Organized at Laporte September 5, 1861. Ordered to Cheat
Mountain, West Virginia, September 10. Attached to Cheat Mountain District,
West Virginia, to March, 1862. 19th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to
September, 1862. 19th Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to
November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of
the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 21st Army Corps,
Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army
Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th
Army Corps, to August, 1865. Dept. of Texas to September, 1865.
SERVICE. – Duty at Cheat Mountain, West Virginia, till
January 9, 1862. Action at Greenbrier River October 3-4, 1861. Expedition to
Camp Baldwin December 11-13. Greenbrier River December 12. Camp Allegheny
December 13. Moved to Fetterman, W. Va., January 9, 1862, and duty there till
February 19. Ordered to Louisville, Ky., February 19; thence march to
Nashville, Tenn. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 18-April 6. Battle of Shiloh,
Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.
Occupation of Corinth May 30, and pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. March
to Iuka, Miss., thence to Tuscumbia, Florence and Athens, Ala., June 12-July 8.
Duty at Athens till July 17, and at Murfreesboro, Tenn., till August 17. March
to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 17-September 26. Pursuit of
Bragg, to Loudon, Ky., October 1-22. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8.
Danville October 11. Wild Cat Mountain, near Crab Orchard, Big Rockcastle River
and near Mt. Vernon October 16. Wild Cat October 17. Rockcastle River and
Nelson's Cross Roads October 18. Pittman's Forks October 20. March to
Nashville, Tenn., October 22-November 5, and duty there till December 26. Advance
on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Lavergne December 26-27. Stewart's Creek
December 27. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3,
1863. Duty at Murfreesboro and Readyville till June. Woodbury January 24.
Expedition from Readyville to Woodbury April 2. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma)
Campaign June 23-July 7. At Manchester till August 16. Passage of the
Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August
16-September 22. Lee and Gordon's Mills, Ga., September 11-13. Battle of
Chickamauga September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga September 22-November 23.
Before Chattanooga September 22-27. Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.
Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Lookout Mountain November 23-24.
Mission Ridge November 25. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27. At
Whitesides, Ala., till March, 1864, and at Cleveland, Tenn., till May. Atlanta
(Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Tunnell Hill May 6-7. Demonstration on Rocky
Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Near Dalton May
13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Kingston May 18-19. Cassville May 19 and
May 24. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek 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. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of
Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations
against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama, September 29-November 3.
Nashville Campaign November-December Columbia Duck River November 24-27. Battle
of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to
the Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there
till March, 1865. Operations in East Tennessee March 15-April 22. Duty at
Nashville till June. Ordered to New Orleans, La., June 16; thence to Indianola,
Tex., July 7. Duty at San Antonio and at New Braunfels till September. Mustered
out September 28, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 120 Enlisted
men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 220 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 353.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1121
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