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Twentieth Indiana Infantry.
Ward's Brigade —
Birney's Division--Third 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 | 1 | 4 | | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| Company | A | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 10 | 10 | 118 |
| | B | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 11 | 11 | 137 |
| | C | 2 | 17 | 19 | | 11 | 11 | 125 |
| | D | | 17 | 17 | | 10 | 10 | 131 |
| | E | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 9 | 9 | 126 |
| | F | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 11 | 11 | 120 |
| | G | 2 | 22 | 24 | | 12 | 12 | 165 |
| | H | | 19 | 19 | | 18 | 18 | 180 |
| | I | 2 | 17 | 19 | | 11 | 11 | 152 |
| | K | 2 | 22 | 24 | | 9 | 9 | 133 |
| Totals | 15 | 186 | 201 | | 113 | 113 | 1,403 |
201 killed == 14.3 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 771; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 25.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Skirmish, Va., June 19, 1862 | 1 | Wilderness, Va. | 33 |
| Oak Grove, Va. | 23 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 18 |
| Glendale, Va. | 10 | North Anna, Va. | 4 |
| Manassas, Va. | 9 | Totopotomoy, Va. | 1 |
| Chantilly, Va. | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 3 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 7 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 22 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 8 | Deep Bottom, Va. | 1 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 45 | Boydton Road, Va. | 3 |
| Kelly's Ford, Va. | 2 | Hatcher's Run, Va. | 2 |
| Mine Run, Va. | 2 | Farmville, Va. | 3 |
| Picket Line, Va. (1862） | 3 | | |
Present, also, at
White Oak Swamp;
Malvern Hill; Poplar Spring Church; Strawberry Plains;
Appomattox.
notes.--Leaving the
State, August 2, 1861, it proceeded to
Cockeysville, Md., where it guarded the railroad for several weeks.
It sailed for Hatteras Inlet, N. C., September 24th, and thence in November to
Fort Monroe, where it passed the winter.
While encamped at Newport News, it participated in the fight between the
Merrimac and the
Congress; the regiment having been deployed on the beach under the fire of the Confederate vessels, prevented the enemy from taking possession of the
Congress.
It went to
Norfolk in May, and in the following month joined
McClellan's Army — then on the
Chickahominy, where it was placed in
Robinson's (1st) Brigade,
Kearny's (3d) Division, Third Corps.
In the affair of June 25, 1862, at
Oak Grove, or “The
Orchards,” the Twentieth received the principal attack and sustained the heaviest loss, its casualties amounting to 11 killed, 82 wounded, and 32 missing. At
Manassas, the losses were 4 killed, 35 wounded and 6 missing,
Colonel Brown being among the killed.
After this battle the
Corps, having become greatly reduced by its losses, was withdrawn from active service to enable it to rest, and the wounded or missing to return; hence it was not present at
Antietam.
At
Gettysburg —
Ward's Brigade,
Birney's Division — its losses amounted to 32 killed, including
Colonel Wheeler, 114 wounded, and 10 missing. In 1864, the division was transferred to the Second Corps, the Twentieth fighting under
Hancock from that time on.
Lieutenant-Colonel Meikel was killed at
Petersburg.
