2nd Massachusetts Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
DESIGNATIONS
- Organized at Camp Andrew, West Rexbury, and mustered in May 25, 1861
- Left State for Hagerstown, Md. July 8; thence moved to Williamsport and Martins burg. Va., July 11-12
Dates | Department | Division | Brigade | Other Units |
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June ?, 1861- August ?, 1861 |
Department of Pennsylvania Robert Patterson (Major General) |
2nd Division W.H. Heim (Major General) |
6th Brigade J.J. Ambercrombie (Colonel, United States Volunteers) |
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Events (In Brief) | ||||
- Attached to (I) Department of the Shenandoah / 2nd Brigade (Abercrombie), Brigaded with:
- Gordon's Brigade, Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862
- Gordon's 3rd Brigade Williams' 1st Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps, to April, 1862
- 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, (II) Dept. of the Shenandoah, to June, 1862
- 3rd Brigade, 1st Division 2nd Army Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862
- 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1863
- 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April, 1864
- 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to July, 1865
SERVICE.--Duty at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., August to October. 1861. At Conrad's Ferry October 23-24, and picket duty at Seneca Mills until December 4.. Duty at Frederick, Md., until February 27, 1862. Reconnoissance to Charleston February 27-28. Occupation of Winchester March 12. Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley March 24-April 27. Strasburg March 27. Woodstock April 1. Edenburg April 1-2. Operations in Shenandoah Valley May 15-June 17. Buckton Station May 23. Retreat to Martinsburg and Williamsport May 23-June 6.
- May 24, 1862 -
Action at Middletown, Virginia
- May 24, 1862 -
Action at Newtown, Virginia
- May 25, 1862 -
Battle of Winchester, Virginia
(Rear guard May 24-25)
At Williamsport until June 10. Moved to Front Royal June 10-18, thence to Warrenton and Little Washington July 11-17. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 6-September 2. Battle of Cedar Mountain August 9. Fords of the Rappahannock August 19-23. Guarding trains during battles of Bull Run August 28-30.
- September 3-20, 1862 -
The Maryland Campaign
Duty at Maryland Heights September 19-October 29. Picket duty at Blackford's Ford and Sharpsburg, Md., until December. March to Fredericksburg December 12-16. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. At Stafford Court House until April 27.
- April 27-May 6, 1863 -
The Chancellorsville Campaign
- Germania Ford April 29.
- May 1-5, 1863 -
Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
Brandy Station and Beverly Ford June 9
- June 11-August 1, 1863 -
The Gettysburg Campaign
- July 1-3, 1863 -
Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- July 1-3, 1863 -
Pursuit to Warrenton Junction, Va., July 5-26. Detached duty in New York City August 16 to September 13. Movement to Stevenson, Ala., September 24-October 3. Guarding Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad at Elkwater Bridge and Tullahoma until April, 1864. Regiment veteranize December 31, 1863, and Veterans on furlough January 10 to March 1, 1864.
- May 1-September 8, 1864 -
The Atlanta Campaign
- May 8-11, 1864 -
Demonstration against Rocky Faced Ridge, Georgia
- May 14-May 15, 1864 -
Battle of Resaca, Georgia
- Cassville May 19.
- Non-Veterans left front for muster out May 22, and mustered out at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 25, 1864
- New Hope Church May 25.
- May 25-June 5, 1864 -
Operations in Bartow County, Georgia
- Guard trains to Kingston and back May 29-June 8.
- Raccoon Creek June 6.
- Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
- Pine Hill June 11-14.
- Gilgal or Golgotha Church June 15.
- Lost Mountain June 15-17.
- Muddy Creek June 17.
- Noyes Creek June 19.
- Kolb's Farm June 22.
- Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
- Ruff's Mills, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.
- Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
- Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
- July 22-August 25, 1864 -
Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
- Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2.
- September 2-November 15 -
Occupation of Atlanta, Georgia
- May 8-11, 1864 -
- November 15-December 21, 1864 -
The Savannah Campaign
- Monteith Swamp December 9.
- December 10-21, 1864 -
Siege of Savannah, Georgia
- January 1-April 26, 1865 -
The Carolinas Campaign
- Thompson's Creek, near Chesterfield, March 2.
- Thompson's Creek, near Cheraw, S.C., March 3.
- Averysboro, N. C., March 16.
- Battle of Bentonville March 19-21.
- Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
- Advance on Raleigh April 9-13.
- Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
- Bennett's House April 26.
- Surrender of Johnston and his army.
- March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19.
- Grand Review May 24.
- Provost duty at Washington until July.
- Mustered out July 11, and discharged at Boston, Mass., July 26, 1865.
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Regiment Statistical Information
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 270, 272, 703, 704, 705, 707, 715, 719, 721, 722, 761, 827, 834, 900, 905, 916, 1248-1249)
- Fox, William F. 1840-1909. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the Union Regiments, With Full and Exhaustive Statistics Compiled From the Official Records on File in the State Military Bureaus and at Washington. Albany: Albany Pub. Co., 1889. (Page 11)
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