18th mo

[bnsafe]

may be a stupid question, but how do i find out info if the 18th mo union was even at shiloh, or what they did. my ggg grandfather may have been there, not sure when he got sick and sent to jefferson barracks.

 

[rickvox79]

may be a stupid question, but how do i find out info if the 18th mo union was even at shiloh, or what they did. my ggg grandfather may have been there, not sure when he got sick and sent to jefferson barracks.

Did you mean the 18th Missouri? If so it looks like they were there under the 2nd Brigade, 6th Division (Prentiss' Division) of the Army of the Tennessee at the time of Shiloh. You can probably post more information about your grandfather in the "Researching Your Ancestry" forum and someone there can look it up to find more enlistment information about him. That or a moderator can probably just move this there.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Marker at Shiloh National Military Park:

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=42772

18th Regiment Infantry


Organized at Laclede, Mo., July to November, 1861. Attached to District of St. Louis, Dept. of Missouri, to March, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, District of Corinth, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. 3rd Brigade, District of Corinth, 17th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 3rd Brigade, District of Corinth, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, to November, 1863. Fuller's Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty on Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad during summer and fall of 1861. At Weston, Mo., until December. Ordered from St. Louis to Cairo, Ill., December 22. At Bird's Point, Mo., until March, 1862. Ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. At Corinth and Bolivar until December. Battle of Corinth October 3-4 (Cos. "A," "B," "C" and "E"). Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12 (Cos. "A," "B," "C" and "E"). On duty in District of Corinth guarding Railroad toward Bethel until June, 1863. Affairs at Camp Sheldon February 8 and 10, 1863. Operations in Northeast Mississippi June 13-22. Skirmishes at New Albany June 19. Mud Creek June 20. At Corinth until November. March to Pulaski, Tenn., November 2-12. Duty there and guard duty on Railroad until April, 1864. Veterans on furlough January and February, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-13. Sugar Valley May 9. Near Resaca May 13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Advance on Dallas May 18-25. 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, Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Ruff's Mills July 3-4. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Battle of Atlanta July 22. 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 in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Monteith Swamp December 9. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Pocotaligo, S.C., January 14-16. Reconnaissance to Salkehatchie River January 25. Skirmishes Rivers' and Broxton's Bridges, Salkehatchie River, February 2. Rivers' Bridge, Salkehatchie River, February 3. Binnaker's Bridge, South Edisto River, February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. Columbia February 15-17. Juniper Creek, near Cheraw, March 3. Fayetteville, N. C., March 11. Battle of Bentonville 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 Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June, and duty there until July. Mustered out July 18, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 75 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 164 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.

http://civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmoinf3.htm

 

[bnsafe]

thankyou. i know he was in the 18th but got sick with diarrhea and was discharged about a year later. i cant find out when he got sick only that he was dismissed around december i think and was at jefferson barracks for most of the previous sixth months. so its possible he was at shiloh, if not his unit certainly was. very cool and thanks for posting a pic. i greatly appreciate it.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

thankyou. i know he was in the 18th but got sick with diarrhea and was discharged about a year later. i cant find out when he got sick only that he was dismissed around december i think and was at jefferson barracks for most of the previous sixth months. so its possible he was at shiloh, if not his unit certainly was. very cool and thanks for posting a pic. i greatly appreciate it.

What was his name ?
I'll try to see if I can find anything about him on fold3.

 

[bnsafe]

william rash, wow, thanks

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

william rash, wow, thanks

You're welcome.

Here are his files:

 

[Stony]

Looks like he was at Shiloh. His cards reads present March and April, 1862.

 

[bnsafe]

amazing. cant thank you guys enough. now i need to track down the other side of the family so i can get on the csa side. i know they were slave holders from va, got a record of a visit from thomas jefferson.

 

[bnsafe]

just thinking out loud, but he was in co d, looks like co a b c e did most of the fighting after shiloh. i wonder if co d was so racked the whatever caused his diarrhea it was ineffective. just ignore me, im just thinking out loud

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

just thinking out loud, but he was in co d, looks like co a b c e did most of the fighting after shiloh. i wonder if co d was so racked the whatever caused his diarrhea it was ineffective. just ignore me, im just thinking out loud

Civil War conditions created a perfect environment for dysentery and diarrhea to thrive. Men lived crowded together; ate poor diets of fried meat, bread, and coffee; used the same pan to cook their meal that they used to wash up; and went to the latrine upstream from their camp. Bowel disorders were the most prevalent illnesses on both sides of the Civil War and they killed more men than battle. Dysentery and diarrhea, called "quickstep" by soldiers, and "alvine flux" by the doctors, with dysentery being distinguished by blood in the stool. Doctors knew neither how soldiers contracted the condition nor how the diseases should be treated.

The number of soldiers who died from loose bowels is staggering. According to Union records of 1,739,135 cases, 57,265 Yankee soldiers died of dysentery or diarrhea, compared with 44,238 men dying in battle. Sometimes regiments had three-quarters of their men stricken at one time. Usually there was one sick soldier for every four well ones except in July and August, when more suffered.

Read the rest at:
http://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/dysentery.html