29th Indiana Infantry Regiment explained

Unit Name:	29th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Dates:	August 27, 1861, to December 2, 1865
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Infantry
Battles:	Battle of Shiloh Battle of Stones River Battle of Chickamauga

The 29th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

• The 29th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at La Porte, Indiana, on August 27, 1861.
• Battle of Shiloh
• Siege of Corinth
• Battle of Stones River
• Battle of Liberty Gap
• Battle of Chickamauga
• The regiment mustered out of service on December 2, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment lost 4 officers and 56 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 4 officers and 240 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 304 fatalities.^[1]

Commanders

• Colonel John Franklin Miller

See also

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

Notes

1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unininf2.htm#29th 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