Lemuel Roy Tam & Elizabeth Jane Meek

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Lemuel Roy Tam

Name: Lemuel Tam ,
Residence: Logansport, Indiana
Enlistment Date: 05 November 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Indiana
Unit Numbers: 597 597
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 05 November 1861
Enlisted in Company D, 46th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 05 November 1861.
Mustered out Company D, 46th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 01 December
1864


46th Regiment Indiana Infantry
Organized at Logansport, Ind., and mustered in December 11, 1861. Ordered
to Kentucky and duty at Camp Wickliffe till February, 1862. Attached to
19th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, January, 1862. 19th Brigade, 4th
Division, Army of Ohio, to February, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division,
Army of Mississippi, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of
Mississippi, to July, 1862. Helena, Ark., District of Eastern Arkansas,
Dept. of the Missouri, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division,
District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of the Tennessee, to January, 1863.
1st Brigade, 12th Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to
February, 1863. 1st Brigade, 13th Division, 13th Army Corps, to March,
1863. 1st Brigade, 12th Division, 13th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 1st
Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to August,
1863, and Dept. of the Gulf to July, 1864. 4th Brigade, 1st Division,
District of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to December, 1864. Garrison,
Lexington, Ky., District of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to February,
1865, and Dept. of Kentucky to September, 1865.

SERVICE.--Ordered to Commerce, Mo., February 16, 1862. Siege of New
Madrid, Mo., March 5-14. Siege and capture of Island No. 10, Mississippi
River, March 15-April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17.
Operations against Fort Pillow April 17-June 5. Capture of Fort Pillow
June 5. Occupation of Memphis, Tenn., June 6. Expedition up White River,
Ark., June 10-July 14. St. Charles June 17. Grand Prairie July 6-7.
Duvall's Bluff July 7. Duty at Helena, Ark., till April, 1863. Expedition
to Arkansas Post November 16-22, 1862. Expedition to Yazoo Pass by Moon
Lake, Yazoo Pass and Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers February 24-April
5. Operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood March 11-April 5. Fort
Pemberton March 11. Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., April 12. Movement on
Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson,
Miss., May 1-14. Mile Creek April 12-13. Battle of Champion's Hill May
16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and
22. Advance on Jackson July 4-10. Near Jackson July 9. Siege of Jackson
July 10-17. Ordered to New Orleans, La., August 10. Duty at Carrollton,
Brashear City and Berwick till October. Western Louisiana "Teche"
Campaign October 3-November 30. Grand Coteau November 3. Moved to New
Orleans, La., December 17. Regiment re-enlisted January 2, 1864. Red
River Campaign March 10-May 22. Advance from Franklin to Alexandria March
14-26. Battle of Sabine Cross Roads April 8. Monett's Ferry, Cane River
Crossing, April 23. Alexandria April 30-May 10. Graham's Plantation May
6. Retreat to Morganza May 13-20. Mansura May 16. Expedition to the
Atchafalaya May 30-June 5. Moved to New Orleans, La., thence home on
Veteran Furlough June 12. Expedition down the Ohio River toward
Shawneetown, Ill, to suppress insurrection, and from Mt. Vernon, Ind.,
into Kentucky against Confederate Recruiting parties August 16-22. White
Oak Springs August 17. Gouger's Lake August 18. Smith's Mills August 19.
Moved to Lexington, Ky., to resist Buckner's invasion of Kentucky.
Burbridge's Expedition to Saltsville, Va., September 17-October 19.
Garrison, Prestonburg and Catlettsburg, Ky., during the Expedition.
Return to Lexington and garrison duty there till September, 1865. Moved
to Louisville, Ky., and there mustered out September 4, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 66 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 191 Enlisted men by disease. Total
264.

Elizabeth Jane Meek