Organized at
Harrisville and Kansas City, Mo., March 17 to May 5, 1862. Attached to District
of Central Missouri, Dept. of Missouri. Scout to Little Manqua, near Quincy,
and skirmish April, 1862. Scout to Monticello, Vernon County, and to Shiloh
Camp, on Boyle's Run, April 9-16. Pink Hill April 11. Montevallo April 14. Near
Independence May 15-17. Surrender of Independence August 11 (Detachment).
Action at Lone Jack August 16. At Lexington and in District of Central Missouri
till March, 1863. Grand Prairie October 24. Expedition into Southeast Missouri
and North Arkansas November 8-13. Affairs in Jackson and Lafayette Counties
November 26-29. Mustered out March 31, 1863.
Battalion lost
during service 3 Officers and 48 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1
Officer and 109 Enlisted men by disease. Total 161.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1304
