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regiment, was organized at

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, on October 24, 1861, with Hugh B. Reed, a Fort Wayne druggist, as colonel, and officially mustered in on November 22, 1861. It was composed mostly of volunteers from what was then

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's Tenth Congressional District in the northeastern part of the state. In December, the regiment left for

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. It camped at

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, until February 1862, when it moved to

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, then to Fort Donelson, Tennessee, where it participated in the siege of the fort, taking heavy casualties there. The regiment was engaged both days, April 6–7, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh, where it suffered 33 killed and 177 wounded. It participated in the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi, and fought at

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and

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. It was assigned provost (police) duty at

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, before being mustered out on September 14, 1865. Frederick Dyer (''see references'') reports that the regiment's total combat fatalities were four officers and 76 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, and nine officers and 220 enlisted men who died of disease. The Indiana Chickamauga Commission (''see references''), however, reports the 44th's casualties as 350 killed and wounded in combat, and another 58 dead from disease. One of the regiment's early casualties was William H. Cuppy, captain of Company E, paternal uncle of humorist

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. Severely wounded at Fort Donelson, he was sent home to South Whitley, Indiana, where he was cared for by his mother and sister until he died of his injuries in July 1862 at age 26.

Companies

Below is a brief outline of the companies consisting of the 44th Indiana Infantry Regiment. This identifies the First Sergeants and Sergeants of each Company. One of the links in the External Links section below leads to a PDF that includes all soldiers for each company in its entirety, including those unassigned to a company but still in the 44th.

Company "A"

* First Sergeant ** Marion B. Butler **Seymour Pugh Snyder * Sergeants ** John Ulam ** William W. Wright ** James H. Merriman ** Joseph Milnes

Company "B"

* First Sergeant ** James S. Getty * Sergeants ** George R. Murray ** William McNeal ** Charles H. Ward ** William Eddy

Company "C"

* First Sergeant ** Caleb Carman * Sergeants ** Sedgewick Livingston ** John H. Strong ** William Riley ** J. R. McCool

Company "D"

* First Sergeant ** Thomas C. Moffett * Sergeants ** David K. Stoer ** George Shell ** Lafayette Perkins ** Owen T. James

Company "E"

* First Sergeant ** George Sickafoose * Sergeants ** Jerome F. Combs ** William Hilderbrand ** James Compton ** Henry Cray

Company "F"

* First Sergeant ** Solomon Delong * Sergeants ** John Gunsunhouser ** James H. Obell ** Wilson Nichols ** Nathan P. Fuller

Company "G"

* First Sergeant ** B. F. Rawso * Sergeants ** Phinneus M. Carey ** Lyman Blowers ** Neal Ruthvan ** Daniel Johnson * Private ** Joseph Forest

Company "H"

* First Sergeant ** Hiram F. King * Sergeants ** David M. Hart ** John B. Rowe ** Daniel Rowe ** George M. Fish * Private ** William Nelson Crow Wounded 4/6/1862 Shiloh, TN

Company "I"

* First Sergeant ** Nelson Mansfield * Sergeants ** David S. Belknap ** Robert M. Wilmore ** Frank Launners ** Levi C. Vinson * Privates ** William C. Welton **Cyrus Klapp

Company "K"

* First Sergeant ** Norris S. Bennet * Sergeants ** George W. Gordon ** Moses B. Willis ** Eugene S. Aldrich ** Samuel H. Elliott

References

*Terrell, W.H.H. ''Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana'', (Vol. 2 pp. 438–40) Indianapolis: A. H. Connor, State Printer, 1865–69. *Dyer, Frederick Henry. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'', Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Co. (1908). *Indiana Commissioners, Chickamauga National Military Park, Report of, ''Indiana at Chickamauga'', Indianapolis: Sentinel Printing Co. (1900), pp. 187–190.

External links

* 44thindiana.website has complete soldier list by company and other items of interest.
List of 44th Infantry Soldiers by Company(A through K, including unassigned)Forty-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry: History of its Services by John H. Rerick, M. D.44th Indiana Regiment Association Records, 1861–1938, Collection Guide

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