1st United States Indian Home Guard Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Leroy, Kansas, May 22, 1862. Attached to Dept. of Kansas to August, 1862. 3rd Brigade, Dept. of Kansas, to October, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Frontier, Dept. of Missouri, to February, 1863. District of Northwest Arkansas, Dept. of Missouri, to June, 1863. District of the Frontier, Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, District of the Frontier, Dept. of Missouri, to January, 1864. 1st Brigade, District of the Frontier, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to February, 1864. Indian Brigade, District of the Frontier, Dept. of Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, to February, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, to May, 1865.
SERVICE.--Expedition into Indian Territory May 25-July 28, 1862. Locust Grove, Cherokee Nation, July 3. Bayou Bernard July 27-28. Blount's Campaign in Missouri and Arkansas September 17 to December 3. Occupation of Newtonia October 4.
- October 15, 1862 -
Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
- October 22, 1862 -
Action at Beattie's Prairie, Indian Territory
Between Fayetteville and Cane Hill November 9. Camp Babcock November 25. Cane Hill, Boston Mountains, November 28.
- December ?, 1862 -
Expedition towards Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
[1]
Capture of Fort Davis December. Operations about Cane Hill December 4-6. Reed's Mountains December 6. Battle of Prairie Grove December 7. Expedition over Boston Mountains to Van Buren December 27-29. Capture of Van Buren December 29.
- Sent to Indian Territory January, 1863, and occupy line of the Arkansas River to protect friendly Indians, with Headquarters at Fort Gibson, I. T., and Fort Smith, Ark., until May, 1865.
- Action at Bentonville, Ark., February 20, 1863.
- April 30, 1863 -
Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
[2] - May 20, 1863 -
Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
- Fort Blount April 30 and May 20.
- May 22, 1863 -
Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
- May 25, 1863 -
Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
[3] - June 6-20, 1863 -
Operations about Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
- June 9, 1863 -
Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
- Fort Blount June 9.
Greenlief Prairie June 16. Cabin Creek July 1-2. Elk Creek, near Honey Springs, July 17. Cabin Creek July 20. Creek Agency October 15 and 25.
Near Sheldon Place. Barren Fork, December 18. Operations in Indian Territory February 1-21, 1864. Cabin Creek September 19.
- March 18-30, 1865 -
Expedition from Fort Gibson to Little River and Hillabee, Indian Territory
- Mustered out May 31, 1865.
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Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 986, 1740-1741)