Organized at Camp Wood, Quincy, Ill., and mustered in for
100 days June 5, 1864. Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., June 9. Attached to 4th
Brigade, District of Memphis, Tenn., District of West Tennessee. Transferred to
3rd Brigade, District of Memphis, July 9. Assigned to guard and picket duty at
and about Memphis till September. Repulse of Forrest's attack on Memphis August
21. Mustered out September 4, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 17 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 31 Enlisted men by disease. Total
50.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1101
