Organized at
Hannibal, Mo., August 18 to September 30, 1864. Attached to District of St.
Louis, Dept. of Missouri, to November, 1864. Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the
Cumberland, to December, 1864. District of Kentucky, Dept. Ohio, to January,
1865. District of Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, January, 1865.
District of St. Louis, Mo., to July, 1865.
SERVICE.—Scout duty
and operating against guerrillas in Macon, Ralls, Pike, Monroe, Audrain,
Callaway, Boone, Howard and Chariton Counties, Mo., September. Actions about
Sidney, Ralls County, September 11-16 (Co. "D"). Companies
"A" and "G" ordered to Paris September 14. Company
"E" to Ralls County September 20. Companies "C" and
"H" to Paris September 22. Company "D" to Macon September
23. Companies "B" and "I" to Macon September 24, and
Company "F" to Macon September 25, 1864. Action with Anderson's
guerrillas and massacre on North Missouri Railroad near Centralia September 27
(Cos. "A," "G" and "H"). March from Macon to
Jefferson City, Mo., October 1-7. Defence of Jefferson City October 7-8. Moved
to LaMine Bridge October 19-20, thence to Glasgow November 1-3, and duty there
till December 13. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., December 13, arriving there
January 1, 1865. Return to St. Louis, Mo., January 4-9, 1865. Duty at Benton
Barracks and in District of St. Louis, Mo., till July. Companies "A,"
"G" and "K" provost duty at Cape Girardeau, Mo., April 24
to July 6. Companies "D" and "E" at Glasgow and Company
"B" at St. Genevieve. Scout from Glasgow to Perche Hills March 7-15,
1865 (Co. "D"). Company "H" provost duty at Benton
Barracks. Companies "C," "E," "F" and
"I" mustered out March 20, 1865. Regiment mustered out July 19, 1865.
Regiment lost during
service 2 Officers and 130 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 64
Enlisted men by disease. Total 196.
SOURCE: Frederick H.
Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1336
