United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts > 36th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment


The 36th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 6 officers and 105 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 160 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1862
August 30 The 36th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was organized at Worcester and mustered in
September 2 Left Massachusetts for Washington, D.C. then moved to Leesburg, Md.
September 9 To Pleasant Valley and duty there. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Corps, Army Potomac
October 26-29 March to Lovettsville, Va.
October 29-
November 19
To Warrenton
December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863
January 20-24

“Mud March”

February 10 Moved to Newport News, Va.
March 19-23 To Lexington, Kentucky, and attached to Dept. Ohio
April 9-30 Duty at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky.
May At Middleburg
May 23-26 March to Columbia
May 27-30 Expedition toward Cumberland River after Morgan
June 2 Jamestown
June 7-14 Moved to Vicksburg, Miss. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Corps, Department of the. Ohio
June 14-July 4

Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.

July 5-10 Advance on Jackson, Miss.
July 10-17

Siege of Jackson

July – August 5 At Milldale
August 5-12 Moved to Covington, Kentucky and attached to the Army of the Tennessee.
August 17-18 To Crab Orchard
September 10-22 March across Cumberland Mountains to East Tennessee and attached to Department of the Ohio.
September 27-
October 3
Near Knoxville
October 10

Action at Blue Springs

October 29-
November 14
At Lenoir
November-December

Knoxville Campaign

November 14-15

Lenoir Station

November 17

Campbell’s Station

November 17-
December 4

Siege of Knoxville

December 5-19 Pursuit of Longstreet
1864
December –
March 21

Operations in East Tennessee

January 21-22

Strawberry Plains

March 21-April 6 Moved from Knoxville, Tenn., to Covington, Ky., thence to Annapolis, Md. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac
May-June

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 8-21

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 21 Stannard’s Mills
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

First Assault on 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 At Fort Rice
1865
March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Fall of Petersburg

April 3-9 March to Farmville
April 20-28 Moved to Petersburg and City Point, then to Alexandria
May 23 Grand Review
June 8 The 36th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was mustered out
June 21 The men were discharged from service