June 10, 1861 |
Organized from volunteers from the Cincinatti area |
July 6 |
Mustered in at Camp Dennison, Ohio, by Colonel Augustus Moor |
July 31 |
Moved to Point Pleasant, Va. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Army of Occupation, W. Va. |
August 11-12 |
Moved from Point Pleasant, Va., to Clarksburg |
August 17-19 |
To Buckhannon |
August 28-29 |
To Bulltown |
September 1 |
To Sutton |
September 7-9 |
To Summerville |
September 10 |
Battle of Carnifex Ferry
The regiment lost lost three killed and twenty-seven wounded. Colonel Moor and Lieutenant-Colonel Gottfried Becker were badly injured when they fell off a rock ledge. |
September 15-23 |
March to Camp Lookout and Big Sewell Mountain |
October 6-9 |
Retreat to Camp Anderson |
October 19-November 17 |
Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region attached to McCook's 2nd Brigade, District of the Kanawha, W. Va. |
October 19-21 |
New River |
December 6 |
Moved to Gauley |
March, 1862 |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, Dept. of the Mountains |
May 10 |
Advance on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
Colonel Moor is given command of the brigade and Lieut. Colonel Becker takes command of the
Regiment |
May 11-15-16
and 17 |
Princeton
The regiment lost six dead and eleven wounded |
May 15 |
Wolf Creek |
May-August |
At Flat Top Mountain |
August 13-14 |
Blue Stone |
August 15-24 |
Movement to Washington, D.C. |
August 26 |
Marched to Fort Albany |
September 4 |
Skrimish with Confederate Cavalry at Fall's Church |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign . Attached to 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 12 |
Battle of Frederick City |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain
Colonel Moor was captured and paroled |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
Commanded by Lieut. Colonel Gottfried Becker. The Regiment lost 42 killed and wounded.
From the monument: "This Regiment was conducted by Gen. Crook on a reconnoissance above the Bridge over Antietam Creek on the morning of Sept. 17, 1862, and 5 companies succeeded in crossing the Creek before the capture of the bridge; it then formed part of the forces that charged and drove the enemy from the creek."
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October 8 |
March to Clear Springs |
October 9 |
To Hancock |
October 14-November 17 |
March to the Kanawha Valley, West Va. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, District of West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio |
November 17 |
Duty at Brownstown |
December 1-10 |
Scout to Boone, Wyoming and Logan Counties |
January 8, 1863 |
Moved to Buckhannon |
March |
Attached to Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
April 26-27 |
To Clarksburg |
May 9-12 |
To Weston |
June 17 |
Moved to New Creek and attached to Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia |
July 2-7 |
To Beverly |
November 1-17 |
Averill's Raid from Beverly against Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
November 5 |
Mill Point |
November 6 |
Droop Mountain |
November 10 |
Elk Mountain hear Hillsborough |
December 13-17 |
March through Elk Mountain Pass to Beverly attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, West Virginia |
April 23-29 |
Moved to Join Army of the Shenandoah at Bunker Hill attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry, Division West Virginia |
April 30-May 16 |
Sigel's Expedition to New Market |
May 15 |
Near Strasburg |
May 16 |
Battle of New Market |
May 26-June 8 |
Hunter's Expedition to Lynchburg, Va. |
June 5 |
Piedmont
The Regiment lost 33 killed and 105 out of 484 men engaged. Two color-bearers were killed and three wounded, and the regimental flag was holed in 72 places |
June 6 |
Occupation of Staunton |
June 7 |
Feint toward Lynchburg, destroying railroad track and bridges |
June 8-18 |
March of 147 miles to Webster on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad with 1,000 prisoners, 150 wounded and hundreds of refugees |
June 19-22 |
Guard prisoners to Camp Morton, Ind., thence moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. |
June 23, 1864 |
Mustered out after review by Governor Morton |
September, 1864 |
Reorganized as a Veteran Battalion and ordered to Wheeling, W. Va. Duty there and in the Reserve Division of West Virginia |
July 13, 1865 |
Mustered out at Wheeling, W. Va. |
