Organized February
17, 1864, by consolidation of Bissell's Engineer Regiment of the West and 25th
Regiment Missouri Infantry. Attached to Defences of Nashville &
Northwestern Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to August, 1864. Engineers
Sherman's Army to July, 1865.
SERVICE.—Assigned to
duty on line of Nashville & Western Railroad rebuilding road from Nashville
to the Tennessee River February 18 to May 10, 1864; then on line of Nashville
& Northwestern Railroad building Blockhouses, repairing and protecting road
till August 15. Ordered to Join Army in the field and march to the
Chattahoochie River, Georgia, August 15-25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August
25-30. Battle of Jonesborg August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September
2-6. At Atlanta till November 15. March to the sea November 15-December 10. In
charge of Pontoons, Army of the Tennessee. Siege of Savannah December 10-21.
Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Salkehatchie Swamps, S.C.,
February 2-5. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13.
Columbia February 15-17. Lynch's Creek February 26-27. Battle of Bentonville,
N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24-April 10. Advance on
Raleigh April 10-14. 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. <dy_1321> Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 3-7. Mustered out
July 22, 1865.
Regiment lost during
service 16 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 146
Enlisted men by disease. Total 163.
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