United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts
The 40th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 5 officers and 67 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 125 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| August | Organized at Lynnfield under the command of Colonel Burr B. Porter |
| September 8-11 | Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Abercrombie’s Division, Military District of Washington for duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C. |
| December 28-29 | Expedition to Mill’s Cross Roads after Stuart’s Cavalry |
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1863
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| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Abercrombie’s Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
| February 12 | Picket duty on the Columbia Pike |
| March 30 | At Vienna |
| April | Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia. |
| April 15-17 | Moved to Norfolk, then to Suffolk |
| April 17-May 4 | Siege of Suffolk |
| May 5 | Moved to West Point, attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia. Colonel Porter commanded the brigade as senior colonel. |
| May 31 | To Yorktown |
| June 10-13 | Raid to Jamestown Island |
| June 24-July 7 | Dix’s Peninsula Campaign |
| July 1-7 | Expedition from White House to Bottom’s Bridge |
| July 2 | Baltimore Cross Roads |
| July 10-11 | Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| July 13-22 | March in pursuit of Lee, to Berlin, Md. |
| July 31 | Colonel Porter resigned due to “discontent unfitting me for a command, and pressing reasons of a family and private nature.” |
| August 6 | Moved to Alexandria |
| August 7-13 | Sailed to Folly Island, S.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Gordon’s Division, South End of Folly Island, S.C. |
| August 15-November 13 | Siege operations on Folly and Morris Islands against Forts Wagner and Gregg, and against Fort Sumpter and Charleston. Attached to 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
| November 9 | Captain Guy V. Henry, U.S.A., Acting Chief of Artillery, Department of the South (USMA May 1861), was promoted to Colonel U.S.V. and given command of the regiment. |
| November 13-15 | Expedition to Seabrook Island, then return to duty at Folly Island attached to 2nd Brigade, Gordon’s Division, Folly Island, S.C., Northern District, 10th Army Corps, Dept. South |
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1864
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| January 16 | Moved to Hilton Head, S.C. and attached to 1st Brigade, District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Army Corps. Colonel Henry was promoted to Brevet Brigadier General and commanded the brigade. |
| February 4-7 | Expedition to Jacksonville, Fla. Attached to Light Brigade, District of Florida, Dept. of the South. |
| February 7-22 | Lake City, Fla. |
| February 8 | Ten Mile Run near Camp Finnegan |
| February 10 | Barber’s Place |
| February 11 | Lake City |
| February 14 | Gainesville (Companies C, G, H) |
| February 20 | Battle of Olustee |
| March 1 | McGirt’s Creek |
| March 1 | Cedar Creek |
| March – April | Duty at Jacksonville |
| April 22-28 | Moved to Gloucester Point and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| April 30-May 5 | Expedition to West Point |
| May 5-28 | Butler’s operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps |
| May 9-10 | Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church |
| May 12-16 | Operations against Fort Darling |
| May 14-16 | Battle of Drewry’s Bluff |
| May 17-28 | On Bermuda Hundred Front |
| May 28-June 1 | Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor |
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Cold HarborColonel Guy Henry was awarded the Medal of Honor “for noteworthy and conspicuous gallantry while Colonel 40th Massachusetts Volunteers, leading the assaults of his brigade upon the enemy’s works at Cold Harbor, Va., June 1, 1864, where he had two horses shot under him — one while in the act of leaping over the breastworks of the enemy.” |
| June 15-18 | First Assault on Petersburg |
| June 16 | Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin |
| June 24 and 28 | Hares Hill |
| July 30 | Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve), then in trenches before Petersburg |
| August 27 | Moved to Bermuda Front |
| August 28 | To Bermuda Landing and provost duty there |
| September 29 | On the Bermuda Front |
| October 24 | Moved to Chaffin’s Farm on north side of the James and attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
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1865
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| March 5-8 | Expedition to Fredericksburg and up the Potomac River to the Yecomico |
| March 11-13 | To Kinsel’s Landing |
| March 13-18 | To White House |
| March 24-26 | March to Signal Hill before Richmond |
| April 3 | Occupation of Richmond |
| April 25 | Moved to Manchester and provost duty there |
| June 16 | Mustered out |
| June 30 | Discharged at Reedville, Mass. |