Marshall County Republican

The 48th at Home.

The gallant 48th Indiana had a grand reception at Indianapolis on Tuesday week. Speeches were made by Governor Morton, Colonel Eddy and others. They have been mustered out, and we have had the pleasure of shaking the hands of several who went from this county. Below we give a short history of the regiment:

The 48th Regiment was organized in Goshen, Indiana, in December and January, 1861 and 1862, and left for Cairo, Illinois, February 1st, and was assigned to duty at that post, but remained but a short time, when it was ordered up the Tennessee river; was engaged in the siege of Corinth, and the marches and countermarches in pursuit of Gen. Price, until the 29th of September, 1862; was engaged in the battle of Iuka, where the regiment lost 116 men in killed and wounded, out of 420 engaged; participated in the battle of Corinth, October 3d and 4th, 1862, and lost 26 men killed and wounded: was in the campaign down the Mississippi Central Railroad to Oxford, Mississippi, and back to Memphis, and from thence to Vicksburg, landing sixty miles below that place; marched to the rear of Vicksburg: participated in the skirmish of Forty Hills, May 3d; battle of Raymond, May 13th; battle of Jackson, on the 14th, and the battle of Champion Hills, May 16th, losing 33 men killed and wounded in the engagement; participated in the siege of Vicksburg, and in the assault on the 22d of May, 1863, losing 38 men, killed and wounded. After the surrender of Vicksburg, marched from Memphis to Chattanooga; thence back to Huntsville, Alabama, where the regiment re-enlisted as veterans, in January, 1864, and returned home on furlough. After the expiration of the furlough, proceeded to Huntsville, where they remained until June, when they were sent to Cartersville, Georgia, to look after guerrillas, and keep the railroad in repair by which General Sherman received supplies for his army, and remained here until General Hood moved North; was in the campaign of General Sherman from Atlanta to Savannah; thence to Beaufort, South Carolina; then on the campaign through the Carolinas, via Columbia, Cheraw, Fayetteville, Goldsboro and Raleigh, from which point they began their line of march homeward, making the distance from Raleigh to Petersburg (165 miles) in six days; the regiment left the State with about 950 men, having had 300 recruits, and about 250 men assigned from the 12th, 83d, 67th and 99th regiments: have lost 213 men in killed and wounded, in battle.