February 21, 1847 – Almon was born.
April 12, 1861 – Civil War began with shelling of Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
July 1861 – Al followed the Nineteenth Indiana Infantry Regiment to the Washington, D.C., area, became ill, and returned to Indianapolis.
March 1862 – Al ran away, changed his name, and joined the regimental band of the Sixtieth Indiana Infantry Volunteers.
August 19, 1862 – Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry Volunteer Regiment was mustered into service.
August 21, 1862 – Seventy-fifth Indiana moved to Louisville, Kentucky.
September 1, 1862 – Almon was mustered into service in the Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry as Albert Walton.
September 22, 1862 – Emancipation Proclamation issued, to be effective January 1, 1863.
September – December 1862 – Seventy-fifth pursued Confederate General Morgan’s forces in Kentucky and Tennessee.
December 31, 1862 – Battle of Stones River, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Seventy-fifth arrived too late to participate).
January 1863 – Seventy-fifth Indiana set up winter camp in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
June 13, 1863 – Tullahoma campaign began. Seventy-fifth Indiana left Murfreesboro.
June 24 – 26, 1863 – Seventy-fifth skirmished at Hoover’s Gap, Tennessee, pushing back Confederates.
June 30, 1863 – Confederate General Bragg evacuated Tullahoma, Tennessee, retreating to Chattanooga.
July 1 – 4, 1863 – Army of the Cumberland occupied Tullahoma.
July 3 – 5, 1863 – Federal victories at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.
August 21, 1863 – Federal army shelled Chattanooga while Seventy-fifth marched to Chickamauga.
September 7 – 9, 1863 – Confederates evacuated Chattanooga.
September 19 – 20, 1863 – Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia; Al captured.
September 21 – 22, 1863 – Federal army retreated to Chattanooga.
September 29, 1863 – Federal prisoners, Al among them, sent to Richmond, Virginia.
December 12, 1863 – Al transferred from Richmond to Danville, Virginia.
February 1864 – Al transferred from Danville to Andersonville, Georgia.
October 1864 – Al transferred from Andersonville to Florence, South Carolina.
November 30, 1864 – Al paroled at Savannah, Georgia.
December 10, 1864 – Al sent to Camp Parole, Maryland.
January 16, 1865 – Al arrived at Camp Chase, Ohio.
April 22, 1865 – Al rejoined his regiment at Holly Spring, North Carolina.
June 8, 1865 – Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry Volunteers mustered out of service.
June 8, 1865 – Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry Volunteers mustered out of service.
Drummer Boy of Company C 