3rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

The 3rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 1 enlisted man killed and 17 enlisted men to disease.

1861
April 17	Left Boston on Steamer "S. R. Spaulding" for Fortress Monroe, Va. for three months service
April 20	Arrived and ordered on board United States Sloop of War "Pawnee" Moved to Norfolk and destruction of navy yard
May 13	Expedition to Hampton
May 14 - July 1	Fatigue and garrison duty at Fortress Monroe
July 2 - 16	At Hampton
July 16	Ordered home
July 22	Mustered out, expiration of term.

1862
September	Organized at Lakeville under Colonel Silas P. Richmond for nine months service
October 22	Moved to Boston, embarked on Steamers "Merrimac" and "Mississippi" for New Berne, N. C.
October 26	Arrived New Berne and duty there; attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina
November 30	Co. "I" detached at Plymouth and Elizabeth City
December	Heckman's Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina
December 10	Action at Plymouth (Co. "I")
December 11-22	Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro
December 14	Action at Kinston
December 16	Whitehall
December 17	Goldsboro
December	Duty at New Berne
1863
January	2nd Brigade, 5th Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina
March 6-10	Expedition to Trenton, Pollocksville, Young's Cross Roads and Swansborough
March 15-16	Reconnoissance to Pollocksville
April	Jourdan's Independent Brigade, Defences of Newberne, Dept. of North Carolina
April	Co. "I" reunites with regiment
April 7-10	Expedition to relief of Little Washington
April 16-21	Expedition toward Kinston
May 23-24	To Batchelor's Creek
June 11-16	Moved to Boston
Juno 26	Mustered out