United States Regiments & Batteries > Indiana
“Wilder’s” or “Rigby’s Battery”
The 26th Indiana Battery lost 1 officer and 12 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| May | Organized, but not accepted. |
| June 12 | Mustered in as Company A, 17th Indiana Infantry |
| July 2 | Left State for Parkersburg, Va. Attached to Reynolds’ Cheat Mountain District, West Virginia |
| July 23 | Moved from Parkersburg to Oakland |
| August 7 | To Camp Pendleton |
| August 7-13 | To Cheat Mountain Pass and Elkwater |
| September 11-17 | Operations on Cheat Mountain |
| September 11-13 | Petersburg |
| September 12 | Cheat Mountain Pass |
| September 13 | Elkwater |
| October 3-4 | Greenbrier River |
| November | Attached to Milroy’s Command, Cheat Mountain, W. Va. |
| December 11-14 | Expedition to Camp Baldwin |
| December 13 | Allegheny Mountain |
| December | Duty at Beverly |
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1862
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| March | Attached to Milroy’s Cheat Mountain Brigade, Dept. of the Mountains |
| April 1-12 | Expedition on the Seneca |
| April 12 | Monterey |
| May 8 |
Battle of McDowell |
| May 10-12 | Franklin |
| June 1-2 | Strasburg and Staunton Road |
| June 8 |
Battle of Cross Keys |
| June | Duty at Winchester. Attached to Milroy’s Independent Brigade, 1st Army Corps, Army of Virginia |
| July | Attached to Piatt’s Brigade, Winchester, Va. |
| August | Attached to Trimble’s Brigade, White’s Division, Winchester, Va. |
| September | Attached to Miles’ Command, Harper’s Ferry, W. Va. |
| September 12-15 | Defense of Harper’s Ferry |
| September 14 | Bolivar Heights |
| September 15 | Surrendered with the Harpers Ferry Garrison |
| September | Paroled and sent to Annapolis, Md., thence to Camp Douglas, Ill. |
| November | At Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill., and at Indianapolis, Ind. |
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1863
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| March 18 | Left State for Lexington, Ky. |
| March | Duty in Central District of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio |
| March 22-April 1 | Operations against Pegram |
| March 24 | Action at Danville, Ky. |
| March 28 | Hickman’s Heights |
| May 1 | Dutton’s Hill, Monticello |
| June | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio |
| July | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps |
| August | Attached to Reserve Artillery, 23rd Army Corps |
| August 16-September 17 | Burnside’s Campaign in East Tennessee |
| September 20-21 | Carter’s Depot |
| September 21 | Jonesboro |
| October | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps |
| November 4-December 23 | Knoxville Campaign |
| November 17-December 5 | Siege of Knoxville |
| December | Garrison duty at Knoxville |
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1864
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| Garrison duty at Knoxville | |
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1865
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| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland |
| March | Stoneman’s Raid through East Tennessee into North Carolina |
| April | Duty at Greenville, East Tennessee. Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee |
| July 19 | Mustered out |