39th Indiana Mounted Infantry

The 39th Regiment Indiana Mounted Infantry, later the Eighth Indiana Cavalry, served under Colonel Thomas J. Harrison in the First Brigade, Second Division, Twentieth Corps. On September 19, 1863, it marched from McLemore's Cove to Crawfish Springs convoying trains, engaged part of Wheeler's Cavalry, and from dusk until midnight carried 1000 canteens of water from Crawfish Springs to suffering soldiers on the battlefield. On September 20, 1863, armed with Spencer rifles, it took position early, dismounted, in the line on the ridge near Widow Glenn's west of Crawfish Springs Road, and about 11:45 a.m. charged with the line against the enemy, completely clearing its front. The enemy fell back in disorder, losing killed and wounded and about 200 in its immediate front, after which the regiment retired leisurely to Chattanooga Valley Road and then escorted trains to Chattanooga. Its casualties were three commissioned officers wounded, five enlisted men killed, and thirty-two wounded, for a total of forty.

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States