Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., as 39th Regiment Infantry, August 29, 1861. Ordered to Kentucky and duty at Muldraugh's Hill, Camp Nev...

See 8th Regiment Cavalry for service SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer,  A Compendium of the War of the  3, p.  Rebellion , Part 1135

FIRST COLONEL, FIFTH INFANTRY. William H. Worthington, who was shot dead before Corinth, in the spring of 1862, by a frightened sentinel, w...

NEAR MURFREESBORO, Dec. 31 – Our whole line suffered terribly this morning, four regiments of regulars lost half of their men and all their ...