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26th Ohio Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, June 8-July 24, 1861.

Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., July 25.

Attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade, West Virginia, to October, 1861.

District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to January, 1862.

15th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to March, 1862.

15th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862.

15th Brigade, 6th Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862.

1st Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863.

1st Brigade, 1st Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863.

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to August, 1865.

Dept. of Texas to October, 1865.


Service.

Duty in the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., August, 1861, to January, 1862.

Action at Boone Court House, W. Va., September 1, 1861.

Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19-November 16, 1861.

Ordered to Kentucky January 1, 1862.

Advance on Nashville, Tenn., February 14-25.

Occupation of Nashville February 25-March 18.

March to Savannah, Tenn., March 18-April 6.

Lawrenceburg April 4.

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

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

Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6.

Buell's Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August.

Little Pond, near McMinnville, August 20.

March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 30-September 26.

Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-15.

Battle of Perryville October 8.

March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there till December 26.

Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30.

Lavergne December 26-27.

Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863.

Duty at Murfreesboro till June.

Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7.

Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.

Expedition from Tracy City to Tennessee River August 22-24 (Detachment).

Reconnoissance toward Chattanooga November 7.

Lookout Valley November 7-8.

Occupation of Chattanooga September 9.

Lee and Gordon's Mills September 17-18.

Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20.

Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23.

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.

Orchard Knob November 23-24.

Mission Ridge November 25.

Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27.

March to relief of Knoxville November 28-December 8.

Regiment reenlisted January 1, 1864.

Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8, 1864.

Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13.

Buzzard's Roost Gap or Mill Creek May 8.

Battle of Resaca May 14-15.

Adairsville May 17.

Near Kingston May 18-19.

Cassville May 19.

Advance on Dallas May 22-25.

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.

Pine Hill June 11-14.

Lost Mountain June 15-17.

Assault on Kenesaw June 27.

Ruff's Station July 4.

Chattahoochie River July 6-17.

Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, July 18.

Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.

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.

[1509] Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.

Nashville Campaign November-December.

Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27.

Battle of Franklin November 30.

Battle of Nashville December 15-16.

Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.

Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there till March, 1865.

Operations in East Tennessee March 15-April 22.

Duty at Nashville till June.

Moved to New Orleans June 16, thence to Texas.

Duty at San Antonio and Victoria till October.

Mustered out October 21, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 116 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 116 Enlisted men by disease. Total 238.

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