Organized at Findlay, Ohio, and mustered in September 19,
1861. Left State for Nicholasville, Ky., October 2. Attached to Thomas'
Command, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1861. 9th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to
December, 1861. 9th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Ohio, to July, 1862. 7th
Independent Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 7th Brigade, 8th
Division, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division,
Center 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 3rd Brigade,
2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division,
14th Army Corps, to June, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to
July, 1865.
SERVICE. – Action at Ivy's Mountain, Ky., November 8, 1861.
Try Mountain and Piketown November 8-9. Duty at Bacon Creek and Green River,
Ky., till February, 1862. Advance on Bowling Green, Ky., February 10-15, and on
Nashville, Tenn., February 22-25. Occupation of Nashville February 25-March 17.
Advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn., March 17-19. Advance on Huntsville, Ala., April
4-11. Capture of Huntsville April 11. (Pittinger's Raid on Georgia State
Railroad April 7-12, Detachment.) Near Pulaski May 1. At Athens May 28 to
August 28. Action on Richland Creek near Pulaski August 27. March to Nashville
August 29-September 2. Siege of Nashville September 12-November 7. Murfreesboro
Road November 8. 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. Occupation of
Middle Tennessee till August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee
River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Davis Cross Roads
or Dug Gap September 11. Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., September 19-21. Siege of
Chattanooga, Tenn., 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. Rossville Gap November 26. Regiment reenlisted
January 1, 1864. Reconnoissance of Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864
(Non-Veterans). Rocky Faced Ridge and Buzzard's Roost Gap February 23-25
(Non-Veterans). Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Demonstrations on
Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. 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 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's
Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Vining Station July 9-11. 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. Operations against Hood in North
Georgia and North Alabama April 29-November 3. Near Atlanta October 2. March to
the sea November 15-December 10. Jacksonboro December 11. Siege of Savannah
December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Taylor's Hole
Creek, Averysboro, N. C., March 16. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., 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. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June, and duty there till July. Mustered out July
25, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 166 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 218 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 392.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1506
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