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From: "Desoto Joe" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] 31st MO Infantry
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:09:26 -0600
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Subject: [MO-CW] 31st MO Infantry


> Hello-
>
> I am trying to find out about a specific regiment that was from MO that
> fought at the Battle of Peachtree.
>
> The ancestor that I am researching was William Norrice Humphrey b. 1840
> Carroll County TN d. 7/20/1864 at the Battle of Peachtree. On the
> information that I have attained it states that he was a PVT H 31 MO Inf.
>
> Can anyone tell me if this was a Union or CSA unit?
> Also any good links for info on this regiment?
>
> Thanks-
> Ted Wimberly
>
>
>
31st Regiment Infantry (Union)


Organized at St. Louis, Carondelet and Ironton, Mo., August 11 to
October 7, 1862.
Attached to Cape Girardeau, District of Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to
December, 1862.
1st Brigade, 11th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the
Tennessee,
December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to
January, 1863.
1st Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to
December, 1863.
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade,
1st Division, 15th
Army Corps, to September, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, to November,
1864.

SERVICE.--March to Patterson, Mo., October 21, 1862, and duty there until
November 24.
March to St. Genevieve, Mo., November 24, thence moved to Helena, Ark.,
December 1.
Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 22, 1862, to January 3, 1863.
Chickasaw Bayou
December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post,
Ark.,
January 3-10, 1863. Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post,
January 10-11.
Moved to Young's Point, La., January 17-23, and duty there until March, and
at Milliken's
Bend until April. Expedition to Greenville, Black Bayou and Deer Creek
April 2-14.
Demonstrations on Haines' and Drumgould's Bluffs April 29-May 2. Moved to j
oin army in
rear of Vicksburg. Miss., via Richmond and Grand Gulf May 2-14.
Mississippi Springs
May 12. Jackson, Miss., May 14. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4.
Assaults on
Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of
Jackson July
10-17. Bolton's Depot July 16. Briar Creek, near Canton, July 17. Canton
July 18. At Big
Black to September 27. Moved to Memphis, Tenn.; thence march to
Chattanooga, Tenn.,
September 27-November 21. Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in
Alabama
October 20-29. Cherokee Station October 21 and 29. Cane Creek October 26.
Tuscumbia
October 26-27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Battles of
Lookout
Mountain November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's
Ridge,
November 27. Garrison duty in Alabama until May, 1864. Clayton, Ala., March
14, 1864.
Atlanta Campaign May 1-September 8. Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-13.
Battle of
Resaca May 13-15. Advance on Dallas May 18-25. Battles about Dallas, New
Hope
Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and
against
Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Bushy Mountain June 15-17. Assault on
Kenesaw June
27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Battle of
Atlanta July 22.
Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Ezra Chapel, Hood's 2nd Sortie, July
28. Flank
movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August
31-September 1.
Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations in North Georgia and North
Alabama against
Hood September 29-November 3. Ship's Gap, Taylor's Ridge, October 16.
Consolidated
with 32nd Missouri Infantry November 12, 1864, as Consolidated Battalion
31st and 32nd
Missouri Infantry. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Clinton
November 23.
Statesboro December 4. Ogeechee River December 7-9. Siege of Savannah
December
10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January-April, 1865. Reconnaissance to
Salkehatchie
River January 25. Hickory Hill February 1. Salkehatchie Swamps, S.C.,
February 2-5.
South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. Columbia
February
15-17. Lynch's Creek February 25-26. Battle of Bentonville, N. C.,
March 20-21.
Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.
Occupation of
Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnson and his
army. March to
Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24.
Moved to
Louisville June. Battalion mustered out July 18, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 51 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded
and 228 Enlisted men by disease. Total 283.

Desoto Joe/The Record Man

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