JASPER BLACKARD, Civil War Casualty
November 25, 1963

Father:  Joseph Blackard
Mother: Mary Wheeler

    Jasper Blackard was a Private in the
Fifty-eighth Indiana Infantry Regiment,
Company B.  The Fifty-eighth Regiment was
organized at Princeton, in October, 1861, and
Henry M. Carr was made colonel. It left for
the field in December, crossing the Ohio at
Louisville. Being assigned to Wood's division
of Buell's army, it marched, during the winter
of 1861 and 1862, through central Kentucky,
stopping a few weeks at Bardstown,
Lebanon, Spring Garden and Bowling Green.
March 1 it arrived at Nashville, remaning there
until April 1, when it started for Pittsburg
Landing, reaching there on the evening of the
second-day's battle of Shiloh. It engaged in
the siege of Corinth and after the evacuation
of that place, marched into northern Alabama,
and thence to Shelbyville, Tenn. From here it
moved to Decherd, where it lay for a few
weeks, marching thence with Buell's army via
Nashville to Louisville, where it arrived
October 1. From here it immediately counter-
marched to Nashville, in pursuit of Bragg's
army, reaching there in the latter part of
November. November 26th the regiment
moved toward Murfreesboro, and the day
following charged the rebels at Lavergne. It
participated in the battles of Stone River,
December 31 and January 1 and 2, 1863,
being attached to Hascall's brigade of Wood's
division of the Twenty-first Corps, losing
eighteen killed, eighty-seven wounded and
five missing, making a total loss of 110. The
regiment remained in the vicinity of
Murfreesboro until the movement against
Tullahoma was commenced, when it moved
with the army in that direction.  It was in the
brigade that was first to enter Chattanooga,
and was engaged in the battle of
Chickamauga, losing in killed, wounded and
missing, 171, out of an aggregate of 400
engaged.

    The regiment then fell back with the
army to Chattanooga, and was engaged in the
battle at that place on the 23d of November,
and was in Wagoner's brigade of Sherman's
division, in the charge on Mission Ridge, on
the 25th of November, losing five killed and
sixty-one wounded.

    Jasper was one of those killed or
mortally wounded in the charge on Mission
Ridge.

    The Regiment (550 men) mustered
out July 25, 1865 at Indianapolis.  During the
term of service the regiment lost in battle and
disease 268 men.



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