Organized at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, and mustered in May 13,
1864. Left State for Washington, D.C., May 15. Attached to 2nd Brigade,
DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps, to July, 1864. 3rd Brigade, DeRussy's
Division, 22nd Army Corps, to August, 1864. Assigned to duty as garrison at
Forts Richardson, Barnard, Raynalds, Ward and Worth (Headquarters at Fort
Richardson), Defences of Washington south of the Potomac, till September.
Repulse of Early's attack on Washington July 11-12. Mustered out September 9,
1864.
Regiment lost during service 39 Enlisted men by disease.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1552
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