Organized at New
Albany, Ind., and mustered in August 29, 1862. Ordered to Louisville, Ky.,
August 29. Attached to 32nd Brigade, 9th Division, Army of the Ohio, September,
1862. 32nd Brigade, 9th Division, 3rd Corps, Army Ohio, to November, 1862. 3rd
Brigade, 1st Division, Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to
January, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the
Cumberland, to March, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, to
October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the
Cumberland, to June, 1865.
SERVICE. – Pursuit
of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-15, 1862. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October
8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there till
December 26. Reconnoissance toward Franklin December 9. Near Brentwood December
9. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Nolensville December 26-27. Battle
of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at
Murfreesboro till June. Reconnoissance from Salem to Versailles March 9-14.
Operations on Eaglesville Pike near Murfreesboro June 4. Middle Tennessee or
Tullahoma Campaign June 22-July 7. Liberty Gap June 22-27. Duty at Winchester
till August. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga
(Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20.
Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-October 25. Reopened Tennessee River
October 26-29. Duty at Bridgeport, Ala., till January 26, 1864, and at Ooltewah
till May, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 3 to September 8, 1864. Tunnel Hill
May 6-7. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's
Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Kingston May 18-19. Near
Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22-25. 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 Hill 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. Flank movement
on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy
Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North
Alabama September 29-November 3. Nashville Campaign November-December.
Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of
Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December
17-28. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there till March, 1865. Operations
in East Tennessee March 15-April 22. At Nashville till June. Mustered out June
13, 1865.
Regiment lost
during service 4 Officers and 52 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1
Officer and 188 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1148
