United States Regiments & Batteries > Rhode Island
The 7th Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 5 officers and 85 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 108 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
| 1862 | |
| May-September | Organized at Providence under the command of Colonel Zenas R. Bliss, a West point graduate (USMA 1854) and former Captain in the 8th United States Infantry Regiment. |
| September 10-12 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| Camp at Capital Hill, Defences of Washington, D.C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Casey’s Division, Military District of Washington | |
| September 16 | At Arlington Heights, Va. |
| October 1 | Moved to Sandy Hook, Md. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
| October 27- November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
| November 15 | Warrenton, Sulphur Springs |
| December 12-15 |
Battle of FredericksburgColonel Bliss was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Fredericksburg when he, “to encourage his regiment which never before been in action and which had been ordered to lie down to protect itself from the enemy’s fire, rose to his feet, advanced in front of the line, and himself fired several shots at the enemy at short range, being fully exposed to their ire at the time.” |
| 1863 | |
| January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
| February 9 | Moved to Newport News |
| March 25-31 | To Lexington, Ky. and attached to Dept. Ohio |
| April 18 | Moved to Winchester, then to Richmond, Ky. |
| May 3 | To Paint Creek |
| May 10 | To Lancaster |
| June 4-14 | Moved to Vicksburg, Miss. |
| June 15-July 4 | Siege of Vicksburg. Transferred to Army of Tennessee |
| July 5-10 | Advance on Jackson, Miss. |
| July 10-17 | Siege of Jackson |
| July 18 | At Milldale |
| August 8-18 | Moved to Nicholasville, Ky |
| September 7 | To Lexington and provost duty there attached to District of North Central Kentucky, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. Ohio |
| 1864 | |
| April 2-23 | Moved to Virginia and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
| May-June | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8-21 |
Battle of Spottsylvania Court House |
| May 21 | Stannard’s Mill |
| May 23-26 | North Anna River |
| May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
| June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
| June 1-3 | Bethesda Church |
| June 16-18 | Before Petersburg |
| June 16 | Siege of Petersburg begins |
| July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
| August 18-21 | Weldon Railroad |
| September 29- October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church |
| October 27-28 | Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
| November 1 | Garrison of Fort Sedgwick |
| 1865 | |
| March 25 |
Fort Stedman |
| March 28-April 9 | Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 | Assault on and fail of Petersburg |
| April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee to Farmville |
| April 20-28 | Moved to Petersburg and City Point, then to Washington, D.C. |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| June 9 | Mustered out |