Campaigns and Actions
of the 62nd New York Volunteer Infantry
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This list is taken from Frederick W. Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The links are provided where Civil War Sites Advisory Committee (CWSAC) Battle Summaries are available. The summaries provide facts about the action and links to National Parks if one exists for that battlefield.
- Regiment organized at New York City and mustered in: Jun 30, 1861
- Left for Washington DC: Aug 21, 1861
- Attached to Defenses of Washington DC: to Oct 1861
Pack's Brigade, Buell's Division, Army of the Potomac to Mar 1862
- Duty in the Defenses of Washington: to Mar 1862
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 4 Army Corps, Army of the Potomac to Jul 1862
- March to Prospect Hill, VA: Mar 11-15
- Ordered to the Peninsula, Virginia: Mar 25
- Siege of Yorktown, VA: Apr 5-May 4
CWSAC Battle Summary - Battle of Williamsburg: May 5
CWSAC Battle Summary - Operations about Bottom's Bridge: May 20-23
- Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks: May 31-Jun 1
CWSAC Battle Summary - Seven Days before Richmond: Jun 25-Jul 1
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, to Sept 1862
- Battle of Malvern Hill: Jul 1
CWSAC Battle Summary - at Harrison's Landing: til Aug 16
- Movement to Alexandria: Aug 16-Sept 1
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, to Oct 1862
- Maryland Campaign: Sept 6-Sept 22
- Battle of Antiedam: Sept 16-17
CWSAC Battle Summary
Order of Battle, Union - at Downsville, Md: Sept 23-Oct 20
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps to Jan 1864
- Movement to Stafford Court House, VA: Oct 20-Nov 19, 1862
- to Belle Plains: Dec 5
- Battle of Fredericksburg: Dec 12-15
CWSAC Battle Summary
National Park Service Battlefield - "Mud March": Jan 20-24, 1863
- at Falmouth: til Apr 1863
- Chancellorsville Campaign: Apr 27-May 6
CWSAC Battle Summary - Operations about Franklin's Crossing: Apr 29-May 2
- Battle of Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg: May 3
CWSAC Battle Summary - Salem Heights: May 3-4
CWSAC Battle Summary - Banks Ford: May 4
CWSAC Battle Summary - Franklin's Crossing: Jun 5-7
- Battle of Gettysburg: Jul 2-4
CWSAC Battle Summary - Pursuit of Lee: Jul 5-24
- Funkstown, Maryland: Jul 10-13
- Duty on line of the Rappahannock: til Oct
- Bristoe Campaign: Oct 9-22
- Advance to Line of the Rappahannock: Nov 7-8
- Rappahannock Station: Nov 7
CWSAC Battle Summary - Mine Run Campaign: Nov 26-Dec 2
CWSAC Battle Summary
Wheaton's Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia, to Mar 1864
- Duty at Brandy Station and vicinity: til May 1864
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corp, Army of the Potomac, and Army of the Shenandoah to Jul 1865
- Campaign from the Rapidan to the James: May 3-Jun 15,
- Battles of the Wilderness: May 5-7
CWSAC Battle Summary
Order of Battle, Confederate
Order of Battle, Union
National Park Service Battlefield - Spotsylvania: May 8-12
National Park Service Battlefield - Spotsylvania Court House: May 12-21
CWSAC Battle Summary - Assault on the Salient or "Bloody Angle": May 12
National Park Service Battlefield - North Anna River: May 23-26
CWSAC Battle Summary - On line of the Pamunkey: May 26-28
- Totopotomoy: May 28-31
CWSAC Battle Summary - Cold Harbor: Jun 1-12
CWSAC Battle Summary - before Petersburg: Jun 17-18
CWSAC Battle Summary - Siege of Petersburg: Jun 17-Jul 9
CWSAC Battle Summary - Jerusalem Plank Road: Jun 22-23
CWSAC Battle Summary - Moved to Washington DC: Jul 9-11
- Repulse of Early's attack on Fort Stevens and the Northern Defenses of Washington: Jul 11-12
- Pursuit of Early: Jul 14-21
- Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign: Aug 7-Nov 28
- Gilbert's Ford, Opequan Creek: Sept 13
- Battle of Winchester: Sept 19
- Strasburg: Sept 21
- Fisher's Hill: Sept 22
- Battle of Cedar Creek: Oct 19
- Duty in the Shenandoah Valley: til Dec
- Moved to Petersburg, Va: Dec 9-12
- Siege of Petersburg: Dec 12, 1864-Apr 2, 1865
- Fort Fisher, Petersburg: Mar 25, 1865
- Appomattox Campaign: Mar 28-Apr 9
- Assault on and fall of Petersburg: Apr 2
- Pursuit of Lee: Apr 3-9
- Sailor's Creek: Apr 6
CWSAC Battle Summary - Appomattox Court House, Surrender of Lee and his army: Apr 9
CWSAC Battle Summary
- March to Danville, Va: Apr 23-27, and
- duty there: til May 24
- March to Richmond, Va, thence to Washington DC: May 24-June 3
- Corps Review: June 8
- Duty in the Defences of Washington DC: til July
- Fort Schuyler, NY: til Aug 30
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