23-year old Andrew Richard Lind enlisted in Co. M, 8th Regiment Indiana Cavalry on 29 December 1863 at Indianapolis. Lind's regiment, having been re-designated the 8th Indiana Cavalry from the 39th Indiana Infantry in October 1863, was assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland. The regiment served in operations near Sparta, Georgia from 4-14 January 1864, on 25 February at Mill Creek Gap, at Leet's Tanyard on 5 March and near Nickajack Gap on 9 March. Private Lind was present in the ranks during this period and was promoted to Corporal, probably for meritorious conduct while under fire. However, Andrew Lind's combat career was to be a brief one. He was admitted to Army Hospital No. 2 in Nashville on 28 May 1864, suffering from an "ulcer of [the] left arm from vaccination" and diarrhea. Other than a 30-day furlough taken on 6 August, Lind was not to leave the army's medical care system; from Nashville he was transferred to the General Hospital in Madison, Indiana where he died on 6 December 1864. The period photograph shows dismounted Union cavalry on parade.