Sturgis Rifles
Dyer's Regimental History

from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. III, Regimental Histories
by Frederick H. Dyer [1908]

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Sturgis Rifles

• Organized at Chicago, Ill., April-, and
• mustered in May 6, 1861.

• Ordered to West Virginia June 15 and
• reported at Parkersburg, W. Va.
• Assigned to duty as Body Guard to Gen. George B. McClellan, Commanding Army of West Virginia.
• West Virginia Campaign July 6-17.
  • Battle of Rich Mountain July 10-11.
• Moved with Gen. McClellan to Washington, D. C., July 25 and
• guard duty at Headquarters Army of the Potomac till November, 1862.
• Participating in the Virginia Peninsula Campaign March to August, 1862.
• Siege of Yorktown.
• Battles of the seven days before Richmond.
• Maryland Campaign,
• Battle of Antietam, Md. and
• movement to Falmouth, Va.
• Mustered out November 25, 1862.

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