8th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
3 Months Service
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., April 21-27, 1861. Ordered to West Virginia June 19. Attached to
Rosecran's Brigade, McClellan's Provisional Army of West Virginia. Moved to Clarksburg, W. Va., June 19;
thence march to Buchannon June 29. Occupation of Buchannon June 30. West Virginia Campaign July 6-17.
Battle of Rich Mountain July 11. Mustered out August 6, 1861.
Regiment lost during service 4 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 7.
3 Years Service
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., August 20-September 5, 1861. Ordered to St. Louis, Mo., September 10.
Attached to Fremont's Army of the West and Dept. of Missouri to January, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division,
Army of Southwest Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to May, 1862. 1st Division, Army of Southwest Missouri, to
July, 1862. District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of Missouri, to October, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division,
District of Southeast Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to March, 1863. 1st Brigade, 14th Division, 13th Army
Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the
Tennessee, to August, 1863, and Dept. of Gulf to June, 1864. District of LaFourche, Dept. of the Gulf, to
August, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military
Division, to August, 1864. 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd
Division, 19th Army Corps, to January, 1865. 1st Brigade, Grover's Division, District of Savannah, Ga., Dept.
of the South, to August, 1865.
SERVICE.-- Fremont's advance on Springfield, Mo., September 22-October 15. Camp at Otterville till
January 25, 1862. Expedition to Milford December 15-19, 1861. Action at Milford, Blackwater or Shawnee
Mound December 18. Curtis' advance on Springfield January 25-February 14, 1862. Pursuit of Price to
Cassville, Ark. Battle of Pea Ridge March 6-8. At Sulphur Rock till May. March to Batesville, Ark.; thence to
Helena, Ark., May 25-July 14. Action at Hill's Plantation, Cache River, July 7. Expedition to Coldwater, Miss.,
July 22-25. (Cos. "B," "E"). White Oak Bayou July 24 (Cos., "B," "E"). Austin, Tunica County, August 2. At
Helena till October. Ordered to Pilot Knob, Mo., and operations in Southeast Missouri till March 5, 1863.
Moved to Helena, Ark., thence to Milliken's Bend, La. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April
25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Big Black River May 17. Siege of
Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July
4-10. Siege of Jackson, Miss., July 10-17. Duty at Vicksburg till August 20. Ordered to New Orleans, till
October. Western Louisiana "Teche" Campaign October 3-November 8, thence to Texas November 12.
Capture of Mustang Island November 17. Fort Esperanza November 27-30. Duty at Matagorda Bay till
February, 1864. Duty at Indianola and Lavacca, Tex., till April. Veterans on furlough April and May. Duty in
District of LaFourche, La., till July. Ordered to Washington, D. C. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign
August 7 to November 28. Berryville, Va., September 3. Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.
Fisher's Hill September 22. Battle of Cedar Creek October 19. Duty in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, till
January, 1865. Moved to Baltimore, Md., January 6-7., 1865; thence to Savannah, Ga., January 14-20. Duty
there and at various points in Georgia and South Carolina till August. Mustered out August 28, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 84 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers
and 166 Enlisted men by disease. Total 258.
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Source: A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer. Copyright, 1908.
