81st Regiment Company F Indiana Infantry. Entered service 8/16/1862. Ordered
to Louisville, Ky., August 29. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–15,
1862. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October
16-November 7, and duty there until December 26. Reconnaissance toward Franklin
December 9. Near Brentwood December 9. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30.
Nolensville December 26–27. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and
January 1–3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Reconnaissance from Salem
to Versailles March 9–14. Operations on Eaglesville Pike near Murfreesboro June
4. Tullahoma Campaign June 22-July 7. Liberty Gap June 22–27. Duty at
Winchester until August. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee
River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga
September 19–20. Siege of Chattanooga, September 24-October 25. Reopened
Tennessee River October 26–29. Duty at Bridgeport, Ala., until January 26,
1864, and at Ooltewah until May 1864. Atlanta Campaign May 3 to September 8,
1864. Tunnel Hill May 6–7. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May
8–13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8–9. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Near Kingston
May 18–19. Near Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22–25. 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, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.
Chattahoochie River July 5–17. Peachtree Creek July 19–20. Siege of Atlanta
July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. Battle of
Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy's Station September 2–6. Operations
against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29-November 3.
Nashville Campaign November–December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24–27.
Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15–16. Pursuit of
Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–28. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty
there until March 1865. Operations in eastern Tennessee March 15-April 22. At
Nashville until June. The
81st Indiana Infantry mustered out of service at Nashville, Tennessee, on June
13, 1865.