United States Regiments & Batteries > Rhode Island
The Second Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 9 officers and 111 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 74 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg
1861
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June | Organized at Providence under Colonel John Slocum, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Wheaton and Major Sullivan Ballou |
June 19 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
June | At Camp Sprague, Washington, D. C. attached to Burnside’s Brigade, Hunter’s Division, McDowell’s Army of Northeast Virginia |
July 16-21 | Advance on Manassas, Va. |
July 21 |
Battle of Bull RunThe regiment lost 28 killed, 56 wounded and 30 missing. Colonel John Slocum and Major Sullivan Ballou, Captains Levi Tower and Samuel J. Smith were killed, and Lieutenants Stephen Arnold and Henry C. Cook were wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Frank Wheaton took command of the regiment and was promoted to colonel to replace Colonel Slocum. |
August | At Camp Sprague and Brightwood, Defences of Washington attached to Couch’s Brigade, Division of the Potomac |
October | Attached to Couch’s Brigade, Buell’s Division, Army Potomac |
1862
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March | Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
March 11-15 | March to Prospect Hill, Va. |
March 26 | Embarked at Alexandria, Va., for the Peninsula |
April 5-May 4 | Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 9 | Slatersville, New Kent C. H. |
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 |
June 30 |
White Oak Swamp |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August | At Harrison’s Landing |
August 5-6 | Reconnoissance to Turkey Island |
August 8-11 | To Haxall’s Landing |
August 15-September 1 | Movement to Alexandria |
September 3-18 | March into Maryland. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
September 23-October 20 | At Downsville |
October | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps |
October 20-November 18 | Movement to Stafford C. H. |
December 5 | To Belle Plains |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863
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January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 | Operations about Franklin’s Crossing |
May 3 | Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
May 4 | Banks’ Ford |
June 5-13 | Deep Run Ravine or Franklin’s Crossing |
July 2-4 |
Battle of GettysburgThe regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel Horatio Rogers. It brought 409 men to the field, losing one killed, five wounded and one missing. |
July 10-13 | Funkstown, Md. |
July-September | At Warrenton, Va. |
October 9-22 | Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 | Rappahannock Station |
November 26-December 2 | Mine Run Campaign |
December | At Brandy Station |
1864
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March | Attached to 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 Salient |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 11 | Old members left front for muster out |
June 17 | Old members mustered out |
June 17-18 | Before Petersburg |
June 22-23 | Jerusalem Plank Road |
June 24 |
Siege of Petersburg |
July 9-11 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
July 11-12 |
Repulse of Early’s attack on WashingtonAttached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
August – December | Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan) |
September 22-December 1 | Garrison duty at Winchester |
December 2-6 | Moved to Petersburg, Va. and Siege of Petersburg attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
1865
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February 5-7 |
Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run |
March 25 |
Fort Fisher, Petersburg |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
April 2 | Assault on and fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
April 23-27 | Expedition to Danville |
May 20-June 7 | Moved to Washington via Richmond |
June 8 | Corps Review |
July 13 | Mustered out |