Organized at Terre Haute, Ind., and mustered in September
20, 1862. Ordered to Louisville, Ky., thence to Memphis, Tenn., and duty there
till December, 1862. Attached to District of Louisville, Ky., Dept. of Ohio, to
November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, District of Memphis, Tenn., 13th Army Corps (Old),
Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of
Memphis, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 17th
Army Corps, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division 16th Army Corps, to
March, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 3rd
Brigade, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th
Division, 15th Army Corps, to August, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 15th
Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE. – Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations
on the Mississippi Central Railroad November, 1862, to January, 1863. Guard
duty along Memphis & Charleston Railroad at LaGrange and Moscow, Tenn.,
till June, 1863. Ordered to Young's Point, La., June 9. Siege of Vicksburg,
Miss., June 14-July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson
July 10-17, Camp at Big Black till September 26. Moved to Memphis, Tenn.,
thence march to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 26-November 20. Operations on
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
27-December 8. Moved to Scottsboro, Ala., and duty there till May, 1864.
Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864. Tunnel Till, Buzzard's
Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1,
to September 8. Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-12. Near Resaca May 13. Battle
of Resaca May 14-15. Movements 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. Ruff's Mills July 3-4. 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. Griswaldsville November 22. Siege of Savannah December
10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Reconnoissance to
Salkehatchie River 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 June 9, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 51 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 6 Officers and 172 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 232.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1152
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