Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1910 — Eighty-Seventh Regiment Indiana Infantry. [ARTICLE]

Eighty-Seventh Regiment Indiana Infantry.

The eighty-seventh regiment, Indiana, Was organized at South Bend on the 28th of August, 1862, and was sent from there to Indianapolis, where it was mustered into the service of the United States on the 31st of August, 1862, with Klina G. Shrylock; as colonel. On the same day of its muster into the service it was sent from Indianapolis to Louisville, Ky., where on the Ist day of September it was assigned to General Burbridge’s brigade. On October Ist, it was transferred to the Third Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, and took part with that corps in General Buell’s campaign through Kentucky. It was engaged in the fight at Springfield, Ky., on October 6th, and on the Bth of that month found its place in the battle at Perryville, Ky. After the army of Bragg was driven from Kentucky, the eighty-seventh marched back again through Kentucky to Mitchellville, which place it arrived in November, 1862. From Mitchellville the regiment changed camp to Tunnel Hill, Pilot Knob and Gallatin, Tenn., and on the 29th of June, 1863, it was sent to Concord Church, south of Nashville." On the 4th of March, 1863, it was engaged in a fight at Chapel Hill, Tenn., with General Forrest’s Confederate command, after which it moved to Triune, where Rosecrans was preparing for his campaign through middle Tennessee. This regiment was sent to Murfreesboro, Tenn., and on the 23rd of June, 1863, moved with the Army of the Cumberland on that campaign as cne of the regiments of the Third Brigade (Van Derveer), Third Division (Brannan), Fourteenth Army Corps (Thomas). It was in the battle at Hoover’s Gap and was with that part of the army which entered Tullahoma. It then marched to Winchester, Tenn., thence through the Cumberland mountains to Battle Creek on the Tennessee River.

In the Chattanooga-Chickamaugua campaign this regiment with its brigade participated. It bore a conspicuous part in the battle of Chickamaugua on the 19th and 20th of September, 1863, in that campaign losing more than half of the officers and men engaged. It returned with the army from the battlefield of Chickamaugua to Chattanooga, and was on duty in the lines during the siege of that place. Upon the re-organization of the army after Major-General Thomas was assigned to the command of the Army of the Cumberland, it was assigned to the Second Brigade (Van Derveer), Third Division (Baird), Fourteenth Army Corps (Palmer), On the 25th of November, 1863, this regiment was in the front line of its brigade in the charge at the storming of Missionary Ridge, losing heavily in that engagement. It was a participant in the pursuit of Bragg’s army as far as Ringgold, Ga. On the 22nd pf February, 1864, it was a part of the force sent upon an expedition against Dalton, Ga„ and was engaged with the enemy at Buzzard’s Roost. After this engagement it remained in camp at Ringgold, Ga., until Sherman started upon his Atlanta campaign, May 7. 1864. In this campaign the EightySeventh participated in all of the principal battles and many skirmishes of' the campaign, taking part with the army in the engagements at Rocky Face Ridge, Resacca, Cassville, Dallas, Kenasaw, Peach Tree Creek, and in the battles and seige before Atlanta. It was with Sherman’s army in the flank movement around Atlanta, participating in the battle of Jonesboro on September 1, 1864. It then moved with Sherman’s victorious - army into Atlanta and there remained until October 3rd, when it entered with its brigade upon the campaign in pursuit of Hood through northern Georgia, marching to Resacca, thence through Snake Creek Gap to Chattanooga Valley. From there it marched to Gayles-

ville, Ala., and when Sherman divided his army, sending the Fourth and Twenty-third corps under Thomas to Nashville and taking the remainder of his army to Atlanta, this regiment returned to Atlanta and on the 16th of November/1864, left Atlanta with the Fourteenth Army Corps with Sherman on his march to the sea. It had an engagement with Wheeler’s cavalry near Saundersville, Ga., on November 26th. It reached to Savannah river on December 6th, and Savannah on December 10th. After the evacuation of Savannah on December 21, 1864, this regiment’ marched into the city and remained until January 30, 1865. This regiment participated in Sherman’s campaign through the Carolinas, marching with the Fourteenth Corps >.o Goldsboro, N. C., where it remained until the 10th of April, 1866. From

Goldsboro it moved to Smithfield, N. C., and took part in the battle and capture of that place. It was at Holly Springs, N. C., at the time of the surrender of Gen. Johnson’s Confederate Army.

From North Carolina, the regiment marched to Richmond, Va., and thence to Washington, D. C., where it participated in the final review of the armier before prant and Sherman. On the 10th of June, 1865, the regiment was mustered out of the United States service and returned to Indiana. The loss of the regiment during its term of service was: Killed in action 47; wounded in action 198; died from wounds and disease 214; being a total causualty list of 459.