Showing posts with label 42nd MO INF. Show all posts
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Friday, April 10, 2026

42nd Missouri Infantry.

Organized at Macon, Mo., September, 1864. Attached to District of Northern Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1864. Tullahoma, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865. Unattached, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. 2nd Brigade, Defences Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Dept. Cumberland, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.—Companies "A," "C" and "H" moved to Sturgeon, Mo., September 23, 1864. Garrison duty there and at Columbia till November. Regiment assigned to guard duty on line of the Northern Missouri and Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, till November 10. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., November 12-13, thence to Paducah, Ky., November 29-December 2. To Clarksville and Fort Donelson, Tenn., December 3-6, and duty there till December 30. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., December 30-31, thence to Tullahoma, Tenn., January 2-3, 1865, and duty there till March, operating against guerrillas in Southern Tennessee and Northern Alabama. Action at Corn's Farm, Franklin County, Tenn., February 6. Garrison duty at Shelbyville, Tenn., till June 23. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., June 23. Mustered out Companies "H," "I" and "K" March 22, 1865; Regiment June 28, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 6 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 124 Enlisted men by disease. Total 134.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1337

42nd Missouri Enrolled Militia Infantry.

Skirmish near Iberia August 29, 1862. Expeditions from Waynesville August 29-September 2, 1862.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1337

42nd Missouri Provisional Enrolled Militia Infantry.

Duty in Central District of Missouri. Skirmish at Iberia, Mo., August 29, 1862.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1337

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

John Ainsworth


Private, Co. A, 42nd Missouri Infantry
Died March 18, 1865, Tullahoma, Tennessee

Stones River National Cemetery
Murfreesboro, Tennessee