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Organized at Fort Wayne, Ind., and mustered in September 10,
1862. Left State for Memphis, Tenn., November 11. Attached to 2nd Brigade,
District of Memphis, Tenn., 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee,
November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, District of Memphis, 13th Army
Corps, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to
January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863.
1st Brigade, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to August, 1864. 2nd Brigade,
4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st
Division, 15th Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations on
the Mississippi Central Railroad November 26, 1862, to January 10, 1863.
Duty at Colliersville, Tenn., and along the Memphis & Charleston Railroad
until June 7. Ordered to Vicksburg, Miss., June 7. Siege of Vicksburg June
14-July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July
10-17. Camp at Big Black until September 28. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence
march to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 23-November 20. Operations on the
Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold
Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel Hill November 23-24. Mission Ridge November
25. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 8. Moved to
Scottsboro, Ala., and duty there December 17, 1863, to May, 1864. Atlanta
(Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Demonstration on Resaca May 8-13. Near
Resaca May 13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Movement on Dallas May 18-25.
Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope
Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and
against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Brushy Mountain June 15. Assault on
Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Ezra Chapel,
Hood's second sortie, July 28. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September
29-November 3. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Griswoldsville
November 22. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas
January to April, 1865. Reconnaissance to Salkehatchie River, S.C., January
25, 1865. Congaree Creek, S.C., February 15. Columbia February 16-17. Battle
of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Mill Creek March 22. Occupation of
Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh
April 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. Mustered out July 8, 1865. Recruits transferred to 48th Indiana
Infantry.
Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 56 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 173 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 234.
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