United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts > 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
The 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 4 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded during its 1861 enlistment, 2 officers and 11 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 18 enlisted men to disease during its 1862-63 enlistment, and 10 enlisted men to disease during its 1864 service.
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1861
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| January 21 | Tendered services to government for three months |
| April 15 | Moved from Lowell to Boston in response to call of the President under the command of Colonel Edward F. Jones. |
| April 17 | Left Boston for Washington, D.C. via New York and Philadelphia and to Baltimore |
| April 19 | The 6th Massachusetts was attacked in the streets of Baltimore by an angry mob while moving between train stations. The passenger cars of their train were being transferred between the two stations, pulled by horses on tracks in the city street. Most of the cars made it through successfully, although showered by bricks and paving stones. Before the last three cars could make the move the mob pulled up the tracks in the streets. The men on the cars disembarked, formed up, and marched through the streets. The mob began shooting as well as hurling bricks, and the soldiers replied. The regiment suffered 4 dead and 36 wounded. These were the first Union troops to be killed in the Civil War. Twelve civilians were also killed.
The regiment continued on to Washington and camped in Capitol Building. The 6th Massachusetts was the first regiment to arrive in Washington in response to Lincoln’s call for 75,000 men. |
| May 5 | Moved to Relay House, West of Baltimore. |
| May 13 | To Baltimore |
| May 16 | Returned to Relay House; Guarded railroad |
| May – July | Duty at Baltimore and Relay House in the Department of Annapolis |
| July 29 | Relieved from duty |
| August 2 | Mustered out |
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1862
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| August 31 | Organized at Camp Wilson, Lowell, and mustered in for nine months service |
| September 9-12 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| September 14-15 | Moved to Suffolk, Va.; Duty at Suffolk attached to Foster’s Provisional Brigade, Division at Suffolk, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
| October 3-4 | Expedition to Western Branch Church |
| October 24-26 | Expedition to Blackwater |
| November 17-19. | Expedition to Blackwater |
| November 17 | Skirmish at Lawrence’s Plantation |
| December 1-3 | Expedition to Beaver Dam Church |
| December 2 | Action on the Blackwater near Franklin |
| December 11-13 | Expedition to Zuni |
| December 11 | Action at Zuni |
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1863
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| January 30 | Action at Deserted House |
| April 12-May 4 |
Siege of SuffolkAttached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
| May 4 | Siege of Suffolk raised |
| May 12-26 | Operations on Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad |
| May 15-16 | Holland House |
| May 26-29 | Moved to Boston |
| June 3 | Mustered out |
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1864
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| July 14-19 | Organized at Readville and mustered in for 100 days service |
| July 20 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
| July 22 | Arrived Washington and assigned to garrison duty at Fort C. F. Smith on Arlington Heights |
| August 21 | Moved to Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch island, relieving 157th Ohio Infantry from guard duty of Rebel prisoners. |
| October 19 – 21 | Moved to Boston |
| October 27 | The 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment mustered out |