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January |
In Kansas and Nebraska under the command of Colonel Dixon S. Miles.
Headquarters and Companies E and F at Fort Kearny
Companies A, D and I, at Fort Abercrombie
Company B at Fort Scott
Companies C and K at Fort Ripley
Company G and H at Fort Riley
Company H at Fort Larned
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February |
Company B moved from Kansas to St. Louis, Mo.
Company D under Captain Nathaniel Lyon transferred to St. Louis Arsenal |
June 13-17 |
Expedition to Booneville, Mo.(Company B) |
June 13 |
Capture of Jefferson City, Mo. (Company B) |
June 17 |
Action at Booneville, Mo. (Company B) |
July |
Headquarters and Companies C and K reach Washington, D.C. Attached to Porter's 1st Brigade, Hunter's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia
Companies B in the field in Missouri
Company E moved to St., Louis, Mo. |
July |
Lyon's Springfield, Mo. Campaign (Company B) |
July 16-21 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. (Companies C and K) |
July 21 |
Battle of Bull Run (Companies C and K)
Colonel Myles commanded a division, in the advance, while companies C&K were under the overall command of Major Geroge Sykes |
August |
Attached to Porter's City Guard, Washington, D.C. Companies A, D and I join regimental headquarters at Georgetown |
August 2 |
Companies B and E engaged with the enemy at Dug Springs, Mo. Captain Steele was in command, with Company B commanded by 1st Sergeant Griffin and Company E commanded by 1st Sergeant G. H. McLoughlin. One man of E Company was wounded. |
August 10 |
Battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo. (Company E) |
December |
Regiment (except Company H at Fort Larned, Kan., under Captain A. Sully) concentrated at Washington Attached to Syke's Regular Infantry Brigade, Army Potomac for Provost Duty in and around Washington |
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March |
Moved to the Virginia Peninsula. attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 26 |
Battle of Mechanicsville |
June 27 |
Gaines' Mill
The strength of the battalion going into action was 446. Kept the enemy in check five hours against overwhelming odds, losing 138 men in killed, wounded and missing, including Sergeant Lacey, who was severely wounded and became an officer about a month later. |
June 30 |
Turkey Bridge |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill
Suffered no loss. Was part of the rear guard in the retreat to Harrison's Landing. |
July |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-28 |
Moved to Fortress Monroe, then to Centerville |
August 28 - September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run
Lieutenant William Kidd was killed and Lieutenants Ellinwood and Markley wounded. 71 enlisted men were killed, wounded or missing. |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps.
Regimental commander Colonel Dixon Miles, commanding Union forces at Harpers Ferry, was mortally wounded while surrendering the post. Colonel Sidney Burbank succeeded him as commander of the regiment. |
September 19-20 |
Shepherdstown Ford |
October |
At Sharpsburg |
October 29-
November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
June 13 |
Company H joined Regiment at Benson's Mills, Va., from Fort Larned, Kansas |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg |
July 5-24 |
Pursuit of Lee |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
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Winter |
Captain McKee killed by guerrillas while riding between camps |
March |
Assigned to 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps |
April 11 |
Near Greenwich (Companies C, H, K) |
April |
Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps |
May 1-June 12 |
Rapidan Campaign
On May 1 there were 10 officers and 181 men present for duty, and during the campaign the loss of was five officers wounded and 45 men killed, wounded and missing. |
May 1 |
The regiment set out from Rappahannock Station at sunrise and encamped that night at Brandy Station. |
May 2 |
Crossed the Rapidan at Germannia Ford at noon and was ordered forward to attack up the road leading to Mine Run, driving the enemy some distance back on the pike. It was severely engaged all the afternoon and returned that night to its original position. |
May 3 |
Placed on picket duty until two o'clock on the morning of the 8th. |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
May 8 |
The regiment rejoined the brigade at Laurel Hill and was engaged there all day.
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May 22-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1 |
The regiment's strength was less than 100 men, and was consolidated to a single company (C company) with a full compliment of officers and non-commissioned officers. |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor
The company-strength regiment lost 8 men killed and wounded and two officers and 19 men captured. |
June |
Assigned to Provost Guard, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps |
June 1-3 |
Bethesda Church |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 |
Siege of Petersburg |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve) |
August 18-21 |
Weldon Railroad |
September 29-October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church, Peeble's Farm |
October |
Moved to Newport Barracks, Ky. until October 1865 |
December |
The regiment's total enlisted strength was 405.
Headquarters and Companies A, B, , E, G, I and K at Newport Barracks Ky.;
Company C at Elmira, N. Y.
Company F at Sandusky, Ohio
Company H at Trenton, N. J. |
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Fall |
Regiment concentrated at Crittenden Barracks except for Company H at Jeffersonville, Ind.. |
