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49TH REGIMENT MISSOURI VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
Organized At Warrenton, Mexico, Macon, And St. Louis, Mo., August 31, 1864 To February 5, 1865. Attached to District of north Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to February 1865. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps (New), Military District of West Mississippi, to August 1865. Dept. of Alabama to December, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty in Northern Missouri on line of Northern Missouri Railroad, till January 30, 1865. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., January 30 - February 1, thence to New Orleans, La., February 10-21. Siege of Spanish Fort March 26 - April 8. Occupation of Mobile April 12. March to Montgomery April 13 - 25, and duty there till July 14. Companies "A," "B," "C," "D," "E," "F," "G," and "I" ordered to St. Louis, Mo., and mustered out August 2, 1865. Companies "H" and "K" on duty at Eufaula, Ala., till December, 1865. Mustered out December 20, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 4 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 96
Enlisted men by disease. Total 100.
Source: Frederick Dyer's Compendium Of The War Of The Rebellion.
"The men composing the several companies of the regiment were not acclimated, and
hence, during the summer season, a great deal of sickness prevailed, with fearful
fatality. During the encampment at Montgomery, Alabama, a little over two months, we
buried of our number fifty-two, thirty-eight of whom sleep side by side in one
graveyard.......D. P. Dyer"
Col. Dyer wrote these words in his report to the Missouri Adjutant General, on October 20,
1865.
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