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December 13th (search for this): chapter 93
y of the Potomac, and reached Newport News July 18. Forming part of the 9th Corps, it moved to join the Army of Virginia, and took active part at Manassas August 29 and 30 and at Chantilly September 1. Moving with the army into Maryland, it was present at South Mountain, and engaged on the afternoon of September 17 at Antietam. In November the regiment became part of Meagher's Irish Brigade, 1st Division, 2d Army Corps, and met heavy loss at Fredericksburg in the assault on the heights December 13. It was engaged at Chancellorsville on the morning of May 3 and lost heavily at Gettysburg. It took part in the movements about the Rappahannock and joined in the Mine Run campaign, making its winter quarters at Stevensburg, Va. As part of Colonel Smyth's Brigade, General Barlow's Division, the regiment shared in the engagement at the Wilderness and in the movement to Spotsylvania, taking part in the charge and capture of the salient early in the morning of May 12 at Spotsylvania Court
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 93
gement at the Wilderness and in the movement to Spotsylvania, taking part in the charge and capture of the salient early in the morning of May 12 at Spotsylvania Court House, and engaging again in the assault on May 18. It took active part at Cold Harbor June 3, when Colonel Byrnes was mortally wounded. Sharing in the assault of Petersburg June 16, it took most active part afterward in the siege, engaging at Weldon Railroad in July and at Deep Bottom, Charles City Cross Roads and Reams' Station in August. Dec. 13, 1864, those of the regiment not .re-enlisted left for Massachusetts, and the remainder, as a battalion of five companies under Major Fleming, remained in service before Petersburg, took part in the final operations about the city in the spring of 1865 and joined in the pursuit of the Confederates to Farmville. Encamping after the surrender at Burkesville, it returned to Alexandria May 15, and was mustered out of service June 30, 1865, returning to Massachusetts on July 5.
May 3rd (search for this): chapter 93
t of the 9th Corps, it moved to join the Army of Virginia, and took active part at Manassas August 29 and 30 and at Chantilly September 1. Moving with the army into Maryland, it was present at South Mountain, and engaged on the afternoon of September 17 at Antietam. In November the regiment became part of Meagher's Irish Brigade, 1st Division, 2d Army Corps, and met heavy loss at Fredericksburg in the assault on the heights December 13. It was engaged at Chancellorsville on the morning of May 3 and lost heavily at Gettysburg. It took part in the movements about the Rappahannock and joined in the Mine Run campaign, making its winter quarters at Stevensburg, Va. As part of Colonel Smyth's Brigade, General Barlow's Division, the regiment shared in the engagement at the Wilderness and in the movement to Spotsylvania, taking part in the charge and capture of the salient early in the morning of May 12 at Spotsylvania Court House, and engaging again in the assault on May 18. It took act
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