Battle of Seven Pines

The regiment lost 47 casualties in its baptism of fire. Lieutenant Colonel Evans was wounded.

Battle of Malvern Hill

Captain Charles Bruce of Company K was mortally wounded and Lieutenant Colonel Evans was wounded for the second time.

Second Battle of Manassas

Capture of Harpers Ferry

Battle of Sharpsburg

The regiment was commanded by Colonel James G. Hodges. Colonel Hodges took over the brigade when General Armistead was wounded.

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

Anderson’s Division comprising the Brigades of Cumming, Wright, Pryor, Mahone, Featherstone and Armistead crossed the Potomac at Blackford’s Ford about daybreak and between 8 and 10 A. M. arrived upon this part of the field. Armistead’s Brigade was sent to the support of McLaws in the Dunkard Church Woods and the other five Brigades were disposed in the Apple Orchard and on open ground either side of it, between this and Piper’s Lane. The Division advanced in support of a part of D.H. Hill’s Division, then heavily engaged and after a stubborn contest in which portions of the Division reached this point, it was repulsed with heavy loss and fell back to Piper’s Lane and the Hagerstown Pike.

Battle of Shepherdstown

The regiment covered the river bank at Pack Horse Ford. Colonel Hodges, commanding the brigade since Armistead was wounded at Sharpsburg, reported that the brigade consisted of no more than 50 to 60 men.

Battle of Fredericksburg

Commanded by Colonel James G. Hodges

Skirmish at Edenton Road

Captains William D. Tompkins of Company B and Parke Poindexter of Company I were mortally wounded (Poindexter in eight places). Tompkins died on the 27th.

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded by Colonel James G. Hodges and brought 422 men to the field. It awoke at 3 a.m. and moved to Seminary Ridge. The regiment took part in Pickett’s Charge on July 3 as the support brigade on the right flank of the attack, breaking the Union line at The Angle before being thrown back with heavy casualties. Although casualty totals are incomplete, it lost 45 men killed and over 160 missing or captured.

Colonel Hodges was killed at the “High Water Mark.” Lieutenant Colonel White was wounded, but took over command of the regiment and temporary command of the brigade after General Armistead was mortally wounded. Officer casualties were catastrophic. Only two men of the rank of captain and above were not killed, wounded or captured.

Captains James Smith, Williamson Cogbill and Richard Logan, and Lieutenants Sydenham Adkins, John Perrin, Benjamin Smith and William Yancey were killed. Major Robert H. Poore and Lieutenant John Johnson were mortally wounded. Captains Alpheus Chappell, William Curtiss, James Sutpin, and Joseph Yancey were wounded. Lieutenants Gideon Chalkley, George Finch, Thomas Hatcher, John Lewis, Philip Seay and John Taylor were wounded and captured. Captain Archelaus Perkins and Lieutenants John Logan, Thomas Morris, and Alexander Turner were captured.

From the monument to Armistead’s Brigade on the Gettysburg battlefield:

July 2. Arrived about sunset and bivouacked on the western border of Spangler’s Woods.

July 3. In the forenoon formed line behind Kemper and Garnett east of the woods. When the cannonade ceased advanced to support Kemper’s and Garnett’s Brigades forming the right of Longstreet’s Corps. Its losses being less at first than those of the other brigades it passed the Emmitsburg Road in compact ranks and as the front line was going to pieces near the stone wall pushed forward and many of its men and some from other commands responding to the call and following Gen. L. A. Armistead sprang over the wall into the Angle and continued the desperate struggle until he fell mortally wounded beyond the stone wall.

July 4. Spent the day in reorganization and during the night began the march to Hagerstown.

Battle of Chester Station

The successful attack of the brigade was halted by a Federal flank attack. The regiment lost 71 men, and General Barton was removed and replaced by Colonel Birkett D. Fry.

Battle of Drewry’s Bluff

The regiment lost Captain John P. Farrar of Company F, Lieutenant Hatcher of Company D, 18 other men killed and 66 wounded

North Anna

Battle of Cold Harbor

Battle of Five Forks

The regiment lost 146 men captured

Sailor’s Creek

Captain Sidney Scott of Company A was captured

Appomattox Court House

Eight officers and 49 men of the regiment surrendered, commanded by Major William D. Shelton. Company F was the largest surviving company, with 10 men.