75th Indiana Infantry Regiment

Service

The 75th Indiana Infantry was organized at Wabash, Indiana and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on August 19, 1862, under the command of Colonel Milton Stapp Robinson.

The regiment was attached to 40th Brigade, 12th Division, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Center, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, XIV Corps, to June 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XIV Corps, to October 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps, to June 1865.

The 75th Indiana Infantry mustered out of service at Washington, D.C., on June 8, 1865.

Detailed service

This regiment was organized at Wabash and was mustered in on August 19, 1862. It left the state on August 21 for Lebanon, Kentucky, but retired to Louisville upon Bragg's advance. It then moved to Frankfort, Scottsville, Gallatin and Cave City in pursuit of Morgan's forces. It was in camp near Gallatin during December and moved in January 1863 to Murfreesboro, being engaged in scouting and brief expeditions, with the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps. On June 24 it started for Tullahoma, participated in the Battle at Hoover's Gap and was the first regiment to enter the enemy's works at Tullahoma. Moving then towards Chattanooga, it was engaged at Chickamauga, losing 17 killed and 107 wounded. It remained near Chattanooga during the fall and winter and was engaged in the battle of Missionary Ridge. It moved to Ringgold, Georgia, in Spring 1864, joined the campaign to Atlanta, and was engaged at Dalton, Resaca, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, in front of Atlanta, and at Jonesboro. On October 4, the regiment moved with its corps to Pine Mountain, and arrived in time to threaten the rear of French's division of Hood's army, which was investing the garrison at Allatoona. The regiment pursued the enemy to Gaylesville, and returned in time to join the march upon Savannah, which city was reached in December. In January 1865, the regiment made the march through the Carolinas to Goldsboro, participating en route in the battles of Fayetteville and Bentonville. It then moved with the advance of the army to Raleigh, skirmishing at Smithfield, then to Richmond and Washington, and was mustered out at Washington, June 8, 1865. Recruits were transferred to the 42nd Indiana Infantry. and served with that regiment until its muster out. The original strength of the 75th was 1,031; gain by recruits, 96; total, 1,127. Loss by death, 227; desertion, 30; unaccounted for, 31.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 232 men during service; one officer (Capt William McGinniss D: Savanna GA) and 43 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, two officers and 186 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

• Colonel Milton Stapp Robinson

References

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
• Floyd, David Bittle. History of the Seventy-Fifth Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers: Its Organization, Campaigns, and Battles (1862-65.) (Philadelphia, PA: Lutheran Publication Society), 1893.
• Miller, William Bluffton. Fighting for Liberty and Right: The Civil War Diary of William Bluffton Miller, First Sergeant, Company K, Seventy-Fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press), 2004.
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Notes

References

1. (1908). "The Union army : a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65 -- records of the regiments in the Union army -- cyclopedia of battles -- memoirs of commanders and soldiers. Vol.3". Federal Pub. Co.