ST. JOSEPH COUNTY INDIANA

The Ninth Eegiment was organized and mustered into service, for three months, at Indianapolis, on the 25th of April, 1861, with Robert H. Milroy as Colonel.
This regiment was the first that left the State for Western Virginia, departing from Indianapolis on the 29th of May and arriving at Grafton on the 1st of June.
From thence it marched toward Philippi, in the column commanded by Colonel Kelley, and took part in the surprise of the rebel camp at that place on the morning of the 3d of June. Returning to Grafton, the Ninth was assigned to Gen. Morris's brigade and partici­pated in all the marches and skirmishes of that command during its brief campaign, and in the engagements at Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford. The regiment returned home in the latter part of July, and was finally discharged at Indianapolis soon after.

The Ninth Regiment was mustered into the United States service at La Porte Sept. 5, 1861, for three years, or during the war. Soon after it was moved, in command of Colonel Robert H. Milroy, to Western Virginia, proceeding by rail to Webster, where it disembarked and marched to Elkwater valley, and from thence to Cheat Mountain Summit, where winter quarters were built, the regiment remaining there until the 9th of January, 1862. During this time the regiment participated in the battles of Green Brier, Oct. 3, and of Allegheny on the 13th of December, 1861. It then marched to Fetterrnan, Virginia, where it remained until the 19th of February, when it was transferred to General Buell's army, being transported by rail to Cincinnati, and from thence by steamer to Nashville.  Here it was assigned to General Nelson's division, . and marched on the 29th of March, to the Tennessee river, reaching there in time to participate in the second day's engagement at Shiloh. From there it marched to Corinth, Mississippi, and after the evacuation pursued the rebels to Boonville. It then marched to Nashville, by way of Athens, Alabama, and Franklin and Murfreesboro, Tennessee.    From thence it moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky,  and back again to Nashville.    From the latter place the Ninth marched to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there, in the pursuit of Bragg, through Bardstown, Perryville, Danville, Camp Dick Robinson, Crab Orchard and London, to the Wild Cat Mountains, and returned to Nashville, through Crab Orchard, Somerset, Columbia and Glasgow. During this march the regiment was engaged in the battles of Perryville, Danville and Wild Cat mountain. The Ninth then marched to Murfreesboro, where it participated in the battle of Stone River, December 31, 1862, and Jan. 1 and 2, 1863; after which it marched across the Cumberland mountains and the Tennessee river to Chattanooga. On the 19th and 20th of September, it was engaged in the battle of Chiekamauga. After its return to  Chattanooga it participated in the battles of Lookout Mountain, November 24th, and Mission Ridge on the 25th of November, after which it marched over the Cumberland mountains to Bridgeport, Alabama,  and from there to Whiteside, Tennessee. At the  latter place  the Ninth re-enlisted as a veteran organization,   on Dec. 12, 1863. The regiment returned to the State on veteran furlough, and on the 21st of February, 1864, left Valparaiso, Indiana, for the front, passing through Indianapolis, Madison, Louisville, Nashville and Chattanooga to Cleveland, Tennessee. In the spring of 1864 the Atlanta campaign was commenced, the  Ninth  participating  in all   the  marches of that  campaign, through Ringold, Dalton,  Resaca, Kingston, Calhoun, Cassville, around the Alatoona mountains, through Aekworth, Big Shanty, Marietta, the investment of Atlanta, in the flank movement around Atlanta, through Jonesboro and Lovejoy, and back again to Atlanta, taking part  in  the  skirmishing on the route, and in the engagements at Taylor's Ridge, Buzzard's  Roost, Dalton, Resaca, Cassville,  Dallas. New Hope Church, Kenesaw mountain, Marietta, Peach Tree  creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy. It then participated in the retrograde movement in the pursuit of Hood's army, to Dalton, and thence through  Summerville, Georgia, Galesville,
Bridgeport, Stevenson and Huntsville to Athens, Alabama.   From thence it marched to Pulaski, Tennessee, arriving there November, 1864.    Falling back before Hood's advance, on the 26th of November, it was engaged in the fight at Columbia,  in   the  heavy skirmishing that followed on the route to Franklin, and in the severe engagement at that place. Dec. 1 the Ninth  entered Nashville, and Dec,. 15, participated in the battle of Nashville; after which it set out with the army in pursuit of Hood's retreating rebels, following them to Huntsville, Alabama, when the pursuit was  abandoned. It remained at the latter place from Jan. 16 to March 13, 1865,    when it marched into East Tennessee  beyond Bull's Gap, and back again, reaching Nashville on the 25th of May. Soon after it was transferred to the vicinity of New Orleans, and afterward to  Texas, where it remained as part of General Sheridan's army of occupation until September, 1865, when it was mustered out of service and returned to Indiana.

    Co. I, of this regiment, had three officers killed in battle and one died of wounds received in battle; of the privates, three were killed in battle, and fifteen died of wounds received, or from disease.

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