13th Indiana Regiment Infantry - Regiment History

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Roster - 13th Infantry: Company E

Basic History

• Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., for one year's service May, 1861, but reorganized for three years and mustered in June 19, 1861.
• Left State for West Virginia July 4. Attached to Rosecrans' Brigade, McClellan's Army of West Virginia, July 1861. 1st Brigade,
• Army of Occupation, West Virginia, to September, 1861. Reynolds' Cheat Mountain Brigade, West Virginia, to November, 1861
• Milroy's Command, Cheat Mountain District, W. Va., to January, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, Landers' Division, to March, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps and Dept. of the Shenandoah to May, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to July, 1862.
• Ferry's 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862.
• Ferry's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, September, 1862.
• Foster's Provisional Brigade, Division at Suffolk, 7th Army Corps, to April, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, to July, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, Vogdes' Division, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South, to January. 1864.
• 1st Brigade, Vogdes Division, Folly Island, S.C., Northern District, Dept. of the South, to February, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, Vogdes' Division, District of Florida, to April, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to May, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, to June, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, to December, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 24th Army Corps, to January, 1865.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Terry's Provisional Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to March, 1865.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to September, 1865.

Detailed Service

1861

• Campaign in West Virginia July 7-17, 1861. Battle of Rich Mountain July 11. Moved to Beverly July 13, thence to Cheat Mountain Pass. Operations on Cheat Mountain September 11-17. Cheat Mountain Pass September 12.
• Greenbrier River October 3-4. Scouting Expedition through the Kanawha District October 29-November 7.
• Expedition to Camp Baldwin December 11-14. Action at Camp Allegheny December 13. Moved to Green Springs Run December 18, and duty there till March, 1862.

1862

• Skirmishes at Bath, Hancock, Great Cacapon Bridge, Alpine Station and Sir John's Run January 1-4.
• Advance on Winchester, Va., March 5-15. Kernstown March 22. Battle of Winchester March 23.
• Occupation of Mt. Jackson April 17.
• Summerville Heights May 7. March to Fredericksburg May 12-21, and return to Front Royal May 25-30.
• Battle of Port Republic June 9. Moved to the Peninsula, Va., June 29-July 2.
• At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Moved to Fortress Monroe August 16-23, thence to Suffolk, Va., August 30, and duty there till June 27, 1863.
• Reconnoissance to Franklin on the Blackwater October 3, 1862. Franklin October 3.
• Zuni Minor's Ford December 12.

1863

• Expedition toward Blackwater January 8-10, 1863. Action at Deserted House January 30.
• Leesville April 4. Siege of Suffolk April 12-May 4. Edenton, Providence Church and Somerton Roads April 13. Suffolk April 17. Edenton Road April 24. Siege of Suffolk raised May 4.
• Foster's Plantation May 20.
• Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24-July 7.
• Expedition from White House to South Anna Bridge July 1-7. South Anna Bridge July 4. Moved to Folly Island, S.C., July 28-August 3.
• Siege operations against Fort Wagner, Morris Island and against Fort Sumpter and Charleston, S.C., till February, 1864.
• Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg September 7, 1863.
• Stationed at Folly Island October, 1863, to February, 1864. Reenlisted December, 1863.

1864

• Moved to Jacksonville, Fla., February 23, 1864, and duty there till April 17. Ordered to Hilton Head, S.C.; thence to Gloucester Point, Va.
• Butler's operations on Southside of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., May 4-28. Occupation of Bermuda Hundred May 5. Port Walthal Junction May 6-7. Swift Creek May 9-10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred May 16-28. Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor May 28-June 1.
• Battles about Cold Harbor June 1-12; before Petersburg June 15-18. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to December 6, 1864.
• Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864.
• Non-Veterans left front June 19. Mustered out June 24, 1864.
• Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom August 13-20. Battle of Strawberry Plains August 14-18.
• Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30.
• Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28.
• Detached duty at New York City during Election of 1864 November 4-17.
• Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C., December 7-27.

1865

• 2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C., January 3-15, 1865. Assault and capture of Fort Fisher January 15.
• Town Creek February 19-20. Capture of Wilmington February 22.
• Campaign of the Carolinas March 1-April 26. Advance on Goldsboro March 6-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 21.
• Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army.
• Duty at various points in North Carolina till September. Mustered out September 5, 1865.

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