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Twenty-third Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson, Carrion Crow.

Thirty-fourth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Vicksburg, Yazzo City, Fort Esperanza.

Forty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson.

Sixty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson, Grand Coteau.

Seventy-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson.

Eighty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson, Grand Coteau.

Ninety-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Vicksburg, Jackson, Grand Coteau.

One hundred and eighteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson.

One hundred and thirtieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson.

First Regiment Missouri Volunteer Light Artillery, Battery F: Camp Jackson, Boonville, Dug Spring, Wilson's Creek, Blackwater, Newtonia, Prairie Grove, Vicksburg, Fort Esperanza.

First Wisconsin Battery: Cumberland Gap, Tazewell, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson.

Seventeenth Ohio Battery: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson.

First Regiment Mounted Veteran Artillery, Battery F: Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson, Grand Coteau.

II. The following are the dates at which the above-named actions took place:

Camp Jackson, Mo., May 10, 1861; Boonville, Mo., June 17, 1861; Dug Spring, Mo., July 28, August 5, 1861; Wilson's Creek, Mo., August 10, 1861; Blackwater, Mo., December 18, 1861; Shiloh, Tenn., April 6,7, 1862; Siege of Corinth, May 1 until 29, 1862; Cumberland Gap, Tenn., June 18, 1862; Tazewell, Tenn., August 7, 1862; Newtonia, Mo., August 7, September 30, 1862; Prairie Grove. Ark., December 7, 1862; Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss., December 27, 28, 29, 1862; Arkansas Post, Ark., January 11, 1863; Port Gibson, Miss., May 1, 1863; Champion's Hill, May 16, 1863; Black River Bridge, Miss., May 17, 1863; Vicksburg, Miss., invested May 18, 1863; assaulted May 19, 22, 1863; surrendered July 4, 1863; Jackson, Miss., invested July 10, 1863; surrendered July 15, 1863; Yazoo City, Miss., July 13, 14, 1863; Carrion Crow, La., November 3, 1863; Grand Coteau, La., November 3, 1863; Fort Esperanza, Tex., November 27, 28, 29, 30, 1863.

By command of Major General John A. McClernand:

SAMUEL CALDWELL,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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