The 16th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lost 16 officers and 134 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 93 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

1861

June 29

Organized at Camp Cameron, Cambridge

August 17

Left State for Old Point Comfort, Va. and attached to Fortress Monroe, Dept. of Virginia

September 1

Garrison duty at Fortress Monroe, Va.

1862

May

Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of Virginia

May 10

Occupation of Norfolk

May 17

Moved to Suffolk

June 13

Joined Army of the Potomac at Fair Oaks, attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

June 18

Nine-Mile Road, near Richmond

June 25-July 1

Seven days before Richmond

June 25

Oak Grove, near Fair Oaks

June 30

White Oak Swamp and Glendale

July 1 and August 5

Malvern Hill

August 10 - 15

Duty at Harrison's Landing

August 15-26

Movement to Fortress Monroe, then to Centreville

August 27

Bristoe Station, Kettle Run

August 29

Battles of Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September 1

Chantilly

September 2

Duty at Fort Lyon and at Fairfax Station, Defenses of Washington

October 30

At Munson's Hill

November 2

At Fairfax Station

November 10-12

Operations on Orange & Alexandria Railroad

December

Rappahannock Campaign

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

January - April

At Falmouth

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

Commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Waldo Merriam until he was wounded on July 2. Capt. Matthew Donovan then took over the regiment. The regiment brought 307 men to the field, losing 15 killed, 53 wounded and 13 missing.

July 23

Wapping Heights, Va,

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

November 7-8

Advance to the Rappahannock

November 7

Kelly's Ford

November 26-
December 2

Mine Run Campaign

November 27

Payne's Farm

1864

February 6-7

Demonstration on the Rapidan

March

Assigned to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Army Corps

February - May

Duty near Brandy Station

May

Assiged to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps

May-June

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 8-21

Battle of Spottsylvania Court House

May 12

Assault on the Salient, Spottsylvania Court House

May 19

Harris' Farm, Fredericksburg Road

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 23-24

Ox Ford

May 26-28

On line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 16-18

Before Petersburg

June 16-July 11

Siege of Petersburg

June 22-23

Jerusalem Plank Road

July 11

Left front for muster out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to the 11th Massachusetts Infantry.

July 27,

Mustered out

Charles A Coolidge