The Regiment lost 3 officers and 93 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 77 enlisted men to disease, a total of 175. It is honored by a monument at Antietam.
June 28, 1861 |
Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio under Colonel John W. Lowe and Lieutenant Colonel Carr Bailey White |
July 6 |
Left State for the Kanawha Valley, Va. Attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade, W. Va. |
July 17 |
Action at Scary Creek, Va. |
September 10 |
Battle of Carnifex Ferry
Colonel Lowe was killed, and Lt. Colonel Carr promoted to colonel. |
September |
Operations in the Kanawha Valley, Va., and New River Region attached to Bonham's Brigade, Dist. of the Kanawha, W. Va. |
September 12 |
Gauley River |
September 14 |
Wilderness Ferry |
September 16 |
Hough's Ferry |
September 24 |
Advance to Sewell Mountain |
September 25 |
Sewell Mountain |
October 10 |
At Hawk's Nest attached to 1st Brigade, District of the Kanawha |
November 1-18 |
Movement on Cotton Mountain and pursuit of Floyd |
November 12 |
Laurel Creek (Co. H) |
November |
Duty at Charleston |
March 1862 |
Attached to 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division West Virginia, Dept. of the Mountains |
April 22-May 1 |
Advance on Princeton |
May 4 |
Narrows of New River |
May 20 to August 14 |
Operations on Flat Top Mountain |
July 24-26 |
Scout in Wayne County (Detachment) |
August 14-24 |
Moved to Washington |
August 24-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 27 |
Action at Bull Run Bridge |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign. Attached to 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain, Md.
Commanded by Col. Carr B. White and Lt. Colonel J. D. Hines, the regiment brought about 500 men to the field and lost 35 killed, 100 wounded and 30 missing. The regiment captured about 200 North Carolinians.
Private Leonidas H. Inscho earned the Medal of Honor by capturing a Confederate captain and four men, alone and with a wounded left hand. Major E. L. Carey was badly wounded, Captain W. W. Liggett of Company H was mortally wounded, and Captain R. Wilson was wounded and captured, but escaped.
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September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
From the monument: "This Regiment advanced to this place on the afternoon of September 17, 1862. It moved from extreme left of Union line of battle exposed to a severe flank fire and held their position the remainder of the day. Its loss was 17 men killed and 25 men wounded, total 33." |
October 8 |
March to Clear Springs |
October 14-November 17 |
To Hancock and to the Kanawha Valley, Va. attached to 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, District of West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio |
December 4 |
Moved to Fayette Court House |
March 1863 |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
May 9 |
Action at Blake's Farm |
May 17-20 |
Repulse of McCausland's attack on Fayetteville |
May 19 |
Fayette Court House |
June |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Scammon's Division, Dept. of West Virginia |
July 17-26 |
Pursuit of Morgan's forces and patrol on the Ohio River |
November 3-13 |
Expedition from Charlestown to Lewisburg |
December 4 |
Action at Meadow Bluff |
December 8-25 |
Scammon's demonstration from the Kanawha Valley attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of West Virginia |
December 11 |
Action at Big Sewell Mountain and Meadow Bluff |
December 12 |
Lewisburg and Greenbrier River |
December 14 |
Near Meadow Bluff |
April. 1864 |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry, Division West Virginia |
May 2-19 |
Crook's Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
May 6 |
Princeton (Cos. B and D) |
May 9 |
Battle of Cloyd's Mountain |
May 10 |
New River Bridge |
May 26-July 1 |
Hunter's Raid to Lynchburg |
June 17 |
Diamond Hill |
June 17-18 |
Lynchburg |
June 19-July 1 |
Retreat to Charleston |
July 2 |
Ordered to Columbus, Ohio. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 23rd Ohio Infantry. |
July 11, 1864 |
Mustered out, expiration of term |
