Organized at Camp Corwin, Dayton, Ohio, August 5 to October
30, 1861. Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, October 31; thence to Louisville, Ky.,
November 5, and to West Point, Ky., November 8. Moved to Elizabethtown and Camp
Nevin, Ky., November 15-16. Camp at Bacon Creek and Green River, Ky., till
February, 1862. Attached to 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Ohio, to
September, 1862. 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of Ohio, to
November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of
the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps,
Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army
Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to September, 1864.
SERVICE. – March to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-25, 1862.
Occupation of Nashville February 25 to March 16. March to Duck River March 16-21,
and to Savannah, Tenn., March 31-April 6. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7.
Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss.. April 29-May 30. Duty at Corinth till
June 10. Moved to Iuka, Miss., thence to Tuscumbia, Florence and Huntsville,
Ala., June 10-July 5. Duty at Boulay Fork till August 30. Expedition to
Tullahoma July 14-18. March to Pelham August 24, thence to Altamont August 28.
Reconnoissance toward Sequatchie Valley August 29-30. March to Louisville, Ky.,
in pursuit of Bragg August 30-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky
October 1-17. Lawrenceburg October 8. Dog Walk, Perryville, October 9. March to
Nashville, Tenn., October 17-November 7, and duty there till December 26.
Kimbrough's Mills, Mill Creek, December 6. 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. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign June
23-July 7. Liberty Gap June 24-27. 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 September 19-20.
Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-October 27. Reopening Tennessee River
October 26-29. Brown's Ferry October 27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November
23-27. Orchard Knob November 23. Mission Ridge November 24-25. March to relief
of Knoxville November 28-December 8. East Tennessee Campaign December,
1863-January, 1864. Operations about Dandridge January 16-17, 1864. Operations
in East Tennessee till April. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to July 25.
Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. 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.
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 July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
Siege of Atlanta July 22-26. Ordered to the reach for muster out. Scout from
Whitesides, Tenn., to Sulphur Springs September 2-5 (Detachment). Mustered out
September 24 to October 14, 1864. Recruits transferred to 18th Ohio Volunteers
Infantry October 31, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 116 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 130 Enlisted men by disease. Total 251.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1496
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