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EEGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR.

THIRTY-FIRST INDIANA INFANTRY.

CRUFT'S BRIGADE — STANLEY'S DIVISION — FOURTH CORPS.

(1) COL. CHARLES CRUFT; BVT. MAJOR-GEN.

(2) COL. JOHN OSBORN.

(3) COL. JOHN T. SMITH.

Total of killed and wounded, 432.

BATTLES.

K. &M.W.

Fort Donelson, Tenn 15

Shiloh, Tenn 31

Siege of Corinth, Miss i

Stone's River, Tenn 11

Chickamauga, Ga 12

R ocky Face Ridge, Ga 4

Resaca, Ga i

BATTLES.

Pine Mountain, Ga Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.

Chattahoochie, Ga

Marietta, Ga

Jonesboro, Ga

Atlanta campaign

Nashville, Tenn

K. &M.W.

i i

4

5 18

Present, also, Fort Henry ; Perryville ; Hoover's Gap ; Smyrna Station ; Lovejoy's Station ; Franklin.

NOTES. —Organized at Terre Haute, Ind., September 20, 1861. It proceeded soon after to Kentucky, encamping at Calhoun, on the Green River, where it remained until February n, 1862, when it moved with General Grant's forces to Fort Donelson. It participated in the assault on that stronghold, losing 9 killed, 52 wounded, and i missing; the regiment was commanded in this action by Major Frederick Arn, Colonel Craft being in command of the brigade, which was then in Lew Wallace's Division. At Shiloh, the regiment was in Lauman's Brigade of Hurlbut's Division; loss, 21 killed—including Major Arn,— 114 wounded, and 3 missing. After marching with BuelFs Army on the long and arduous campaigns of 1862, the regiment went into action next at Stone's River, it being then in General Craft's (ist) Brigade, Palmer's (2d) Division, Crittenden's Corps, and was commanded in that action by Colonel Osborn ; loss, 5 killed, 45 wounded, and 37 missing. After this battle, the Thirty-first remained quietly encamped near Murfreesboro until the forward movement of the army in June, 1863.

At Chickamauga the regiment was commanded by Colonel Smith; loss, 5 killed, 61 wounded, and 17 missing. In October, 1863, the Army of the Cumberland was reorganized, the regiment becoming part of Craft's (ist) Brigade, Palmer's (ist) Division, Fourth Corps. During the Atlanta campaign of 1864, this divi sion was known as Stanley's Division. After the evacuation of Atlanta, the Thirty-first accompanied the Fourth Corps in its pursuit of Hood, fighting at Nashville with a loss of 10 killed and 33 wounded. After the war closed the corps moved to Texas, where the regiment was mustered out December 8, 1865.

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