Organized at Camp Vance, Findlay, Ohio, September 16, 1861.
Moved to Camp Chase, Ohio, January 22, 1862. Ordered to Paducah, Ky., February
18. Attached to District of Paducah, Ky., to March, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 5th
Division, Army of the Tennessee, to May. 1862. 1st Brigade, 5th Division, Army
of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. 1st Brigade, 5th Division, District of
Memphis, Tenn., to November, 1862. 4th Brigade, 5th Division, Right Wing 13th
Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd
Division, District of Memphis, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade,
2nd Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd
Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to September, 1863. 1st
Brigade, 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps, to July, 1865. Dept. of Arkansas to
August, 1865.
SERVICE. – Duty at Paducah, Ky., till March 6, 1862. Moved
to Savannah, Tenn., March 6-10. Expedition to Yellow Creek and occupation of
Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 14-17. Expedition to Eastport, Miss., and
Chickasaw, Ala., April 1-2. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Corinth Road
April 8. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Russell
House, near Corinth, May 17. March to Memphis, Tenn., via La-Grange, Grand Junction
and Holly Springs June 1-July 18. Rising Sun, Tenn., June 30. Duty at Memphis
till November. Expedition from Memphis to Coldwater and Herando, Miss.,
September 8-13. Skirmish at Wolf Creek Bridge September 23. Grant's Central
Mississippi Campaign. "Tallahatchie March" November 26-December 13.
Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862, to January 3, 1863. Chickasaw
Bayou December 26-28, 1862. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas
Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas
Post, January 10-11. Expedition to South Bend, Arkansas River, January 14-15.
Moved to Young's Point, La., January 17-21, and duty there till March.
Expedition to Rolling Fork, Miss., via Muddy, Steele's and Black Bayous and
Deer Creek March 14-27. Demonstration on Haines and Drumgould's Bluffs April
29-May 2. Movement to join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., via Richmond and
Grand Gulf May 2-14. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May
18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July
4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Duty at Big Black till September 27. Moved
to Memphis, thence march to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 27-November 20.
Operations on Memphis & Chattanooga Railroad in Alabama October 20-29. Bear
Creek, Tuscumbia, October 27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.
Tunnel Hill November 23-25. Foot of Missionary Ridge November 24. Mission Ridge
November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. March to relief of
Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 8. Reenlisted January 1, 1864. Veterans
on furlough February-March. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8.
Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-13. Near Resaca May 13. 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 5. Assault
on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 6-17.
Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Ezra Chapel,
Hood's 2nd Sortie, July 28. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of
Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations
against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. March
to the sea November 15-December 10. Clinton November 21-23. Ball's Ferry and
Georgia Central Railroad Bridge November 23-25. Siege of Savannah December
10-21. Fort McAllister December 13. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April,
1865. Salkehatchie Swamps, S.C., February 2-5. Holman's Bridge, South Edisto
River, February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. Columbia February 16-17.
Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 20-21. 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 30. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky.,
June 2; thence to Little Rock, Ark., and duty there till August. Mustered out
August 14, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 77 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 234 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 319.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1523-4
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