20th Regiment Indiana Infantry
- 20th Regiment Indiana Infantry
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 20th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
caption=Indiana flag
dates= July 22, 1861 to July 12, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Peninsular Campaign
Battle of Second Bull Run
Battle of Chantilly
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Spotsylvania
Battle of Cold Harbor
Siege of Petersburg
The 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Fighting 300," was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
*The 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Lafayette, Indiana on July 22, 1861.
*Peninsular Campaign
*Battle of Second Bull Run
*Battle of Chantilly
*Battle of Chancellorsville
*Battle of Gettysburg
*Battle of Spotsylvania
*Battle of Cold Harbor
*Siege of Petersburg
*The regiment mustered out of service on July 12, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment lost 15 officers and 186 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 113 enlistedmen men who died of disease, for a total of 314 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unininf2.htm#20th 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]
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