Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An kafa Rundunar Sojoji ta 16 a matsayin Rundunar Sojoji ta 11 a ranar 4 ga Mayu 1861 a karkashin jagorancin Kanar Erasmus D. Keyes kuma Major DeLancey Floyd-Jones ya shirya. An shirya 11th Infantry ta hanyar shugabancin shugaban kasa a ranar 4 ga Mayu 1861 kuma an tabbatar da shi ta hanyar aiki a ranar 29 ga Yuli, 1861. An tsara rundunar a cikin bataliya uku na kamfanoni takwas kowannensu. A ranar 21 ga Satumba, 1866, a karkashin dokar 28 ga Yuli, 1866, Bataliya ta biyu ta zama Rundunar Sojoji ta ashirin da uku da kuma Battalion na uku na Sojoji na ashirin da tara. Rundunar da ta yi yaƙi a lokacin yakin basasa an shirya ta hanyar shugaban kasa a ranar 4 ga Mayu 1861 kuma an tabbatar da shi ta hanyar dokar 29 ga Yuli 1861 a matsayin 16th Infantry Regiment. A ranar 21 ga Satumba 1866 a karkashin dokar 28 ga Yuli 1866 Bataliya ta biyu ta zama Rundunar Sojoji ta ashirin da biyar kuma Bataliya ta Uku ta zama Rundunar Sojoji ta talatin da hudu. A gaskiya ma, ba a shiga cikin 16th Infantry a cikin yakin basasa ba, an haɗa wannan rundunar a cikin 2d Infantry. Wadannan ayyukan da aka yi a yakin basasa sun sami nasara ne daga Rundunar Sojoji ta 16 a cikin yakin basasa amma sun tafi 2d Infantry tare da ƙarfafawa;
Atlanta, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Georgia 1864, Kentucky 1862, Mississippi 1862, Murfreesboro, Shiloh da kuma Tennessee 1863.