25th Missouri Infantry Regiment

25th Missouri Infantry Regiment
13th Missouri Infantry Regiment
25th Missouri Infantry Regiment; 13th Missouri Infantry Regiment
Active	June 1861 to February 17, 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Union Army
Role	Infantry
Engagements	American Civil War Battle of Lexington; Battle of Shiloh; Battle of Pea Ridge; Advance on and Siege of Corinth; Operations Against Guerrillas in NW Missouri;

The 25th Missouri Infantry Regiment, originally formed as 13th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

Organized as 13th Missouri Infantry Regiment in June, 1861. Designation changed to 25th Missouri Infantry Regiment in September, 1861. Attached to Dept. of Missouri to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862, 1st Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Southeast Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to March, 1863. District of Northwest Missouri to June, 1863. New Madrid, Mo., District of Columbus, Ky., 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to February, 1864.

Detailed service

Duty in Missouri until March, 1862. Fought in the Battle of Pea Ridge, AR March 6th-8. Ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6–7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Duty at Corinth, Miss., building fortifications until September. Ordered to St. Louis, Mo., thence to Pilot Knob and Patterson, Mo. Duty in Southeast Missouri until March, 1863. Moved to Iron Mountain, thence to St. Joseph, Mo., and operating against guerrillas in Northwest Missouri until June. Ordered to New Madrid, Mo., and garrison duty there and reconstructing fortifications until February, 1864. Consolidated with Bissell's Engineer Regiment of the West to form the 1st Regiment Missouri Volunteer Engineers on February 17, 1864.

Casualties

Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 51 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 112 Enlisted men by disease. Total 172.

Commanders

Colonel Everett Peabody †
Colonel Chester Harding Jr.^[1]

Notes

^ The Union Army: States and regiments. The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861-65 -- Records of the Regiments in the Union Army -- Cyclopedia of Battles -- Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. Federal Publishing Company. 1908. p. 265.

References

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.
Neal, W.A., An Illustrated History of the Missouri Engineer and 25th Infantry Regiments, Chicago, Donohue and Henneberry, 1889

External links

"Colonel Everett Peabody – Unsung Hero of Shiloh". Archived from the original on 2012-02-22.

[1] The Union Army: States and regiments. The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861-65 -- Records of the Regiments in the Union Army -- Cyclopedia of Battles -- Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. Federal Publishing Company. 1908. p. 265.

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