Battle of Williamsburg

Seven days before Richmond

Golding’s Farm

The regiment lost 10 killed and 23 wounded in fighting on the 27th & 28th

Savage Station

Malvern Hill

At Harrison’s Landing

At one point 60 per cent of the regiment were on the sick list

Maryland Campaign

Crampton’s Pass, South Mountain

Battle of Antietam

Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Willliam Brisbane while Colonel Irwin commanded the 3rd Brigade.

From the War Department marker for Smith’s Division on the Antietam battlefield:

Smith’s Division left camp between Crampton’s Pass and Rohrersville in Pleasant Valley at 5:30 A.M. of the 17th, crossed the Antietam at Pry’s Ford and arrived at the front about noon. Hancock’s Brigade was put in position on the left of Sedgwick’s Division of the Second Corps, its right near the Poffenberger Lane, its left extending in front of and parallel to the East Woods, Irwin’s Brigade advancing took cover behind the ridge south of the Smoketown Road and in front of the Church… The Division remained in position with some slight changes until the morning of the 19th, when it advanced and ascertained that the Confederates had recrossed the Potomac.

Battle of Fredericksburg

Chancellorsville Campaign

Operations at Franklin’s Crossing

Two privates were killed, Captain William Freeburn was mortally wounded and Colonel Irwin and eight other men wounded during the river crossing in pontoon boats.

Maryes Heights (Second Fredericksburg)

Salem Church

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Hulings. It brought 318 men to the field in four companies (A-D), suffering no casualties.From the monument:

The regiment made a continuous march from Manchester Md. arriving on the field the afternoon of July 2. Occupied this position in reserve from the morning of the 3rd until the enemy’s assault in the afternoon when it moved to support centre thence to Round Top.

Bristoe Campaign

Rappahannock Station

The regiment and its brigade carried enemy earthworks in a bayonet charge which captured 1600 prisoners, four guns and eight battle flags, while losing 3 men killed and Captain Hutchinson, Lieutenant Stuart and 25 other men wounded.

Mine Run Campaign

Captain Quigly and 4 other men were wounded

Germania Ford

The regiment lost 11 killed and Lieutenant Decatur Lytle and 22 other men wounded

Battle of the Wilderness

Spotsylvania Court House

The regiment lost heavily in an unsuccessful assault. Colonel Hulings, Lieutenant Colonel Miles, Captain William Kephart, Lieutenants Lytle and Calvin De Witt and 61 enlisted men were killed. Captain Robert Barr was mortally wounded. Captain Stuart, Lieutenants Downing, Irvin, Russel, and Thompson, Adjutant Hilands and 195 enlisted men were wounded. Major Hickman took over the regiment as senior surviving officer.

Assault on the Salient

Captains James Quigley and F. W. Wombacker and Lieutenant John Rogers were wounded. From May 4 – 14 the regiment lost 392 casualties, and at the end of the battle could muster only 130 men

North Anna River

Totopotomoy

Battle of Cold Harbor

The regiment lost 8 killed amd Captains Wakefield and Hutchinson and 18 enlisted men wounded

Before Petersburg

Siege of Petersburg begins.

Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad

Repulse of Early’s attack on Washington

Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Attached to Reserve Division, Dept. West Virginia

Third Battle of Winchester (Battle of Opequan) 

Lieutenant Joseph Wallace and 10 enlisted men were killed and Captain John Thompson, Lieutenant Downing and 35 enlisted men wounded. A shell burst atop the regimental colors, destroying what little remained of it.

Adjutant Hilands wrote,

“As the line came on the plain, east of Winchester, we on the left had a full view of the whole field, and a magnificent sight it was. The enemy’s line was broken; his artillery, cavalry and infantry were in inextricable confusion, and having turned their backs were making fast time from the field, while off to the right was our own line, in perfect order, stretching away in the distance, steadily advancing in the bright sunlight, with colors, which looked more beautiful than ever, waving in triumph. It was worth three years’ hard service to be a participant in the battle of Winchester, under the command of Phil. Sheridan.”

Battle of Dabney’s Mills, or Hatcher’s Run

Appomattox Campaign

Fall of Petersburg

Sailor’s Creek

Lieuteant G. E. Hackenberg was killed, Lieutenant John Rogers mortally wounded and Captain Wombacker was wounded. Detached to escort prisoners after the battle