The Civil War in the East

2nd United States Sharp Shooter

 

The regiment lost during service 8 Officers and 117 Enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 123 Enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1861

October 4

Company B organized in Michigan

Company C in Pennsylvania

October 5

Company A organized in Minnesota

November 2

Company D organized in Maine

November 9

Company E organized in Vermont

November 28

Company F organized in New Hampshire

December 10

Company G organized in New Hampshire

December 31

Company H organized in Vermont

October-December

Companies moved to Washington, D.C. and duty in the Defenses of that city

1862

March

Attached to Augur's Brigade, King's 1st Division, McDowell's 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

April 5-6

Moved to Bristoe Station, Va. and attached to 1st Brigade, King's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock

April 15-19

To Falmouth, Va.

May 25-29

McDowell's advance on Richmond

June 1-21

Operations against Jackson. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of Virginia

July-August

Duty at Falmouth

July 19

Blackburn's Ford

July 24-26

Reconnaissance to Orange Court House

August 16-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 21-23

Fords of the Rappahannock

August 26

Sulphur Springs

August 29

Battles of Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September 6-22

Maryland Campaign. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 14

Battle of South Mountain

September 16-17

Antietam

September-October

Camp near Sharpsburg

October 29-November 17

Movement to Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

February-April

At Falmouth

March

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

June

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division. 3rd Army Corps

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

July 5-24

Pursuit of Lee

July 23

Action at Wapping Heights, Va.

September

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

October 14

Auburn and Bristoe

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock

November 7

Kelly's Ford

November 8

Brandy Station

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

November 27

Payne's Farm

1864

February 6-7

Demonstration on the Rapidan

March

Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps

May 4-June 15

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 8

Laurel Hill

May 8-12

Spotsylvania

May 10

Po River

May 12-21

Spotsylvania Court House

May 12

Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle"

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 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 16-19

Before Petersburg

June 16 -
February 20

Siege of Petersburg

June 22-23

Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad

July 27-29

Demonstration north of the James River

July 28-29

Deep Bottom

August 13-20

Demonstration north of the James

August 14-18

Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom

September 29-October 2

Poplar Springs Church, Peeble's Farm

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

December 7-12

Expedition to Weldon Railroad

1865

February 5-7

Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run

February 20

Regiment discontinued

Company A transferred to 1st Minnesota Infantry

Company B to 5th Michigan Infantry

Company C to 105th Pennsylvania Infantry

Company D to 17th Maine Infantry

Companies F & G to 5th New Hampshire Infantry

Company H to 4th Vermont Infantry