The 63rd Indiana Infantry Regiment lost 3 officers and 53 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 130 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1862 |
February 21 |
Organized at Lafayette, Ind., as a Battalion of 4 Companies, A, B, C, D |
March - April |
Duty as prison guard at Lafayette and at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Ind. |
May 27 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to Piatt's Brigade, Sturgis' Command, Defenses of Washington for duty in the defenses of Washington, D. C. |
August |
Attached to Piatt's Brigade, Army of the Potomac |
August 16-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
October 3 |
Ordered to Indianapolis, Ind., |
October-December |
Completing organization of Regiment and prison guard at Camp Morton and Indianapolis |
December 25 |
Ordered to Shepherdsville, Ky. for guard duty along Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Attached to Railroad Guard, District of Western Kentucky, Dept. of Ohio |
1863 |
January 16 |
At Camp Nelson, Ky. |
July 2 |
Operations against Morgan attached to 2nd Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio |
July 8 |
Cummings Ferry |
August |
New Haven, Ky., atatched to 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps |
October |
Attached to District South Central Kentucky, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps |
1864 |
February 25-
March 15 |
March over mountains to Knoxville, Tenn. Attached to District Southwest Kentucky, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps |
April 1 |
Moved to Mossy Creek and to Bull's Gap |
April 23-28 |
Expedition toward Jonesboro and destruction of Tennessee & Virginia Railroad attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps |
May 1 to September 8 |
Atlanta Campaign |
May 8-13 |
Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton |
May 14-15 |
Battle of Resaca |
May 20 |
Cartersville |
May 25-June 5 |
Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills |
June 10-July 2 |
Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain |
June 15-17 |
Lost Mountain |
June 17 |
Muddy Creek |
June 19 |
Noyes Creek |
June 22 |
Cheyney's Farm |
June 26-27 |
Olley's Farm |
June 27 |
Assault on Kenesaw |
July 2-5 |
Nickajack Creek |
July 3-4 |
Ruff's Mills |
July 5-17 |
Chattahoochie River |
July 8 |
Isham's Ford |
July 22-August 25 |
Siege of Atlanta |
August 5-7 |
Utoy Creek |
August |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio |
August 25-30 |
Flank movement on Jonesboro |
August 31-September 1 |
Battle of Jonesboro |
September 2-6 |
Lovejoy Station |
October 3-26 |
Pursuit of Hood into Alabama |
November-December |
Nashville Campaign |
November 24-27 |
Columbia, Duck River |
November 29 |
Columbia Ford |
November 30 |
Battle of Franklin |
December 15-16 |
Battle of Nashville |
December 17-28 |
Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River |
January |
At Clifton, Tenn. |
1865 |
January 16 - February 9 |
Movement to Washington, D.C., then to Fort Fisher, N. C. |
February 12-14 |
Operations against Hoke. Attached to Dept. of North Carolina |
February 18-19 |
Fort Anderson |
February 19-20 |
Town Creek |
February 22 |
Capture of Wilmington |
March 1-April 26 |
Campaign of the Carolinas |
March 6-21 |
Advance on Goldsboro |
March 24 |
Occupation of Goldsboro |
March 31 |
Gulley's |
April 10-14 |
Advance on Raleigh |
April 14 |
Occupation of Raleigh |
April 26 |
Bennett's House. Surrender of Johnston and his army. |
April 27 |
At Raleigh |
May 3 |
Companies A, B, C and D mustered out |
May 5 |
At Greensboro |
June 21 |
Regiment mustered out |
