Wilder's Brigade Mounted Infantry

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Organizational Structure
1862  
August 20 Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in
August - November Attached to Artillery, 12th Division, Army of the Ohio
November- December Artillery, 5th Division (Center), 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland
1863  
January Artillery, 5th Division (Center), 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland
January - June Artillery, 5th Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland
June Artillery, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps
June - November Wilder's Mounted Brigade, Army of the Cumberland
November - December 3rd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland
1864  
January - October 3rd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland
October - December Artillery, 1st Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps, Military Division, Mississippi
1865  
January - June Artillery, 1st Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps, Military Division, Mississippi

Service

1862  
October 3-26 Campaign against Bragg in Kentucky
October 26 - November 3 March to Bowling Green, Ky
November 11-26 March to thence to Scottsboro, Ky., and Gallatin, Tenn.
December 22-31 Pursuit of Morgan
1863  
January 1-2 Pursuit of Morgan
January 2-8 Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn.
January - June Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn. and duty there
February 3-5 Expedition to Auburn, Liberty and Alexandria
March 3-8 Expedition to Woodbury
April 1-8 Expedition to Liberty, Carthage and Lebanon
April 20-30 Expedition to McMinnville
June 23-July 7 Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign
July 7 - August 16 Occupation of Middle Tennessee
August 16-September 22 Passage on the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign 
August 21 Bombardment of Chattanooga 
September 11 Ringgold, Ga.
September 12 Lee and Gordon's Mills
September 12-13 Leet's Tan Yard
September 17 Alexander's and Reed's Bridges
September 19-21 Battle of Chickamauga
September 30 - October 17 Operations against Wheeler and Roddy
October 3 Hill's Gap, Thompson's Cove, near Beersheba
October 4 Murfreesboro Road
October 4-5 McMinnville
October 7 Farmington
October 8 - November Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there
November 28-December 8 March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn.
December 24 Dandridge
December 24-28 Operations about Dandridge and Mossy Creek
December 26 Mossy Creek Station
December 28 Talbot's Station
December 29 Mossy Creek, Talbot's Station
1864  
January 16-17 Operations about Dandridge
January 16 Bend of Chucky River, near Dandridge
January 17 Dandridge
January 26-28 Operations about Dandridge
January 27 Near Fair Garden
May 1 - September 8 Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign
May 9-13 Demonstrations on Dalton, Ga
May 13 Tilton
May 14-15 Battle of Resaca
May 19 Cassville
May 23 Statesborough
May 24 Burnt Hickory
May 25 - June 5 Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills
June 8 Ackworth
June 10 - July 2 Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain
June 15 -17 Lost Mountain
June 27 Assault on Kennesaw
July 5 - 17 Chattahoochee River
July 22 - August 25 Siege of Atlanta
July 27 - 31 McCook's Raid on Atlanta & West Point R.R.
July 29 Lovejoy Station
July 30 - 31 Newnan's
August 25 - 30 Flank movement on Jonesboro
September 24 - October 18 Pursuit of Wheeler
October 18 - December 7 Ordered to Louisville, Ky., and duty there refitting
December 8 - December 31 Pursuit of Lyons from Paris, Ky., to Hopkinsville, Ky.
December 16 Hopkinsville, Ky
1865  
January 1 - 15 Pursuit of Lyons from Paris, Ky., to Hopkinsville, Ky.
January 16 - February Moved to Nashville, Tenn. Duty there
February - March Waterloo, Ala
March 22 - April 24 Wilson's Raid to Macon, Ga.
April 2 Selma, Ala
April 12 Montgomery
April 16 Fort Tyler, West Point
April 20 Capture of Macon 
April - June Post duty at Macon, Chattanooga and Nashville
June 23 Mustered out

Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 11 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 31 Enlisted men by disease. Total 43.