Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-13


Was organized December H. 1861: left India
uaoolis tor Kentucky January Z. 1862. and re-
ported TO General McCook; transferred from
General McCooks to General Nelson's division (;
moved 70 Nashville. Tenn; the first q. s artil
lery in the city; transferred TO General Wood 4
division: made forced march TO Shiloh, arriving
opposite Pittsburgh Landing Sunday evening
from ,hence TO the siege OF COrinth, having sew.
eral skirmishes with the enemy; from thence TO
Tuscumbis. Ala and Deckerd. Tenn engaged
Forrest cavalry near McMinnville. Team. Aug
1868, with artillery alone. cutting his command
in tNp. killing and wounding several men aud
horses also capturing many shot guns, &c.
from the enemy; moved from thence 60
Mumfordsvlle. XIV engaged the rebels thesee
holding the town after the surrender of C0loN
Wilder, in September. 1862; marched from thence
20 Louisville XIV from thence followed the rebel
army. skrmishng every day. 10 Bsrdstown.
Ky, losing several horses. reaching Nashville IN
November, 1862; had several sharp enga gements
with the enemy while gathering forage through
the country; az the battle OF Perryvilie;
moved from Nashville Dec q, 1852; skrnished
With the enemy up TO the night OF the 30th: Was
IN the battle o Stone River. lost one man killed
ri wounded aud four captured; moved with Gen
Rosecrans from Nurlreesbor0. June "a. 1868;
participated IN all the sklrmishe- OF max = N
paign 70 Chattfnopgi, Tenn was the first >
artillery and fred the 6rst gun IN sail town,
September, 1863; was st the battle o. Chick.-
manga, lost two men killed and seven wounded,
also two officers wounded, aud seven men cap
ture /. forty three horses sounded; VS. AZ the
battle Of Missionary Ridge, Nov 1863, done
garrison duty ~ Chattanooga IN 10 March, 1863
when consolidated with the Seventh Indiana
Battery Since the consolidation the two bat
.eries have been doing garrison duty at Ch4us-
uoogs. and Sweetwster. Tenn, having the desi
dation of the Seventh Indians Battery. There
j. slsO fifteen veterans of the Fifth Indiana Bat
terry. transferred to the Seventh. Who have parti-
cipated in all the principal campaigns aud battles
OF the Western army The thres comm nds lett
the State in 1851 numbering 460 men aud off
GERS. and return with lS6 men and officers tor
muster out
TWENTY SIXTH BATTERY.
Known "a the Wilder Battery" Was mus
tered into the service at Indianapolis June %
lc6l. aud left Indianapolis July 20; spent the
winter on Cheat Mountain. Va, and was with
Gen. Milroy in the unsuccessful attack upon the
Allegheny summit December 18th; was eng ged
at Med well on the 9Th of May. 1862. joine
Gen Fremonts forces. and chased Stonewsl
Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley; fought al
Cross hey-, and afterwards returned TO Win
chester. aud remained there until the advance Oi
the rebels arer the Battle Of Bull Run, when i
lftt OtSh ~ NuStc " was cNlitu-
defed, psroled and sent to Camp DDuglss Hi
uois. WAS reorganizsd. and lefs IndsnspoI
VI lrch Is 1868, aud joined Gen. Gilmore's com
maud at Lexington. Ky engaged the enemy an
der Pegram AT Dinviie, Butrons Hill, and else
where; IN August started across the mountains
70 < .st Tennessee; and was engaged At Carter,
Station: was at Knoxville during the siege. snC
fred the frst gun; followed the enemy after th,
siege vas raised. aud was engaged with them a
different places until the operations ceased Or
the 1T OF January. 1864 1903 men enlisted al
veterans It Strawberry Plains. Tennessee. aud
came home; lett indianapolis again March IL
1854. and returned TO Est Tennessee. aud va,
attached u Gen. HOveys command az Ch tries
ton, but failed TO be equipped in time to JOIN th'
movement OF Gea. sherman. and was sen; L
Knoxville. and attached 10 reserve artillery. aut
remained at that place on garrison DUTY Unit
March, 1865 when il was equipped four gur
| battery. and took the field at the time of Ger
Stoueman's movement through Rast Tennesse
to North Carolina; encA mped Grcenville. Ten
nessee, where il received orders 10 proceed q
Indianapolis for muster out; returns With tire
/ officers and lN3 men