7th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery

7th Indiana Battery Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The battery was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December 2, 1861. It was mustered in under the command of Captain George R. Swallow.

The battery was attached to Artillery, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to June 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. Artillery, 3rd Division, XXI Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. Artillery, 3rd Division, XIV Corps, to July 1864. Artillery Brigade, XIV Corps, to October 1864. Garrison Artillery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to April 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to July 1865.

Veterans and recruits from the 8th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery were consolidated with the battery on March 13, 1865. The 7th Indiana Battery Light Artillery mustered out of service on July 20, 1865.

Detailed service

Left Indiana for Louisville, Ky., December 6. Duty at Camp Wickliffe, Ky., until February 1862. Advance on Nashville, Tenn., February 14–25. Occupation of Nashville, February 25 to March 17. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 17-April 6. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6–7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg to London, Ky., October 1–20. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. (reserve). Nelson's Cross Roads October 18. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 20-November 7 and duty there until December 26. Dobbin's Ferry, near Lavergne, December 9. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga September 19–20. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23. Lookout Mountain November 23–24. Missionary Ridge November 25. Duty at Chattanooga and Ringgold, Ga., until May 1864. Reconnaissance from Ringgold toward Tunnel Hill April 29. Atlanta Campaign May to September. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8–11. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Advance on Dallas May 18–25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2, Pine Hill June 11–14. Lost Mountain June 15–17. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5–17. Peachtree Creek July 19–20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5–7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 20, and post duty there until December. Old members mustered out December 7, 1864. Veterans and recruits on duty at Chattanooga, Tenn., until July 1865.

Casualties

The battery lost a total of 29 men during service; 1 officer and 6 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 22 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

• Captain George R. Swallow

See also

• List of Indiana Civil War regiments
• Indiana in the Civil War

Indiana Military Units in the Civil War
Heavy Artillery	1st Regiment
Light Artillery	1st Regiment 2nd Regiment 3rd Regiment 4th Regiment 5th Regiment 6th Regiment 7th Regiment 8th Regiment 9th Regiment 10th Regiment 11th Regiment 12th Regiment 13th Regiment 14th Regiment 15th Regiment 16th Regiment 17th Regiment 18th Regiment 19th Regiment 20th Regiment 21st Regiment 22nd Regiment 23rd Regiment 24th Regiment 25th Regiment 26th Regiment
Cavalry	1st Regiment 2nd Regiment 3rd Regiment 4th Regiment 5th Regiment 6th Regiment 7th Regiment 8th Regiment 9th Regiment 10th Regiment 11th Regiment 12th Regiment 13th Regiment Stewart's Company Bracken's Company Mounted Scouts (Independent Company)
Infantry (3 Month Enlistments)	6th Regiment) 7th Regiment 8th Regiment 9th Regiment 10th Regiment 11th Regiment 54th Regiment
Infantry (1 Year Enlistments)	12th Regiment 16th Regiment
Infantry	6th Regiment 7th Regiment 8th Regiment 9th Regiment 10th Regiment 11th Regiment 12th Regiment 13th Regiment 14th Regiment 15th Regiment 16th Regiment 17th Regiment 18th Regiment 19th Regiment 20th Regiment 21st Regiment 22nd Regiment 23rd Regiment 24th Regiment 25th Regiment 26th Regiment 27th Regiment 28th Regiment 29th Regiment 30th Regiment 31st Regiment 32nd Regiment 33rd Regiment 34th Regiment 35th Regiment 36th Regiment 37th Regiment 38th Regiment 39th Regiment 40th Regiment 41st Regiment 42nd Regiment 43rd Regiment 44th Regiment 45th Regiment 46th Regiment 47th Regiment 48th Regiment 49th Regiment 50th Regiment 51st Regiment 52nd Regiment 53rd Regiment 54th Regiment 55th Regiment 56th Regiment 57th Regiment 58th Regiment 59th Regiment 60th Regiment 61st Regiment 62nd Regiment 63rd Regiment 64th Regiment 65th Regiment 66th Regiment 67th Regiment 68th Regiment 69th Regiment 70th Regiment 71st Regiment 72nd Regiment 73rd Regiment 74th Regiment 75th Regiment 76th Regiment 77th Regiment 78th Regiment 79th Regiment 80th Regiment 81st Regiment 82nd Regiment 83rd Regiment 84th Regiment 85th Regiment 86th Regiment 87th Regiment 88th Regiment 89th Regiment 90th Regiment 91st Regiment 92nd Regiment 93rd Regiment 94th Regiment 95th Regiment 96th Regiment 97th Regiment 98th Regiment 99th Regiment 100th Regiment 101st Regiment 102nd Regiment 103rd Regiment 104th Regiment 105th Regiment 106th Regiment 107th Regiment 108th Regiment 109th Regiment 110th Regiment 111th Regiment 112th Regiment 113th Regiment 114th Regiment 115th Regiment 116th Regiment 117th Regiment 118th Regiment 119th Regiment 120th Regiment 121st Regiment 122nd Regiment 123rd Regiment 124th Regiment 125th Regiment 126th Regiment 127th Regiment 128th Regiment 129th Regiment 130th Regiment 131st Regiment 132nd Regiment 133rd Regiment 134th Regiment 135th Regiment 136th Regiment 137th Regiment 138th Regiment 139th Regiment 140th Regiment 141st Regiment 142nd Regiment 143rd Regiment 144th Regiment 145th Regiment 146th Regiment 147th Regiment 148th Regiment 149th Regiment 150th Regiment 151st Regiment 152nd Regiment 153rd Regiment 154th Regiment 155th Regiment 156th Regiment 157th Regiment 158th Regiment 159th Regiment
See also: Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State and List of Indiana Civil War regiments

Indiana in the American Civil War
People	William A. Bowles Jesse D. Bright Ambrose Burnside Harrison H. Dodd Alvin P. Hovey Andrew Humphreys Lambdin P. Milligan Oliver P. Morton Francis A. Shoup Lew Wallace Indiana regiments
Places	Camp Joe Holt Camp Morton Jefferson General Hospital Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot Military Park New Albany National Cemetery
Battles Raids	Battle of Corydon Battle of Pogue's Run Hines' Raid Morgan's Raid Newburgh Raid
See also: Indianapolis in the American Civil War

References

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.

Attribution

• This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

External links

• 7th Indiana Light Artillery living history organization