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                                 Sketch of the Fiftieth Regiment

The Fiftieth Regiment was raised at  Seymour,  December  25.  It  moved  from  New  Albany  to
Bardstown, Ky. and later to Bowling Green, and soon afterward took position as guard along the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad. August 20, 1862, Captain  Atkisson,  with  twenty  men  in  a
stockade near Edgefield Junction, was attacked by 1,000 men under John  Morgan,  and  repulsed
them three successive times in  three  hours'  sharp  fighting,  killing  eight  and  wounding
eighteen. In September the regiment moved to Munfordville, and here on the 14th. fell into the
enemy's hands. The men were paroled, returned to Indiana, and November 1 were  exchanged,  and
on the 10th. reached Jackson, Tenn. December 31 it fought all day  at  Parker's  Cross  Roads,
Ky., capturing 200 prisoners and seven pieces of artillery. It remained  near  Jackson  during
the winter of 1862-63, and in the spring moved to Collierville, thence to Memphis,  thence  to
Little Rock, Ark., where it engaged the enemy, thence in September 1863, to Lewisburg where it
remained on garrison duty until May 17, 1864. In March 2,350 of the regiment were  veternized.
On the Camden expedition it fought at Terre Noir, April 2; Prairie Leon, April  10;  Redmound,
April 17; Camden, April 17 and Sabine River April 30. In August it took returned furlough  and
returned to Little Rock and did garrison duty three months. In December the  non-veterans  were
mustered out, and the remainder about- 450 -  were  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  five
companies. Early in January 1865, it moved on the Sabine River  expedition,  and  in  February
moved down to Mobile where it participated in the  siege  of  Spanish  Fort;  the  capture  of
Mobile, April 10; skirmished at Whistler's Station, April 11, and May 26 was consolidated with
the Fifty-second Regiment. It was mustered out at Montgomery, Ala., September 10, 1865.