97^th regiment Organized September 1st and 2d, 1862, under Colonel John Q. Lane, it entered the field, immediately proceeding to Covington, Ky., during Kirby Smith's raid. In October it joined Buell's army and marched south from Louisville, participating in the battle of Perryville. It again engaged the enemy at Stone River, and in September, 1863, the 97th drove the Rebel sharp shooters from Chattanooga and entered the place three hours before the main army. At Mission Ridge the Regiment fought in Sheridan's Division and lost 156 killed and wounded. It marched to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville, and operated in East Tennessee until May, 1864, when it joined Sherman's Atlanta campaign, fighting conspicuously to the end. At Kenesaw it lost over 100 men in the space of 30 minutes. At the battle of Peach Tree Creek it received special compliments for its gallantry from Generals Howard and Newton. After the fall of Atlanta it followed Hood into Tennessee and participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, and joined in the pursuit to the Tennessee river. It remained in Huntsville, Alabama until March 1865, when it moved into East Tennessee and then back to Nashville, where it was mustered out June 12, 1865.