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Nineteenth Indiana Infantry.
Iron Brigade —
Wadsworth's Division--First Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 3 | | 3 | | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| Company | A | | 18 | 18 | | 9 | 9 | 128 |
| | B | 1 | 24 | 25 | | 9 | 9 | 115 |
| | C | | 20 | 20 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 137 |
| | D | | 20 | 20 | | 11 | 11 | 118 |
| | E | | 21 | 21 | | 16 | 16 | 124 |
| | F | | 16 | 16 | | 9 | 9 | 106 |
| | G | | 14 | 14 | | 11 | 11 | 115 |
| | H | | 21 | 21 | | 11 | 11 | 103 |
| | I | | 21 | 21 | | 12 | 12 | 137 |
| | K | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 13 | 13 | 146 |
| Totals | 5 | 194 | 199 | 1 | 116 | 117 | 1,246 |
199 killed == 15.9 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 712; total of captured and missing, 126; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 16.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Lewinsville, Va., Sept. 11, 1861 | 1 | Wilderness, Va. | 21 |
| Manassas, Va. | 62 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 9 |
| South Mountain, Md. | 13 | North Anna, Va. | 2 |
| Antietam, Md. | 28 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 2 |
| Fitz Hugh's Crossing, Va. | 2 | Petersburg, Va. | 15 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 41 | White River, Ark. (Gunboat Service） | 1 |
Present, also, at
Chancellorsville;
Mine Run;
Totopotomoy; Weldon Railroad.
notes.--Organized in
Indianapolis, July 29, 1861, arriving at
Washington on the 5th of August.
After some service in the field it went into winter-quarters at
Fort Craig, on
Arlington Heights, Va., remaining there until March, 1862, when it joined in the general advance of the Army.
It then formed part of
Gibbon's (4th) Brigade,
Hatch's (1st) Division,
McDowell's Corps, a brigade which afterwards became famous as the “Iron Brigade of the
West.”
Its first battle was at
Manassas, in which the Nineteeeth lost 47 killed, 168 wounded, and 44 missing, a total of 259 out of 423 engaged.
Major Isaac M. May was killed in that
battle. At South Mountain the casualties were 9 killed, 37 wounded, and 7 missing; at
Antietam, 13 killed, and 59 wounded; at
Gettysburg, 27 killed, 133 wounded, and 50 missing; and in
Grant's campaign — from May 5 to July 30, 1864--it lost 36 killed, 174 wounded, and 16 missing.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alois O. Bachman was killed at
Antietam, and
Colonel Williams fell at the
Wilderness.
The regiment took about 200 men into action at
Antietam, and 288 at
Gettysburg, the percentage of loss in each action being unusually heavy The First Corps was broken up in March, 1864, and its regiments transferred to the Fifth;
Wadsworth's Division thus became the Fourth Division of the Fifth Corps; the
Iron Brigade (1st Brig.),
General Cutler commanding, remained in the division.
While in the Fifth Corps, the regiment saw some hard fighting at the
Wilderness, and, also, at the assault on
Petersburg, June 18th.
The enlistment of the Nineteenth expired in August, 1864, when the few remaining members of the original regiment went home.
