HISTORICAL NOTES:
The Indiana 50th Infantry regiment was organized at Seymour in Sept., 1861, and was mustered in in October. It left the state Dec. 25, for Bardstown, Ky., and from there it proceeded to Bowling Green, where they were assigned to railroad guard duty in detachments along the Louisville & Nashville road, until Sept., 1862.
The 50th fought throughout the war in the west, primarily in Arkansas and Tennessee. The regiment was captured twice and exchanged. They ended the war with the siege of Mobile.
OFFICERS: Colonels:
• Cyrus L. Dunham - cashiered in 1863
• Samuel T. Wells – Commanded during the Mobile Campaign Lieut. Colonels:
• Horace Heffren
• Samuel T. Wells
• Horace N. Atkisson Majors:
• Bannister Compton
• Samuel T. Wells
• Horace B. Atkisson
• John Hungate ASSIGNMENTS:
• Attached to 15th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to June 1862.
• Unassigned Railroad Guard, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862.
• District of Louisville, Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to November 1862.
• District of Jackson, Tennessee, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to December 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, District of Jackson, Tennessee, XVI Corps, to March 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XVI Corps, to August 1863.
• True's Brigade, Arkansas Expedition, to January 1864.
• Unassigned, 2nd Division, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to April 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, VII Corps, to May 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, VII Corps, to February 1865.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIII Corps, Military Division of West Mississippi, to April 1865.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, Military Division of West Mississippi, to May 1865. SERVICE:
• October 25, 1861: Moved to New Albany, Indiana
• December 25: Bardstown, Kentucky
• February 1862: Advanced on Bowling Green, Kentucky
• February 10-March 3: Advanced on Nashville, Tennessee
• until September 1862: Guard duty along Louisville & Nashville Railroad
• July 4–28: Operations against Morgan
• August 20: Pilot Knob, Drake’s Creek, Manscoe’s (Mansker’s) Creek (Companies C, E, I, K)
• September 14–17: Siege of Munfordville, Kentucky (Companies A, B, D, F, and H)
• September 17: Captured
• until November: Paroled and sent to Indianapolis, Indiana (and duty there)
• November 1–10: Moved to Jackson, Tennessee
• December 18, 1862 to January 3, 1863: Operations against Forrest in western Tennessee
• December 29–30: Huntington
• December 30: Parker's Cross Roads, near Jackson
• December 30: Clarksburg (detachment).
• December 31: Red Mound (or Parker's) Cross Roads
• until August 1863: Duty at Jackson, Collierville and Memphis, Tennessee
• August 28: Moved to Helena, Arkansas
• September 1–10: Steele's Expedition to Little Rock
• September 10: Bayou Fourche and capture of Little Rock
• until March 1864: Garrison duty at Lewisburg, Arkansas
• March 2, 1864: Reenlisted
• March 23-May 3: Steele's Expedition to Camden
• April 2: Antoine and Terre Noir Creek
• April 9–12: Prairie D'Ann
• April 15: Camden
• April 15–16: Liberty Post Office
• April 16–18: Camden
• April 17: Red Mound
• April 30: Jenkins' Ferry, Saline River
• until July: Duty at Little Rock
• until December: non-veterans duty at Little Rock
• July–August: Veterans absent on furlough
• until January 1865: Duty at Little Rock
• January 22-February 4: Carr's Expedition to Saline River
• February 1865: Moved to Mobile Point, Alabama
• March 17-April 12: Campaign against Mobile and its defenses .
• March: Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely
• April 9: Assault and capture of Fort Blakely
• April 12: Capture of Mobile
• April 13: Whistler's Station
• April 13-22: March to Montgomery
• May 25, 1865: Merged with the 52nd Indiana Infantry Regiment ROSTERS:
The roster of this unit has the names of 1917 men.
HISTORICAL NOTES: