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 HISTORY OP SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 3i7 'uluuteers was reeruitud throughout most of tlie southern part of the state. Ooe company of this regiment, the 3rd, was organized at Cape Girardeau in September, 1861, and took part in fortifying Cape Girardeau and Bird's Toiut. In ilarch, 1862, this company was consolidated with tliree other companies to form a battalion which was then attached to General Pope's army as a pioneer corps; it took part in the engagements about New IIad- rid and Island No. 10. After Island No. 10 had been captured, the battalion was sent to northeast ilississipj^i with Pope's army and participated in the operations against Cor- inth, the rest of the year was spent in Ten- nessee, ilississippi and Alabama in repairing r;dlroads. bridges, cars, locomotives, etc. Dur- ing the year 1863, the regiment operated in two battalions the first against Vieksburg, the second was employed in keeping the railroad between Grand Junction and Corinth in re- pair. In December, 1863, the regiment was consolidated with the Fifth Missouri Volun- teers and took part in the construction of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad. It was then sent to Atlanta and took part in the fortification of that city after it was sur- rendered. The term of enlistment of many of the men expired while the regiment was in Atlanta and many of them were sent home; the remainder were organized into five com- panies and accompanied the Army of Tennes- see in its march to the sea, having charge of the building of bridges on this march. Battery F was recruited in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties and made a part of the Second Illinois Light Artillery, the organiza- tion being completed December 1st, 1861. The officers of the battery were : John W. Powell, captain; Michael Dittlinger and Jos- eph W. Mitchell, David Bliss, G. A. Tirmen- stein. lieutenants ; Fred Roeboeck, H. R. Hen- ning, J. B. Walker, Lucius Moore, William Buchanan, Albert Gratenheim, W. H. Pow- ell and Alfred S. Looker, sergeants. This battery was on duty in Cape Girardeau until ]March, 1862, when it was sent to Savannah, Tennessee; it took part in a number of en- gagements in Tennessee and Mississippi, and was later ordered to Louisiana, where it saw active service until the close of the war. The Second Regiment of Missouri Volun- teers was organized at St. Louis, September 10, 1861. Shortly after its organization it was sent to Southwest Missouri, where it took part in the battles at Pea Ridge, then in Ar- kansas where it fought at Batesville. Later the regiment returned to ^Missouri and was for a time stationed at Cape Girardeau ; from Cape Girardeau it was sent east of the river and took part in the engagements at Corinth and Rienzi, Tennessee. In 1862 the regiment was sent to Cincinnati, Ohio, then to Louis- ville, Kentucky, and from there to Nashville, Tennessee; it took part in the great battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Chattanooga. The Forty-seventh Regiment of Missouri Volunteers was mustered in September 16, 1864, and disbanded March 30, 1865; the or- ganization of the regiment was never entirely completed for as soon as the companies were enrolled they were dispersed in their counties where they saw active service for a time. Most of the companies of this regiment took part in the resistance of Price's raid. They fought in the battle of Pilot Knob and after Price had been driven from the state, they were sent to Tennessee and there formed part of Sherman 's command on the march through Georgia. Of the Enrolled Missouri Militia, most of which was recruited in 1865, the Fifteenth Regiments was raised in Jefferson county The