Organized at Camp Marietta and at Gallipolis, Ohio,
August-September, 1862. (Cos. "A," "B" and "C"
garrison duty at Gallipolis, Ohio, September.) Ordered to Point Pleasant, Va.,
October 7, 1862. Attached to District of the Kanawha, W. Va., Dept. of the Ohio,
to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, W. Va., Dept. Ohio, to
February, 1863. Crook's Brigade, Baird's Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of
the Cumberland, to June, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, Army
of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th Army
Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE. – March to Charleston, W. Va., October 14-November
16, 1862. Duty at Camp Vinton till January 1, 1863. Moved to Tompkin's Farm and
Colesworth January 1-3. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., January 7-22, and duty there
till February 17. Moved to Carthage, Tenn., February 17, and duty there till
June 5. Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn.. June 5. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma
Campaign June 23-July 7. Hoover's Gap June 24-26. Tullahoma June 29-30.
Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16. Passage of the Cumberland
Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August
16-September 22. Near Graysville September 10. Catlett's Gap September 15-18.
Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September
24-November 23. Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29. Brown's Ferry October
27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Orchard Knob November 23-24.
Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. At Chattanooga
till February 22, 1864. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27. Tunnel
Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. 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 Greek 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, Smyrna Camp Ground,
July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. 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. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Operations against
Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. March to the
sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the
Carolinas January to April, 1865. Fayetteville, N. C., March 11. Battle of
Bentonville 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 20. Grand Review May 24. Mustered out June 19, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 47 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 192 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 244.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1537
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