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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
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Organization
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Regimental commanders
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Name
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Date of Commission
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Notes
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John W. Foster
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August 18, 1862
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Resigned March 10, 1864, due to disability. Re-entered service as colonel of the 136th Regiment
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Thomas Johnson
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March 11, 1864
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Honorably discharged as lieutenant colonel on August 29, 1864, due to disability.
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John W. Hammond
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September 7, 1864
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Mustered out with regiment as lieutenant colonel.
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Regimental units
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Command structure
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Time period
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Command
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February 1862 to June 1863
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District of Western Kentucky,
Department of the Ohio
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June 1863 to August 1863
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1st Brigade, 2nd Division,
XXIII Corps
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Army of the Ohio
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August 1863 to October 1863
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2nd Brigade, 4th Division,
XXIII Corps
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Army of the Ohio
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October 1863 to November 1863
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4th Brigade, 4th Division,
XXIII Corps
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Army of the Ohio
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November 1863 to April 1864
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2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division,
Department of the Ohio
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April 1864 to February 1865
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2nd Brigade, 3rd Division,
XXIII Corps
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Army of the Ohio
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February 1865 to June 1865
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Department of North Carolina
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Service
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Date
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Event
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August 20, 1862
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Left State for Henderson, Kentucky
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August 25, 1862
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Action at Madisonville, Kentucky
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Through August, 1863
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Guard duty along line of Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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September 12, 1862
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Skirmish at Bradenburg, Kentucky
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September 14, 1862
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Skirmish at Henderson, Kentucky (Company D)
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April 1863
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Regiment mounted
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July 21, 1863
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Action at Cheshire, Ohio
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July 29, 1863
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Dixon (Company E)
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August 16-October 17, 1863
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Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee
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September 2, 1863
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Occupation of Knoxville
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September 11, 1863
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Action at Greenville
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September 18, 1863
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Kingsport
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September 19, 1863
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Bristol
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September 20?21, 1863
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Zollicoffer
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September 20?21, 1863
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Carter's Depot
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September 21, 1863
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Jonesborough
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September 22, 1863
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Hall's Ford, Watauga River
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September 22, 1863
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Carter's Depot
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October 10, 1863
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Blue Springs
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October 11, 1863
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Henderson's Mill and Rheatown
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October 14, 1863
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Blountsville
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October 15, 1863
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Bristol
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November 4-December 23, 1863
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Knoxville Campaign
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November 19, 1863
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Mulberry Gap
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December 2, 1863
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Walker's Ford, Clinch River
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December 12, 1863
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Near Maynardsville
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December 14, 1863
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Bean's Station
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December 16?19, 1863
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Blain's Cross Roads
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January 16, 1864
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Kimbrough's Cross Roads
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January 16?17 and January 26?28, 1864
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Operations about Dandridge
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January 17, 1864
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Dandridge
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March 12, 1864
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Scout to Chucky Bend
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April 21, 1864
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Regiment dismounted
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May 1-September 8, 1864
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Atlanta Campaign
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May 8?13, 1864
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Demonstrations on
Rocky Faced Ridge
and Dalton
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May 14?15, 1864
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Battle of Resaca
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May 20, 1864
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Cartersville
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May 25-June 5, 1864
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Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about
Dallas
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New Hope Church
and Allatoona Hills
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June 10-July 2, 1864
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Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain
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June 15?17, 1864
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Lost Mountain
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June 17, 1864
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Muddy Creek
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June 22, 1864
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Cheyney's Farm
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June 26?27, 1864
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Olley's Farm
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June 27, 1864
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Assault on Kenesaw
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July 2?5, 1864
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Nickajack Creek
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July 5?17, 1864
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Chattahoochie River
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July 8, 1864
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Isham's Ford
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July 22-August 25, 1864
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Siege of Atlanta
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August 5?7, 1864
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Utoy Creek
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August 25?30, 1864
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Flank movement on Jonesboro
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August 31, 1864
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Near Rough and Ready
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September 2?6, 1864
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Lovejoy's Station
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September 28, 1864
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Decatur
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October 3?26, 1864
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Pursuit of Hood into Alabama
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November?December, 1864
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Nashville Campaign
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November 24?27, 1864
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Columbia, Duck River
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November 30, 1864
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Battle of Franklin
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December 15?16, 1864
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Battle of Nashville
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December 17?28, 1864
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Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River
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Through January 16, 1865
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At Clifton, Tennessee
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January 16-February 9, 1865
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Movement to Washington, D. C., thence to Fort Fisher, North Carolina
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February 11?14, 1865
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Operations against Hoke
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February 11, 1865
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Sugar Leaf Battery
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February 18?19, 1865
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Fort Anderson
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February 19?20, 1865
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Town Creek
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February 22, 1865
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Battle of Wilmington
and capture of the city
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March 1-April 26, 1865
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Campaign of the Carolinas
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March 6?21, 1865
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Advance on Goldsboro
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April 10?14, 1865
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Advance on Raleigh
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April 14, 1865
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Occupation of Raleigh
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April 26, 1865
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Bennett's House
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Surrender of Johnston and his army
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Through June, 1865
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Duty at Raleigh and Greensboro
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June 22, 1865
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Mustered out
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Strength
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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
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References
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- ^
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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