Peninsula Campaign

Moved to the Virginia Peninsula and the Siege of Yorktown

Battle of Williamsburg

The regiment lost 8 killed, 23 wounded and 3 captured. Colonel Small was severely wounded, and Major Berry took command of the regiment.

Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines

Seven days before Richmond

The regiment lost 20 killed and 45 wounded, as well as 11 deaths to disease.

Oak Grove

Savage Station

White Oak Swamp and Glendale

Colonel William F. Small was discharged due to his wound from Williamsburg.

Malvern Hill

Duty at Harrison’s Landing

Lieutenant Colonel Wells was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Rush Van Dyke, and Captain Bodine of Company K was promoted to major.

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia

From August 23 until September 2 the regiment lost two officers killed and three wounded, twenty-one enlisted men killed, forty-seven wounded and six taken prisoners.

Bristoe Station, Kettle Run

Commanded by Major Bodine. The regiment lost its baggage when its supply train was burned.

Battle of Groveton (Brawner Farm)

Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas)

The regiment lost 2 officers killed and 63 men killed or wounded.

First Sergeant George W. Roosevelt of Company K was awarded the Medal of Honor for “At Bull Run, Va., recaptured the colors, which had been seized by the enemy. At Gettysburg captured a Confederate color bearer and colors, in which effort he was severely wounded.”

Battle of Chantilly

Battle of Fredericksburg

The regiment was sent to reinforce Franklin’s forces on the left flank. I spent 30 hours in combat on the front lines before retiring across the Rappahannock, losing 17 men killed and wounded.

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of Chancellorsville

The regiment lost 4 officers wounded, 18 enlisted men killed, 64 enlisted men were wounded and 10 men captured. Colonel Tilghman was wounded while attempting to change the regiment’s front after the 72nd New York retreated and left the flank uncovered. The regiment made an orderly retreat to take up a position behind a line of batteries.

Gettysburg Campaign

Battle of Gettysburg

The 26th Pensylvania Infantry Regiment marched from Emmitsburg on the evening of July 1 and bivouacked near the battlefield. It was commanded by Major Robert L. Bodine, and brought 18 officers and 365 enlisted men to the field.

In the morning of July 2 it marched onto the battlefield and formed up on the far right of the Third Corps line along Emmitsburg Road near the Rogers Farm. The position was exposed open fields that were swept by Confederate artillery on Seminary Ridge during the attack in the afternoon. At the end of the day the 26th changed front to face the charge of the Florida brigade, then counterattacked and drove them back, taking a number of prisoners. On July 3 The 26th supported batteries.

The regiment lost 30 killed, 176 wounded and 7 missing. Out of 18 officers 2 were killed and two mortally wounded. Three color bearers were killed.

Whapping Heights, Va.

Bristoe Campaign

Mine Run Campaign

The regiment lost 1 officer and 5 men killed, and 1 officer and 23 men wounded.

Rapidan Campaign

Battle of the Wilderness

The regiment was commanded by Major Samuel G. Moffitt. It deployed as skirmishers on the far left flank of the army, and lost 12 men killed and 27 wounded.

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

The regiment lost 20 killed and 45 wounded

Assault on the Salient

The regiment took part in the great attack, taking two Confederate guns which were turned on the defenders.

Battle of Harris Farm, or Fredericksburg Road

North Anna River

Moved to North Anna River at Ox Ford, where under heavy artillery fire it pushed the Confedrates back across the river.