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United States Regiments & Batteries > Indiana

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While the remainder of the 1st Indiana Cavalry Regiment served in the Western Theater, two companies served in the east and never met the rest of the regiment.

Stewart’s Independent Cavalry Company, or Company I – 1861
April 25	Organized at Terre Haute, Ind. for one year’s State service
July 4	Mustered in for three years’ service
August 20	Assigned to 1st Indiana Cavalry as Company L, but served detached from Regiment for the entire war.
July	Served in Dept. of West Virginia as Escort to Gen. Rosecrans
November	At Headquarters Dept. of Western Virginia
1862
May – June	Dept. of the Mountains
July	At Headquarters 1st Corps, Army of Virginia
September	At Headquarters 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
1863
October	At Headquarters Army of the Potomac
1864
July 3	Old members mustered out
1865
May 31	Veterans and Recruits mustered out

 

Bracken’s Independent Company Cavalry, or Company K – 1861
June 20	Organized at Indianapolis, Ind.
July 9	Mustered in
August 20	Assigned to 1st Indiana Cavalry as Company K, but served detached from Regiment for the entire war.
July	Served in the Dept. of West Virginia as Escort to Gen. Rosecrans
November	At Headquarters Dept. of Western Virginia and Dept. of the Mountains
December 13	Camp Allegheny, Greenbrier, W. Va.
December 31	Expedition to Huntersville
1862
January 3	Huntersville
July	At Headquarters 1st Army Corps, Army of Virginia
September	At Headquarters 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
November 9	Charge into Fredericksburg, Va.
1863
October	At Headquarters Army of the Potomac
1864
January – May	Duty at Glymont, Md. on lower Potomac
May	Joined Army of the Potomac at White House, and duty at Headquarters of Gen. Meade
June 23	Old members mustered out
1865
May 31	Veterans and Recruits mustered out