7                                    HISTORY OF THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT O.V.V.I.

organization the regiment was called to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, where it joined the grand army under Major-General Grant, then about to advance on Corinth. It was assigned to the First Brigade, Sixth Division. The regiment participated in the battle of Corinth, October 3d and 4th, 1862, and in the Mississippi raid, after which it was ordered to Lake Providence, Louisiana. It took an active part during the siege and battles before Vicksburg. After the fall of the city it was ordered to Natchez, where it was mounted, and did active service for four months. On the 8th of March the regiment proceeded to Wisconsin on veteran furlough, and returned to the field on the 23d day of April, 1864, reporting to Brevet Major-General Leggett, commanding the Third Division, of the Seventeenth Army Corps. Under his command it participated in the command before Kenesaw, on the Chattahooche, and around Atlanta – in the battles of Jonesboro, Lovejoy's Station, Savannah, Pocataligo, Orangeburg, Columbia, Bentonville. The regiment now numbers thirty-four commissioned officers and 729 non-commissioned officers and privates, making an aggregate of 763 present and absent. The field and staff officers are A. G. Malloy, Brevet Brigadier-General; Donald D. Scott, Lieutenant-Colonel; P. H. McCauley, Major; Hardy Dennisten, Adjutant; Richard Phelan, Quartermaster; George St. Sune, Assistant Surgeon; Francis Fusseder, Chaplain.