42nd Indiana Infantry Regiment
The 42nd Regiment Indiana Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service. The 42nd Indiana Infantry was organized at Evansville, Indiana and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on October 9, 1861, under the command of Colonel James Garrard Jones. The regiment was recruited in Daviess, Gibson, Pike, Spencer, Warrick, and Vanderburgh counties. The regiment was attached to 14th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, October to December 1861. 14th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, to April 1862. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the  Ohio, to September 1862. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, I Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Center, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XIV Corps to October 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, to July 1865. The 42nd Indiana Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 21, 1865. Detailed service. 1862. January - February - Ordered to "Kentucky", and duty at "Henderson", "Calhoun" and "Owensboro, Kentucky" February 10-25 - Advance on "Nashville, Tennessee  March 28-April 11 - Occupation of Shelbyville" and "Fayetteville" and advance on "Huntsville, Alabama" April 11–14 - "Alabama" April 11 -Action at "Wartrace" April 29 - Advance on and capture of "Decatur, Alabama" August 27-September 26 - Action at West Bridge near "Bridgeport" until August - Duty at "Huntsville, Alabama."March to Nashville, Tennessee, then to Louisville, Kentucky, in pursuit of Bragg, October 1–15 - Pursuit of Bragg into "Kentucky" October 8 - Battle of "Perryville" October 16-November 7 - March to "Nashville, Tennessee" until December 26 - Duty in "Nashville, Tennessee" December 26–30 - Advance on "Murfreesboro" December 30–31 - "Battle of Stones River" 1863. January 1–3  - "Battle of Stones River" March 9–14 - Duty at "Murfreesboro" until June. Reconnaissance to Versailles June 23-July 7 - "Tullahoma Campaign" until August 16 - Elm River June 29 - Occupation of middle "Tennessee" August 16-September 22 - Passage of the "Cumberland Mountains" and "Tennessee River" and "Chickamauga Campaign" September 11 - "Davis Cross Roads" or "Dug Gap" September 19–21 - "Battle of Chickamauga" September 21 - "Rossville Gap" September 24-November 23 - "Siege of Chattanooga" November 23–27 - "Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign" November 23–24 - "Lookout Mountain" November 25 - "Missionary Ridge" November 26 - "Pea Vine Creek" and "Graysville" November 27 - "Ringgold Gap", "Taylor's Ridge" 1864. January 1 , 1864 - Regiment reenlisted May 1-September 8 - "Atlanta Campaign" May 8–11 - Demonstrations on "Rocky Faced Ridge" May 8–9 - "Buzzard's Roost Gap" May 14–15 - "Battle of Resaca" May 18–25 - Advance on "Dallas" May 25-June 5 - Operations on "Pumpkin Vine Creek" and battles about "Dallas", "New Hope Church", and "Allatoona Hills" May 27 - "Pickett's Mill" June 10-July 2 - Operations about "Marietta" and against "Kennesaw Mountain" June 11–14 - "Pine Hill" June 15–17 - "Lost Mountain" June 27 - "Assault on Kennesaw" July 4 - "Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground" July 5–17 - "Chattahoochee River" July 18 - "Buckhead, Nancy's Creek" July 19–20  - "Peachtree Creek" July 22-August 25 - "Siege of Atlanta" August 5–7 - "Utoy Creek" August 25–30 - Flank movement on "Jonesboro" August 29 - Near "Red O"ak August 31-September 1 - "Battle of Jonesboro" September 29-November 3 - Operations against Hood in northern "Georgia" and northern "Alabama" November 15-December 10 - March to the Sea December 10–21 - "Siege of Savannah" 1865. January to April - "Campaign of the Carolinas" March 16 - "Averysboro, North Carolina" March 19–21 - "Battle of Bentonville" March 24 - Occupation of "Goldsboro" April 10–14 - "Advance on Raleigh" April 14 - Occupation of "Raleigh" April 26 - "Bennett's House" April 29-May 19 - Surrender  of Johnston and his army. March to "Washington, D.C"., via "Richmond, Virginia" May 24 - Grand Review of the Armies June - Moved to "Louisville, Kentucky" Casualties. The regiment lost a total of 310 men during service; 5 officers and 108 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 196 enlisted men died of disease.