty in the Defences of Washington and Alexandria till June 25.
  • Joined Army of Potomac in the field.
  • Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.
  • Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
  • 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.
  • Duty at Alexandria till May, 1864.
  • Rapidan Campaign May, 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 May 31.
  • Mustered out June 13, 1864.

Regimental Losses During Service:2

14 Officers and 127 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
68 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 209.

  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.