Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, June 3, 1861. Left State
for West Virginia June 24, and duty at Grafton, Clarksburg and Buckhannon till
August. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Army of Occupation, W. Va., to September:
1861. Benham's Brigade, Kanawha Division, West Virginia, to October, 1861. 1st
Brigade, Kanawha Division West Virginia, to November, 1861. 17th Brigade, Army
Ohio, to December, 1861. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army Ohio, to September,
1862. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Army Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd
Brigade, 1st Division, Center 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to
January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, January, 1863.
Headquarters Provost Guard, Dept. of the Cumberland, to May 1864.
SERVICE.--West Virginia Campaign July to September, 1861.
Battle of Carnifex Ferry September 10. Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New
River Region October 19-November 24. Pursuit of Floyd November 10-15. Gauley
Bridge November 10. Cotton Mountain November 10-11. Moved to Louisville, Ky.,
November 24-December 2, thence to Elizabethtown, and to Bacon Creek December
26. Duty there till February, 1862. Movement to Bowling Green, Ky., February
10-15. Occupation of Bowling Green February 15-22. Advance on Nashville, Tenn.,
February 22-March 2. Advance on Murfreesboro March 17-19. Occupation of
Shelbyville, Fayetteville, and advance on Huntsville Ala., March 28-April 11.
Capture of Huntsville April 11. Advance on Decatur April 11-14. Action at West
Bridge near Bridgeport April 29. Duty at Huntsville till August. March to
Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 27-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg
into Kentucky October 1-15. Battle of Perryville October 8. March to Nashville,
Tenn., October 16-November 7. Provost duty at Headquarters of Gen. Rosecrans,
Commanding Army of the Cumberland, till December, 1863, and at Headquarters,
Gen. Thomas Commanding, Army and Dept. of the Cumberland, till May, 1864.
Advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 26-30, 1862. Battle of Stone's River
December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Stewart's Creek January 1. Duty at
Murfreesboro till June. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7.
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
September 24-November 23. Battles of Chattanooga November 23-25. Mission Ridge
November 24-25. Reconnoissance of Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864. Atlanta
(Ga.) Campaign May 1-27. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Battle of
Resaca May 14-15. Ordered to rear for muster out May 27. Mustered out June 3,
1864, expiration of term. Seventyfive Enlisted men unassigned, Army of the
Cumberland, till September, then assigned to 18th Ohio Battalion Infantry.
Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 86 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 77 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 168.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1500
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