58th Indiana Infantry

I only have the information from the graveyard, and the stone is so worn down that I can hardly read it. I belive it says 58th Indiana, but I can''t read the company.

looking especially for term of service and Battle of Missionary Ridge

John Dossett is my great grandfather born in Gibson County in 1834 to Thomas Dossett. He had five childern two daughters Louisa Laura,Mary Jane and three sons William, Andrew Jackson my grandfather,and John Youen. At present he is buried at Mount Tabor in Gibson county.He also had two brothers that served in the 58th an older brother Henry and a younger brother William Harrison. Henry died in Tenn. and is buried there. William survived the war as did my great grand father and is buried in Pike county.

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Served 1861-1863. He served with his father and Uncle in the same company. They all returned home to Pike County, Indiana.

Served 1861-1863 with his son and brother in the same unit. They all returned home to Pike County, Indiana.

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Elihu was chaplain of Company D, and father of Merideth Mason.

Merideth served as a teenager, having been born in March of 1848, during Sherman's March to the Sea. He acknowledged that their task was that of pontooniers, and that he was, during the winter of '64-'65 an Orderly to Col. Joseph Moore. He spent considerable time in the swampy water in southern Georgia and South Carolina as his unit built bridges for the Union army to cross.

Per National Archives Civil War records, Mathew mustered in at Princeton, IN, on Dec. 16, 1861. These records show he was wounded on Nov. 24, 1863. He was still listed as in the hospital through April of 1864, then as 'sick,' and then in the hospital, first in Evansville, then Indianapolis. Per Widow's Pension case # 208.640, he was discharged December 15, 1864, filed an invalid application on March 2, 1874, and died July 23, 1883. Per five physician's certificates found in the Pension Records at the National Archives, Mathew (pension/invalid cert. #130.091) was wounded in the left breast by a musket ball at the Battle of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee on Nov. 24, 1863 (per affidavit filed by George Whitman, late Capt. Co D, 58th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers). Per one examination, performed by G.B. Montgomery, MD, Mathew was wounded in September, 1862. The day of the exam in 1882, Mathew was 5'11' tall, weighed 130 pounds, and had fair complexion. The musket ball was 'behind the left lung' and 'was never extracted.'

Looking for information on the 58th and its use of The Henry Rifle. Have my G-G-Grandfather's Henry from the 58th and want to know about the Unit- Battle list- etc.

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Was a great, great grandfather.

Military stone at Old Augusta Cemetery, Augusta, Indiana (until 2011 stood side-by-side with that of another veteran of Co G 58th, Mathew Swan. Swan's stone is now missing.) CORN, Jackson, 5-5-1841 - 9-21-1887 - Co G 58 Ind Vol

Information extracted from Enlistment and Pension papers.

Enlistment September 23, 1864 at Jeffersonville, Indiana Mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky June 25, 1865 At enlistment: 33 years of age; 5 feet 11 inches tall; dark complexion; Black eyes; Black hair; farmer; born in Germany

58th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment

John enlisted 22 December 1861 at Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana. He was mustered out 1 September 1862. John died, in Gibson County, between his mustered date of September 1st 1862 and 17 April 1863 when his wife Delila Davis applied for a pension as his widow. At this time it is unknown where John Davis is buried.

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