. Indiana at Vicksburg . neral Cameron, commanding the Lafourche District ofLouisiana, and was the only cavalry organization on that frontierdoing active outpost duty. Here it remained on duty till ordered toreport at New Orleans for muster out at the close of the war, wherethey were reviewed by General Grierson, who highly complimentedthe regiment for its appearance and faithful service. I The recruits belonging to the regiment whose terms had not ex-pired were transferred to the 13th Indiana Cavalry, and the old16th, by order of General Canby, was mustered out of the serviceJune 30, 1865, an
. Indiana at Vicksburg . neral Cameron, commanding the Lafourche District ofLouisiana, and was the only cavalry organization on that frontierdoing active outpost duty. Here it remained on duty till ordered toreport at New Orleans for muster out at the close of the war, wherethey were reviewed by General Grierson, who highly complimentedthe regiment for its appearance and faithful service. I The recruits belonging to the regiment whose terms had not ex-pired were transferred to the 13th Indiana Cavalry, and the old16th, by order of General Canby, was mustered out of the serviceJune 30, 1865, and proceeded to Indianapolis, where it arrived, July10, 1865, with 365 officers and enlisted men, and it was enthusias-tically received, addressed by Governor IMorton, General Hovey,and others. The 16th lost in killed and mortally wounded three officers and83 enlisted men, and 227 enlisted men by disease, making a total of313 deaths, and very few of this three years organization escapedwithout wounds more or less Monument of IStli Infantry. (Monument Tablet Inscription.) 1st ; 14th DIVISION 13th CORPS18th INFANTRY Colonel Henry D, Jonathan H. Williams Engaged: Port Gibson, May 1; Champions Hill, May 16; Big Black River Bridge, May 17;, May 22; Sieje, May 23-July 4. Casualties: Killed 26, wounded 103, missing 1, total 130;Major John C, Jenks and T^ieut. John L. Lowes mortally wounded. (234) EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT INDIANA INFANTRYV(3LITNTEERS. The 18th Indiana Infantry was organized at Camp Morton, In-dianapolis, in the summer of 1861. At a special session of the General Assembly of that year, pro-vision was made for organizing six regiments of state troops inaddition to those accepted by the general government under call ofPresident Lincoln for 75,000 men for three months. When the next call of the President was issued, a portion ofthese state organizations entered service of the United States, buta number remained in the state service as p
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