69th Indiana Infantry

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=95 BGCOLOR="#000033" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="0db005f0ddtham.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" ><B>They Were the 114th O.V.I.</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="They Were the 114th O.V.I."><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id129.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="8th Indiana Infantry"><U>8th Indiana Infantry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id130.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="49th Indiana Infantry"><U>49th Indiana Infantry</U></A>   |   <B>69th Indiana Infantry</B>   |   <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="11th Iowa Infantry"><U>11th Iowa Infantry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id134.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry"><U>42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id135.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="118th Illinois Infantry"><U>118th Illinois Infantry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id198.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="54th Ind"><U>54th Ind</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grape and Canister"><U>Grape and Canister</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id199.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="87th Ill"><U>87th Ill</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id205.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="18th Ind"><U>18th Ind</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="16th Ohio"><U>16th Ohio</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="0dc622d3.png"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=385 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="0dd622d3.png"> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>69th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Organized at Richmond, Ind., and mustered in August 19, 1862. Left State for Lexington, Ky., August</div> <div> 20. Attached to M    anson's Brigade, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio. Battle of Richmond, Ky., August</div> <div> 30th. Regiment captured August 30th; paroled and sent to Indianapolis, Ind. Reorganizing at Indianapolis till</div> <div> November 27, 1862. Left State for Memphis, Tenn., November 27, 1862. Attached to 1st Brigade, 9th</div> <div> Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd</div> <div> Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 9th Division, 13th Army Corps, Army</div> <div> of the Tennessee, to July, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to</div> <div> August, 1863, and Dept. of the Gulf to March, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, to June,</div> <div> 1864, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to December, 1864. District of Southern</div> <div> Alabama, Dept. of the Gulf, December, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Reserve Corps, Military Division West Mississippi,</div> <div> to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Reserve Corps, Military Division West Mississippi, February,</div> <div> 1865. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 13th Army Corps (New), Military Division West Mississippi, to July, 1865. </div> <bR> <div>     SERVICE.--Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862, to January 3, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou</div> <div> December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863.</div> <div> Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, La., January</div> <div> 17, and duty there till March 8. Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., March 8, and duty there till April 25.</div> <div> Roundaway Bayou, Richmond, March 31. Operations from Milliken's Bend to New Carthage March 31-April</div> <div> 17. James' Plantation, near New Carthage, April 6. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April</div> <div> 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Big Black Bridge May 17. Siege of</div> <div> Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Near</div> <div> Clinton July 8. Near Jackson July 9. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Moved to New Orleans, La., August 13.</div> <div> Duty at Carrollton, Brashear City and Berwick till October. Western Louisiana "Teche" Campaign October</div> <div> 3-November 30. Ordered to Algiers December 113, thence moved to Texas December 18. Duty at Matagorda</div> <div> Bay and Indianola till February, 1864, and at Matagorda Island till April 19. Moved to New Orleans, thence to</div> <div> Alexandria, La., April 19-27. Red River Campaign April 27-May 22. Actions at Alexandria April 29 and May 2</div> <div> to 9. Graham's Plantation May 5. Retreat to Morganza May 13-20. Duty at Morganza till December.</div> <div> Expedition to the Atchafalaya May 30-June 6. Expedition to mouth of White River at St. Charles, Ark.,</div> <div> September 13-20. Moved to Dauphin Island, Mobile Bay, December 7. Granger's Pascagoula Expedition</div> <div> December 14, 1864, to January 1, 1865. Duty at Pascagoula till January 31. Consolidated to a Battalion of 4</div> <div> Companies January 22. Moved to Barrancas, Fla., January 31; thence to Pensacola, Fla., March 14. Steele's</div> <div> march through Florida to Mobile March 20-April 1. Occupation of Pollard March 26. Siege of Spanish Fort and</div> <div> Fort Blakely April 1-9. Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. March to Montgomery and Selma April</div> <div> 13-22. Return to Mobile May 3 and duty there till July. Mustered out July 5, 1865. </div> <bR> <div>     Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 77 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and and 3</div> <div> Officers and 248 Enlisted men by disease. Total 331. </div> <bR> <div> _________</div> <div> Source: A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer. 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