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From: "Desoto Joe" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Legion
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 00:30:24 -0500
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From: Sharon <>
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Subject: [MO-CW] Legion


> I am trying to find out about the D. 9 Ind. Legion. What does this mean? I
> am researching my GGrandfather's military pension from the Civil War. I
hope
> you can help me or tell me where to find this information. Thank you.
> Sharon
>


Looks like Company D 9th Indiana ?

9th Regiment Cavalry (121st Regiment Volunteers) (Indiana)

Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., December 7, 1863, to March 29. 1864. Left
State for
Pulaski, Tenn., May 3, 1864. Attached to District of North Alabama, Dept. of
the
Cumberland, to November, 1864. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Wilson's Cavalry
Corps,
Military Division Mississippi, to March, 1865. Dept. of Mississippi to
August, 1865.

SERVICE.--Post duty at Pulaski, Tenn., until November 23, 1864. Actions at
Florence,
Ala., September 1 and 12. Elk River September 2. Lynnville September 4.
Sulphur Branch
Trestle September 25. Richland Creek, near Pulaski, September 26. Pulaski
September
26-27. Nashville Campaign November-December. Owen's Cross Roads December 1.
Franklin December 10. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to
the
Tennessee River December 17-28. West Harpeth River and Hollow Tree Gap
December
17. Franklin December 17. Lynnville December 23. Anthony's Hill, Pulaski,
December 25.
Sugar Creek December 25-26. At Gravelly Springs January 16 to February 6.
1865. Moved
to Vicksburg, Miss.; thence to New Orleans, La., February 6-March 10, Return
to
Vicksburg, Miss., and duty there March 25 to May 3. Expedition from Rodney
to Port
Gibson May 3-6. Garrison duty at various points in Mississippi May 3 to
August 22.
Mustered out August 28, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 28 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded
and 204 Enlisted men by disease. Total 236.
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9th Independent Battery Light Artillery (Indiana)

Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in December 20, 1861. Duty at
Indianapolis,
Ind., until January 27, 1862. Moved to Cairo, Ill., January 27, and duty
there until March
27. Remustered February 25, 1862. Attached to Military District of Cairo to
April, 1862.
Artillery, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. Artillery,
1st Division,
District of Jackson, Tenn., to September, 1862. Artillery, 4th Division,
District of Jackson
to November, 1862. Artillery, 4th Division, District of Jackson, Right Wing
13th Army
Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. Artillery, 4th
Division, 17th Army
Corps, to January, 1863. Artillery, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to March,
1863.
Artillery, District of Columbus, Ky., 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to
July, 1863. 1st
Brigade, District of Columbus, 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January,
1864. Artillery,
3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division
(Detachment), Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January,
1865. Indiana
to March, 1865. Camp Butler, Ill., to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--Moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 27, 1862. Battle of
Shiloh, Tenn.,
April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Moved to
Bolivar,
Tenn., and duty there until November, 1862. Action at Bolivar August 30.
Grant's Central
Mississippi Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863. Duty at Tallahatchie
River
December 24, 1862, to January 20, 1863. Moved to Colliersville, Tenn.,
thence to
Memphis, Tenn., and to Columbus, Ky., March, 1863. Duty there until July 10.
Expedition
to Cape Girardeau April 29-May 4. Moved to Clinton, Ky., July 10. Campaign
against
Roddy's forces July 15-August 4. Duty at Union City, Tenn., August 4, 1863,
to January 23,
1864. Pursuit of Forest December 20-26, 1863. Ordered to Vicksburg, Miss.,
January 23.
Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2. Red River Campaign March 10-May 22.
Fort
DeRussy March 14. Occupation of Alexandria March 16. Henderson's Hill March
21.
Battle of Pleasant Hill April 9. About Cloutiersville April 22-24.
Alexandria April 30-May
13. Bayou LaMourie May 6-7. Retreat to Morganza May 13-20. Avoyelle's
Prairie,
Marksville, May 16. Yellow Bayou May 18. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., May
19-24;
thence to Memphis, Tenn., May 25-June 10. Lake Chicot, Ark., June 6-7.
Smith's
Expedition to Tupelo, Miss., July 5-21 (Non-Veterans). Harrisburg, near
Tupelo, July
14-15. Old Town (or Tishamingo Creek) July 15. Smith's Expedition to Oxford,
Miss.,
October 1-30. Moved to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., September 8-19. Expedition
to DeSoto
September 20-October 1. March through Missouri in pursuit of Price October
2-November
19. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 25-December 1. Battles of Nashville
December
15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Ordered to
Indiana
January 25, 1865; blown up on Steamer "Eclypse" at Johnsonville January 27,
1865, and
out of 70 Officers and men but 10 escaped unhurt. Non-Veterans mustered out
March 6,
1865. Veterans and Recruits on duty at Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill., until
June. Mustered
out June 25, 1865.

Battery loss during service 6 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
55 Enlisted
men by disease. Total 61.
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9th Regiment Infantry (3 Months) (Indiana)


Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., April 22-27, 1861. Ordered to Grafton, W.
Va., May 29.
Attached to Kelly's Command, West Virginia, to July. Action at Philippi June
3. Attached to
Morris' Indiana Brigade, West Virginia, July. West Virginia Campaign July
6-17. Laurel
Hill July 7-8. Bealington July 10. Carrick's Ford July 12-14. Pursuit of
Garnett's forces July
14-17. Mustered out August 2, 1861.

Regiment lost 3 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Enlisted men
by disease.
Total 5.
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9th Regiment Infantry (3 Years) (Indiana)


Organized at Laporte September 5, 1861. Ordered to Cheat Mountain, West
Virginia,
September 10. Attached to Cheat Mountain District, West Virginia, to March,
1862. 19th
Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 19th Brigade,
4th Division,
2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division,
Left Wing
14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd
Division,
21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st
Division, 4th
Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st
Division, 4th Army
Corps, to August, 1865. Dept. of Texas to September, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Cheat Mountain, West Virginia, until January 9, 1862.
Action at
Greenbrier River October 3-4, 1861. Expedition to Camp Baldwin December
11-13.
Greenbrier River December 12. Camp Allegheny December 13. Moved to
Fetterman, W.
Va., January 9, 1862, and duty there until February 19. Ordered to
Louisville, Ky.,
February 19; thence march to Nashville, Tenn. March to Savannah, Tenn.,
March 18-April
6. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth,
Miss., April 29-May
30. Occupation of Corinth May 30, and pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12.
March to
Iuka, Miss., thence to Tuscumbia, Florence and Athens, Ala., June 12-July 8.
Duty at
Athens until July 17, and at Murfreesboro, Tenn., until August 17. March to
Louisville,
Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 17-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg, to
Loudon, Ky.,
October 1-22. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. Danville October 11.
Wild Cat
Mountain, near Crab Orchard, Big Rockcastle River and near Mt. Vernon
October 16.
Wild Cat October 17. Rockcastle River and Nelson's Cross Roads October 18.
Pittman's
Forks October 20. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 22-November 5, and duty
there until
December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Lavergne December
26-27.
Stewart's Creek December 27. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862,
and January
1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro and Readyville until June. Woodbury January
24.
Expedition from Readyville to Woodbury April 2. Middle Tennessee (or
Tullahoma)
Campaign June 23-July 7. At Manchester until August 16. Passage of the
Cumberland
Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August
16-September
22. Lee and Gordon's Mills, Ga., September 11-13. Battle of Chickamauga
September
19-20. Siege of Chattanooga September 22-November 23. Before Chattanooga
September
22-27. Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold
Campaign
November 23-27. Lookout Mountain November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25.
Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27. At Whitesides, Ala., until March,
1864, and
at Cleveland, Tenn., until May. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8.
Tunnell Hill
May 6-7. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's
Roost
Gap May 8-9. Near Dalton May 13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Kingston
May
18-19. Cassville May 19 and May 24. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek
and
battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
Operations
about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June
11-14. Lost
Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station Smyrna Camp
Ground
July 4. Chattahoochee River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of
Atlanta July
22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro
August
31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in
North
Georgia and North Alabama, September 29-November 3. Nashville Campaign
November-December Columbia Duck River November 24-27. Battle of Franklin
November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the
Tennessee
River December 17-28. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there until March,
1865.
Operations in East Tennessee March 15-April 22. Duty at Nashville until
June. Ordered to
New Orleans, La., June 16; thence to Indianola, Tex., July 7. Duty at San
Antonio and at
New Braunfels until September. Mustered out September 28, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 120 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded
and 2 Officers and 220 Enlisted men by disease. Total 353.
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