16th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Service

Affiliations, battle honors, detailed service, and casualties

Organizational affiliation

List of battles

• Seven Days Battles
• Battle of Glendale
• Second Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Fredericksburg
• Battle of Chancellorsville
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Bristoe Campaign
• Mine Run Campaign
• Battle of the Wilderness
• Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
• Battle of Harris Farm
• Battle of Totopotomoy Creek
• Battle of Cold Harbor
• Siege of Petersburg
• Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road

Detailed service

• Left Massachusetts for Old Point Comfort, Virginia, August 17.

• Garrison duty at Fortress Monroe, Va., September 1, 1862 to May 8, 1862.
• Occupation of Norfolk May 10.
• Moved to Suffolk May 17,
• Joined the Army of the Potomac at Fair Oaks June 13.
• Nine-Mile Road, near Richmond, June 18.
• Seven Days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
  • Oak Grove, near Fair Oaks, June 25.
  • White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30.
  • Malvern Hill July 1 and August 5.
• Duty at Harrison's Landing until August 15.
• Movement to Fortress Monroe, then to Centreville August 15–26.
• Bristoe Station, Kettle Run, August 27.
• Battles of Groveton August 29,
• Second Bull Run August 30,
• Chantilly September 1.
• Duty at Fort Lyon and at Fairfax Station, defenses of Washington, until October 30,
• Munson's Hill until November 2.
• At Fairfax Station until November 25.
• Operations on Orange & Alexandria Railroad November 10–12.
• Battle of Fredericksburg, December 12–15.
• Rappahannock Campaign December 1862 to June 1863.

• "Mud March" January 20–24, 1863.
• At Falmouth until April 27.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
  • Battle of Chancellorsville May 1–5.
• Gettysburg Campaign June 11-July 24.
  • Battle of Gettysburg, July 1–3.
• Wapping Heights, Va, July 23.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9–22.
• Advance to the Rappahannock November 7–8.
• Kelly's Ford November 7.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.
  • Payne's Farm November 27.

• Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6–7, 1864.
• Duty near Brandy Station until May 1864.
• Overland Campaign May–June.
  • Battle of the Wilderness May 5–7,
  • Spotsylvania May 8–12,
  • Spotsylvania Court House May 12–21.
  • Assault on the Salient, Spotsylvania Court House, May 12.
  • Harris' Farm, Fredericksburg Road, May 19.
  • North Anna River May 23–26.
  • Ox Ford May 23–24.
  • On line of the Pamunkey May 26–28.
  • Totopotomoy May 28–31.
  • Cold Harbor June 1–12.
• Siege of Petersburg
  • Before Petersburg June 16–18.
  • First Battle of Petersburg June 16-July 11.
  • Jerusalem Plank Road June 22–23.
• Left front for muster out July 11.

Casualties

Commanders

See also

References

Footnotes

1. ^ Camp Cameron was an American Civil War training camp that existed in 1861-1862 in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was probably named for Simon Cameron, Lincoln's first secretary of war.^[2] Other units that trained here included the 1st, 11th, 26th, and 28th regiments of Massachusetts infantry, and the 1st and 8th batteries of light artillery.^[3] It was located near Massachusetts Avenue, and was also known at one point as Camp Day after the family that owned the land.^[4] Cameron Avenue and Camp Street are named for the camp, and several nearby streets were named after battles.^[5]

Citations

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