53rd Indiana Infantry Regiment

Service

Detailed service

• Guard prisoners at Indianapolis until March 15.
• Ordered to Savannah, Tennessee, March 15.
• Advance on and siege of Corinth, Mississippi, April 29-May 30, 1862.
• March to Memphis, Tennessee, via Grand Junction, LaGrange, and Holly Springs, June 1-July 21, and duty there until September 6.
• March to Jackson and Bolivar, Tennessee, September 6–14.
• Battle of Metamora, Hatchie River, October 5. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign.
• Operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad November 1862 to January 1863.
• Duty at Colliersville and Memphis until April.
• Ordered to Young's Point, Louisiana, then to Grand Gulf, Mississippi, and duty there until June 12.
• Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 15-July 4.
• Advance on Jackson, Mississippi, July 4–10. Siege of Jackson July 10–17.
• Reconnaissance to Pearl River July 15. Duty at Vicksburg until August 15.
• Ordered to Natchez, Mississippi, August 15, and duty there until November 24.
• Expedition to Harrisonburg September 1–8.
• Near Harrisonburg and capture of Fort Beauregard September 4.
• Ordered to Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 24, and duty there until February 1864.
• Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2. Veterans on furlough March and April.
• Moved to Bird's Point, Missouri, April 28; then to Clifton, Tennessee, and march to Ackworth, Georgia, via Huntsville and Decatur, Alabama, and Rome, Georgia, May 5-June 9.
• Atlanta Campaign June 9-September 8.
• Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kennesaw June 27.
• Nickajack Creek July 2–5. Turner's Ferry July 5.
• Chattahoochie River July 5–17.
• Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20–21.
• Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
• Flank movement on Jonesborough August 25–31.
• Battle of Jonesborough August 31-September 1.
• Lovejoy's Station September 2–6.
• Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29-November 3.
• Shadow Church and Westbrook's, near Fairburn, October 1–3. March to the sea November 15-December 10.
• Ball's Ferry and Georgia Central Railroad Bridge, Peones River, November 23–25.
• Siege of Savannah December 10–21. Carolinas Campaign January to April 1865.
• Salkehatchie Swamps, South Carolina, February 2–5. Rivers Bridge, Salkehatchie River, February 3.
• South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12–13. Columbia February 16–17.
• Fayetteville, North Carolina, March 11. Averysboro March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19–21.
• Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10–14.
• Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army.
• March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Virginia, April 29-May 20.
• Grand Review of the Armies May 24.
• Moved to Louisville, Kentucky, June.

  Casualties

Commanders

• Colonel Walter Q. Gresham
• Colonel Warner L. Vestal