130th Indiana Infantry Regiment

The 130th Regiment Indiana Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

130th Regiment Indiana Infantry
ActiveDecember 1863 – December 2, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
EngagementsAtlanta Campaign
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Lovejoy's Station
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville
Carolinas Campaign
Battle of Wyse Fork

Service

The 130th Indiana Infantry was organized at Kokomo, Indiana beginning in December 1863 and mustered in March 12, 1864 under the command of Colonel Charles Sherman Parrish.

The regiment was attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio, to June 1864. 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps, to August 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps, to December 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio, to February 1865, and Department of North Carolina to August 1865. Department of North Carolina to December 1865.

The 130th Indiana Infantry mustered out of service December 2, 1865 at Charlotte, North Carolina.

Detailed service

Left Indiana for Nashville, Tenn., March 16. Marched to Charleston, Tenn., April 5–24, 1864. Atlanta Campaign May 1 to September 8. Demonstrations on Dalton, Ga., May 8–13. Rocky Faced Ridge May 8–11. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Movement on Dallas May 18–25. Operations on Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills May 25 – June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10 – July 2. Lost Mountain June 15–17. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes Creek June 19. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2–5. Ruff's Mills July 3–4. Chattahoochie River July 5–17. Siege of Atlanta July 22 – August 25. Utoy Creek August 5–7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. Lovejoy's Station September 2–6. Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29 – November 3. Nashville Campaign November–December. In front of Columbia November 24–27. Centreville November 27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15–16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–28. At Clifton, Tenn., until January 15, 1865. Movement to Washington, D.C.; then to Morehead City, N.C., January 15 – February 24. Carolinas Campaign March 1 – April 26. Advance on Kinston and Goldsboro March 1–21. Battle of Wyse Fork March 6–8. Kinston March 14. Occupation of Goldsboro March 21. Advance on Raleigh April 10–14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty at Charlotte, N.C., May 8 to December 2.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 185 men during service; 2 officers and 36 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 146 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders
  • Colonel Charles Sherman Parrish

See also

References
  • Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Attribution
  • 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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