United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts
The 59th Massachusetts Volunrteer Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 83 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 93 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1863
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| December 3 | Organized at Reedville |
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1864
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| April 26-28 | Moved to Washington, D.C. ubder the command of Colonel Jacob P. Gould |
| April 29-May 2 | To Rappahannock Station, Va. 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 | First Assault on Petersburg |
| June 16 | Siege of Petersburg begins |
| July 30 |
Mine Explosion, PetersburgColonel Gould was mortally wounded by a gunshot wound to his right leg. |
| August 18-21 | Weldon Railroad |
| September | Assigned to 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 Road |
| 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 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
| April 20-28 | Moved to City Point, thence to Alexandria |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| May 26 | Consolidated with 57th Massachusetts Infantry |