The Civil War in the East

7th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

 

The 7th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 76 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 72 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

Monument to the 7th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1861

June 15

Organized at Taunton and mustered in

July 14-15

Ordered to Washington, D.C. and camp at Kalorama Heights

August 6

Attached to Couch's Brigade, Division of the Potomac and at Camp Brightwood, Defences of Washington, D.C.

October

Assigned to Couch's Brigade, Buell's (Keyes') Division, Army of the Potomac

1862

March

Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

March 11-15

March to Prospect Hills, Va.

March 25

Embarked at Alexandria for the Peninsula

April 5-May 4

Siege of Yorktown

May 5

Battle of Williamsburg

May 19-21

Bottom's Bridge

May 23

Reconnaissance toward Richmond

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

July 1

Malvern Hill

July 2 - August 16

At Harrison's Landing

August 5-6

Reconnoissance to Turkey Island

August 8-11

Reconnoissance to Haxall's Station

August 16-
September 1

Movement to Alexandria

September

Attached to the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 3-18

March into Maryland

September 18

Battle of Antietam

September 23-
October 20

At Downsville

October

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps

October 20-
November 19

Movement to Stafford C. H.

December 5

To Belle Plains

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

April 29-May 2

Operations at Franklin's Crossing

May 3

Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg

May 3-4

Salem Heights

May 4

Banks' Ford

June 5-13

Deep Run Ravine

July 2-4

Battle of Gettysburg
Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Franklin P. Harlow. It brought 369 men to the field, losing six wounded,

July 5-23

Pursuit of Lee

July 24 -
September 15

At Warrenton, Va.

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

November 7-8

Advance to the Rappahannock

November 7

Rappahannock Station

November 26 -
December 2

Mine Run Campaign

December

Duty at Brandy Station

1864

January

Assigned to the 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps

May-June

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 12-21

Spottsylvania C. H.

May 12

"Bloody Angle"

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 26-28

Line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 12-14

March to James River

June 16-20

Moved to Taunton, Mass.

July

Mustered out