1st Missouri Engineers (U)
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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 until August 15.
- Ordered to Join Army in the field and march to the Chattahoochie River, Georgia, August 15-25.
- August 25-September 8, 1864 -
The Atlanta Campaign
- Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
- Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
- Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
- At Atlanta until November 15.
- November 15-December 21, 1864 -
The Savannah Campaign
- In charge of Pontoons, Army of the Tennessee
- December 10-21, 1864 -
Siege of Savannah, Georgia
- January 1-April 26, 1865 -
The Carolinas Campaign
- 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 May 24.
- Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 3-7.
- Mustered out July 22, 1865.
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Regiment Statistical Information
- Regiment lost during service 16 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 146 Enlisted men by disease. Total 163.
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 703, 721, 723, 834, 1320-1321)