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1st Missouri Regiment Engineers.

Organized February 17, 1864, by consolidation of Bissell's Engineer Regiment of the West and 25th Regiment Missouri Infantry.

Attached to Defenses of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to August, 1864.

Engineers Sherman's Army to July, 1865.

Service.

Assigned to duty on line of Nashville & Western Railroad rebuilding road from Nashville to the Tennessee River February 18 to May 10, 1864; then on line of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad building Blockhouses, repairing and protecting road till August 15.

Ordered to join Army in the field and march to the Chattahoochie River, Georgia, August 15-25.

Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.

Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.

Lovejoy Station September 2-6.

At Atlanta till November 15.

March to the sea November 15-December 10.

In charge of Pontoons, Army of the Tennessee.

Siege of Savannah December 10-21.

Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.

Salkehatchie Swamps, S. C., February 2-5.

South Edisto River February 9.

North Edisto River February 12-13.

Columbia February 15-17.

Lynch's Creek February 26-27.

Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21.

Occupation of Goldsboro March 24-April 10.

Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.

Bennett's House April 26.

Surrender of Johnston and his army.

March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20.

Grand Review [1321] May 24.

Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 3-7.

Mustered out July 22, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 16 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 146 Enlisted men by disease. Total 163.

1908.

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