Cass County, Indiana - Chapter 13: Military History, 1913 (part 2 of 2)

The Seventy-third Indiana Regiment containing the two Cass county companies was organized at South Bend and mustered into service August 16, 1862, and at once ordered to Lexingtpn, Kentucky, and became a part of General Buell's army and took active part in the campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. TJiey participated in the battle of Stone River December 31, 1862, and were in the thickest of the fight and lost heavily. The Seventy-third and Pifty-first Indiana, under Col. A. D. Strait, went on a raid into Alabama to cut oflf the enemy's communications and for bravery, rapidity of action, and resourcefulness, no greater display of military skill was exhibited during the Civil war than was displayed on this expedition in the heart of the enemy's country in which our Cass county boys bore an honorable part. They were, however, surrounded by superior numbers and captured at Cedar Bluffs, Alabama, on May 3, 1863 ; not, however, until the gallant Colonel Hathaway of the Seventy-third was killed. Most of the men were paroled, but the officers were kept in Libby prison for one year and other Southern prisons for nearly a year longer, Colonel Strait making his escape from Ldbby prison by means of a tunnel under the wall of the prison that for ingenuity and daring has few equals.

Henry Murdock relates the following incident: One day a typical Southern gentleman came into the prison, stylishly dressed, wearing gold spectacles and flourishing a gold headed cane. He was an elderly man. He came into our quarters on the second floor and asked : ** Where is that raiding general or colonel?'/ **You mean Colonel Strait?" I replied. *' That's the man," answered the Southerner. Colonel Strait, who was near by and heard the conversation, stepped out and lightly said: '*Well, old man, what can I 'do for you?" If he had slapped him in the face it would not have insulted the old man's dignity any more. He shook his fist at Colonel Strait and bellowed: **I know what I would do with you if I had my say about it." Colonel Strait reminded him that the war was not ended and that he might get all the fighting he wanted yet. The Southerner stamped out of the place in a rage and went to headquarters where he reduced our rations. Por the next ten days we could hold in the palm of our hand the corn meal and blackhearted peas, as we called them, that we had to eat, and they had just enough live stock in them for seasoning when they were cooked. We learned later that this man belonged to the governor's staff and a typical Southerner and no doubt expected Colonel Strait to bow in condescension to his royal highness, but Colonel Strait and his officers were not built that way, but we paid for his boldness of spirit in our reduced rations.

The Eighty-third Regiment was organized at Lawrenceburg in September, 1862, and was sent down the Mississippi river and engaged in the campaign contiguous thereto.

The Eighty-seventh Indiana rendezvoused at South Bend and left for the front on August 31, 1862, and served in the Western Army, marching with Sherman to the sea and up through the Carolinas.

The Fifth Cavalry, Ninetieth Regiment of Indiana Volunters, was organized at Indianapolis in September, 1862, and was sent at once to Kentucky. This regiment of cavalry was engaged in many battles and skirmishes in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama, and covered more territory probably than any other cavalry regiment. It has been engaged in twenty-two battles, traveled twenty-four hundred miles and transported one thousand miles by water and captured 640 prisoners, and its casualties have been as follows: Killed in action, 34; died of wounds, 13; died in rebel prisons, 115; died in hospitals, 74; wounded, 72 ; taken by the enemy as prisoners, 497.

Company K, Ninety-ninth Indiana, rendezvoused with the regiment at South Bend, August and September, 1862. That fall was sent to Memphis, Tennessee. Engaged in the siege of Vicksburg under General Grant in 1863; to Jackson, Mississippi, Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee, and south to Atlanta, and with Sherman to the sea, back through the Carolinas to Washington, where it was mustered out June 5, 1865.

On the evening of July 8, 1863, the rebel Gen. John H. Morgan, with 600 cavalrymen, crossed the Ohio river into Indiana, near Corydon, The following day Governor Morton issued a call for volunteers to repel the invasion of Indiana. In response to which an impromptu meeting of citizens was held July 10, 1863, at the northeast comer of Broadway and Fourth streets, and organized by the appointment of Hon. D. D. Pratt as chairman and S. L. McFaddin, secretary. After a short talk by Mr. Pratt the meeting adjourned to the court house. The scene there was most exciting, as name after name of our most prominent citizens and business men were added to the list of infantry and cavalry volunteers. During the day the work of enlistment went on in the city most vigorously and by night more than 140 names were on the infantry list and about 30 on the roll of cavalry. In the meantime a committee consisting of Williamson Wright, D. W. Tomlinson, S. A. Hall, Job. B. Eldridge, Lyman R. hegg, and I. N. Cory was appointed to visit the out townships and calling on the people to rally in force to repel the invaders of our state. At night the meeting in the courthouse was very largely attended, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. A company of infantry was then and there organized by the election of John Guthrie, captain ; S. L. McFaddin, first lieutenant; John T. Powell, second lieutenant.

A cavalry company was also organized and placed under the command of Col. G. N. Fitch. At 2 o'clock the next day (Saturday, July 11, 1863) the infantry company left on the Cincinnati &f Chicago Railroad for Indianapolis, and were joined on the train by, volunteers from Boone, Tipton and Jackson townships. The cavalry company left in the morning of the same day at 7 o'clock, by way of the Michigan road, and reached Indianapolis the same evening at 9 o'clock, making a rapid march. These Cass county men were mustered into service at Indianapolis on July 12, 1863, as Company H, One Hundred and Tenth Regiment of Minute Men. The prompt movement, however, of the people of the state to repel the invaders was so demonstrative and enerfeetic that the rebel. General Morgan, beat a hasty retreat and recrossed the

Ohio river after a few days only of marauding within our state, and the Cass county men were mustered out of the service five days after their departure and their campaign was bloodless.

G. N. Fitch, colonel; James M. Justice, quartermaster; John Guthrie, captain, Company H ; S. L. McFaddin, first lieutenant ; John T. Powell, second lieutenant.

The One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment was organized for six months' service at Lafayette on August 17, 1863; moved to Detroit, Michigan, for guard duty; thence to eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and participated in many battles and skirmishes, marching homeward by way of Cumberland Gap, reaching Lafayette and mustered out March 1, 1864.

The One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, six months men, rendezvoused at Wabash and was mustered into service September 2, 1863, and at once was sent into eastern Kentucl^ and Tennessee, where it saw hard service. Returned to Indianapolis where it was mustered out March 2, 1864.

Benjamin O. Wilkinson, captain; William Wilkinson, captain; Wm, C. Marshall, first lieutenant; John B. Smith, first lieutenant; James T. Donahoe, second lieutenant.

The Twelfth Cavalry, One Hundred a^d Twenty-seventh Regiment, was organized in 1863-4 at Kendallville and Michigan City, and did active service in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama; thence to New* Orleans, Mobile and back through Mississippi to Vicksburg, where it was mustered out November 10, 1865.

Ewing, Alex K., captain ; Bamett, John C, captain ; Mills, Wm. C, first lieutenant; West, Frank E., first lieutenant; Powell, John T., second lieutenant; Tilton, Samuel, second lieutenant.

Corporals: Goring, John; Starr, John S. ; Burdge, John S.; Stumbaugh, A. B. ; Halley, Wm. H. ; Baldwin, Remus A.; Bear, James L. ; Rodefer, Geo. W.

The One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment was recruited during the fall and winter of 1863, rendezvoused at Michigan City and was mustered into service on March 18, 1864, with Richard P. DeHart, of Logansport, as colonel. The regiment left Michigan City on March

23rd by way of Indianapolis and Louisville to Nashville, thence south and engaged in the battles of Besaea, Dallas, Eennesaw Mountain, Atlanta ond others. After the fall of Atlanta the regiment went north in pursuit of the rebel Gten. Hood to Franklin and Nashville. In January, 1865, it tv^ent in boats down the Tennessee river and up to Cincinnati, thence to Washington, D. C, and by ships to North Carolina, where the regiment remained until January, 1866.

The One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment was recruited at Kokomo Indiana, and mustered into service March 2, 1864, and at once went to Tennessee and participated in the campaign against Atlanta, thence returned to Franklin and Nashville, thence sent east to Washington and into North Carolina and mustered out at Charlotte, North Carolina, December 2, 1865.

The One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Indiana was one of eight regiments enlisted for one hundred days by the state to do garrison duty and free the veterans, to make the campaign of 1864 more eflfective;

Enlisted for one year under the call of President Lincoln, July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men in the southern part of the state, but contained one man from Logansport, to-wit, John Roney, Co. F.

The One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment was recruited for one year's service and rendezvoused at Ft. Wayne; was mustered into service November 3, 1864. It served with Sherman as far as Atlanta, then returned to Nashville.

Corporals: Harrison, Wm. H.; Johnson, Chas.; Thompson, John; Tilton, Ira; Cratzer, Peter J.; Gary, Calvin P.; James, Daniel A.; Simison, John A.

Company C of the One Hundred Pif ty-fifth Regiment was made up entirely of Cass county men ; were mustered into service for one year at Michigan City on March, 1865 ; were at once sent to Washington City, thence to Alexandria, Virginia, and later to Dover, Delaware, where they were mustered out on August 4, 1865. The writer enlisted in this company when seventeen years old, slept with the boys in the court house, took a severe cold, with chill and fever, was sent home to recuperate and two weeks later went with another squad under the guidance of Dr. J. C. Taylor to Michigan City, was examined and accepted but a dispatch from Washington came that General Lee had surrendered and to muster in no more men, and we returned to Logansport the morning Lincoln died, April 15, 1865, having only gotten as far as the ** penitentiary at Michigan City" in our effort to fight our country's battles. Well de we remember that morning in Logansport. We were then only a boy, lived in the country and not acquainted in the city, but groups of men, earnest, but melancholy in their demeanor, could be seen on the street comers, discussing the dastardly deed of the assassination of our great president. In the midst of this general sorrow, a man made a remark that Mr. Lincoln only got what he deserved. He had no sooner uttered the words than some men near by started toward him in a threatening manner when the former ran down the alley between Pifth and Sixth streets on Broadway with the crowd after him, but the result of the chase we know not, as all were strangers to the writer and we hurried homeward to carry the sad news of our Nation's great loss.

Captain Chase's company of the Seventeenth Regulars served in the eastern army and was engaged at Gettysburg and all the Virginia campaigns.

The total number of soldiers enlisted from Cass county is impossible to determine, as many enlistments from here were credited to other counties and there is no means to ascertain how many such enlistmenta were made. Cass county, however, was ever quick to respond to the various calls for troops by the president and governor ; volunteers were usually prompt to enlist, but during the later years of the war drafts were ordered in some of the townships to fill their quota^, while others promptly filled all demands for recruits by voluntary enlistments. To induce men to enlist to fill the quota of recruits required by various calls for troops the county and townships offered certain sums as a bounty, also as relief for soldiers' families. The following table shows the amounts of each fund expended by the county and several townships for those purposes and the grand total.

On October 6, 1862, an enrollment of the men eligible to military service was taken in Cass county which showed two thousand, seven hundred and twenty-eight reserve militia, with one thousand, two hundred and fifty-seven volunteers in the service, but this number was evidently largely increased before the close of the war. The total number of enlisted men furnished by the state of Indiana in the '*War of the Rebellion" was 208,367. Of this number 24,416 were killed or died in the service. Grand

It will be observed that Bethlehem and Clinton townships offered no bounties and drafts were not necessary, as volunteers more than filled their quota of men required. In some portions of the state the enforcement of the draft was resisted but little trouble was experienced in Cass county, but the writer well remembers a small company of soldiers marched from Logansport on the Michigan road, north to Fulton, to quell some disturbances in that locality during J^ly, 1863, and the soldiers were entertained at dinner at my father's house, seven miles north of Logansport, as they passed there at the noon hour, and this visit of the boys in blue to our humble home will never be forgotten as an incident in the county's military history.

Cass county's dead in the Civil war. - ^Below we give a list of the soldiers who were killed or died while in the service so far as the adjutants generals' reports show. We will arrange the names by companies and regiments so far as possible.

Dunn, Capt. Palmer N. ; killed at Chickamauga, September 19, 1863. Bennett, Jos. M. ; died of wounds at Evansville, May 9, 1862. Chestnutt, Jos. M.; killed at Stone River, December 31, 1863. Christie, Robt. W.; died at Nashville, May 15, 1862. Callahan, Daniel; died December 12, 1862, of wounds received at Shiloh.

Morison, Theodore; killed at Stone River, December 31, 1863. McElheny, Samuel, died at Huntsville, Alabama, August 27, 1862. Pownall, Isaac W. ; died at Nashville, May 2, 1861 Wagner, J6hn W. ; died at Camp Nevin, Kentucky, November 25, 1861.

Walters, J. W. ; died at Royal Center, July 10, 1864. Walters, Samuel ; died at St. Louis, April 15, 1862. Davis, Henry; died of wounds, May 18, 1863. Schrader, Fred; died at New Orleans, May 7, 1864. Todd, James; died at Oceola, Arkansas, April 15, 1862. Stevens, Loren B. ; second lieutenant ; died November 19, 1863. Persinger, Moses C; died at Indianapolis, May 1, 1863. Hudlow, Lieut. Jacob ; killed at battle of Mansfield, Louisiana. McKlung, Lieut. John ; killed at battle of Mansfield, Louisiana. Smock, Archibalt ; killed at battle of Mansfield, Louisiana. Hunsinger, George ; killed at battle of Mansfield, Louisiana. Hastings, James A. ; killed at battle of Mansfield, Louisiana. Clouse, Wm. R. ; killed at battle of Mansfield, Louisiana. Scott, Thomas W. ; killed at battle of Mansfield, Louisiana. Folk, Edgar ; killed at battle of Mansfield, Louisiana. Crippen, Jacob W. ; killed at battle of Mansfield, Louisiana.

Standley, Wm. H. ; died in Andersonville prison, July 2, 1864. Tussinger, Geo. W.; died at Indianapolis, December 13, 1862. Kreider, Christian; died at home, January 2, 1863.

Enrit, Joel M.; died at Cumberland Gap, January 30, 1864. Leffel, Albert; died at Cumberland Gap, December 4, 1864. Miles, John M. ; died at Camp Nelson, Kentucky, December 31, 1863.

Bemethy, Robt. ; died at Royal Center, October 30, 1864. McKee, Peter; died at Michigan City, Indiana, February 6, 1864. Poor, Geo. W. ; died of wounds January 6, 1865. Spader, Wm. ; died at home, November 20, 1864. Coughill, Jackson; died at Memphis, Tennessee, March 25, 1865. 0 'Council, John; killed near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 14, 1864.

Kenton, Wm. ; died at Indianapolis, November 20, 1865. Brown, David; died in Andersonville, Georgia, August 8, 1864. Cassell, Geo. A.; died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, June 22, 1865. Day, Ira W. ; died of wounds May 7, 1865.

Daggy» Asa E. ; killed at Columbus, Tennessee, November 27, 1864. Deford, Jones; died at Nashville, Tennessee, April 15, 1864. Hilton, Henry J.; killed at Resaca, G^eorgia, May 16, 1864. Tilton, Robt. ; killed at Dallas, Georgia, May 31, 1864. Vigus, Horace B. ; died at Lost Mountain, Georgia, June 2, 1864. Hudson, Jarrett; died at Atlanta, Georgia, August 8, 1864. Morehart, Adam; died at Knoxville, Tennessee, October 4, 1864. Powers, David W. ; died at Altoona, Georgia, June 15, 1864. White, John; died at Michigan City, March 7, 1864.

Barber, Chas. ; died at Nashville, Tennessee, April 18, 1864. Brooks, Jos. H. ; died at Logansport, Indiana, March 12, 1865. Carr, Patrick; died at Chattanooga, Tennessee, date unknown. Vanaman, Ira; died at Chattanooga, Tennessee, July 13, 1864. Clary, Francis M. ; died at London, Tennessee, April 18, 1864.

Jeffries, Inman H. ; died at Marietta, Georgia, August 2, 1861. GriflSth, John; died at Nashville, Tennessee, April 9, 1864. Smeltzer, Milton; died at Nashville, Tennessee, July 5, 1864. Taylor, Geo. W. ; died at Nashville, Tennessee, June 8, 1864.

Young, Dallas F. ; died at Louisville, Kentucky, October 24, 1864. Burley, Marshall P. ; died at Nashville, Tennessee, August 14, 1864. Clymer, Henry C. ; died at Nashville, Tennessee, April 6, 1864. Richards, John; died at Nashville, Tennessee, October 8, 1864. Creekpaum, Hugh; died at Chattanooga, Tennessee, June 26, 1864. Martin, Wm. H. ; died at Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 24, 1864. Oliver, Joseph S. ; died at Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 17, 1864. .

Daniels, Reuben; died at Atlanta, Georgia, August 1, 1864. EflSnger, Jacob; died at Michigan City, Indiana, March 10, 1864. .Harvey, Jacob; died at Marietta, Georgia, August 8, 1864. Jones Robt. ; died at Burnt Hickory, Georgia, June 16, 1864. See, John J. ; died at Knoxville, Tennessee, July 10, 1864. Yeakley, Thos. J. ; died at Decatur, Georgia, September 8, 1864.

Kirkpatrick, Henry; died at Atlanta, October 25, 1864. Baker, Irvin; killed by guerrillas in Tennessee, November 27, 1864. Maines, Christopher; Mlled by guerrillas in Tennessee, November 27, 1864.

Thomas, Albert; died at Knoxville, Tennessee, July 18, 1864. House, David; died at Chattanooga, November 10, 1864. Reeder, James W. ; died at Walton, September 1, 1865.

Kennedy, James B. ; died at Nashville, Tennessee, April 3, 1865. Kemp, Wilkinson; died at Nashville, Tennessee, January 30, 1865. Kemp, Andrew J. ; died at Nashville, Tennessee, January 31, 1865.

Cary, Calvin P. ; died at Nashville, Tennessee, July 22, 1865. Farrel, Edward; died at Nashville, Tennessee, July 15, 1865. St. Clair, Reuben ; died at Nashville, Tennessee, July 15, 1865. Taylor, Edward; died at Tullahoma, Tennessee April 14, 1865.

Whilst Cass county citizens were practically unanimous in sustaining President Lincoln in the prosecution of the war for the Union, yet there were a few ultra partisans, who were in sympathy with the South and especially bitter against Mr. Lihcoln's method of enlisting the negroes as soldiers. Mr. Gtordon, in the northern part of Bethlehem township, was an exemplary man and a good citizen, but an extreme partisan and to show his bitterness against the conduct of the war, he erected a tall pole in front of his house, on the Michigan road, and ran up a Confederate flag. This fact was soon known to the Union men of Bethlehem and the following day a posse of supporters of the Union cause proceeded to cut down the pole and trail the rebel banner in the dust Exasperated at the boldness of the Union men, some of the sympathizers of the lost cause stealthily in the night time cut the rope and pulled down the stars and stripes from a 75-foot flag pole erected in front of the Metea postoflSce for the purpose of announcing victories of the Union armies to the people of Bethlehem ; the perpetrator of the deed, however, was never known.

During the Rebellion the women in sympathy with the South made open manifestation of the same by wearing what was termed butter-nut breast pins as emblematic of the* southern soldiers, who were uniformed in goods dyed brown with butter-nut hulls. So the women would saw a cross section of a butter-nut, polish the same, attach a pin and wear it as an ornamental pin. This overt act of sympathy for the South exasperated the sisters and mothers of the boys in blue, who were sacrificing their life and limb that the Union might be preserved, and the writer has witnessed numerous instances where women would snatch the butter-nut pin from the collar or coat of those wearing such Confederate emblems at church and public places, thus precipitating a fight among the fair sex. But the Union cause was largely predominant and the emblems of the lost cause soon went into hiding, not, however, without some bitterness engendered on both sides of the conflict as well as some disheveling of female hair and wearing apparel. Thus was the term butter-nut applied to those who were in sympathy with the South during the Civil war.

During the war feeling ran high in Logansport and many personal encounters occurred. On one occasion a southern sympathizer made some exultant remark over a victory of the Confederate army. Capt. John T. Powell hearing the remark engaged him in a fistic fight and gave the fellow a good trouncing. Powell was a devout Methodist and the friends of the vanquished cause brought charges against him and endeavored to have him expelled from the church. Rev. McMullen was the pastor before whom the case was tried and he. was a very ardent Union man and after hearing the evidence he deprecated fighting among the brethren without good cause, but where they did fight for cause he wanted his brethren to whip their antagonists; with this statement he dismissed the charge.

Cuban revolutions against Spanish rule and struggles for independence had become so numerous and formidable for many years that it was a serious menace to the commerce of the United States and greatly injured American interests, so much so that the United States congress acknowledged the independence of Cuba which precipitated the war with Spain and President McKinley issued a call for 125,000 men on

April 23, 1898. Indiana's quota was four regiments and two batteries of artillery. On April 25, 1898, Governor Mount issued a proclamation calling for volunteers to meet Indiana's quota.

In the Civil war Indiana furnished 26 batteries and 156 regiments, so in the war with Spain the numbering began at 27 for the batteries and 157 for regiments of infantry. Later on the president issued a call for 75,000 additional men and Indiana furnished another regiment, the One Hundred and Sixty-first. Cass county recruited one entire company for the Spanish- American war, which was known as Company M, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment. David S. Bender, a veteran of the Civil war, recruited this company in Logansport and on April 26, 1898, proceeded to Camp Mount, located on the state fair grounds at Indianapolis. Mustered into service on May 12, 1898. Left for Camp Thomas, Qiickamauga Park, Georgia, May 16th. Left for Newport News on July 28th, expecting to proceed to Porto Rico, but orders were countermanded and on Augui^t 21st went to Camp Hamilton, Lexington, Kentucky. November 9th, proceeded to Columbus, Georgia, and on January 15, 1899, ordered to Matanzas, Cuba, where they remained until March 27th, when they left for Savannah, Georgia, where they were mustered out April 25, 1899, without engaging the enemy and with the loss of only one man by disease, Orestes Rizer, who died at Lexington, Kentucky, November 8, 1898.

The results of the Spanish- American war are facts of history unnecessary to repeat here except to say that the United States Was an easy victor, on land and seaf and that the U. S. fleets at Santiago and Manila did honor to our country, as did also our land forces at San Juan Hill and peace was soon proclaimed with Cuban independence, and Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands relinquished by Spain to the United States. The United States, however, always magnanimous in defeat or victory, in order to appease the wounded pride of the Spanish government, paid her $20,000,000 for the islands.

Logansport Post, No. 14, of the G. A. R., was organized February 26, 1880, under the charter bearing the same date with the following charter members:

The first officers were: Joseph G. Barron, commander; Joseph Y. Ballon, senior vice-commander ; John T. Powell, junior vice-commander ; 0. B. Sargent, quartermaster; T. H. McKee, chaplain; Thomas Haire, inner guard ; Geo. P. McKee, outer guard ; Frank E. West, adjutant.

The present oflScers are A. C. Walters, commander; John Ensfield, S. V. C; W. H. Ward, J. V. C; John Moore, chaplain; Henry Tucker, quartermaster; J. E. Crain, adjutant.

Soon after the organization was perfected the post leased the hall at No. 424-6 Market street, and it has ever since been known as G. A. R. hall..

This music club organized in the winter of 1879 was composed of the following members of Logansport Post, G. A. R. : J. E. Crain, Company F, One Hundred and Fifty -first Indiana Infantry; H. C.

Cushman, first lieutenant, Company A, Ninety-fourth Ohio; I. N. Watkins, Company F, Seventh Indiana Infantry; W. S. Richardson, Company F, Forty-sixth Indiana Infantry, and Miss Sallie Horn, accompanist, the latter a daughter of Geo. C. Horn, a veteran of two wars.

This quartet has been called on to sing at many G. A. R. encampments and at various patriotic celebrations, and has been known far and wide as a most excellent male quartet for the past third of a century, and although their combined ages at this writing is two hundred and eighty, yet they can excite the cheers of their comrades by their musical voices as they used to do while marching through Georgia.

G. A. R. Quartette From Left to Right : J. E. Grain, H. C. Cushman ; Miss Sallie Horn, Accompanist; I. N. Watkins; W. S. Richardson, (Died Feb. 12, 1913)

This society is an independent organization and not auxiliary to or dependent upon the 6. A. R. or any other order. It is composed of the wives, mothers, daughters and granddaughters or blood descendants of the soldiers of the Civil war, and stands in the same relation to the soldiers of the war for the Union as the Daughters of the Revolution sustain to the soldiers of that war. The first society of this order was organized March 10, 1890, in Hall's Business College, then located at the northwest comer of Pearl and Market street. Rodney Strain, commander of the G. A. R., officiated as organizer and installed "the following officers of the first society of the Ladies of the G. A. R. ever organized in America:

In addition to the above, the following ladies were enrolled as charter members: Nellie Hall, Elizabeth Frink, Mary E. Moon, E. L. Ferguson, J. S. Kreider, Mrs. Stephen Parker, Emma Gordon, Frances Carew,

The objects of the order are to assist the G. A. E. in the work to extend needful aid to all sick or unfortunate soldiers and their families; to teach patriotism, love of country, love of the flag and its defenders. Their motto is fraternity, charity and loyalty. The Grand Army of the Republic will ere long cease, for its depleted ranks will soon have vanished, but the ladies of the G. A. R., as descendants of the gallant boys in blue will -perpetuate their name and fame forever.

From this small beginning in a little hall in Logansport in 1890, this organization has extended its work and influence until every city in our land has a society df the ** Ladies of the G. A. R." The local society meets regularly in the G. A. R. hall and has a membership of 124, officered in 1912, as follows:

Margaret G. Garver, president ; Nellie Sample, senior vice-president ; Anna Kennedy, junior vice-president; Pearl Wright, treasurer; Nellie Hanke, secretary; Jennie Shafer, chaplain; Hattie Fury, conductress; Lucinda Crocket, guard; Katherine Enyart, instructor.

The Ladies of the G. A. R. have secured a large lot in Mt. Hope Cemetery, improved the same and erected a handsome monument upon it ; the purpose of which }s to furnish respectable sepulcher to, any poor or unfortunate soldiers.

This is a national organization, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. The charter for the local society bears date of September 17, 1874. The following names appear as charter members: Emma Gordon, Marion Reynolds, Carrie Winters, Sarah Mull, Esther Mc- Allister, Clara Scott, Martha Paugh, Anna Kloenne, Elizabeth Bringhurst, Sarah Douglass, Mary Harris, Minerva Craig, Tillie Louthain, Fannie Parks, Anna Clark, Margaret Justice, Mattie Mellinger.

The first officers were : President, Margaret Justice ; senior vice-president, Mattie McConnell; junior vice-president, Mrs. M. Swigart; chaplain, Mrs. I. N. Crawford; secretary, Esther McAllister; treasurer, Elizabeth Bringhurst; conductress, Carrie Winters.

The present officers are: President, Madge Wall; senior vice-president, Jennie Carr ; junior vice-president, June Terrell ; treasurer, Maime Billman ; secretary, Maria L. Schlater ; conductress, Susie Castle ; guard, Harriet Keiser.