Source: HISTORY OF DEKALB COUNTY, INDIANA. B.F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1914, pp. 108-110. EIGHTY-EIGHTH INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. With the Eighty-eighth were William D. Myers as surgeon and Henry W. Willard, hospital steward, Captains Jensen P. Beers, James H. Steele and Elam B. Cutter, Lieutenants Samuel L. Stough, Walter E. Boley, Royal H. Edgerly and William A. Fisher, Sergeants George Sharp, David Woods, Josiah C. Smith, Corporals Calvin W. McQueen, George Jones, Matthew E. Rathburn, George W. Sanders, Josiah Baughman, Musicians George W. Edinger and Franklin N. Beidler, Wagoner Thomas H. Rogers. Recruits as follows: Charles Bowman, Ira S. Bailey, Lewis Brown, Thomas Brown, George W. Baughman, John Bromley, George E. Blaker, Harvey D. Bigelow, John Bruner, Emanuel Beck, John L. Cotrill, Ezra Crain, John V. Collins, Charles H. Chittenden, Abram L. Canon, George Daniels, Archibald Daniels, William Duck, Kinsey Daniels, Samuel Day, George W. Everett, John Ferriman, Henry Frick, Lawrence Fetters, John H. Franks, William H. Gonser, George Gundrum, David Goodrich, William Hornberger, Franklin B. Hendricks, Jacob Humbarger, Jesse Hively, Daniel F. Hamon, Simeon F. Hammon, John P. Hale, Allen Johnson Levi Ingle, Daniel B. Keller, Alonzo A. Kester, William Krontz, John P Kester, George J. Link, Amos Lower, Isaiah Likins, Daniel Lidy, Robert A. Matthews, Sheridan E. Mott, Elijah Mudge, James G. Morrow, John T. McAdams, Francis Mills, Joseph T. Martin, Jacob North, Christopher Nugen, Seneca Nodine, Truman J. Needham, John Packer, Thomas J. Reynolds, Frank W. Railing, Jonathan Steward, John M. Steward, Uriah Smith, Park Seberts, George R. Smith, Jacob Showalter, William Shoup, John K. Sinn, Thomas Tomlinson, George Teutsch, Lemonsky R. Willard, Henry L. Williams, James D. Woods, Henry W. Willard, Israel Yoh, John A. Zimmerman, Jacob Brown, John Bruner, George W. Burns, William A. Bryan, Oscar P. Carver, Charles C. Corill, James C. Delong, Joseph C. Dickson, Alexander Fountain, Daniel F. Hammond, Marcus L. Hoose, Benjamin F. Leasure, Noah Miller, John H. Reese, Emile Sholtze, Albert B. Shirts, Andrew E. Shanks, Silas K. Sinclair, John H. Smith, David Woods. In Company C was Philip W. Silver. In Company D there were Milton Horn, William Johnson, George Keith, John C. Stafford. In Company E was John R. Lyon; in Company G, William A. Goodrich. In Company H were Captain Lewis J. Blair, afterward major, lieutenant- colonel and brigadier-general; Captain Dexter L. Thomas; Lieutenants Philander Smith, Joseph Rainer, William Dillworth, Andrew Yeagley, George F. Delong; Sergeants Hiram W. Hatch, Samuel Headley, William A. Rex; Corporals Alexander Bailey, Washington Testison, Harvey C. Platter, Joseph A. Coats, William Robertson, Alanzo Conklin, John Hull, Thomas F. Benjamin; Musicians Edwin M. Smurr, Jacob Danor; Wagoner Henry May. Recruits were: James Armstrong, Stillman Akins, William A. Boyer, Alvin D. Beggs, William Brownlee, Leroy Blood, Elias Blood, Austin Conklin, Wesley V. Cosper, Andrew Cole, William Crooks, William Decrees, Daniel D. Diehl, Samuel Duck, Abraham Emminger, William Evey, Michael Fusselman, David Franks, Robert Goodwin, Lawrence Gibson, John Hamilton, Joseph M. Hart, Isaac Hart, Albert Henry, George Henry, Michael Johnson, Thomas Krise, Daniel Krise, David Lee, Henry K. Lawrence, Isaac Meese, Albin Melton, Dyer R. Mathews, William Meek, John Melton, Samuel C. Osborn, John Packer, William O. Packer, Charles S. Pryor, Ira W. Pryor, Jacob Pressler, Simeon Rose, Samuel R. Stanfer, Jacob S. Stout, Benjamin Suly, William Sawyer, Henry Saylor, Francis Shrull, John Swangood, Levi Stoy, Jonathan Snively, Isaac Seely, Levi Smith, Franklin Stout, Chockly W. Thomas, Henry S. Vestal, Walter T. Watkins, Oliver H. Widney, Jacob Wineland, Joseph Widney, Edwin D. White, Eli M. Welch, Elmore Wyatt, Philip Yarnell, Christopher Yader, John H. Yohe, William Yeagley, John Yocum, Benjamin F. Zigler, John Bills, Alonzo Conklin, Robert Cochran, Henry Crooks, George Delano, Isaac G. Dohner, Joseph Hose, Solomon Hose, Dewitt C. Headley, Elijah Imhoff, Thomas I. Jones, Stephen Likens, Henry Milliman, Daniel S. McNabb, Henry M. Rockwell, Joseph Penicks, Frank B. Sandy, Henry J. Sandy, Francis M. Stout, Luther Smith, Thomas Stafford, John Treman, John W. Woods. The Eighty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry was rendezvoused at Fort Wayne, Indiana, mustered in on August 29, I862, with George Humphrey as colonel. Immediately the regiment was ordered to Louisville to defend that city against the supposed advance of General Kirby Smith. The regiment next was assigned to the Seventeenth brigade, Rousseau's division, and marched in pursuit of Bragg. At Perryville the regiment won their colors by meritorious conduct and underwent heavy losses. The regiment moved with Rosecrans' army in the campaign against Murfreesboro, culminating in the battle of Stone's River. Fifty-six men were lost in this latter engagement. The regiment next, as a part of the Army of the Cumberland, went through middle Tennessee, participating in the battles of Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma, Hillsboro and Elk River. On September 19 and 20, I863, the regiment took part in the bloody engagement at Chickamauga, being on the first day in the vicinity of Glass Mill, where, with its brigade, it supported Bridge's and a part of Shultz's batteries in an engagement with the enemy. In the evening it moved to the Brotherton place and bivouacked. On Sunday morning, September 20, it moved to position on the west side of the Lafayette and Chattanooga road, south of the McDonald house, where its brigade, being assailed by the brigades of Adams and Stovall, was broken, and the regiment forced southwestward toward Snodgrass Hill. It there took position in support of General Negley's artillery, and afterward accompanied this officer to Rossville. With Hooker, on the night of November 24, this regiment took part in the scaling of Lookout Mountain and the "Battle Among the Clouds." On the 25th it was in the charge on Missionary Ridge. Later the men fought at Graysville and Ringgold, Georgia. When Sherman started his campaign against Atlanta this regiment was a part of the troops and was notably engaged at Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta and Utoy Creek. The regiment continued with Sherman's long campaign, performing well the various duties imposed; it fought at the bloody conflict of Bentonville on March 19, 1865. After the surrender of the Confederate armies the regiment was transported to Washington, D. C., and marched in the grand review at that place. The regiment was mustered out on June 7, 1865. Transcribed by Cheryl Milukas Proofread by Arlene Goodwin