84th Indiana Volunteer   Infantry

CGF   A PROUD MEMBER OF THE CUMBERLAND GUARD 
   
History of the 84th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Organized at Richmond and Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in September 3, 1862. Ordered to Covington, Ky.,
September 8, and duty in the defenses of Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, during Kirby Smith's threatened attack on
Cincinnati. Moved to point Pleasant, W.Va., October 1. Attached to 3d Brigade, Kanawha Division, District of West
Virginia, Dept. of Ohio, to November, 1862. District of Eastern Kentucky. Dept. of Ohio, to February 18, 1863. 2d
Brigade, Baird's 3d Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. Ohio, February, 1863. Baird's Division, Franklin, Tenn., Dept. of
the Cumberland, to June, 1863. 1st Division, Reserve Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 2d Brigade,
1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to August, 1864. 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, to
June, 1865.
 
SERVICE.--Moved from Point Pleasant, W.Va., to Guyandotte October 13, 1862, and duty there till November 14.
Ordered to Kentucky November 14. Duty at Catlettsburg and Cassville, Ky., till February 7, 1863. Moved to Nashville,
Tenn., February 7-20, thence to Franklin, Tenn., March 5, and duty there till June 3. Pursuit of Van Dorn March 9-12.
Repulse of Van Dorn's attack on Franklin April 10. Moved to Triune June 3. Repulse of Forest's attack on Triune June
11. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of Shelbyville July 1. At Wartrace till August
12. Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August-September. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21. Siege of Chattanooga,
Tenn., September 24-October 26. Near Chattanooga October 2. Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29. At
Whiteside till February, 1864. Near Kingston December 4, 1863. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864.
Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September
8. 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. Operation about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June
15-17. Assault on till September 26. Moved to Memphis, thence march Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree
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 Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North
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 till March, 1865. Operations in East Tennessee March
15-April 22. At Nashville, Tenn., till June. Mustered out June 14, 1865. Recruits transferred to 57th Indiana Infantry.
 
Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 82 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 145 Enlisted
men by disease. Total 234.

The 84th Indiana was formed to service as the Safety Unit of the Cumberland Guard.

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