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| John Hawk, Company A, 19th Indiana - KIA |
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 "John Hawk, Delaware County Indiana", the tag is included. Records search finds that John Hawk mustered into Company A 19th Indiana Infantry on 7/29/1861 and he was from Delaware County. He was promoted to corporal and was killed in action at Petersburg, Virginia on 6/18/1864, right at the start of the Petersburg campaign. The 19th Indiana Infantry is known as the famous Iron Brigade, these boys lost 33% of their ranks at Bull Run and at Seminary Ridge lost 58% of it's men, these boys saw action from the start to finish of the war. John Hawk has posed seated with his arm resting on a table. He has a kerchief stuck into his jacket, likely a memento from his sweetheart. Also on the table sits his kepi with the clearest infantry horn and "A" devices that you may ever see.
Nineteenth Infantry INDIANA
(3 years)
Nineteenth Infantry. Cols., Solomon Meredith, Samuel J.
Williams John M. Lindley, Lieut.-Cols., Robert A. Cameron,
Alois O. Bachman, Samuel J. Williams, William W. Dudley, John
M. Lindley; Majs., Alois O. Bachman, Isaac M. May, William W.
Dudley, John M. Lindley, William Orr.
This regiment was organized and mustered in at Indianapolis
July 29, 1861. On Aug. 9 it joined the Army of the Potomac at
Washington.
Its first engagement was at Lewinsville, Va., Sept. 11, where
it lost 3 men killed and wounded and 3 missing. It next
fought at Falls Church, after which it went into quarters at
Fort Craig, near Washington.
On March 10, 1862, it was attached to McDowell's (1st) corps,
with which it moved towards Fredericksburg and then toward the
Shenandoah Valley. It remained at Warrenton until Aug. 5,
when it made a reconnaissance towards Spottsylvania Court
House. It then joined Gen. Pope's army, fought at Cedar
Mountain, Gainesville and the second Bull Run. At Gainesville
it lost 187 in killed and wounded and 33 missing.
After the second battle of Bull Run it was stationed for a
time at Washington, then moved to Frederick City, Md., and
when Lee began his invasion of Maryland moved with Hooker's
corps in pursuit. At South mountain the regiment lost 40 in
killed and wounded and 7 missing, and at Antietam went into
action with 200 officers and men of whom but 37 returned from
the field.
Col. Meredith was made a brigadier-general on Oct. 6, and
Lieut.-Col. Williams became colonel. At Fredericksburg the
regiment was in the 4th brigade, 1st division, 1st corps, but
was only slightly engaged. It then went into winter quarters
until the beginning of Gen. Hooker's Chancellorsville
campaign, when it was in an engagement at Fitzhugh's crossing
of the Rappahannock where it lost 4 men killed and wounded.
It was in position at Chancellorsville, but was not called
into action. It was then attached to the 1st brigade, 1st
division, 1st corps, which was the first of the infantry to
engage the enemy at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. The regiment
aided in the capture of Archer's Confederate brigade, but lost
210 men out of 288 that went into battle on that first day.
During the other two days of the fight it occupied a position
on Cemetery hill, but was not seriously engaged.
It then took part in the Mine Run campaign and passed the
winter near Culpeper, where a portion of the regiment
reenlisted. It broke camp at the beginning of the Wilderness
campaign; was engaged at the Wilderness, Laurel Hill, about
Spottsylvania, at the North Anna River and Cold Harbor; and
was then constantly on duty in the trenches before Petersburg
until the end of the siege.
Its losses from May 4 to July 30, 1864, were 36 killed, 168
wounded and 16 missing. The non-veterans were mustered out at
Indianapolis early in Aug., 1864, and the veterans and
recruits as part of the "Iron brigade" took part in the
expedition against the Weldon railroad. On Oct. 18, 1864, the
regiment was consolidated with the 20th Ind., Col. Orr of the
19th becoming colonel of the new organization, and served thus
until mustered out at Louisville, Ky., July 12, 1865.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 3
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