United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts
The 7th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 76 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 72 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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1861
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| June 15 | Organized at Taunton and mustered in under the command of Colonel Darius Couch, Major Franklin P. Harlow. |
| July 14-15 | Ordered to Washington, D.C. |
| July | Camp at Kalorama Heights. Assigned to the Department of Washington. |
| August 6 | Attached to Couch’s Brigade, Division of the Potomac at Camp Brightwood, Defences of Washington, D.C. |
| September 3 | Colonel Couch was promoted to brigadier general and Nelson H. Davis was promoted to colonel. |
| November 2 | Colonel Davis was discharged. |
| November 20 | Joseph H. Wheelock was promoted to colonel. |
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1862
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| January 30 | Colonel Wheelock resigned, citing that his health was “too feeble to endure the hardships of camp life in this latitude and at his season of the year.” Wheelock would die in Washington in May. |
| February 1 | David A. Russell was promoted to colonel. |
| March | Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| March 11-15 | March to Prospect Hills, Va. |
| March 25 | Embarked at Alexandria for the Peninsula |
| April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
| May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
| May 19-21 | Bottom’s Bridge |
| May 23 | Reconnaissance toward Richmond |
| May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines |
| June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
| June 25 | Oak Grove, near Seven Pines |
| June 29 | James River Road, near Fair Oaks |
| July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
| July 2 – August 16 |
At Harrison’s Landing |
| August 5-6 | Reconnoissance to Turkey Island |
| August 8-11 | Reconnoissance to Haxall’s Station |
| August 16- September 1 |
Movement to Alexandria |
| September | Attached to the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| September 3-18 | March into Maryland |
| September 16 | Couch’s Division was drawn up across Pleasant Valley near Rohrersville, observing McLaws’ Command. |
| September 17 | In the morning the division marched nearly to Harpers Ferry, then counter-marched and bivouacked that night on the Huffer Farm about a half mile south of Keedysville. |
| September 18 |
Battle of AntietamThe regiment was not engaged. |
| September 23- October 20 |
At Downsville |
| October | Assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps |
| October 20- November 19 |
Movement to Stafford C. H. |
| November 27 | Major Harlow was promoted to lieutenant colonel |
| December 5 | To Belle Plains |
| December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
| December 27 | Colonel Russell was promoted to brigadier general. |
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1863
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| January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
| February 23 | Thomas D. Johns was (USMA 1848) was appointed colonel by the Governor. |
| April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
| April 29-May 2 | Operations at Franklin’s Crossing |
| May 3 |
Maryes Heights (Second Fredericksburg)The regiment successfully assaulted Marye’s Heights. Lieutenant Colonel Harlow was wounded, but remained on the field. |
| May 3-4 |
Salem HeightsColonel Johns was wounded in the thigh and Lieutenant Colonel Harlow took command of the regiment. |
| May 4 | Banks’ Ford |
| June 5-13 | Deep Run Ravine |
| July 2-4 |
Battle of GettysburgThe 6th Massachusetts was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Franklin P. Harlow. It brought 369 men to the field, losing six wounded. The regiment arrived on the field on the afternoon of the 2nd after a 35 mile march on a hot and humid day. Then were given a brief break to refill their canteens in Rock Creek, then were led, cheering, to the north side of Little Round Top where Longstreet’s attack threatened to break the Union line. The arrival of the regiment and its fellow 6th Corps units was a major factor in Longstreet’s decision to call off the attack on the 2nd. |
| July 5-23 | Pursuit of Lee |
| July 24 – September 15 |
At Warrenton, Va. |
| October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
| November 7-8 | Advance to the Rappahannock |
| November 7 |
Rappahannock Station |
| November 26 – December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
| December | Duty at Brandy Station |
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1864
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| January | Assigned to the 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps |
| May-June | Rapidan Campaign |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8-21 |
Battle of Spottsylvania Court House |
| May 12 | Assault on the “Bloody Angle” |
| May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
| May 26-28 | Line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
| June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
| June 12-14 | March to James River |
| June 16-20 | Moved to Taunton, Mass. |
| July | Mustered out |