Regimental History
Sixty-eighth Infantry INDIANA
(3-YEARS)
Sixty-eighth Infantry. -- Cols., Edward W. King, John
S.
Scobey, Harvey J. Espy; Lieut.-Cols., Benjamin C.
Shaw, John
S. Scobey, Harvey J. Espy, Edmund Finn, Majs., John S.
Scobey,
James W. Innis, Harvey J. Espy, Edmund Finn, Cyrus B.
Goodwin.
This regiment was organized at Greensburg, mustered in
Aug.
19, 1862, left at midnight of the same day for
Louisville and
thence for Lebanon, moved to Munfordville and there
surrendered with the other troops to Gen. Bragg, being
paroled
and exchanged in December.
On Dec. 26 a detachment moved to Louisville, where it
was
joined by the rest of the regiment on the 31st. It
proceeded
to . Murfreesboro, Tenn., where it was assigned to the
1st
brigade, 4th division, 14th army corps.
It was in the engagement at Hoover's gap in June,
1863; moved
over the Tennessee and Lookout mountains in September,
skirmishing with the enemy at Pond Springs; was
engaged in the
battle of Chickamauga, losing 135 in killed, wounded
and
missing out of 356 engaged, Col. King being among the
killed,
and it was among the last to leave the field.
On Oct. 11 it was transferred to the 1st brigade, 3d
division
4th army corps, and took part at Missionary Ridge,
losing 82
in killed and wounded. It then marched to the relief
of
Burnside at Knoxville, and later toward Dandridge,
returning
soon to Knoxville and moving thence to Marysville.
During March 1864, it was on duty at Knoxville,
Strawberry
Plains, New Market, Morristown and McDonald's station.
It was
on garrison duty at Chattanooga from Apr. 28 to Aug.
14, and
was then in a skirmish with Wheeler's cavalry at
Dalton, Ga.
It was engaged in several minor expeditions from
Chattanooga
until Oct. 27, when it moved to Decatur, Ala., and was
engaged
with the garrison in a fight with Hood's forces. It
guarded
the forces tearing up the track near Resaca from Nov.
13 to
Nov. 29, when it moved to Nashville, and was in the
battle
there in December.
It was in pursuit of Hood's army as far as Leighton,
and from
there returned to Chattanooga. It was engaged on
bridge guard
duty and mustered out at Nashville June 20, 1865, the
recruits
being then transferred to the 44th regiment and
serving with
it until mustered out Sept. 14.
The original strength of the 68th was 905; gain by
recruits,
112; total, 1,017. Loss by death, 142; desertion, 48,
unaccounted for, 5.
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