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Commanding Officers on the Antietam Campaign:
Col Solomon Meredith
LCol Alois O Bachman
Capt William W Dudley
This Regiment's Chain of Command:
Army - Army of the Potomac
Corps - First Army Corps
Division - 1st Division, 1st Corps
Brigade - 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps
Unit history
Organizational history: Left State for Washington, D. C., August 5, 1861. Attached to 3rd Brigade, McDowell's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, King's 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1862. 3rd Brigade, King's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. 4th Brigade, Iron Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 5th Army Corps, to August, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps to October.
Service: Affair at Lewinsville, Va., September 11, 1861. Reconnoissance to Lewinsville September 25. Occupation of Falls Church September 28. Duty at Fort Craig, Va., till March, 1862. Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-16. Camp at Upton's Hill till April 9. Advance on Falmouth, Va., April 9-19. Duty at Falmouth and Fredericksburg till May 25. McDowell's advance on Ricbmond May 25-29. Operations against Jackson June 1-21. At Warrenton till August 5. Reconnoissance to Orange Court House July 24-27. Reconnoissance to Frederick's Hall Station and Spottsylvania Court House August 5-8. Thornburg's Mills August 5-6. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2. Fords of the Rappahannock August 21-23. Sulphur Springs August 26. Gainesville August 28. Groveton August 29. Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Battle of South Mountain September 14. Battle of Antietam September 16-17.
On the Antietam Campaign
Col Meredith was in command of the Regiment as part of the Brigade's assault on South Mountain on September 14th, but he turned over command to LCol Bachman on the 16th due to lingering effects of injuries suffered at Groveton (August). LCol Bachman was mortally wounded leading a charge of the Regiment down the Hagerstown Pike on the morning of September 17th, and Captain Dudley took command.
Statistics
Initial Strength: 202; Killed in Action (KIA): 28;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 13.9%
Maps Showing this Unit
Detail Map #1: Hookers First Corps Sweeps Down the Hagerstown Pike (5-7 am)
Detail Map #2: Hood's Division Retakes Miller's Cornfield (7-8 am)
Detail Map #3: Mansfield's Twelfth Corps Attacks into Miller's Cornfield (7-9 am)
Battlefield Tablets for this Unit
Tablet #1: First Army Corps - 16 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 6 PM
Tablet #13: Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps - 16 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #2: Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #3: Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #6: Gibbon's Brigade, Doubleday's Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
After the Antietam Campaign
At Sharpsburg till October 30. Movement to Warrenton, thence to the Rappahannock October 30-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. Burnside's 2nd Campaign ("Mud March,") January 20-24, 1863. Duty at Falmouth till April. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek April 29-May 2. Fitzhugh's Crossing April 29-30. Battle of Chancellorsville May 2-5. Expedition to Westmoreland County and operations on Northern Neck May 20-26. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap July 5-24. At Rappahannock Station and Culpeper August 1 to October. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River May 4-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Laurel Hill May 8. Spottsylvania May 8-12. Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient May 12. North Anna River May 23-26. Jericho Ford May 23. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-29. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Bethesda Church June 1-3. Bottom's Bridge June 12. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16 to October 18. Non-Veterans mustered out July 28, 1864. Weldon R. R. August 18-21. Consolidated with 20th Indiana Infantry October 18, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 194 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 116 Enlisted men by disease. Total 316.
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We have 57 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:
| Co. | Rank | Name | Casualty? | Details* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Pvt | Duross, Henry | MWIA 09/17 |  |
| A | Sgt | Eager, Ephraim B. | MWIA 09/17 | |
| A | Pvt | Gilmore, Morris | KIA 09/17 | |
| A | Pvt | Kinnamon, Zenas M. | KIA 09/17 | |
| B | Pvt | Addleman, Joseph O. | KIA 09/17 | |
| B | Pvt | Baum, Peter | KIA 09/17 | |
| B | Pvt | Chamberlin, Napoleon | KIA 09/17 | |
| B | Capt | Dudley, William Wade |  | |
| B | Pvt | Morgan, John | MWIA 09/17 | |
| B | Pvt | Pool, George | MWIA 09/17 | |
| C | Sgt | Allman, George | MWIA 09/17 | |
| C | Pvt | Anderson, John R. | KIA 09/17 | |
| C | Pvt | Ham, James H. | KIA 09/14 | |
| C | Pvt | Miller, Jacob | KIA 09/17 | |
| C | Pvt | Parker, Thomas H. | Died (a) 09/20 | |
| D | Pvt | Chamberlain, Napoleon | KIA 09/17 | |
| D | Pvt | Lacy, Louis | KIA 09/14 | |
| E | Pvt | Anthony, Clint | WIA 09/17 | |
| E | Sgt | Branson, Isaac | WIA 09/17 | |
| E | Pvt | Brinson, William J. | MWIA 09/14 | |
| E | Corp | Crum, William | KIA 09/14 | |
| E | Pvt | Dusang, Samuel W. | MWIA 09/17 | |
| E | Lt | Greene, George Washington | | |
| E | Pvt | Haney, William Henry | MWIA 09/17 | |
| E | Pvt | Harter, Barton S. | KIA 09/17 | |
| E | Pvt | Jones, Joshua | MWIA 09/17 | |
| E | Pvt | Love, James | MWIA 09/14 | |
| E | Pvt | Parsons, Benjamin | MWIA 09/17 | |
| E | Pvt | Patterson, Robert I. | WIA 09/17 | |
| E | Pvt | Richardson, George H. | KIA 09/14 | |
| F | Corp | Collins, Nathaniel A. | WIA 09/17 | |
| F | Pvt | Dunlap, David | MWIA 09/17 | |
| F | Pvt | Moriarty, Matthew | KIA 09/14 | |
| G | Pvt | Knight, James | MWIA 09/17 | |
| H | Pvt | Bowers, Daniel | WIA 09/14 | |
| H | Pvt | Bryant, Albert | WIA 09/17 | |
| H | Pvt | Clark, Argus B. | KIA 09/14 | |
| H | Pvt | Dyson, Thomas H. | KIA 09/17 | |
| H | Pvt | Gray, Jeduthan | MWIA 09/17 | |
| H | Pvt | Hammack, William | KIA 09/14 | |
| H | Pvt | Laymon, William | MWIA 09/14 | |
| H | Pvt | Lowrey, Thomas | MWIA 09/17 | |
| H | Pvt | Rich, Henry C. | KIA 09/17 | |
| H | Pvt | Ruddick, Owen | MWIA 09/14 | |
| I | Pvt | Anton, Levi | KIA 09/17 | |
| I | Pvt | Baker, Peter | KIA 09/17 | |
| I | Pvt | Beatty, David | KIA 09/17 | |
| I | Pvt | Clark, John W. | KIA 09/17 | |
| I | Pvt | Fires, John D. | MWIA 09/14 | |
| I | Pvt | Johnson, Henry H. | MWIA 09/17 | |
| I | Corp | Reeder, Thomas B. | WIA 09/17 | |
| I | Pvt | Slough, Abraham | MWIA 09/17 | |
| K | Pvt | Bush, Jacob V. | WIA 09/17 | |
| K | Pvt | Hastings, John P. | WIA 09/14 | |
| K | Pvt | Lemon, David W. | KIA 09/17 | |
| F&S | LCol | Bachman, Jr., Alois O. | MWIA 09/17 | |
| F&S | Col | Meredith, Solomon | |
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