Carroll County, Indiana - Chapter 14: One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Re(iiment-(onb, 1882

Hundred Days' Men). Considerations Inducing the Call of Eight Regiments for THE Period Named - Their Formation and Mustering-Tn - Sent to the Field for Special Duty - The Service Performed - Roster OF Company K - Muster-Out.

WITH the design to aid in making the campaign of 1864 successful and decisive, by relieving from garrison and guard duty, the large nimiber of veterans who had formerly been, necessarily, thus employed, and allow them to join their companions in ai-ms, who were then about entering upon the most active, and, as the sequel shows, the most important campaigns of the war, the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, upon a careful review of the situation, proposed to raise such a force for the service of the United States as would meet the exigency - the troops thus raised to perform such military service as might be required of them in any State - were to be armed, subsisted, clothed and paid by the United States, but to receive no bounty. Accordinglv, in contemplation of the object proposed. Gov. Morton, on the 23d of April, 1864, issued his call for Indiana's proportion of that force, which was responded to without delay, and eight regiments were recruited, clothed and equipped, and prepared for the duties demanded by the situation. As rapidly, therefore, as these recruits were formed into companies, organized into regiments and sufficiently drilled, they were sent forward from the camps of rendezvous to such points as most demanded their presence and support, thus relieving the veterans and others, who, from long experience in Held duty, would be better able to execute effective movements against the enemy in the active campaigns just inaugurated. The quota of CaiToll County was filled by the presence of Company K at the capital within a brief period after the call, and their acceptance by the military authorities of the State. The One Hundred and Thirtyfifth Regiment was composed exclusively of companies raised in the Eighth Congressional District. These were organized and mustered into service as a regiment at Indianapolis, on the 25th of May, 1864, with William C. Wilson as Colonel, and at once sent to Tennessee.

This regiment, with the others, on arriving at Nashville, was assigned to duty along the lines of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroads, and of the Tennessee & Alabama, Memphis & Charleston, also, and, from this time until the latter part of August, 1864, was kept constantly engaged in guarding these lines of communication, used by Gen. Shennan for the transportation of supplies to his army, then advancing on Atlanta.

This regiment was on duty for a longer period than that for which the companies were enlisted, for the i>m-pose of more fully executing the plans that induced the call for their services. Having completed its mission, the regiment returned t'.> Indianapolis, and was there finally discharged.

Robert Patter Hiram V. Ransom, musten Charles B. Robertson, mii- William H. Roblyer, music William H. Rickard, died ^i Louis RuBing, mustered ou William Seabring, mustere George F. Sheets, musterc( Howard Shclton. mnstcnd Lucius J. Siiiiili. niii^i. li <1