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Charles Latham
13 January 1995
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item
COLLECTION DATE: 1929
PROVENANCE: Ad's Autographs, P. O. Box 8006, Webster, N. Y. 14580-8006, 28 November 1994
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: See card catalog for references to United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1865)
ACCESSION NUMBER: 95.0082
The 12th Indiana Volunteer Regiment was organized in May 1861 for one year's service. It served in Virginia and fought at Second Bull Run. In August 1862 it was reorganized for three year's service. It served in Kentucky, fought against Kirby Smith at Richmond, was taken prisoner and paroled. In November 1862 it went to Tennessee to serve under Grant, and was involved with the siege and fall of Vicksburg. The regiment was then sent east to serve under Sherman as he advanced on Atlanta and marched to the sea. It then proceeded through North Carolina, stopping in Raleigh.
T. J. Williams says in this letter that he served in Company D of the 12th Regiment, enlisting on 10 November 1863 and being mustered out on 5 January 1866. Terrell's Report of the Adjutant General does not list T. J. Williams in Company D or any other company of the 12th Regiment.
Source: Materials in collection
Terrell, Report of Adjutant General, Vol. II and IV
This collection contains one item, a letter written in 1929 by an 84-year-old Civil War veteran about his war experiences. His letter mentions several battles, also that Williams voted for Lincoln in 1864 though not of age, and that after Lincoln's assassination "the officers could hardly keep the soldiers from burning the city [of Raleigh]."
MAIN ENTRY: Williams, T. J., b. ca. 1845
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Williams, T. J., b. ca. 1845
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination
United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1865)
Soldiers--Indiana
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
Indiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources
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