Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-06-27


until they crossed the Tennessee river; vas then
ordered TO Huntsville. Alsbama. where they re-
NAMED until March l3, 1865, and from thence 10
KsoxsiIie and Strawberry Plains. Bulls Gap and
shields Mills: 90 The 18th Of April. moved to
Nashville. and Jeff the latter place June Is. 1865.
and arrived at Indianapolis on the l7th, With
twenty-tvo officers and three undr ed and twenty
seven men for muster out
| FIFTExSrH sArrKRr
| Was organized in Indians polls, add vas or
derei to The held July 5, ls62: vas 10 the en-
| g.gement at Harpers Ferry. September 10. IL
and Is, and was surrendered az that place; en-
tered the feld again 10 March. 1863; participa-
ted in the chase after Morgan through Ken
lucky Indiana and Ohio, and al his capture:
marched to East Tennessee. aud we're in the
foiloriDg engagements: Kingston. Calhoun.
Athens, Philadelphia and London the battery
was then divided. one portion going to Kings
ton, where j. was engaged for several days, the
other portion 10 Le Nairs, where IL was en-.
gagged with the enemy, also 1t Campbell's Sta
ton and Concord in Nov, 1863 at the siege
OF Knoxville. Rutlidge. Blain's Cross Rosds, in
December. 1863; took winter quarters at Koox-
vile, January -, 1864; marched from KnoI.
Vile, south, April 81, 1854, and was attached to
l
commanded BY General Cox. The battery par
ticipated in the following engagements in 1864:
Rocky Face. Nay . and 10: Resacs, May IA and
Is; near Cartersyille, May "a; Dallas Gap, May
81 to June 2; Altoona. June Is; near Altoona.
June IL and ls; Nose Creek. June - and 90:
near Aekworth. June "a. Kenesaw Mountain.
June 26. 81 and Is; Fort Riley. July l. and also
in the engagements and capture Of Atlanta and
Jone-boro; was separated from Shermsn's main
sd al To
see; engaged Hood at Columbia. November "a
%. % aud %; at Franklin, November 80, and
Nashville. Dece mber ), ID and l6; marched To
Clifton, Tenn. and shipped by river to Wash
ington, and from thence to Wilmington, Raleigh.
Greensboro. and then home for muster out
EIeHrEESrH BATTERY
This Battery was organized and mustered into
the service in August. 1862 On reaching the
front il was assigned to duty with the Twelfth
Division OF the Fourteenth Army Corps. IL has
since served successfully with Wildcr's Brigade
the first division OF the cavalry corps, command
cd by General McCook The battery has
marched from Louisville Kentucky, TO Frank.
fort. thence TO Bowling Green. GAllatin. Ten
nessee. 10 Cave City Kentucky, To Murfreeshoro',
Tennessee. to Liberty. To Rome. To Cirthage.
McMinnville: back to Murfreesboro. thence
to Tullahoms, TO Deeherd, TO Chattanooga,
to Huntsville, Alabama. to Knoxville, Ten
nessee. to Mosby Creek, Maysville. to Clsye-
lsnd, TO Atlanta, Georgia. 10 Gainesville. 10
Nashville. Tennessee. TO Hopknsville. Ken
lucky: back To Nashville. Tennessee. to Eastport
Mississippi TO Selma, Alabsms, to Montgomery
to West Point. Georgia to Macon. 70 Chatta-
noogs, making. ia the aggregate, over five
thousand miles. being transported over one thou
sand miles by railroad The battery has par,ici
dated in the following engagements: Hoover's
Gap, Chattanooga, Pennington, Newmarket,
Messy Creek. Far Garden ID tndridge, Resaca
Styesboro, Cassville. Lost Mountain, Vinng
Bridge, Newman. Hopkinsvile and Vest Point.
besides many smaller affairs and skirmishes Its
original roster, when first mustered into the ser.
vice, nu mbered ISL names IL has since receiv ed
forty recruits: sixty five men OF the Eleventh In
diana Battery were transferred To the Eighteenth
in November. 1864 One officer and thirty -one
men have died OF disease and been killed in ac-
ton. Twenty six men have been discharged for
disability. One hundred end eighty men return
for muster out
TWENTIETH BATTERY
Was organized at indianapolis, and left Tor
the field, December IL, 1862 were ordered 10
Louisville, Kentucky, from thence TO Hender-
son. thence to Nashville, and remained there un.
ill October 5, 1863. and were then stationed along
the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, where
it remained until March S, 1864 from thence
y,
to the Eleventh Army Corps; thence moved 10
Bridgeport. Alabambs. and on the 5th day OF
August was assigned to the Fourteenth Corps
was in the Atlanta Campaign. engaged at Jones
boro. and all the principal battles previous to The
capture of that place; moved from Atlanta on
the 9th OF November. 1861, TO Chattanooga
and assigned to General Steadmans command
engaged in the battles before Nashville at
ter which moved TO CORTLAND, Alabama; from
thence moved to Chattanooga, aud were there as
signed to the reserve artillery, and from that
place ordered home for muster out returns for
muster out with l25 men and officers
rwEsTY-FIRsr BATTERY.
Rendezvoused at indianapolis, mustered Sep
TENDER 9. SOP. aud i'm media tev left for Coyng-
ton, Kentucky marched through Kentucky, via
Lexington, Richmond aud Danville. to Louis
vile. from which place they proceeded TO Nash
vile. February 2. 1863; from Nashville moved 10
Carthage. Tennessee, ana skirmished with the
enemy at Rome. March l9 and Is, Gaines boro
April ). and Carthage May 4; moved for Muir
free>boro June ;, and advanced towards Man
chester; Jare % engaged the enemy at Hoover'e
Gap. the battery participated in the summer and
fall campaign. being engaged at Catlett's Gap,
Georgia. Chickamaugs and Chattanooga; on the
9th of December moved for Nashville from
thence 10 Columbis; October was engaged with
the rebels under Gen Forrest; on Hoods ad
vance, moved 10 Nashville. and was under FIRE in
the engagement before that place December Is
1854 The battery entered the service with one
hundred and forty one men aud Eve officers: has
received sixty nine recruits. and returns with one
hundred and forty one men and FIVE officers for
muster out.
Proceedings of the CITY Council.