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December 12 |
Organized at Cambridge and Boston under Colonel William Monteith, Lieutenant Colonel McLelland Moore and Major George W. Cartwright |
December 28 |
The regiment received a green flag of patriotic and irish slogans that would be carried in the place of its state colors. |
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January 11 |
Left State for New York and duty at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor |
February 14 |
Sailed on Steamer "Erickson" for Hilton Head, S.C. |
February 23 |
Arrived Hilton Head amd attached to Dept. of the South |
April 7 |
Moved to Dafuskie Island, S.C. and duty there; attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of the South. |
April 18-May 6 |
Companies A and K detached at Jones and Bird Islands |
May 12 - May 28 |
Companies A, C, D, F and K moved to Tybee Island |
May 20 |
Colonel Monteith was placed under arrest for drunkeness and other violations of regulations. He would be court-martialled, and resigned in August. Lieutenant Colonel McLelland Moore took command, but soon resigned due to feuds between various factions in the regiment. Major George W. Cartwright took command of hte regiment was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel effective 7/26. |
May 28 |
Companies B, E, G, H and I moved to Dafuskie Island and to Hilton Head |
June 1-28 |
Operations on James Island, S.C. |
June 3-4 |
Skirmishes on James Island |
June 16 |
Battle of Secessionville
The regiment suffered 67 casualties in a charge through an impassible bog, including Sergeant John J. McDonald, carying the colors. |
June 28-July 7 |
Evacuation of James Island |
July 14-18 |
Moved from Hilton Head to Newport News. Va. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
August 3-6 |
To Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg |
August 6-16 |
Operations in support of Pope |
August 16-
September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run
The regiment suffered 135 casualties, including Lieutenant Colonel George W. Cartwright, who was wounded, and Lieutenant William Flynn, who was killed. Captain Andrew A. Caraher of Company A took command of the regiment. |
September 1-2 |
Battle of Chantilly
The regiment took part in a charge led by General Isaac Stevens that ended in a torrential thunderstorm, with General Stevens killed. It suffered 99 casualties, including Lieutenant Alexander Barrett, who was mortally wounded. |
September-October |
Maryland Campaign |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
Commanded by Captain Andrew A. Caraher, the regiment lost 18 killed, 40 wouned and 1 missing in fighting near Burnside's Bridge, including Lieutenant Nicholas Barrett, who was killed. |
September 19-October 2 |
March to Pleasant Valley and duty there |
October 18 |
Colonel Richard Byrnes was appointed Colonel by Governor Andrew. The appointment of an outsider led seven officers to resign in protest. Colonel Byrnes immediately tightened discipline in the regiment, relieving the sergeant major and quartermaster sergeant and instituting daily drills and inspection. |
October 25-
November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
November 15 |
Captain Caraher of Company A was promoted to major. |
December |
Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, the Irish Brigade. The 28th was swapped for the 29th Massachusetts, a Yankee regiment. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg
The regiment lost 32 killed, 116 wounded, 1 captured and 11 missing of the 416 men engaged in the attack on Marye's Heights, including Lieutenents Edwin Weller, William Holland and John Sullivan killed and Major Andrew Caraher and Captain Charles Sanborn, wounded.
After the charge General Edwin Sumner rebuked a soldier for not being in company formation. The soldier responded, "This is all my company, sir." |
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January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
January - April |
At Falmouth
Lieutenant Colonel Cartwright returned to the regiment after recovering from his Bull Run wounds. Ten captains and lieutenants resigned due to the ongoing discipinary struggle with Colonel Byrnes, who had brought in several replacement officers from outside the regiment. |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville
The regiment suffered 26 casualties, mostly in helping to save from capture the guns of the 5th Maine Battery. |
June |
Assgned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 2-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded by Colonel Richard Byrnes. It brought 265 men to the field, losing 8 killed, 57 wounded and 35 missing in fighting in the Wheatfield and around the Stony Knoll, including |
July 7 - 15 |
Left Gettysburg for Faling Waters via Taneytown, Frederick and Crampton's Gap |
July 18 |
Crossed the Potomac |
July 24 |
Arrived at Manassas Gap after marching through Snicker's Gap, Bloomfield and Ashby's Gap |
July 31 |
Went into camp at Morrisville to rest and refit |
August 31 |
Marched to United States Ford in support of the cavalry, then returned to camp |
September 10 |
Received 175 draftees from Massachusetts, bringing the regimental strength over 300 men. |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe
The regiment suffered six casualties in skirmishes during the retreat from Auburn Hill |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November |
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps |
November 26-
December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 29 |
Skirmish at Robinson's Tavern along Plank Road
The regiment lost nine men charging taking a line of rifle pits |
December 5 |
Arrived at Stevensburg and established winter quarters |
December 31 |
157 Veterans reenlisted, quaifying the 28th as a Veteran Volunteer Regiment and earning a thirty day furlough as well as a $402 Federal bounty and a $325 state bounty. |
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February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
February - May |
Colonel Byrne and four other officerss return to Massachusetts and recruit 288 new men for the regiment, bringing its strength to over 500 men. Many of these recruits were not Irish and many not from Massachusetts; 90 were Canadian. |
May-June |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-12 |
Battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania
Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Cartwright, the regiment lost 24 killed, 81 wounded and 8 missing, including Cartwright, who was severly wounded, and Captains James McIntyre and Charles Smith, who were killed. Major Andrew Lawler asumed command. |
May 10 |
Po River
The regiment lost 3 killed, 5 wounded 2 captured and 1 missing to artillery fire while digging in after crossing the river. |
May 12-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House
The regiment lost 21 killed, 74 wounded, 8 captured and 3 missing, including Captain James Magner, who was killed. |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient
The regiment lost 62 men in the attack on the "Mule Shoe" |
May 18 |
Second Assault on the Mule Shoe
The regiment lost 42 men, including Major Lawler and Captains William Cochrane and James Magner, all killed or mortally wounded. |
May 20 |
Colonel Byrnes returned to the regiment but assumed brigade command as senior colonel. The regiment had been reduced to 315 men. |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy
Under the command of Captain James Fleming, the regiment lost 13 men in picket skirmishing. |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor
Under the command of Captain James West, the regiment lost 48 men, including Captain West, who was killed. Colonel Byrnes, commanding the brigade, was mortally wounded, dying in a Washington hospital on June 12. After the battle the regiment had less than 100 men fit for duty commanded by Lieutenant John B. Noyes, with only one other lieutenant. |
June 16-19 |
Before Petersburg
The regiment lost 19 men. |
June 16 |
Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 20 |
The Irish Bigade had been reduced in strength to a handful of men commanded by Captain Richard Moroney of the 69th New York, and was broken up. The 28th was assigned with a number of other shattered 2nd Corps regiments to the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, the only Irish Brigade regiment to remain in the field. |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road
The regiment lost 12 men repulsing a Confederate attack. |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration on north side of the James |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom
Commanded by Captain Fleming, the regiment led the brigade in turning the Confederate left flank, capturing four 24pounder Parrott Rifles while suffering only founr men lost. |
August 13-14 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom
The regiment lost 15 men in a demonstration against a Confererate battery, including Captain Nolan, who was killed. |
August 16 |
Charles City Cross Roads
The regiment lost 18 killed and 22 captured |
August 25 |
Ream's Station
The regiment lost 10 killed and 24 captured or missing after repulsing three Confederate attacks, being forced back from its breasworks, and then regaining them in a counterattack. |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Road, Hatcher's Run |
December 19 |
One officer and 20 men returned to Massachusets, the only survivors of the original 1861 members who had not reenlsted as Veterans. The regiment had lost 408 men and eight commanding officers in 1864, with only one commissioned officer surviving unscathed. The remaining 185 members of the 28th were reorganized as a five company battalion. |
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February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 25 |
Watkin's House |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 31 |
Hatcher's Run or Boydton Road and White Oak Road
The battalion lost 17 men killed and 53 wounded capturing outer Cofederate picket lines in preparation for a breakthrough attack, including Major Fleming, who was wounded, and Lieutenant Thomas Parker, who was killed. Captain Patrick Black took over the battalion. |
April 2 |
Sutherland Station and fall of Petersburg
The battalion lost Captain Black and five other men wounded in its last action of the war, capturing 150 Confederate prisoners, two cannon and a battle flag. |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 7 |
High Bridge and Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 10 - May 2 |
At Burkesville |
May 2-15 |
March to Washington, D.C. under Captain Patrick Bird. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
May 24 |
Duty at Washington |
June 29 |
Mustered out |
July 5 |
Discharged at Readville, Massachusetts |
