Augustus Goelzer
Residence Haubstadt IN;
Enlisted on 10/7/1861 as a Captain.
On 2/20/1862 he was commissioned into "G" Co. IN 60th Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 3/21/1865 at Indianapolis, IN
Promotions:
* Lt Colonel 10/1/1863
* Colonel 4/19/1864 (Not Mustered)
Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* 11/11/1863 from company G to Field & Staff
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
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Sixtieth Infantry INDIANA
(3-YEARS)
Sixtieth Infantry. -- Cols., Richard Owen, Augustus Goelzer;
Lieut.Cols., William J. Templeton, Augustus Goelzer, Samuel T.
Walker; Majs., William J. Templeton, Joseph B. Cox, Wolfgang
Hyne, Jesse Nash, Samuel T. Walker, Theodore Pleisch.
This regiment was partially organized at Evansville in Nov.,
1861, and during the recruiting was ordered to Camp Morton,
Indianapolis, to guard prisoners. The last companies joined
in March, 1862, and the regiment was mustered in by
detachments.
It left the state June 20, first going to Louisville thence to
Lebanon and later moving to Munfordville, which was surrounded
by Bragg's army and captured after a determined fight in
September. Among those taken prisoners were seven companies
of the 60th, the other companies being detached for bridge
guard duty near Lebanon Junction at the time and thus escaped.
The prisoners were paroled and were joined at the parole camp
at Indianapolis by the other companies. The paroled companies
were exchanged in November and the regiment joined the Army of
the Mississippi, being first engaged in the battle of Arkansas
Post.
It was in the Vicksburg campaign as part of the 1st brigade,
10th division, 13th army corps, with which it took part in the
fatiguing marches, the battles of Port Gibson, Champion's
Hill, Black River, and in the trenches before Vicksburg until
the surrender.
It took part in the siege of Jackson and in various minor
engagements and skirmishes, after which it was assigned to
Banks' army and took part in the Teche expedition, being
engaged at Grand Coteau. Returning to New Orleans, it
embarked for Texas, where it was stationed for a time at Pass
Cavallo, was then ordered back to New Orleans and joined the
Red River expedition.
It reached Alexandria on March 19 and a few days later Mower's
division defeated Gen. Dick Taylor at Cane River. At Sabine
Cross-Roads, the 60th lost heavily in killed, wounded and
prisoners, the Union forces being defeated.
After the defeat of the enemy at Pleasant Hill the following
day, the command returned to Vicksburg. The regiment
reenlisted and visited home on furlough, but its remuster was
not accepted, the war department deciding it had not served
long enough to entitle it to a remuster as a veteran
organization.
On its return to the field, it was stationed at Thibodeaux,
La., until the fall of 1864. It was engaged at Carrion Crow
bayou, suffering heavy loss and after that was stationed at
Algiers, near New Orleans, until Feb. 24, 1865. It was
mustered out at Indianapolis on March 21, 1865. The recruits
whose terms were unexpired were transferred to the 26th Ind.
The original strength of the regiment was 945; gain by
recruits, 151; total, 1,096. Loss by death, 203; desertion
87; unaccounted for, 29.