50th Indiana Infantry Regiment

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50th Regiment Indiana Infantry
ActiveSeptember 12, 1861 May 25, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements Battle of Munfordville
Mobile Campaign
Battle of Fort Blakeley
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Colonel Cyrus L. Dunham
Colonel Samuel T. Wells

The 50th Regiment Indiana Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 50th Indiana Infantry was organized at Seymour, Indiana and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on September 12, 1861.

The regiment was attached to 15th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to June 1862. Unassigned Railroad Guard, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. District of Louisville, Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to November 1862. District of Jackson, Tennessee, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to December 1862. 2nd Brigade, District of Jackson, Tennessee, XVI Corps, to March 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XVI Corps, to August 1863. True's Brigade, Arkansas Expedition, to January 1864. Unassigned, 2nd Division, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, VII Corps, to May 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, VII Corps, to February 1865. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIII Corps, Military Division of West Mississippi, to April 1865. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, Military Division of West Mississippi, to May 1865.

The 50th Indiana Infantry ceased to exist on May 25, 1865, when it was consolidated with the 52nd Indiana Infantry.

Detailed service

October 25, 1861: Moved to New Albany, Indiana

December 25:Bardstown, Kentucky

February 1862: Advanced on Bowling Green, Kentucky

February 10-March 3: Advanced on Nashville, Tennessee

until September 1862: Guard duty along Louisville & Nashville Railroad

July 4–28: Operations against Morgan

August 20:Pilot Knob, Drake’s Creek, Manscoe’s (Mansker’s) Creek (Companies C, E, I, K)

September 14–17: Siege of Munfordville, Kentucky (Companies A, B, D, F, and H)

September 17: Captured

until November: Paroled and sent to Indianapolis, Indiana (and duty there)

November 1–10: Moved to Jackson, Tennessee

December 18, 1862 to January 3, 1863: Operations against Forrest in western Tennessee

December 29–30:Huntington

December 30: Parker's Cross Roads, near Jackson

December 30:Clarksburg (detachment).

December 31:Red Mound (or Parker's) Cross Roads

until August 1863: Duty at Jackson, Collierville and Memphis, Tennessee

August 28: Moved to Helena, Arkansas

September 1–10: Steele's Expedition to Little Rock

September 10:Bayou Fourche and capture of Little Rock

until March 1864: Garrison duty at Lewisburg, Arkansas

March 2, 1864: Reenlisted

March 23-May 3: Steele's Expedition to Camden

April 2:Antoine and Terre Noir Creek

April 9–12:Prairie D'Ann

April 15:Camden

April 15–16:Liberty Post Office

April 16–18:Camden

April 17: Red Mound

April 30:Jenkins' Ferry, Saline River

until July: Duty at Little Rock

until December: non-veterans duty at Little Rock

July–August: Veterans absent on furlough

until January 1865: Duty at Little Rock

January 22-February 4: Carr's Expedition to Saline River

February 1865: Moved to Mobile Point, Alabama

March 17-April 12: Campaign against Mobile and its defenses .

March: Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely

April 9: Assault and capture of Fort Blakely

April 12: Capture of Mobile

April 13: Whistler's Station

April 13-22: March to Montgomery

May 25, 1865: Merged with the 52nd Indiana Infantry Regiment

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 218 men during service; 3 officers and 54 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 158 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

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