Organization

• Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, June 10 and mustered in July 6, 1861.
• Moved to Point Pleasant, W. Va., July 31.
• Attached to 2nd Brigade, Army of Occupation, W. Va., to October, 1861.
• McCook's 2nd Brigade, District of the Kanawha, W. Va., to March, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, Dept. of the Mountains, to September, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, District of West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio, to March, 1863.
• Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to June, 1863.
• Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia, to December, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 4th Division, West Virginia, to April, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry, Division West Virginia, to June, 1864.

Service

• Moved from Point Pleasant, Va., to Clarksburg, August 11-12, 1861, thence to Buckhannon, August 17-19, to Bulltown.
• August 28-29, to Sutton September 1 and to Summerville September 7-9.
• Battle of Carnifex Ferry, W. Va., September 10.
• March to Camp Lookout and Big Sewell Mountain September 15-23.
• Retreat to Camp Anderson October 6-9.
• Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19-November 17.
• New River October 19-21.
• Moved to Gauley December 6, and duty there till May, 1862.
• Advance on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad May 10.
• Princeton May 11-15-16 and 17.
• Wolf Creek May 15.
• At Flat Top Mountain till August.
• Blue Stone August 13-14.
• Movement to Washington, D.C., August 15-24.
• Maryland Campaign September 6-22.
• Battles of Frederick City, Md., September 12.
• South Mountain September 14.
• Antietam September 16-17.
• March to Clear Springs October 8, thence to Hancock October 9.
• March to the Kanawha Valley, West Va., October 14-November 17.
• Duty at Brownstown November 17, 1862, to January 8, 1863.
• Scout to Boone, Wyoming and Logan Counties December 1-10, 1862.
• Moved to Buckhannon January 8, 1863, thence to Clarksburg April 26-27, and to Weston May 9-12.
• Moved to New Creek June 17, thence to Beverly July 2-7, and duty there till November 1.
• Averill's Raid from Beverly against Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad November 1-17.
• Mill Point November 5.
• Droop Mountain November 6.
• Elk Mountain hear Hillsborough November 10.
• March through Elk Mountain Pass to Beverly December 13-17, and duty at Beverly till April 23, 1864.
• Moved to Join Army of the Shenandoah at Bunker Hill April 23-29.
• Sigel's Expedition to New Market April 30-May 16.
• Near Strasburg May 15.
• Battle of New Market May 16.
• Hunter's Expedition to Lynchburg, Va., May 26-June 8.
• Piedmont June 5.
• Occupation of Staunton June 6.
• March to Webster on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad with 1,000 prisoners, wounded and refugees, June 8-18.
• Guard prisoners to Camp Morton, Ind., thence moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Mustered out June 23, 1864.
• Reorganized as a Veteran Battalion September, 1864, and ordered to Wheeling, W. Va.
• Duty there and in the Reserve Division of West Virginia, till July, 1865.
• Mustered out at Wheeling, W. Va., July 13, 1865.

Casualties

• Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 66 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 66 Enlisted men by disease. Total 134.