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Friday, May 10, 2019

13th Indiana Independent Battery Light Artillery

Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in February 22, 1862. Left State for Louisville, Ky., February 23. Served unassigned in Kentucky, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. Artillery, 12th Division, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. Ward's Brigade, Post of Gallatin, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1863. Garrison Artillery, Gallatin, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1865. Garrison Artillery, Chattanooga, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865.

SERVICE. — Served as Cavalry in Kentucky from February, 1862, to January, 1863. Skirmish at Monterey, Owen County, Ky., June 11. Operations against Morgan July 4-28. Paris, Ky., July 19. Siege of Munfordsville September 14-17. Frankfort October 9. Hartsville, Tenn., December 7. Garrison Fort Thomas, Gallatin, Tenn., January, 1863, to January, 1865, and garrison duty at Chattanooga, Tenn., till July, 1865. Mustered out July 10 1865.

Battery lost during service 7 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 19 Enlisted men by disease. Total 26.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1115