Identifier: indianaatvicksbu00indi (find matches)
Title: Indiana at Vicksburg
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Indiana. Vicksburg National Military Park Commission Adams, Henry C. jr. comp
Subjects: Indiana -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Indiana Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History Siege, 1863 Vicksburg National Military Park
Publisher: Indianapolis, W. B. Burford, contractor for state printing and binding
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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otal 1.872 Lost in battle 402 Discharged on account of wounds and disease 1()4 Loss by desertion 12 Mustered out and discharged because of transfer and promotion and by reason of expiration of service 30r> Dismissed and sent to prison Total !>4!t Approximately 700 recruits were assigned to the regiment earlyin 1865, and saw no field service. The regiment did service in eightStates, three different armies—the Tennessee, Army of the Gulf andShenandoah—and served in three army corps—the 8th, 13th and19th. It maintained a brass band throughout the entire service, theofficers paying the band a stipulated sum monthly in addition totheir pay as enlisted men, this after the government ordered allregimental bands maintained at government expense to be discon-tinued. Its travels amounted to 9,300 miles. The regiment lost during its two terms of service one officer and114 enlisted men killed and mortally WOunded, and three officersand 171 enlisted men by disease. Total, 289.
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Monument of 12tli Infantry, (Monument Tablet Inscription.) 1st BRIGADE 1st DIVISION lOtli CORPS12th INFANTRY Colonel Reuben Williams Served on the exterior line in the vicinity of Haynes Bluff and at Oak Ridge from about June 12to the end of the Siese, July 4. (218) TWELFTH REGIMENT INDIANA INFANTRYVOLUNTEERS. The 12th Regiment answered the first call for volunteeis madel)y the President in April, 1861, for six regiments of three monthstroops, and was made up of the surplus of companies that hadreached Indianapolis, and was accepted for state service for oneyear, on the 11th of IMay, 1861, with John )^.I. Wallace as colonel. On the 11th of June, the regiment left Indianapolis for Evans-ville, Indiana, where it went into camp. July 18th, orders were re-ceived from the War Department for its transfer to the UnitedStates service for the remaining period of its term of enlistment,and on the 23d the regiment left Evansville for Baltimore, INIary-land, where it arrived on the 27th, and on t

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