74th Indiana Infantry

Indiana's Seventy-Fourth Regiment Infantry, commanded by Colonel Charles W. Chapman, served in the Second Brigade under Croxton, the Third Division under Brannan, and the Fourteenth Corps under Thomas. Here on the morning of September 19th, 1863, the regiment and its brigade opened the Battle of Chickamauga, and after five hours of fighting the enemy was repulsed on this part of the field. On Sunday, September 20th, the regiment, with another, was separated from its command and fought independently throughout the afternoon. Its casualties were 13 officers killed and wounded, 20 enlisted men killed, 114 wounded, 10 missing, for a total of 157.

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