65th Indiana Infantry Regiment
65th Regiment Indiana Infantry | |
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Private Jackson O. Broshears of Company D, 65th Indiana Infantry, under medical treatment in 1864, eight weeks after his release from a Confederate prison. | |
Active | August 18, 1862, to June 22, 1865 |
Country | United States |
Allegiance | Union |
Branch | Army |
Type | Infantry |
Campaigns | Knoxville Campaign Atlanta Campaign Nashville Campaign Carolinas Campaign |
Military unit
The 65th Regiment Indiana Infantry, was organized in Princeton and recruited throughout the southern Indiana counties to fight in the American Civil War.
Organization
Regimental commanders
Name | Date of Commission | Notes |
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John W. Foster | August 18, 1862 | Resigned March 10, 1864, due to disability. Re-entered service as colonel of the 136th Regiment |
Thomas Johnson | March 11, 1864 | Honorably discharged as lieutenant colonel on August 29, 1864, due to disability. |
John W. Hammond | September 7, 1864 | Mustered out with regiment as lieutenant colonel. |
Regimental units
- Company A - Men primarily recruited from Gibson and Posey counties
- Company B - Men primarily recruited from Gibson County
- Company C - Men primarily recruited from Knox County
- Company D - Men primarily recruited from Spencer County
- Company E - Men primarily recruited from Warrick County
- Company F - Men primarily recruited from Martin County
- Company G - Men primarily recruited from Gibson, Pike and Posey counties
- Company H - Men primarily recruited from Vanderburgh and Warrick counties
- Company I - Men primarily recruited from Daviess County
- Company K - Men primarily recruited from Dubois County
Command structure
Time period | Command |
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February 1862 to June 1863 | District of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio |
June 1863 to August 1863 | 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio |
August 1863 to October 1863 | 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio |
October 1863 to November 1863 | 4th Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio |
November 1863 to April 1864 | 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Department of the Ohio |
April 1864 to February 1865 | 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio |
February 1865 to June 1865 | Department of North Carolina |
Service
Date | Event |
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August 20, 1862 | Left State for Henderson, Kentucky |
August 25, 1862 | Action at Madisonville, Kentucky |
Through August, 1863 | Guard duty along line of Louisville & Nashville Railroad |
September 12, 1862 | Skirmish at Bradenburg, Kentucky |
September 14, 1862 | Skirmish at Henderson, Kentucky (Company D) |
April 1863 | Regiment mounted |
July 21, 1863 | Action at Cheshire, Ohio |
July 29, 1863 | Dixon (Company E) |
August 16-October 17, 1863 | Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee |
September 2, 1863 | Occupation of Knoxville |
September 11, 1863 | Action at Greenville |
September 18, 1863 | Kingsport |
September 19, 1863 | Bristol |
September 20–21, 1863 | Zollicoffer |
September 20–21, 1863 | Carter's Depot |
September 21, 1863 | Jonesborough |
September 22, 1863 | Hall's Ford, Watauga River |
September 22, 1863 | Carter's Depot |
October 10, 1863 | Blue Springs |
October 11, 1863 | Henderson's Mill and Rheatown |
October 14, 1863 | Blountsville |
October 15, 1863 | Bristol |
November 4-December 23, 1863 | Knoxville Campaign |
November 19, 1863 | Mulberry Gap |
December 2, 1863 | Walker's Ford, Clinch River |
December 12, 1863 | Near Maynardsville |
December 14, 1863 | Bean's Station |
December 16–19, 1863 | Blain's Cross Roads |
January 16, 1864 | Kimbrough's Cross Roads |
January 16–17 and January 26–28, 1864 | Operations about Dandridge |
January 17, 1864 | Dandridge |
March 12, 1864 | Scout to Chucky Bend |
April 21, 1864 | Regiment dismounted |
May 1-September 8, 1864 | Atlanta Campaign |
May 8–13, 1864 | Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton |
May 14–15, 1864 | Battle of Resaca |
May 20, 1864 | Cartersville |
May 25-June 5, 1864 | Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills |
June 10-July 2, 1864 | Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain |
June 15–17, 1864 | Lost Mountain |
June 17, 1864 | Muddy Creek |
June 22, 1864 | Cheyney's Farm |
June 26–27, 1864 | Olley's Farm |
June 27, 1864 | Assault on Kenesaw |
July 2–5, 1864 | Nickajack Creek |
July 5–17, 1864 | Chattahoochie River |
July 8, 1864 | Isham's Ford |
July 22-August 25, 1864 | Siege of Atlanta |
August 5–7, 1864 | Utoy Creek |
August 25–30, 1864 | Flank movement on Jonesboro |
August 31, 1864 | Near Rough and Ready |
September 2–6, 1864 | Lovejoy's Station |
September 28, 1864 | Decatur |
October 3–26, 1864 | Pursuit of Hood into Alabama |
November–December, 1864 | Nashville Campaign |
November 24–27, 1864 | Columbia, Duck River |
November 30, 1864 | Battle of Franklin |
December 15–16, 1864 | Battle of Nashville |
December 17–28, 1864 | Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River |
Through January 16, 1865 | At Clifton, Tennessee |
January 16-February 9, 1865 | Movement to Washington, D. C., thence to Fort Fisher, North Carolina |
February 11–14, 1865 | Operations against Hoke |
February 11, 1865 | Sugar Leaf Battery[1] |
February 18–19, 1865 | Fort Anderson |
February 19–20, 1865 | Town Creek |
February 22, 1865 | Battle of Wilmington and capture of the city |
March 1-April 26, 1865 | Campaign of the Carolinas |
March 6–21, 1865 | Advance on Goldsboro |
April 10–14, 1865 | Advance on Raleigh |
April 14, 1865 | Occupation of Raleigh |
April 26, 1865 | Bennett's House |
Surrender of Johnston and his army | |
Through June, 1865 | Duty at Raleigh and Greensboro |
June 22, 1865 | Mustered out |
Strength
Original recruitment strength was 942 with 228 additional troops; total, 1,170. Regiment lost during service 34 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 216 Enlisted men by disease. Total 254, Additionally, 59 desertions and 8 unaccounted.
See also
References
- ^ United States. (1895). Official records of the Union and Confederate navies in the war of the rebellion: Series 1., Vol 47, Part 1 Reports. Washington, D.C: GPO.
- Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Co. 1908.
- Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 2, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1865
- Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 6, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1866
- "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing Company, 1908 - Volume 3
External links
- National Park Service – Regiment Details – Union Indiana Volunteers – 65th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
- The Civil War Archive: Union Regimental Histories – Indiana – 65th Regiment Infantry
- Civil War Index: 65th Indiana Infantry in the American Civil War
- Family Search: 65th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
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