73rd Indiana Infantry Regiment

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. • Day's Gap - April 30 • Sand Mountain - April 30 • Crooked Creek - April 30 • Hog Mountain - April 30 • East Branch - May 1 • Black Warrior Creek - May 1 • Blount's Farm - May 2 • Centre - May 2 • Cedar Bluff - May 3 • Regiment captured at Cedar Bluff, AL, May 3 by CS General Nathan Bedford Forrest. • 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. • Paint Rock Bridge April 8, 1864. • Scout from Triana to Somerville July 29 (detachment). • 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. • Gurley's Tank February 16, 1865 (detachment). ==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 ==See also==