The Civil War in the East

59th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

 

Regiment lost 7 officers and 83 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 93 enlisted men to disease, a total of 184.

 

Timeline of the 59th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (4th Veteran)

December 3, 1863,
- April 20, 1864

Organized at Reedville

April 26-28

Moved to Washington, D.C.

April 29-May 2

To Rappahannock Station, Va. and 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

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps

September 29-
October 2

Poplar Springs Church or Peeble's Farm

October 8

Reconnaissance on Vaughan and Squirrel Level Road

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

March 25, 1865

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 20-28

Moved to City Point, thence to Alexandria

May 23

Grand Review

May 26, 1865

Consolidated with 57th Massachusetts Infantry