Cass County, Indiana - Chapter 13: Military History, 1913 (part 1 of 2)

Chapter 13: Military History

The citizens of Cass county and country in general are a lawabiding and peace-loving people. Their greatness is shown by their obedience to civil law and their engaging in industrial pursuits, yet their inborn disposition to defend the right and chastise the wrong has always predominated, inciting them to take up arms in the support of the one and to oppose the other.

Cass county has ever been ready and willing to do her full duty in times of war, rebellion, insurrections or where the civil law has been set at naught by any foe of civil liberty.

Of these wars Cass county has participated actively in only the three latter, besides furnishing militia for various infractions of the civil law in^the county and state.

Long before Indiana was carved out of the Northwest territory and made into a state and many years before Cass county was settled by whites, the red men built a town, composed of rude huts or wigwams on the north bank of Eel river extending from the east side of Twelve Mile creek in Adams township, thence west across that creek and Mud branch about two and a half miles westward to a bluff just east of the Layton farm to the east line of section 11, Clay township. The Indian name of the town was **Ki-na-pa-com-a-qua." It was also known as **Eel River Town." The French called it **L'AuguilIe," but it was generally known to the Americans as **01d Town." One hundred and twenty-one years ago it was a very important town and a great factor in the affairs of the Indians of the upper Wabash, being one of the headquarters for assembling, organizing and despatching Indian expeditions and forays against the white settler along the borders of Kentucky and Virginia. These attacks were so frequent and savagely brutal they could be submitted to no longer. In 1791, General Knox was secretary of war and ordered Gen. James Wilkinson to destroy **01d Town" Indian village and capture or scatter its savage occupants. Gen. Wilkinson's force consisted of 525 men, mostly Kentucky troops who left Fort Washington on August 1, 1791, and pushed forward through almost impenetrable forests to the Wabash river, which he crossed about seven miles east of the present city of Logansport on August 7, 1791, and marched north to the rising ground supposed to be the land now known as the Walker and Kidd farms in section 18, Miami township. Gen. Wilhinson in his report to the secretary of war says: '*I crossed the Wabash river and followed the Indian path a north by east course. At the distance of two and a half miles my reconnoitering party announced Eel river in front and the town on the opposite side. I dismounted, ran forward and examined the situation of the town as far as practicable without exposing myself, but the whole face of the country from the Wabash to the margin of Eel river, being a continued thicket of brambles, blackjacks, weeds and shrubs of different kinds, it was impossible for me to get a good view without endangering discovery. I immediately determined to put two companies on the bank of the river opposite to the town and above the ground I then occupied, to make a detour with Maj. Caldwell and the second battalion until I fell into the Miami trace and by that route to cross the river above and gain the rear of the town, and leave directions with Maj. McDowell, who commanded the first battalion to lie * perdue' until I commenced the attack, then to dash through Eel river with his corps and the advance guard, and assault the houses on the front and left. When I was about to put this arrangement into execution, word was brought me that the Indians had taken the alarm and were flying. I instantly ordered a general charge, which was obeyed with alacrity. The men forcing their way over every obstacle, plunged through the river with great intrepidity. The enemy was unable to make the smallest resistance. Six warriors were killed. Thirty-four prisoners were taken. Two men of Gen. Wilkinson's force were killed, and one wounded. He encamped in the town that night and the next morning cut up the surrounding corn, then scarcely in the milk, burned the town, mounted the young warriors, squaws and children, and started for the Kickapoo village on the prairie." The power of the Indians was broken. Many relics have been picked up on this battleground and one old sword found there by Israel J. Berry was presented to the Cass County Historical Society, and is now found among its collections.

The society is now negotiating for and hopes to secure the Old Town battleground and make it a permanent public park and erect a monument thereon to commemorate the brave deeds of Gen. Wilkinson and his heroic band.

Tradition tells us that in 1791 an engagement took place on Bold Hill, in the southern part of Miami township, a mile or more west of Lewisburg. A sergeant and eleven men encamped on **Bold Hill." A band of Indians, superior in numbers, attacked the sergeant's forces, wounding several. Ever since this battle, the hollow into which the Indians were driven and defeated, has been known as ** Bloody Hollow." At the time it was supposed the Indians belonged at Ki-ua-pa-com-a-qua; a part of a band sent out on a foray before Gen. Wilkinson's arrival and the white troops was an advanced guard of Gen. Wilkinson's expedition.

While this battle was fought before Cass county was settled by white men, yet many of the soldiers engaged therein became prominent pioneers of the county and a brief sketch of this battle is worthy of notice in our county history.

the tribes in this region of the country of which he would be the head and chief personage. The declared purpose was to drive the white settlers from west of the Ohio river. He held that the great spirit had given these lands to the Indians for a hunting ground and no tribe could ' cede their right to the whites without the consent of all the other tribes, and that the white settlers had no right or title to the land but were usurpers and should be driven oflf. Tecumseh was ably assisted by his brother, the Prophet, and they had great influence with the Delawares, Wyandots, Miamis, Kickapoos, Pottawattomies, Winnebagoes, Chippewas and others.

Gen. William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana territory with headquarters at Vincennes, saw impending trouble and had several conferences with the wily Shawnee chief. At these conferences Joseph Barron, later a pioneer of Cass county, acted as interpreter. He, with Walter Wilson, was sent by Gten. Harrison with messages to the Prophet, who disregarded the flag of truce and held the messengers as prisoners and condemned them to death and would have executed the sentence had not Tecumseh interfered. This was one noble trait of Tecumseh, he never violated a flag of truce. The differences were only partially adjusted. Tecumseh went south to perfect the confederacy. Gen. Harrison, however, was prepared for the worst, but the Prophet contrary to Tecumseh 's instructions, attacked Gen. Harrison, who with 700 men was encamped on the Tippecanoe river, above Lafayette a few miles, on the morning of November 7, 1811, but was repulsed and routed. Gen. Harrison's loss was thirty-seven killed, twenty-five mortally wounded and one hundred and twenty-six wounded. The Indians left thirty-eight killed on the field of battle and the number of their wounded will never be known for, as was their custom, they were carried off.

The following old Cass county pioneers of whom further sketches will be given were engaged in the Battle of Tippecanoe : Gen. John Tipton, Gen. Walter Wilson, Maj. Daniel Bell, Joseph Barron, Sr.

In the spring of 1832 the renowned Sac chief. Black Hawk, refused as per treaty, to leave his lands in western Illinois and move beyond the Mississippi, and made war on the settlers in Illinois and western Indiana.

On Sunday morning, May 18, 1832, the people on the west bank of the Wabash were thrown into a state of great consternation on account of the report reaching them that a large body of hostile Indians had approached within ten miles of Lafayette and killed two white settlers. There was great excitement and old men, women and children to the number of over 300 flocked into Lafayette. There was much uneasiness on the part of the settlers in Cass county lest the Pottawattamies of this section should go on the war path and the few citizens of Logansport organized a small company of militia, but were never called on for active service as the Illinois troops in which the immortal Lincoln bore an honorable part ran down and captured Black Hawk and his band on the banks of the Mississippi near Prairie du Chien, August 2, 1832.

The following additional Indian fighters are accredited to Cass county, but we &id no record of their particular services : Capt. A. M. Higgins, Black Hawk war, William Atwood, Simon Kenton, Geo. Mott.

and **Corkoniaiis/' engaged upon that work, became involved in riotous proceedings and used their **shelalaghs" upon each other, and threatening a general devastation along the line of the canal, necessitating the intervention of the military power of the state. Upon the call of the governor, Gen. John Tipton, of Logansport, was put in chief command and his son, Capt. Spier S. Tipton, with a company of Cass county militia, left immediately for the scene of the riots near Peru, and soon restored order and quiet, and the Irish combatants went back to work. The following is a list of the names comprising this company of militia: Capt. S. Tipton; Stanilaus Lasselle, lieutenant; Jacob Hull, ensign; Samuel B. Linton, first sergeant ; Daniel Sparks, second sergeant ; John Sellers, third sergeant; Daniel Clary, fourth sergeant; Joshua Shields, first corporal; Amos Boe, second corporal; Cam. Moore, third corporal; Geo. Myers, fourth corporal ; privates : D. D. Pratt, Wills Buzan, Thos. G. Davis, Isaac Booth, John Blackburn, James Young, Wm. Dickey, Austin Pate, Martin 0 'Brien, Philip Leahey, Daniel McCarty, Jeremiah Green, Hugh Ensby, John Goldsberry.

Pottawattomie Indian Disturbances

In September, 1836, when the annual payment of the Indians was made, there arose diflferences among them in reference to the distribution of the money and some of the braves having partaken of too much ** fire water'* became quite belligerent. Col. Abel C. Pepper, then Indian agent, as a means of preserving the peace and suppressing disorder, notified G. W. Ewing, colonel of the Seventy-eighth Regiment of Indiana Militia, who at once called out the Peru Grays, under the command of Capt. A. M. Higgins, and the Logansport Dragoons, under the command of Capt. G. N. Fitch. The timely arrival of these troops poured oil on the troubled waters and all diflferences were amicably adjusted without bloodshed.

Cass county had no existence but was only the habitat of the wild Indians and wilder animals, at the time of the Revolutionary war and War of 1812. It is, hWever, entitled to the honor the following soldiers lent to it by making it their last home and resting pl£^;e.

Differences between the United States and Mexico having assumed a hostile attitude, the president of the United States, James K. Polk, by proclamation. May 11, 1846, announced that a state of war existed between this country and Mexico. Congress at once authorized a call for 50,000 volunteers and upon this authority the president issued his call on May 13, 1846. James Whitcomb, the governor of Indiana, on May 23d, issued a proclamation directing the enrollment of volunteers in conformity with the president's order. The news of the declaration of war and the governor's call for volunteers soon reached Logansport. Capt. Spier S. Tipton immediately began the enlistment of men for the war. Military enthusiasm ran high and a completo company was soon enrolled and on the 8th of June, 1846, the company left for the seat of war under the command of Capt. Spier S. Tipton. For several days previously, it had been noised about that the company would leave on that day, and as a consequence the town was full of people, from all sections of the county, to witness their departure and wish them God speed. At this time there were no railroads in the state and the boys left by the way of the Michigan road south to Indianapolis, thence to New Albany, the place of rendezvous for all the Indiana soldiers, before taking transportation by way of the Ohio and Mississippi for ihe seat of war. The First Indiana Regiment, containing the Cass county contingent, was stationed at Camp Whitcomb (named after Governor Whitcomb), near New Albany, until Sunday, July 5, 1846, when they took passage on the steamer, *' Grace Darling*' for New Orleans, and from there they embarked on a government ship and were landed at Point Isabelle, near the mouth of the Rio Grande, and became a part of General Taylor's command.

Before leaving for the seat of war the ladies of Logansport made a handsome flag and presented the same to the company, the presentation address was delivered on Spencer Square, by Mrs. N. P. Lasselle, who spoke in part, as follows: **The ladies of Logansport present this flag to your company as a testimony of the admiration with which we regard the promptness displayed by you in answering your country's call in the hour of danger. This promptness assures us that you possess the courage to defend with bravery the flag now presented, and that you will return it with honor or return it not at all. Dearly as we love our friends, sooner would we, that their blood should dye the plains of Mexico, and this flag should be their winding sheet, than they should disgrace themselves or it by dastardly conduct. The ground selected to present it was chosen on account of its associations. The s(}uare (between Ninth and Tenth and Market and Spear streets) on which we stand, bears the name of one of our noblest pioneers, Captain Spencer, who fell whilst bravely fighting for his country upon the battlefield of Tippecanoe. And upon this square rest the remains of General Tipton (Tipton was buried on Spencer Square, but later removed to Old Cemetery, then to'Mt. Hope), the father of your captain. He was an inferior officer in the company of the gallant Captain Spencer, and when Captain Spencer and other superior officers had f dlen, Tipton took command of the company with such coolness and courage that he was promoted to the rank of captain immediately after the action; and we doubt not that the son is worthy of the sire. Not far distant (in the Old Cemetery) lies the father of Lieutenant Lasselle; he, too, was in the War of 1812, and it is a strange coincidence that he should have borne at that time the same rank which his son now 'bears in your company. He was noted for his bravery, and we trust, indeed, we know the same spirit which animated him now animates his son that is with you today. In conclusion, if it will add to your courage on the battlefield, or cheer you in the weary marches you have to encounter in Mexico, I can assure you, that the aspirations of the heJtrts of those by whom this flag is presented, will ascend daily to the God of Battles to protect you in the hour of peril and enable you to return with safety and honor to your home and friends."

**In behalf of the Cass County Volunteers, I accept the flag presented by the ladies of Logansport. It is a beautiful offering, evincing at once their taste and patriotism. It shall ever be our purpose to render ourselves worthy of the sacred trust. Your hands have wrought it to be borne in sight of the enemies of our country, in the front ranks of war. So shall it be borne. We promise to protect it at every hazard. It shall remind us when in foreign lands of our home and the fair hands that made it. We are about to leave for the seat of war, some of us in all probability, never to return, but rest assured that whatever be our fate, we will carry this flag in triumph or defeat, but never to dishonor."

At New Albany, Captain Tipton accepted a lieutenantcy in the regular army and Stanilaus Lasselle was elected to the captaincy of the Cass county company. On the 19th of June the company known as Company G, was mustered into the service by Captain Churchill, of the United States army. The following persons composed the company : Captain, Stanilaus Lasselle ; first lieutenant, Wm. L. Brown ; second lieutenant, David W. Dunn ; first sergeant, Jas. H. Tucker ; second sergeant, Jacques M. Lasselle; third sergeant, Edwin Farquhar; fourth sergeant, Thomas H. Weirick; first corporal, Henry W. Vigus; third corporal, T. W. Douglass; fourth corporal, Thomas Bringhurst; fifer, Leonard H. Keep; drummer, James M. Vigus ; surgeon, Wm. Fosdick color bearer, J. Stephenson ; James Anderson ; Geo. W. Blakemore.

There were three Indiana regiments formed at New Albany, the first, second and third. The Cass county company was put in the first regiment with James P. Drake, as colonel; C. C. Nave, lieutenant colonel and Henry S. Lane, as major.

When mustered into service the company contained ninety-three men ; when mustered out, fifty-seven men, thirty-one having been previously discharged on account of ill health while in Mexico and three died and were buried in Mexico, to-wit: W. B. Buchanan, Dyer Barrett and Caleb B. Hopkinson.

Left Logansport on June 8, 1846, with ninety-three members and thirty-three wagons, furnished by the citizens of Cass county. Ate dinner at Deer Creek, furnished by the citizens. Slept at Burlington on the night of the 8th, and at Eagle Village on the 9th. Arrived at Indiafaapolis on the 10th and encamped in the fair grounds. Left Indianapolis on the 11th and marched to Pranklin. Left PranMin on the 12th and marched to Edinburg on the railroad, and from there on railroad to Madison. Left Madison on 13th on steamer ** Adelaide," arriving same evening at Louisville and transferred to New Albany, where we remained in Camp Whitcomb until July 5th, when we left on the steamer ** Grace Darling,'' for New Orleans, arriving there on the 11th. Left New Orleans on the barque ** Sophia Walker," a vessel of three hundred and fifty tons burthen. Was towed by a steamer to the mouth of the Mississippi river and turned loose in a storm which continued the entire voyage. Landed at Brazos, on the Texas coast July IMh and marched to the mouth of the Rio Grande, arriving there on July 21st. Next day marched up the river to Camp Belknap, near the town of Buerta, nine miles from the mouth. Remained here until August 31st, drilling, etc. It was here that the battle of invalids occurred. The sick in the hospital largely outnumbered the men on duty. One day a fight broke out among the invalids in the hospital requiring all the well men in the regiment to quell the riot. The regiment marched out nearly to Monterey, Mexico, but were, ordered back to the Rio Grande for guard duty, but late in January, 1847, Company G was ordered to Monterey in expectation of a battle at Saltillo, but the battle was fought at Buena Vista, while Company G was encamped near Monterey, where they spent some time, and until their time expired and they returned to the Bio Grande and Brazos and shipped to New Orleans where they were mustered out and boarded the steamer ** Cincinnati'' for home, arriving at Logansport on July 4, 1847, where they were honored in a deserving reception by the citizens. After the departure of the company of enlisted men, Lieutenant Tipton returned to Logansport and secured the enlistment of a company of regulars to serve in Mexico or elsewhere as directed by the war department.

This company was soon ordered to Mexico and landed at Vera Cruz and engaged in numerous battles under the command of Gen. Winfield Scott, the hero of Lundy 's Lane during the War of 1812. In the investment and capture of the city of Mexico, the Cass county boys were the first to enter the city and the consecrated halls of the Montezumas, and DeWitt C. Weimer tirst raised our battle flag, the emblem of American liberty, over that nation's ancient capital. In the storming of J!hapul tepee, the ** Mexican citadel," Cass county troops were in the van and first to plant the American flag upon the ramparts of this renowned fortress.

The following Mexican war soldiers, while not enlisting in the local companies, yet have honored Cass county by living and dying in the county, and should be listed here, as a part of the military history of the county :

Capt. Spier S. Tipton, Gary H. Conkling, Samuel L. Yantis, and Frank Bridge fell victims to war's terrors and t&eir remains now repose on Mexican soil.

DeWitt C. Wimer, the color bearer, who was first to plant our flag upon the dome of the ancient hall of the Montezumas, returned to Logansport where he lived a respected soldier citizen until his death, August 4, 1861, being the day on which the first three months troops enlisted in the Civil war, returned to be greeted with rejoicing and jollification by the people. In the midst of this rejoicing the brave spirit of Ensign Wimer passed to its eternal rest. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Layton, the services were held in Spencer square (between Ninth and Tenth and Market and Spear streets) and waa attended by a large concourse of people, including his military associates and the fire companies of the city. To the solemn strains of music his remains were borne to their last resting place and a parting salute fired over his grave by those who esteemed him for his manly conduct in the services of his country.

Henry Galloway, residing at 403 Clifton avenue, Logansport, is the only Mexican soldier living within Cass county and it is reported that he is the only one in the state. He was born in Kentucky in 1815 ; moved with his parents to Knightstown, Indiana, and enlisted at Greenfield, Indiana, in Capt. J. K. Bracken's company for the Mexican war and marched from Vera Cruz to the old City of Mexico. Mr. Galloway never went to school a day in his life and had no educational advantages, but was a gallant soldier and a sturdy citizen. He came to Logansport in 1847. Married Mary Ross in 1850; had thirteen children, nine of whom with his wife have been called to the better land. His youngest daughter, unmarried, keeps house for the grim old soldier in their humble home. Mr. Galloway is a brick maker, but unable to work for many years, although he walks down town, unaided.

From a strict view of the comity of nations, the Mexican war was not justified and cannot be defended. It was Gen. U. S. Grant, however, who said, that when your country was once engaged in war, it was the duty of its people to stand by and uphold their country, whether right or wrong, and he who held back, criticized, or aided his country's enemies in time of war should be deemed a traitor. Following this dictum, Cass county responded patriotically to the call of their country and heroically defended the same although the writer has since talked with some of the returning soldiers, who declared that this was an unjust and indefensible war.

It makes not the slightest difference whether the reader approves or disapproves of the Mexican war. He will read descriptions of the victories won by those volunteers over vastly superior numbers, and will rejoice that they were Americans, and that he is an American. The Mexican war made three candidates for the presidency: Taylor, Scott and Pierce. Taylor and Pierce were elected; Scott defeated. A treaty of peace was concluded at Gaudaloupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848, and President Polk proclaimed it on July 4th and our army was withdrawn and the war with Mexico was ended.

As a balm for the wounded pride of the Mexicans for the loss of territory (Texas, California, etc.), the United States paid Mexico $12,- 000,000 and assumed debts owing to Americans by Mexico of $3,500,000. The treaty also adjusted the boundary line between the two nations practically as it exists today.

In the later fifties Capt. D. H. Chase was instrumental in organizing a local company of militia known as the ** Cecil Grays." The names of this company of would-be soldiers are not now obtainable. In 1859 the Cecil Grays disbanded or was reorganized and name changed to ** Zouave Guards.'' This local company of militia was organized by Capt. D. H. Chase, and on the breaking out of the Civil war in 1861 the ** Zouave Guards" were the first company enlisted in Logansport, under D. H. Chase, and served in the Ninth Indiana Regiment, but were never called on for military service, prior to their enlistment in the United States service.

This was a local company of militia also organized by Capt. D. H. Chase in 1873 and had their armory in Richardson's hall at No. 427 Market street. They were thoroughly drilled in military maneuvers by their captain who was a strict disciplinarian. On October 9, 1874, governor and later vice-president, Thomas A. Hendricks, visited the Grays at their armory and spoke in very complimentary terms of their soldierly bearing and excellent drilling, and promised that the state would furnish them with new and improved guns. On October 5, 1875, the Logan Grays attended a soldiers' reunion at Ft. Wayne and competed for a prize offered for the best drilled company and they, under the command of Capt. Chase, carried off the prize.

For many years the Grays went into camp every summer at *'Camp Chase" in the woods on the north bank of Eel river, north of the Davis bridge, where they would drill, practice shooting and perform other duties of real soldiers. The Logan Grays was considered tbe best drilled and most soldierly appearing company in the state, and appeared in full dress parade on many public and patriotic occasions, such as the clebration or observance of Washington's birthday, the 4th of July or Decoration day.

In 1885 they uniformed and organized a '*drum corps" consisting of eight members as follows: Harry Norton, John Tomlinson, Howard Stitt, Charles Swigart, Elmer Worstell, Bert Walters, Robert Bryer and Charles Purcell.

About 1874 or '75 there was a strike and other labor troubles among the employees of the Baltimore & Ohio and other railroads at Indianapolw and south of there. The diflftculties became so threatening that the governor called out the militia and the Logan Grays promptly responded and headed by the Cicilian band marched to the depot and took the Panhandle train for Indianapolis, where they overawed the rioters without the firing of a gun and in a few days returned to their homes without the loss of a man. The following members of the company were engaged in this bloodless expedition :

The **Boy Scouf movement in Logansport was brought about through the efforts of Louis Oren Wetzel, an energetic young man who was born and educated in Virginia, but is now ja resident of Logansport and is a commercial traveler out of our city, as well as scout master and also holds a commission from the National Council as special field scout commissioner with jurisdiction throughout the entire state of Indiana.

The object of the movement is to teach the adolescent boy the true principles of self reUant manhood. Each boy on admission to the troop promises on his honor to **do his duty to his God and his country, to help other people at all times, and to keep himself physically clean, mentally awake and morally straight. ' ' The local troop is chartered by the National Council Boy Scouts of America who exercise jurisdiction over all the troops in the United States. Each boy must observe the twelve rules of the council, which are as follows: 1st, a scout is trustworthy; 2nd, a scout is loyal; 3rd, a scout is helpful; 4th, a scout is friendly; 5th, a scout is courteous ; 6th, a scout is kind ; 7th, a scout is obedient ; 8th, a scout is cheerful; 9th, a scout is thrifty; 10th, a scout is brave; 11th, a scout is clean ; 12th, a scout is reverent. This troop is absolutely nonsectarian as are all first-class troops, and the Logansport troop is self-supporting and self-sustaining, and was organized January 6, 1912, and now numbers 112 members, with new members coming in constantly. The troop is divided into two companies, Co. **A" and Co. **B;" the officers of **A" company are as follows: Captain, Chas. Guy; lieutenant, Myron Oppenheimer ; 1st sergeant, Daniel Drompp ; 2nd sergeant, Kendall Wipperman; 3rd sergeant. Merle Reinheimer; 4th sergeant, Clive McKay. Officers of **B" company are: Captain, John Brickley ; lieutenant, John Burdge ; 1st sergeant, Marshall Raber ; 2nd sergeant, Everitt Crockett ; 3rd sergeant, Carl Reinheimer ; 4th sergeant, Robert Harrison. Troops meet in Q. A. R. hall first three Saturdays of each month. The troop is planning to erect a wireless station as soon as they are able and intend to have one that will be for commercial use as well as for educational purposes. They are also building a log cabin on the Jones farm, northeast of the city, which they will make a sending station and also a place to rest while on trips in this vicinity. Mr. Wetzel and his scouts are doing a noble work and it is reliably stated that they have reclaimed a number of boys who would probably have been in some correctional school had it not been for the teaching of ** scout craft."

The presidential election of 1860 was a three-cornered fight. The radical slave holding element of the South supporting John C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, the moderate Democrats the candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, and the Republican party, Abraham Lincoln. The radical Democrats of the South not only wanted to retain their slaves, but also to extend slavery into the territories ; the conservative or Douglas Democrats, trained along between these two extremes, while the Republicans, under Lincoln, maintained that slavery must not be extended but curtailed with a view of final extinction, the government remunerating the slave holders for their slaves. As Lincoln expressed it: **The nation could not permanently exist, half slave and half free.'^ During the campaign of 1860, the South made threats that if Lincoln was elected they would withdraw from the Union and set up an independent government of their own, whose cornerstone was slavery. No sooner had the result of the election been announced and that Abraham

Lincoln would be the next president, than the southern states began to plan to carry out their threat. Consequently upon the threatening aspect of affairs in the South, and a strong probability that a rupture was likely to occur in the near future, the current of public opinion and expression in Cass county foreshadowed an earnest purpose on the part of the people to give their support to the incoming president (Lincoln) in whatever legitimate way he might propose to steer the ship of state through the breakers obtruding to interfere with the progress and development of that liberal sentiment which characterized the policy of the majority of the American people as expressed at the ballot box in November, 1860. That current of opinion became stronger and more expressive day by day as time advanced toward the inauguration of the new administration. After March 4, 1861, indeed long anterior to that date, the spirit of opposition was so distinctly exhibited in the leading actions of adherents of the late administration of James Buchanan and the belligerent attitude assumed by them, that the peace-loving conservative element of the society at large became a unit on the question of the propriety of maintaining the supremacy of the laws and the constitution.

The condition of affairs during the few days after Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, that preceded the first acts of war, left no doubt in the minds of our people that war would be inevitable and that without delay. When therefore the telegraph announced that Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor had been fired upon, and that the laws of our country had been set at defiance - that open rebellion had been inaugurated, all party distinctions were forgotten in the common impulse to maintain the integrity of the national Union and the determined purpose to meet force by force, if need be, engaged the attention and called forth the energies of all parties in Cass county to aid in the accomplishment of the one grand object - the perpetuity of our country undivided.

The announcement of President Lincoln's proclamation and a call for 75,000 volunteers and a quick response of Gov. Morton tendering the requisite quota of Indiana found the people of Cass county ready for the conflict.

Capt. D. H. Chase of the ** Zouave Guards," whose military fervor had long before induced him to organize a company of boys, which he armed and uniformed at his own expense and drilled them until they had become thoroughly disciplined, familiar with the manual of arms and skillful in warlike evolutions, was the first to tender the services of his company. The president's proclamation was issued on Monday, April 15, 1861, the proclamation of Gov. Morton ,on the 16th and on the same day Captain Chase received a dispatch from Adjt Gen. Lew Wallace, accepting his tender and ordering him to report his men at headquarters. Almost simultaneously with the movement of Captain Chase, Thos. S. Dunn, who served in the Mexican war, opened an ofSce in the old round corner stone building that then stood at the southeast comer of Fourth and Market streets and succeeded in rapidly enlisting men. The oflSce was opened Wednesday, April 17, 1861, and on the Saturday following he had enrolled 125 men, good work for less than three days.

Other recruiting oflScers were opened and the enlistments continued to be rapid. Captain, afterwards Col. Wm. L. Brown, commenced recruiting on Friday, April 19th, and on Tuesday, the 23d, his company was full. Captain Chamberlain opened a recruiting oflSce on Monday the 22d, and began to enlist men^ to be called the Union Grays, and the ranks were soon filled. On the same day Col. N. G. Scott, a member of the rifle regiment, under General Twiggs, during the campaign from Vera Cruz to the Mexican capital, began to enlist recruits, and the work proceeded rapidly. Although several hundred men had been enlisted in Logansport within the week succeeding the president's call, yet the number of recruits ready and anxious to enlist seemed not to have diminished.

Captain Chase and Dunn's companies left for Indianapolis on Monday, April 22, 1861, and mustered into the service the following day as Company K and D of the Ninth Indiana Regiment, three months men. Prior to the departure of Captain Chase and while they were parading in their armory, preparatory to marching to the Wabash depot. Col. C. C. Loomis, of this city, presented Captain D. H. Chase an elegant pair of epaulets. The occasion was of much interest and particularly gratifying to the company of Zouaves, who under Captain Chase, did do their whole duty in the perilous times which surrounded the nation. In presenting the epaulets. Colonel Loomis said in part: ** Yourself with those under you are about to leave your homes to fight for freedom against the enemies of our hitherto peaceable, prosperous and happy country. But in an evil hour an insidious foe has invaded our rights and is now striving to force our nation into anarchy, bloodshed and ruin. The young men of our land, with brave hearts and strong bauds, are now called upon, in this hour of our country's danger, to stand up for the rights so gloriously bequeathed to us by those revolutionary heroes who have now gone down to their graves, covered with honor and glory. Our fathers thought it no hardship to risk their fortunes and lives, and all that they held dear, if by any means they could transmit to posterity the liberties which we have hitherto enjoyed.

**Our mothers, too, whom we with pride remember, were willing to sacrifice if necessary, their sons, the pride and joy of their hearts, that tyranny and oppression might be driven from the land. To perpetuate those liberties, you are now called from the homes and friends you love so well, to assist in rescuing the ship of state which has so long withstood the storm, from a treacherous and rebellious crew. May the consciousness that the cause is just, urge you forward and give you courage to stand manfully for the right, uphold th^ dignity of our country and preserve and perpetuate the Union.

* * I now present to you a pair of epaulets, an insignia of your office. Like them may your conduct and valor ever shine; and may you and those under you, again return to your homes, to your kindred and friends, bringing with you such proofs of fidelity and bravery as the cause in which you are enlisted so richly merits."

** Please accept my warmest thanks for your kind and opportune present. It shall be my greatest endeavor that no rusty action or tarnished honor ever soils them. With many thanks, allow me to say that I shall endeavor to do my duty faithfully, ever bearing in mind the importance of the cause in which we are engaged."

While Capt. Thos. S. Dunn's company was encamped at Camp Morton (Indianapolis) it was presented by a committee of ladies from Logansport, with a beautiful flag. In accepting the flag, Maj. Wm. M. DeHart, on behalf of the company, made the following reply :

'*I am delegated by the company which is the recipient of your patriotic gift - the stars and stripes - ^to tender to you their heartfelt thanks, with the assurance that this proud banner, the work of your hands, shall never be lowered to a traitor or foreign foe; never while there is one arm to bear it aloft ; never while there is one heart left to pour out the warm tide of its devotion to our country/'

On Saturday preceding the departure of the first companies and three days subsequent to the reception of the governor's proclamation, a union meeting was held in the courthouse to consider the situation and take such steps in the premises as the exigency seemed to demand.

The proceedings were in all respects harmonious, all parties agreeing that the general government must and should be sustained at whatever cost. The meeting was presided over by Chauncey Carter, who, upon taking the chair, advocated the enforcement of the laws and the unequivocal support of the oflScial head of the government in its efforts to faithfully execute the laws of our country to the end that the birthright, transmitted by our forefathers, be preserved intact

He was followed by Hon. D. D. Pratt, w^ho said that the war in which we were engaged was not an aggressive one, but was for the defense of the constitution and the laws of our country. Our free institutions, he said, had been attacked ; that the stars and stripes must continue to be recognized in the future, as in the past, as an emblem of a perfect Union, and not allowed to be trailed in the dust by unholy hands. If the supremacy of the laws could not be maintained, the result would certainly follow^ that our country would be divided into petty rival governments which would ever be at war with each other. The patriotic citizen, who bared his breast and met the common foe on the battlefield, in the defense of his country, would be held in grateful remembrance by his fellow citizens. No civil wreath was ever so glorious as the laurels won on the battlefield by the citizen.

Whereas, The President of the United States has issued his proclamation, announcing to the country that the laws of the United States are opposed, and their execution obstructed in seven states by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by ordinary methods and calling for the militia of the several states, to the number of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed, and appealing to all loyal citizens, to favor, facilitate and aid his efforts to maintain the honor, integrity and existence of our national Union and the perpetuity of popular government and redress the wrongs already endured. Now, therefore,

Resolved, That we, the people of Cass county, laying aside all party distinctions, and ever mindful of the duties of patriotism in the hour of our country's peril, do promptly and heartily respond to this. appeal, and applaud the purpose of the administration to protect the property and place belonging to the government.

Resolved, That Cass county will furnish its quota of all volunteers, now or hereafter to be called in aid of these lawful purposes of government.

are necessary to properly equip the volunteers, and put them in the field ; and that we will look after the families of such volunteers as are married or have families dependent upon them for support; and that this duty, gratifying as it is, may be shared in by all according to their means.

Resolved, That while we deprecate all sentiments in our midst, that oppose the present just and patriotic action of the government, and either favor the secession movement or consider the course of the administration as unwise, yet mindful of the constitutional guarantees for freedom of speech, we will abstain from all assaults upon the persons or property of those who differ from us in opinion.

S. A. Hall, editor of the Democratic Pharos, was then called for and addressed the meeting. He said he owed allegiance to the government under which he found his state. He was for the ** Stars and Stripes." A blow had been struck at that government and he would return blow for blow in its defense.

Short speeches were made by James W. Dunn, Chas. B. Lasselle, A. M. Flory, Chas. B. Knowlton, Stephen C. Taber and others, commending and endorsing the sentiments already expressed. Mr. Taber was especially characteristic. He said: ** Whatever I am and whatever you are or have, we owe to our (Jovemment; I care not for the .causes of the war, I am for my country. I acknowledge no fraternal relations to traitors."

Dr. James A. Taylor was **For the war and would do all in his power to aid the Government. The time was past for party differences. The South thinks there are men in the North who will aid them in their efforts to destroy this Government, but he wanted the people of the South to know that as one man we are against rebellion."

On motion, the chairman was authorized to request the auditor to call the county commissioners together for the purpose of considering the purport of the resolutions passed at this meeting. The auditor at once issued his call to the commissioners, asking them to meet in special session to transact business of great importance to the people of this county.

Accordingly, the board of county commissioners met on Tuesday, April 23, 1861, at 11 o'clock A. M. Present at this meeting were Crabtree Grace, Henry M. Kistler and Joseph Penrose, county commissioners; D. W. Tomlinson, auditor, and Job B. Eldridge, sheriff. The following order and resolutions were adopted by the board as suggested by the citizens' meeting on Saturday evening previous:

Now therefore. Resolved: That the board of county commissioners, sympathizing with the citizens of Cass county in the subject matter of said appeal and approving the suggestions of said resolutions, do hereby appropriate $5,000 from the moneys now collected or hereafter to be collected for county purposes, for the relief of the families of- such volunteers resident in Cass county as have enlisted or shall enlist in the service of their country at the present emergency, where such families are dependent for their support upon the personal labor of those enlisting and left in destitute circumstances.

Resolved, That all orders to be drawn by the auditor on the treasurer on account of said appropriation, shall be based on the certificates of the several township trustees, acting as overseers of the poor, which shall have appended to them the recommendation of either Thomas H. Wilson, Chauncey Carter or Daniel D. Pratt. And it is also ordered that no more of said appropriation shall be drawn from the treasury than shall be deemed by said Carter, Wilson or Pratt, really necessary for the support of said families of said volunteers.

On Friday evening, April 19, 1861, in advance of the citizens' meeting of Saturday and the action of the board of commissioners just referred to, the common c6uncil of the city of Logansport met in special session and appropriated $1,000 for the support of families of volunteers if needed. Thos. H. Wilson, Chauncey Carter and D. D. Pratt were appointed a committee to disburse it.

A meeting of citizens and soldiers was held on Spencer Square on Sunday afternoon, April 21st, at which patriotic addresses were made by Rev. M. M. Post, Rev. Silas Tucker and Rev. Mr. Layton. The meeting was very large and the exercises were characterized by great interest and enthusiasm and a determination to support and uphold the hands of President Lincoln in putting down the rebellion in the South.

As a further expression of public sentiment the stars and stripes were flung to the breeze on the top of the Wabash Railroad depot. Soon after receiving the news of the fall of Fort Sumter and on April 23 our nation's flag was seen floating from the spire of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic church.

There has been a great deal of controversy about who Xvas the first man to enlist at the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion in April, 1861. Fort Sumter was fired upon on April 14. President Lincoln issued a call for volunteers on the 15th and Governor Morton issued his proclamation on the 16th and Captain Chase the same day tendered his ** Zouave Guards." Others anticipating trouble, it is said Wm. M. De Hart of Logansport placed his name on the enlistment roll on April 13, 1861, three days before Governor Morton issued his call for volunteers, but as no authority had been given him to enlist or secure other enlistments his early enlistment was not officially recognized by the war department, although in reality Mr. De Hart was the first man in the United States to enroll his name as a United States volunteer in the War of the Rebellion and his Company D Ninth Indiana Infantry, with Captain Chase's Company K of the same regiment, were the first companies to be mustered into the army at the breaking out of the Civil war.

Whilst Major De Hart is said to have enlisted on the 13th of April, two days before the president issued his proclamation, yet this was not officially recognized by the military on account of the irregularity and C. F. Rand of New York state, who enlisted two days later, has been officially recognized as the first enlisted man after Lincoln's call for 75,000 men.

Major De Hart volunteered an hour after the news of the fall of Ft. Sumter reached Logansport. A few days later his company was mustered in and is entitled to the distinction of being the first to enlist in the great army of 2,778,304 men. Honors have, however, been showered on Mr. Rand as the first claimant. England, Russia, Germany, France, Persia, Mexico, Egypt, India, Norway and Japan have recognized his claim. The United States voted him a medal and a pension as the first enlisted man after the call, but the honor belongs to our fellow-townsman Major De Hart, who enrolled his name before the call was proclaimed and who was later engaged in forty battles and skirmishes and was wounded near Ft. Pillow in 1862.

diana Infantry three months' service, being the first in the service, we will here give a complete roster of the names composing these companies when they left Logansport, although there were some changes later.

The other companies enlisted by Captains Wm. L. Brown, N. G. Scott and Lewis Chamberlain were not then accepted as Cass county ^s quota was already filled under the president's first call for troops. At a later period, however, the war continuing and the term of service of those first enlisted expiring, regiments were formed and mustered for three years of which the companies previously enlisted formed a constituent part.

When Capt. Wm. L. Brown disbanded his company that had enlisted for three months, he soon, began to recruit for the three years' service in anticipation of an early call for troops to serve during that period. In a few days his company was full and accepted, notwithstanding many of the members of the company originally enlisted for the three months' service refused to re-enlist because of the long term of service. In the meantime President Lincoln had authorized Colonel Brown to raise a regiment to serve for three years, or during the war.

Some time during the second week in June, when it was becoming apparent that the war would be continued for a longer period than was in the beginning anticipated, other recruiting oflSces were opened in different parts of the city for the purpose of making further enlistments of volunteers for the extended service.

Col. N. G. Scott had his headquarters in the Wadei building on Broadway at what is now known as 417 Broadway. John Guthrie opened a recruiting office and began the enlistment of men. Capt. T. H. Logan, formerly of the ** Zouave Guards," also opened a recruiting office in the old Haney building at No. 415 Broadway. Men were being daily enrolled at all of these points, and great excitement prevailed among the people of the whole county. Business was apparently suspended, crowds collected in the recruiting offices to talk over the probable length of the war and its results and listen to the inspiring strains of martial music which echoed from each of the recruiting stations.

Captain Logan's company filled up rapidly and on Monday, July 1, 1861, left over the Wabash Railroad for Lafayette and went into camp, being the second company in point of tim^ to take up quarters there preparatory to the formation of Colonel Brown's regiment at that place. Colonel Wm. L. Brown's regiment of the Twentieth Lidiana was filled up by July 24th and went into camp at Camp Vajen, Indianapolis, and soon after received marching orders to go to the front in Virginia. The Indianapolis papers of that date speak very highly of the appearance of the men of the Twentieth Indiana and that a finer regiment has not yet been mustered into the service.

The Twentieth* Indiana was organized at Lafayette in July, 1861 ; mustered into service at Indianapolis July 22, 1861 ; August 2nd went to Maryland on guard duty ; September 24th sailed from Baltimore for Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina ; marched to Hatteras Bank, forty miles from fort; attacked there by enemy and lost a number of men, among -.whom was Isaac V. Yund, of this county, who was never afterwards heard from ; November 9th embarked for Fortress Monroe ; March, 1862, participated in the engagement between the Merrimac, Cumberland and Congress on March 8, 1862 ; on May 10th moved to Norfplk and engaged in the capture of that city ; then joined the Army of the Potomac on the peninsula assigned to Jameson's Brigade, Kearney's Division, Heintzleman's Corps and participated in many battles. At the battle of Orchards June 25th the regiment lost 144 men, killed, wounded and missing. August 29, 1862, at Manassas Plains, the brave Colonel Brown fell. Was engaged in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac ; Fredericksburg on December 11, 1862 ; Chancellorville, April 11, 1863 ; Spottsylvania. Cold Harbor, Strawberry Plain, Petersburg, and in 1864 and '65 around Petersburg and Richmond up to the time of its surrender. Soon after the regiment moved to Washington, thence to Louisville where it was mustered out on July 12, 1865, with 23 oflScers and 390 men present for duty. Returning to Indianapolis they were given a grand welcome and reception by Governor Morton on the state house grounds.

held at the court house on Wednesday evening, July 24, 1861, to make arrangements for receiving the companies then on ftieir way home. Col. C. C. Loomis was chairman of the meeting and appointed a committee on arrangements consisting of F. Keyes, Lewis Chamberlain, A. M. Higgins, A. M. Flory, S. L. McFaddin, A. L. Williams and John C. Merriam. At two o'clock on the afternoon of July 30th the committee received a telegram announcing that the returning soldiers would arrive at two o'clock the next morning. Upon receiving this intelligence everything was in a bustle of preparation to have a suitable breakfast in readiness at the court house. The response from our citizens was what might have been expected from their well known reputation. Provisions that would tempt an epicure-rhams, chickens, pigs, bread and butter, cakes, pies, etc. - were sent until there was a superabundance of all kinds of edibles to sustain and invigorate the inner man. A committee of men and women was selected to arrange the court room and superintend the breakfast. The work was not left exclusively to the committee, but the townspeople poured out enmasse and assisted in the pleasant work of welcoming and entertaining the return of those who had voluntered in the defense of our flag and our country.

The citizens were aroused at one o'clock on the morning of the 31st by the firing of cannon and the ringing of bells and soon gathered at the Fourth street depot. As the train approached the volunteers were welcomed by rousing cheers, the firing of cannon, strains of music, the glad welcome and hearty shake of the hand. Under the direction of Maj. S. L. McFaddin as marshal, assisted by John C. Merriam, John S. Thompson and Lewis Chamberlain, the mass of the people, headed by the Logan Brass Band, proceeded to the court house where a cordial welcome was extended to the returned volunteers by Hon. Richard P. De Hart as follows:

**Gallaixt Soldiers of the Bloody Ninth: It is with mingled feelings of pride and gratitude that we welcome you home from the field of battle. We may be justly proud of you, for by your gallant conduct at Phillipi, Laurel Hill, Carracks Ford and Rich Mountain, you have won stars that will glitter and bum in the crown 'of young Indiana when the names of Jeff Davis, Wise and Beauregard shall be remembered but as a badge of sectional folly and crime. I need not say to you that you have won your glory in defense of the best government that man ever devised or God ever smiled upon. That sublime truth has cheered you in the long, weary march, as you stood sentinel in the midr night hour, and nerved your arms in the hour of battle.

'*A government which was laid broad and deep by the patriots who sat down together by the camp fires of the Revolution and who, for the sincerity of their convictions and the intensity of their devotion, appealed to the great God of battles, and who never gave up until that government - theirs and ours - was made permanent in the organized form of our time-honored constitution, which extends its protection over all, and which we are bound to obey. The truths which underlie this glorious fabric were proclaimed in the name of the ascendent people of that time, and as they made the circuit of the entire globe, the nations woke from their lethargy like those who have been exiles from childhood, when they hear, for the first time, the dimly remembered accents of their mother tongue. I will not detain you. In the name of the people here assembled, in the name of the patriotic women who have prepared this bounteous feast for you, I bid you welcome to our midst"

The soldiers then entered the court room, which was tastily decorated with national flags. Everything was arranged in excellent order, with tables groaning beneath the load of substantials which our citiz- ens had, with their accustomed liberality, supplied for the refreshment of the gallant volunteers. At three o'clock, after prayer by Reverend Layton, the feast of good things commenced, and ample justice was done to it by the volunteers.

After breakfast, A. M. Flory, Esq., in behalf of Company D, presented Capt. Thos. S. Dunn with a handsome sword as a testimonial of their regard for him.

The assemblage to welcome the volunteers was large, but it would have been increased four-fold if time had permitted a general notice in the country of the time of their arrival. The volunteers, with few exceptions, were in excellent health and the bronzed countenances showed the extent of their exposure to southern sun and storm. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the same day, Captain Chase and his company of Zouaves arrived at the depot from the seat of war in West Virginia. Upon their arrival they were escorted to the court house by the reception committee, where another bounteous repast had been prepared in anticipation of their coming. The reception ceremonies were essentially the same as those of the early morning and the dinner was served amid general rejoicing at their safe return and kindly greetings were extended to them on all sides. In the eyes of the masses the Zouaves took front rank in their soldierly bearing and exact training. It was a subject of congratulation that not a volunteer from this place was killed or wounded.

On September 1, 1861, Capt. Ira R. Giflford opened a recruiting station in Tipton's engine house, which then stood on the west side of Fourth street just south of Court street and soon had ninety-seven men enrolled, but some of them did not remain with the company when it was mustered into the service.

On September 3rd Captain Gifford was notified by Colonel Brackett that his cavalry company would be accepted in the make-up of the Ninth Illinois Cavalry Regiment and about the middle of September left for Chicago, the regimental headquarters, and were mustered into the service as Company E of that regiment.

Recruiting continued steadily at the quarters of Capt. T. S. Dunn, who used every exertion to fill up his company as fast as possible. These recruits were for service in the Twelfth fjnited States Infantry. From the commencement to the end of the second week in September he had forwarded to Fort Hamilton the following recruits : John S. Long, James A. Johnson, Joseph Helvie, Noah Helvie, L. E. Helvie, A. J. Helms, Wm. Ferrell, Wm. Turner, Geo. Turner, Ed. Neflf, William Harrison, Jacob Brubaker, David Van Blaricum, Christ. Mathias, Francis McCain, H. J. Kline, George H. Bell and George J. Schneider. Twentyadditional men left for the same post on October 14th, making thirtyeight in all.

** Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 20, 1861. '*To Hon. Richard P. De Hart, *' Logansport, Ind. **Hon. Graham N. Fitch, N. G. Scott and T. H. Bringhurst are authorized to raise a regiment to rendezvous at Logansport. Build your barracks, hurry up the organization of companies and put them into camp.

The Logansport Journal, under date of September 25th, made the following announcement indicating the state of progress in. the enlistment of men :

**A. M. Flory and E. R. Stevens are adding rapidly to the muster roll of their company and it will be full in a few days. The company will be made up of the best material of the county. The recruiting room is at the Tipton engine house on Fourth street.

**John Guthrie, S. M. Bliss and Wilson Williamson are getting recruits who will do honor to the county wherever they may be. Their recruiting room is at Mr. Guthrie's law oflSce on Broadway.

**Like Vigus and Geo: J. Groves have opened a recruiting room and hung out the national colors from the brick block on Broadway and are enlisting a company for Fitch's regiment.

*'John Kearney, Wm. Fitzgerald and Wm. Cahill are engaged in raising a company of Irishmen for Colonel Fitch's regiment. It is composed of men who will do their duty wherever they are called to go. The recruiting will be at Matthew Wilson's store" (at that day a small one-story frame building that stood on the south side of Market street, west of the alley between Third and Fourth streets).

Matthew Wilson was a versatile Irishman, unique character and vowed that the Irish company with their **shelalas" could pound the '*stuffins out of every rebel in the land."

When it was announced that a regiment was to be raised and go into camp at Logansport the citizens were greatly excited and their enthusiasm was at its height. The subject was the chief topic of conversation in the stores and on the streets. Where would the camp be located? Various suggestions were made but it was finally decided to select a wooded grove on the eastern part of lot No. 1 of Barron's reserve, extending from the east end of Bates street near the Franklin school building north and west. At once lumber and other necessary materials were taken to the grounds and a force of men, as many as could work to advantage, began the work of erecting barracks, which were hastily constructed of rough lumber. The quarters were com- pleted and ready for occupancy on the 30th day of September and the cainp was form^y dedicated as '*Camp Logan'' and the first occupants were Captain Guthrie and his company. On October 7th Capt. A. M. Flory's company of Cass county boys went into camp and a part of a company from this county under N. B. Booth on October 20th. In the meantime companies from surrounding counties entered the camp and the Fort-sixth Regiment had its full quota of men. The camp was fully organized by October 7th when John H. Gould was appointed to command the barracks and issued the first regimental orders on that day. On September 30, 1861, commissions were issued by Governor Morton to the field oflScers, as follows: Graham N. Fitch, colonel; Newton G. Scott, lieutenant-colonel; Thos. H. Bringhurst, major ;^ Richard P. De Hart, adjutant, and on September 24th to David D. Dykeman, quartermaster; on December 11th to Robert Irvin, chaplain; on October 7th to Horace Coleman, surgeon, and to William S. Raymond, assistant surgeon.

To show the moral character of the occupants of '*Camp Logan,'' we will say that a Sunday school was organized on Sunday, October 6th, opened and conducted by and under the management of the soldiers themselves. A joint committee was appointed by the Sunday schools of the city for the purpose of raising money to purchase Bibles for the soldiers of the Forty-sixth in "Camp Logan." The movement was successful and the Bibles were presented. The Sunday school was continued without interruption as long as the regiment remained in camp here and in addition, religious services were held in the camp every Sunday, conducted by our local ministers. Rev. Silas Tucker of the Baptist church delivered the first sermon in **Camp Logan" on October 13th, at two P. M.

A meeting of citizens was held at the court house on December 10th ai which a committee was appointed consisting of S. A. Hall, C. B. Lasselle, S. L. McFaddin, N. D. Grover and Isaac Bartlett to procure a flag and make necessary arrangements to present the same to the Fortysixth Regiment before its departure for the seat of war.

The flag, which was purchased in Cincinnati, was delayed in delivery and was not presented to the regiment until they were at the depot ready to take their departure. The fla^, of handsome silk, with Fortysixth Indiana Volunteers marked with silver cloth on the center stripe, was presented to the regiment at the depot by Chas. B. Lasselle in an appropriate speech in part as follows:

** Colonel Fitch and soldiers of the Firty-sixth Regiment: Your fellow citizens of Cass county, as the highest testimonial they can give of the esteem which they can bear to you, and as a token of the anticipation they entertain of your future good conduct in the field to which you are called, have procured and now present to you this national emblem of our Union. We present you this flag with full confidence that its glories will not be tarnished nor our confidence disappointed while it remains in your hands. Should it be your fortune, as it probably soon will be, to meet the enemies of our country upon the field of battle, we hope, yea, we know, that the fame of Indiana, as yet unsullied, will be fully sustained by the gallantry of the Forty-sixth. Our prayer is that you may soon return with a reunited country, success and honor, but we enjoin you to return it with honor, or return it not at all."

county for the flag which you have done us the honor to present to us. We accept it with gratitude; and we will treasure it as* a memento of their kindness at all times and wherever it may be our fortune to be placed. As to the high anticipations you may have formed of our future good conduct in the field, I will only say that our acts shall speak for themselves, but I trust they shall not prove false to your hopes ; and when we return, if we return at all, I promise you that we will do so with this flag above us, or we shall return with it around us. I accept it in the name of the regiment and now place it in the keeping of the color guard, who will bear it aloft before us, reminding us of the kind hearts left behind us and guiding us upon the path of duty and honor/'

During the fall of 1861, Camp Logan presented an animated appearance. The soldiers were constantly drilling and going through the various military movements that was entirely new to our citizens; and people from the whole county and surrounding counties made pilgrimage to Camp Logan to see how real soldiers maneuvered in camp life; something that had never before been witnessed within the confines of Cass county. The writer well remembers going out to Camp Logan, which was then an open grove of native trees, with scarcely a house at that time built between the Third street bridge and the camp, where the Franklin school building now stands. It was with wonder and admiration that we walked around the barracks and tents and then witnessed a regimental parade. It made a lasting impression upon our youthful minds as it did upon others. We thought that the Fortysixth Regiment was great, grand and powerful enough to put down the rebellion itself and we went home satisfied that the war would be over as soon as this formidable looking military outfit reached the scenes of strife in the rebellious states.

Camp Logan was a notable place during the greatest war of modem times and it is fitting that the place should be marked for all time, and the Forty-sixth Regiment that was encamped there over fifty years ago did a conunendable thing when, at their reunion held in Rochester in 1905, appointed a conunittee consisting of Frank Swigart, W. H. Duncan and Geo. W. Clinger, to purchase a suitable monument to mark the location of this famous camping ground. This committee secured a granite monument, which bears the inscription: ** Fortysixth Indiana Volunteers Infantry, Organized and Encamped here from October to December, 1861." The stone stands about three feet above ground and is placed at the southwest corner of Bates and Plum streets in the corner of the Franklin school grounds. It marks the southeast corner of **Camp Logan.'* The camp extended from this point west about two thousand feet and north to the present Vandalia railroad tracks.

Thursday, December 12, 1861, the day appointed for the Forty-sixth Regiment to march for the seat of war in Kentucky, was a most delightful and pleasant day. Not a cloud obscured the sky and the clear, bracing air was invigorating to all. The news of the departure of the gaUant volunteers had been widely circulated and thousands of people from town and country had gathered to see so magnificent a spectacle as one thousand men armed and equipped for army service, march oflE to do battle for the cause of our grand old Union. While some were attracted by the military display, yet there were many earnest, devoted and sympathetic fathers, mothers and relatives of the departing soldiers that came to give them a last parting word of good cheer, and a God's speed, in the difficult and dangerous task before them, and to wish them success and a safe return.

Drawn up on the fine parade grounds in front of Camp Logan, some tim^ was occupied in preparing for the march. The scene was of deep interest to the large numbers of spectators gathered to witness their departure and extend their greetings. The troops presented a grand view in their new uniforms, accouterments and arms and their soldierly bearing and ready obedience to orders, indicated their rapid and satisfactory progress in the manual of arms. The oath was administered to the soldiers by companies and at the conclusion all the commissioned officers advanced to the front and center, where the oath was administered by Lieut. Edgar Phelps of the regular army and the commisisons of the company officers deUvered to them. The march of the regiment was through a vast concourse of people, which increased as they approached the Wabash depot. About 12 o'clock they boarded the train and moved off for Lafayette amid the cheers of the citizens and followed by the earnest prayers for their protection from the dangers of the battlefield and a safe return to their homes and friends.

The Forty-sixth went by way of Lafayette to Indianapolis, where it remained until December 14th, when it went to Madison and down the Ohio to Camp Wickliff, Kentucky, where it remained until February 16, 1862, thence to the mouth of Salt river and to Paducah and from that time on was in active service.

On the morning of November 28, 1861, the monotony of camp life was diversified by the marriage of William Cornell of Company D, to Miss Annett Smith, by the regimental chaplain, Robert Irvin. The ceremony was performed on a raised platform in the presence of the assembled regiment. Mr. Cornell soon left his young bride for active service in the South, but his faithful wife proved true and after the close of the war he returned to Logansport and the couple are still honored residents of our city.

Brief statement of the active operations of the Forty-sixth. Mustered into service at Logansport, December 12, 1861, and at once left for Camp Wickliff, Kentucky, thence down the Mississippi, engaging in attacks on New Madrid, Island No. 10. J^pril 13, 1862, under General Pope at Fort Pillow. June 6, at Memphis, then up White river. On 17th charged rebel works at St. Charles ; at Helena, Arkansas, assigned to General Hovey's division; November 16, at Arkansas Post; November 26, at Tallahatchie, Mississippi; February, 1863, cleared the Yazoo river of obstructions and engaged at Fort Pemberton; April 12, in the rear of Vicksburg under General Grant ; engaged at Port Gibson, Champion Hills, suffering severely, loosing one-fourth of its number; at Vicksburg was in the trenches 44 days. July 5, 1863, moved to Jackson, Mississippi; back to Vicksburg and down to Natchez, and New Orleans, where, on March 4, 1864, reenlisted as veterans; went on Red River expedition, to Sabine Cross Roads ; engaged at Mansfield on April 8, 1864, where seventy men were captured and were tortured for eight months in prison at Camp Ford and Camp Grace, Texas; May 22, moved to New Orleans and on June 12 left on veteran furlough for Indiana. On expiration of furlough was sent to Kentucky on garrison duty. Mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky, September 5, 1865.

Under a call of Governor Morton a volunteer company for ninety days' service was organized here on May 29, 1862, in the Tipton Engine House, with Carter L. Vigus as captain, John T. Powell, first lieutenant and Frank W. West, second lieutenant. This company was enlisted for service in guarding the Confederate prisoners confined at Indianapolis, that the troops performing that duty might be sent to the front. This company left for Indianapolis on the Chicago & Cincinnati Railroad at 12 o'clock, Saturday, May 31, and was mustered into service June 6, 1862.

James W. Dunn organized this company July 18, 1862, and served as its captain with Amos W. Mobley first lieutenant and John G. Meek, second lieutenant and the following non-commissioned oflScers and men:

The companies of the Fifty-fifth Regiment were mustered into service at different times during the summer of 1862 and were assigned to the duty of guarding the Confederate prisoners captured at Fort Donelson and stationed at Camp Morton, Inidanapolis, where they remained until August, 1862, and then proceeded to Kentucky to resist the invasion of Kirby Smith, and remained on duty there until the expiration of their time, when they returned to Indianapolis and were mustered out.

Dan H. Bennett of the Ninth Indiana, under date of April 9, 1862, gives a brief statement of the part Cass county men had taken in the battle of. Pittsburg Landing :

**I have just returned from the field of the hardest fought battle known to our history. Were I to attempt a description I would fall short of doing justice to the subject. The number of dead and wounded on both sides was terrible. The fight raged with indomitable fury over seven miles square, as that was the length of our color lines and the enemy were driven by inches, as it were for that distance. It is truly appalling and heart-rending to pass over the field and witness the scenes connected with it. Dead and wounded strewn in every direction, and those in the last throes of death appealing for aid and no one to render them any assistance, and in consequence they were compelled to surrender up their existence without the aid of a physician or even of a comrade. Cass county boys were in the heart of the fight all day on Monday, yet they escaped remarkably.

"Captain Lasselles Company K of the Ninth; killed, Cathcart (initials not known) ; badly wounded, Lieut. Joseph S. Turner, M. P. Heame, S. Hanna, S. Kendall, G. W. Langston, Wm. L. McConnell, George Campbell, Newton Victor and J. Rhouamus. Twenty-ninth Indiana, Company E. - Badly wounded, S. Bishop, Joseph Chestnut, Tyre Douglas, J. M. Bennett, D. Callahan, Benson Engart, Henry Pownell, J. W. Green, M. Mitchell and George Myers. The entire loss of the Ninth Indiana as I learned from Captain Cole, acting adjutant, is 25 killed and 150 wounded, 10 missing. They lost their adjutant, one captain killed and several officers wounded, among whom was Captain Copp, the fighting preacher from Michigan City/'

The Ninth and Twenty-ninth Regiments containing the Cass county boys performed their duty nobly at Pittsburg Landing. The Twentyninth was comaninded by Lieut. Col. David M. Dunn of Logansport. During the battle Captain Lasselle acted as major of the Ninth and the command of Company K devolved upon Lieutenant Turner, who was shot through the kidneys and died at Mound City, Illinois, on April 16th following. His remains were brought to Logansport on Saturday morning, April 19, by Patrick Johnson of this city, a boy aged fourteen years, who was with Lieutenant Turner at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, attended him during his illness and was with him when he died in the hospital, the boy doing nobly all he could to make him comfortable in his dying hours.

The body was taken to the residence of W. T. S. Manly until Sunday, when the funeral was held, conducted by the Rev. Silas Tucker and Rev. W. J. Vigus at the Broadway Methodist church. The corpse was buried with military honors. Captain Chase, under whom Lieutenant Turner served in the three months' service, commanded the military escort and the bier was followed by many of the returned volunteers \yho knew him in the early Virginia campaigns.

* * It was the most numerous attended of any funeral ever witnessed in this city, showing how properly our people appreciate the services of those who lay down their lives in defense of our Union and Constitution. As the farewell salute was fired over the grave of this departed hero, many a tear was dropped to the memory of one who was respected by all who knew him, and whose bravery at Pittsburg Landing won the admiration of his associates in arms.

* ' During the engagement at Pittsburg Landing, Lieut. Palmer Dunn was struck on his sword belt by a bullet, but glanced and did no injurv to him.*'

Capt. Wm. P. Lasselle of Company K, Ninth Indiana, under date of November 19, 1861, writes an interesting letter describing incidents of the campaign in Virginia, from which we quote some extracts: ** Company K has been engaged in as many scouts and skirmishes as any company in our brigade. In fact some of the men have been continually annoying the enemies pickets, firing on them and receiving their fire in return. They have troubled me so much asking to go out scouting that I have been compelled to ask the general to let me send out men whenever I wished to. My men have certainly been more successful in their expeditions than others. In the second attack after * Green Brier' on the enemies pickets, in which 250 were engaged, of which number only ten were from Company K and of the five of the enemy two were shot by our boys.

** About a week ago nine of my company started out under the lead of Dyer B. McConnell, to pass behind the enemies pickets and camp and try to ascertain their number and position. It was an expedition of much danger, as it was necessary to start and travel thirteen miles before daylight, cross the Green Brier bridge in the dark to escape observation of the enemy who were stationed to watch the bridge ; passing within a few feet of them, screened only by the darkness, and would then have to go two or three miles, almost within hearing of their pickets and.within their picket line, most of the time not over two hundred yards from large parties of the enemy, and in case of discovery they were certain to be cut oflf. The party consisting of McCbnnell, Lewis, Johnson, Roberts, Qrowall, Burton, Byrum, Hearne, Swinney and Widener, started at 3 o'clock in the morning, in high spirits, thinking themselves fortunate to be permitted to undertake the expedition. They were delayed in reaching the bridge xmtil the day was breaking - too late to attempt a crossing. As it would be useless to go ahead now, they determined to secrete themselves and watch. They had just got into position when five of the enemy stepped from the bushes on the other side of the bridge not over one hundred yards distant and turned to go into camp. Johnson and Roberts had gone ahead of the party and were jumping into the road at their end of the bridge as the enemy stepped out. One of them looked up, and seeing our boys, brought his gun to a * ready' and made a movement as to step back into the brush, but before he could do so, Johnson had him 'covered' when his cap snapped. Roberts inunediately fired, the secessionist dropped his gun and fell into the bushes. The rest, hearing the firing, began to run, when Burton shot one, who fell in the road. Growall shot another. This one, when shot, threw his gun from him and fell on his face in the road. After laying still a little while he raised himself up on his hands and knees, then with great difl&culty staggered to his feet and steadying himself for a moment, pitched forward into the brush and did not appear again until out of range of our rifles. The last of the five kept the road and had got over a quarter of a mile when McConnell fired at him. All supposed he was missed, as so long a time elapsed before the ball reached him, but with a shriek he threw his gun from him and fell flat on his face. About this time one of their pickets at the bam stepped out and attempted to cross the road, when he was fired on by Widener, who wounded him and caused him to return to the barn, which he reached with difficulty. After this none of the rebels would come out to pick up their men who lay in the road, nor would they show themselves except at a distance where forty or fifty were collected, bantering our boys, but not daring to attack them nor come within rifle range."

Cass county furnished volunteers for many different regiments and it is practically impossible to obtain a complete list of their names as the adjutant general's reports do riot show the residence of all the soldiers and in some instances men were not accredited to their home county. Upon inquiry of the war department at Washington we find they have no records of the men enlisted from any given county. We have, therefore, to rely upon the adjutant general's reports, suppiiemented by personal knowledge and inquiry of local men and will endeavor to give as complete a list of the volunteers from Cass county as it is possible to obtain and no doubt some omissions will be found and other errors. We will take up the regiments serially and give a roster of the men in each, enlisted from Cass county.

In the Mexican war Indiana furnished five regiments numbered 1 to 5. To prevent confusion at the breaking out of the Civil war, the regimental number was therefore begun with six instead of one so that the first regiment organized in 1861 was the Sixth. We will give a list of the commissioned officers first, followed by non-commissioned officers and enlisted men;

Tipton, John, general in Indian war and War of 1812; Wilson, Walter, general in Indian war and War of 1812 ; Crooks, Richard, general in Indian war and War of 1812; Lasselle, Hyacinth, general in Indian war and War of 1812; Bell, Daniel, major in Indian war and War of 1812 ; Durett, John B., colonel in Indian war and War of 1812 ; Spencer, Spier, captain in Indian war and War of 1812 ; Vigus, Cyrus, captain in Indian war and War of 1812 ; Barron, Joseph, Sr., interpreter in Indian war and War of 1812.

Dunn, Wm. McKee, A. J. A., general; Chase, Dudley H., captain. Seventeenth Infantry; Dunn, Thomas S., captain. Twelfth Infantry; Wright, I. B., lieutenant. Eleventh Infantry.

E, Twenty-ninth Indiana; Martin, Alfred, first lieutenant. Company E, Twenty-ninth Indiana; Bishop, Jeflferson, first lieutenant. Company E, Twenty-ninth Indiana; Sargent, Austin, first lieutenant, Compkny E, Twenty-ninth Indiana; Behm, James 0., first lieutenant. Company E, Twenty-ninth Indiana ; Shafer, John, second lieutenant. Company E, Twenty-ninth Indiana ; Humes, John, captain, Company G, Twenty-ninth Indiana; Qerlach, John, second lieutenant, Company A, Thirtysecond Indiana; Peters, Abraham, major. Thirty-fifth Indiana; Fitch, G. N., colonel, Forty-sixth Indiana; Bringhurst, T. H., colonel, Fortysixth Indiana; Scott, Newton G., lieutenant colonel, Forty-sixth Indiana; Flory, Aaron M., lieutenant colonel. Forty -sixth Indiana; De Hart, seventh) Indiana; Browne, Dr. John T., surgeon, Twelfth Cavalry (One Hundred and Twenty-seventh) Indiana; Wilkinson, Benj. 0., captain, Company P, Twelfth Cavalry (One Hundred and Twenty-seventh) Indiana; Wilkinson, William, captain, Company P, Twelfth Cavalry (One Hundred and Twenty-seventh) Indiana; Marshall, Wm. C, first lieutenant, Company F, Twelfth Cavalry (One Hundred and Twenty- Seventh) Indiana; Smith, John B., first lieutenant, Company P, Twelfth Cavalry (One Hundred and Twenty-seventh) Indiana; Donohoe, James T., second lieutenant, Company F, Twelfth Cavalry (One Hundred and Twenty-seventh) Indiana; De Hart, Richard P., colonel. One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Healey, Joshua, major. One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana ; Paul, Nathaniel S., adjutant. One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Hoffman, Max P. A., surgeon, One Htindred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Ewing, Alex K., captain, Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Barnett, John C, captain, Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; West, Frank E., first lieutenant, Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Tilton, Samuel, second lieutenant, Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Mills, Wm. C, captain, Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Vigus, James H., second lieutenant, Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Keith, Benj. H., captain. Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Powell, John T., captain, Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Harper, Wm. A., first lieutenant, Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Henton, Prank M., captain. Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana; Smith, Geo. W., first lieutenant. Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana ; Crockett, Wm. H., second lieutenant, Company K, One Hundred and Twentyeighth Indiana; Bennett, Daniel H., quartermaster. One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Indiana; Dunn, James W., captain. Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Indiana; Thomas, James, first lieutenant, Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth and Company B, One Hundred and Forty-second Indiana; Carey, Robt. H., first lieutenant, Compaiiy K, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth and Company B,* One Hundred and Forty-second Indiana ; Hilton, John C, second lieutenant, Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Indiana; Clary, Robt. W., second lieutenant. Company B, One Hundred and Forty-second Indiana; Winters, John B., first lieutenant. Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana; Davidson, A. B., captain, Company P, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana; McElheny, Robt. H., first lieutenant, Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana; Comley, R. W., commissary of subsistence, 1861 ; Stalnaker, Wm. H., second lieutenant, Company P, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana ; Scantling, John C, major, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Indiana; Comwell, Jesse L., captain, Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Indiana ; McKee, Joseph P., first lieutenant, Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Indiana ; Penrose, John 6., second lieutenant, Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Indiana; Patton, John S., first lieutenant, Sixteenth Battery, Indiana; Chidister, James C, second lieutenant, Sixteenth Battery, Indiana; Dunn, Williamson, engineer, Regular Navy.

At the breaking of the Civil war in the spring of 1861, there was great excitement throughout the whole North and Cass county was no exception. After the lapse of a few months it was discovered that the rebellion could not be put down without a great exepnditure of time, money and effort on the part of the adherents of the Union cause, and the entire North became a military camp and Cass county was not slow to take up the work of military orgaigization for home defence and if need be to go to the front in defence of our state and nation, and military companies composed of all classes of citizens, - farmers, mechanics, business and professional men, were organizing and drilling in many of the towns and townships of Cass county under the designation of ** Indiana Legion'' and the officers were commissioned by the governor and are given below with the names of the companies organized as follows :

M. M. Boggs, captain, commissioned June 28, 1861 ; resigned October 3rd; Benj. V. Yantis, captain, October 3, 1861; Wm. C. Bennett, first lieutenant, June 28, 1861; Joseph Conn, second lieutenant, June 28, 1861.

W. Howard Ijams, captain, commissioned July 2, 1861; Daniel A. Rudolph, first lieutenant, commissioned July 2, 1861 ; Asher C. Bennett, second lieutenant, commissioned July 2, 1861.

Geo. C. Horn, captain, commissioned July 2, 1861 ; Wm. P. Thomas, first lieutenant, commissioned July 2, 1861; Lindal Smith, second lieutenant, commissioned July 2, 1861.

Dyer B. McConnell, captain, commissioned July 18, 1861; William Beder, first lieutenant, commissioned July 18, 1861 ; John A. Thornton, second lieutenant, commissioned July 18, 1861.

John T. Powell, captain, commissioned July 22, 1861; James H. Vigus, first lieutenant, commissioned July 22, 1861; Morris L. Sellers, second lieutenant, commissioned July 22, 1861.

These companies met for drill and military maneuvers during the summer and fall of 1861, but were never called into active service, but many members of the Indiana Legion enlisted in the United States service.

Non-Commissioned Officers And Privates

The following is a list of privates and non-commissioned oflScers who enlisted from Cass county and served during the ** Civil war." We will give them by companies and regiments, but will not reproduce the names in the companies which were given in former pages when the companies were organized. The majority of Cass county's soldiers served in the Ninth, Twentieth, Twenty-ninth, Forty-sixth, Fifty-fifth, Seventy-third, Eighty-seventh, Ninety-ninth, One Hundred and Sixteenth, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth, One Hundred and Fifty-first and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth regiments, but there were other regiments in which some of Cass county's boys served with honor and distinction and we will endeavor to enroll them all, not already listed, with a brief sketch of their military operations by regiments. As stated on a former page, the Indiana regiments in the War of the

The Sixth- Regiment was the first organized and mustered into the service at Indianapolis on -April 25, 1861, but no Cass county men were in that regiment. The Ninth Regiment contained the first enlistments from this county, a list of whom has been previously given.

Cass county furnished one whole company (E) to the formation of this regiment which rendezvoused at Laporte, where they were mustered into the service August 27, 1861, for three years, with the following list of Cass county men:

Milton M. Boggs, captain, resigned March 27, 1862; David Jamison, captain, March 28, 1862; Palmer N. Dunn, captain, January 14, 1863, killed at Chickamauga ; Wm. H. McDonald, captain, September 20, 1863, resigned; Nelson B. Bennett, captain, May 19, 1864.

In reporting the officers of Company E we listed each name but once, in the highest office held by each, although many men held minor positions and were promoted.

On October 9, 1861, the Twenty-ninth Regiment left Laporte and joined General Rosecrans' command at Camp Nevin, Kentucky; on to MunfordsviUe, Bowling Green and 'Nashville, and participated in the battle of Shiloh April 7, 1862, and lost severely. Engaged in siege of Corinth and with Buell's army in pursuit of Bragg. Lost heavily in the battle of Stone River December 31, 1862. Participated in skirmishes at Lavergne, Tribune and Liberty Gap. Sustained heavy loss in the battle of Chickamauga. Stationed at Bridgeport, Alabama, where it reenlisted as a veteran organization on January 1, 1864, and went home on a furlough, after which it went to Chattanooga, Decatur, Alabama; Dalton, Georgia; Marietta, Georgia, where it was at close of war. Col. David M. Miller was promoted and David M. Dunn became colonel January 5, 1864.

On Wednesday afternoon, January 13, 1864, word was re.ceived that Col. David M. Dunn of the Twenty-ninth with the Cass) county boys who had re-enlisted were coming home on a veteran furlough and would reach here on the five o'clock Cincinnati train. Arrangements were at once made to give them a royal welcome. Accordingly, on the approach of the train the soldiers were greeted with cheers from an immense crowd and the strains of **Wachter's Band." A procession was formed, the band leading, the soldiers next, followed by the throng of citizens and proceeded to the Bamett House (corner Third and Market) where Major McPaddin, in a brief speech, extended a cordial welcome, in behalf of the city, to the gallant men who had displayed their heroism upon so many battlefields. At the request of Thos. H. Wilson, Major McFaddin announced to the soldiers that a bountiful supper had been prepared for them and that lodging and breakfast would be furnished them free of expense by the patriotic citizens of Logansport. After which Dr. J. M. Justice made a short talk, when Colonel Dunn was called for and thanked the citizens who honored his brave and tried soldiers with so cordial and enthusiastic a welcome. Three cheers were given for Colonel Dunn and his veterans, when the soldiers proceeded to the dining room of the Barnett House where a bountiful supper had been provided and partook of a sumptuous meal. Every one felt it not only a duty, but a pleasure, to honor the brave soldiers, who so nobly sustained the reputation of Cass county on many a hard fought battlefield.

On the evening of February 10, 1864, a complimentary supper was given to the soldiers of Company K Ninth Regiment, who were about to return to the front after the expiration of their veteran furlough. The supper was an elaborate expression of our people of their confidence in the brave boys, who having previously imperiled their lives in our country's cause were again about to leave us to complete the work already so faithfully prosecuted. At this meeting, before their return. Company K of the Ninth Indiana made arrangements for the erection of a fine monument as a fitting tribute to the memory of Lieut. Joseph S. Turner of this company, who died of wounds received in the battle of Shiloh. The company selected a beautiful lot near the center of Mt. Hope cemetery and cleared oflE the same and arranged to have the foundation laid and the monument erected, which was later completed and stands today to mark the last resting place of this brave officer.

The Thirty-fourth Indiana was organized at Anderson on September 16, 1861, with Asbury Steele as colonel and October 10th left for Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky, and served with the Forty-sixth Indiana

This was Colonel Straight's regiment that did such daring raids in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, but was captured near Gaylesville, Alabama, May 3, 1862, and were confined in Libby prison and from which Colonel Straight escaped through a tunnel.

Company G: McConnell, Wm. L., captain; Westlake, Joseph A., captain; Vanness, Garrett A., first lieutenant; Connolly, Robt. J., second lieutenant; Pratt, Seth B., second lieutenant.