22nd Regiment, Indiana Infantry

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Brief History
This Unit was organized at Madison, Indiana, and mustered in at Indianapolis, Indiana, August 15, 1861. They mustered out July 24, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.

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 with Staff - see Roster
 * Company A - many men from Jennings County - see Rosteron page 492
 * Company B - many men from Jackson County - see Rosteron page 495
 * Company C - many men from Brown County - see Roster on page 498
 * Company D - many men from Clark County - see Rosteron page 500
 * Company E - many men from Bartholomew County - see Rosteron page 503
 * Company F - many men from Switzerland and Vigo counties - see Rosteron page 506
 * Company G - many men from Bartholomew County - see  Roster on page 508
 * Company H - many men from Carroll, Floyd, Washington, and Scott counties - see Roster on page 511
 * Company I - many men from Monroe County - see Roster on page 514
 * Company K - many men from Jefferson County - see Roster on page 516
 * Unassigned Recruits - see Roster on page 519

The list of companies with their counties and their rosters are on the 22th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry on the CIVIL WAR INDEX web site. (accessed 18 Jan 2011)

Other Sources
WEBSITES


 * Indiana State Digital Achives for Civil Warcan be searched by soldier's name (accessed 1 May 2011)


 * Beginning United States Civil War Research gives steps for finding information about a Civil War soldier. It covers the major records that should be used. Additional records are described in ‘Indiana in the Civil War’ and ‘United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865’ (see below).


 * National Park Service, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, is searchable by soldier's name and state. It contains basic facts about soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, a list of regiments, descriptions of significant battles, sources of the information, and suggestions for where to find additional information.


 * Indiana in the Civil War describes many Confederate and Union sources, specifically for Indiana, and how to find them.. These include compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.


 * United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865 describes and explains United States and Confederate States records, rather than state records, and how to find them. These include veterans’ censuses, compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.


 * The Civil War Archive. (accessed 13 Dec 2010) Brief history of the 22nd Regiments, Indiana Infantry.


 * Wikipedia (accessed 13 Dec 2010) article on the 22nd Reigment, Indiana Infantry.


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


 * Indiana Twenty-Seond Regiment(accessed 05 Jan 2011) Company "B" was from Clark Country.

BOOK


 * Marshall, R. V. (1884). An historical sketch of the Twenty-second regiment Indiana Volunteers, from its organization to the close of the war, its battles, its marches, and its hardships, its brave officers and its honored dead: Read at the re-union of the regiment held at Columbus, Ind., March 7, 1877. (Madison, Ind: Courier Co., printers.) FHL US/CAN Fiche 6084378 (1 fiche)   other library   Google books