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Sunday, August 7, 2022

2nd Regiment United States Reserve Corps Infantry. — (3 Months.)

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., May 7, 1861. Attached to Lyon's Army of the West. Capture of Camp Jackson, St. Louis, May 10. Duty at St. Louis till July 23 (Co. "A" detached guarding bridge on Northern Missouri Railroad June 16-August 14.) A Detachment moved to Bird's Point, Mo., July 23, and duty there till August 14. Moved to St. Louis. A Detachment guard bridges on St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad. Mustered out August 16, 1861.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1322

2nd Regiment United States Reserve Corps Infantry. — (3 Years.)

Reorganized at St. Louis August 23 to September 20, 1861. Attached to District of St. Louis to October 1861. 4th Division, Army of the Southwest, to May 1862. 2nd Division, Army of the Mississippi, to June 1862. 5th Division, Army of the Mississippi, to August.

SERVICE.—Campaign in Missouri October, 1861, to February, 1862. Guard railroad beyond Rolla, Mo., till May, 1862. Ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., May 6. Siege of Corinth, Miss., May 22-30. Duty at Corinth Miss., till August. Ordered to St. Louis, Mo., August 12, 1862. Mustered out September 3, 1862.

Regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 9 Enlisted men by disease.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1322