74th REGIMENT INFANTRY.
Dyer's Regimental History

from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. III, Regimental Histories
by Frederick H. Dyer [1908]

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74th REGIMENT INFANTRY.

• Organized at Rockford, III., and
• mustered in September 4, 1862.

• Moved to Louisville, Ky., September 28-30.
• Attached to 30th Brigade, 9th Division, Army of the Ohio, to October, 1862.
• 30th Brigade, 9th Division, 3rd Corps Army Ohio, to November, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.-

• Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-16, 1862.
  • Chaplin Hills near Perryville October 6-7.
  • Battle of Perryville October 8.
  • Lancaster October 15.
• March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and
• duty there till December 26.
  • Wilson's Creek Pike December 25.
• Advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 26-30.
  • Nolensville, Knob Gap, December 26.
  • Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863.
• At Murfreesboro till June.
  • Reconnoissance from Salem to Versailles March 9-14.
  • Operations on Edgeville Pike June 4.
• Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 22-July 7.
  • Liberty Gap June 22-24, and June 24-27.
• Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16.
• Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.
• Guard supply trains over mountains in rear of Bragg's army during battle of Chickamauga.
• Near Chattanooga September 22-24.
• Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23.
• Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.
  • Orchard Knob November 23-24.
  • Mission Ridge November 25.
  • Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27.
• March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 8.
• Operations in East Tennessee till February, 1864.
• Moved to Chattanooga and thence to Cleveland, Tenn.
• Duty there till May.
• Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8.
  • Tunnel Hill May 6-7.
  • Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
  • Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9.
  • Demonstration on Dalton May 9-13.
  • Battle of Resaca May 14-15.
  • Adairsville May 17.
  • Near Kingston May 18-19.
  • Near Cassville May 19.
  • Advance on Dallas May 22-25.
  • Operations on Line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battle about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
  • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
    • Pine Hill June 11-14.
    • Lost Mountain June 15-17.
    • Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
  • Ruff's Station July 4.
  • Chattahoochie River June 5-17.
  • Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, July 18.
  • Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
  • Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
  • Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
  • Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
  • Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
• Operations against Hood and Forest in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.
• Nashville Campaign November-December.
  • Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27.
  • Spring Hill November 29.
  • Battle of Franklin November 30.
  • Battle of Nashville December 15-16.
  • Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.
• Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there till March 1865.
• Operations in East Tennessee March 28-April 19.
• Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there till June.
• Mustered out June 10, 1865.

Regiment lost during service

• 5 Officers and 78 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
• 3 Officers and 116 Enlisted men by disease.
• Total 202.

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