The Civil War in the East

36th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

 

The 36th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 6 officers and 105 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 160 enlisted men to disease, during the Civil War.

 

1862

August 30

Organized at Worcester and mustered in

September 2

Left State for Washington, D.C. then moved to Leesburg, Md.

September 9

To Pleasant Valley and duty there. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac

October 26-29

March to Lovettsville, Va.

October 29-
November 19

To Warrenton

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

February 10

Moved to Newport News, Va.

March 19-23

To Lexington, Ky. and attached to Dept. Ohio

April 9-30

Duty at Camp Dick Robinson, Ky.

May

At Middleburg

May 23-26

March to Columbia

May 27-30

Expedition toward Cumberland River after Morgan

June 2

Jamestown

June 7-14

Moved to Vicksburg, Miss. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Dept. Ohio

June 14-July 4

Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.

July 5-10

Advance on Jackson, Miss.

July 10-17

Siege of Jackson

July - August 5

At Milldale

August 5-12

Moved to Covington, Ky. and attached to Army Tennessee

August 17-18

To Crab Orchard

September 10-22

March across Cumberland Mountains to East Tennessee and attached to Dept. Ohio

September 27-
October 3

Near Knoxville

October 10

Action at Blue Springs

October 29-
November 14

At Lenoir

November-December

Knoxville Campaign

November 14-15

Lenoir Station

November 17

Campbell's Station

November 17-
December 4

Siege of Knoxville

December 5-19

Pursuit of Longstreet

1864

December -
March 21

Operations in East Tennessee

January 21-22

Strawberry Plains

March 21-April 6

Moved from Knoxville, Tenn., to Covington, Ky., thence to Annapolis, Md. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac

May-June

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 12-21

Spottsylvania C. H.

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 21

Stannard's Mills

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 26-28

On line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 1-3

Bethesda Church

June 16-18

Before Petersburg

June 16

Siege of Petersburg begins

July 30

Mine Explosion, Petersburg

August 18-21

Weldon Railroad

September 29-
October 2

Poplar Springs Church

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

November

At Fort Rice

1865

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Assault on and fall of Petersburg

April 3-9

March to Farmville

April 20-28

Moved to Petersburg and City Point, then to Alexandria

May 23

Grand Review

June 8

Mustered out

June 21

Discharged from service