The Civil War in the East

56th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

 

Regiment lost 6 officers and 120 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 100 enlisted men to disease, a total of 226.

 

Timeline of the 56th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

December 26, 1863 - February 24, 1864

Organized at Readville

March 21

Left State for Annapolis, Md.

April 23

Moved to Washington and Alexandria; Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

May 3-June 15

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 10

Ny River

May 12-21

Spottsylvania Court House

May 12

Assault on the Salient

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

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps

September 29-
October 2

Poplar Springs Church or Peeble's Farm

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

January 1 to April 1, 1865

At Fort Hays

March 25

Fort Stedman

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Assault on and fall of Petersburg

April 3

Occupation of Petersburg

April 3-9

Pursuit of Lee

April 18-22

March to Petersburg and City Point

April 23-25

Moved to Alexandria

May 23

Grand Review

July

Duty at Washington and Alexandria

July 12, 1865

Mustered out