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.
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 | Attacked in streets of Baltimore, reached Washington and camp in Capitol Buildings. The regiment suffered 3 dead and 40 wounded. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |