24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Regiment lost 7 officers and 90 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 122 enlisted men to disease, a total of 220.

 

Timeline of the Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

September - December, 1861

Organized at Readville

December 9

Left State for Annapolis, Md. and attached to Foster's 1st Brigade, Burnside's Expeditionary Corps

January 6-February 7, 1862

Burnside's Expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, N. C.

February 8

Battles of Roanoke Island

March 8-9

Expedition to Columbia

March 11-13

To New Berne, N. C.

March 14

Battle of New Berne; Guard, picket and outpost duty at New Berne

March 20-21

Reconnaissance toward Beaufort and Expedition to Washington

April

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina

May 1

Company "A" ordered to Washington

May 12

Company "C" ordered to Washington

June 5

Action at Tranter's Creek

September 6

Action at Washington

November 2-12

Expedition from New Berne

November 2

Rawle's Mills

November 11

Demonstration on New Berne

December 11-20

Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro

December 14

Kinston

December 16

Whitehall

December 17

Goldsboro

January, 1863

2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina

January 22-31

Moved from New Berne to Hilton Head, S. C.

February 9

To St. Helena Island, S.C. and duty there; attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of the South

March 27-28

Moved to Seabrook Island, S.C. and duty there

April

Stevenson's Brigade, Seabrook Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South

July

1st Brigade, 1st Division, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South

July 6

Expedition to and operations on James Island, S.C.; attached to 3rd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps

July 16

Battle of Secessionville

July 18

Assault on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S, C. (Cos. "C," "E," "F" and "I" remained at Seabrook Island until July 16.)

July 18-
September 7

Siege of Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg, Morris Island

August 26

Assault on Rifle Pits

September 7

Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg

September

St. Augustine, Fla., Dept. of the South

September 30-
October 4

Moved to St. Augustine, Fla. and duty there

November 7-9

Reconnaissance to St. Johns River

December 30

Skirmish near St. Augustine (Detachment)

February -
April. 1864

Veterans on furlough

February

Jacksonville, Fla., Dept. of the South

February 18

Non-Veterans moved to Jacksonville, Fla. and Provost duty there; attached to 1st Brigade, Hodges' Division, District of Florida, Dept. of the South

April

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina

April 24-May 1

Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. and attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps

May 4-28

Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond

May 7

Port Walthal Junction, Chester Station

May 9-10

Swift Creek

May 12-16

Operations against Fort Darling

May 15-16

Drewry's Bluff

May 16-June 20

Bermuda Hundred line

June 16-17

Port Walthal

June 16

Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond

June to August

At Deep Bottom

July 27-28

Demonstration north of James

August 14-18

Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom

August 28-
September 26

Before Petersburg

September 28-30

Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights

October 7

Darbytown and New Market Roads

October 13

Reconnaissance on Darbytown Road

December 4

Non-Veterans mustered out; Veterans attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia

December 5 - 18

Duty at Four-Mile Church before Richmond; attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps

December 18

At Bermuda Hundred

April 8, 1865

Guard duty at Richmond, Va.,

January 20, 1866

Mustered out