1861 |
June 4 |
Organized at Augusta and mustered in |
June 5 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
June |
Camp on Meridian Hill, Defenses of Washington, D.C. Attached to Howard's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeastern Virginia |
July 16-21 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
July 21 |
Battle of Bull Run |
August |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington assigned to Howard's Brigade, Division of the Potomac |
October |
Attached to Sedgwick's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, Army of the Potomac |
1862 |
March |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac |
March 10-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
April to August |
Virginia Peninsula Campaign |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks |
June 18 |
Near Richmond |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 25 |
Oak Grove |
June 27 |
Jordan's Ford |
June 29 |
Peach Orchard and Savage Station |
June 30 |
Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July |
At Harrison's Landing |
August |
Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps |
August 16-27 |
Retreat from the Peninsula and movement to Centreville |
August 27-
September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run |
September 1 |
Chantilly |
September-
October |
Guard fords from Monocacy River to Conrad's Ferry |
October 11-
November 23 |
March to Leesburg, thence to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863 |
January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February-April |
At Falmouth |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 13-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded by Colonel Moses B. Lakeman. Colonel Lakeman took over the brigade on July 3rd, and Captain William C. Morgan took command of the regiment. It lost 1 officer and 17 men killed, 2 officers and 57 men wounded, and 45 men missing out of a strength of 14 officers and 196 men.
From the monument: "Detached from the Brigade. Fought here in the afternoon of July 2nd, 1863. Having been engaged in the forenoon at point in advance as indicated by a marker.
July 3rd in position on left centre of line, until afternoon, when with other regiments of the Brigade, it moved to support of the centre at time of the enemy's assault." |
July 5-24 |
Pursuit of Lee |
July 23 |
Wapping Heights, Va. |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Kelly's Ford |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 |
Payne's Farm |
1864 |
February 5-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
March |
Assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps |
May 3-June 5 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8 |
Laurel Hill |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 10 |
Po River |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania C. H. |
May 12 |
Bloody Angle, Assault on the Salient |
May 19 |
Harris Farm, Fredericksburg Road |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-5 |
Cold Harbor |
June 5 |
Ordered to the rear |
June 28 |
Mustered out. Veterans and recruits transferred to 17th Regiment Maine Infantry. |
