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Father born in Pennsylvania, mother in Alabama. BURIAL Montgomery Cemetery Oakland City, Gibson County, Indiana, USA MEMORIAL ID 35740413 Inscription Co K 69th Ind Vol The 69th Indiana Infantry was organized at Richmond, Indiana, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on August 19, 1862 under the command of Colonel Thomas Warren Bennett. Detailed Service: Left Indiana for Lexington, Kentucky, August 20. Battle of Richmond, August 30. Regiment captured August 30; paroled and sent to Indianapolis. Reorganized at Indianapolis until November 27, 1862. Left Indiana for Memphis, Tennessee, November 27, 1862. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862 to January 3, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Arkansas, January 3-10, 1863. Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, Louisiana, January 17, and duty there until March 8. Regimental History Sixty-ninth Indiana Infantry. - Cols., William A. Bickle, Thomas W. Bennett; Lieut. -Cols., Job Stout, Oran Perry; Majs., Thomas S. Walterhouse, John H. Finley, George H. Bonebrake. This regiment was organized at Richmond and was mustered in Aug. 19, 1862. It left the state the next day for Richmond, Ky., and was engaged in the battle near that place on the 30th, where Kirby Smith's forces captured it almost to a man, after it had lost 218 in killed and wounded. The regiment was paroled and in November was exchanged, leaving Nov. 27 for Memphis. It was with Sheldon's brigade of Morgan's division on the Vicksburg expedition in December, and participated in the assault at Chickasaw bluffs. It was engaged at Arkansas Post, and after the capture of that place proceeded to Young's point, where over 100 men died of disease.The original strength was 1,002; gain by recruits, 98; total, 1,100.Footnotes: Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing Company, 1908 - Volume 3
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