24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

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The 24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 90 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 122 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
September – December The 24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was organized at Readville
December 9 Left Massachusetts for Annapolis, Maryland and attached to Foster’s 1st Brigade, Burnside’s Expeditionary Corps
1862
January 6-
February 7		 Burnside’s Expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, North Carolina
February 8

Battle of Roanoke Island
March 8-9 Expedition to Columbia
March 11-13 To New Berne, N. C.
March 14

Battle of New Berne

Guard, picket and outpost duty at New Berne
March 20-21 Reconnaissance toward Beaufort and Expedition to Washington
April 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Department of North Carolina
May 1 Company “A” ordered to Washington, North Carolina
May 12 Company “C” ordered to Washington, North Carolina
June 5
Action at Tranter’s Creek
September 6
Action at Washington, North Carolina
November 2-12 Expedition from New Berne
November 2 Rawle’s Mills
November 11 Demonstration on New Berne
December 11-20
Foster’s Expedition to Goldsboro
December 14 Kinston
December 16 Whitehall
December 17 Goldsboro
1863
January Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 18th Corps, Department of North Carolina
January 22-31 Moved from New Berne to Hilton Head, S. C.
February 9 To St. Helena Island, South Carolina and duty there. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Department of the South
March 27-28 Moved to Seabrook Island, South Carolina and duty there
April Assigned to Stevenson’s Brigade, Seabrook Island, South Carolina, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South
July Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Morris Island, South Carolina, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South
July 6 Expedition to and operations on James Island, S.C.; attached to 3rd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps
July 16

Battle of Secessionville
July 18 Assault on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina (Cos. “C,” “E,” “F” and “I” remained at Seabrook Island until July 16.)
July 18-
September 7		 Siege of Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg, Morris Island
August 26
Assault on Rifle Pits
September 7
Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg
September St. Augustine, Fla., Dept. of the South
September 30-
October 4		 Moved to St. Augustine, Fla. and duty there
November 7-9 Reconnaissance to St. Johns River
December 30
Skirmish near St. Augustine

Detachment
1864
February – April Veterans on furlough
February Jacksonville, Fla., Department of the South
February 18 Non-Veterans moved to Jacksonville, Floridanand Provost duty there; attached to 1st Brigade, Hodges’ Division, District of Florida, Dept. of the South
April Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
April 24-May 1 Moved to Gloucester Point, Virginia, and attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Corps, Army of the James
May 4-28

Butler’s operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond
May 7 Port Walthal Junction, Chester Station
May 9-10 Swift Creek
May 12-16 Operations against Fort Darling
May 15-16
Drewry’s Bluff
May 16-June 20 Bermuda Hundred line
June 16-17 Port Walthal
June 16

Siege of Petersburg and Richmond
June to August At Deep Bottom
July 27-28 Demonstration north of James
August 14-18 Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom
August 28-
September 26

Before Petersburg
September 28-30

Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights
October 7

Darbytown and New Market Roads
October 13 Reconnaissance on Darbytown Road
December 4 Non-Veterans mustered out. Veterans attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Army of the James
December 5 – 18 Duty at Four-Mile Church before Richmond. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Army of the James
December 18 At Bermuda Hundred
1865
April 8 Guard duty at Richmond, Va.
August 1 Assigned to the Department of Virginia
1866
January 20 The 24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment mustered out