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January |
Stationed at ten different posts on the Pacific slope from Puget Sound to the Gulf of California. Ordered to concentrate at Camp Sumner, San Francisco for movement to Washington, D.C. and duty in the Defenses of that city. Five junior officers resigned to enter Confederate service. |
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March |
Attached to Sykes' Regular Infantry (Reserve) Brigade, Army of the Potomac and moved to Virginia Peninsula |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown, Va. |
May |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 26 |
Battle of Mechanicsville |
June 27 |
Gaines' Mill
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June 29 |
Savage Station
The train conveying the regimental records, baggage and supplies, was burned to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy. For nearly a week, officers and men had to eat and shelter themselves what they could forage. |
June 30 |
Turkey Bridge
The regiment was the last to cross the already partly destroyed "Grapevine Bridge." |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-28 |
Movement to Fortress Monroe, then to Centerville |
August 28-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
September 19-20 |
Shepherdstown Ford |
October |
At Sharpsburg |
October 16-17 |
Kearneysville and Shepherdstown |
October 29-November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
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January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
But five companies with 173 enlisted men were present |
July 5-24 |
Pursuit of Lee |
August 15 |
Moved to New York and attached to Dept. of the East for duty supression draft riots. Stationed for three weeks in Washington Square. |
September |
Moved to Forts Tompkins and Wood |
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April 25 |
ReJoined Army Potomac, attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
May 4-June 12 |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
May 10 |
Ny River |
May 22-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 1-3 |
Bethesda Church |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 22 |
Ordered to City Point, Va. and assigned to Headquarters, Army Potomac, numbering only 134 men fit for duty |
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April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
May |
Provost Duty at Richmond, Va. attached to Dept. of Virginia |
July 15 |
Moved to N.Y. Harbor. A detachment with a number of officers was sent to West Point conveying the colors of the regiment, including some that had been carried in the Mexican War. The Corps of Cadets was paraded and joined the escort of the tattered and shot ripped flags to the Post Chapel where they were finally deposited. |
