Organized at Madison, Indianapolis and New Albany, Ind.,
August 16 to October 31, 1862. Left State for Memphis. Tenn., November 9, 1862.
Attached to 5th Brigade, District of Memphis, Tenn., 13th Army Corps (Old).
Dept of the Tennessee, November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of
Memphis, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 8th Division, 16th
Army Corps, to April, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to
December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.
1st Brigade, 1st Division (Detachment), Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the
Cumberland, to February, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps
(New), Military Division West Mississippi, to August, 1865.
SERVICE. – “Tallahatchie March” November 26-December 20,
1862. Duty at Lagrange, Tenn., Corinth, Miss., and at Memphis, Tenn., till
March, 1863. Moved to Helena, Ark., March 13, thence to Young's Point, La. At
Ducksport, La., till May 3. Movement to join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss.,
via Richmond and Grand Gulf, May 3-14. Mississippi Springs May 13. Jackson May
14. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June
4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Camp at
Big Black River till September 5 and at Oak Ridge till October 14. Expedition
to Canton October 14-20. Bogue, Chitto Creek, October 17. Moved to Memphis,
Tenn., November 7, and provost duty there till May 10, 1864. Expedition from
Memphis to Wyatt's, Miss., February 6-18, 1864. Coldwater Ferry February 8.
Near Senatobia February 8-9. Wyatt's February 13. Sturgis' Expedition to
Ripley, Miss., April 30-May 9. Sturgis' Expedition to Guntown, Miss., June
1-13. Battle of Brice's Cross Roads or Tishamingo Creek near Guntown June 10.
Ripley June 11. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo, Miss., July 5-21. Camargo's Cross
Roads, Harrisburg, July 13. Harrisburg near Tupelo July 14-15. Old Town or
Tishamingo Creek July 15. Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30.
Tallahatchie River August 7-9. Abbeville August 23. Moved to Duvall's Bluff,
Ark., September 2. March through Arkansas and Missouri in pursuit of Brite
September 24-November 18. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 25-December 1.
Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River
December 17-28. Moved to Eastport, Miss., and duty there till February 9, 1865.
Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., thence to New Orleans, La., and to Dauphin Island,
Ala., February 9-March 3. Campaign against Mobile and its defences March
17-April 12. Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8. Assault
and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. Capture of Mobile April 12. March to
Montgomery April 13-25, and duty there till May 10. At Selma and Gainesville
till August. Mustered out at Gainesville, Ala., August 10, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 37 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 250 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 291.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1152
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