In August Companies A, B, F, G, and H marched to relieve the embattled Fort Ridgely.

The next summer, they accompanied Colonel Henry Sibley against the native peoples in Dakota Territory.

[1] They returned to Minnesota to be sent south to St Louis in October for the winter.

Once spring arrived, the regiment moved east to Paducah, Kentucky.

From there, it headed south into Tennessee and by the end of June were in northern Mississippi.