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88th
Regiment Infantry
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Organized
at Fort Wayne, Ind., and mustered in August 29, 1862. Ordered to Louisville,
Ky., August 29, and duty there till October 1. Attached to 17th Brigade,
3rd Division, Army of the Ohio, September, 1862. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division,
1st Corps, Army Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Center
14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade,
1st Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April, 1863. 1st
Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Pursuit
of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-15, 1862. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October
8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there till
December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River
December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro till June.
Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of Middle
Tennessee till August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee
River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Davis Cross
Roads or Dug Gap September 11. Battle of Chickamauga September
19-21. Rossville Gap September 21. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September
24-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Lookout Mountain
November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Pea Vine Creek and Graysville
November 26. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27. March to Charleston
December 30, 1863, to January 10, 1864. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February
22-27, 1864. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February
23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Demonstration on Rocky
Faced Ridge May 8-11. Buzzard's Roost Gap, May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May
14-15. Advance on Dallas May 18-25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek
and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June
5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June
27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Buckhead, Nancy's
Creek, July 18. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August
25. Utoy Creek August 5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Near
Red Oak August 30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Operations
against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.
March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21.
Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Averysboro, N. C., March
16. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's
House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington,
D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Mustered
out June 7, 1865.
Regiment
lost during service 9 Officers and 55 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded
and 3 Officers and 147 Enlisted men by disease. Total 214