66th Indiana Infantry
in the American Civil War
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66th Indiana Infantry Officer Roster - Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 2, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1865 66th Indiana Infantry Soldier Roster - Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 6, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1866 Regimental History Sixty-sixth Indiana Infantry. — Cols., Lewis Wallace, De Witt C. Anthony, Roger Martin; Lieut. -Cols., Roger Martin, Thomas G. Morrison; Majs., John W. Gerard, Thomas G. Morrison. This regiment was organized at New Albany and was mustered in Aug. 19, 1862. It left the state the same day for Lexington, Ky., where Lieut. -Col. Martin assumed command, Gen. Wallace having been commissioned provisional colonel at the time of the muster-in and being assigned on reaching Lexington to the command of the troops then concentrating at Covington and Cincinnati. The regiment was engaged in the battle of Richmond, Ky., the greater part of it being captured and paroled. The paroled men and the remainder of the regiment were ordered to New Albany. An exchange was made in November, when, under command of Col. Anthony the regiment moved to Corinth, where it was assigned to the 1st brigade of Dodge's division, remaining as part of the garrison until Aug. 18, 1863. It then moved to Collierville, Tenn., where Cos. B., C, D, E, G and I were engaged in October, and on Oct. 29 moved for Pulaski, where it passed the winter. On April 29, 1864, the regiment marched to Chattanooga, and from there formed a junction with Sherman's army for the Atlanta campaign, being engaged at Resaca, Lay's ferry, Rome cross-roads, Dallas, Kennesaw mountain, before Atlanta, and at Jonesboro. On Sept. 26 it took the train with its division for Rome, Ga., but later rejoined the army at Atlanta and moved with it for Savannah. It marched through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington, and was mustered out there on June 3, 1865. The recruits were transferred to the 59th and served with that regiment until its muster-out. The original strength of the 66th was 1,017; gain by recruits, 101 ; total, 1,118. Loss by death, 234; desertion, 32; unaccounted for, 15.Footnotes: Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing Company, 1908 - Volume 3 |
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