It mustered in by individual companies beginning in August 1863 at Fort Scott and completed muster-in at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on November 1, 1863, under the command of Colonel Samuel Johnson Crawford.
The regiment was attached to District of the Frontier, Department of Missouri, to January 1864.
Unattached, District of the Frontier, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to March 1864.
Action at Baxter Springs, Kansas, October 6, 1863 (Company A).
The numbers are incomplete because the regiment's records were lost after the action at Jenkins' Ferry.