42nd Indiana Infantry Regiment
| 42nd Regiment Indiana Infantry | |
|---|---|
| Active | October 9, 1861 – July 21, 1865 |
| Country | United States |
| Allegiance | Union |
| Branch | Infantry |
| Engagements | Battle of Perryville Battle of Stones River Tullahoma Campaign Battle of Chickamauga Siege of Chattanooga Battle of Lookout Mountain Battle of Missionary Ridge Atlanta Campaign Battle of Resaca Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Battle of Peachtree Creek Siege of Atlanta Battle of Jonesboro Sherman's March to the Sea Carolinas Campaign Battle of Bentonville |
The 42nd Regiment Indiana Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 42nd Indiana Infantry was organized at Evansville, Indiana and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on October 9, 1861, under the command of Colonel James Garrard Jones. The regiment was recruited in Daviess, Gibson, Pike, Spencer, Warrick, and Vanderburgh counties. The regiment was attached to 14th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, October to December 1861. 14th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, to April 1862. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, I Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Center, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XIV Corps to October 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, to July 1865. The 42nd Indiana Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 21, 1865.
Detailed service
1862
January - February - Ordered to Kentucky, and duty at Henderson, Calhoun and Owensboro, Kentucky February 10-25 - Advance on Nashville, Tennessee March 28-April 11 - Occupation of Shelbyville and Fayetteville and advance on Huntsville, Alabama April 11–14 - Alabama April 11 -Action at Wartrace April 29 - Advance on and capture of Decatur, Alabama August 27-September 26 - Action at West Bridge near Bridgeport until August - Duty at Huntsville, Alabama.March to Nashville, Tennessee, then to Louisville, Kentucky, in pursuit of Bragg, October 1–15 - Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 8 - Battle of Perryville October 16-November 7 - March to Nashville, Tennessee until December 26 - Duty in Nashville, Tennessee December 26–30 - Advance on Murfreesboro December 30–31 - Battle of Stones River
1863
January 1–3 - Battle of Stones River March 9–14 - Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Reconnaissance to Versailles June 23-July 7 - Tullahoma Campaign until August 16 - Elm River June 29 - Occupation of middle Tennessee August 16-September 22 - Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign September 11 - Davis Cross Roads or Dug Gap September 19–21 - Battle of Chickamauga September 21 - Rossville Gap September 24-November 23 - Siege of Chattanooga November 23–27 - Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23–24 - Lookout Mountain November 25 - Missionary Ridge November 26 - Pea Vine Creek and Graysville November 27 - Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge
1864
January 1, 1864 - Regiment reenlisted May 1-September 8 - Atlanta Campaign May 8–11 - Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8–9 - Buzzard's Roost Gap May 14–15 - Battle of Resaca May 18–25 - Advance on Dallas May 25-June 5 - Operations on Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills May 27 - Pickett's Mill June 10-July 2 - Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 11–14 - Pine Hill June 15–17 - Lost Mountain June 27 - Assault on Kennesaw July 4 - Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground July 5–17 - Chattahoochee River July 18 - Buckhead, Nancy's Creek July 19–20 - Peachtree Creek July 22-August 25 - Siege of Atlanta August 5–7 - Utoy Creek August 25–30 - Flank movement on Jonesboro August 29 - Near Red Oak August 31-September 1 - Battle of Jonesboro September 29-November 3 - Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama November 15-December 10 - March to the Sea December 10–21 - Siege of Savannah
1865
January to April - Campaign of the Carolinas March 16 - Averysboro, North Carolina March 19–21 - Battle of Bentonville March 24 - Occupation of Goldsboro April 10–14 - Advance on Raleigh April 14 - Occupation of Raleigh April 26 - Bennett's House April 29-May 19 - Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Virginia May 24 - Grand Review of the Armies June - Moved to Louisville, Kentucky
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 310 men during service; 5 officers and 108 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 196 enlisted men died of disease.
Commanders
- Colonel James Garrard Jones - mustered out November 4, 1864 on expiration of term of service
- Colonel William T. B. McIntire - commanded at the Battle of Chickamauga as lieutenant colonel; resigned as lieutenant colonel, December 12, 1864
- Colonel Gideon R. Kellams - mustered out with regiment.
- Lieutenant Colonel Charles Harvey Denby - second-in-command from inception through the Battle of Perryville; then assumed command of 80th Indiana Infantry Regiment
- Lieutenant Colonel James M. Shanklin - commanded at the Battle of Stones River but was captured during the battle
See also
References
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
- Horral, Spillard F. History of the Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry (Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers), 1892.
- Kirkpatrick, George Morgan. The Experiences of a Private Soldier of the Civil War (Indianapolis: Hoosier Bookshop), 1973. [written in 1924]
- Shanklin, James Maynard. "Dearest Lizzie": The Civil War as Seen Through the Eyes of Lieutenant Colonel James Maynard Shanklin of Southwest Indiana's own 42nd Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry (Evansville, IN: Friends of Willard Library Press), 1988. ISBN 0-940163-01-2
- Attribution
- Public Domain This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.
