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18th Missouri Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Laclede, Mo., July to November, 1861.

Attached to District of St. Louis, Dept. of Missouri, to March, 1862.

2nd Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862.

2nd Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., to November, 1862.

2nd Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862.

3rd Brigade, District of Corinth, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862.

3rd Brigade, District of Corinth, 17th Army Corps, to January, 1863.

3rd Brigade, District of Corinth, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863.

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division. 16th Army Corps, to November, 1863, Fuller's Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1864.

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1864.

1st Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to September, 1864.

1st Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

Service.

Duty on Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad during summer and fall of 1861.

At Weston, Mo., till December, Ordered from St, Louis to Cairo, Ill., December 22.

At Bird's Point, Mo., till March, 1862.

Ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.

Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7.

Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.

At Corinth and Bolivar till December.

Battle of Corinth October 3-4 (Cos. “A,” “B,” “C” and “E” ).

Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12 (Cos. “A,” “B,” “C” and “E” ).

On duty in District of Corinth guarding Railroad toward Bethel till June, 1863.

Affairs at Camp Sheldon February 8 and 10, 1863.

Operations in Northeast Mississippi June 13-22.

Skirmishes at New Albany June 19.

Mud Creek June 20.

At Corinth till November.

March to Pulaski, Tenn., November 2-12.

Duty there and guard duty on Railroad till April, 1864.

Veterans on furlough January and February, 1864.

Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8.

Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-13.

Sugar Valley May 9.

Near Resaca May 13.

Battle of Resaca May 14-15.

Advance on Dallas May 18-25.

Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.

Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.

Assault on Kenesaw June 27.

Nickajack Creek July 2-5.

Ruff's Mills July 3-4.

Chattahoochie River July 6-17.

Battle of Atlanta July 22.

Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.

Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.

Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.

Lovejoy Station September 2-6.

Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.

March to the sea November 15-December 10.

Monteith Swamp December 9.

Siege of Savannah December 10-21.

Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.

Pocotaligo, S. C., January 14-16.

Reconnoissance to Salkehatchie River January 25.

Skirmishes Rivers' and Broxton's Bridges, Salkehatchie River, February 2.

Rivers' Bridge, Salkehatchie River, February 3.

Binnaker's Bridge, South Edisto River, February 9.

North Edisto River February 12-13.

Columbia February 15-17.

Juniper Creek, near Cheraw, March 3.

Fayetteville, N. C., March 11.

Battle of Bentonville March 20-21.

Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.

Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.

Occupation of Raleigh April 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 May 24.

Moved to Louisville, Ky., June, and duty there till July.

Mustered out July 18, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 75 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 164 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.

1908.

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