12th Indiana Battery Light Artillery was an artillery

Artillery

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...

 battery

Artillery battery

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 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...

 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

The battery was organized at Jeffersonville

Jeffersonville, Indiana

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 and Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

 and mustered in for a three year enlistment on January 25, 1862.

The battery served unattached, Army of the Ohio

Army of the Ohio

The Army of the Ohio was the name of two Union armies in the American Civil War. The first army became the Army of the Cumberland and the second army was created in 1863.-History:...

, to June 1862. Reserve Artillery, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. Post and Defenses of Nashville, Tennessee, Department of the Ohio, to November 1862, and Department of the Cumberland to July 1865.

The 12th Indiana Battery Light Artillery mustered out of service on July 7, 1865.

Detailed service

Left Indiana for Louisville, Ky., January 25, 1862. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-March 6, 1862, thence march to Savannah, Tenn., March 20-April 7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August. Assigned to duty as garrison at Fort Negley, Defenses of Nashville, Tenn., August 18, 1862 to July 1865. Siege of Nashville, Tenn., September 12-November 6, 1862. Repulse of attack on Nashville by Breckenridge, Forest and Morgan November 5, 1862. One half of the battery was ordered to Chattanooga, November 1863, and participated in the battles of Chattanooga, November 23–25, 1863. Battle of Nashville December 15–16, 1864. Non-veterans mustered out December 23, 1864.

Casualties

The battery lost a total of 24 men during service; 2 officers and 22 enlisted men died of disease.

See also

• List of Indiana Civil War regiments
• Indiana in the Civil War