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First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
Tannatt's Brigade —
Birney's Division--Second Corps.
companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
Field and Staff | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 19 |
Company | A | | 24 | 24 | | 13 | 13 | 227 |
| B | | 20 | 20 | 1 | 21 | 22 | 232 |
| C | | 16 | 16 | | 14 | 14 | 233 |
| D | | 17 | 17 | | 12 | 12 | 206 |
| E | 1 | 16 | 17 | | 32 | 32 | 201 |
| F | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 26 | 26 | 207 |
| G | | 13 | 13 | | 27 | 27 | 209 |
| H | 2 | 16 | 18 | | 11 | 11 | 181 |
| I | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 33 | 33 | 204 |
| K | 2 | 32 | 34 | | 15 | 15 | 208 |
| L | | 21 | 21 | | 15 | 15 | 198 |
| M | 1 | 25 | 26 | | 22 | 22 | 199 |
Totals | 9 | 232 | 241 | 2 | 241 | 243 | 2,524 |
Total of killed and wounded, 723; captured and missing, 261; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 102.
battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
Fredericksburg Pike, Va. | 120 | Petersburg Va., Assault, June 17, 1864 | 3 |
North Anna, Va. | 3 | Petersburg Va., Assault, June 18, 1864 | 9 |
Totopotomoy, Va. | 1 | Jerusalem Road, Va., June 22, 1864 | 19 |
Cold Harbor, Va. | 6 | Duncan's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 | 3 |
Deep Bottom, Va. | 4 | Vaughn Road, Va., March 31, 1865 | 3 |
Poplar Spring Church, Va. | 4 | Fall of Petersburg, Va. | 2 |
Boydton Road, Va. | 3 | Petersburg Trenches, Va. | 7 |
Petersburg Va., Assault, June 16, 1864 | 54 | | |
Present, also, at
Winchester;
Maryland Heights; Strawberry Plains;
Hatcher's Run;
Sailor's Creek;
Farmville;
Appomattox.
notes.--Recruited in
Essex County as the Fourteenth Infantry.
It left the
State August 7, 1861, proceeding to
Washington, where it was placed on garrison duty in the forts about there.
It was changed to heavy artillery in January, 1862, receiving, consequently, fifty new recruits for each company, and two additional companies of 150 men each; two
additional lieutenants were assigned to each company, and two
additional majors were commissioned.
The First Battalion was ordered on active field service at
Maryland Heights and vicinity, but the regiment proper did not go to the front until May, 1864.
It then served as an infantry command in
Grant's Virginia campaign.
It joined the Army of the Potomac May 17, 1864, having been assigned to
Tyler's Division of Heavy Artillery--then serving as infantry.
Two days later it met the enemy on the
Fredericksburg Pike; it took 1,617 officers and men into that action, sustaining a loss of 50 killed, 312 wounded, and 28 missing; a total of 390.
In the assault on
Petersburg--June 16-18--it lost 29 killed, 183 wounded, and 6 missing; total, 218. Four days later, in the affair of June 22d, it lost 9 killed, 46 wounded, and 185 missing; the latter were mostly captured men, of whom over half died in Confederate prisons.
In the campaign of 1865 the regiment was in
Pierce's (2d) Brigade,
Mott's (3d) Division, with which command it participated in the closing battles of the war.