The Civil War in the East

16th Indiana Independent Battery Light Artillery

The 16th Indiana Battery lost 11 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1862

 

Organized at Lafayette, Ind.

March 24

Mustered in at Indianapolis

June 1

Left State for Washington, D.C.

June

Duty at Capitol Hill. Attached to Military District of Washington, D. C., then Artillery, 2nd Army Corps, Army of Virginia

June 26

Ordered to join Banks in the Shenandoah Valley

July to September

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 9

Battle of Cedar Mountain

August 21-23

Fords of the Rappahannock

August 29

Battle of Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September 6-22

Maryland Campaign. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam (Reserve)

September

Ordered to Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defenses of that city attached to Artillery, 2nd Brigade, Defenses North of the Potomac, Defenses of Washington, D.C.

1863

February

Fort Washington, Defenses of Washington, North of the Potomac, 22nd Army Corps

May

2nd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

July

3rd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

December

1st Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

1864

July 11-12

Repulse of Early's attack on Washington

1865

June

Ordered to Indianapolis, Ind

July 5

Mustered out