United States Regiments & Batteries > Vermont > 13th Vermont Infantry Regiment
The 13th Vermont Infantry Regiment lost 1 officer and 16 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 55 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
The regiment is honored by a monument on the Gettysburg battlefield.
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1862
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| Summer | Recruited in Chittenden, Lamoiile, Franklin and Washington Counties. The average age of the men was 23. |
| September 24 |
The regiment organized at Brattleboro
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| October 3 |
The 13th Vermont Infantry Regiment mustered in 953 officers and men for nine months Federal service under the command of Colonel Francis V. Randall, formerly Captain in the 2nd Vermont Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew C. Brown, and Major Lawrence D. Clark.  Colonel Francis V. Randall |
| October 11-13 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| October 25-28 | At Camp Chase, Arlington, Va. Joined the 13th, 15th, 16th & 17th Vermont Infantry in what would be known as the Second Vermont Brigade, and was assigned as the 2nd Brigade, Casey’s Division, Military District of Washington |
| October 29 | At East Capital Hill |
| October 30 | Marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and across the Long Bridge to Arlington Heights in Virginia, where they camped next to Robert E. Lee’s home. The next day they proceeded to Munson’s Hill near Fort Lyon in what would be known as Camp Vermont. |
| November 5 | To Hunting Creek |
| November 26 | Picket duty near Occoquan Creek |
| December 5 | Returned to Camp Vermont by train on flat cars in a heavy snow storm. Their tents did not arrive with them and they suffered a cold night in the storm that sickened many men. |
| December 12 | Picket duty near Fairfax Court House along Bull Run and the fortifications around Centreville. |
| December 13 | Captain Marvin White of Company G died of disease. |
| December 29 |
Defence of Fairfax Court House from attack by Stuart’s Cavalry |
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1863
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| January 20 | Duty at Wolf Run Shoals, guard duty at Occoquan Creek. Captain William V. Peck of Company H resigned. |
| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Casey’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
| February 2 | First Lieutenant Merritt B. Williams was promoted to Captain of Company F, and Adjutant Orloff Whitney was promoted to Captain of Company H. |
| February 6 | Captain John A. Yale of Company F resigned. |
| March 3 | First Lieutenant Lucius H. Bostwick was promoted to Captain of Company F. |
| March 31 | Major Lawrence D. Clark resigned. |
| April 17 | Transferred to 2nd Brigade, Abercrombie’s Division, 22nd Corps |
| May 5 | Lieutenant Colonel Andrew C. Brown resigned. |
| May 12 | Captain William D. Munson of Company D was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Captain Joseph J. Boynton of Company E was promoted to Major and was replaced by Captain Andrew J. Davis. |
| June 4 | Captain Orloff H. Whitney of Company H died of disease. He was replaced by Captain Aro P. Sleighton. First Lieutenant George Bascomb was promoted to Captain of Company D. |
| June 25-July 1 |
March to Gettysburg. Pennsylvania.“Haste was so urgent that an order forbade leaving the ranks for water and after forced marches with all the attendant privations incident thereto and lack of rations by reason of the commissary train being diverted” (from the Regiment’s monument at Gettysburg) On the march Lieutenant Stephen F. Brown Co. K ordered a guard to stand aside so that his men could drink from a well. He was placed under arrest and his sword taken. When he reached the battlefield he armed himself with a camp axe until he captured the sword of a Confederate officer. Lieutenant Brown’s statue stands atop the regiment’s monument at Gettysburg, armed with the captured sword and with the camp axe at his feet. |
| July | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe regiment arrived on the battlefield at sunset on Jully 1 and took position to the left of Buford’s cavalry. From the monument to the 13th Vermont Infantry at Gettysburg:July 2. Five companies under Lieut.-Colonel Wm. D. Munson supported Batteries on Cemetery Hill. Near evening the other five companies commanded by Colonel Francis V. Randall charged to the Rogers House on the Emmitsburg Road, captured 83 prisoners and recaptured 4 guns after which they took position here and were soon joined by the five companies from Cemetery Hill. July 3. In the morning 100 men advanced 45 yards under the fire of sharpshooters and placed a line of rail. When the Confederate column crossed the Emmitsburg Road the regiment advanced to the rail breastworks and opened fire as the Confederates obliqued to their left. The regiment changed front forward on first company advanced 200 yards attacking the Confederate right flank throwing it into confusion and capturing 243 prisoners. Officers and men engaged 480. Killed and mortally wounded 22, other wounded 80. Lieutenant Colonel William D. Munson was wounded. Killed and Mortally woundedThe regiment’s monument lists 22 men killed or mortally wounded, but the regiment’s Final Statement lists 12 men killed and 7 died of wounds, and the regimental rosters list the 11 men killed and 7 mortally wounded shown below. Killed
Mortally wounded
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| July 6 | Pursuit of Lee to Middletown, Md. |
| July 7 | Crossed Catoctin Mountain over “the worst possible road” in a heavy rain. |
| July 8 | Bivouacked near Middletown. They were cheered by the Old Vermont Brigade as it passed by. Order home to Vermont as its term of service had expired. |
| July 9-13 | Left front for Brattleboro, Vt. |
| July 21 | The 13th Vermont Infantry Regiment mustered out under the command of Colonel Francis V. Randall. Many men would reenlist in the Old Vermont Brigade or in the 17th Vermont Infantry, which formed in 1864. |
Captain John Lonergan of Company A earned the Medal of Honor on July 2nd for “gallantry in the recapture of 4 guns and the capture of 2 additional guns from the enemy; also the capture of a number of prisoners.”