The 30th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 57 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 341 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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December 31 |
Organized as "Eastern Bay State Regiment" at Camp Chase, Lowell, by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler |
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January 2 |
Moved to Boston |
January 4 |
Mustered into United States service |
January 13 - 16 |
Sailed from Boston on steamer "Constitution" for Fortress Monroe, Va. |
February 6 - 12 |
Sailed for Ship Island, Miss. and duty there. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf |
March 9 |
Company K Joined |
April 15-28 |
Operations against Forts St. Phillip and Jackson, Mississippi River |
April 28 |
Occupation of Fort St. Phillip |
April 29-30 |
Moved to New Orleans |
May 1 |
Occupation of New Orleans |
May 9-10 |
Expedition to New Orleans & Jackson Railroad |
May 30-31 |
Moved to Baton Rouge |
June 7-9 |
Expedition from Baton Rouge |
June 18-July 23 |
Williams' Expedition to Vicksburg, Miss., and operations in that vicinity |
June 22 |
Ellis Cliff |
June 24 |
Hamilton Plantation, near Grand Gulf |
July 23-26 |
Moved to Baton Rouge and duty there |
August 5 |
Battle of Baton Rouge |
August 21-22 |
Moved to Carrollton and duty there |
October |
Defenses of New Orleans, and Garrison duty there. |
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January 13-14 |
Moved to Baton Rouge. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf |
March 7-27 |
Expedition to Port Hudson |
May 12-24 |
Operations against Port Hudson |
May 18-19 |
Monett's Plantation and on Bayou Sara Road |
May 24 |
Plain's Store |
May 24-July 9. |
Siege of Port Hudson |
May 27 and June 14 |
Assaults on Port Hudson |
July 9 |
Surrender of Port Hudson |
July 12-13 |
Cox's Plantation, Donaldsonville |
August 1 -
September 2 |
Camp at Baton Rouge |
August |
1st Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf |
September 4-11 |
Sabine Pass Expedition |
September 16 |
Moved from Algiers to Brashear City |
September 26 |
To Berwick and to Camp Bisland |
October 3 -
November 30 |
Western Louisiana ("Teche") Campaign. At New Iberia |
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January 7 |
At Franklin |
February 18-May 3 |
Veterans on leave |
May 3-16 |
Moved to New Orleans |
June 13 |
To Morganza |
July 2-13 |
Moved to New Orleans, then to Fortress Monroe, Va., and Washington, D.C. Attached to the Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
July 14-23 |
Snicker's Gap Expedition |
August - December |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
September 23-24 |
Mount Jackson |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October |
Duty at Winchester, Kernstown and Stephenson's Depot |
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March |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Provisional Division, Army of the Shenandoah |
April 21-22 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to Dept. of Washington |
May 23-24 |
Grand Review |
June 2-6 |
Moved to Savannah, Ga., and attached to Dept. of the South
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June 13 |
To Georgetown, S.C. |
June 27 |
To Florence |
July 9 |
To Sumpter and duty in 3rd Sub-District Eastern South Carolina |
December 1 |
Mustered out |
