1st Indiana Heavy Artillery Regiment

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1st Indiana Heavy Artillery Regiment
21st Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Heavy artillery
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
1st Indiana on the move at Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1st Regiment Indiana Heavy Artillery was a

heavy artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War
. It was nicknamed the "Jackass Regiment". Before being converted into an artillery unit in 1863, it served as the 21st Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

Service

The 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery was organized in

Indianapolis, Indiana, July 24, 1861, as the 21st Indiana Infantry under the command of Colonel James Winning McMillan
. The regiment was converted to heavy artillery in February 1863.

The regiment was attached to Dix's Division, Baltimore, Maryland, to February 1862. Butler's New Orleans Expedition to March 1862. 2nd Brigade, Department of the Gulf, to October 1862. Independent Command, Department of the Gulf, to January 1863. Unattached, 1st Division, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf, to February 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, XIX Corps, to August 1863. District of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Department of the Gulf, to June 1864. Unattached, XIX Corps, and unattached, Department of the Gulf, to January 1866.

The 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery mustered out January 10, 1866, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Detailed service

Left Indiana for

Teche Campaign April 11–20. Fort Bisland April 12–14. Advance on Port Hudson May 20–24. Siege of Port Hudson May 24-July 9. Assaults on Port Hudson May 27 and June 14. Lafourche Crossing June 20–21 (Company F). Brashear City June 23 (Company F). Expedition to Sabine Pass
, Texas, September 4–11 (detachment). Garrison duty at New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and at various points in the Department of the Gulf until February 1865.

Companies L and M were organized August 12 to November 2, 1863.

Fort Blakely March 26-April 8. Fort Blakely April 9. Occupation of Mobile April 12, and duty there until June 24. Garrison duty until January 1866. Companies B and C at Fort Morgan; Companies H and K at Fort Gaines; Companies F and L at Fort Barrancas, Florida; Companies I and M at Fort Pickens
, Florida; Companies A, E, and G at Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Company D at Port Hudson, Louisiana.

Casualties

Drummer Edward Black served 24 July 1861-16 August 1862. Wounded while in the service.

The regiment lost a total of 390 men during service; 7 officers and 60 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 320 enlisted men died of disease.[1]

Commanders

See also

  • List of Indiana Civil War regiments
  • Indiana in the Civil War

References

  1. ^ Fox, William F., Lt.-Col., 'Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865', Albany, N.Y., 1889, p. 500.
  • Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
  • Grimsley, James. Civil War Letters of Major James Grimsley, Company B, 21st Indiana Regiment, First Heavy Artillery (Gosport, IN: Fortnightly Club, Gosport History Museum), 1998.
  • Harding, George C. The Miscellaneous Writings of George C. Harding (Indianapolis, IN: Carlon & Hollenbeck), 1882.
Attribution
  • Public Domain 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.


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