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149th Indiana Infantry

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Company Unknown

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Judith DannDate added 7/14/2010

Company Unknown

Private

Enlisted as a Private on Jan 24 1865 Mustered Out on Sept 27 1865 at Nashville, TN
Contributor S. WrightDate added 8/14/2007

Company A

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Judy KochmanskiDate added 12/30/2010

Company A

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Scott HanleyDate added 9/23/2005

Company A

Private

I sent for his military records once and put them someplace safe (!). I remember that he was in the deep south with the regiment but fell to fever, was hospitalized and then sent home to his farm in Owen County, Indiana. He was born in 1841 and died in 1897.
Contributor Korte BrueckmannDate added 7/15/2008

Company A

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Korte BrueckmannDate added 9/9/2010

Company B

Private

DOes anyone have a photo of the regiment in 1865? We had one but it was inadvertantly lost.
Contributor Thomas RobertsenDate added 9/16/2007

Company C

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Frank WalravenDate added 2/19/2010

Company D

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Jeff AllenDate added 12/26/2009

Company E

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Scott ByersDate added 9/27/2012

Company E

Private

Silas (1838-1920) and brothers John and Charles all originally from Switzerland County, Indiana, served in various Indiana units during the War. Silas mustered in the 149th Indiana Infantry on Feb. 2, 1865 and mustered out on Sept. 27, 1865. He also served in the 54th Indiana Infantry (1862) and the 117th Indiana Infantry (1863-64). He migrated with his wife and children to Kansas sometime between 1870 and 1875. He is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas.
Contributor Gary L. PowellDate added 4/5/2011

Company E

Rank unknown

My great Grandfather is buried in Hopewell Cemetery in Washington County Missouri. His name was W. Morgan Johnson. The grave next to him simply reads William N. Johnson CO E 149 IND INF
Contributor Joshua HoldmanDate added 3/29/2011

Company E

Private

Enlisted February 13, 1865 and discharged September 27, 1865. Per Pension records information, he served as a private in company 'E' of the 149th Regiment of the Indiana Infantry and was honorably discharged in Nashville, Tennessee and served in the Civil War.
Contributor Julia MuellerDate added 2/13/2010

Company F

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Arnold GarzaDate added 7/21/2009

Company G

Rank unknown

Not a relative. He is buried at Sharon Chapel Cemetery, Harrison county, Missouri.
Contributor Phil StewartDate added 9/1/2008

Company G

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Jennifer SchoolcraftDate added 5/23/2004

Company G

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Jennifer SchoolcraftDate added 5/23/2004

Company G

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Jennifer SchoolcraftDate added 5/23/2004

Company G

Captain

At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Union Army to serve three years. September 1, 1862, he was mustered as Commissary Sergeant in the Sixty-Fifth Regiment, Indiana Infantry, and continued as such until September, 1863, when he was honorably discharged, because of physical disability. Returning home he recuperated his strength and, May 25, 1864, again enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Indiana Volunteers, in which he served faithfully until October, 1864. On the 22d of February following, he was commissioned Captain, Company G, One Hundred and Forty-Ninth Indiana Infantry, and remained with his command until mustered out, at Nashville, Tenn., in October, 1865.
Contributor Daniel ParvinDate added 5/25/2006

Company G

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Jerry L. DickensDate added 1/24/2006

Company K

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Mike LiehrDate added 5/1/2011

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