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The 36th Massachusetts Volunteer 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 Organized at Worcester and mustered in
September 2 Left State for Washington, D.C. then moved to Leesburg, Md.
September 9 To Pleasant Valley and duty there. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army 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, Ky. and attached to Dept. Ohio
April 9-30 Duty at Camp Dick Robinson, Ky.
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 Army Corps, Dept. 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, Ky. and attached to Army Tennessee
August 17-18 To Crab Orchard
September 10-22 March across Cumberland Mountains to East Tennessee and attached to Dept. 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 Army Corps, Army 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 Assault on and 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 Mustered out
June 21 Discharged from service