Source: HISTORY OF DEKALB COUNTY, INDIANA. B.F. Bowen & Company, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana, 1914, pp. 102-104.


THIRTIETH INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

Company H of this regiment was composed almost wholly of DeKalb county men,
and was captained by Cyrus Hawley. W. W. Griswold was commissioned first
lieutenant, then captain, transferred to Company C, Residuary Battalion,
commissioned major on December 3, 1864, colonel One Hundred and Fifty-second
Indiana Volunteer Infantry on March 9, 1865. Joshua Eberly was mustered in as
first sergeant and reached the rank of first lieutenant, and was killed at
Chickamauga. Leander F. Welden was mustered in as sergeant and reached the
rank of major. Job C. Smith, Joseph McKay, Jeremiah D. Likens were second
lieutenants during the service. Perry Hodges was sergeant and discharged for
disability. Cyrus C. Hodges, William H. Phelps, Lorenzo D. Conner, Philip
Noel, William Miller, Henry M. Stoner, John C. Whysong, Martin V. Snyder were
corporals. Other members of the company follow: William Feagler was captured
at Chickamauga; James F. Johnson, Joseph S. Murray, David S. Arthur, Caspar
Altenburg, Isaiah Baughman, Peter Barnhart died from wounds at Stone River,
William H. H. Beard, Adna Brown, Florence Buchanan, Henry Bolinger, George
Baltsley, Israel Church, George Cole, Alvin Collar, Zephania B. Culbertson,
William Connaway, William Crusan, Abel Crusan, William H. Cox, Mathew Crooks,
Ebenezer Delong, Charles Delong, Lester Dilno, Colvert J. Drury, John N.
Eberly, Robert Feagler, Leslie Fisher, Lewis Fisher, John Furney, Samuel
Ford, William C. Ford, Nathan Frederickson, William Freeman, William Franks,
William Fike, Jesse Gingerick, Samuel George, George W. Hamilton, Marquis L.
Hoose, John High, Henry Healey, Peleg Hull, Amos Hull, Isaac Hornberger,
James S. Hughey, David Highes, Benton Hoover, Robert H. Johnson, David
Knowderer, Philip Kennedy, St. George Lightner, John Lawrence, Asbury J.
Long, Joseph Lockmire, John P. McMillen, Perry Mullen, John Marcum, James C.
Myers, Dexter Munger, Reason McCush, Samuel L. Musser, Nathaniel Osburn,
Henry J. Park, Hezekiah Plummer, John A. Provines, David Rigby, Eli Rigby,
Riley Rickles, Albert Reed, Levi Rutan, Benjamin F. Sponhower, Alfred G.
Showers, Nathan M. Showers, Ephraim Shull, Ephraim Shaffstall, Alexander
Skinner, James Skinner, Samuel Ulem, John W. Watson, Jesse Wallace, John C.
Weeks, Henry Wagner, James Weir and Jonas Zimmerman, Joseph Teegarden, Jacob
Kyle, Abraham Weaver, Charles Roberts, Robert H. Johnston were members of
Companies D, E, F and G. Charles W. Campbell was a member of Company D,
Thirty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
The Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Fort Wayne,
Indiana, for the three years' service. With McCook's division in Buell's
army, the regiment fought bravely at Shiloh, where it lost its colonel, Bass;
siege of Corinth, the pursuit of Bragg into Tennessee, was with Rosecran's
army in the movement from Nashville to Murfreesboro, battle of Tullahoma, and
as a part of the Second brigade, participated in the sanguinary conflict at
Chickamauga. In the battle of Chickamauga this regiment came on to the field
about noon of September 19, 1863, and went into action first at the Brock
field east of the Brotherton house, and was engaged all afternoon in
assisting in driving the enemy the distance of about a mile east of where
they first went into action, and was there on the afternoon and again in the
night fight with Dodge's brigade, on the Alexander and Reed's Bridge road
immediately south of the Winfrey field line. After the battle of Chickamauga
and the return of the army to Chattanooga, the regiment remained at different
stations in Tennessee, and a portion of the regiment re-enlisted as veterans
at Blue Springs, that state, in January, 1864. The non-veterans remained at
Blue Springs until April, 1864, the veterans having returned to the field,
the entire regiment rejoining the Army of the Cumberland under command of
Major-General George H. Thomas, and took part in the following battles:
Catoosa Springs, Tunnel Hill, Buzzard Roost, Oostenaula River, Kingston,
Pumpkin Vine Creek, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, Peach Tree
Creek, siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, and Lovejoy's Station. After the fall of
Atlanta the non-veterans were sent home to Indiana and mustered out, while
the veterans and recruits were attached to the Fourth Army Corps and engaged
in the battles of Columbia, Spring Hill and Franklin. The regiment fought
Hood at Nashville, joined in the pursuit of him, and after the surrender at
Appomattox was a part of the army of occupation which was sent to Texas.

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