Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-06-27
7HR RECEPTION YESTERDAY
Soldiers Honored Enthusiastically.

At the State House yesterday the Seventeenth
Eighty FIRST and Eighty fourth Infantry. and the
| Fifteenth, Twentieth and Twenty fret Battery
we're publicly received. Ia behalf Of the people Of
: Indians. by Governor Morton Previously.
Colonel De Hart, Colonel Spoones. Colonel
Tra.ler and General Wilder made some patriotic
remarks General Hovey opened the proceed
logs 10 gallant style The brave boys cheerei
/ upor the word 20 the extent of yociferousnes-,
| whenever ihsy got the military indication.
Governor Morton gave brief history Of each
regiment. a. follows;
sEyESTEENrH REeIsEST.
Wa organized at Indianapolis June II. 1861 /.
/ aud left for the field Juiy |. lc6l. This regi-
men, has taken very active part 10 the sup
preston of the rebellion, the let of engage
menis show Was engaged in the battles OF
Cheat Mountain. Green Brier, dozen lights
about Corinth. part Of the regiment vas en-
gaged al Mumi0rcsville Was IN pursuit OF
Morgan and Wheeler: McMinnville. two fghis.
Hoover's Gap; the first regiment TO approach,
aud for twenty days threaten Chattanooga, and
the fret 10 enter H. Ringgold. Csmosa Springs.
Georgia. Tunnel Hill. Rock Spring. where they
we're surrounded by four bfigades OF the enemy,
and cut their way through; Cleveland. Alex
ander Bridge, Chickamauga, tSo days. Hills
Cave, Praters Mills, Shelbyville. Pennington.
where, with the 0ne Hundied and Twenty third
General Wheeler, 5000 strong. Three com
psnics. under Captain Good. took one of
Wheelers batteries, following and fighting
in line Of battle nine miles. On the 9TH
day of January. 1864. the regiment re-en-
listed veterans, aud after thirty
dsys'Eiurlough, moved TO Louisville, thence to
Columbia and. from thence to Lafayette. Geor-
gia. joining General shermsn's army in the
march TO Atlanta. On the 10th OF May. 1864.
IL.
ington, MORALLY wounded. Was next engaged
with the enemy at Etowa. Kenesaw Mount,in.
MONDAY Greek. Decatur. and at Atlanta. Was
10 the raid under Generals Garrard and kilpltrck
on the Macon and Northwestern railroad: were
surrounded and cut their way through. and made
their way back 10 Atlanta Accompanied Gene
raj Sherman In pursuit OF Hood. and during
march OF thirty days engaged the enemy sixteen
distinct times. capturing over 300 prisoners. Two
pieces OF artillery and wagon train With lo-s
OF ninety men Was with General Wilson
the last grand raid Of the war. and lost FIVE OF
hcers aud eighty seven men at Selma, Alabama,
at which place Sergeant Jacob n Elliott, of
company A. who Is now present, after the Cap
tain. Lieutenant and First Sergeant were woun-
dej. took command of the company, and with
squad of FIVE men charged q ravine in which the
enemy were concealed. where 100 officers and
men surrendered TO him, aud we're sent TO the
rear. The regiment, marched to Montgomery
and Turkeegee. Alabama, and Columbus and
ThomastOn. Georgia. TO Macon, at which place
the veterans are now stationed
KIeHrY FIRST INDIANA
The Eighty -hrsi Indians organized and
mustered into the United States service IN Au-
gust, 1862 il was at once sent to Louisville Ky ,
| where it remained until October l, 1869; from
Louisville il marched TO PerryyiIle, Nv was
| there at the time of the battle of that name. but
"A fcfr fba -
from thence to Nashville. where il remained un-
| oil the Goth OF December; started from Nashville
on the Doth ard participated in the battle Of
Murireesboro on the 3lst. aud January lst snd
ID, 1853 the regiment remained 10 camp al
Murfreesboro until June %, 1853. when il LEFT
camp and marched to Liberty Gap, and partic-
pated in fight at the latter place on the Goth Of
June: from thence to Winchester, Tenn where
It remained until the lath of August; crossed the
Cumberland Mountains and marched to Steven
son. Ala; on the 18th aud 10Th of September the
regiment was engaged in the battle of Chicka-
manga fell back TO Chattanooga with the army,
where it remained until the 25th Of October; on
that date it broke csrnp and marched to Bridge
port, Ala, where it remained until the Goth Of
January. 1864: from thence to Obltemah. Ten
nessee. where il remained until Nav 3. 1864; the
regiment. soon after leaving Ooltemah. par
ticipated in the following battles: Rocky
Face. May D; Resaca. May Ia; Kingston, May 20;
Bald Knob. June 20; Kenessw. June %; Mari
eta. July. 4; siege of Atlanta and Jouesboro.
September ] /; Lovejoy, September g the regi
ment subsequently marched to Atlanta and re
NAMED in camp until the ID of October; from
thence il marched by way of Gaylesville, Ala
oama, 70 Chattanooga; LETT Chattanooga. Octo-
Der 81, 1864. a. guard TO the train of the Fourth
Corps, AID marched 10 Pulaski, Tenn, where it
arrived on the 10Th OF November. 1864; left Pu-
laski, November %. and marched thence by
OF Columbia to Franklin, arriving there on the
3Oth oil November. and participated in the bat
tie Of franklin. in which the rebel General Hood
was completely thrashed, and bis projected inva-
sion rendered hopeless; left franklin. December
|. and moved to Nashville, December Is aud 10.
and followed up the retreat of General Hoods
army until il crossed the Tennessee river, then
went TO Huntsville, Alsbama, and frcm thence
went TO Strawberry Plains, East Tennessee, and
from there to Bulls Gap; left Bulls Gap, April
3. 1868; and started on an expedition into North
Carolina. from which they returned on the llth
day of April. 1865; left Bulls Gap for Nashville.
and arrived there on April 81 June l3 the regi
ment was mustered out, and left the same dsy
for Indianapolis. and arrived here June Is. 1865
Strength OF the regiment at organization, 921
men. and returned with $50 men, and twenty
seven officers
EIGHTY FOURTH REGIMENT.
Was organized in the Fifth Congressional
District, and rendezvoused at Redmond, and
LETT for COvineton. Kentucky, on the 9Th day OF
September. 1862: on the FIRST day of October.
left Covington, and was ordered TO report TO Gen.
Gilmore q, Point Pleasant Virginia; on October
| Is. moved from Point Pleasant in the direction
OF Guvandotte. where they remained until the
| list OF November. when they were ordered o.
CAtleitsburg. Kentucky. from thence to CAss-
vile. and thence back to CatleiIsburg. where
| they arrived on the 9.h OF February. 1863 from
thence they proceeded to Cincinnati. Louisville
aud Nashville, where they arrived on the 18th,
aud were assigned TO the Third Brigade. Third
Division. Army of Kentucky. The regiment
eit Nashville FOX Franklin. Tennessee, on the
5th of NJ arch. and lett Franklin for Triuue.
under command OF Gen Granger Ga the llth
.he rebels made an attack on this point, in
which a portion of the regiment was engaged