United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts
The 25th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 154 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 169 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| September 1 – October 31 |
Organized at Worcester |
| October 31 | Moved to Annapolis, Md. and duty there |
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1862
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| January 7 | Burnside’s Expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, N. C.; Attached to Foster’s 1st Brigade, Burnside’s Expeditionary Corps |
| February 8 |
Battle of Roanoke IslandCommanded by Colonel Upton, the regiment lost 6 enlisted men killed and 3 officers and 41 enlisted men wounded |
| March 11-13 | Expedition to New Berne |
| March 14 | Battle of New Berne and Provost duty there |
| April | 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina |
| May 15-16 | Reconnaissance toward Trenton |
| May 15 | Trenton Bridge; picket and outpost duty |
| July 24-28 | Expedition to Trenton and Pollocksville |
| July – December | Guard, picket and outpost duty at New Berne |
| November 11 | Demonstration on New Berne |
| December | Lee’s Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina |
| December 10-20 | Foster’s Expedition to Goldsboro |
| December 14 | Kinston |
| December 16 | Whitehall |
| December 17 | Goldsboro |
| December – October, 1863 |
Duty at New Berne |
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1863
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| January | 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
| March 6-8 | Demonstration on Kinston |
| March 7 | Core Creek |
| March 13-14 | Skirmishes at Deep Gully, New Berne |
| May 20-23 | Demonstration on Kinston |
| May 22 | Gum Swamp |
| June | 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina |
| July 17-20 | Expedition to Swift Creek |
| July 25-31 | To Winton |
| August | District of the Pamlico, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| September | Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| October | Heckman’s Brigade, Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| October 16-18 | Moved to Newport News and duty there |
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1864
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| January | Unattached, United States Forces, Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| January 22 | Moved to Portsmouth and duty in the Defenses of that city |
| March | 2nd Brigade, United States Forces, Portsmouth, Va. |
| April 26 | Moved to Yorktown; attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| September | Defenses of New Berne, N. C, District of North Carolina, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| March | 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina, then 2nd Brigade Division, District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina |
| April | 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
| May 4-28 | Butler’s operations on south side of the James and against Petersburg and Richmond |
| May 5 | Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred |
| May 6-7 | Port Walthal, Chester Station |
| May 9-10 | Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church |
| May 12-16 | Operations against Port Darling |
| May 14-16 | Drury’s Bluff |
| May 17-28 | Bermuda Hundred front |
| May 28-June 1 | Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor |
| June 1-12 |
Battle of Cold Harbor |
| June 15-18 | First Assault on Petersburg |
| June 16 – September 4 |
Siege of Petersburg and Richmond |
| August 25 – September 4 |
In trenches at Bermuda Hundred |
| September 4-10 | Moved to New Berne, N. C. and duty there |
| October 5 | Non-Veterans ordered home |
| October 20 | Mustered out |
| December 9-13 | Demonstration from New Berne on Kinston |
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1865
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| March 3-21 | Operations against Goldsboro, N. C. |
| March 8-10 | Battle of Wise’s Forks |
| March 14 | Occupation of Kinston |
| March 22-23 | Moved to Goldsboro and duty there |
| April 9-13 | Advance on Raleigh |
| April 14 | Occupation of Raleigh |
| May 3-7 | Moved to Greensboro |
| May 12-13 | To Charlotte and duty there |
| July 13-21 | Moved to Readville, Mass. |
| July 28 | Mustered out |