Rhode Island 7th Volunteer Infantry, Company H (Union)
22/05/1862
Organized - Rhode Island 7th Volunteer Infantry, Company H - Rhode Island
13/12/1862
Battle - Fredericksburg - Fredericksburg, Virginia
Fredericksburg
In early November, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside took command of the Army of the Potomac, and made immediate plans to move the army once again toward Richmond.READ MORE
08/05/1864
Battle - Spotsylvania Court House - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Spotsylvania Court House
Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched the Union army south with the hope of capturing Spotsylvania Court House and preventing Robert E. Lee's army from retreating further. Lee's Confederates, however, managed to get ahead of the Federals and block the road. Fighting began on May 8th, when the Union Fifth Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren and the Sixth Corps under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick engaged Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Anderson's First Corps at Laurel Hi…READ MORE