IRISH BRIGADE CAMPAIGNS

 

 

Listed below are the skirmishes, battles and campaigns of the Union Army's  "Irish Brigade" during the war.  The dates indicated are the days that these actions commenced.  Several of the battles and campaigns lasted well over a day, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, Fredericksburg,  the Spotsylvania and Petersburg campaigns and the road to Appomattox Court House.

 

 

1862

April 16

Siege of Yorktown
May 31 Battle of Fair Oaks
June 25 Seven Days Battle
June 27 Gaines' Mill
June 29 Savage Station
June 29 Peach Orchard
June 30 White Oak Swamp
July 1 Malvern Hill
July 3 Harrison's Landing
September 17 Antietem
December 12 Fredericksburg


1863
May 1 Chancellorsville
July 1 Gettysburg
October 14 Bristoe Station
November 26 Mine Run


1864
May 5 The Wilderness
May 8 Spotsylvania
May 10 Po River
May 12 Spotsylvania C. H.
May 23 North Anna River
May 28 Totopotomoy
June 1 Cold Harbor
June 16 Petersburg
June 22 Weldon Railroad
July 27 Deep Bottom
August 14 Strawberry Plain
August 25 Ream's Station
December 9 Hatcher's Run


1865

February 5 Dabney's Mill
March 25 Watkins' House
March 29 Boydton Road
March 31 White Oak Road
April 2 Sutherland Station
April 6 Sailor's Creek
April 6 High Bridge
April 6 Farmdale
April 9 Appomattox C. H.

 

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