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Colonel Cornyn, of the Tenth Missouri Cavalry, making several dashes with
him into Northern Alabama and Mississippi. On the 3d of June,
1863, moved camp to Pocahontas, Tennessee, making innumerable
scouts and marches, and taking part in the raid on Grenada, Mississippi,
in which 54 locomotives, 500 cars, and a large amount of Ordinance,
Quartermaster's and Commissary stores were destroyed; being engaged
during this time in sixteen skirmishes of greater or less importance,
losing in the aggregate ten men killed and forty-two wounded.
October 30th, left Pocahontas, Tenn., on the 13th of November,
arriving and being stationed on outpost duty at Athens, Alabama.
March 11th, 1864, moved across Tennessee river to Decatur. In
picket-skirmishing here lost two men killed and ten wounded.
September 3d, 1863, 128th Illinois Volunteers was consolidated
with 9th Illinois. May 1st, 1864, left Decatur, Ala., to escort
Sixteenth Army Corps wagon train to Chattanooga. Arrived at Snake
Creek Gap, Ga., in time to take the advance of the Army of the
Tennessee, and open the fight, skirmishing all day, where Lieutenant-Colonel
Phillips, who had commanded the regiment ever since it had been
mounted, was wounded. Lost sixteen men killed, wounded and prisoners
that day. Was with the Sixteenth Army Corps through the campaign
ending at Lovejoy Station. Was transferred with the Second Division
Sixteenth Army Corps to the Fifteenth Army Corps, and stationed
for some time at Rome, Ga., where, in scouting and outpost duty,
the regiment lost ten men. On leaving Atlanta, in Sherman's campaign
to the sea, the regiment was transferred to the Seventeenth Army
Corps, but was assigned to duty with the Twentieth Army Corps,
and held the advance of that Corps from Atlanta to Savannah.
Was engaged in several sharp skirmishes, losing on the campaign
two officers and twenty-three men. On the campaign through the
Carolinas held the advance of the Seventeenth Corps, taking part
in all the battles and skirmishes in which the Corps was engaged
in that long and eventful campaign, losing one of its best officers
and several men, and being especially complimented in General
Orders from Headquarters Department and Army of Tennessee, for
the part taken in the action at River's Bridge, South Carolina.
The regiment was reorganized and consolidated on the 28th day
of July, 1864, near Atlanta, Georgia, by reason of the non-veterans,
about 350 men, and all the officers but three, being mustered
out – the command devolving upon Captain S. T. Hughes. The regiment
was, in obedience to orders from Major-General McPherson, commanding
the Department and Army of the Tennessee, reorganized as a six
company battallion, known and numbered as the Ninth Illinois Mounted
Infantry Volunteers. While at Alexandria, Virginia, a veteran
detachment of the Twenty-Seventh Illinois Infantry was consolidated
with it, forming the seventh company. On leaving Washington to
come West, for want of adequate means of transportation for their
horses, the battallion was dismounted and assigned to the Second
Brigade, Third Division, of Seventeenth Army Corps for duty.
The aggregate strength of the battallion, present and absent now,
is 578 men. The field and staff officers are: S. T. Hughes,
Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding; William Padon, Major; D. L. Bigge,
Surgeon; L. L. Troy, Adjutant; Samuel Cove, Quartermaster.
SIXTY-EIGHTH
OHIO VETERAN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
This regiment was organized at Napoleon, Ohio, November
21st, 1861, from whence it moved to Camp Chase, Ohio, January
13th, 1862, and moved from thence, February 12th, 1862, by way
of Cincinnati and Louisville to Paducah, Ky., where it joined
the fleet, then about to move up the Cumberland river against
Fort Donelson. The regiment disembarked below the Fort and joined |
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