United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts
The 57th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 10 officers and 191 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 86 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1864
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| April 6 | Organized at Worcester and Reedville and mustered in under the command of Colonel William F. Bartlett. |
| April 18-20 | Moved to Annapolis, Md., then to Washington and Alexandria and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May 3-June 15 | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| May 10 | Ny River |
| May 12 | Assault on the Salient |
| 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 | Before Petersburg |
| June 16 | Siege of Petersburg begins |
| June 27 | Colonel Bartlett was promoted to brigadier general. |
| July 21 | Napoleon B. McLaughlan was promoted to colonel. |
| July 30 | Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
| August 18-21 | Weldon Railroad |
| September | Attached to the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
| September 29- October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church or Peeble’s Farm |
| October 8 | Reconnaissance on Vaughan and Squirrel Level Roads |
| October 27-28 | Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
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1865
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| March 25 | Fort Stedman |
| March 28-April 9 | Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 | Assault on and fall of Petersburg |
| April 3 | Occupation of Petersburg |
| April 4-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
| April 20-28 | Moved to City Point, then to Alexandria and duty there |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| July 30 | Mustered out |