24th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 24th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

• The 24th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Vincennes, Indiana on September 13, 1861.
• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Port Gibson
• Battle of Champion Hill
• Siege of Vicksburg
• The regiment mustered out of service on November 15, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 8 officers and 80 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 3 officers and 204 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 295 fatalities.^[1]

Colonels

• Colonel Alvin Peterson Hovey
• Colonel William T. Spicely

See also

• List of Indiana Civil War regiments

Notes

1. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unininf2.htm#24th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

References

• The Civil War Archive - Indiana Units
• Civil War - Indiana