It mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel Thomas Ewing Jr.
It was attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Frontier, Department of Missouri, to February 1863.
Action at Old Fort Wayne or Beattie's Prairie, near Maysville, October 22, 1862.
Moved to Springfield, Missouri, January 1863, and duty there until February 17.
Moved to Forsyth, Missouri, then to Fort Scott, Kansas.