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��6, and, on the morning of the 7th, embarked for the battle-field. In this engagement the regi- ment lost six men killed and sixty-two wounded.

In the operations against Corinth the Second Division formed the reserve of the army, taking the front on the 27th of May. It was continu- all}' skirmishing with the enem}" until the town was taken on the 30th. On the 10th of June, the division marched to Battle Creek, Tenn., arriving there on the 18th of Jul3\ The regi- ment was engaged in building a fort at the mouth of Battle Creek until the 20th of Au- gust, when (jren. McCook's command moved to Altamont, on the Cumberland Mountains, in which direction the army under Bragg was marching. From Altamont the divison marched to Nashville, and from there to Bow- ling Green, and thence to Louisville, arriving on the 25th of September. On the 1st of Octoljer, the Second Division marched on the Shelbyville pike, in pursuit of the enem}', until reaching Lawrenceburg, where a skirmish was had in which the regiment was engaged. The division marched in pursuit of Bragg as far as Crab Orchard, and then marched to Nashville, arriving on the 7th of November, 1862.

On the 26th of December, the army advanced towards Murfreesboro. In the battle of Stone River, the regiment was heavily engaged, losing eighteen killed, and eighty-nine wounded.

On the 24th of July, an advance was ordered on Tullahoma and Shelbyville, which places were occupied by our army after the enemy had been driven from his strong position at Gralner's and Liberty Gap. In this engagement, one officer and seven men were killed, and twenty- three wounded. About the middle of August the division was ordered to Bellefonte, Ala., arriving on the 2 2d, and from there to Stephen- son, Ala. The march was resumed on the 2d of September, in the direction of Rome, Ga., crossing Lookout Mountain and camping at the eastern ford, near Alpine, on the 1 0th. After re- maining two days the command recrossed Look-

��out Mountain to Winson's Valle^', and took a position with the main army in Lookout Valley.

On the morning of the 19th, the regiment marched to the battle-field of Chickamauga. In this battle, the regiment lost one officer and nine men killed, two officers and sixt^-nine wounded, and forty men missing. The regiment was engaged in the siege of Chattanooga, and the assault of Mission Ridge. On the 28th of No- vember, the regiment then belonging to the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, marched with the corps to the relief of Knoxville, Tenn., and moved from there to Strawberry Plains.

On the 14th of January, 1864, the greater portion of the regiment, having re-enlisted as veterans, were granted a furlough. On the 14th of March, the regiment assembled at Camp Chase, having recruited to upward of nine hun- dred men. Upon arriving at Nashville on the 22d, the regiment was ordered to march to Chattanooga, arriving on the 5th of April. On the 8th, the regiment moved to Cleveland, Tenn., meeting with a serious accident near Charleston, Tenn., by a railroad train being thrown from the track, b}' which twenty men were more or less injured.

The regiment moved to McDonald's Station on the 20th, and remained there till the open- ing of the spring campaign. On the 3d of May, the regiment marched to Tunnel Hill, and w^as frequently engaged until the 13th, when the enemy evacuated Rock}^ Face Ridge, and our army took position at Dalton.

The regiment participated in the battle at Resaca, and in the engagement near Dallas, where it lost nineteen men killed, three officers and sixty-one men wovmded. While skirmish- ing on the 14th of June, the regiment lost one officer and one man killed, and five men wounded, all belonging to Company A.

After crossing the Chattahoochie, the regi- ment moved down the river on the 11th of July, and in connection with the division

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