Organized at Fort Wayne, Ind., and mustered in September 10,
1862. Left State for Memphis, Tenn., November 11. Attached to 2nd Brigade,
District of Memphis, Tenn., 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee,
November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, District of Memphis, 13th Army
Corps, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to
January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 1st
Brigade, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to August, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th
Division, 15th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 15th
Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE. – Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations
on the Mississippi Central Railroad November 26, 1862, to January 10, 1863.
Duty at Colliersville, Tenn., and along the Memphis & Charleston Railroad
till June 7. Ordered to Vicksburg, Miss., June 7. Siege of Vicksburg June
14-July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17.
Camp at Big Black till September 28. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence march to
Chattanooga, Tenn., September 23-November 20. Operations on the Memphis &
Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November
23-27. Tunnel Hill November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. March to relief
of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 8. Moved to Scottsboro, Ala., and
duty there December 17, 1863, to May, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to
September 8. Demonstration on Resaca May 8-13. Near Resaca May 13. Battle of
Resaca May 14-15. Movement 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. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July
2. Brushy Mountain June 15. 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. Ezra Chapel, Hood's second sortie, July 28. 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. March to the sea November 15-December 10.
Griswoldsville November 22. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the
Carolinas January to April, 1865. Reconnoissance to Salkehatchie River, S.C.,
January 25, 1865. Congaree Creek, S.C., February 15. Columbia February 16-17.
Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Mill Creek March 22. 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 July 8, 1865. Recruits transferred to 48th Indiana Infantry.
Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 56 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 173 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 234.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1153
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