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Dyer's Compendium

  • Organized at Dubuque and mustered in October 3, 1862.
  • Moved to St. Paul, Minn., October 11, 1862, Companies "A", "B", "C", "E", "F", and "G" Moved to Mille Lac's, Minn., October 17, thence moved to Cairo, Ill., November 4.
  • Companies "D", "I", "H", and "K" at Fort Snelling, Minn., till November 1. Moved to Cairo, Ill., November 1.
  • Regiment moved to Memphis, Tenn., November 20.
  • Attached to District of Memphis, Dept. Tennessee, to December, 1862,
  • District of Jackson, Tenn., 16th Army Corps, Army Tennessee, to March, 1863.
  • 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to August, 1863.
  • True's Brigade, Arkansas Expedition to November, 1863.
  • Gilbert's Brigade, District of Memphis, 5th Division, 16th Corps, to January, 1864.
  • 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.
  • 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division (Detachment), Army Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865.
  • 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, Military Division West Mississippi, to August, 1865.
  • SERVICE.--Duty at Jackson, Tenn., and guard railroad from Corinth, Miss., to Memphis, Tenn., till June 2, 1863.
  • Guard Memphis & Charleston Railroad at Moscow till August 20.
  • Moved to Memphis, thence to Helena and Brownsville, Ark., August 20-24.
  • Steele's Arkansas Expedition August 24-September 10.
  • Bayou LaFourche and capture of Little Rock September 10. At Little Rock till November 15.
  • Moved to Memphis, Tenn., November 15, and duty there till January 28, 1864.
  • Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., January 28.
  • Meridian Campaign February 3-March 5.
  • Meridian February 14-15.
  • Marion February 15-17.
  • Union February 21-22.
  • Canton February 28.
  • Red River Campaign March 10-May 22.
  • Fort DeRussy March 14.
  • Occupation of Alexandria March 16.
  • Henderson's Hill March 21.
  • Battle of Pleasant Hill April 9.
  • Cloutiersville and Cane River Crossing April 22-24.
  • At Alexandria April 27-May 13.
  • Moore's Plantation May 5-7.
  • Bayou Boeuf May 7.
  • Bayou LaMourie April 12.
  • Retreat to Morganza May 13-20.
  • Mansure May 16.
  • Yellow Bayou May 18-19.
  • Moved to Vicksburg,. Miss.; thence to Memphis, Tenn., May 20-June 10.
  • Action at Lake Chicot, Ark., June 6-7.
  • Smith's Expedition to Tupelo July 5-21.
  • Poctotoc July 11.
  • Camargo's Cross Roads, near Harrisburg, July 13.
  • Tupelo July 14-15.
  • Old Town Creek July 15.
  • Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30.
  • Tallahatchie River August 7-9.
  • Abbeville and Oxford August 12.
  • Abbeville August 13.
  • Mower's Expedition up White River to Duvall's Bluff, Ark., September 1-6.
  • March through Arkansas and Missouri in pursuit of Price September 17-November 18.
  • Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 25-December 1.
  • Battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15-16.
  • Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.
  • At Eastport, Miss., till February 9, 1865.
  • Expedition from Eastport to Iuka January 9.
  • Moved to New Orleans, La., February 9-22.
  • Campaign against Mobile and its Defences March 8-April 12.
  • Siege of Fort Blakely and Spanish Fort March 26-April 8.
  • Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9.
  • Occupation of Mobile April 12.
  • March to Montgomery April 13-25, and duty there till July.
  • Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., July 14;
  • Thence to Clinton, Iowa, July 15-August 3.
  • Mustered out August 8, 1865.
  • Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 23 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 167 Enlisted men by disease. Total 193.
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