The 40th lost 5 officers and 67 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 125 enlisted men to disease, a total of 197.
August, 1862 |
Organized at Lynnfield |
September 8-11 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, Military District of Washington for duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C. |
December 28-29 |
Expedition to Mill's Cross Roads after Stuart's Cavalry |
February, 1863 |
2nd Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
February 12 |
Picket duty on the Columbia Pike |
March 30 |
At Vienna |
April |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
April 15-17 |
Moved to Norfolk, then to Suffolk |
April 17-May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk |
May 5 |
Moved to West Point, attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
May 31 |
To Yorktown |
June 10-13 |
Raid to Jamestown Island |
June 24-July 7 |
Dix's Peninsula Campaign |
July 1-7 |
Expedition from White House to Bottom's Bridge |
July 2 |
Baltimore Cross Roads |
July 10-11 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
July 13-22 |
March in pursuit of Lee, to Berlin, Md. |
August 6 |
Moved to Alexandria |
August 7-13 |
Sailed to Folly Island, S.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Gordon's Division, South End of Folly Island, S.C. |
August 15-November 13 |
Siege operations on Folly and Morris Islands against Forts Wagner and Gregg, and against Fort Sumpter and Charleston. Attached to 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
November 13-15 |
Expedition to Seabrook Island, then return to duty at Folly Island attached to 2nd Brigade, Gordon's Division, Folly Island, S.C., Northern District, 10th Army Corps, Dept. South |
January 16, 1864 |
Moved to Hilton Head, S.C. and attached to 1st Brigade, District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Army Corps |
February 4-7 |
Expedition to Jacksonville, Fla. Attached to Light Brigade, District of Florida, Dept. of the South |
February 7-22 |
Lake City, Fla. |
February 8 |
Ten Mile Run near Camp Finnegan |
February 10 |
Barber's Place |
February 11 |
Lake City |
February 14 |
Gainesville (Cos. "C," "G," "H") |
February 20 |
Battle of Olustee |
March 1 |
McGirt's Creek |
March 1 |
Cedar Creek |
March - April |
Duty at Jacksonville |
April 22-28 |
Moved to Gloucester Point and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
April 30-May 5 |
Expedition to West Point |
May 5-28 |
Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps |
May 9-10 |
Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church |
May 12-16 |
Operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 |
Battle of Drewry's Bluff |
May 17-28 |
On Bermuda Hundred Front |
May 28-June 1 |
Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 15-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 |
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin |
June 24 and 28 |
Hares Hill |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve), then in trenches before Petersburg |
August 27 |
Moved to Bermuda Front |
August 28 |
To Bermuda Landing and provost duty there |
September 29 |
On the Bermuda Front |
October 24 |
Moved to Chaffin's Farm on north side of the James and attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
March 5-8 |
Expedition to Fredericksburg and up the Potomac River to the Yecomico |
March 11-13 |
To Kinsel's Landing |
March 13-18 |
To White House |
March 24-26 |
March to Signal Hill before Richmond |
April 3 |
Occupation of Richmond |
April 25 |
Moved to Manchester and provost duty there |
June 16 |
Mustered out |
June 30, 1865 |
Discharged at Reedville, Mass. |
