18th Missouri Volunteer Infantry

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unit_name=18th Missouri Volunteer Infantry


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dates= July 1861 - July 1865
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type= Infantry
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colonel_of_the_regiment= Madison Miller, Charles Sheldon
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battles= Siege of Island No. 10 Battle of Shiloh Siege of Corinth Second Battle of Corinth Battle of Resaca Atlanta Campaign March to the Sea Selkehatchie Bentonville Bennett's House
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The 18th Missouri Infantry was a United States Army unit organized during the American Civil War.

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.

ervice

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 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

* "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3)