Source: HISTORY OF DEKALB COUNTY, INDIANA. B.F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1914, pp. 105-108. FORTY-FOURTH INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. In Company B of this regiment were the following from this county: William Gobal, Ralph Goodrich, Isaac Harrison, Peter Huffman, Clinton Scobey, John H. Barnes, James W. Briggs, Joshua Ballinger, Samuel Cummins, Joseph H. Corder, Francis M. Cox, Isaac R. Cary, Isaac C. Havens, John L. Walters. In Company D were Joshua Lounsberry, Francis Bartlett, Frederick Brunet. Henry I. Collier, Jacob H. McClellan, David McCord, Norman Luce and Henry Luce. In Company F were Captain George W. Merrill, Captain Thomas C. Kinmont, Captain John Gunsenhouser, Captain Irvin N. Thomas, Captain George H. Casper, Lieutenant James Colgrove, Lieutenant Alexander Kinmont, Lieutenant James M. Thomas, Captain Solomon Delong, Lieutenant Alfred Rose, James H. Obell, Wilson Nichols, Nathan P. Fuller were sergeants; James G. Dirrim, Willis Andrews, Francis S. Chandler, Andrew J. Stole, Marshall Hadsell, James M. Williman were corporals: Simeon Aldrick and Trusterman B. Totten were musicians; Nathan Mathews was wagoner; Henry J. Abell, David Andrews, Hollis B. Aikens, Michael Brubaker, Otis Blood, Lewis Baird, Wilson S. Barden, Isaac Brubaker, William Collier, Joseph Craig, Edward R. Coburn, Daniel W. Cole, Calvin Caseber, John G. Casebeer, Oscar I. Crain, Peter Country-man, Ludwig Countryman, George H. Casper, William Cochran, William Diehil, Ezra Dickinson, Richard Dirrim, Isaac Ditmar, Charles O. Danks, James Flora, William Friend, Daniel Greenwalt, Hiram Gaff, Frederick Ginter, Henry Gunsenhouser, Chester D. Greemyer, Alexander Hart, John H. Hart, David N. Hart, Jacob Hoffman, Allen S. Headley, John Hunbarger, Samuel Jacques, Leonard Kirby, Jacob Myers, Henry Milliman, Warren Milliman, Henry L. Monroe, Robert Matthews, Harvey Nichols, Alexander L. Nichols, Orlando Oberlin, George W. Palmer, Henry C. Pryor, Bennett S. Robe, James Revett, George E. Revett, Samuel R. Rickell, William M. Smith, Robert S. Schamp, Thomas O. Sloan, John M. Scott, Nathan Stockwell, Lewis R. Tiffany, Albert P. Totten, Henry L. Wallace, John H. Webster, Hiram B. Williams, George W. Wallace, George W. Weeks, David N. Yarrell, Samuel Anderson, Mumford Ashley, James S. Ashley, John Brown, James Brubaker, Usury Bowlan, John C. Baum, Henry A. Bailey, Hiram Bright, Abraham T. Banta, Andrew J. Banta, George W. Brown, Seth C. Burris, James Carnahan, William J. Carr, Amos Camfeld, Nelson Cobell, William H. Carr, William A. Deihl, Robert W. Ewbanks, Rawlin E. Ford, William Fisher, John W. Forbes, Samuel Goodman, David and Alonzo E. Goff, George W. Groves, George W. Goff, William R. Golf, Benjamin Gilley, Robert Gilley, John W. Goldsmith, John W. Gibson, William F. Green, Michael Gibbons, Wilson Hyatt, Asoph Harwood, John Harris, Roswell Hunter, Thomas Hendrickson, Anthony Harem, Alexander C. Huff man, George G. Hopkins, Jacob Hicks, James W. Hyatt, Jerritt W. Hall, William A. Hood, John Hall, William H. H. Joy, Julius Johann, David Jacques, Charles Kooster, William B. Knowles, Wesley W. Lowry, John Livingstone, Covert Lucas, Joseph E. Lough, Basil Lamb, Stephen McCurdy, Resin Maples, William W. McClintock, William Morris, George Mayers, Ezekiel Marquis, William E. McFarlan, John Noatestine, Samuel Oberlin, Adam Oberlin, Thomas Overton, William H. Potts, David G. Robinson, Franklin J. Ritsell, Isaac Rumble, Henry S. Reid, William P. Robb, Jacob Sleutz, Henry Sleutz Frederick Shock, George T. Shick, John H. Smith, Taylor Stewart, Charles Stanke, Alexander Sloan, John C. Smith, John L. Smith, John Smith, William C. Spaulding, George P. Sharp, William F. Stewart, Lorenzo Syphert, William H. Stoy, Simon H. Stewart, George W. Stallings, William Straine, John Shroder, Jason H. Thruston, William H. Thomas, Isom Tull, George W. Townsend, Leander Vale, Sidney N. Welch, Henry C. White, David Weatherford, Thomas Wakeman, Caswell York. In Company K were Captain Wesley Park, Captain John H. Wilson, Captain Moses B. Willis, Lieutenant Nicholas Ensley, Corporals Hiram Smith, W. H. H, Cornell, Cabb Clark, Musicians John M. Kimsey and William T. Kimsey, Privates Benjamin F. Cornell, John M. Chilcoat, James M. Chilcoat, Jacob Casebeer, Samuel Ensley, John J. Frampton, William Greenamyer, Jerad F. Housel, Robert Hall, John H. C. Hoffman, Leonard Hudlemyer, Reuben Lockwood, Charles Lockwood, Elijah Lock, Jacob Link, William Middleton, Samuel E. Mease, George W. McDorman, Philip Parnell, James E. Pearse, Lemuel Rickey, Daniel W. Squier, David Smith, John L. Shatto, Colfenous Surface, Joseph Thompson, George F. Wilson, O. A. Whipple, Isaac M. Wood, James G. Wiseman, Franklin W. Willis, Levi Wallack, James Arnold, Fearless Arnold, Samuel E. Anderson, James C. Benson, Shurban Bullard, Henry I. Barekman, William H. Boran, John Barnes, John Chilcoat, Daniel G. Cook, Joseph Connell, Archibald Curry, John W. Chance, Francis M. Chamberlin, William H. Clark, Jeremiah Cullison, William Cannon, William Clark, Fielding Catt, John Diersch, Andrew F. Dull, Isaac Dunwiddie, John D. Elliott, John Englebright, Andrew Ernst, Isaac Ebert, James A. Fair, David Frazer, James Foster, Richard Foster, Hiram L. Fanning, Levi Guthrie, Alexander D. Green, James Glass, Simon Gerard, Martin L. Holcomb, James H. Harkrader, John Hay, William A. Harris, Irwin C. Harroll, Leonard Hoodlemeyer, Albert Hensler, Charles Hickson, Victor D. Hodshire, Abraham W. Hooker, Henry J. Imboden, James Jones, William M. Jordan, Milton Jackson, William H. Javins, Jediah Killum, George W. H. Keith, William H. Kynett, August Koehler, Lyman Lockwood, William Lynch, David C. Lorch, Jerome Morse, John A. J. Michael, James Montgomery, Joab Moffatt, Silas Morehouse, William H. Malott, Samuel Moore, Thomas J. Moore, Joseph Muckenstrom, Jacob Newman, George F. O'Byrne, Albert Pepple, DeForrest Parker, Isaac F. Purcell, William A. Ross, Reuben E. Reynolds, Matt. Rustan, Francis M. Rust, John M. Ryan, Zachariah Rosell, Emmanuel Rex, Joel Smith, Benjamin Sodder, Ambrose Smith, Isaiah Smith, Christopher C. Simon, Isaac Snyder, John L. Stacy, George Segur, William F, Smart, Adam Stutsman, David R. Thompson, Samuel Thomas, Dillard White, Robert White, Charles Westfall, Andrew Welton, John Witman, Martin Whittig, David Williams, James E. Washington, Isaac Washington, Rufus Webb, Moses B. Willis. The Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Fort Wayne and was mustered in on October 24, 1861, with Hugh B. Reed as colonel, In December it was sent to Henderson, Kentucky, and reported to Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden, and by him assigned to Cruft's brigade. The regiment participated in the siege of Fort Donelson, where it suffered heavy loss. It was engaged both days at Shiloh, losing thirty-three killed and one hundred and seventy-seven wounded. The Confederate general, Albert Sidney Johnson, was killed iii front of this regiment at Shiloh. The regiment next marched to Corinth, participated in Buell's pursuit of Bragg, engaging in the conflict at Perryville. Returning with the army through Kentucky, it again marched into Tennessee and was in the battle of Silver Spring. When the Army of the Cumberland entered upon the Murfreesboro campaign, under Rosecrans, this regiment participated in the battle of Stone's River, losing heavily. This was on December 31, 1862, and January 1, 2 and 3, 1863. The regiment was actively engaged in the battle at Chickamauga. On the afternoon of the first day in this battle, the regiment supported Wilder's brigade; on the second day, after having assisted in meeting one of the severest charges of Stewart's divisions, the regiment retired and held off the enemy until four o'clock, when a flanking movement compelled their further retirement. On the third and last day the regiment fought in line with its division until the break in the center of the Union lines, when it repaired to Thomas' line and fought against Harker's brigade until ordered from the field at five o'clock. Later it engaged at Missionary Ridge. In October, 1863, the regiment was assigned to provost duty, re-enlisting as veterans. On September 14, 1865, the regiment was mustered out. During the war the regiment lost by death, wounds and disease, four hundred and eight men. Transcribed by Cheryl Milukas Proofread by Arlene Goodwin