22nd Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery

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The 22nd Indiana Battery Light Artillery was a Union artillery unit in the Civil War. It organized in Indianapolis in October 1862 and was mustered on December 15, 1862 for a three-year term under Captain Benjamin F. Denning. Initially unattached, it later served in Kentucky at Louisville, Bowling Green, and Russellville until December 1863 and took part in Morgan’s pursuit in July 1863. In December 1863 it joined the Army of the Ohio in the field and fought in the Atlanta Campaign (June 29–Sept 8, 1864), including Nickajack Creek, Chattahoochee River, Decatur, Howard House, the Siege of Atlanta, Utoy Creek, the Jonesboro flank movement, and Lovejoy’s Station. After Hood’s invasion into Alabama, the battery took part in the Nashville Campaign (Nov–Dec 1864), including the Battle of Franklin (Nov 30) and the Battle of Nashville (Dec 15–16), then pursued Hood to the Tennessee River. It remained at Clifton, Tennessee, until January 16, 1865, then moved to Washington, DC and Morehead City, North Carolina (Jan 16–Feb 20). In the Carolinas Campaign (Mar 1–Apr 26), it helped advance on Kinston and Goldsboro (Mar 6–21) and fought at Wyse Fork (Mar 8–10), helped occupy Kinston (Mar 14) and Goldsboro (Mar 21), and advanced on Raleigh (Apr 10–14) before sharing in Johnston’s surrender at Bennett’s House on April 26. The battery remained in North Carolina until June, then returned to Indianapolis to muster out. The unit suffered 13 fatalities: 1 officer and 1 enlisted man killed or mortally wounded, and 11 enlisted men died of disease.