Expedition to Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina

Attached to Williams’ Brigade, Burnside’s North Carolina Expeditionary Corps

Battle of Camden, South Mills

The regiment lost 1 officer and 3 enlisted men wounded and 2 men missing

Expedition to New Berne

Maryland Campaign

Battle of South Mountain

The regiment fought at Fox’s Gap, losing 4 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, and 1 officer and 15 men wounded.

Battle of Antietam

The regiment was commanded by Major Edward Jardine while Colonel Fairchild commanded the brigade. It lost 1 offer and 31 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, 3 officers and 60 men wounded, and 8 men missing.

From the War Department marker for Fairchild’s Brigade on the Antietam battlefield:

On the morning of the 17th, Fairchild’s Brigade moved from its position southeast of the Burnside Bridge, down the left bank of the Antietam, which it crossed at Snavely’s Ford about 1 P.M., and forced the right of Toombs’ Brigade from its position on the high ground above the ford and, moving up the right bank of the creek, formed line on the left of Willcox’s Division a short distance northwest of the bridge. About 3 P.M. the Brigade, under a heavy fire of Artillery from Cemetery Hill and the adjacent heights, advanced from the ridge 450 yards east of this, reached the open fields west and gained the high ground about 400 yards northwest of this point, forcing the Brigades of Kemper and Drayton through the streets of Sharpsburg. Its position being endangered by the advance of A.P. Hill on its left and rear, it was withdrawn by the ravines to the Sharpsburg Road and thence to the bank of the Antietam near the Burnside Bridge.

Battle of Fredericksburg

The regiment lost 4 men killed or mortally wounded, 25 men wounded and 1 man missing.

Siege of Suffolk

Assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Corps, Department of Virginia

The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Theophilus England. It lost 1 officer and 5 men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 6 men wounded.

Battery Huger, Hill’s Point

Dix’s Peninsula Campaign

Siege operations

Against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, South Carolina, and against Fort Sumter and Charleston

Bombardment of Fort Sumter

Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg

Occupation of Bermuda Hundred and City Point

Battle of Drury’s Bluff

Bermuda Hundred

Battles about Cold Harbor

The regiment lost 5 enlisted men mortally wounded, 13 men wounded, and 2 men missing.

Grant’s First Assault on Petersburg

The regiment lost 2 officers and 19 men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 68 men wounded, and 2 men mising, including Lieutenant Colonel England.

Siege of Petersburg

Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Battle of the Crater) 

In reserve.

Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights

The regiment lost 2 officers and 19 men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 68 men wounded, and 2 men missing.

Battle of Fair Oaks

The regiment lost 1 officer and 7 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 32 men wounded and 98 men missing.

Appomattox Campaign

The regiment lost 1 officer and 7 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 18 men wounded.

Final Assalt on Petersburg

Assault and capture of Forts Gregg and Baldwin and fall of Petersburg. Major Tremain was mortally wounded in the assault.

Rice’s Station

Appomattox Court House

Surrender of Lee and his army.