• General Notes

  JOHN GRAFFIS
  Residence: Star City, Indiana
  Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 30 August 1861.  Enlisted in Company A, 26th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 30 August 1861.  Mustered out on 21 September 1864
  
  Name of Regiment: 26th Infantry Regiment Indiana
  Date of Organization: 31 August 1861
  Muster Date: 11 January 1866    
  Regiment Type: Infantry
  Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded: 0
  Officers Died of Disease or Accident: 96
  Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded: 3
  Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident: 265
  
  Regimental History:
  Twenty-sixth Infantry INDIANA
  (3 years)
  
  Twenty-sixth Infantry. Cols., William M. Wheatley, John G. Clark; Lieut.-Cols., Richard O'Neal, John G. Clark, Augustine D. Rose, Newton A. Logan; Majs., John G. Clark, Augustine D. Rose, Harvey Johnson, Newton A. Logan, Alden H. Jumper.
  
  This regiment was organized at Indianapolis and was mustered in Aug. 31, 1861. It left the state Sept. 7, and reported at St. Louis, where it joined Fremont's forces in the
  campaign to Springfield.
  
  It returned to Sedalia and engaged in railroad guard duty until July 1862, when it moved with the army into southern Missouri, engaging in the battles at Newtonia, Prairie Grove, Ark., and Van Buren. At Prairie Grove it was conspicuously
  engaged, losing heavily.
  
  It was on guard duty until May 1, 1863, and was then ordered to join Grant's army at Vicksburg, where it was actively engaged in the trenches until the surrender. It went up the Yazoo river in July, recaptured Yazoo City, was stationed at Port Hudson after its surrender, and subsequently at Carrolton, La.
  
  The regiment was engaged at Stirling's Plantation, near Morganza, where it was defeated and had almost half its force captured, the prisoners being taken to Tyler,
  Tex., and held for many months.
  
  The regiment accompanied Gen. Herron's expedition to Texas in October, landing at Brazos Santiago and moving to Brownsville on the Mexican frontier.
  
  It reenlisted Feb. 1, 1864, and was on a furlough during April. It returned to the field in Louisiana on June 1, and was assigned to garrison duty at Fort Butler where it remained until the spring of 1865. On Feb. 18, 1865, the recruits of the 60th regiment were transferred to the 26th, and the regiment was ordered to Mobile in March as part of the 16th corps, participating in the siege and assault upon Spanish Fort.
  
  Upon the occupation of Mobile after its surrender, the regiment was assigned to duty in the city, but was subsequently moved to Meridian, Miss., and thence to Macon. A
  detachment of those whose term had expired was mustered out in Sept. 1865, and the remainder was mustered out Jan. 15, 1866.
  
  The original strength was 1,024; gain by recruits, 725; reenlistments, 248; total. 1,997. Loss by death, 336; desertion, 38; unaccounted for, 36.
  
  Source: The Union Army, vol. 3
  
  Battles Fought
  
  Fought at Atchafalaya, LA.
  Fought on 19 September 1861 at Glasgow, MO.
  Fought on 20 September 1861 at Glasgow, MO.
  Fought on 19 June 1862.
  Fought on 07 December 1862 at Prairie Grove, AR.
  Fought on 27 May 1863 at Pilot Knob, MO.
  Fought on 27-30 June at Vicksburg, MS.
  Fought on 29 September 1863 at Camp Sterling, LA.
  Fought on 12 November 1863 at Tyler, TX.
  Fought on 01 April 1865 at Spanish Fort, AL.
  Fought on 12 December 1865 at Artesia, MS.
  
  Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana. (INRoster) Published in 1865-66 by Holloway

Details of John's family with Mary A. Murphey