65th Indiana Infantry Regiment

The 65th Regiment Indiana Infantry, was organized in Princeton and recruited throughout the southern Indiana counties to fight in the American Civil War.

Organization

Regimental commanders

Regimental units

• Company A - Men primarily recruited from Gibson and Posey counties
• Company B - Men primarily recruited from Gibson County
• Company C - Men primarily recruited from Knox County
• Company D - Men primarily recruited from Spencer County
• Company E - Men primarily recruited from Warrick County
• Company F - Men primarily recruited from Martin County
• Company G - Men primarily recruited from Gibson, Pike and Posey counties
• Company H - Men primarily recruited from Vanderburgh and Warrick counties
• Company I - Men primarily recruited from Daviess County
• Company K - Men primarily recruited from Dubois County

Command structure

Service

Strength

Original recruitment strength was 942 with 228 additional troops; total, 1,170. Regiment lost during service 34 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 216 Enlisted men by disease. Total 254, Additionally, 59 desertions and 8 unaccounted.

See also

• List of Indiana Civil War regiments

References

• Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Co. 1908.
• Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 2, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1865
• Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume 6, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1866
• "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing Company, 1908 - Volume 3

External links

• National Park Service – Regiment Details – Union Indiana Volunteers – 65th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
• The Civil War Archive: Union Regimental Histories – Indiana – 65th Regiment Infantry
• Civil War Index: 65th Indiana Infantry in the American Civil War
• Family Search: 65th Regiment, Indiana Infantry