8th MO INFANTRY (US)
"Fighting American Zouaves"

ATTACHED TO:

Cape Girardeau, Missouri: to September 1861.
District of Paducah, Kentucky: to February 1862.
5th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee: to May 1862.
1st Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee: to July 1862.
1st Brigade, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tennessee: to November 1862.
1st Brigade, 5th Division, District of Memphis, 13th Army Corps (old), Dept. of the Tennessee: to December 1862.
lst Brigade, 2nd Division, Right Wing, 13th Army Corps: to December 1862.
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee: to August 1865.

MAJOR CONFLICTS:

• Price's Landing, Missouri
• Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
• Battle of Memphis, Tennessee
• Tallahatchie March, Mississippi
• Battle of Champion's Hill, Mississippi
• Siege of Jackson, Mississippi
• Battle of Resaca, Georgia
• Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
• Campaign of the Carolinas
• Fort Donelson, Tennessee
• Siege of Corinth, Mississippi
• Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign
• Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
• Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia
• Siege of Savannah, Georgia
• Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina
• Participated in Surrender of General Joe Johnston, CSA
• Participated in Grand Review, Washington, D.C.

GENERAL GRANT:

On his deathbed U.S. Grant requested that the 8th MO Infanry (US) Regimental Flag and 15 other Regimental Flags be displayed at his funeral.   The flags have been on permanent display in Grant's Tomb in New York City since 1897.   Veterans of the 8th MO attended and marched in the Grant funeral procession (1885) and the dedication of the tomb (1897).   In 1997, 8th MO re-enactors marched in the parade at the Rededication of Grant's Tomb.