Organized at Georgetown, Ohio, July 9, 1861. Moved to Camp
Chase, Ohio, July 10, thence to St. Louis, Mo., August 19-21. Provost duty
there till September, and at Syracuse, Mo., till October. Attached to Gen.
Pope's Command, Army of the West. Fremont's advance on Springfield, Mo.,
October 21-November 7. Scouting and skirmishing in Western and Northern Missouri
till February, 1862. Skirmish at Roan's Tan Yard, Silver Creek, January 8.
1862. Moved to Benton Barracks, Mo., February, 1862; thence to St. Louis, and
duty at Headquarters of Gen. Halleck till April 9. Moved to Pittsburg Landing,
Tenn., as escort to Gen. Halleck, and duty at Dept. Headquarters till August.
Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville
May 31-June 12. Scout duty in Western Tennessee, attached to the Commands of
Gen. McClernand, Logan and Lawler, till November. Actions at Bolivar, Tenn.,
August 22; Greenville August 23; Bolivar August 25; Britton's Lane, near
Denmark September 1. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November-December.
Assigned to duty as escort to Gen. J. B. McPherson, Commanding 17th Army Corps,
Army of the Tennessee, December, 1862, to April, 1864, and as escort to Gen.
McPherson, Commanding Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1864, then as escort to
Headquarters 17th Army Corps to May, 1865, participating in the movement to
Young's Point and Milliken's Bend, La., and operations against Vicksburg,
Miss., February to July, 1863. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf
April 25-30. Battles of Port Gibson May 1; North Fork, Bayou Pierrie, May 3;
Willow Springs May 3; Utica May 9-10; Raymond May 12; Jackson May 14;
Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Meridian Campaign
February 3-March 2, 1864. Champion's Hill February 4. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign
May to September. Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-13. Battle of Resaca. Battles
about Dallas May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw
Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5.
Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Battle of Atlanta July 22, Siege of Atlanta July
22-August 25. 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. Mt.
Elon, S.C., February 27. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 20-21. Occupation
of Goldsboro and Raleigh. 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. Old members mustered out July 16, 1864. Company mustered out May
28, 1865.
Company lost during service 5 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded and 16 Enlisted men by disease. Total 21.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1481
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