Organized at Chicago, Ill., and
mustered in August 27, 1862. Moved to Louisville, Ky., September 4, 1862.
Attached to Army of Kentucky September, 1862. 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st
Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division,
Right Wing, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 1st
Brigade, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October,
1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE. – Pursuit of Bragg into
Kentucky October 1-15, 1862. Skirmish at Lawrenceburg, Ky., October 7. Battle
of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to Bowling Green, Ky., and Nashville,
Tenn., October 16-November 7. Duty at Nashville, Tenn., till December 26.
Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Nolensville, Knob Gap December 26.
Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at
Murfreesboro till June. Reconnoissance from Murfreesboro March 6-7. Middle
Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign June 22-July 7. Liberty Gap June 22-27.
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, Ga., September 19-20. Siege of
Chattanooga September 24-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November
23-27. Orchard Knob November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to
Graysville November 26-27. March to relief of Knoxville November 28-December 8.
Operations in East Tennessee December, 1863, to April, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.)
Campaign May to September. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Demonstration on Dalton May 9-13. Battle of Resaca
May 14-15. Adairsville May 17. 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.
Pickett's Mills May 27. 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
Alabama and North Georgia September 29-November 3. Nashville (Tenn.) 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. Moved to Nashville
and duty there till June. Mustered out June 10 and discharged at Camp Douglas,
Chicago, Ill., June 24, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 12
Officers and 121 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 172
Enlisted men by disease. Total 306.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1084
