1861 |
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Organized at Rockland |
June 15, |
Mustered in under Colonel Hiram Berry |
June 17 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
June 21 |
Arrived in Washington |
June |
Camp on Meridian Hill, Defenses of Washington. Attached to Howard's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeastern Virginia |
July 8 |
Crossed the Potomac and camped at Bush Hill |
July 16-21 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
July 21 |
Battle of Bull Run
The regiment lost 23 men killed, 3 officers and 24 men wounded, and 3 officers and 38 men missing. |
August |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. assigned to Heintzelman's Brigade, Division of the Potomac |
September |
The regiment mutinied, a number of men having signed up for 30 days service now being forced to serve for three years. One hundred men were transferred, and Company H disbanded. |
October |
Assigned to Sedgwick's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, Army of the Potomac |
November |
Company H reconsituted with recruits |
1862 |
March |
Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac |
March 10-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
March 17 |
Moved to the Peninsula |
March 25 |
Colonel Berry was promoted to brigadier general and Colonel Elijah Walker asumed command |
April to August |
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 30 |
Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill
Held the front line, and were the last infantry to leave the field. |
July - August |
At Harrison's Landing |
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
The regiment lost 14 killed, 85 wounded and 15 missing. |
September 1 |
Chantilly
The regiment lost 10 men killed, 2 officers and 34 men wounded and 8 men missing |
Saptember |
Guard fords from Monocacy River to Conrad's Ferry |
October 11-
November 23 |
March to Leesburg, thence to Falmouth, Va. |
October 12 |
Mouth of Monocacy, White's Ford |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg
The regiment llost 3 officers and 19 men killed, 7 officers and 59 men wounded and 32 missing, including Major Pitcher, who was killed |
1863 |
January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February-April |
At Falmouth |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville
The regiment llost 1 officer and 2 men killed, 3 officers and 15 men wounded and 7 men missing |
June 11 |
Gettysburg Campaign
Marched from camp to Bealton Station, then to Catlett’s Station, Manassas junction and Blackburn’s Ford |
June 17 |
Arrived in Centreville |
June 19 |
Bivouacked at Gum Springs |
June 25 |
Moved to and bivouacked at the mouth of the Monocacy. |
June 26 |
To Point of Rocks, Md. |
June 27 |
To Middletown |
June 29 |
To Taneytown |
June 30 |
To near Emmitsburg |
July 1 |
To Emmitsburg. Arrived at Gettysburg around 7 p.m. |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded by Colonel Elijah Walker. It lost 11 killed, 59 wounded, and 74 missing out of 332 men engaged, including Colonel Walker, who was wounded, and Major Whitcomb, who was mortally wounded. Captain Edwin Libby took command after July 2.
In partnership with the 1st U.S. Sharpshooters, the 3rd attacked Longstreet's gathering attack on the afternoon of the 2nd, then rejoined its brigade and took part in a severe fight at the Devil's Den. |
July 5-23 |
Pursuit of Lee. Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps. |
July 23 |
Wapping Heights, Va. |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign
Colonel Walker rejoined the regiment |
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 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
March |
Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps |
May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River. Assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness
On May 5 the regiment lost 4 officers and 17 men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 104 enlisted men wounded, and 3 missing.On May 6th it lost 1 officer and 4 men killed, 26 men wounded and 6 missing, and on the 7th 4 men wounded and 1 missing. These included Major Grey and Captains Amos Wooster and Edwin Libby and Lieutenants C. C. Grey, Henry O. Ripley, and J. R. Conant, who were killed or mortally wounded. |
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
The regiment lost 5 killed and 19 wounded, including Colonel Walker, who was again wounded |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 15 |
Before Petersburg |
June 15 |
Ordered to the rear. |
July 19 |
Thirteen officers and 113 enlisted men mustered out. Two hundred seventeen Veterans and recruits were transferred to 19th Maine Infantry. |
