Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-06-12

be iOllOying Is al imperfect summary OF the
history OF the regiments received at the State
House on Saturday. since their organization up
to the present time. which for want of space are
crowded out OF the regular proceedings:
TWENTY-FIVE KEsIxEST
Organized BY Col j. Z Yeaich, At Evans
Vile. in August; 1851; marched 20 Missouri;
was With Gen Fremont during his campaign in
Missouri joined the army under 6es Grant at
Fort Henry, Tennessee, and participated In the
battle Of Fort DoneIson. 10 February, 1862: the
battle of Shiloh. in April. aud the siege of Co
rinth Also, in the battles of Hatchie River, in
October, 1862, and Davis Mills, in December
1862: was with Sherman IN bis raid In Mississippi
n February, lc64 The regiment re enlisted
March 2.t. 1864; returned 10 the State on fur
Tough, and rejoined the army under Sherman I;
participated in the march upon Atlanta and en-
gagements incident thereto; in the siege of
Atlanta, and battle of JoDesbOro, and 10 Sher-
mans operations north Of the Cbattahoochie. in
October. 1864; marched through Georgia to
Savannah, and thence 10 Washington, c.,
through the Carolinss and Virginia. During
this campaign, participated in battles of Rivers
Bridge and Bentonvile. e.
FORTY EIcsTH AND fifty NINTH REGIMENTS.
Organized February. 1862, and marched to Is
land No. 10; participated 10 the campaign which
resulted in the opening OF the Mississippi TO
Yicksburg; then went 10 COrinth, Mississippi.
and remained till after the battle at that place.
in which they participated; then went after
Price, running him through Tennessee into Mis-
sissippi. Then these regiments went to Mem
phi., remained two months; and then went on
the campaign to Vicksburg and participate in
the siege; then marched by way of Memphis to
Chattanooga to reinforce Grant; fought at Tun-
mel Hill: then went 10 Huntsville, Alabama, aud
remained about six months in garrison; then
joined Sherman fought at Atlanta andshen went
with Sherman on bis campaign to Savannah and
through the Carolinas, &c, to Washington; were
in skirmshes innumsrable
FFTY-L EIGHTH REGIMENT.
The Fifty eighth Indiana organized in the
fall OF 1861. al Princeton, Gibson county; enter
ed the field of active service the following
December with about 900 effectual men, under
command of Colonel Carr; took part in all the
active movements around Corinth, Miss; was in
the greet retreat when the army fell back to
Louisville Kentucky formed the skirmish line
that captured Lavergne, Tenn; held part of the
long line of battle at Stone River; was on the
skirmish line and line of battle thirty six hours
at the memorable battle of Chickamauge; formed
part of the front line OF battle that charged up
the craggy sleeps OF Mission Ridge, aud in al
these engagements; had an aggregate loss in
killed, wounded aud missing amounting TO abOu
400 men; having almost completed her time o.
service, and on the front at that; she then con
tinued the organization by veteranizing, and by
80 doing obtained place in the Engineer Depart
ment, and has now served more than one year OF
her second term, giving general satisfaction il
performing the most severe duties connected
with this arm of the United States service
EIGHTY THIRD REGIMENT.
Organized in September, 1862, and left th,
State in n few weeks after for the Mississippi
| river.
Campaigns and Marches-Ta llahatchie march
thence 10 Vicksburg; the Black Blyo and Me
johannesburg march; Grand Gulf and Jackson
thence 20 Memphis grand march from Memphi
to Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tenn; thence t
Atlanta; then followed Hood on his raid through
Tennessee, and then back TO Atlanta from At
lanta, through Georgia, TO Savannah; thence q
Beaufort, s. c. and thence to Goldsboro. N
via Columbia and Bentonville, thence TO Wash
ington, d. c.. via Raleigh, Petersburg, Rich
mond and Fredericksburg The regiment ha
marched over four thousand miles by land, oil
steamboat eighteen hundred miles, and by rail
road four hundred and eighty FIVE miles, total b.
oil modes, ,2s5 miles
Battles -Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post
Champion HILL the charges OF the 18Th and -
of May, the siege OF Vicksburg. jackson, Mission
Ridge, Resaca, Dallas. New Hope Church. Ken
esaw Mountain, repulse of Hoods army, Jul,
22d and 2Sth, near Atlanta; participated in tn
seven battles at Voigt's Hill sometimes cale'
the battle of Milton,) on the 18th of March
1868; then went on the Chattanooga csmpaigI
under Rosecrans-was in the battle at Hoov err
Gap; ut Chcksmauga on both days; remained a
Chattanooga till Sherman started for Atlanta
participated in all the principal fights of tina
campaign. including the siege at that place ( At
lanta.)
NINETEENTH BATTERY.
Organized at indianapolis in August, 1862
was sent Kentucky. and participated in tn
battle of Perryville Remained in Kentucky tn
remainder of 1862, actively employed all tn
time. frequently performing hard marches afte
John Morgan Joined Rosecrans at Murfrees
boro, after having performed heavy march t,
be in the fight at Stone liver, but arrived one da
too late. Were at Jonesboro, Fort McAllister
Columbia s c.. Bentonvie and several mino
engagement, and have been over t,oo hnndre
days under fire Went on a campaign wit
Sherman to Savannah took part in the siege 0
that place; then marched through the Carolinas
diminishing all the way to Goldsboro. Tough
at Bentonville. n. G., OIL the 18th of March
1865. and lost First Lieutenant Webb. The bat
terry then went to Newbern, n c. aud from
B. thence IN VS. ahiOpfOD nv wator