Battles and Engagements
(Source: Richard H. Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion)
Year
Date
Battles, Engagements, or Other Service
1861
September 11, 1861 - March 1862
Duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C. Based first at Kalorama Heights in D.C. and then at Camp Jameson, located on the farm of the Honorable George Mason near Alexandria, Virginia
1862
March 16-18
Moved to Fort Monroe on the Virginia Peninsula
April 5-May 4
Siege of Yorktown
May 5
Battle of Williamsburg
May 31-June 1
Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines
June 25-July 1
Seven days before Richmond
June 25
Battle of Oak Grove
June 30
Battles of Charles City Cross Roads
July 1
Battle of Malvern Hill
July-August 16
At Harrison's Landing, Va
August 16-26
Movement to Centreville
August 26-September 2
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia
August 27
Bristoe Station or Kettle Run, Buckland's Bridge, Broad Run
August 29
Battle of Groveton
August 30
Battle of Bull Run
September 1
Chantilly
September - October 11
Guard duty on the fords from Monocacy River to Conrad's Ferry
October 11 - November 19
March up the Potomac to Leesburg, thence to Falmouth, Va
December 12-15
Battle of Fredericksburg
1863
Burnside's 2nd Campaign
January 20-24
"Mud March" to Falmouth, Va
January 24 - April
Winter Camp, Falmouth, Va
April 27 - May 6
Chancellorsville Campaign
May 1-5
Battle of Chancellorsvile
June 11 - July 24
Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign
July 1-3
Battle of Gettysburg
July 5-24
Pursuit of General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Norther Virginia back to Virginia
July 23
Wapping Heights
July - October
Duty on line of the Rappahannock
October 9-22
Bristoe Campaign
October 13-14
Auburn and Bristoe
November 7-8
Advance to line of the Rappahannock River
November 7
Kelly's Ford
November 26 -December 2
Mine Run Campaign
1864
Grant's Overland Campaign (Army of the Potomac)
February 6-7
Demonstration on the Rapidan River
May 4-June 12
Rapidan Campaign
May 5-7
Battle of the Wilderness
May 8
Laurel Hill
May 8-12
Spottsylvania
May 10
Po River
May 12-21
Spottsylvania Court House
May 12
Assault on the Salient at Spottsylvania
May 19
Harris Farm, Fredericksburg Road
May 23-26
North Anna River
26-28
On line of the Pamunkey River
May 28-31
Totopotomoy River
June 1-12
Battle of Cold Harbor
June 16-18
Before Petersburg
June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865
Siege of Petersburg
June 22-23
Jerusalem Plank Road
July 27-29
Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom
July 27-28
Deep Bottom
July 30
Battle of the Crater (Mine Explosion) (Reserve)
August 13-20
Demonstration on north side of the James River at Deep Bottom
August 14-18
Strawberry Plains
September 29-October 2
Poplar Springs Church
October 27-28
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run
December 7-12
General Gouvernor Warren's expedition to Hicksford. Dabney's Mills
1865
February 5-7
Hatcher's Run
March 25
Watkins' House, Petersburg
March 28-April 9
Appomattox Campaign
March 31
Crow's House
April 2
Fall of Petersburg
April 6
Battle of Sailor's Creek
April 7
High Bridge, Farmville
April 9
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia
April - May
Burkesville, Va
May 2-12
March to Washington, D.C
May 23
Grand Review (2-day Presidential review of the Army of the Potomac)
May - July
Duty at Alexandria, Va
July 11
Mustered out at Alexandria
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