93rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry

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Brief History
Organized at Madison, Indianapolis and New Albany, Indiana, August 16 to October 31, 1862. At Selma and Gainesville till August. Mustered out at Gainesville, Alabama, August 10, 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
 * Company A - many men from Bartholomew County - see Rosteron page 501
 * Company B - many men from Carroll and Scott counties - see Rosteron page 502
 * Company C - many men from Switzerland, Jefferson, and Bartholomew counties - see Rosteron page 504
 * Company D - many men from Switzerland and Decatur counties - see Roster on page 505
 * Company E - many men from Bartholomew, and Jefferson counties - see Rosteron page 507
 * Company F- many men from Lawence and Monroe counties - see Rosteron page 509
 * Company G - many men from Orange and Perry counties - see Rosteron page 511
 * Company H - many men from Orange County - see Rosteron page 512
 * Company I - many men from Jennings County - seeRosteron page 514
 * Company K - many men from Floyd County - see Rosteron page 515
 * Unassigned Recuits - see Roster on page 517

The list of companies with their counties and their rosters are on the 93rd Regimen, Indiana Infantry on CIVIL WAR INDEX web site. (accessed 21 Jan 2011)

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 * Companies A, C, E, and F - many men from Bartholomew County

Other Sources
WEBSITES


 * 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 93rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry.


 * Wikipedia (accessed 13 Dec 2010) article on the 93rd Regiment, 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


 * “Remenecence of My Army Life” by Louis Bir and edited by George P. Clark in theIndiana Magazine of History, Vol. 101, No. 1, March 2005


 * Robertson, Melville Cox, "Journal of Melville Cox Robertson", (Indiana Magazine of History 28, no. 2 (June 1932): 116-137.) 1864-1865, Jefferson County (Deputy) ,93rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Co. E    Abstract and Bibliographic Information  article PDF