The 29th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 53 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 officers and 95 enlisted men to disease durng the Civil War.
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December 13-17 |
Organized at Newport News, Va. under Colonel Ebenezer Pierce, from 1st Battalion Massachusetts Infantry (7 Cos.) and 3 new Companies (F, G and H) which Joined Regiment at Newport News, Va. |
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January 17 |
Attached to Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia and duty at Newport News, Va. |
March 8 |
Sinking of the "Cumberland" and "Congress" by the Merrimac |
March 9 |
Battle between "Monitor" and "Merrimac" |
May 10 |
Occupation of Norfolk and Portsmouth. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of Virginia |
June |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, the only non-Irish regiment in the Irish Brigade. |
June 6-7 |
Moved to Suffolk, thence to Portsmouth and White House Landing |
June 8 |
March to Fair Oaks |
June 15 |
Near Seven Pines |
June 24 |
Fair Oaks |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 27 |
Gaines' Mill |
June 29 |
Peach Orchard and Savage Station |
June 30 |
White Oak Swamp and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July 2 |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-30 |
Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Alexandria and Centreville |
August 31-
September l |
Cover retreat of Pope's army from Bull Run |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
Comanded by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Barnes, the regiment attacked the Sunken Road but suffered less than the other regiments of the brigade, being somewhat protected by a fold of the ground. Private Samuel Wright was awarded the Medal of Honor when, according to the citation, he "voluntarily advanced under a destructive fire and removed a fence which would have impeded a contemplated charge," being wounded in the process but remaining with the regiment until the end of the battle. |
September 18 -
October 29 |
At Harper's Ferry, W. Va. |
October 29 -
November 19 |
Advance up Loudoun Valley and movement to Falmouth |
December |
Assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. The 29th was swapped for the 28th Massachusetts Infantry, an Irish regiment. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February 12-14 |
Moved to Newport News |
March 21-26 |
Moved to Kentucky and duty at Paris, Ky. |
April |
2nd Brigade. 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio |
April 27-29 |
Moved to Nicholasville, Lancaster and Stanford |
May 6-8 |
March to Somerset |
June 4-10 |
Movement through Kentucky to Cairo, Ill. |
June 14-17 |
To Vicksburg, Miss. and attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee |
June 17-July 4 |
Siege of Vicksburg |
July 4-10 |
Advance on Jackson, Miss. |
July 10-17 |
Siege of Jackson, then at Milldale |
August 12-23 |
Moved to Covington, Ky. and attached to 2nd Brigade. 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio |
August to October |
Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee |
October 10 |
Action at Blue Springs, then at Lenois |
November-
December |
Knoxville Campaign |
November 16 |
Campbell's Station |
November 17-
December 4 |
Siege of Knoxville |
December 7-28 |
Pursuit of Longstreet and operations in East Tennessee |
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March 21-31 |
Veterans march to Nicholasville. Ky. |
March 31-April 9 |
Moved to Covington, Ky.; Cincinnati, Ohio, and to Boston, Mass. |
April 9 - May 15 |
On furlough |
May 16-20 |
Moved to Washington, D.C.; thence to Belle Plain, Va. |
May 28 |
Joined Army of the Potomac and attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. Non-Veterans attached to 36th Massachusetts Infantry |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-3 |
Bethesda Church |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 15-19 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 |
Siege of Petersburg begins |
July |
1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
August 18-21 |
Weldon Railroad |
September |
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
September 29 -
October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church, Peeble's Farm |
October 8 |
Reconnaissance on Vaughan and Squirrel Level Roads |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
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March 25 |
Fort Stedman |
April 2 |
Assault on and fall of Petersburg |
April 3 |
Occupation of Petersburg |
April 21-28 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
May - July |
Provost duty at Washington and Alexandria |
July 29 |
Mustered out |
