1st Massachusetts Sharpshooter Company

Regimental History and Service Record

• Organized at Lynn field and mustered in September 2. 1861.
• Left State for Washington, D.C., September 2.
• Attached to 15th Massachusetts Infantry to July 1864
  • March 23, 1862 - Battle of Winchester, Virginia
  • April 1-September 2, 1862 - The Peninsula Campaign
    • April 5-May 4, 1862 - Siege of Yorktown, Virginia
    • May 31-June 1, 1862 - Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia
    • June 25-July 1, 1862 - The Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
      • June 29, 1862 - Battle of the Peach Orchard, Virginia
      • June 29, 1862 - Engagement at Savage's Station, Virginia
      • June 30, 1862 - Engagement at White Oak Swamp, Virginia
      • June 30, 1862 - Engagement at Glendale, Virginia
      • July 1, 1862 - Engagement at Malvern Hill, Virginia
• September 3-20, 1862 - The Maryland Campaign
  • September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland
  • April 27-May 6, 1863 - The Chancellorsville Campaign
    • May 1-5, 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
  • June 11-August 1, 1863 - The Gettysburg Campaign
    • July 1-3, 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• May 4-June 12, 1864 - The Overland Campaign
  • May 5-7, 1864 - Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia
    • May 8, 1864 - Combat at Laurel Hill, Virginia
  • May 8-21, 1864 - Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
    • May 10, 1864 - Combat at Po River, Virginia
    • May 12, 1864 - Assault on the Salient at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
  • May 22-26, 1864 - Operations on Line of the North Anna River, Virginia
  • May 26-28, 1864 - Operations on Line of the Pamunkey River, Virginia
  • June 1-12, 1864 - Battles of Cold Harbor, Virginia
  • May 28-31, 1864 - Operations on Line of the Totopotomoy River, Virginia

• Attached to 19th Massachusetts Infantry to September 1864.
• (See these Regiments.)
• September 6, 1864 - Mustered out of federal service

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Regiment Statistical Information

• Company lost during service 3 Officers and 21 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 15 Enlisted men by disease. Total 39.

Legacy

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 761, 827, 897, 902, 903, 904, 905, 916, 932, 933, 934, 935, 936, 937, 939, 941, 1247)