Organized at Zanesville, McConnellsville and Somerton, Ohio,
September 17 to December 24, 1861. Left State for Cumberland, Md., January 17,
1862, thence moved to Paw Paw Tunnel February 3. Attached to 2nd Brigade,
Landers' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Shields'
Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps, and Dept. of the Shenandoah, to May, 1862. 2nd
Brigade, Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to July, 1862. 3rd
Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862.
Ferry's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia,
to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North
Carolina, to February, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept.
of the South, to April, 1863. United States forces, Folly Island, S.C., 10th
Army Corps, Dept. of the South, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, Folly Island, S.C.,
10th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps,
Morris Island, S.C., July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Army
Corps, to October, 1863. Howell's Brigade, Gordon's Division, Folly Island,
S.C., 10th Army Corps, to December, 1863. District Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Army
Corps, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the
James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade,
1st Division, 24th Army Corps, to September, 1865.
SERVICE. – Duty at Paw Paw Tunnel and Great Cacapon Creek
till March 10, 1862. Advance on Winchester, Va., March 10-15. Reconnoissance to
Strasburg March 18-21. Battle of Winchester March 22-23. Mt. Jackson March 25.
Strasburg March 27. Woodstock April 1. Edenburg April 2. Expedition to Harrisonburg
May 2-4. March to Fredericksburg, Va., May 12-22. Great Cross Roads May 11.
March to Front Royal May 25-30. Port Republic June 5. Battle of Port Republic
June 9 (cover retreat). Ordered to the Peninsula, Va., June 29. Harrison's
Landing July 3-4. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Fortress
Monroe August 16-23, thence moved to Suffolk, Va., and duty there till December
31. Action on the Blackwater October 25. Expedition from Suffolk December 1-3.
Action near Franklin on Blackwater December 2. Zuni December 12. Moved to
Norfolk, Va., December 31, thence to Beaufort and New Berne, N. C., January 4,
1863. Moved to Port Royal, S.C., January 25. At St. Helena Island, S. C., till
April. Occupation of Folly Island, S.C., April 3 to July 10. Skirmish at Folly
Island April 7. Attack on Morris Island, S. C., July 10. Assaults on Fort
Wagner, Morris Island, July 11 and 18. Siege operations against Fort Wagner,
Morris Island, and against Fort Sumter and Charleston, July 10-September 7.
Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, September 7. Operations
against Charleston till October 31. Moved to Hilton Head, S.C., November 7, and
duty there till April, 1864. Regiment reenlisted January 3, 1864. Moved to
Yorktown, Va., April. Butler's operations on south side of the James River
against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Capture of Bermuda Hundred and City
Point May 5. Swift Creek May 9-10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16.
Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred front May 16-30. Ware Bottom
Church May 20. Port Walthal and on the Bermuda Hundred front June 16-17. Siege
operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom, August 13-20, 1864. Strawberry
Plains August 14-18. New Market Heights, Chaffin's Farm, September 29-October
1. Darbytown Road October 7 and 13. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28. Duty in
trenches north of the James before Richmond Hill March, 1865. Moved to
Hatcher's Run March 27-28. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Fall of
Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Rice's Station April 6.
Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Garrison and
guard duty in District of South Anna, Dept. of Virginia, till September.
Consolidated with 67th Ohio Infantry September 1, 1865. Mustered out December
7, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 102 Enlisted
men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 129 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 244.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1525-6
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