7th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry

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Brief History
This Unit was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana, and mustered in October 1, 1863. They mustered out at Austin, Texas, February 18, 1866.

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 Staff - see Roster


 * Company A - many men from Porter County - see Roster on page 100
 * Company A - Reorganized Soldier - no cities or counties given - see Roster on page 120
 * Company B - no cities or counties given - see Roster on page 101
 * Company B - Reorganized Soldier - no cities or counties given - see Rosteron page 123
 * Company C - many men from Dearborn, Marion and Ripley counties - see Rosteron page 104
 * Company C - Reorganized Soldier - no cities or counties given - see Rosteron page 124
 * Company D - many men from Marion, Jennings, St. Joseph, Dearborn,Ripley,Noble, Hamilton, Vermillion, and other counties - see Rosteron page 105
 * Company D - Reorganized Soldier - no cities or counties given - see Rosteron page 126
 * Company E - many men from Wayne, Jay, Carroll, and Marion counties - see Roster on page 106
 * Company E - Reorganized Soldier - no cities or counties given - see Roster on page 127
 * Company F - no cities or counties given - see Roster on page 108
 * Company F - Reorganized Soldier- no cities or counties given - see Rosteron page 129
 * Company G -many men from Marion, Vigo, Franklin, Delaware, Lake, and other counties - see Rosteron page 110
 * Company H - many men from Marion, Tippecanoe, Porter, La Grange, and Wayne counties - see Rosteron page 111
 * Company I - many men from Kosciusko, Montgomery, Shelby, Decatur, Vigo, Greene, and other counties - see Rosteron page 113
 * Company K - many men from Vigo,Jay, Porter, Blackford, Clinton, Steuben, Porter, and other counties - see Roster on page 115
 * Company L - many men from Wabash County - see Roster on page 116
 * Company M - many men from Jefferson, La Grange, Noble, Marion and other counties - see Rosteron page 118
 * unassigned recruits - see Rosteron page 119
 * unassigned recruits - Reorganized Soldier - see Rosteron page 107

The list of companies with their counties and their rosters are on the 119th Indiana Regiment/ 7th Indiana Cavalry on CIVIL WAR INDEX web site. (accessed 29 Jan 2011) ____________________________________________________________________


 * Officer and Non-Commissioned Office - see Roster
 * Company A - many men from Porter County - see Roster
 * Company B - many men from Randolph County - see Roster
 * Company C - many men from Dearborn County and then from different counties - see Roster
 * Company D - men from different counties - see Roster
 * Company E - men from different counties - see Roster
 * Company F - many men from La Porte County - see Roster
 * Company G - many men from Vigo County - see Roster
 * Company H - many men from Marion County and then from different counties - see Roster
 * Company I - many men from Marion County and then from different counties - see Roster
 * Company K - men from different counties - see Roster
 * Company L - many men from Wabash County - see Roster
 * Company M - men from different counties - see Roster
 * Unassigned Troops - see Roster

The list of companies with their counties and their rosters are on the 7th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry web site. (accessed 10 Jan 2011)

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 * Company D -Steuben County

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Companies B, C, D, I - many men from Noble County

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 23 Dec 2010) Brief history of the 7th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry.


 * Wikipedia (accessed 23 Dec 2010) article on the 7th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry.


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


 * The 7th Indiana Cavalry (accessed 23 Dec 2010) Roster, history, diaries, &amp; etc., of The 7th Indiana Cavalry.

BOOKS


 * Cogley, T. S. (1876). History of the Seventh Indiana cavalry volunteers: And the expeditions, campaigns, raids, marches, and battles of the armies with which it was connected. with biographical sketches of Brevet Major General John P.C. Shanks, and of Brevet Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Browne, and other officers of the regiment; with an account of the burning of the steamer Sultana on the Mississippi river, and of the capture, trial conviction and execution of Dick Davis, the guerrilla. (Laporte, Ind: Herald Co., printers. ).  FHL UC/CAN book 977.2 M25c'     Google books  Internet Archive