12th Indiana Infantry Regiment (3 years)

12th Regiment Indiana Infantry
12th Regiment Indiana Infantry
Active	May 27, 1862 – June 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Battle of Richmond; Siege of Vicksburg; Siege of Jackson; Chattanooga Campaign; Battle of Missionary Ridge; Atlanta Campaign; Battle of Resaca; Battle of Dallas; Battle of New Hope Church; Battle of Allatoona; Battle of Kennesaw Mountain; Battle of Atlanta; Siege of Atlanta; Battle of Jonesborough; Sherman's March to the Sea; Carolinas Campaign; Battle of Bentonville

The 12th Regiment Indiana Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service[]

The 12th Indiana Infantry was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana May 27 through August 27, 1862, and mustered in August 17, 1862, for three year's service under the command of Colonel William H. Link.

The regiment was attached to Cruft's Brigade, Army of Kentucky, August 30. Attached to 2nd Brigade, District of Memphis, Tennessee, XIII Corps, to December 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, District of Memphis, XIII Corps, December 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XVII Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XVI Corps, to July 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, XV Corps, to September 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XV Corps, to June 1865.

The 12th Indiana Infantry mustered out of service after June 24, 1865. Veterans and recruits were transferred to the 48th Indiana Infantry and 59th Indiana Infantry.

Detailed service[]

Left Indiana for Kentucky August 21.
Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, August 30. Regiment mostly captured.
Paroled and sent to Indianapolis, for reorganization.
Action at Lexington, Kentucky, September 2 (detachment).
Regiment left Indianapolis, for Memphis, Tennessee, November 23, 1862.
Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November–December 1862.
Action at Holly Springs, Mississippi, December 20, 1862.
Duty at Grand Junction and Colliersville, Tennessee, guarding Memphis and Charleston Railroad until June 1863.
Ordered to Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 9.
Siege of Vicksburg June 12-July 4.
Advance on Jackson, Mississippi, July 4–10.
Siege of Jackson July 10–17.
Duty at Big Black until September 28.
Moved to Memphis, Tennessee, then marched to Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 28-November 20.
Operations on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20–29.
Chattanooga Campaign November 23–27.
Tunnel Hill November 23–25.
Battle of Missionary Ridge November 25.
March to relief of Knoxville, Tennessee, November 28-December 8.
Duty at Scottsboro, Alabama, until May 1864.
Atlanta Campaign May 1-September 8.
Demonstrations on Resaca May 8–13. Near Resaca May 13.
Battle of Resaca May 14–15.
Movements on Dallas May 18–25.
Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.

Brush Mountain June 15.
Assault on Kennesaw June 27.
Nickajack Creek July 2–5.
Chattahoochee River July 5–17.
Battle of Atlanta July 22.
Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
Battle of Ezra Chapel, Hood's 2nd sortie, July 28.
Flank movement on Jonesborough August 25–30.
Battle of Jonesborough August 31-September 1.
Battle of Lovejoy's Station September 2–6.
Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29-November 3.
Sherman's March to the Sea November 15-December 10.
Siege of Savannah December 10–21.
Campaign of the Carolinas January to April 1865.
Reconnaissance to Salkehatchie River, South Carolina, January 25.
Battle of Rivers' Bridge February 2–5.
South Edisto River February 9.
North Edisto River February 12–13.
Congaree Creek February 15.
Columbia February 16–17.
Battle of Bentonville, March 20–21.
Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
Advance on Raleigh April 10–14.
Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
Bennett's House April 26.
Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Virginia, April 29-May 20.
Grand Review of the Armies June 24, 1865.

Casualties[]

The regiment lost a total of 295 men; 8 officers and 92 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 193 enlisted men due to disease.

Commanders[]

Colonel William H. Link - mortally wounded at the Battle of Richmond; died September 20, 1862
Colonel Reuben Williams

References[]

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Gage, Moses D. From Vicksburg to Raleigh; or, A Complete History of the Twelfth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and the Campaigns of Grant and Sherman, with an Outline of the Great Rebellion (Chicago, Illinois: Clarke & Co.), 1865.
Hemphill, William S. Journal of the Kosciusko Guards, Company E, 12th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers (Warsaw, IN: M. Priser), 1993. [originally printed in 1904]
Williams, Reuben. General Reub Williams's Memories of Civil War Times: Personal Reminiscences of Happenings That Took Place from 1861 to the Grand Review (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books), 2004. ISBN 0-7884-2517-X

Attribution

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

v t Indiana Military Units in the Civil War
Heavy Artillery	1st Regiment
Light Artillery Batteries	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th
Cavalry	2nd Regiment 3rd Regiment 6th Regiment 7th Regiment 10th Regiment Mounted Scouts (Independent Company)
Infantry regiments (3 month enlistments)	6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th
Infantry regiments (1 year enlistments)	12th
Infantry (3 year enlistments)	6th 7th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 15th 16th 18th 20th 22nd 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 34th 35th 36th 37th 38th 39th 40th 41st 42nd 43rd 44th 45th 46th 47th 48th 49th 51st 54th 56th 57th 58th 59th 61st 62nd 65th 67th 69th 70th 71st 72nd 73rd 74th 75th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th 88th 89th 92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 119th 122nd 125th 132nd 133rd 134th 135th 136th 137th 138th 139th 140th 141st 142nd 143rd 144th 145th 146th 147th 148th 149th 150th 151st 152nd 153rd 154th 155th 156th 157th 158th 159th
See also: Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State

v t Indiana in the American Civil War
People	William A. Bowles Jesse D. Bright Ambrose Burnside Harrison H. Dodd Alvin P. Hovey Andrew Humphreys Lambdin P. Milligan Oliver P. Morton Francis A. Shoup Lew Wallace Indiana regiments
Places	Camp Joe Holt Camp Morton Jefferson General Hospital Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot Military Park New Albany National Cemetery
Battles Raids	Battle of Corydon Battle of Pogue's Run Hines' Raid Morgan's Raid Newburgh Raid
Related	Union Literary Institute
See also: Indianapolis in the American Civil War