65th Indiana Infantry Regiment
Military unit
The 65th Regiment Indiana Infantry , was organized in Princeton and recruited throughout the southern Indiana counties to fight in the American Civil War .
Organization
Regimental commanders
Name
Date of Commission
Notes
John W. Foster
August 18, 1862
Resigned March 10, 1864, due to disability. Re-entered service as colonel of the 136th Regiment
Thomas Johnson
March 11, 1864
Honorably discharged as lieutenant colonel on August 29, 1864, due to disability.
John W. Hammond
September 7, 1864
Mustered out with regiment as lieutenant colonel.
Regimental units
Command structure
Time period
Command
February 1862 to June 1863
District of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio
June 1863 to August 1863
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps , Army of the Ohio
August 1863 to October 1863
2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps , Army of the Ohio
October 1863 to November 1863
4th Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps , Army of the Ohio
November 1863 to April 1864
2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Department of the Ohio
April 1864 to February 1865
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps , Army of the Ohio
February 1865 to June 1865
Department of North Carolina
Service
Date
Event
August 20, 1862
Left State for Henderson, Kentucky
August 25, 1862
Action at Madisonville, Kentucky
Through August, 1863
Guard duty along line of Louisville & Nashville Railroad
September 12, 1862
Skirmish at Bradenburg, Kentucky
September 14, 1862
Skirmish at Henderson, Kentucky (Company D)
April 1863
Regiment mounted
July 21, 1863
Action at Cheshire, Ohio
July 29, 1863
Dixon (Company E)
August 16-October 17, 1863
Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee
September 2, 1863
Occupation of Knoxville
September 11, 1863
Action at Greenville
September 18, 1863
Kingsport
September 19, 1863
Bristol
September 20–21, 1863
Zollicoffer
September 20–21, 1863
Carter's Depot
September 21, 1863
Jonesborough
September 22, 1863
Hall's Ford, Watauga River
September 22, 1863
Carter's Depot
October 10, 1863
Blue Springs
October 11, 1863
Henderson's Mill and Rheatown
October 14, 1863
Blountsville
October 15, 1863
Bristol
November 4-December 23, 1863
Knoxville Campaign
November 19, 1863
Mulberry Gap
December 2, 1863
Walker's Ford, Clinch River
December 12, 1863
Near Maynardsville
December 14, 1863
Bean's Station
December 16–19, 1863
Blain's Cross Roads
January 16, 1864
Kimbrough's Cross Roads
January 16–17 and January 26–28, 1864
Operations about Dandridge
January 17, 1864
Dandridge
March 12, 1864
Scout to Chucky Bend
April 21, 1864
Regiment dismounted
May 1-September 8, 1864
Atlanta Campaign
May 8–13, 1864
Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton
May 14–15, 1864
Battle of Resaca
May 20, 1864
Cartersville
May 25-June 5, 1864
Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas , New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills
June 10-July 2, 1864
Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain
June 15–17, 1864
Lost Mountain
June 17, 1864
Muddy Creek
June 22, 1864
Cheyney's Farm
June 26–27, 1864
Olley's Farm
June 27, 1864
Assault on Kenesaw
July 2–5, 1864
Nickajack Creek
July 5–17, 1864
Chattahoochie River
July 8, 1864
Isham's Ford
July 22-August 25, 1864
Siege of Atlanta
August 5–7, 1864
Utoy Creek
August 25–30, 1864
Flank movement on Jonesboro
August 31, 1864
Near Rough and Ready
September 2–6, 1864
Lovejoy's Station
September 28, 1864
Decatur
October 3–26, 1864
Pursuit of Hood into Alabama
November–December, 1864
Nashville Campaign
November 24–27, 1864
Columbia, Duck River
November 30, 1864
Battle of Franklin
December 15–16, 1864
Battle of Nashville
December 17–28, 1864
Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River
Through January 16, 1865
At Clifton, Tennessee
January 16-February 9, 1865
Movement to Washington, D. C., thence to Fort Fisher, North Carolina
February 11–14, 1865
Operations against Hoke
February 11, 1865
Sugar Leaf Battery [ 1]
February 18–19, 1865
Fort Anderson
February 19–20, 1865
Town Creek
February 22, 1865
Battle of Wilmington and capture of the city
March 1-April 26, 1865
Campaign of the Carolinas
March 6–21, 1865
Advance on Goldsboro
April 10–14, 1865
Advance on Raleigh
April 14, 1865
Occupation of Raleigh
April 26, 1865
Bennett's House
Surrender of Johnston and his army
Through June, 1865
Duty at Raleigh and Greensboro
June 22, 1865
Mustered out
Strength
Original recruitment strength was 942 with 228 additional troops; total, 1,170. Regiment lost during service 34 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 216 Enlisted men by disease. Total 254, Additionally, 59 desertions and 8 unaccounted.
See also
References
^ United States. (1895). Official records of the Union and Confederate navies in the war of the rebellion: Series 1., Vol 47, Part 1 Reports. Washington, D.C: GPO.
Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion , Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Co. 1908.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 2, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1865
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 6, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1866
"The Union Army" by Federal Publishing Company, 1908 - Volume 3
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