25th Indiana Battery Light Artillery was an artillery

Artillery

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...

 battery

Artillery battery

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of guns, mortars, rockets or missiles so grouped in order to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems...

 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...

 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

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Service

The battery was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

 September 4 through November 28, 1864 under the command of Captain Frederick C. Sturm.

The battery was attached to Artillery Brigade, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland

Army of the Cumberland

The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies in the Western Theater during the American Civil War. It was originally known as the Army of the Ohio.-History:...

, to February 1865. Unattached Artillery, Department of the Cumberland, to March 1865. Garrison Artillery, Decatur, Alabama, to July 1865.

The 25th Indiana Battery Light Artillery mustered out of service on July 20, 1865 in Indianapolis.

Detailed service

Left Indiana for Nashville, Tenn., November 28. Battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15-16, 1864. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Duty at Huntsville, Ala., January 4 to February 3, 1865. Moved to Decatur, Ala., February 3, and garrison duty there until July 11. Ordered to Indiana July 11.

Casualties

The battery lost a total of 7 enlisted men during service; 1 man killed and 6 men due to disease.

See also

• List of Indiana Civil War regiments
• Indiana in the Civil War