The 3rd New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 12 officers and 186 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 152 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861
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Organized at Concord | |
August 23 | Mustered in |
September 3 | Moved to Camp Scott, Long Island, N.Y. |
September 18 | To Washington, D.C. |
October 4 | To Annapolis, Md. |
October | Attached to Viele’s Brigade, Sherman’s South Carolina Expeditionary Corps |
October 21-November 7 | Expedition to Port Royal, S.C. |
November 7 | Capture of Forts Walker and Beauregard, Port Royal Harbor, S.C. |
November | Duty at Hilton Head, S.C. |
1862
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March | Affair Hunting Island |
March 7-11 | Reconnaissance up Savannah River to Elba Island |
March 20-24 | Expedition to Bluffton |
April | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the South |
April 5 | Occupation of Edisto Island |
April 10 | Affair at Watts’ Court |
April 14 | Reconnaissance of Seabrook Island |
April 17 | Advance on Jehossie Island |
April 18 | Skirmish Edisto Island |
April-May | Duty at Edisto Island |
June 1-28 | Operations on James Island |
June 8 | Picket Affair |
June 16 | Battle of Secessionville |
June 28-July 7 | Evacuation of James Island and movement to Hilton Head |
July | Duty at Hilton Head attached to District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. of the South |
August 21 | Affair at Pinckney Island |
October 21-23 | Expedition up Broad River to Pocotaligo |
October 22 | Action at Caston’s and Frampton’s Plantations, Pocotaligo |
February 16- April 9 |
Movements against Charleston |
1863 |
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April 23 | Moved to Seabrook Island and attached to Guss’ Brigade, Seabrook Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
June | Attached to St. Helena Island. S.C. |
July 3 | To Folly Island, S.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
July 10 | Assault on and capture of water batteries on Morris Island |
July 11 & 18 | Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris Island |
July | Siege operations on Morris Island against Forts Wagner and Gregg and against Fort Sumter and Charleston attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
August | Attached to 1st Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
September 7 | Occupation of Forts Wagner and Gregg |
1864
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March and April | Veterans absent on furlough |
April 1 | Ordered to Florida and Regiment mounted. Attached to Light Brigade, District of Florida. Dept. of the South |
April 3 | Palatka |
April 25-29 | Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina. Veterans rejoin regiment from furlough. |
May 4-28 | Butler’s operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Corps |
May 5 | Capture of City Point and Bermuda Hundred |
May 6-7 | Chester Station |
May 9-10 | Swift Creek |
May 10 | Chester Station |
May 12-16 | Operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 | Drury’s Bluff |
May 16-31 | Bermuda Hundred |
June 2 and 14 | Action at Bermuda Hundred |
June 9 | Petersburg |
June 16-17 | Port Walthal |
June 16 | Siege operations begin against Petersburg and Richmond |
July 21 | Deep Bottom |
August 13-20 | Demonstration north of the James |
August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains |
August 23 | Non-Veterans mustered out |
August 24-September 27 | Duty in trenches before Petersburg |
September 28-30 | Chaffin’s Farm |
October 1 | Charles City Cross Roads |
October 7 |
Darbytown RoadThe regiment used their new Spencer repeating carbines for the first time, throwing back an attack by Bratton’s Confederate Brigade and inflicting heavy casualties. |
October 13 | Darbytown Road |
October 27-28 | Fair Oaks |
October 31-November 2 | Front of Richmond |
November 2-17 | Detached for duty at New York during Presidential Election |
November 17 | Duty in front of Richmond |
December | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Corps |
1865
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January 3-15 | 2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C. |
January 15 | Assault and capture of Fort Fisher |
January 19 | Half Moon Battery |
February 11 | Sugar Loaf Battery |
February 18 | Fort Anderson |
February 22 | Capture of Wilmington |
February 22 | Smith’s Creek and North East Ferry |
March | Duty at Wilmington attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
April | Assigned to Abbott’s Detached Brigade, 10th Corps |
June 3 | At Goldsboro |
July 25 | Mustered out |