Organized at Camp Piqua, Ohio, and mustered in August 22,
1862. Ordered to Lexington, Ky., August 28. Expedition to Yates' Ford, Kentucky
River, August 30-September 3. Yates' Ford August 31. Tait's Ferry, Kentucky
River, September 1. Retreat to Louisville, Ky., September 2-3. Attached to 9th
Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Ohio, September, 1862. 9th Brigade, 3rd
Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, Center 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 1st
Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE. – Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-15,
1862. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October
16-November 7, and duty there till December 26. 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. Hoover's Gap June 24-26. Occupation of Middle Tennessee till
August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and
Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Davis Cross Roads or Dug Gap
September 11. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21. Rossville Gap September
21. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold
Campaign November 23-27. Lookout Mountain November 24-25. Mission Ridge
November 25. Pea Vine Valley and Graysville November 26. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's
Ridge, November 27. Demonstrations on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864. Tunnel
Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. Atlanta (Ga.)
Campaign May 1-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. Pickett's Mills May 27.
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 May 5-17. Buckhead,
Nancy's Creek, July 18. 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.
Near Red Oak August 29. 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. Near Rocky Mount, S.C., February 28.
Taylor's Hole Creek, Averysboro, N. C., March 16. 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 6, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 52 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 144 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 199.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1538
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