18th Regiment Indiana Infantry

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 18th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry


caption=Indiana flag
dates= August 16, 1861 to August 28, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Pea Ridge
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Champion's 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.

ervice

*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's 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 enlistedmen men who died of disease, for a total of 204 fatalities. [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.]

Colonels

*Colonel

ee also

*List of Indiana Civil War regiments

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionin.htm The Civil War Archive - Indiana Units]
* [http://civilwarindiana.com/reg_history_inf0.html Civil War - Indiana]