The 83rd Indiana Infantry was organized at Lawrenceburg, Indiana September 4 - November 5, 1862, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel Benjamin J. Spooner.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Memphis, XIII Corps, to December 1862.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January 1863.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XV Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to June 1865.
The 83rd Indiana Infantry mustered out of service on June 3, 1865.