The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-01

The Sixth was in Woods division of the
Fourth Corps. and it's first real fight was
the second day of Shiloh, where il had
eleven men killed. Its greatest number of
killed wasa at Chickamauga-twenty eight.
1t sustained its heaviest loss at the storm
ing of Missionary Rldge-seventy-six
killed and wounded-in proportion to the
small number engaged. The Ninth was
also in the Army of the Cumberland. and
1t saw Its heaviest loss IN killed and NOR
tally wounded at Shlloh-thirty-two. The
Fourteenth was IN the Army of the PO-
tOmac. At Antletam Its killed numbered
fOrty-nine, but that loss, probably, cOnsid-
In its numbers. was as great as at SpOtt-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES General ak
er. In his History of the Second Corps"
says that its colonel, John COOns, was
killed while sitting calmly on his horse
IN the trenches. firing barrel after barrel
OF his revolver az the c0nfederates. who
were swarmIng up on the other side of the
breasr-worksL"
The Nineteenth was in the Army of the
Potomac. In the second Bull Run It's killed
were slXty-two, and fOrty-one at Gettys-
burg. The Twentieth was another Indiana
regiment that stood among the first in the
Army of the Potomac. Among it's killed
were two colonies William l.. Brown. at
Manassas. and John Wheeler. at Gettys-
burg. and one Northumberland, Nickel,
at petersburg. It's greatest mortality was
at Gettysburg, forty-five; wounded, sixty
nine. When a small egiment IL lost thirty
three KILLED IN the Wilderness and eight
cen at Spottsylvania. The Twenty-secOnd
was In the Fourth and Fourteenth Corps
after corps were organized. Its first colo
mel was jeff G.. Davis. At Chaplin Hills,
n.y.. 1t lost hfty-seven men killed and NOR
tally wounded In the battle of Pea Ridge
IL lost fourteen killed and mortally
wounded. among whom was Lieutenant
colonel John a. Hendricks. Lieutenant
colonel Keith. commanding the regiment,
was killed at Chaplin Hills. The Twenty
seventh, Colonel SIla5 COlgrove, was first in
rhn II nat and shan of fhn HuralfSh n1.,. L.
losses in killed and mortally wounded were
forty-one at AntIetam, thirty-twO at
Chancellorsvllle, forty at Gettysburg.
lt Is said that in Resacs. Ga, where
lt captured the cOlOrs, the colonel
and a considerable part of the Thirty
eighth Alabama. while it's loss in killed
and wounded was siXty-eight. it inflicted
i've times as much damage on the enemy.
The ThirtIeth was In the Fourth Corps,
getting it's first real fight the second day of
Shiloh. where its colonel. Sim :. Bass. was
killed. The largest mortality was at stone
River. forty-siy. The ThIrty-frst was In
Gen. Lew Wallace's division at the capture
of Fort Donelson. It was in MANY battles.
meeting a heavy loss at Nashville. The
Thirty-second Regiment was known as the
First German. 1t was in the Fourth Corps.
and took a part IN all the fights from Row.
lett's Station. in December. 1851. TO the
capture of Atlanta The ThIr-
ty-eiehth entered the service at the
first, and was In TO the end with Sher-
man in North Carolina. Its greatest
mortality was at Chaplin Hills. Ky., Oct.
3. lSt2-fOrty-two men. The Eighth Cav
airy served as infantry at Shiloh and Stone
River. Its mortuary record numbering for
ty-elght men at the latter. 1t was one of
the always-ready cavalry regiments. AS
late as March 10. 1866. IL lost seventeen men
In killed ut AverysborO. n. C.AThe For.
t;eth was In the Fourth Corps. and was In
al It's nghtlng from shiloh TO Nashville,
Tenn, its largest death-rolI being at Mis-
sionary Ridge-thirty-nine.
All OF these regiments were organized
In 1861 and "vateranIZed" In the winter and
spring of 1864. Thus they had a years
fighting before the splendid line of Indiana
regiments entering the service for three
years between March and September. 1852.
mbracing tw~enty-nine organizations be-
tween the Fifty-ninth and O~ne-hundred-
and-first. If tins splendid galaxy of regi-
ments, with lndIana's other veteran regi-
ments. had been in the same places with
the thirteen sustaining the greatest losses.
they would have acquitted themselves
with equal vslor and won equal renown for
the hoosIer State. They were the same
sort of men.