Matthias Adler

Residence Michigan City IN;
Enlisted on 11/14/1864 as a Private.
On 11/14/1864 he mustered into "I" Co. IN 17th Infantry
He died on 4/4/1865
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana

Seventeenth Infantry INDIANA
(3 years)

Organized: Indianapolis, IN on 6/12/61
Mustered Out: 8/8/65 at Macon, GA

Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded: 3
Officers Died of Disease, Accidents, etc.: 1
Enlisted Men Killed or Mortally Wounded: 90
Enlisted Men Died of Disease, Accidents, etc.: 143
(Source: Fox, Regimental Losses)

Seventeenth Infantry.ÄCols., Milo S. Hascall, John T. Wilder,
Jacob G. Vail, Lieut.-Cols. John T. Wilder, George W. Gorman,
Henry C. Jordan, Jacob G. Vail, Frank White; Majs., George W.
Gorman, Henry C. Jordan, James Thompson, William T. Jones
Jacob G. Vail, James U. Anderson, John J. Weller, Henry
Henley.

This regiment was organized at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, in
May, 1861, and was mustered in on June 12. It left the state
July 1, for Parkersburg W. Va., and on the 23rd reached
Oakland, Md.

It was engaged in constructing fortifications at Camp
Pendleton until Aug. 7, and was then ordered to Cheat
Mountain, going into camp at Elk Water. It was engaged at the
Green Brier River Oct. 3.

On Nov. so, it reported to Gen. Buell at Louisville, Ky., and
was assigned to Nelson's division. It remained at Camp
Wickliffe, near New Haven, from Dec. 10 until Feb. 10, 1862,
and then moved to Nashville. Col. Hascall was appointed
brigadier-general, Mar. 25, and was succeeded as colonel by
Lieut.-Col. Wilder.

The regiment left Nashville on Mar. 29, reaching Shiloh on
April 8. It was in the siege of Corinth and moved with
Buell's army through Alabama to McMinnville, Tenn., where it
was engaged in the attack and rout of Forrest.

It marched to Louisville, skirmishing with Bragg's rear-guard
at Munfordville, and was in camp at Bardstown until Oct. 18,
when it began the march to Nashville. It was engaged in
numerous expeditions until Feb. 1, 1863, and then moved to
Murfreesboro, where the regiment was mounted and kept on
scouting expeditions, being equipped with Spencer rifles in
May.

At Hoover's gap, it repulsed several charges by superior
numbers, and when reinforced captured 75 prisoners and 126
stands of arms, its loss being 48 killed and wounded. It next
marched to Manchester, capturing many prisoners, was in a
skirmish near Chattanooga on Aug. 21, and moved towards North
Chickamauga and Dalton.

It was in a sharp fight with Scott's brigade of cavalry and 2
pieces of artillery, near Ringgold in September, defeating the
enemy, and was in frequent skirmishes until the battle of
Chickamauga, in which the regiment several times broke the
enemy's lines and repulsed a severe charge with a counter-
charge, in which the Confederates were driven back, leaving
many prisoners with the 17th. The regiment attacked and routed
a brigade at Thompson's cove on Oct. 3, and was in a skirmish
at McMinnville the next day, driving the enemy from the town.

It also attacked a Confederate force near Shelbyville, driving
it from the field and into Farmington, where a charge was
made, resulting in the capture of 3 guns, a large number of
small arms and 300 prisoners. The regiment then moved for
Huntsville, Ala., going into winter quarters at Mayville, on
the 27th. On Nov. 18, 250 of the regiment marched towards
Chattanooga, destroying a quantity of the enemy's stores and
77 wagons near Ringgold, and a foundry at Cleveland.

On the 30th they run the enemy's lines into Knoxville, and on
Dec. 5, crossed into North Carolina, thence back into
Tennessee, and camped at Charleston from Dec. 14, to Jan. 18,
1864, when they joined the regiment at Nashville. About this
time 286 men reenlisted and were furloughed home, reporting at
Louisville on April 2. On the 18th the regiment marched for
Nashville and proceeded from there to join the movement on
Atlanta.

From May 10 until Oct. 31, it was constantly engaged in the
cavalry and scouting operations incident to that campaign,
being in many skirmishes and the engagements at Pumpkin Vine
Creek, Big Shanty, Belle Plain Road, Kennesaw Mountain,
Marietta, Chattahoochee River, Stone Mountain, Flatrock, New
Hope Church, Rome and Coosaville.

It left Rome on Nov. 1, for Louisville, leaving its horses
with Kilpatrick's cavalry. It was remounted and left for
Gravelly Springs Ala., on Nov. 28, and on March 12, 1865,
marched with Wilson's cavalry overtaking the forces under
Roddey and Forrest at Ebenezer Church 29 miles from Selma, on
April 1, where in a charge, the 17th captured 100 prisoners
and a gun.

It participated in the action at Selma, driving the enemy into
the forts, then out of them and out of the interior works and
from their position behind the railroad embankment, taking all
the forts from No. 18 to the river on the west side of the
town. It also took 4 pieces of artillery and 300 prisoners
and lost 12 killed and 80 wounded.

It then moved to Macon, GA, where it drove the enemy into the
city and saved two bridges which were about to be destroyed.
The city was surrendered, together with 3,000 prisoners,
including Gens. Howell Cobb, Mackall, Mercer and G. W. Smith,
5 stands of colors, 60 pieces of artillery and 3,000 small
arms. The regiment had but 451 men in this action, but the
enemy believed it was the advance of a large force.

The regiment was on post duty at Macon until Aug. 8, 1865,
when it was mustered out. Its original strength was 1,063.
Gain by recruits, 960; reenlistments, 288; total, 2,311. Loss
by death, 232; desertion, 161; unaccounted for, 82

Source: The Union Army, vol. 3

The were engaged at Ebenezer Churck, Al. on April 1, 1865, Plantersville, Ala on April 1 & 2, and Selma on April 2