United States 2nd Volunteer Sharpshooters (Union)
10/4/61
Organized - United States 2nd Volunteer Sharpshooters - United States
9/17/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Henry A. V. Post
ColonelHenry A. V. Post
4/30/63
Leadership Change - Regiment - Major Homer R. Stoughton
MajorHomer R. Stoughton
4/30/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Hiram Berdan
ColonelHiram Berdan
4/30/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Amiel W. Whipple, and Brigadier General Charles K. Graham
Brigadier GeneralAmiel W. Whipple
Brigadier GeneralCharles K. Graham
4/30/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Amiel W. Whipple
Brigadier GeneralAmiel W. Whipple
4/30/63
Battle - Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
On April 27, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg.READ MORE
7/1/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward, and Colonel Hiram Berdan
Brigadier GeneralJ. H. Hobart Ward
ColonelHiram Berdan
7/1/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward, and Major General David B. Birney
Brigadier GeneralJ. H. Hobart Ward
Major GeneralDavid B. Birney
7/1/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
Brigadier GeneralJ. H. Hobart Ward
7/1/63
Battle - Gettysburg - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee sought to capitalize on recent Confederate victories and defeat the Union army on Northern soil, which he hoped would force the Lincoln administration to negotiate for peace. Lee also sought to take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland and gather supplies for his Army of Northern Virginia. Using the Shenandoah Valley as cover for his army, Lee was pursued first by Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Ho…READ MORE
11/30/63
Battle - Mine Run, Virginia
8/14/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Régis de Trobriand
Brigadier GeneralRégis de Trobriand
8/14/64
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Gershom Mott
Brigadier GeneralGershom Mott
8/14/64
Battle - Second Deep Bottom - Henrico County, Virginia
As he had done in late July during the Battle of the Crater, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant called upon Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock and his Second Corps to attack Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces around Richmond to exploit suspected weaknesses in Lee's lines. In early August, Grant had detached the Sixth Corps from the Union lines around Richmond and Petersburg and sent them to the Shenandoah Valley under Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan. Sheridan's new army there was to counter Gen. Jubal Early, then operating in the v…READ MORE
10/27/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General P. Regis De Trobriand
Brigadier GeneralP. Regis De Trobriand
10/27/64
Leadership Change - Division - undefined Bvt MG Gershom Mott
10/27/64
Battle - Boydton Plank Road - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
2/5/65
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Régis de Trobriand
Brigadier GeneralRégis de Trobriand
2/5/65
Leadership Change - Division - Major General Gershom Mott
Major GeneralGershom Mott
2/5/65
Battle - Hatcher's Run - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
By February 1865, the stalemate around Petersburg had entered its eighth month. Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant began to stretch the Union battle lines to the west in an attempt to get Gen. Robert E. Lee's under strength army to do the same. On February 5th, Union Brig. Gen. David Gregg's cavalry division rode out to the Boydton Plank Road via Reams Station and Dinwiddie Court House in an attempt to intercept Confederate supply trains. Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren with the Fifth Corps crossed Hatcher's Run…READ MORE
2/25/65
Mustered Out - United States 2nd Volunteer Sharpshooters - United States
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