title: 42nd Indiana Infantry Regiment
text: # 42nd Indiana Infantry Regiment
  
  The 42nd Regiment Indiana Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  The 42nd Indiana Infantry was organized at Evansville, Indiana and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on October 9, 1861, under the command of Colonel James Garrard Jones. The regiment was recruited in Daviess, Gibson, Pike, Spencer, Warrick, and Vanderburgh counties.
  
  The regiment was attached to 14th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, October to December 1861. 14th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, to April 1862. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, I Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Center, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XIV Corps to October 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, to July 1865.
  
  The 42nd Indiana Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 21, 1865.
  
  ## Detailed service
  
  ### 1862
  
  January - February - Ordered to Kentucky, and duty at Henderson, Calhoun and Owensboro, Kentucky
  
  February 10-25 - Advance on Nashville, Tennessee
  
  March 28-April 11 - Occupation of Shelbyville and Fayetteville and advance on Huntsville, Alabama
  
  April 11–14 - Alabama
  
  April 11 -Action at Wartrace
  
  April 29 - Advance on and capture of Decatur, Alabama
  
  August 27-September 26 - Action at West Bridge near Bridgeport
  
  until August - Duty at Huntsville, Alabama.March to Nashville, Tennessee, then to Louisville, Kentucky, in pursuit of Bragg,
  
  October 1–15 - Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky
  
  October 8 - Battle of Perryville
  
  October 16-November 7 - March to Nashville, Tennessee
  
  until December 26 - Duty in Nashville, Tennessee
  
  December 26–30 - Advance on Murfreesboro
  
  December 30–31 - Battle of Stones River
  
  ### 1863
  
  January 1–3 - Battle of Stones River
  
  March 9–14 - Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Reconnaissance to Versailles
  
  June 23-July 7 - Tullahoma Campaign
  
  until August 16 - Elm River
  
  June 29 - Occupation of middle Tennessee
  
  August 16-September 22 - Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign
  
  September 11 - Davis Cross Roads or Dug Gap
  
  September 19–21 - Battle of Chickamauga
  
  September 21 - Rossville Gap
  
  September 24-November 23 - Siege of Chattanooga
  
  November 23–27 - Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign
  
  November 23–24 - Lookout Mountain
  
  November 25 - Missionary Ridge
  
  November 26 - Pea Vine Creek and Graysville
  
  November 27 - Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge
  
  ### 1864
  
  January 1, 1864 - Regiment reenlisted
  
  May 1-September 8 - Atlanta Campaign
  
  May 8–11 - Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge
  
  May 8–9 - Buzzard's Roost Gap
  
  May 14–15 - Battle of Resaca
  
  May 18–25 - Advance on Dallas
  
  May 25-June 5 - Operations on Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills
  
  May 27 - Pickett's Mill
  
  June 10-July 2 - Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain
  
  June 11–14 - Pine Hill
  
  June 15–17 - Lost Mountain
  
  June 27 - Assault on Kennesaw
  
  July 4 - Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground
  
  July 5–17 - Chattahoochee River
  
  July 18 - Buckhead, Nancy's Creek
  
  July 19–20 - Peachtree Creek
  
  July 22-August 25 - Siege of Atlanta
  
  August 5–7 - Utoy Creek
  
  August 25–30 - Flank movement on Jonesboro
  
  August 29 - Near Red Oak
  
  August 31-September 1 - Battle of Jonesboro
  
  September 29-November 3 - Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama
  
  November 15-December 10 - March to the Sea
  
  December 10–21 - Siege of Savannah
  
  ### 1865
  
  January to April - Campaign of the Carolinas
  
  March 16 - Averysboro, North Carolina
  
  March 19–21 - Battle of Bentonville
  
  March 24 - Occupation of Goldsboro
  
  April 10–14 - Advance on Raleigh
  
  April 14 - Occupation of Raleigh
  
  April 26 - Bennett's House
  
  April 29-May 19 - Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Virginia
  
  May 24 - Grand Review of the Armies
  
  June - Moved to Louisville, Kentucky
  
  ## Casualties
  
  The regiment lost a total of 310 men during service; 5 officers and 108 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 196 enlisted men died of disease.
  
  ## Commanders
  
  * Colonel James Garrard Jones - mustered out November 4, 1864 on expiration of term of service
  * Colonel William T. B. McIntire - commanded at the Battle of Chickamauga as lieutenant colonel; resigned as lieutenant colonel, December 12, 1864
  * Colonel Gideon R. Kellams - mustered out with regiment.
  * Lieutenant Colonel Charles Harvey Denby - second-in-command from inception through the Battle of Perryville; then assumed command of 80th Indiana Infantry Regiment
  * Lieutenant Colonel James M. Shanklin - commanded at the Battle of Stones River but was captured during the battle
  