75th 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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75th REGIMENT INFANTRY.

• Organized at Dixon, Ill., and
• mustered in September 2 1862.

• Left state for Jeffersonville, Ind., September 27, 1862.
• 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.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.-

• Pursuit or Bragg, into Kentucky October 1-16, 1862.
  • Battle of Perryville, Ky, October 8.
  • Action at Stanford, Ky., October 14.
• March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and
• duty there till December 26.
• Wilson's Creek Pike December 25.
• Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30.
  • Nolensville, Knob Gap, November 26.
  • Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863.
• At Murfreesboro till June.
  • Shelbyville Pike January 21.
  • Reconnoissance from Salem to Versailles March 9-14.
  • Operations on Edgeville Pike June 4.
• Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 24-July 7.
  • Liberty Gap 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 Chiekamauga.
• Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23.
  • Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.
• Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.
  • Lookout Mountain November 23-24.
  • Mission Ridge November 25.
  • Taylor's Ridge, Ringgold Gap, November 27.
• March to relief of Knoxville November 27-December 8.
• At Whitesides, Tyner's Station and Blue Springs till May, 1864.
• Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27.
  • Near Dalton, Ga., February 23.
  • Tunnel Hill, Rocky Faced Ridge and Buzzard's Roost Gap February 23-25.
• 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 11-13.
  • Near Dalton May 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 battles 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, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.
  • Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
  • 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.
• Expedition to Bull's Gap and operations in East Tennessee March 15-April 22.
• Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there till June.
• Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., June 12, and
• discharged at Chicago, Ill., July 1, 1865.

Regiment lost during service

• 3 Officers and 94 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
• 5 officers and 103 Enlisted men by disease.
• Total 205.

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