Operations against Jackson

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia

Battle of Groveton (Brawner’s Farm)

Lieutenant Colonel May was killed.

The regiment is referenced on a trailside marker at Brawner’s Farm which shows its location in the fighting.

Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas)

Maryland Campaign

Battle of South Mountain

The regiment suffered 53 casualties fighting up and through Turner’s Gap.

Battle of Antietam

The Iron Brigade was the spearhead of Hooker’s early morning attack down the Hagerstown Pike.

Lieutenant Colonel Alois O. Bachman, who was 23 years old, commanded the regiment until he was mortally wounded. Nineteen year old Captain William W. Dudley assumed command. The regiment lost 12 men killed and 59 wounded.

Text from the marker for Gibbon’s Brigade on the Antietam battlefield:

“On the morning of the 17th, with its right on the Hagerstown Pike, Gibbon’s Brigade, which three days before had earned the title of the “Iron Brigade”, advanced in the direction of the Dunkard Church. When 135 yards north of this point Confederates, deployed under cover of the ledge and woods west of the pike attacked the flank, upon which the 19th Indiana and 7th Wisconsin were deployed on the plateau and in the woods west of the pike and the 2nd and 6th Wisconsin in the infamous Cornfield east of it. Battery B, 4th U. S. Artillery, went into position west of the pike and a few yards south of Miller’s barn. Supported by Patrick’s Brigade and the Battery on the right and Phelps’ Brigade on the left, Gibbon’s Brigade advanced to and south of this point but was forced back. Charge and countercharge of the most deadly character were made across the open plateau west of and in the Cornfield and ground south of it, east of the pike, and the Iron Brigade was compelled to retire to the field north of D. R. Miller’s and then to the cover of the high ground north and east of Joseph Poffenberger’s.”

At Sharpsburg

Captain Samuel J. Williams of Company K was promoted to lieutenant colonel and Captain William W. Dudley of Company B was promoted to major.

Battle of Fredericksburg

Burnside’s 2nd Campaign (“Mud March”)

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of Chancellorsville

Gettysburg Campaign

Battle of Gettysburg

The 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel Samuel J. Williams. It brought 339 men to the field and lost 27 killed, 133 wounded and 50 missing. Lieutenant Colonel Dudley lost a leg. He would not return to the regiment.

Text from the monument:

“19 Indiana Vols. July 1, 1863. Col. S. J. Williams, Lt. Col. W. W. Dudley wounded, Maj. J. M. Lindley, Adj. J. E. Finney missing, Sergt. Maj. A. Blanchard killed, Co. A, Capt. Makepeace missing, Lieut. Gissel wounded, Co. B, Lieut. Schlagle, Lt. Jones killed, Co. C. Capt. Ives wounded, Lieut. Macy, Lieut. Potts, Co. D. Capt. Holloway, Lt. Yeatman, Co. E, Capt. Green missing, Lieut. Branson wounded, Co. F. Capt. Nash, Lieut. Richardson captured, Co. G, Capt. Shafer wounded, Lieut Baxter, Lieut. Waldschmidt, Co. H. Capt. Hart missing, Lieut. Scarbrough wounded, Lieut. Wilson, Co. I, Lt. Patrick, Lt. Johnson, Co. K, Capt. Orr, Lt. Campbell, Lt. East killed. Strength, officers and men 288, killed, wounded & missing 210.”

Bristoe Campaign

Mine Run Campaign

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River

Battle of the Wilderness

Colonel Williams was killed on May 6.

Laurel Hill

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

Assault on the Salient

North Anna River

Battle of Cold Harbor

First Assault on Petersburg

Siege of Petersburg begins