The Civil War in the East

13th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

 

The 13th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 117 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 40 enlisted men to disease in the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg (right).

Monument to the 13th Massachusetts infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1861

June 16

Organized at Fort Independence

July 30

Left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to Stiles' 3rd Brigade, Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac. Patrol and outpost duty on the Upper Potomac

September 2

Action at Beller's Mill, near Harper's Ferry, W. Va.

September 18

Pritchard's Mills (2 Companies)

October

Assigned to Abercrombie's 2nd Brigade, Banks' Division

October 16

Bolivar Heights near Harper's Ferry

1862

January 5-30

Companies C, D, I and K detached at Hancock, Md.

March

Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps

March - April

Operations in the Shenandoah Valley

March 12

Occupation of Winchester, Va.

March 24-April 27

Pursuit of Jackson up the Valley

May 3-18

Guard duty on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad

May

Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock

June

Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of Virginia

August 9

Battle of Cedar Mountain

August 16 -
September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 28

Thoroughfare Gap

August 30

Battle of Bull Run

September 1

Chantilly

September

Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September-October

Maryland Campaign

September 14

Battle of South Mountain

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

Commanded by Major J. Parker Gould

September 18 -

October 30

At Sharpsburg

October 30- November 19

Movement to Warrenton, then to Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

January - April 27

At Falmouth and Belle Plain

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

April 29-May 2

Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek

April 29-30

Fitzhugh's Crossing

May 2-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

May

Assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

Commanded by Colonel Samuel Haven Leonard until he was wounded on July 1. Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel W. Batchelder then took command of the regiment.

 

The regiment brought 284 men to the field, losing 7 killed, 77 wounded and 101 missing.

July - October

Picket duty along the Rapidan

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahanock

November 26- December 2

Mine Run Campaign

December

Duty on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad

1864

February 6-7

Demonstrations on the Rapidan

March

Assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps

May-June

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James

June

Assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 12-21

Spottsylvania Court House

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 23

Jericho Ford

June 26-28

Line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 1-3

Bethesda Church

June 13

White Oak Swamp

June 16-18

Before Petersburg

June 16-July 14

Siege of Petersburg

August 1

Mustered out