Indiana
Official Army Register
of the Volunteer Force
of the United States Army
for the Years 1861, ’62, ’63, ’64, ’65.
Part VI.
Indiana
– Illinois
Published by Order of
the Secretary of War,
in Compliance with the
Joint Resolution of the Senate
and House of
Representatives, approved March 2,
1865.
Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, August 31, 1865, pp. 1-2.
Battalion of First
Indiana Cavalry Regiment
(Called also Twenty-Eighth Indiana Volunteers)
(This regiment
(originally composed of eight companies)
was organized at
Evansville, IN, August 20, 1861, to serve three years.
Captains Stewart's and
Bracken's companies of independent cavalry,
organized at
Indianapolis, IN, July 4 and 9,1861, were transferred
to this regiment as
companies I and K.
Two more companies,
composed of drafted men, to serve nine months,
were organized in
November, 1862, and assigned to this regiment
as companies L and M,
and were mustered out of service July 22, 1863.
The original members
(except veterans) of companies A to H, inclusive,
were mustered out
September 12, 1864, by reason of expiration of term of service,
and the veterans and
recruits consolidated into a battalion of two companies
and retained in
service until June 22, 1865, when it was mustered out.
The original members
(except veterans) of companies I and K
were mustered out at
different dates, as follows:
Company I, July 3, 1864 and company K, June
19, 1864, by reason of expiration
of term of service,
and the veterans and recruits of these two companies
formed into a
detachment, and retained in service until May 31, 1865,
when it was mustered
out, in accordance with orders from the War Department.)
(The official list of battles in which this regiment
bore an honorable part is not yet published
in orders.)
Major:
Mark McCauley
30 July, 63.
Discharged June 24,
1865.
Captain:
James A. Pine
8 Aug, 63
First Lieutenants:
Samuel Leflar
16 Feb, 63
William O. Hedrick
2 Nov, 64
Second Lieutenants:
Samuel L. Mellen
9 Dec, 64
John W. Gordon
2 Apr, 65
Assistant Surgeon:
None Listed
Casualties:
Promoted (6):
Lieut. Colonel William
F. Wood
April 2, 1863, to
Colonel 46th U.S.C.T.
Lieut. Colonel Thomas
N. Pace
February 2, 1864, to
Colonel 10th regiment Indiana cavalry.
Captain Robert R.
Stewart
November 8, 1861, to
Major 2nd regiment Indiana cavalry.
Captain Abram Sharra
May 26, 1864, to
Lieut. Colonel 11th regiment Indiana cavalry.
Second Lieut. John R. Robson
December 31, 1862, to
Assistant Surgeon 91st regiment Indiana infantry.
Assistant Surgeon John
J. Patterson
April 7, 1863, to
Surgeon 46th U.S.C.T.
Transferred (1):
Lieut. Colonel Scott Carter
August 20, 1861, to 3rd regiment Indiana cavalry.
Resigned (32):
Major Josiah Forth
October 28, 1862.
Major Robert M.
Clendenning
January 2, 1863.
Captain William C.
Browe
November 1, 1861.
Captain James R.
Bracken
March 1, 1862.
Captain Lyman W. Brown
March 25, 1862.
Captain Joel F.
Sherwood
August 5, 1862.
Captain George P.
Deweese
October 7, 1862.
Captain George A. May
March 3, 1863.
Captain Samuel S.
Lamar
June 2, 1863.
Captain James M.
Barter
July 5, 1863.
Captain William
McReynolds
July 5, 1863.
Captain William P.
Tucker
March 18, 1864.
Captain James B.
Talbot
April 1, 1864.
Captain Orison J.
Kyler
May 27, 1865.
First Lieut. James
Neel, Adj't
November 1, 1861.
First Lieut. Patrick
Raleigh
November 1, 1861.
First Lieut. Edward S.
Hayes
December 4, 1861.
First Lieut. William
McReynolds
January 13, 1862.
Re-commissioned First
Lieutenant
January 13, 1863.
First Lieut. Hugh Delzell
March 25, 1862.
First Lieut. John
Farrell
March 27, 1863.
First Lieut. Charles
L. Lamb
June 3, 1863
First Lieut. Clemens
A. Denneman
August 5, 1864.
First Lieut. Will B.
Ellsworth
May 16, 1865.
Second Lieut. John T.
Veatch
November 1, 1861.
Second Lieut. George
W. Browne
April 26, 1862.
Second Lieut. Edward
E. Bassett
April 28, 1862.
Second Lieut. Edward
Smith, Batt. Adj't
December 30, 1862.
Second Lieut. Horatio
S. Garner
January 11, 1863.
Second Lieut. Robert
D. McCracken
October 28, 1864.
Assistant Surgeon
Charles Brackett
November 1, 1861.
Assistant Surgeon
James W. Cravens
August 15, 1864.
Chaplain James T. Bean
August 17, 1862.
Mustered
Out on Expiration of Term of Service (31):
Colonel C. Baker
September 12, 1864.
Major Julian D. Owen
September 12, 1864.
Major William V.
Weathers
September 12, 1864.
Captain John C. Tobias
July 22, 1863.
Captain James L. Carey
August 25, 1864.
Captain James J.
Bingham
September 12, 1864.
Captain Henry H.
Mellen
September 12, 1864.
Captain John Harding
September 12, 1864.
Captain Theodore
Maythenyl
December 13, 1864.
First Lieut. William
L. Shugart
July 22, 1863.
First Lieut. Isaac De
Long
July 22, 1863.
First Lieut. James H.
Carr
June 19, 1864.
First Lieut. Harmon L.
Miller
July 3, 1864.
First Lieut. Alexander
M. Foster, Adj't
September 12, 1864.
First Lieut. Jesse M.
Craig, R.Q.M.
September 12, 1864.
First Lieut. Samuel J.
Kelso, R.C.S.
September 12, 1864.
First Lieut. Charles
A. Wood
September 12, 1864.
First Lieut. Frank M.
Greathouse
September 12, 1864.
First Lieut. George W.
Richards
November 1, 1864.
Second Lieut. Rees
Hardesty
July 22, 1863.
Second Lieut. William M.
Reeves
July 22, 1863.
Second Lieut. Jacob C.
Fitler
June 19, 1864.
Second Lieut. Henry S.
Bartholomew
July 3, 1864.
Second Lieut. David
Wilsey
August 25, 1864.
Second Lieut. Jackson
Brown
September 12, 1864.
Second Lieut. John D.
Kroush
September 12, 1864.
Second Lieut. Almon W.
Ensign
September 12, 1864.
Second Lieut. David C.
Stone
September 12, 1864.
Surgeon Isaac
Casselberry
September 12, 1864.
Assistant Surgeon
George W. Bruce
September 12, 1864.
Chaplain John Ferguson
Discharged
(2):
Captain John A.
Stocking
November 1, 1861.
Second Lieut. William
B. Baker, Batt. Adj't.
October 13, 1862.
Died
(7):
Major John S. Gavitt
Killed in action at
Fredericktown, Mo. October 21, 1861.
Captain John K.
Highman
Killed in action at
Fredericktown, Mo. October 21, 1861.
Captain William W.
Sloan
Killed in action at
Round's Hill, Ark. July 7, 1862.
Captain Will H. Walker
January 23, 1863 of
disease, at Evansville, Ind.
Captain William C.
Wilhelm
July 18, 1864, of
disease, at Pine Bluff, Ark.
First Lieut. William
R. Tracy
June 26, 1862, at New
York city, N.Y.
First Lieut. Charles
H. Randolph
Killed at Camp
Parapet, La., by a citizen bushwhacker, February 7, 1864.
Dismissed
(2):
Captain Levi S.
Kirtley
February 25, 1862.
First Lieut. John W.
Smith
February 25, 1862.
Note:
This roster of
officers is given as it stood on the day of muster out.
Information obtained at the National
Archives, Washington, DC
Contributed by: Mark Anderson
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