United States Regiments & Batteries > Maryland > 2nd Regiment Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteer Infantry


The 2nd Regiment Eastern Shore Maryland Infantry lost 10 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 62 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
October 2 to December 28 Organized at Charlestown, Kent County, Maryland for duty on the eastern shore of Maryland. Attached to Dix’s Division, Army of the Potomac
1862
March At Baltimore, attached to Middle Department, District of the Eastern Shore
July Assigned to District of Eastern Shore, 8th Corps, Middle Department
October On eastern shore of Maryland
1863
March Attached to 1st Separate Brigade, 8th Corps
June At Baltimore
July 6 Joined Lockwood’s Brigade, 8th Corps at Frederick, Md.
July Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac
July 6-14 Pursuit of Lee
July 14 Falling Waters
July 17 Assigned to duty at Maryland Heights. Duty there and guarding Baltimore & Ohio Railroad attached to 2nd Brigade, Maryland Heights Division, Department of West Virginia
December Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Department of West Virginia
1864
April Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Department of West Virginia
May 26-July 1 Hunter’s Expedition to Lynchburg, Va.
May 26-June 6 Advance on Staunton
June 5 Action at Piedmont and Mt. Crawford
June 6 Occupation of Staunton
June 12 Lexington
June 14 Buchanan
June 16 Liberty
June 17-18 Lynchburg
June 19-July 1 Retreat to the Ohio River
June 21 Salem
July 1-17 Moved to Shenandoah Valley and attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Department of West Virginia
July 18 Snicker’s Gap
July 24 Battle of Winchester
July 25 Martinsburg
August 14-15 Strasburg
August 24 Bolivar Heights
September 3 Berryville
Sptember Guard duty in West Virginia
October Attached to Reserve Division, District of Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia
1865
February 23 Consolidated with the 1st Eastern Shore Maryland Infantry