M405. Compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the State of Missouri.
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1st MO Engineer ( 3-years )
Organized: St Louis, MO on 8/1/61
Mustered Out: 7/22/65 at St Louis, MO
Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded: 0
Officers Died of Disease, Accidents, etc.: 1
Enlisted Men Killed or Mortally Wounded: 16
Enlisted Men Died of Disease, Accidents, etc.: 146
(Source: Fox, Regimental Losses)
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First Engineers
MISSOURI
(3-YEARS)
First Engineers. -- Col. Henry Flad; Lieut.-Col., William
Tweedale; Majs., Hamilton Dill, Fred C. Nichols, Eben M. Hill.
The regiment was originally organized in the summer of 1861,
and was known as Bissell's engineer regiment of the West the
first officers being as follows: Col., J. W. Bissell, Lieut.-
Col., Charles E. Adams; Maj., M. S. Hasie.
Under special orders, No. 520, of the war department, dated
Nov. 22, 1863, the 5th Mo. infantry and "Bissell's" regiment
were consolidated into the 1st Mo. Engineers. The regiment
was at Nashville, Tenn., during the early part of the year
1864, and in March and April completed about 20 miles of the
Nashville & Northwestern railroad, including several large
bridges and trestles.
It then constructed small forts at Johnsonville and Waverly
and a line of blockhouses along the railroad. About the
middle of September it was ordered to report to Gen. Howard in
front of Atlanta. It participated in the flank movement to
Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station, and after the evacuation of
Atlanta constructed an inner line of fortifications about that
city.
In October the number had been reduced from 1,300 to 600, and
on the last day of that month it was consolidated into a
battalion of five companies. This battalion accompanied Gen.
Sherman on the march to the sea, building fortifications at
various places and looking after the pontoons of the army.
In the campaign through the Carolinas it had charge of the
pontoons of the Army of the Tennessee, often bridging the
streams under the fire of the enemy's guns. The regiment was
present at the destruction of Columbia, S. C, the battles of
Fayetteville, Bentonville, and Goldsboro, N. C., after which
it went to Washington, D. C., where it took part in the grand
review.
From Washington the regiment went to Louisville, Ky., where it
was inspected by Gen. Reace, inspector-general of the Army of
the Tennessee, and on July 22, 1865, it was mustered out of
the service of the United States and ordered to St. Louis,
where it was finally discharged on the 24th.
Source; The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 281