Organization

• Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., and mustered in October 12, 1861.
• Moved to Benton Barracks, Mo., October 13, thence to Tipton and Otterville, November 3-4.
• Attached to Dept. of Missouri to February, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of West Tennessee and Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Jackson to September, 1862.
• Unattached District of Jackson to November, 1862.
• Post of Bolivar, District of Jackson, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862.
• Post of Bolivar, District of Jackson, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to May, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, Kimball's Provisional Division, 16th Army Corps. to July, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, Kimball's Provisional Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, to August, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Arkansas Expedition to November, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Arkansas Expedition, to January, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to March, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, to May, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps. garrison at Little Rock, Ark., to January, 1865.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, to August, 1865.
• Dept. of Arkansas, to November, 1865.

Service

• Duty at Otterville, Mo., till December 30, 1861.
• March to Tipton December 30-31, thence to Benton Barracks January 20-21, 1862.
• Moved to Fort Henry, Tenn., February 6-8, and to Fort Donelson February 25-26, thence to Savannah, Tenn., March 4-12.
• Expedition to Pinhook March 18-19.
• Moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 22.
• Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7.
• Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.
• March to Bethel, thence to Jackson, Tenn., June 4-16, and to Bolivar July 17-19, and duty there till May, 1863.
• March to support of Rosecrans at Iuka, Miss., September 15-23, 1862.
• March to LaGrange and return October 9-10.
• Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign October 31, 1862, to January 10, 1863.
• Operations against Forest in West Tennessee December 18, 1862, to January 3, 1863.
• Salem Cemetery, near Jackson, December 19, 1862.
• Scouting in West Tennessee and post duty at Bolivar till May, 1863.
• Expedition to Wesley Camp, Somerville, May 26-29.
• Movement to Memphis, Tenn., thence to Vicksburg, Miss., May 31-June 3.
• Expedition up the Yazoo to Satartia June 2-8.
• Action at Mechanicsburg, Satartia, June 4.
• Moved to Haines' Bluff June 6.
• Siege of Vicksburg June 9-July 4.
• Moved to Big Black July 12, thence to Snyder's Bluff July 22, and to Helena, Ark., July 29-August 1.
• Steele's Expedition to Little Rock, Ark., August 1-September 10.
• Engagement at Bayou Fourche and capture of Little Rock September 10.
• Duty at Little Rock till March, 1864.
• Steele's Expedition to Camden March 23-May 3. Okolona April 2-3.
• Prairie D'Ann April 9-13.
• Camden April 15.
• Princeton April 28.
• Saline Bottom April 29.
• Jenkin's Ferry April 30.
• Garrison duty at Little Rock till November, 1865.
• Princeton May 27, 1864.
• Scouts from Pine Bluff toward Camden and Monticello January 26-31, 1865. Mustered out November 30 and discharged at Camp Butler, Ill., December 14, 1865.

Casualties

• Regiment lost during service 8 Officers and 75 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 161 Enlisted men by disease. Total 246.