Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-12
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and two killed By the enemy; Was ordered back
70 Frederick City, MARYLAND; remained there i've
months. and ordered TO Virginia: crossed at hsr-
per's Ferry: marched up the Shsnsrdosh; vas 10
the reserve Al Winchester fight; crossed the
mountains At Smokers Gap. and ordered to
Washington City for muster out OF service.
while At Washington, Colonel Hacklemsn was
made BrigadIer General and took command OF
Brigade under General Grant, At luka, o.
which place he was killed; regiment returned
home and reorganized for three years service;
was mustered August -, 1863. ,009 strong, and
on the same day was ordered 10 Kentucky TO
repel Kirby Smith: regiment vas At RishmoDd.
Ky lost 200 men killed and wounded. and GOO
prisoners: in the 6zht the gallant Lieutenant
Colonel Wolfe was killed; prisoners we're paroled
and returned to Indianspo remaining 10 parole
camp until November !. lsC2, when they were
e1chsr ged: on the Goth Of November the regi
ment was ordered 10 Join the Castor Oil EIpe
dition" down The Mississippi regiment arrived
and remained at Memphis, Tennessee, until De
cember l. 1862; then moved in the Vieksburg
campaign; on the 18th of December the brigade
of which this regiment was part Was sent to
cut the Texas aud Shreveport railroad at Dallas,
and marched sixty Eve miles in thirty SIX hours,
swan two bayous and DESTROYED ten miles OF rail-
road track. aud burned one million dollars worth
of cotton belonging to the rebel Government,
the same having been stored a. that point Tor
shipment TO Vicksburg; regiment returned on
the 9th OF December, and re embarked for
Chickasaw Bluffs or vicksburg; on the ist OF
January, 1863. engaged the enemy at Chickasa"
BAYOU, and were driven back by the enemy; the
brigade lost 500 men in this engagement; on
the Sd Of January ordered to Arkansas Post;
attacked the enemy in the fort on the 10Th, skit-
mished until nightfall. when it commenced rain
ing and the enemy retired in the fort; on the
llih a general engagement ensued, assisted
slightly by gunbosts the fort Was Ia
ken aud this regiment was the hrst
to plant the colors within the tort; regiment
lostsixty four men killed and thirteen wounded
Regiment then retook the wagons taken from
the regiment by Kirby Smith, at Richmond, Ny,
and captured General Churchill. to whom the
surrender was made at Richmond. Ky. On Jan
L.. was ordered to Young's Point. and assisted
in digging the canal which was afterwards aban
doned and the corps 10 which the regiment be
onged. ordered 10 cross the Mississippi twenty
five miles below Nicksburg, a. Grand Gulf.
could not effect "a crossing AZ that point, bur
crossed six miles below. Was at Port Gibson
Fourteen Nile Creek, Black River Bridge
Champion Hills, aud during the siege OF Nicsv
burg. and also Magnolia Hills. In the siege of
Vcksburg the regiment lost sixty men killed
aud wounded After the surrender OF Vicks
burg was at Jackson. then returned TO Nicks
burg, and was ordered to New Orleans. Was
then mounted and attached to the cavalry corps.
Department OF the Gulf, aud vas distributed
along the eastern shoreof the Mississippi to pro
tect transportation between New Orleans and
points up the coast Ia October. 1863, the cav
airy corps ordered on an expedition
up the Bnyou Teche; remained there. contnu
| ally skirmishing with the enemy. until the 81 OF
January, 1864, then returned to New Orleans
refitted. remounted. and prepared for the RED
River Camp.ign-known as Gen. Banks cotton
expedition were in sixteen engagements with
the enemy in that campaign On the return Of
this expedition. the regiment was ordered To re-
port to General Cameron. commanding the la
fourche District of Louisiana: and was the only
cavalry on that frontier doing active outpost
duty; were afterwards ordered TO New Orleans
for muster out: left New Orleans July |, 1865.
365 officers and men. the regiment reviewed
at New Orleans by Gen Grierson. who comp
mented them on having turned over 20 the Quar-
termaster the best horses that had ever been in
that Department; and, a compliment TO the
men whose term did not expire, it was ordered
by Gen. Candy. tina, they be transferred to the
Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry, thus putting to
gether infantry and cavalry. sn unknown prece
dent during this war.