Friday, April 21, 2017

117th Indiana Infantry

Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in for 6 months' service September 17, 1863. Left State for Nicholasville, Ky., September 17. Attached to Mahan's 1st Brigade. Willcox's Left Wing Forces, Dept. of the Ohio, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, to January, 1864. District of the Clinch, Dept. of the Ohio, to February, 1864.

SERVICE. – March from Nicholasville, Ky., to Cumberland Gap September 24-October 3, 1863; thence to Morristown October 6-8. Action at Blue Springs October 10. March to Greenville and duty there till November 6. Moved to Bean's Station November 6. Action at Clinch Mountain Gap November 14. Duty at Tazewell, Maynardsville and Cumberland Gap till February, 1864. Action at Tazewell January 24, 1864. Mustered out February 23-27, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 95 Enlisted men by disease. Total 95.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1154

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