18th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery

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Brief History
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in August 20, 1862. Capture of Macon April 20. Duty at Macon, Chattanooga and Nashville, Tennessee, till June. Mustered out June 23, 1865.

Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin
Men often enlisted in a company recruited in the counties where they lived though not always. After many battles, companies might be combined because so many men were killed or wounded. However if you are unsure which company your ancestor was in, try the company recruited in his county first.


 * Officer and Non-Commissioned Office - see Roster
 * Eighteenth Battery - no cities or counties given - see Rosteron page 754-757
 * Eighteenth Battery- Vigo County
 * Recruits Assigned - see Roster on page 757

The Battery with their counties and their rosters are on the 18th Indiana Light Battery, on CIVIL WAR INDEX web site. (accessed 05 Feb 2011 2011)

Other Sources
WEBSITES


 * Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (accessed 13 Dec 2010) can be searched by soldier's name or by regiment; includes regimental rosters and additional history of the regiment.


 * The Civil War Archive. (accessed 13 Dec 2010) Brief history of the 18th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery.


 * Wikipedia (accessed 13 Dec 2010) article on the 18th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery.


 * Union Army Regimental History Index (accessed 14 Dec 2010) Index Of Regimental Histories: Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry, and other units, states Alabama to Indiana


 * 18th Indiana Artilley Battery (accessed 08 Dec 2010) History, roster of 18th Battery, also organization dedicated to educational programs about the Civil War.


 * 18th Indiana Light Artillery (accessed 13 Dec 2010) dedicated to portraying the Artillery soldier of the US Civil War.


 * Morrison, Theophilus Wiley, "Recollections of Salem", (Indiana Magazine of History 29, no. 3 (September 1933): 248-253.)  1861, Washington County (Salem), 18th Indiana, Volunteer Infantry, Co. G   Abstract and Bibliographic Information   article PDF