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Organized at Fonda and
mustered in August 26, 1862. Left State for Middle Department August 30, 1862.
Attached to Miles' Command, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September, 1862. Camp Douglas,
Chicago, Ill., to December, 1862. 3rd Brigade, Casey's Division, 22nd Army Corps,
Dept. of Washington, December, 1862. Busteed's Independent Brigade, 7th Army
Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to January, 1863. District of Hilton Head, S. C, 10th
Army Corps, Dept. of the South, to June, 1863. District of Beaufort, S.C., 10th
Army Corps, to December, 1863. District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Army Corps,
to January, 1864. Barton's Brigade, District of Hilton Head, S.C., to February,
1864. Barton's Brigade, District of Florida, February, 1864. Barton's Brigade,
Ames' Division, District of Florida, to April, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division,
10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to
May, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, to June, 1864. 2nd Brigade,
2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, to July, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th
Army Corps, to December, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 24th Army Corps, to
January, 1865. 3rd Brigade. 2nd Division, Terry's Provisional Corps, Dept. of
North Carolina, to March, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps,
Army of the Ohio, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Defence
of Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September 12-15, 1862. Maryland Heights September
12-13. Regiment surrendered September 15. Paroled September 16 and sent to
Annapolis, Md., thence to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., and duty there till
November 22. Moved to Washington, D.C., November 22, and duty in the defences
of that city till December 28. Moved to Yorktown, Va., December 28. Duty there
and at Gloucester Point, Va., till January, 1863. Expedition to West Point
and White House January 7-9 (Detachment). Ordered to Hilton Head, S.C., January,
and duty there till June, 1863. At Beaufort, S.C., till December, 1863, and
at Hilton Head, S.C., till February, 1864. Expedition to Jacksonville, Fla.,
February 5-7. Occupation of Jacksonville February 7. Expedition into Central
Florida February 7-28. Camp Finnegan February 9. Sanderson February 12. Battle
of Olustee February 20. Occupation of Palatka March 10. Moved to Gloucester
Point, Va., April 22-28. Butler's operations on south side of the James River
and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Port Walthall Junction, Chester
Station, May 6-7. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drury's
Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred May 16-28. Moved to White House, thence to
Cold Harbor May 28-June 1. Battles about Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg
June 15-18. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16 to December
7, 1864. Duty in trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda Hundred front
till August. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30. Demonstration on north side
of the James August 13-20. Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18. Battle
of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30. Battle of Fair Oaks
October 27-28. Duty in trenches before Richmond till December. Expedition
to Fort Fisher, N. C., December 7-27. 2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C.,
January 3-15, 1865. Assault and capture of Fort Fisher January 15. Cape Fear
intrenchments February 11-12. Sugar Loaf Battery February 11. Fort Anderson
February 18-19. Capture of Wilmington February 22. Campaign of the Carolinas
March 1-April 26. Advance on Goldsboro March 6-21. Advance on Raleigh April
9-13. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender
of Johnston and his army. Duty at Raleigh till June. Mustered out June 17,
1865. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 47th New York Infantry.
Regiment lost during
service 7 Officers and 128 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 188
Enlisted men by disease. Total 323.
Extract from Dyer's Compendium Regimental Histories