93rd Indiana Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Madison, Indianapolis and New Albany, Ind., August 16 to October 31, 1862. Left State for Memphis. Tenn., November 9, 1862. Attached to 5th Brigade, District of Memphis, Tenn., 13th Army Corps (Old). Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Memphis, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 8th Division, 16th Army Corps, to April, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division (Detachment), Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps (New), Military Division West Mississippi, to August, 1865.

SERVICE.--"Tallahatchie March" November 26-December 20, 1862. Duty at Lagrange, Tenn., Corinth, Miss., and at Memphis, Tenn., until March, 1863. Moved to Helena, Ark., March 13, thence to Young's Point, La. At Ducksport, La., until May 3. Movement to join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., via Richmond and Grand Gulf, May 3-14. Mississippi Springs May 13. Jackson May 14.

Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi^[1]
- May 19, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi^[2]
- May 22, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi^[3]

Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Camp at Big Black River until September 5 and at Oak Ridge until October 14. Expedition to Canton October 14-20. Bogue, Chitto Creek, October 17. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., November 7, and provost duty there until May 10, 1864. Expedition from Memphis to Wyatt's, Miss., February 6-18, 1864. Coldwater Ferry February 8. Near Senatobia February 8-9. Wyatt's February 13. Sturgis' Expedition to Ripley, Miss., April 30-May 9. Sturgis' Expedition to Guntown, Miss., June 1-13. Battle of Brice's Cross Roads or Tishamingo Creek near Guntown June 10. Ripley June 11. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo, Miss., July 5-21. Camargo's Cross Roads, Harrisburg, July 13. Harrisburg near Tupelo July 14-15. Old Town or Tishamingo Creek July 15. Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30. Tallahatchie River August 7-9.

August 23, 1864 - Skirmish at Abbeville, Mississippi

Moved to Duvall's Bluff, Ark., September 2. March through Arkansas and Missouri in pursuit of Brite September 24-November 18. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 25-December 1. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Eastport, Miss., and duty there until February 9, 1865. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., thence to New Orleans, La., and to Dauphin Island, Ala., February 9-March 3. Campaign against Mobile and its defenses March 17-April 12. Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8. Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. Capture of Mobile April 12. March to Montgomery April 13-25, and duty there until May 10. At Selma and Gainesville until August. Mustered out at Gainesville, Ala., August 10, 1865.