Organized at Benton
Barracks and St. Joseph, Mo., March 28 to December 11, 1863. Attached to
District of Stt. Louis, Mo., Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1863. District of
Southwest Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to January, 1864. District of Northeast
Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to May, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd
Division, 7th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division,
7th Army Corps, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Corps, to
March, 1865. Separate Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, to
July, 1865.
SERVICE.—Duty in
District of St. Louis, Mo., till December, 1863. At Springfield and Rolla, Mo.,
till February, 1864. Expedition from Springfield to Huntsville, Carrollton and
Berryville, and skirmish, November 10-18, 1863 (Detachment). Operations in
Northeast Arkansas January 1-30, 1864. Martin's Creek January 7. Rolling
Prairie January 23 (Co. "B"). At Batesville, Ark., February to April.
Expedition from Batesville to Searcy Landing January 30-February 3. Morgan's
Mill, Spring River, White County, February 9 (Detachment). Independence, Mo.,
February 19. Waugh's Farm, near Batesville, February 19. Expedition from Rolla
to Batesville, Ark., February 29-March 13. Scout from Batesville to West Point,
Grand Glaze and Searcy Landing March 15-21 (Detachment). Expedition from
Batesville to Coon Creek, Devil's Fork, Red River, March 24-31. Van Buren
County March 25. Scout from Batesville to Fairview March 25-26 (Detachment).
Near Cross Roads March 27. Spring River, near Smithville, April 13
(Detachment). Jacksonport April 20. Expedition from Jacksonport to Augusta
April 23-24. Near Jacksonport April 24. Ordered to Duvall's Bluff May, 1864,
and duty there till October. Scout in Craighead and Lawrence Counties June
25-26 (Co. "M"). Clarendon, St. Charles, June 25-26. Clarendon June
27-29. Scout to Searcy and West Point July 26-28 (Detachment). Des Arc July 26
(Detachment). West Point July 28 (Detachment). Hay Station No. 3 July 30
(Detachment). West Point August 5. Expedition from Little Rock to Little Red
River August 6-16. Operations in Central Arkansas, with skirmishes August 9-15.
Duvall's Bluff August 21 and 24. Long Prairie August 24. Jones' Hay Station
August 24. Duvall's Bluff September 6. Searcy September 13. Expedition from
Duvall's Bluff toward Clarendon October 16-17 (Detachment). Brownsville October
30. Duty at Brownsville till February, 1865. Expedition from Brownsville to
Augusta January 4-27, 1865 (Detachment). Moved to Little Rock February 4, and
duty there till June. Moved to New Orleans, La., June 27-July 3. At Greenville
till July 27. Mustered out at Greenville July 27 and discharged at St. Louis
August 10, 1865.
Regiment lost during
service 2 Officers and 28 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5
Officers and 181 Enlisted men by disease. Total 216.
SOURCE: Frederick H.
Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1310
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