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    Petersburg

    National Battlefield Virginia

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Rhode Island

Please note that for each regimental entry the brigade, or battalion, the regiment was a part of is in brackets, followed by the division, and then the corps it belonged to. For example: 1st Delaware Infantry - (3)brigade, 2 division, II corps ; 12th Virginia Infantry - (Mahone's)brigade, Mahone's division, III corps.

To learn more about the actions the regiments took part, go to the Battles page.


Infantry
2nd (Detachment) (4), 2, VI
June 15-18, 1864
June 22, 1864 - Jerusalem Plank Road
February 5, 1865 - Hatcher's Run

4th (1), 2, IX
July 30, 1864 - The Crater
August 18, 1864 - Weldon Railroad
September 30, 1864 - Peebles Farm

7th (1), 2, IX
June 15-18, 1864
July 30, 1864 - The Crater
August 18, 1864 - Weldon Railroad
September 30, 1864 - Peebles Farm
October 27, 1864 - Burgess Mill


Artillery
1st Regiment Light, Batteries A-H (Artillery), -, VI
June 15-18, 1864 (A,B,F)
June 22, 1864 - Jerusalem Plank Road (A,B,C,E,G)
August 25, 1864 - Ream's Station (A,B)

3rd Regiment Heavy, Battery C (-), 1, X


Cavalry
1st (Reserve), 1, Cavalry

Did You Know?

Brig. General Frederick Winthrop

Union Brevet Brigadier General Frederick Winthrop was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop's sixth great-grandson. Winthrop was mortally wounded at the Battle of Five Forks on April 1, 1865.
(Petersburg National Battlefield)