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The Tenth Regiment was reorganized at Indianapolis for the three years' service Sep- tember 18, 1861, and mustered in the same day, with Mahlon D. Manson as Colonel. While most of the Putnam County men in the three months' service re-enlisted for three
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years. they went into different regiments, but few remaining in the Tenth. Lientenant David N. Steel was one of these. He was commissioned Quartermaster September 10, 1861, and resigned June 15, 1862.
The Fifteenth Regiment, raised in the spring of 1861, contained a few men in Company F from Putnam County. Frank White was commissioned Captain of that company May 6, 1861: promoted Major March 9, 1803; made Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventeenth November 20, 1864, and brevetted Brigadier-General at the close of the war.
In the Sixteenth Regiment, James M. Allen, of this county. became Second Lienten- ant May 31, 1863, and First Lieutenant April 9, 1864.
TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT.
In the summer of 1861 Putnam County furnished an entire company for the Twenty- first Regiment, and it became Company E. It was organized with William M. Skelton as Captain; James W. Hamrick, First Lieuten- ant, and Eli Lilly, Second Lieutenant. Lilly resigned December 9, 1861, but afterward re-entered the service as Captain of the Eighteenth Battery. In the latter part of December, 1862, when an order came to transform the regiment into an artillery or- ganization, Captain Skelton resigned. Ham- rick then became Captain, Hartley First Lieutenant, and Joseph W. Siddons, Second Lieutenant. Siddons was commissioned First Lientenant March 31, 1864, but was still serving as Second Lientenant when he was killed on the steamer Empress, August 10, 1864. George W. Branson became Second Lieutenant March 31, 1864; was promoted First Lieutenant September 7, after the resignation of Lientenant Hartley (August 25), and Captain November 22, 1864, the
day after Captain Hamrick was honorably discharged. James A. Shirley became Second Lieutenant March 31, 1864, and was pro- moted First Lieutenant September 7. 1864. William L. Albin became entitled. to wear shoulder-straps September 7, 1861, and was promoted First Lieutenant March 20, 1865. Harrison Il. Wright was commissioned Second Lieutenant September 7, 1864, and Samuel M. Tinder was raised to the same rank March 20, 1865.
The Twenty-first Regiment was organized and mustered into service as an infantry or- ganization, for three years, at Indianapolis, on the 24th of July, 1501. with James W. McMillan as Colonel. The following week it was ordered East, reaching Baltimore on the 3d of August, where it remained until February 19, 1863, during which time it par- ticipated in General Lockwood's expedition to the eastern shore of Virginia. The regi- ment sailed from Baltimore to Newport News, from which place it embarked, on the 4th of March, on the steamship Constitution, and sailed with Butler's expedition. On the 15th of April it left Ship Island on the ship Great Republic, which laid off the mouth of the Southwest Pass during the bombardment of Forts St. Phillip and Jackson, after which, on the 29th of April, a portion of the regi- ment landed in the rear of St. Phillip and waded across to the quarantine, while the balance went through Pass L'Outre up the Mississippi to New Orleans. This portion of the regiment was the first of Butler's army to tonel the New Orleans wharf on the 1st of May, and immediately marched up into the city, the regimental band playing " Pica- yune Butler's Coming, Coming." The Twenty- first then went into camp at Algiers, where it remained until the 30th of May, making frequent forays into the interior; it also cap- tured many steamers in Red River, and the
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sea-going blockade-runner Fox, at the month of Grand Caillou on the gulf coast. markable accuracy of its firing. The loss to the regiment during the siege of forty-two On the 1st of June the regiment was landed at Baton Rouge, where it remained until the post was evacuated. On the 5th of Angust it participated in the battle of Baton Ronge, fighting for over three and a half hours against an entire brigade without falter- ing, and sustaining a loss of 126 killed and wounded. Adjutant Latham and Lieutenants Seeley, Grinstead and Bryant were killed in this engagement. After this the regiment went into camp near Carrollton, and on the 8th of September it surprised Waller's Texas days and nights was twenty-eight in killed, wounded and missing. On the 21st of June part of one company manned a light battery in a desperately contested little fight at La- fourche Crossing, and on the 23d of June most of Company F were captured at Brashear City. In August three companies under Major Roy accompanied the expedition to Sabine Pass. and engaged the enemy at that place. During the winter of 1863-64 a large majority of the regiment re-enlisted, and were re-mustered as veterans at New Rangers at Des Allemands, killing twelve : Orleans. Soon after the veterans visited fu- and capturing thirty or forty prisoners. The diana, when a grand reception was given Twenty-first went to Berwick's Bay in Octo- them at Metropolitan Hall, Indianapolis, on the 19th of February, 1864, at which ad- dresses were made by Governor Morton, Mayor Caven, General Hovey and Colonels James R. Slack and John A. Keith. ber, where it remained until the latter part of February, 1563. During its stay in this section a portion of the regiment was tempo- rarily transferred to gunboats, and partici- pated in daily fights with the iron-clad In the disastrous expedition of General Banks up the Red River in March. 1564, companies G and H bore an active part. Cotten, and accompanied Weitzel's advance up the Bayou Teche, taking part in the fight at Cornet's Bridge and the destruction of the Cotten. Colonel MeMillan being promoted Brigadier-General on the 29th of November. 1862, Lientenant-Colonel John A. Keith was commissioned his successor.
On the 12th of April, 1864, the veterans returned from their furlough with four hun- dred recruits, which filled up the regiment to . the maximum, and entitled it to the full complement of officers. On the 6th of July companies B, F, I, K and M began equipping for the field, and were joined at New Orleans by L. which had spent the winter on Mata- gorda Island, off t'e Texas coast. On the 29th of July Battery HI left for Mobile Bay, and on the 13th of Angust Batteries B, F and K joined them, landing at Navy Cove, Mobile Point, on the 17th, where they took position within one thousand yards of Fort Morgan. They worked continuously night and day, in the broiling sun. aggravated by the glare of the white sand. until the morn-
In February, 1563, the regiment was, by order of General Banks, changed to heavy artillery service, and designated the First Ileavy Artillery, and in July and October, under orders from the War Department, two additional companies -- Land M -- were organi- ized and added to the regiment. A portion of the regiment accompanied General Banks up the Teche, and participated in the second battle of Camp Bisland. Subsequently the regiment, with the exception of two com- panies, was transported up the Mississippi, and took part in the siege of Port Hudson, 'ing of the 224. when the grand bombardment in which it distinguished itself for the re- began, which was kept up without intermis-
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sion till the morning of the 23d at 6 o'clock, ber of desertions, but after the war many of when the fort surrendered. Returned to New its members availed themselved of the facili- ties afforded by the " French system " of fur-
Orleans September 4. On the 4th of March, 1865, eight batteries, B, C, F, H, I, K, L and lough, 249 taking informal leave of the army. M, left for a campaign against Mobile, land- During its service the regiment traveled over 15,000 miles, and on all occasions well sus- tained the reputation of Indiana solliers for ing at Dauphin Island and Mobile Point, where they remained until the infantry had driven the enemy inside their works at , gallantry and soldierly bearing.
Spanish Fort. On the 29th proceeded to the fort, took position on the 31st, and was engaged until the surrender of Spanish Fort then proceeded to Blakely, where they were engaged until the capture of that point on the evening of the 9th. On the 24th of April the eight batteries all left for Mobile, where they remained until the 24th of June, when they turned in their guns, and were sent to garrison the coast forts -- B and ( to Fort Morgan, Il and K to Fort Gaines, F and L.
ens. In the meantime A. E and G were at Baton Rouge, and D at Port Hudson. In 'John F. Parsons was Second Lientenant at November the regiment was ordered to con- . the organization, and resigned in December centrate at Port Hudson to be mustered out. : following. William Vanorsdall succeeded On the 24th of December the regiment had | him. February 7, 1862, and was killed at An- its first grand parade of twelve batteries, and on the 10th of January, 1866, at Baton Ronge, Lonisiana, it was mustered out.
Departing for Indiana. it arrived at Indian- apolis with 18 officers and 223 men, under ! command of Captain William Bongh. The remainder of the regiment, some 700 strong, preferred being finally discharged in Louisi- ana, and remained in that State for that pur- pose.
At its original organization the regiment numbered 1,042. It received at various times 1,777 recruits, making a grand total of 2,819. Of this number 1,208 were discharged, and 373 killed in action or died of wounds or disease. Up to the close of the war the regi- mental rolls showed a remarkably small nuin-
TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.
Another body of Putnam County volun- on the 9th of April. Batteries II, K and L ; teers, raised in the summer of 1861, became Company A, Twenty-seventh Regiment. Abisha L. Morrison was elected Captain, but | immediately became Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment. John W. Wileoxen became Captain then, and served in that capacity three years. Robert B. Gilhore became First Lieutenant November 19, 1861, having been Adjutant of the regiment from Septem- to Barrancas, Florida, I and M to Fort Pick- ber 1 till that date. He died October 16, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam.
tietam, September 17, 1862. Saumel D. Porter was the next day made Second Lieu- tenant, and May 4, 1863, promoted First Lieutenant. He was honorably discharged April 18. 1564. Simpson Hamrick was First Lieutenant from October 17, 1862, until killed at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. John R. Rankin was First Lieutenant from April 19, 1864, until mustered out, November 4, 1864.
About halfof Company I was also from Pnt- nam Connty. Joel MeGrew was the first Cap- tain, resigning in December. 1861. George W. Reed, the First Lieutenant at organization, was killed at Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862. Josiah C. Williams, Second Lieuten- ant, was promoted Captain of Company C,
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September 29, 1862, and resigned October 5, 1864. Tighlman HI. Nance - was commis- sioned Captain of Company I, September 3, 1862, and resigned February 13, 1863, af- terward becoming Captain of a company in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment. George Chapin was commissioned Second Lieutenant January 1, 1863, and promoted First Lientenant February 14 following. He was killed May 15, 1864, at Resaca, Georgia.
The Twenty-seventh Regiment was organ- ized at Indianapolis, on the 30th of August, 1861, and was mustered into service for three years, at the same place, on the 12th of Sep- tember, 1861. Leaving the capital of In- diana on the 15th of September, it moved to Washington City, and in the following monthi was transferred to Banks' Army of the Shenandoah. During the winter the regi- ment was quartered in huts at Camp Halleck, near Frederick City, Maryland, from whence it moved early in March, 1862, across the Potomac into the Shenandoah Valley. It marched into Winchester upon the evacua- tion of that place on the 9th of March, and just after the battle of Winchester Heights joined in the pursuit of Jackson's defeated army. On the 23d of May, it was engaged in the battle of Front Royal, and formed part of the column that made the famous retreat on the Strasburg road the following day toward Winchester. Reaching Winchester that night, a furions battle was fought on the morning of the 25th, in which the Twenty- seventh participated. The brigade to which it was attached -- Gordon's --- withstood the assault of twenty-eight rebel regiments for three and a half hours, and repulsed them. An attempt to check a flank movement on the right was gallantly seconded by the Twenty-seventh, but the rebels had massed snch a force that our army could not resist it longer, and was forced to fall back into the
town, engaging the enemy in the public streets. The retreat beyond Winchester was safely condneted, and the regiment crossed the Potomac at Williamsport on the 26th of May.
Soon after the regiment again marched into the Valley, and from thence to Culpeper Court-HIonse via Front Royal, where it be- came part of Banks' Division of Pope's Army of Virginia. On the 9th of August the regi- ment marched from Culpeper Court-House to Cedar Mountain, eight miles distant, and participated on that day in the battle of Cedar Mountain. After this battle it was with- drawn to the north side of the Rappahannock, and after' the rebel army had forced its way through Thoroughfare Gap and across the Potomac, the regiment, as part of the Twelfth Corps, joined in the Maryland campaign. At the battle of Antietam, on the 17th of Sep- tember, it was actively engaged, sustaining a heavy loss. After this engagement the regi- ment was placed on picket duty, the com- panies being stationed along the east bank of the Potomac, from Harper's Ferry to the month of the Opequan Creek. During the winter it moved to the vicinity of Fairfax Station and Stafford Court-Ilonse, and was not actively engaged with the enemy until the campaign of 1863.
Marching with the Army of the Potomac across the Rappahannock, it participated in the great battle of Chancellorsville. On the 3d of May it was conspicuously engaged as part of the Twelfth Corps, suffering a severe loss in killed and wounded. It next pro- ceeded northward in pursuit of the invading army of Lee, marching with the Twelfth Corps through Maryland and part of Pennsyl- vania to Gettysburg. In the decisive battle at this place it bore a distinguished part, par- ticipating in the resistance to the grand assault of the rebels on the 3d of July; the regiment,
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in this engagement, sustained heavy losses. After the battle it followed the retreating enemy to the Potomac, after which it rested until September, when it was transferred to the West with the Twelfth Corps. Here it became a part of the Twentieth Corps, and was stationed at Tullahoma, Tennessee, dur- ing the fall and winter following. A portion of the regiment re-enlisted at Tullahoma, Tennessee, on the 24th of January, 1864, and soon after proceeded to Indiana on veteran furlough. Returning to the field it joined Sherman's army in time to participate in the battle of Resaca, on the 15th of May. In a fair open field fight in this engagement, the Twenty-seventh defeated the Thirty-second and Thirty-eighth Alabama regiments, killing and wounding a large number, and taking about 100 prisoners, including the Colonel of the Thirty-eighth Alabama; it also captured the battle-flag of that regiment. The loss to the Twenty-seventh was sixty-eight killed and wounded.
The regiment participated in the marching and in all the skirmishes, battles and assaults of Sherman's army in its Atlanta campaign, and upon its conclusion moved with the army to Atlanta. On the 4th of November, 1864, the non-veterans were mustered out of ser- vice, and the veterans and remaining recruits were transferred to the Seventieth Regiment. After the consolidation the men of the old Twenty-seventh served with the Seventieth Regiment in the campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas, and on the muster out of that organization were transferred to the Thirty-third, in which they continued to serve until the 21st of July, 1865, when the Thirty- third was mustered out of service at Louis- ville, Kentucky. Returning home with that organization, the veterans and recruits of the Twenty-seventh were soon after finally dis- charged.
The Thirty-first Regiment, raised in the autumn of 1861, had a few Putnam County men in Company C. George M. Noble was Adjutant of the regiment from January 24, 1863, until September 12, 1864, when he was made Captain of Company C. IIe resigned June 12, 1865.
FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
This regiment, raised in the autumn of 1862, contained two companies and a part of another from Putnam County-more than any other regiment during the war. Among the regimental officers were these from Put- nam County -- William L. Farrow, Major from October 22, 1861, to February 16, 1862, and Lieutenant-Colonel from the latter date until discharged, July 16, 1863 (he afterward re-entered the service as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventy-eighth Regiment); Milton J. Cooper, Adjutant from October 10, 1861, for three years; Alfred Burley, Quartermaster from January 20, 1862, until his resignation, February 28, 1862; William W. Payne, commissioned Quartermaster May 26, 1864, but mustered out as Sergeant of Company B; Milton H. Darnall, Assistant Surgeon from October 22, 1861, till May 30, 1862, and Surgeon from May 30, 1862, until his death, September 16, 1862, at Cairo, Illinois; Ham- ilton E. Ellis, Surgeon from October 9, 1862, until he resigned June 18, 1863; Gonsalvo C. Smith, Assistant Surgeon from August 30, 1862, to June 18, 1863, and Surgeon from June 18, 1863; Christopher F. Bogle, As- sistant Surgeon from October 22, 1864, till he resigned, November 7, 1864; and Thomas D. Sweeney, Assistant Surgeon from Decem- ber 13, 1864.
Company B was from the northern part of the county. It organized September 10, 1861, with Francis M. Darnall as Captain, Samuel S. Carrington as First Lieutenant,
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and Marmaduke HI. Darnall as Second Lieu- and Captain of Company C. October 21. 1861. tenant. Carrington resigned May 6, 1562. Wallace L. Daggy became Second Lieutenant October 14. 1864. First Lientenant October 22. 1564, Captain January 11. 1565. and was mustered out with the regiment. James E. Lilley was commissioned Second Lieutenant October 22, 1861, First Lientenant January 11. 1865, and was mustered out as such with the regiment. Daniel Sullivan having succeed- ed to the Second Lieutenancy. and Captain Darnall May 12. 1862. Lieu- tenant Darnall then received two promotions. and was Captain until he died, April 30, 1864. of wounds. Lafayette Darnall she- ceeded Marmaduke TI. Darnall as Second Lieutenant, andI resigned December 2, 1862. Alexander M. Scott was First Lientenant from May 13. 1562. till he resigned. April 1. 1864. Alfred M. Burk was commissioned
The Forty-third Regiment was organize lat Second Lieutenant December 3. 1862. and re- . Terre Haute on the 27th of September, 1861, signed the 1st of March. 1964. William L. with George h. Steele as Colonel. Soon after Yelton was made First Lieutenant April 2, its muster into service it moved to Spotts- 1864. and Captain May 1. 1861. Tucker W. ville. Kentneky, and from thence to Calbonn, Williamson was First Lieutenant after De- cember 17. 1564. having previously served two months as Second Lientenant. James E. Barks was the last to hold the latter rank in this company.
In Company 6. John W. Cooper was Cap- tain from October 21, 1561. and Harvey R. Lyon Second Lientenant from March 18. 1565.
where it remained in cump until the latter part of February, 1962. It was then trans- ferred to. Missouri and attached to General Pope's army, engaging in the siege of Now Madrid and Island No. 10. It was after- ward detailed on duty with Commodore Foote's gunboat fleet in the reduction of Fort Pillow, serving sixty-nine days in that cam- paigu. The Forty-third was the first Union regiment to land in the city of Memphis, and with the Forty-sixth Indiana constituted the entire garrison, holding that place for two weeks until reinforced.
Company Il was from the central and southern parts of the county, and organized October 2, 1861, with William Lane as Cap- tain, Alfred Burley as First Lieutenant, and Moses Grooms as Second Lieutenant. Bur- In July, 1862, the Forty-third was ordered up White River, Arkansas, and subsequently ley was assigned as regimental Quartermas- ter, January 20. 1862. Moses Grooms re- to Helena. In December it marched to Grenada. Mississippi, with lovey's expedi- tion, and on its return to Helena accom- panied the expedition to Yazoo Pass. At the battle of Helena. on the 4th of July. 1963, the regiment was especially distin- guished. alone supporting a battery that was three times charged by the enemy, repulsing each attack. and, finally, capturing a full rebel regiment larger in point of numbers than its own strength.
signed, May 6, 1562, and was succeeded by Tarvin C. Grooms, who in turn resigned October 18 following. William E. Whitridge was commissioned Second Lientenant Sep- tember 10. 1862. First Lieutenant March 4, 1863, Captain July 6. 1868. and was mus- tered out December 1, 1864. Milton W. Woodruff was commissioned Second Lieuten- ant March 4, 1563, First Lieutenant July 6, 1-63, and resigned February 27, 1864. JJohn W. Cooper became Second Lientenant June It took an active part in General Steele's 6, 1863. First Lieutenant February 28, 1564, . campaign against Little Rock, and aided in
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the capture of that place. On the 1st of January, 1864, the regiment re-enlisted at Little Rock, the veterans re-mustered, num- bering about 400. In March it moved with the expedition of General Steele from Little Rock, which was intended to co-operate with Banks' Red River expedition, and was in the battles at Elkins' Ford, Jenkins' Ferry, Caniden and Marks' Mills, near Saline River. At the latter place, on the 30th of April, the brigade to which it was attached, while guarding a train of 400 wagons returning from Cainden to Pine Bluff's, was furiously attacked by about 6,000 of Marmaduke's cav- alry. The Forty-third lost nearly 200 in killed, wounded and missing in this engage- ment. Among the captured were 104 of the re-enlisted veterans.
After its return to Little Rock the regi- mient proceeded to Indiana, on veteran fur- ! longh, reaching Indianapolis on the 10th of, mand it until its final discharge. It was
June. Upon its arrival the regiment voluin- teered to go to Frankfort, Kentucky, then threatened by Morgan's cavalry, and remained there until the rebel forces left Central Ken- tucky. On its return the regiment had a skirmish with Jesse's guerrillas near Emi- nence, Kentneky.
Upon the expiration of its veteran fur- longh the regiment was not returned to the field, but placed on duty at Indianapolis, and for nearly a year was engaged in guarding the rebel prisoners at Camp Morton. After the war was over it was one among the first regiments mustered out, which ceremony took place June 14. 1865. Of the 164 men cap- tured from this regiment in Arkansas and taken to the rebel prison at Tyler, Texas, ten or twelve died, and the others, returning to Indianapolis in March, 1865, were subse- quently discharged with the regiment.
FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.
tenant-Colonel, and Albert G. Preston, Sur- geon, of the Fifty-fifth Regiment, which contained three companies (D, I and K) from Putnam County. Silas P. JJones was Captain of Company D, Milton A. Osborn, First Lieutenant; and Daniel Ricketts, Second Lieutenant. Company I was raised in the vicinity of Fillmore. James B. Harrah was Captain, William A. Grigsby, First Lieutenant, and Edward Dan- honr, Second Lieutenant. Company K came from the neighborhood of Putnamville. James T. Layman was Captain, Estes II. Layman, First Lieutenant, and William II. Young. Second Lientenant.
The Fifty-fifth Regiment was organized at Indianapolis, under special orders, and mus- tered into service for three months, on the 16th of June, 1862, with John R. Mahan as Lieutenant-Colonel, who continued to com-
assigned to the duty of guarding the Fort Donelson prisoners at Camp Morton. where it remained until August and then proceeded to Kentucky, with other troops sent there to resist the invasion of General Kirby Smith. The regiment remained on duty in Central Kentucky until the expiration of its term of service, when it returned to Indianapolis, where it was mustered out.
A few men from Putnam County joined the Fitty-ninth Regiment. Jesse M. Lee became Second Lieutenant September 4, 1862, First Lieutenant December 10, 1862, and Captain (Company B) May 1, 1563. Edward Livingston was commissioned Second Lieu- tenant of Company I August 18, 1862, and dismissed July 15, 1563.
SEVENTY-FIRST (SIXTH CAVALRY) REGIMENT.
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