Wartime Service Record

Service:1

  • Camp at Capital Hill, Washington, till August 5, and at Tennallytown, Md., till October 10.
  • Picket at Great Falls September 9-16.
  • Moved to Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va., October 10, 1861, and duty there till March 10, 1862. Companies “A,” “B,” “D,” “F” and “G” on reconnoissance to Hunter’s Mills November 19.
  • Expedition to Gunnell’s Farm December 6, and action at Dranesville December 20, 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, Va., June 9-12.
  • Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
  • Battle of Mechanicsville June 26.
  • Battle of Gaines Mill June 27.
  • Battle of Charles City Cross Roads or Glendale June 30.
  • Malvern Hill July 1.
  • At Harrison’s Landing till August 16.
  • Movement to join Pope August 16-26.
  • Battle of Groveton August 29;
  • Battle of Bull Run August 30.
  • Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
  • Battle of South Mountain, Md., September 14.
  • Battle of Antietam September 16-17.
  • Duty in Maryland till October 30.
  • Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
  • Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.
  • “Mud March” January 20-24, 1863.
  • Ordered to Washington, D.C., February 6.
  • Duty there and at Alexandria till June 25.
  • Ordered to rejoin Army of the 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.
  • Rapidan Campaign.
  • Battle of the Wilderness May 5, 1864.
  • Ordered home while in line of battle.

Mustered out May 12, 1864.

Losses:2

Regiment lost during service:
6 Officers and 131 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
1 Officer and 49 Enlisted men by disease

[Approximate] Total 187.

  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.