The Civil War in the East

8th United States Infantry Regiment

 

The 8th United States Infantry Regiment lost 1 officer and 15 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 47 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

Monument to the Eighth United States Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1861

January

In Texas

 

forced to surrender while en route north.

April 22

Company C forced to surrender at San Antonio

April 24

Companies A & D forced to surrender at Indianola

May 9

Companies B, E, F, H, I & K forced to surrender at San Lucas Springs

June

Company G attached to Porter's Brigade, Hunter's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia

July 16-21

Advance on Manassas, Va. (Company G)

July 21

Battle of Bull Run (Company G)

July

Company F reached Washington, D.C.

August

Companies F & G attached to Porter's City Guard, Washington, D.C. for duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C.

1862

March

Attached to Provost Guard, Headquarters, Army Potomac (Companies A, B, D, F & G)

Moved to Virginia Peninsula.

April

Companies C & D reached Washington, D.C. and attached to Defenses of Washington.

 

 

April 5-May 4

Siege of Yorktown

May 17

Expedition up the Pamunkey

May

Companies C & D attached to Cooper's 1st Brigade, Sigel's Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah

May 24

Companies C & D - Moved to Harper's Ferry

May 24-30

Companies C & D - Defense of Harper's Ferry

June

Companies C & D - Operations in the Shenandoah Valley attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia

June 25-July 1

Seven days before Richmond

June 26

Mechanicsville

June 27

Gaines' Mill

June 30

Turkey Bridge

July 1

Malvern Hill

August 9

Companies C & D - Battle of Cedar Mountain

August 16-23

Movement to Alexandria

August 16-September 2

Companies C & D - Pope's Virginia Campaign

August 20-23

Companies C & D - Fords of the Rappahannock

August 26

Companies C & D - Sulphur Springs

August 27-29

Companies C & D - Plains of Manassas

August 30

Companies C & D - Battle of Bull Run

September

Companies C & D - Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army Potomac

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

Companies C & D - joined other Companies at Headquarters, Army of the Potomac.

September 18

At Sharpsburg, Md.

October 3

Company B joined at Sharpsburg

October 29-November 19

Movement to Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.

1863

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The Regiment was comanded by Captain Edwin W. H. Read. It arrived on July 2 and engaged in provost duty throuout the battle, with no loss.

July 15

Ordered to New York City, assigned to Dept. of the East

July 17

At City Hall Park, New York

July 30

 

On the Battery, New York

August 22

At Forts in N.Y. Harbor

1864

April 23

Moved to Washington, D.C. and assigned to Provost Guard, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac

May 4-June 12

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 8-21

Spotsylvania

May 22-26

North Anna River

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 1-3

Bethesda Church

June 16-18

Before Petersburg

June 16-November 2

Siege of Petersburg

July 30

Mine Explosion, Petersburg

October

Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

November 22

Moved to Baltimore, Md. and attached to 8th Army Corps, Middle Department until August, 1865