Source: HISTORY OF DEKALB COUNTY, INDIANA. B.F. Bowen & Company, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana, 1914, pp. 101-102.


TWENTY-NINTH INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

Company A of the Twenty-ninth enrolled Robert H. Garrett, Stephen E. Healy,
Frederick High, James McNabb, Noah Martorff, Lewis Y. Newhouse, Henry Snook,
William C. Sweeney. David Smith belonged to Company H. Nathan Watson and
Jeremiah Walker joined Company I. Ed. A. Stone was a member of Company K.
The Twenty-ninth was organized at Laporte, Indiana, for the three years'
service. As a member of General Rousseau's brigade the regiment was assigned
McCook's division, in Buell's army, and marched to the Tennessee river. At
Shiloh the regiment suffered heavily. The men were in the siege of Corinth,
pursued Bragg through Kentucky into Tennessee, participated in the battle of
Stone's River, Tullahoma. At Chickamauga the regiment was a part of the
Second brigade, under Col. Joseph B. Dodge. At Chickamauga the regiment took
an active part and bore her share of the tremendous losses. After this battle
the regiment was sent to Alabama, where it remained until 1864, when it
veteranized and returned to Indiana on furlough. After the return to service,
Decatur, Alabama, was the first battle, next Dalton, Georgia, and on December
2, 1865, was mustered from the service at Marietta, Georgia.

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