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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
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ne division, of which the 93d was a part, marched to andarrived at Selma, Alabama, May 14th. The 93d was sent toGainesville, Alabama, doing guard duty and receiving Confederatestores and cotton. The regiment remained here until it was or-dered home. The regiment was mustered out of the service atMemphis, Tennessee, to date August 10, 1865, with the exceptionof two companies, I and K, which were mustered out in Oc-tober, 1865. The regiment arrived in Indianapolis August 11,1865, and, upon arriving here, was greeted with a public ovationand welcomed by an address from Governor Baker and others. The regiment left for the field with an aggregate of 923 men.It returned with 18 officers and 200 men. It traveled during thetime of service 1,060 miles by rail, 3,972 miles by river and marched2,452 miles, making a grand total of 7,432 miles. The regiment lost during service 1 officer and 37 enlisted men,killed and mortally wounded, and 3 officers and 250 enlisted menby disease; total, 291. (241
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JNIonument of OTtli Inlaatry. (Monument Tablet Inscription.) 3d BRIGADE 1st DIVISION 16th CORPS 97th INFANTRY j Colonel Robert F. Catterson Served on the Exterior line in the vicinity of Haynes Bluff and at Oak Ridge from about June 12to the end of the Sie^e, July i. (370) NINETY-SEVENTH REGIMENT INDIANA INFANTRYVOLUNTEERS. The companies that made up the 97th Indiana Volunteers wereenlisted in the counties of Greene, Owen, Putnam, Clay, Vermillionand Sullivan, and went into Camp Dick Thomp&on at Terre Hautein August, 1862, and were mustered into the service of the UnitedStates on September 20, 1862, by Capt. James Biddle. In October, 1862, Bragg was marching on Louisville, Kentucky,and the regiment received its first marching orders and left forLouisville via Indianapolis, and, arriving at Indianapolis, was or-dered into Camp Morton. While here Capt. Robert F. Catter-son, of the 14th Indiana Infantry, who was then at home on leaveof absence, by reason of wounds received at the bat

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