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From: "Joan L. Asche" <>
Subject: Re: [OHCW] Andrew Westley Scoles Jr.
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:55:22 -0400
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This comes from civilwardata.com

Hope it helps.

Andrew W. Scoles

Residence Pleasant Mills IN;
Enlisted on 11/29/1861 as a Private.

On 11/29/1861 he mustered into "C" Co. IN 47th Infantry
He was Killed on 5/16/1863 at Champion's Hill, MS


Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

- Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com


______________________________________________________________________________________________
Forty-seventh Infantry INDIANA
(3-YEARS)


Forty-seventh Infantry.ÄCols.,James R. Slack, John A.
McLaughlin; Lieut.-Cols., Milton S. Robinson, John A.
McLaughlin, Sextus A. Shearer; Majs., Samuel S. Mickle, John
A. McLaughlin, Lewis H. Goodwin, Sextus A. Shearer, William H.
B. Vance.

This regiment was organized at Anderson and was mustered in
Dec. 13, 1861. It left the state the same day for Bardstown,
Ky., where it was assigned to Gen. Wood's brigade of Buell's
army.

It moved to Camp Wickliffe, arriving there Dec. 31, and for
West Point on Feb. 14, 1862, taking transports there for
Commerce, Miss. It was engaged at New Madrid, being the first
regiment to enter Fort Thompson, was in the engagement at
Riddle's Point between the shore batteries and the enemy's
gunboats, and then moved to Tiptonville, Tenn.

It was at Memphis during July and participated in a skirmish
at Brown's Plantation in August. I t then moved to Helena,
Ark., where it remained until March, 1863, then joined the
Yazoo Pass expedition after which it moved to the rear of
Vicksburg, engaging in the battles and skirmishes of that
campaign.

At Champion's Hill it lost 143 in killed and wounded and was
constantly engaged in the trenches before Vicksburg until the
surrender. It was also engaged in the battle at Jackson moved
to New Orleans in August and thence to Berwick Bay. In the
Teche expedition it was engaged at Grand Coteau, and then
moved to New Iberia, where it reenlisted and visited home in
Feb., 1864.

It took part in the Red River expedition in the spring of
1864, was engaged at Atchafalaya Bayou in July, and was
stationed at Moranza most of the fall. Col. Slack was
appointed brigadier-general Dec. 31, 1864, and Lieut.-Col.
McLaughlin was commissioned colonel.

The regiment was transported to Dauphin Island, near Mobile,
in Feb., 1865, and took an active part in the siege of that
city. After Mobile's fall, it moved to Shreveport, La., with
Gen. Herron, who received the surrender of Gen. Price and the
army of the trans-Mississippi department.

The regiment was mustered out at Shreveport Oct. 23, 1865.
Its original strength was 977; gain by recruits, 362;
reenlistments, 409; total, 1,748. Loss by death, 312;
desertion, 62, unaccounted for, 20.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 3
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Pleasant Mills, IN

Soldiers by In Method
Soldiers by Out Method

Enlisted/Commissioned:
74
Killed or Mortally Wounded:
4

Drafted:
0
Died as POW:
0

Died of Disease:
14

Total Men:
74
Disabled:
2

Deserted:
0

Discharged:
7

Mustered Out:
45



Note: Most state Adjutant General Reports did not provide Residence
information. The table above reflects only the data in the HDS database.

Joan L. Asche
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Carolyn Joy wrote:

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