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Twenty--Sixth Missouri Infantry.
Boomer's Brigade —
Quinby's Division--Seventeenth Corps.
| Losses. | Officers. | En.
Men. | Total. |
| Killed and mortally wounded | 6 | 112 | 118 |
| Died of disease, accidents, etc. | 2 | 171 | 173 |
| Died in Confederate prisons | | 12 | 12 |
| | | | |
| Totals | 8 | 295 | 303 |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Original enrollment, 972; killed, 118; percentage, 12.1.
| Battles. | Killed. | Wounded.1 | Missing.2 | Total. |
| Iuka, Miss. | 21 | 75 | 1 | 97 |
| Guerillas, Miss. | 1 | | 1 | 2 |
| Corinth, Miss. | 1 | 2 | | 3 |
| Jackson, Miss. | | 1 | | 1 |
| Champion's Hill, Miss. | 18 | 69 | | 87 |
| Assault on Vicksburg, May 19th | 2 | | | 2 |
| Assault on Vicksburg, May 22d | 5 | 5 | | 10 |
| Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. | 2 | 10 | | 12 |
| Missionary Ridge, Tenn. | 15 | 34 | 4 | 53 |
| Sherman's March, Ga. | 1 | | 1 | 2 |
| The Carolinas | 1 | 2 | | 3 |
| | | | | |
| Totals | 67 | 198 | 7 | 272 |
Present, also, at
New Madrid, Mo.;
Island No.10, Mo.;
Tiptonville, Mo.;
Farmington, Miss.; Siege of
Corinth, Miss.;
Raymond, Miss.; Siege of
Jackson, Miss.;
Lookout Mountain, Tenn.;
Savannah, Ga.;
Salkahatchie, S. C.;
Neuse River, N. C.
notes.--Recruited in the fall of 1861.
In March, 1862, it joined
Pope's expedition against
New Madrid, Mo., and participated in the investment and capture of
Island Number10.
Its division —
Hamilton's — then moved to
Corinth, where it joined the besieging army, arriving there April 22, 1862.
Although the regiment was under fire at New Madrid, and also during the Siege of
Corinth, yet it sustained little or no loss.
But at
Iuka it was hotly engaged, its skirmishers opening that battle; the whole regiment was soon under a severe fire, in which
Colonel Boomer was seriously wounded.
Two weeks later, under
Lieutenant-Colonel Holman, it was engaged at the
battle of Corinth; it was then in
Buford's (1st) Brigade,
Hamilton's (3d) Division, Army of the Mississippi.
During the
Vicksburg campaign it was in
Boomer's (3d) Brigade,
Crocker's Division, Seventeenth Corps.
At Champion's Hill the regiment encountered some more hard fighting and heavy losses,
Major Charles F. Brown being among the killed.
Colonel Boomer was killed in the assault on
Vicksburg--May 22d--while in command of the brigade.
In October, 1863, the division under command of
General John E. Smith--now the Third Division, Fifteenth Corps--left
Memphis, and moved to
Chattanooga, where it fought in the
battle of Missionary Ridge.
This division did not move with
Sherman on the
Atlanta campaign, but garrisoned
Allatoona, (ia,
Kingston, Ga., and other points on that line.
The regiment was mustered out in November, 1864, the recruits having been consolidated into a battalion of three companies, which marched with
Sherman to the
Sea, and through the Carolinas.
