Organized at
Indianapolis and Camp Emerson and mustered in August 30, 1862. Ordered to
Louisville, Ky., September 1. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of
the Ohio, September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd 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, 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. 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 the 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.
Reopening Tennessee River November 26-29. Brown's Ferry October 27.
Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Orchard Knob November 23-24.
Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. Demonstrations
on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and
Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-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
Hill June 10-14. 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.
Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama
against Hood 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. Averysboro March 16. 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 19.
Grand Review May 24. Mustered out June 9, 1865.
Regiment lost
during service 3 Officers and 65 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 6
Officers and 170 Enlisted men by disease. Total 244.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1148
