18th Indiana Infantry Regiment explained

Unit Name:	18th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Dates:	August 16, 1861, to August 28, 1865
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Infantry
Battles:	Battle of Pea Ridge Battle of Port Gibson Battle of Champion Hill Battle of Big Black River Siege of Vicksburg Battle of Cedar Creek

The 18th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

• The 18th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 16, 1861.
• Battle of Pea Ridge
• Battle of Port Gibson
• Battle of Champion Hill
• Battle of Big Black River
• Siege of Vicksburg
• Battle of Cedar Creek
• The regiment mustered out of service on August 28, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment lost 5 officers and 68 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 1 officers and 130 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 204 fatalities.^[1]

Commanders

• Colonel Thomas Pattison
• Colonel Henry Dana Washburn

See also

• List of Indiana Civil War regiments
• Indiana in the Civil War

Notes

1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unininf2.htm#18th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

References

• The Civil War Archive - Indiana Units
• Civil War - Indiana