On this day the regiment and other troops set out on a scouting mission at 5:00 am, heading west on the Baton Rouge road in Louisiana. The regiment travelled west 10 miles and rested until 4:00 pm at which time they resumed their march and went another 12 miles, setting up camp at 11:00 pm. Pvt. Robert Newt Gorsuch tells us troops in the (3rd) Division were fired upon (by Bushwhackers) after dark and that a Captain was killed and four other men wounded.

This period map shows the approximate route of the 16th Ohio and other units on their scouting mission of May 30, 1864. The route shown is notional but based on distances mentioned by the soldiers and the apparent available roads at the time.