9th Vermont Infantry

Organized at Brattleboro and mustered in July 9, 1862. Moved to Washington, District of Columbia, July 15-17. Attached to Piatt's Brigade, Winchester, Virginia, to September, 1862. Miles' Command, Harper's Ferry, W. Virginia, September, 1862. Camp Douglas, Ill., to April, 1863. Wardrop's Reserve Brigade, 7th Army Corps, Department of Virginia, to June, 1863. Wistar's Independent Brigade, 7th Army Corps, to July, 1863. Yorktown, Virginia, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to October, 1863. District of Beaufort, North Carolina, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to July, 1864. Defences of New Berne, North Carolina, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to September, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to December, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps, Department of Virginia, to July, 1865. 2nd Independent Brigade, 24th Army Corps, to August, 1865. Department of Virginia to December, 1865.

SERVICE.--Moved from Washington, District of Columbia, to Cloud's Mills, Virginia, July 19, 1862; thence to Winchester, Virginia, July 23, and duty there until September 2. Retreat to Harper's Ferry, W. Virginia, September 2. Defence of Harper's Ferry September 13-15. Bolivar Heights September 14. Surrendered September 15. Paroled September 16, and sent to Annapolis, Md.; thence to Chicago, Ill., September 25. Guard Rebel prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., until March 28, 1863. Declared exchanged January 10, 1863. Guard Rebel prisoners to City Point, Virginia, March 28-April 7. Moved to Fortress Monroe April 7-9, thence to Suffolk, Virginia, April 12. Siege of Suffolk April 13-May 4. Edenton Road April 24. Siege of Suffolk raised May 4. Duty at Suffolk until June 17. Operations on Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad May 15-18. Antioch Church and Barber's Cross Roads May 23. Moved to Yorktown June 17, thence to West Point June 25, and outpost duty there until July 7. Duty at Yorktown until October 23. Expedition to Gloucester Court House July 25. Ordered to New Berne, North Carolina, October 23, and reached Morehead City October 26. Duty at Newport Barracks until July, 1864. Cedar Point December 1, 1863. Destruction of salt works on Bear Inlet, North Carolina, December 25 (Detachment). Expedition to Onslow County January 27, 1864. Newport Barracks February 2. Bogue Sound Blockhouse February 2 (Cos. "B" and "II"). Gale's Creek, near New Berne, February 2 (Detachment). Ordered to New Berne, North Carolina, July 11, and duty there until September 17; "A" at Evans Mills, "B" and "C" near Fort Spinola, "D" and "G" at Red House, "E" and "I" at Rocky Run, "F" at Fort Spinola, "H" at Buckwood and "K" on the Trent, Moved to Bermuda Hundred September 13-15. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond September 15, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Duty at Bailey's Cross Roads September 20-26, 1864. (A Detachment in Fort Dutton, Bermuda Hundred front, September 27 to November 28, 1864.) Battle of Chaffin's Farm and Fort Harrison September 28-30. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28. Detached for duty at New York City November 2-17 during presidential election of 1864. Duty in trenches before Richmond until April, 1865. Occupation of Richmond April 3. Provost duty there until August. Non-Veterans mustered out June 13, 1865. Regiment consolidated to a Battalion of four Companies, and provost duty at Norfolk, Drummondsville and Portsmouth until December. Mustered out December 1, 1865.

Regiment lost during service: 23 men killed and mortally wounded, 5 died by accident, 2 committed suicide, 36 died in Confederate prisons and 232 died by disease. Total 298.