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40th New York Regiment Infantry--Mozart Regiment, Constitution Guard

Organized at Yonkers, N. Y., June 27, 1861.

Left State for Washington, D. C., July 4, 1861.

Duty near Alexandria till August 4.

Attached to Howard's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861.

Sedgwick's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July, 1862.

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, to May, 1863.

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, to March, 1864.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to June, 1865.


Service.

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, and on the Upper Potomac, till March, 1862.

Operations on the Potomac October 21-24, 1861.

Action at Ball's Bluff October 21.

Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15, 1862.

Ordered to the Peninsula, Va., March 17.

Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4.

Battle of Williamsburg May 5.

Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks May 31-June 1.

Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.

Battles of Oak Grove near Seven Pines June 25; Jordan's Ford June 29; Savage Station June 29; [1419] White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30; Malvern Hill July 1; Turkey Bend July 3.

At Harrison's Landing till August 16.

Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-26.

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 26-September 2.

Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30; Chantilly September 1.

Picket duty at Conrad's Ferry till October.

Movement up the Potomac to Leesburg, thence to Falmouth, Va., October 11-November 19.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

“Mud March” January 20-24, 1863.

At Falmouth till April 27.

Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.

Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.

Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24.

Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-4.

Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.

Wapping Heights, Va., July 23.

Duty on line of the Rappahannock till October.

Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.

Auburn and Bristoe October 13-14.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Kelly's Ford November 7.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

Payne's Farm November 27.

Mine Run November 28-30.

Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6, 1864.

Near Brandy Station till May.

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River May 3-June 15.

Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Laurel Hill May 8; Po River May 10; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.

Assault on the Salient or “Bloody Angle” May 12.

Harris Farm or Fredericksburg Road May 19.

North Anna River May 23-26.

On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.

Totopotomoy May 28-31.

Cold Harbor June 1-12.

Before Petersburg June 16-18.

Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.

Jerusalem Plank Road June 21-23, 1864.

Demonstration north of the James July 27-29.

Deep Bottom July 27-28.

Demonstration north of the James August 13-20.

Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18.

Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2.

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28.

Raid on Weldon Railroad December 7-12.

Dabney's Mill, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.

Watkins' House March 25.

Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.

White Oak Road March 29-30.

Crow's House March 31.

Fall of Petersburg April 2.

Sailor's Creek April 6.

High Bridge and Farmville April 7.

Appomattox Court House April 9.

Surrender of Lee and his army. At Burkesville till May 2.

March to Washington, D. C., May 2-15.

Grand Review May 23.

Mustered out June 27, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 10 Officers and 228 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 170 Enlisted men by disease. Total 410.

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