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Organization:

Organized at Harrisburg September 2, 1864.
Moved to Washington, D.C., September 5, thence to City Point, Va., in charge of 1,300 Recruits.
Attached to Provisional Brigade, Defences of Bermuda Hundred, Va., Army of the James, to October, 1864.
Hartranft's Provisional Brigade, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to December, 1864.
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

Service:  

Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., September, 1864, to April, 1865.
Duty at City Point, Va., constructing fortifications, till October 9, 1864.
Picket with Army of the James till October 29.
Join Army Potomac October 29.
Movement in support of Weldon Railroad Expedition December 7-11.
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
Fort Stedman March 25.
Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.
Pursuit of Lee to Burkesville.
Moved to City Point, thence to Alexandria April 21-28, and duty there till June.
Grand Review May 23. Mustered out June 2, 1865.

Losses:  

Regiment lost during service:
3 Officers and 37 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
17 Enlisted men by disease

Total 57.

 

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of he Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources.  Des Moines, Iowa:  The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908

 

 

 

 

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