Organized at Hart's Island, N.Y., April 29, 1864. Attached to Second Brigade, Fourth Division, Ninth
Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1864. In August 1864, the officers of the Normal School
Company received a commission appointing Sidney Burroughs to a second lieutenancy in the
regiment. Captain Wood forwarded the commission to Thomas Burroughs, Sidney's father. Second
Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Corps, to December, 1864. Third Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-fifth Corps, and Department of Texas, to November, 1865. Regiment lost during service 3 Officers
and 48 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 123 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 175.
Battles and Other Operations:
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va., May-June, 1864.
Guarded trains of the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness.
Battles about Cold Harbor, June 2-12.
Before Petersburg, June 15-19.
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864.
Weldon Railroad, August 18-21.
Fort Sedgwick, September 28.
Hatcher's Run, October 27-28.
On the Bermuda front until March, 1865.
Moved to Hatcher's Run, March 26-28.
Appomattox Campaign, March 28-April 9.
Hatcher's Run, March 29-31.
Fall of Petersburg, April 2.
Pursuit of Lee, April 3-9.
Appomattox Court House, April 9; surrender of Lee and his army.
Duty in the Department of Virginia until May.
Moved to Texas, May-June, and duty on the Rio Grande until November.
