The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio.
2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863.
In response to Hood's invasion, it was recalled to Nashville where it joined 2nd Brigade, 1st Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Dept.
[note 1] This brigade and the 1st Colored made the assaults on Hood's right at the Battle of Nashville.
It went on duty at Murfreesboro, from January to June 1863, and participated in the expedition to McMinnville on April 20–30.
Along with the rest of the Union forces in the area, it occupied Middle Tennessee until August 16, and later took part in the Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and the Chickamauga Campaign from August 16-September 22.
Duty at Resaca, Georgia, November 13–29; then moved to Nashville, Tennessee.