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23rd Indiana Regiment Infantry.

Organized at New Albany, Ind., and mustered in July 29, 1861.

Left State for Paducah, Ky., August 15.

Attached to District of Paducah, Ky., to February, 1862.

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to March, 1862.

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862.

Unattached, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862.

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Army Corps, December, 1862.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to January, 1864.

3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1864.

1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

Service.

Duty at Paducah, Ky., till February, 1862.

Demonstration from Paducah on Columbus, Ky., November 7-9, 1861.

Moved to Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 12-15, 1862.

Expedition toward Purdy and operations about Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 9-14.

Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7.

Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.

March to Purdy, thence to Bolivar, Tenn., and duty there till September.

March to Iuka, Miss., September 1-20.

Duty in District of Jackson till November.

Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863.

Reconnoissance from LaGrange November 8-9, 1862.

Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January 20, 1863; thence to Lake Providence, La., February 21, and to Milliken's Bend, La., April 17.

Passage of Vicksburg and Warrenton Batteries April 22 (Detachment).

Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30.

Battle of Port Gibson, Miss., May 1.

Bayou Pierrie, May 3.

Ingraham's Heights May 3.

Bruins-Burg May 6.

Battle of Raymond May 12.

Jackson May 14.

Battle of Champion's Hill May 16.

Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4.

Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22.

Surrender of Vicksburg July 4, and duty there till February, 1864.

Expedition to Monroe, La., August 20-September 2, 1863.

Operations about Natchez, Miss., December 1-10.

Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2, 1864.

Veterans on furlough March and April.

Moved to Bird's Point, Mo.; thence to Clifton, Tenn.; thence march to Ackworth, Ga., May 5-June 8.

Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign June 9 to September 8.

Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.

Assault on Kenesaw June 27.

Nickajack Creek July 2-5.

Chattahoochie River July 5-17.

Nickajack Creek July 6-8.

Leggett's (or Bald) Hill July 20-21.

Battle of Atlanta July 22.

Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.

Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.

Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.

Lovejoy Station September 2-6.

Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.

Shadow Church and Westbrook, near Fairburn, October 1-3.

March to the sea November 15-December 10.

Ball's Ferry and Georgia Central Railroad Bridge, Oconee River, November 23-25.

Siege of Savannah December 10-21.

Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.

Pocotaligo, S. C., January 14.

Salkehatchie Swamp February 2-5.

Rivers Bridge February 3.

South Edisto River February 9.

Orangeburg February 12-13.

Columbia February 16-17.

Fayetteville, N. C., March 11.

Battle of Bentonville March 19-21.

Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.

Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.

Occupation of Raleigh April 14.

Bennett's House April 26.

Surrender of Johnston and his army.

March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19.

Grand Review May 24.

Moved to Louisville June, and duty there till July 23.

Mustered out July 23, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 68 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 143 Enlisted men by disease. Total 217.

1908.

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