Organized at Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati, Ohio, June 4,
1861. Moved to Grafton, W. Va., thence to Clarksburg, W. Va., June 20-25, 1861.
Attached to 1st Brigade, Army of Occupation, West Virginia, to September, 1861.
Reynolds' Command, Cheat Mountain, W. Va., to November, 1861. 17th Brigade,
Army of the Ohio, to December, 1861. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the
Ohio, to September, 1862. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Army of the
Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Centre 14th Army Corps,
Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army
Corps, to April, 1863. Streight's Provisional Brigade, 14th Army Corps, to May,
1863. Unattached, Dept. of the Cumberland, August to November, 1863. 2nd
Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, to April, 1865. Garrison at
Chattanooga, Tenn., to June, 1864.
SERVICE. – West Virginia Campaign July 6-17, 1861. Action at
Middle Fork Bridge, W. Va., July 6-7. Rich Mountain July 10-11. Pursuit to Cheat
Mountain Summit July 11-16. Moved to Elkwater Creek August 4. Operations on
Cheat Mountain September 11-17. Action at Elkwater September 11. Cheat Mountain
Pass September 12. Scout to Marshall October 3. Reconnoissance to Big Springs
October 6. Moved to Louisville, Ky., November 26-28. Duty at Elizabethtown and
Bacon Creek, Ky., till February, 1862. Advance on Nashville. Tenn., February
10-25. Occupation of Nashville February 25-March 17. Advance on Murfreesboro,
Tenn., March 17-19. Reconnoissance to Shelbyville, Tullahoma and McMinnville
March 25-28. Moved to Fayetteville April 7. Advance on Huntsville, Ala., April
10-11. Capture of Huntsville April 11. Pursuit to Decatur April 11-14. Action
at Bridgeport April 27. West Bridge, near Bridgeport, April 29. Duty at
Huntsville till August 23. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August
23-September 25. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-15. Battle of
Perryville 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. At Murfreesboro till
April, 1863. Streight's Raid to Rome, Ga., April 26-May 3. Day's Gap, Sand
Mountain and Crooked Creek and Hog Mountain, April 30. East Branch Black
Warrior Creek May 1. Blount's Farm Gadsden, May 2. Near Centre May 2. Cedar
Creek, near Rome, May 3. Regiment captured. Exchanged May, 1863. At Camp Chase,
Ohio, reorganizing till August. Quelling Holmes County Rebellion June 13-18.
Pursuit of Morgan July 15-26. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., August 1, thence moved
to Bridgeport, Ala., and guard duty there till October. Expedition against
Wheeler October 1-8. Duty at Battle Creek, Looney Creek and Kelly's Ford till
November 27. Garrison duty at Chattanooga, Tenn., till June, 1864. Ordered to
Camp Dennison, Ohio, June 9. Mustered out June 23, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 87 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded, and 3 Officers and 78 Enlisted men by disease. Total
172.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1497
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