Battle of Mechanicsville

Battle of Gaines Mill

Battle of Savage Station

Battle of Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale

Major Woodward was wounded and captured and Captain Horace Neide of Company A was wounded

Battle of Groveton

Second Battle of Bull Run

Colonel McCandless was wounded

Battle of South Mountain

Battle of Antietam

The regiment was commanded by Captain James N. Byrnes. Adjutant Augustus Cross was killed.

There are two War Department markers for Seymour’s Brigade on the Antietam battlefield. The first marker is on Mansfield Avenue at Smoketown Road. From the marker:

Seymour’s Briade of Meade’s Division, after its engagement with the enemy of September 16, 1862, bivouacked on either side of the road at this point , with pickets thrown forward in the east woods.

The second marker is on Smoketown Road. From the marker:

Seymour’s Brigade became engaged at daybreak, and advanced on either side of this road into the East Woods, where it became heavily engaged with the enemy.

At the western edge of the East Woods its advance was checked by the enemy, and its ammunition having been exhausted, it was relieved about 7 A. M. by Ricketts’ Division, and withdrawn to the ridge in the rear of Joseph Poffenberger’s.

Battle of Fredericksburg

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George A. Woodward.

From the monument: 

July 2nd in the evening charged from the hill in rear to this position and held it until the afternoon of July 3d when the Brigade advanced through the woods to the front and left driving the enemy and capturing many prisoners.

Present at Gettysburg, 24 officers and 243 men. Killed and died of wounds, 9 men. Wounded, 8 offices and 25 men. Captured or missing, 1 man.

Laurel Hill

Colonel McCandless was wounded