73rd Indiana Infantry Regiment
# 73rd Indiana Infantry Regiment

The 73rd Regiment Indiana Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

## Service

The 73rd Indiana Infantry was organized and mustered in at Camp Rose, South Bend, Indiana for a three-year enlistment on August 16, 1862, under the command of Colonel Gilbert Hathaway.

The regiment was attached to:

* 20th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, September 1862.
* 20th Brigade, 6th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862.
* 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863.
* 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, XXI Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1863.
* Streight's Provisional Brigade. Department of the Cumberland, to May 1863.
* Prisoners of War to December 1863.
* Post and District of Nashville, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to January 1864.
* 1st Brigade, District of Nashville, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, January 1864.
* 1st Brigade, Rousseau's 3rd Division, XII Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1864.
* 1st Brigade, 4th Division, XX Corps, Department of the Cumberland, to March 1865.
* District of Northern Alabama, Department of the Cumberland, to June 1865.

The 73rd Indiana Infantry mustered out of service on July 1, 1865.

## Detailed service

* Ordered to Lexington, Kentucky. Evacuation of Lexington August 31.
* Pursuit of Bragg, to London, Kentucky, October 1–22, 1862.
* Battle of Perryville, October 8 (reserve).
* March to Nashville, Tennessee, October 22-November 9, and duty there until December 26.
* Advance on Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 26–30.
* Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863.
* Duty at Murfreesboro until April.
* Reconnaissance to Nolensville and Versailles January 13–15.
* Streight's Raid to Rome, Georgia, April 26-May 3. End of Streight's Raid was a 3 day running battle across 120 miles of Alabama Wilderness.
* Reorganized and rejoined army at Nashville, Tennessee, December 1863.
* Guard duty along Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, and picketing Tennessee River from Draper's Ferry to Limestone Point. Headquarters at Triana until September 1864.
* Action at Athens, Alabama, October 1–2.
* Defense of Decatur October 26–29.
* Duty at Stevenson, Alabama, until January 1865.
* At Huntsville, Alabama, and along Mobile & Charleston Railroad until July.

## Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 241 men during service; 3 officers and 41 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 191 enlisted men died of disease.

## Commanders

* Colonel Gilbert Hathaway - killed in action at Blount's Farm, May 2, 1863
* Colonel Alfred B. Wade

## Notable members

* Lieutenant Colonel Ivan N. Walker - 24th Commander-in-Chief, Grand Army of the Republic, 1895-1896
* Job Barnard, First Sergeant in Company K
