United States Regiments & Batteries > Rhode Island > 12th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment
The 12th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment lost 1 officer and 11 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 45 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
| 1862 | |
| October 18 | Organized at Providence and mustered in for nine months Federal service under the command of Colonel George H. Browne, Lieutenant colonel James Shaw, Jr., and Major Cyrus G. Dyer.
Organization of the Regiment
 Colonel George Brown |
| October 21 | Left Rhode Island for Washington, D.C. Camped at Arlington Heights and at Fairfax Seminary, Va. attached to 1st Brigade, Casey’s Division, Military District of Washington |
| December 1-8 | March to Falmouth, Va. attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| December 12-15 |
Battle of FredericksburgMajor Cyrus G. Dyer was wounded. |
| 1863 | |
| January 20-24 |
Burnside’s second Campaign, “Mud March” |
| February 9 | Moved to Newport News, Va. |
| March 25-31 | To Lexington, Ky. |
| April | Duty at Lexington, Winchester, Boonsboro, Richmond, Paint Lick and Lancaster, Ky. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of the Ohio |
| April 23 | Moved to Crab Orchard |
| May | Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio |
| June 3-9 | March from Nicholasville to Somerset |
| June | Duty at Stigall’s Ferry, Jamestown and guarding fords of the Cumberland River |
| July 5 | Moved to Somerset |
| July 11 | To Crab Orchard, and started home to Rhode Island |
| July 15-19 | Duty at Cincinnati, Ohio |
| July 19-22 | Moved to Providence |
| July 29 | The 12th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment mustered out |