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In the month of August 1861, a company was recruited in the northern part of Owen county, but the efforts of Isaac N. Winans, Allen T. Rose and Francis M. Pickens. It was organized by the selection of the above named parties as Captain, First Lieutenant and Second Lieutenant in the order of the above named.

Proceeding to Terre Haute it was mustered into the United States service for three years and became a part of the 31st Indiana Volunteers under Col. Charles Craft and was designated Company B.

Being ordered to the front, it first went to Camp Calhoun on Green River in Kentucky where it remained until about the 1st of February 1862. Leaving Camp Calhoun, the regiment reached the battlefield of Fort Donelson in time to participate in the engagement on the 13th and 14th of February and was at the surrender on February 15th. Company B lost heavily in killed and wounded.

After the battle of Shiloh, the regiment was attached to the Army of the Ohio and marched next to Corinth participating in that siege. After this siege the regiment moved with Buell's army through Northern Mississippi and Alabama into Tennessee. The regiment later went to Nashville. Moving from the place it proceeded toward Murfreesboro and took part in the Battle of Stone's River on the 31st day of December 1862 through the 1st and 2nd of January 1863. The regiment remained in the neighborhood of Murfreesboro guarding a mountain pass until June 1863. After the capture of Atlanta, the regiment with its corps moved northward after Hood's rebel army. It was engaged in the battle of Franklin and in that of Nashville on December 15, 1864.

This company was finally mustered out of service on the 13th day of January 1866.

Total Enlisted--153

13 were killed in battle

22 died from disease

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