Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, August 30, 1861. Ordered
to Camp Dick Robinson, Ky., September 30, and duty there till October 19. March
to Wild Cat October 19-21. Action at Camp Wild Cat, Rockcastle Hills, October
21. Attached to 1st Brigade, Army of the Ohio, November to December, 1861. 1st
Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd
Division, Center 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 1st
Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland and Army of
Georgia, to July, 1865.
SERVICE. – Operations about Mill Springs and Somerset, Ky.,
December 1-13, 1861. Advance on Camp Hamilton January 1-17, 1862. Battle of
Mill Springs January 19-20. Moved from Mill Springs to Louisville, Ky.,
February 10-16, thence to Nashville, Tenn., February 18-March 2, and duty there
till March 20. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 20-April 8. Advance on and siege
of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6.
Buell's Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August. Duty at
Iuka, Miss., and Tuscumbia, Ala. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg
August 20-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-15. Battle of
Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7,
and duty there till December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle
of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at
Murfreesboro till June. Expedition toward Columbia March 4-14. Middle Tennessee
or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Hoover's Gap June 24-26. Occupation of
Middle Tennessee till August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee
River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of
Chickamauga September 19-21. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November
23. Near Chattanooga October 8. Reopening Tennessee River October 25-29.
Brown's Ferry October 27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Orchard
Knob November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Regiment reenlisted January 1,
1864. Veterans on furlough January 22, to March 7, 1864. Reconnoissance to
Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky
Faced Ridge February 23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8.
Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Battle of Resaca May 14-15.
Advance on Dallas May 18-25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and
battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine
Mountain June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August
5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August
31-September 1. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama
September 29-November 3. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of
Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
Fayetteville, N. C., March 11. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of
Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April
14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to
Washington, D. C, via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24.
Moved to Louisville, Ky., June, and duty there till July. Mustered out July 16,
1865.
Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 71 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 154 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 232.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1504