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48th Ohio Infantry
1862
1863 1864
1865
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Companion Regiments Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio on
September to December 1861 and mustered in February 17, 1862. The chronology below shows
their assignments, service, and engagements with the enemy: Reference.
1862
– Assignments and Service Top
Ordered to Paducah, KY and duty there till March 6; attached to District of
Paducah, KY to March 1862 Moved from Paducah, KY to Savannah, TN March 1 – 10, 1862 Expedition from Savannah to Yellow Creek, MS and occupation of Pittsburgh
Landing, TN March 14 – 17 Battle of Shiloh, TN April 6 – 7 Advance on and siege of Corinth, MS April 29 to May 30 4th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to May
1862 March to Memphis, TN via LaGrange, Grand Junction and Holly Springs June 1 to
July 21 Near Holly Springs July 1 3rd Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee to July
1862 Duty at Memphis and along Memphis and Charleston Railroad till November Grant’s Central Mississippi Campaign, operations on the Mississippi Central
Railroad "Tallahatchie March" November 16 to December 12 3rd Brigade, 5th Division, District of Memphis, TN to
November 1862 3rd Brigade, 5th Division, Right Wing 13th Army
Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee to November 1862 Sherman’s Yazoo Expedition December 10, 1862 to January 2, 1863 Chickasaw Bayou December 26 – 28; Chickasaw Bluff December 29 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Right Wing 13th Army
Corps to December 1862
1863
– Assignments and Service Top
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Sherman’s Yazoo Expedition
to January 1863 Expedition to Arkansas Post, AR January 3 – 10; Assault and capture of Fort
Hindman, Arkansas Post, AR January 10 – 11 Moved to Young’s Point, LA January 15 and duty there till March 8 At Milliken’s Bend, LA till April 25; Movement on Bruinsburg and turning
Grand Gulf April 25 – 30 Battle of Port Gibson May 1 and Champion Hill May 16 Siege of Vicksburg, MS May 18 to July 4; assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22 Advance on Jackson, MS July 4 – 10; siege of Jackson July 10 – 17 Camp at Big Black till August 13; ordered to New Orleans, LA August 13 2nd Brigade, 10th Division, 13th Army Corps,
Army of the Tennessee to August 1863 Western Louisiana ("Teche") Campaign October 3 to November 30 At New Iberia till December 13; moved to New Orleans, LA December 13
1864
– Assignments and Service Top
Moved to Pass Cavallo, TX and duty there and at Du Crow’s Point till March
1, 1864; moved to New Orleans, LA March 1 Red River Campaign March 10 to April 23; advance from Franklin to Alexandria
March 14 – 26 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 13th Army Crops,
Dept. of the Tennessee and Dept. of the Gulf to April 1864 Bayou De Paul, Carroll’s Mill, April 8; captured at Sabine Cross Roads, LA
April 8, 1864 and are prisoners of war till October 1864 when exchanged Attached to Defenses of New Orleans, LA Dept. of the Gulf November 1864 to
January 1865
1865
– Assignments and Service Top
Duty at New Orleans till January 1865; Consolidated with 83rd Ohio
Infantry on January 17 Moved to Kennersville January 28, thence to Barrancas, FL Marched from Pensacola, FL to Fort Blakely, AL March 20 to April 2 Siege of Fort Blakely April 2 – 9; assault and capture of Fort Blakely April
9 Occupation of Mobile, AL April 12; march to Montgomery and Selma April 13 –
21 Duty at Selma till May 12; moved to Mobile May 12, thence to Galveston, TX June
13 and duty there till July 24
Source: Regimental Histories, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion.
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