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- "Henry York; http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm
Regiment Name 51 Indiana Infantry
Side Union
Company E
Soldier's Rank_In Pvt.
Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt.
Alternate Name
Notes
Film Number M540 roll 86
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
51st Regiment, Indiana Infantry
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in December 14, 1861.Moved to Louisville, Ky., December 14; thence to Bardstown, Ky., andduty there till February, 1862. Attached to 20th Brigade, Army of theOhio, to January, 1862. 20th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio,to September, 1862. 20th Brigade, 6th Division. 2nd Army Corps, Armyof the Ohio, to November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 3rdBrigade, 1st Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, toApril, 1863. Streight's Provisional Brigade, Army of the Cumberland,to May, 1863. Prisoners of war till December, 1863. Post ofChattanooga, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. 1stSeparate Brigade, Chattanooga, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, toSeptember, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army ofthe Cumberland, to November, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th ArmyCorps, to August, 1865. Dept. of Texas to December, 1865.
SERVICE.-March to Nashville, Tenn., February 7-March 13, 1862, and toSavannah, Tenn., March 29-April 6. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7.Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit toBooneville May 31-June 12. Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama andMiddle Tennessee June to August. Guarding Memphis & CharlestonRailroad. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August21-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg to Loudon, Ky., October 1-22. Battleof Perryville October 8 (Reserve). March to Nashville, Tenn., October22-November 7, and duty there till December 26. Prim's BlacksmithShop, Edmonson Pike, December 25. Advance on Murfreesboro December26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3,1863. Duty at Murfreesboro till April. Reconnoissance to Nolensvilleand Versailles January 13-15. Streight's Raid to Rome, Ga., April26-May 3. Dug Gap, Sand Mountain, Crooked Creek and Hog Mountain April30. East Branch Black Warrior Creek May 1. Blount's Farm and nearCentre May 2. Galesville (Cedar Bluff) May 3. Regiment captured.Exchanged November, 1863. Reorganized at Indianapolis, Ind., andrejoined army at Nashville, Tenn., December, 1863. (A detachment onTullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7.) Assigned to duty as guard onRailroad, between Nashville and Chattanooga, till April, 1864. Duty atChattanooga, Tenn., till September, 1864, and at Atlanta, Ga., tillOctober. Action at Dalton, Ga., August 14-15. Pursuit of Hood intoAlabama October 3-26. Nashville Campaign November-December. Columbia,Duck River, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle ofNashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee RiverDecember 17-28. Columbia December 21. Duck )River December 22.Non-Veterans mustered out December 14, 1864. Moved to Huntsville,Ala., and duty there till March, 1865. Operations in East TennesseeMarch 15-April 22. At Nashville till June. Ordered to New Orleans,La., June 16; thence to Texas, July. Duty at Green Lake and SanAntonio till December. Mustered out at San Antonio December 13, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 55 Enlisted men killed andmortally wounded and 6 Officers and 202 Enlisted men by disease. Total264." [Transcribed 09 June 2008, SLJuhl,Compiler-sljuhl1234@yahoo.com]
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