2nd Massachusetts Infantry

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
DESIGNATIONS
* Organized at Camp Andrew, West Rexbury, and mustered in May 25, 1861
* Left State for Hagerstown, Md. July 8; thence moved to Williamsport and Martins burg. Va., July 11-12
Dates 	Department 	Division 	Brigade 	Other Units
June ?, 1861-August ?, 1861	Department of PennsylvaniaRobert Patterson(Major General)	2nd DivisionW.H. Heim(Major General)	6th BrigadeJ.J. Ambercrombie(Colonel, United States Volunteers)	
* (I) 11th Pennsylvania Infantry
* (I) 1st Wisconsin Infantry
* 4th Connecticut Infantry
Events (In Brief) 	Events (In Brief) 	Events (In Brief) 	Events (In Brief) 	Events (In Brief)
 	 	 	 	
* Attached to (I) Department of the Shenandoah / 2nd Brigade (Abercrombie), Brigaded with:
** 12th Massachusetts Infantry
** (I) 12th Indiana Infantry
** (I) 16th Indiana Infantry
** 4th Connecticut Infantry
** 1st United States Artillery / Battery E
* Gordon's Brigade, Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862
* Gordon's 3rd Brigade Williams' 1st Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps, to April, 1862
* 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, (II) Dept. of the Shenandoah, to June, 1862
* 3rd Brigade, 1st Division 2nd Army Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862
* 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1863
* 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April, 1864
* 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to July, 1865
SERVICE.--Duty at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., August to October. 1861. At Conrad's Ferry October 23-24, and picket duty at Seneca Mills until December 4.. Duty at Frederick, Md., until February 27, 1862. Reconnoissance to Charleston February 27-28. Occupation of Winchester March 12. Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley March 24-April 27. Strasburg March 27. Woodstock April 1. Edenburg April 1-2. Operations in Shenandoah Valley May 15-June 17. Buckton Station May 23. Retreat to Martinsburg and Williamsport May 23-June 6. 
* May 24, 1862 - Action at Middletown, Virginia
* May 24, 1862 - Action at Newtown, Virginia
* May 25, 1862 - Battle of Winchester, Virginia (Rear guard May 24-25)
At Williamsport until June 10. Moved to Front Royal June 10-18, thence to Warrenton and Little Washington July 11-17. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 6-September 2. Battle of Cedar Mountain August 9. Fords of the Rappahannock August 19-23. Guarding trains during battles of Bull Run August 28-30. 
* September 3-20, 1862 - The Maryland Campaign
** September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland
Duty at Maryland Heights September 19-October 29. Picket duty at Blackford's Ford and Sharpsburg, Md., until December. March to Fredericksburg December 12-16. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. At Stafford Court House until April 27. 
* April 27-May 6, 1863 - The Chancellorsville Campaign
** Germania Ford April 29. 
** May 1-5, 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
Brandy Station and Beverly Ford June 9
* June 11-August 1, 1863 - The Gettysburg Campaign
** July 1-3, 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Pursuit to Warrenton Junction, Va., July 5-26. Detached duty in New York City August 16 to September 13. Movement to Stevenson, Ala., September 24-October 3. Guarding Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad at Elkwater Bridge and Tullahoma until April, 1864. Regiment veteranize December 31, 1863, and Veterans on furlough January 10 to March 1, 1864. 
* May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
** May 8-11, 1864 - Demonstration against Rocky Faced Ridge, Georgia
** May 14-May 15, 1864 - Battle of Resaca, Georgia
** Cassville May 19. 
*** Non-Veterans left front for muster out May 22, and mustered out at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 25, 1864
** New Hope Church May 25. 
** May 25-June 5, 1864 - Operations in Bartow County, Georgia
** Guard trains to Kingston and back May 29-June 8. 
** Raccoon Creek June 6. 
** Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. 
** Pine Hill June 11-14. 
** Gilgal or Golgotha Church June 15. 
** Lost Mountain June 15-17. 
** Muddy Creek June 17. 
** Noyes Creek June 19. 
** Kolb's Farm June 22. 
** Assault on Kenesaw June 27. 
** Ruff's Mills, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4. 
** Chattahoochie River July 5-17. 
** Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. 
** July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
** Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2. 
** September 2-November 15 - Occupation of Atlanta, Georgia 
* November 15-December 21, 1864 - The Savannah Campaign
** Monteith Swamp December 9. 
** December 10-21, 1864 - Siege of Savannah, Georgia
* January 1-April 26, 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
** Thompson's Creek, near Chesterfield, March 2. 
** Thompson's Creek, near Cheraw, S.C., March 3. 
** Averysboro, N. C., March 16. 
** Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. 
** Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. 
** Advance on Raleigh April 9-13. 
** Occupation of Raleigh April 14. 
** Bennett's House April 26. 
*** Surrender of Johnston and his army. 
* March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. 
* Grand Review May 24. 
* Provost duty at Washington until July. 
* Mustered out July 11, and discharged at Boston, Mass., July 26, 1865.
== Regimental Roster ==
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
Source 	Casualties	Remarks
Dyer 	
* 14 Officers and 176 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded 
* 2 Officers and 96 enlisted men killed by disease
* Total 288	None
Fox 	
* Fox lists this unit as:
** 35th on the list of units with losses based on duration of the entire term of service of the unit (3rd of the Massachusetts troops)	
WotRWiki Statistics	
* troops killed
** Includes troops mortally wounded
** Includes troops killed by disease
** All others are troops killed in action or under special circumstances	
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 270, 272, 703, 704, 705, 707, 715, 719, 721, 722, 761, 827, 834, 900, 905, 916, 1248-1249)
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