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organization the regiment
was called to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, where it joined the
grand army under Major-General Grant, then about to advance on
Corinth. It was assigned to the First Brigade, Sixth Division.
The regiment participated in the battle of Corinth, October 3d
and 4th, 1862, and in the Mississippi raid, after which it was
ordered to Lake Providence, Louisiana. It took an active part
during the siege and battles before Vicksburg. After the fall
of the city it was ordered to Natchez, where it was mounted, and
did active service for four months. On the 8th of March the regiment
proceeded to Wisconsin on veteran furlough, and returned to the
field on the 23d day of April, 1864, reporting to Brevet Major-General
Leggett, commanding the Third Division, of the Seventeenth Army
Corps. Under his command it participated in the command before
Kenesaw, on the Chattahooche, and around Atlanta – in the battles
of Jonesboro, Lovejoy's Station, Savannah, Pocataligo, Orangeburg,
Columbia, Bentonville. The regiment now numbers thirty-four commissioned
officers and 729 non-commissioned officers and privates, making
an aggregate of 763 present and absent. The field and staff officers
are A. G. Malloy, Brevet Brigadier-General; Donald D. Scott, Lieutenant-Colonel;
P. H. McCauley, Major; Hardy Dennisten, Adjutant; Richard Phelan,
Quartermaster; George St. Sune, Assistant Surgeon; Francis Fusseder,
Chaplain.
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