36th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Organized at Richmond, Ind., and mustered in September 16, 1861. Ordered
to Kentucky and duty at Camp Wickliffe, Ky., till February, 1862. Attached
to 10th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, October-November, 1861. 10th Brigade,
4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 10th Brigade, 4th Division,
2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division,
Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 3rd
Brigade, 2nd Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June,
1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
SERVICE -- Expedition down Ohio River to reinforce General Grant at Fort
Donelson, Tenn., thence to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-25, 1862. Occupation
of Nashville February 25. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 17-April 6. Battle
of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April
29-May 30. Occupation of Corinth May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June
12. Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August.
Round Mountain, near Woodbury, August 28. March to Nashville, Tenn., thence
to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg, August 21-September 26. Pursuit
of Bragg to Wild Cat, Ky., October 1-20. Wild Cat, Ky., October 17. March
to Nashville, Tenn., October 20-November 9, and duty there till December
26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December
30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro till June. Action
at Woodbury January 24. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July
7. At Manchester till August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and
Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.
Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September
24-November 23. Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold
Campaign November 23-27. Lookout Mountain November 23-24. Mission Ridge
November 25. Pigeon Hill November 26. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November
27. Duty at Whiteside, Tyner's Station and Blue Springs till May, 1864.
Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27. Near Dalton February 23.
Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25.
Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Tunnel Hill May 6-7. Demonstrations
on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9.
Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Kingston May 18-19. Near Cassville May
19. Advance on Dallas May 22-25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek
and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June
5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July
2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June
27. Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4. Chattahoochie River July
5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
Non-Veterans mustered out August 13, 1864. Veterans and recruits consolidated
to a Battalion. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro
August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Pursuit of Hood into
Alabama October 3-26. Nashville Campaign November-December. Columbia, Duck
River, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville
December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.
Moved to Huntsville, Ala. And duty there till March, 1865. Operations in
East Tennessee March 15-April 22. At Nashville, Tenn., till June. Ordered
to New Orleans, La., June 16. Transferred to 30th Indiana Battalion Infantry
July 12, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 102 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded and 2 Officer and 130 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.
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Source: A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick
H. Dyer. Copyright, 1908.
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