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Twenty-Eighth Massachusetts Infantry.
Irish Brigade--
Hancock'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 | 2 | | 2 | | 1 | 1 | 18 |
| Company | A | 3 | 32 | 35 | | 21 | 21 | 227 |
| | B | | 23 | 23 | | 16 | 16 | 255 |
| | C | 1 | 41 | 42 | | 13 | 13 | 223 |
| | D | | 27 | 27 | 1 | 17 | 18 | 213 |
| | E | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 10 | 10 | 218 |
| | F | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 13 | 13 | 134 |
| | G | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 14 | 14 | 122 |
| | H | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 9 | 9 | 106 |
| | I | 2 | 18 | 20 | | 14 | 14 | 134 |
| | K | 3 | 18 | 21 | | 8 | 8 | 128 |
| Totals | 15 | 235 | 250 | 1 | 136 | 137 | 1,778 |
250 killed == 14 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 847; died of disease in Confederate prisons, 51.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| James Island, S. C. | 20 | Wilderness, Va. | 26 |
| Manassas, Va. | 26 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 30 |
| Chantilly, Va. | 21 | Totopotomoy, Va. | 4 |
| South Mountain, Md. | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 10 |
| Antietam, Md. | 26 | Petersburg, Va. | 6 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 36 | Strawberry Plains, Va. | 2 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 15 | Deep Bottom, Va. | 6 |
| Auburn, Va. | 1 | Ream's Station, Va. | 2 |
| Picket, Va., Dec. 3, 1863 | 1 | Hatcher's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 | 17 |
Present, also, at
Chancellorsville; Bristoe Station;
Mine Run;
North Anna; Sutherland Station;
Sailor's Creek;
Farmville;
Appomattox.
notes.--Composed mostly of men of Irish birth.
It was organized at
Boston, and left the
State January 11, 1862.
Proceeding soon after to
Hilton Head, S. C., it remained in that Department until August, when it sailed for
Virginia; it was then in
Stevens's Division, Ninth Corps, in which command it fought at
Manassas and
Chantilly.
In these engagements, under command of
Major Cartwright, its casualties amounted to 33 killed, 188 wounded, and 13 missing; total, 234.
At
Antietam — then in
Willcox's Division — the regiment numbered less than 200 in line, but it lost in that battle, 12 killed and 36 wounded. It was transferred, in November, 1862, to
Hancock's (1st) Division, Second Corps, in which division it afterwards remained.
It was placed in the Irish Brigade, and charged with it at
Fredericksburg, losing 14 killed, 124 wounded, and 20 missing, out of 416 engaged.
In May, 1864, it crossed the
Rapidan with 505 officers and men--
General Barlow in command of the division.
At the
Wilderness the regiment lost 15 killed, 86 wounded, and 14 missing. At
Spotsylvania its losses were 23 killed, 79 wounded, and 8 missing; half its losses there occurred in the affair of May 18th, in which
Major Andrew J. Lawlor was killed.
Colonel Byrnes, an able and gallant officer, fell at Cold Harbor.
The regiment was mustered out December 13, 1864; the recruits and reenlisted men remaining in the field were consolidated into a battalion of five companies which served through the rest of the war.
