From the National Archives, Washington, DC:

Submitted By:  Mark Anderson   (SUVCWMark@aol.com)

Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army
for the Years 1861, ’62, ’63, ’64, ’65.

Part 6, Indiana-Illinois

Published by Order of the Secretary of War, in Compliance with the Joint
Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives, Approved March 2, 1865. 
Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, August 31, 1865.

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Battalion of First Indiana Cavalry Regiment
Called also Twenty-Eighth Indiana Volunteers


This regiment (originally composed of eight companies) was organized at
Evansville, IN, August 20, 1861, to serve three years.  Captains Stewart's and
Bracken's companies of independent cavalry, organized at Indianapolis, IN, July
4 and 9,1861, were transferred to this regiment as companies I and K.  Two more
companies, composed of drafted men, to serve nine months, were organized in
November, 1862, and assigned to this regiment as companies L and M, and were
mustered out of service July 22, 1863.  The original members (except veterans)
of companies A to H, inclusive, were mustered out September 12, 1864, by reason
of expiration of term of service, and the veterans and
recruits consolidated into a battalion of two companies and retained in service
until June 22, 1865, when it was mustered out.  The original members (except
veterans) of companies I and K were mustered out at different dates, as
follows:  Company I, July 3, 1864 and company K, July June 19, 1864, by reason
of expiration of term of service, and the veterans and recruits of these two
companies formed into a detachment, and retained in service until May 31, 1865,
when it was mustered out, in accordance with orders from the War Department.


The official list of battles in which this regiment bore a an honorable part is
not yet published in orders.


Major:

Mark McCauley . . . 30 July, 63.  Discharged June 24, 1865.


Captain:

James A. Pine . . . 8 Aug, 63


First Lieutenants:

Samuel Leflar . . . 16 Feb, 63

William O. Hedrick . . . 2 Nov, 64


Second Lieutenants:

Samuel L. Mellen . . . 9 Dec, 64

John W. Gordon . . .2 Apr, 65


Assistant Surgeon:

None Listed


Casualties:

None Listed


Promoted (6):

Lieut. Colonel William F. Wood, April 2, 1863, to Colonel 46th U.S.C.T.

Lieut. Colonel Thomas N. Pace, February 2, 1864, to Colonel 10th regiment
Indiana cavalry.

Captain Robert R. Stewart, November 8, 1861, to Major 2d regiment Indiana
cavalry.

Captain Abram Sharra, May 26, 1864, to Lieut. Colonel 11th regiment Indiana
cavalry.

Second Lieut. John R. Robson, December 31, 1862, to Assistant Surgeon 91st
regiment Indiana infantry.

Assistant Surgeon John J. Patterson, April 7, 1863, to Surgeon 46th U.S.C.T.


Transferred (1):


Lieut. Colonel Scott Carter, August 20, 1861, to 3d regiment Indiana cavalry.


Resigned (32):

Major Josiah Forth, October 28, 1862.

Major Robert M. Clendenning, January 2, 1863.

Captain William C. Browe, November 1, 1861.

Captain James R. Bracken, March 1, 1862.

Captain Lyman W. Brown, March 25, 1862.

Captain Joel F. Sherwood, August 5, 1862.

Captain George P. Deweese, October 7, 1862.

Captain George A. May, March 3, 1863.

Captain Samuel S. Lamar, June 2, 1863.

Captain James M. Barter, July 5, 1863.

Captain William McReynolds, July 5, 1863.

Captain William P. Tucker, March 18, 1864.

Captain James B. Talbot, April 1, 1864.

Captain Orison J. Kyler, May 27, 1865.

First Lieut. James Neel, Adj't, November 1, 1861.

First Lieut. Patrick Raleigh, November 1, 1861.

First Lieut. Edward S. Hayes, December 4, 1861.

First Lieut. William McReynolds, January 13, 1862.  (Re-commissioned First
Lieutenant January 13, 1863.

First Lieut. Hugh Delzell, March 25, 1862.

First Lieut. John Farrell, March 27, 1863.

First Lieut. Charles L. Lamb, June 3, 1863.

First Lieut. Clemens A. Denneman, August 5, 1864.

First Lieut. Will B. Ellsworth, May 16, 1865.

Second Lieut. John T. Veatch, November 1, 1861.

Second Lieut. George W. Browne, April 26, 1862.

Second Lieut. Edward E. Bassett, April 28, 1862.

Second Lieut. Edward Smith, Batt. Adj't, December 30, 1862.

Second Lieut. Horatio S. Garner, January 11, 1863.

Second Lieut. Robert D. McCracken, October 28, 1864.

Assistant Surgeon Charles Brackett, November 1, 1861.

Assistant Surgeon James W. Cravens, August 15, 1864.

Chaplain James T. Bean, August 17, 1862.


Mustered Out on Expiration of Term of Service (31):

Colonel C. Baker, September 12, 1864.

Major Julian D. Owen, September 12, 1864.

Major William V. Weathers, September 12, 1864.

Captain John C. Tobias, July 22, 1863.

Captain James L. Carey, August 25, 1864.



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Captain James J. Bingham, September 12, 1864.

Captain Henry H. Mellen, September 12, 1864.

Captain John Harding, September 12, 1864.

Captain Theodore Maythenyl, December 13, 1864.

First Lieut. William L. Shugart, July 22, 1863.

First Lieut. Isaac De Long, July 22, 1863.

First Lieut. James H. Carr, June 19, 1864.

First Lieut. Harmon L. Miller, July 3, 1864.

First Lieut. Alexander M. Foster, Adj't, September 12, 1864.

First Lieut. Jesse M. Craig, R.Q.M., September 12, 1864.

First Lieut. Samuel J. Kelso, R.C.S., September 12, 1864.

First Lieut. Charles A. Wood, September 12, 1864.

First Lieut. Frank M. Greathouse, September 12, 1864.

First Lieut. George W. Richards, November 1, 1864.

Second Lieut. Rees Hardesty, July 22, 1863.

Second Lieut. William M. Reeves, July 22, 1863.

Second Lieut. Jacob C. Fitler, June 19, 1864.

Second Lieut. Henry S. Bartholomew, July 3, 1864.

Second Lieut. David Wilsey, August 25, 1864.

Second Lieut. Jackson Brown, September 12, 1864.

Second Lieut. John D. Kroush, September 12, 1864.

Second Lieut. Almon W. Ensign, September 12, 1864.

Second Lieut. David C. Stone, September 12, 1864.

Surgeon Isaac Casselberry, September 12, 1864.


Assistant Surgeon George W. Bruce, September 12, 1864.

Chaplain John Ferguson


Discharged (2):

Captain John A. Stocking, November 1, 1861.

Second Lieut. William B. Baker, Batt. Adj't., October 13, 1862.


Died (7):

Major John S. Gavitt, killed in action at Fredericktown, Mo., October 21, 1861.

Captain John K. Highman, killed in action at Fredericktown, Mo., October 21,
1861.

Captain William W. Sloan, killed in action at Round's Hill, Ark., July 7, 1862.

Captain Will H. Walker, January 23, 1863, of disease, at Evansville, Ind.

Captain William C. Wilhelm, July 18, 1864, of disease, at Pine Bluff, Ark.

First Lieut. William R. Tracy, June 26, 1862, at New York city, N.Y.

First Lieut. Charles H. Randolph, killed at Camp Parapet, La., by a citizen
bushwhacker, February 7, 1864.


Dismissed (2):

Captain Levi S. Kirtley, February 25, 1862.

First Lieut. John W. Smith, February 25, 1862.


Note:

This roster of officers is given as it stood on the day of muster out.


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