Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-07-24

Killed, I23 wounded, and 7 prisoners
out of the color-guard, nine in number,
five we're killed and one wounded. Octo-
Der ii, moved TO Harrisburg; thence to
-Danville, where the regiment was pub
licly complimented by Gen. McCook,
the corps commander; reached Bowling
Green November I'd, where the army
was reorganized, and the regiment was
placed in the First Division, Fourteenth
Army Corps; was engaged in the battle
of Stone River, losing fourteen killed
and eighty-six wounded; in the battle of
Chickamauga, losing one hundred and
ten men killed, wounded and missing.
The following winter was passed at
Chattanooga and Rossville; the regiment
also participated in the engagements at
Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge.
December 20th, re enlisted as veterans
at Rossville, Georgia, and on the Sd of
January started home on veteran fur
lough; returned to Chattanooga on the
26th Of February, and on the Tth of
May commenced the campaign against
Atlanta; was engaged in the battle of
Jonesboro, September 1st, and carried
the rebel works by charge, and lost
during the entire campaign one hundred
and three, killed, wounded and missing;
October 4th, 1864. marched in pursuit
Of the enemy under Hood; was with
Gen. Sherman in the campaign against
Savannah, and entered that city on the
ooh Of December, 1864; February 9th,
again moYeds passing through the Caro-
linas to Goldsboro. The regiment took
part in all the battles and skirmishes
/ worthy of note during the campaign,
among which was the battle of Benton
vile, where Capt Low was killed; moved
from Raleigh, via Richmond and Alex-
andria, to Washington, distance Of
one hundred and ninety-tWo miles, max
ing the entire distance in six days, an
average Of thirty.two miles day. The
regiment moved from Washington to
louisville, KY, and after remaining at
that place for some time, was ordered TO
be mustered out, which was done on the
18th inst, the regiment arriving here
with about six hundred and fifty officers
and men for muster out
IL FoRTY.EIGHTH REGIMENT.
Was organized in Goshen, Indiana, in
December and January, 1861 and 1862,
and left for Cairo, Illinois, February lst,
and was assigned 10 duty at that post,
but remained but short time, when il
4 was ordered up the Tennessee river;
was engaged in the siege of Corinth,
and the marches and countermarches in
pursuit Of Gen. Price, until the 18th oi
September, 1862; was engaged in the
battle Of Iuka, where the regiment lost
1I6 men in killed and wounded, out ot
420 engaged; participated in the battle
81 of Corinth, October Sd and Alb, 1862
aud lost 26 men killed aud wounded
was in the campaign down the Missis
sippi Central Railroad to Oxford, Miss.
and back to Memphis, and from thence
to Vicksburg, landing go miles below
that place; marched TO the rear oI
Vicksburg; participated in the skirmish
} of Forty Hills, May 3D.; battle of Ray
mond, May 18th; battle of jackson, or
the l4th, and the battle of Champion
Hills, May 10th, losing 33 men killed
and wounded in the engagements, par
ticipated in the siege Of Vicksburg, anC
in the assault on the 22d of May, 1868
losing 33 men killed and wounded; aftel
the surrender of Vicksburg, marched
: from Memphis to Chattanooga thence
back to Huntsville, Alabama, where the
: regiment re-enlisted as veterans, in Jan
uary, 1864, and returned home on fur
lough; after the expiration of the fur
Tough, proceeded to Huntsville, where
they remained until June, when theJ
: were sent to Cartersville, Georgia, t
look after guerrillas, and keep the rail
road in repair by which Gen. Sherman
received supplies for his army, and re
mained here until Gen. Hood moveC
! North; was in the campaign of Genera
Sherman from Atlanta to Savannah
thence to Beaufort, 8. c., then on th,
? campaign through the Carolinas, VII
Columbia, Chersw, Fayetteville, Colds
boro and Raleigh, from which point the
began their line Of march homeward
: making the distance from Raleigh I
{ Petersburg, 165 miles, in ak days. Tn
:; regiment left the State with about 95
, men, have had 800 recruits, and abou
! $50 men assigned from the Twelfth
: Eighty third, Ninety.seveuth and Ninty
3 ninth regiments; have lost 2l3 men il
? killed and wounded, in battle.
N@ FIFTY-EIETH REGIMENT.
Was organized at Gosport, Indians
! in the latter part of the year 1861, an
on the 18th of February, 1862, the reg
= ment, 1000 strong, left for Commerce
!, / Missouri, marched with the army c
: General Pope to New Madrid, and PAL
. ticipated in the siege of that place
I = / Island No. 10, and Tiptonville; was en-
|, gagged in the siege of Corinth, and th
a battles of Iuka and Corinth; maFche
!, to Holly Springs and Oxford, Missil
!. sippi, and back TO Memphis; in Msrcl
4 \ 1868, embarked on transports at Men
j. phis,, and landed opposite Fort Pembel
!. ton, at tbs head of the Yazoo River
.s returned to Milliken's Bend, and pa
= ticipated in the battIes Of Port Gibson
d Forty Hills, aud jackson; al the latte
a place, the colors of this regiment weE
"a the Erst thrown to the breeEe, from Ii
,e dome OF the capitol; was in the assau
q Of Wick s6uFg, May %, and the siege
al Vicksburg; went from Vieksburg,
Id September, to Memphis, where it wa
.. transferred to the Fifteenth Army Corp
n. and marched to Chattanooga, and pa
,e ticipated in the battle of Mission Ridg
AZ and thence moved to Huntsville, Al
bama, where the regiment re-enlisted {
"a veterans, and came home on furIougE
during the Atlantis campaign, guarde
"a the railFead in the rear of Sherman
a. army from Kingston to Marietta, Geo
efl gia; was in the campaign of Gener
of Sherman against Savannah, through q
in CarolinAs, to Goldsboro, and parti'
eyi pated IN al the principal engagement
~ Of that campaign; moved to Raleig
North Carolina; thence to Petersbur
Richmond, and Washington; and fro
n. Washington to Louisville, Kentuch
To where the regiment was mustered oil
M. The regiment has received, in recruit
1a drafted men, etc, 776 men, and has Il
= in killed. wounded, and missing, and
on ~Ase AseN - 'A
at sIxTY-EINTH INDIANA VOLUNTEERS.
on Randezyoused at Richmond: orps