83rd 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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83rd REGIMENT INFANTRY.

• Organized at Monmouth, Ill. and
• mustered in August 21, 1862.
• Moved to Cairo, Ill. August 26-29,
• thence to Fort Henry September 3,
• and to Fort Donelson, Tenn.,September 6.

• Attached to garrison of Forts Henry, Donelson and Heiman, District of Columbus, Dept. of the Tennessee, to November, 1862.
• District of Columbus, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to January, 1863.
• District of Columbus, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Reserve Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1863.
• Garrison of Clarksville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1864.
• Unassigned, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865.
• 6th Sub-District, Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.-

• Garrison duty at Forts Heiman (2 Companies), Henry (3 Companies) and Donelson, Tenn. till September 20, 1863.
• Expedition from Fort Donelson to Waverly Tenn., October 22-25, 1862.
  • Near Waverly and Richland Creek October 23.
  • Cooley's Mill October 23.
• Near Garrettsburg Ky., November 6.
• Fort Donelson Road January 2, 1863.
• Cumberland Iron Works, repulse of Forest's attack on Fort Donelson, February 3.
• Right wing moved to Clarksville, Tenn., September 20, 1863.
• Garrison duty at Clarksville and Fort Donelson and operating against guerrillas in Northwest Tennessee and Southwest Kentucky till December, 1864.
• Action at Budd's Creek, Clarksville, October 28, 1863.
• Pine Bluff, Tennessee River', August 19-20, 1864.
• Garrison duty at Nashville till June, 1865.
• Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., June 26, and
• discharged at Chicago, III., July 5, 1865.

Regiment lost during service

• 4 Officers and 34 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
• 1 Officer and 82 Enlisted men by disease.
• Total 121.

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