1861 |
July 22 |
Organized at Lafayette, Ind., and mustered in |
August 2 |
Left State for Baltimore, Md. |
August - September |
Stationed at Cockeysville, Md., guarding Northern Central R. R. to Pennsylvania line |
September 24-27 |
Expedition to Hatteras Inlet, N. C. |
September 28 |
At fortifications North end of Hatteras Bank |
October 4 |
Action at Chickamacomico |
November 9 |
Ordered to Fortress Monroe, Va., Dept. of Virginia |
1862 |
March 8-9 |
Engagement at Newport News, Va., between CSS Virginia and U.S.S. Cumberland, U.S.S. Congress and U.S.S. Monitor. |
May 10 |
Robinson's Brigade, Dept. of Virginia; Occupation of Norfolk and Portsmouth |
June 8 |
Joined Army of the Potomac on the Peninsula; attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps |
June 19 |
Charles City Cross Roads |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 25 |
Battle of Oak Grove ("The Orchards") |
June 30 |
White Oak Swamp and Glendale |
June 30 |
Jordan's Ford |
July 1 and July 5 |
Malvern Hill |
July 6 |
At Harrison's Landing |
August |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps |
August 16-28 |
Movement to Fortress Monroe, then to Centreville |
August 28 - September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Virginia |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Battle of Bull Run |
September 1 |
Battle of Chantilly |
September - October |
Duty at Arlington Heights and at Poolesville |
October 29 - November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
1863 |
January 20-24 |
Burnside's 2nd Campaign ("Mud March") |
January - April |
At Falmouth |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville
Captured the 23rd Georgia Infantry |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
At Gettysburg the regiment was commanded by Colonel John Wheeler until he was killed on July 2nd. Lieutenant Colonel William C.L. Taylor then took command until he was wounded, when command fell to Captain Erasmus C. Gilbreath. The 20th brought 496 men to the field, of whom 32 were killed, 114 wounded and 10 missing. |
July 5-24 |
Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va. |
July 23 |
Wapping Heights, Va. |
August - September |
Detached at New York City during draft disturbances |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Kelly's Ford |
November 26 - December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 |
Payne's Farm |
1864 |
January 1 |
Regiment veteranized |
February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
March |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps |
May 4-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8 |
Laurel Hill |
May 8-12 |
Spottsylvania |
May 10 |
Po River |
May 12-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient ("Bloody Angle") |
May 19 |
Harris Farm (or Fredericksburg) Road |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunken |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 |
Siege of Petersburg |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon R. R. |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration on North side of the James |
July 28-29 |
Deep Bottom |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration on North side of the James at Deep Bottom |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
September 10 |
The Chimneys |
September 29-October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church |
October 2-5 |
Yellow House |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
December 7-12 |
Raid on Weldon Railroad |
1865 |
February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 25 |
Watkins' House |
March 28 - April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29 |
Vaughan Road, near Hatcher's Run |
March 31 |
Crow's House |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 7 |
Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House
Surrender of Lee and his army. |
May 2-12 |
March to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 14-21 |
Moved to Louisville, Ky. |
July 12 |
Mustered out and discharged at Indianapolis, Ind. |
