Showing posts with label 116th IN INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 116th IN INF. Show all posts

Friday, April 21, 2017

116th Indiana Infantry

Organized at Lafayette, Ind., and mustered in for 6 months' service August 17, 1863. Moved to Dearborn, Mich., August 31, and guard arsenal till September 16. Moved to Nicholasville, Ky., September 16. Attached to Mahan's 1st Brigade, Willcox's Left Wing Forces, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Willcox's Division, Left Wing Forces, Dept. of the Ohio, 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, and to Morristown October 6-8. Action at Blue Springs October 10. March to Greenville and duty there till November 6; thence march to Bull's Gap and across Clinch Mountain to Clinch River November-December. Action at Walker's Ford, Clinch River, December 2. Duty at Tazewell, Maynardsville and in East Tennessee till February, 1864. Action at Tazewell January 24. Mustered out February 29 to March 2, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 64 Enlisted men by disease. Total 65.

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