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18th Missouri Volunteer Infantry

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Active
  
July 1861 - July 1865

Branch
  
Union Army

Allegiance
  
Missouri

Type
  
Infantry

Country
  
United States of America

Size
  
705 men (at outset of first campaigning)

The 18th Missouri Infantry was a United States Army unit organized during the American Civil War.

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History

Organized at Laclede, Missouri, July to November, 1861. Attached to:

  • District of St. Louis, Department 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.
  • 1861

  • Duty on Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad during summer and fall of 1861.
  • At Weston, Missouri, until December, 1861.
  • Ordered from St. Louis, Missouri to Cairo, Illinois, December 22, 1861.
  • 1862

  • At Bird's Point, Missouri, until March, 1862.
  • Ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee.
  • Battle of Shiloh, Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6–7, 1862.
  • Advance on and Siege of Corinth, Corinth, Mississippi, April 29-May 30, 1862.
  • At Corinth and Bolivar until December, 1862.
  • Battle of Corinth October 3–4, 1862 (Cos. "A," "B," "C" and "E").
  • Pursuit to Ripley October 5–12, 1862 (Cos. "A," "B," "C" and "E").
  • On duty in District of Corinth guarding Railroad toward Bethel until June, 1863.
  • 1863

  • Affairs at Camp Sheldon February 8 and 10, 1863.
  • Operations in Northeast Mississippi June 13–22, 1863.
  • Skirmishes at New Albany June 19. Mud Creek June 20, 1863.
  • At Corinth until November, 1863.
  • March to Pulaski, Tennessee, November 2–12, 1863.
  • 1864

  • Duty there and guard duty on Railroad until April, 1864.
  • Veterans on furlough January and February, 1864.
  • Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8, 1864.
  • Demonstrations on Resaca May 8–13, 1864.
  • Sugar Valley May 9, 1864.
  • Near Resaca May 13, 1864.
  • Battle of Resaca from May 14–15, 1864.
  • Advance on Dallas May 18–25, 1864.
  • Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5, 1864.
  • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2, 1864.
  • Assault on Kenesaw June 27, 1864.
  • Nickajack Creek July 2–5.
  • Ruff's Mills July 3–4, 1864.
  • Chattahoochie River - July 6–17, 1864.
  • Battle of Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign - July 22, 1864. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25, 1864.
  • Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30, 1864. Battle of Jonesboro from August 31-September 1, 1864.
  • Lovejoy Station September 2-September 6, 1864.
  • Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3, 1864.
  • March to the sea, November 15-December 10, 1864.
  • Monteith Swamp December 9, 1864.
  • Siege of Savannah December 10–21, 1864.
  • 1865

  • Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
  • Pocotaligo, South Carolina, January 14–16, 1865.
  • Reconnaissance to Salkehatchie River, January 25, 1865.
  • Skirmishes Rivers' and Broxton's Bridges, Salkehatchie River, February 2, 1865.
  • Battle of Rivers' Bridge, Salkehatchie River, February 3, 1865.
  • Binnaker's Bridge, South Edisto River, February 9, 1865.
  • North Edisto River February 12–13, 1865.
  • Columbia February 15–17, 1865.
  • Juniper Creek, near Cheraw, March 3, 1865.
  • Fayetteville, North Carolina, March 11, 1865.
  • Battle of Bentonville March 20–21, 1865.
  • Occupation of Goldsboro, Goldsboro, North Carolina, March 24, 1865.
  • Advance on Raleigh April 10–14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14, 1865.
  • Bennett's House April 26, 1865.
  • Surrender of General Johnston and his army.
  • March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Virginia, April 29-May 20, 1865.
  • Grand Review of the Armies on May 24, 1865.
  • Moved to Louisville, Kentucky, June, and duty there until July. Mustered out July 18, 1865.
  • Casualties

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

    References

    18th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Wikipedia