Elkhart County, Indiana - Chapter 10: Elkhart County in War, 1916

Old Goshen Guards Side-Step Mexican War - Individual Mexican Soldiers - Patriotic Response to the Calls of THE '60s - The Revived Goshen Guards - General Mild S. Hascall - The Ninth Indiana Regiment - The , Seventeenth - Company G, Nineteenth Infantry - The First to Enter New Orleans - ^Company B, of the Twentyninth - Company K, Thirtieth Indiana Volunteers - The Second Cavalry - Company I, Forty-fourth Regiment - The Forty-eighth, Largely an Elkhart County Regiment - The Seventy-fourth Regiment - Captain Orville T. Chamberlain - Company I, of the Eighty-eighth - The One Hundredth Regiment - Other Elkhart County Commands - Response to the Drafts - Showing of the County - Relief Work Unrecorded in Statistics - Indiana Troops First Enlisted for Spanish-American War - The One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry - Company C, of Goshen - Company E, of Elkhart - National Guardsmen of Elkhart County.

The military ardor of Elkhart County pioneers was not steady enough, at the outbreak of the Mexican war, to send the Goshen Guards, then the only organized company of any standing, to the southern fields of battle. The guards had been organized for several years; in fact, Col. John Jackson, the old soldier of 1812 and the early '30s, had founded the guards in 1831 to ease the minds of the people of the county as regards Indian depredations. Their discipline increased with the years, many of the foremost merchants and professional men joined the company and, though its members were armed with old flint muskets, they were gorgeously uniformed

In May, 1846, Governor W'hitcomb, after a call from President Polk for volunteers, called upon the guards to enlist in the service, but the company vote was against a favorable response. At the time Ebenezer M. Chamberlain was captain ; Dr. E. W. H. Ellis, first lieutenant, and Dr. ]\I. M. Latta, second lieutenant. Which indicates that the professions had the upper hand in military matters. In 1848 the guards disbanded, without having reconsidered their expressed determination not to participate, as a body, in the war. A few months previously William TufTts, one of the last of the old Revolutionary soldiers resident in the county, died at Middlebury. It is said that he assisted in throwing over the British tea from the ships in Boston harbor and served through most of the Revolutionary period.

The entire state furnished but five regiments for the Mexican war and not more than half a dozen men went from Elkhart County. It soon became evident that the national authorities had enough American troops at the front to accomplish the contemplated work ; otherwise more would probably have gone from that region.

Stray items from the Goshen Democrat, published during August, 1847: "Jonas Myers, son of Joseph Myers, of this town, a volunteer in one of the Illinois regiments, has just returned from Mexico to this place, where he formerly resided, and was welcomed by a few rounds from Aunt Olive (the town artillery). A number of our citizens assembled at the court house and listened to an interesting account of his adventures and an entertaining description of the country. Young Myers was wounded at Cerro Gordo by a grapeshot, but not severely."

A few days later: "Air. George Cart, a noble-souled old Democrat of Union township, called on us the other day, requesting us to write a letter to his son, who is a volunteer in the Mexican A\'ar. 'Tell him.' said the old man "to be a good soldier and obey his officers; tell him to remember that his grandfather served five years in the Revolutionary War, and that his father served through the last war. It will do him good," he added, 'to think of these things when he comes into battle.' "

The spirit displayed in Elkhart County throughout the entire period of the terrible Civil war was of an entirely different class from that manifest in the war with Mexico. It soon became evident that the conflict of the '60s was a call to men of stern mould, active minds and unflinching and steady endurance, and that no weaklings need apply for service. Both those at the front and the men and women whose services were required at home, never relaxed in their fortitude, energy and vigilance during more than four long years of bloodshed, financial stress and mental anguish.

President Lincoln's proclamation calling for volunteers was issued April 15, 1861, and six regiments were assigned to the State of Indiana. The county and town was in a patriotic fever and in a few days the "Goshen Guards" had been organized and were on their way to Indianapolis to offer their services to their country. The company was headed by Milo S. Hascall, captain ; Edward Kerstetter, first lieutenant; Frank B. Rossehvyn, second lieutenant: James M. Barns, third lieutenant. The company comprising also ninety privates left Goshen on April 29th and upon arriving at the capital were grievously disappointed to learn that all of the regiments were full, and, for the time being, they were compelled to return to their homes. Most of the volunteers afterwards enlisted in other commands. Captain Hascall was assigned a position upon the staff of Gen. T. A. Morris, appointed to the colonelcy of the Seventeenth Regiment and later received a commission as brigadier general.

His service extended over a period of three years and six months. Lieutenants Kerstetter and Rossehvyn. who, with Captain Hascall, were among the officers of the un requisitioned company.

General Hascall was the most notable military figure identified with Elkhart County, and for a quarter of a century after the close of the war was one of the leading citizens of Goshen. He spent the last years of his life as a strong factor in the lumber and real estate interests of Chicago, being of unusual prominence in the remarkable development of East Chicago and the Calumet region of gigantic industries. Since 1890, when he became a resident of Illinois, he was also prominent in the history of the Loyal Legion.

Milo S. Hascall was born in Genesee County, New York, in 1829. His boyhood was passed on his father's farm and in the common schools; at sixteen he attended an academy and at seventeen, in 1847, came West to Goshen, where three of his brothers then resided. Chauncey S. Hascall was, at that time, engaged in trade at Goshen, and the general entered his store as clerk. This engagement lasted but three months, when he taught school for one term. He went to West Point in June, 1848, and remained there four years, graduating June 16, 1852, fourteenth in a class that entered ninety-six, of which record any West Point student might well be proud. His class embraced General Sheridan, Gen. Henry W. Slocum, of Brooklyn; Gen. D. S. Stanley, Jerome N. Bonaparte ("the Baltimore member of the illustrious family), George L. Hartsufif, Gen. Charles R. Woods, Marshall T. Polk, Alex D. McCook, Gen. William Aleyers, Gen. A. \\ Kautz, Gen. George Crook. After his graduation General Hascall was promoted to the Third Artillery as brevet second lieutenant, and stationed at Fort Adams, Rhode Island, where he remained about one year. He was then promoted to a second lieutenancy in the Second Artillery, and was stationed at Old Point Comfort, \'irginia, where he remained until 1853, when he resigned. He came to Goshen after leaving the army and traveled for some time thereafter. For one year he was a contractor on the Northern Indiana & Michigan Southern Railroad, after which he studied and eventually began the practice of law. During his law practice he was elected prosecuting attorney for the Court of Common Pleas. In the fall of 1859 he was elected clerk of Elkhart Circuit Court, which office he retained. till the spring of 1861, when the War of the Rebellion broke out and called him to his country's defense. General Hascall was one of the first company raised in Goshen. This company ar- rived at Indianapolis too late, however, to be mustered into either of the six regiments required by the state, and was obliged to disband ; but having learned that Captain Hascall was a "West Pointer," Governor Morton appointed him captain and aid-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Thomas A. Morris, in which capacity he organized and drilled six regiments in Camp Morton, preparatory to their taking the field. In June, 1861, he accompanied General Morris to West Virginia, upon the first active movement of the war, and was in the fight at Philippi, the first engagement of war after that at Fort Sumter. The next day after that event he was appointed colonel of the Seventeenth Indiana Regiment. Returning to Indianapolis he bore, on the way, General Morris' report to General McClellan, and also the flag captured at Philippi. His regiment, mustered for three years, arrived at Parkersburg, West Virginia, about the time of the first battle of Bull Run. After some service in Western Maryland, the regiment was ordered to Grafton, West Virginia, and thence, via Philippi and Beverly, to Elkwater and Cheat Alountain, where it remained until the winter of 1861, participating in all the engagements about Elkwater, Huttonville and Cheat Mountain. When the body of John A. Washington, of Mount Vernon fame, who was killed by Colonel Hascall's regiment at Elkwater was borne back to the enemy. Colonel Hascall received the first flag of truce sent during the war by Gen. Robert E. Lee. In December, 1861, at Louisville, Kentucky, he was placed in command of a brigade consisting of the Seventeenth and Fifteenth Indiana regiments and the Sixth and Forty-third Ohio regiments, and assigned to Nelson's division. Three months later he was transferred to a brigade in General Wood's division and commanded it at Nashville and Shiloh. In April, 1862, he participated in the battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing, and at the close of the engagement, when General Beauregard requested permission to bury the Confederate dead on the field, received the first flag of truce sent during the war by that general. On April 20, 1862, he was without solicitation promoted to brigadier general of volunteers, and thereafter until the fall of 1864, was actively engaged in all the operations of the armies of the West, most of the time in command of a division and at times temporarily in command of an army corps. At the Battle of Stone River he commanded the forces on the left after 10 o'clock of the first day, and was more instrumental than any other officer present in pre\-enting the defeat on the right from becoming an utter rout of the Union army. After this battle he was sent to IndianapoHs to superintend the work of returning deserters from the army in the states of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. While so engaged he was transferred from the Army of the Cumberland to the Army of the Ohio, and placed in command of the District of Indiana, and during his command there Vallandigham was arrested, the Chicago Times and numerous "Copperhead" papers in Indiana were suppressed, and the great meeting of rebel sympathizers in Indianapolis, to seize the state arms and turn the state over to John Morgan, was foiled in its design. Later, in command of a division of the Twenty-third Army Corps, General Hascall went with the army into East Tennessee and took an active part in the capture of Kno.xville, and afterward in the siege of the city when Longstreet was attempting its capture. When Sherman moved upon Atlanta, after Longstreet's repulse. General Hascall marched at the head of his division, conspicuous in all the engagements that resulted in the capture of that city, his division planting the first batteries around the doomed town and delivering the first shot and shell into the City of Atlanta. At the close of the war General Hascall, in connection with John W. Irwin, engaged in the banking business at Goshen, under the name of the "Salem Bank," and became one of the most active and successful men in that city. In 1879 Messrs. Hascall & Irwin began the manufacture of hardwood lumber on a large scale with John H. Lesh, under the firm name of John H. Lesh & Co. Since 1889 the business has been conducted under the firm name of Irwin & Hascall. It comprehends the manufacture of large quantities of black walnut and other hardwood lumber, which is sold extensively in Germany, Great Britain, France, Australia and other foreign countries. In 1890 as stated, General Hascall withdrew his interest in the bank at Goshen and took up his residence in Chicago.

Company C, Ninth Regiment, was organized within Elkhart County, and mustered into service April 24, 1864, for a three months' term, under Capt. Theodore F. Mann ; Charles H. Kirkendall, first lieutenant, and James D. Braden. afterward Elkhart's chief of police, second lieutenant. The Ninth Regiment had a brief but brilliant campaign from the surprise of Philippi, under Colonel Kelley, to Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford, under General Morris. The first L'nion soldier to yield his life on the battlefield was William T. Girard, of Company G, Ninth Regiment, who fell at Laurel Hill.

The Ninth Regiment (three years' volunteers) was mustered in at Lafayette, September 5, 1861, and Elkhart men were scattered through the entire regiment. Company C was composed entirely of Elkhart County men under Capt. D. G. Risly, who was succeeded by First Lieut. J. D. Braden and, on his promotion to the rank of major, by A. J. Alartin. During the four years' service the company received a large number of recruits, mostly from Elkhart County, and from Greenbrier in October, 1861, to the pursuit of General Hood 1864-5, their work stands out nobly.

The Se\enteenth Regiment was organized at Camp Morton during ]\Iay, 1861, under Col. Milo S. Hascall, who, for the distinguished part taken by him at Greenbrier and in the operations of General Reynolds' corps, was promoted to the rank of brigadier general March 25, 1862, when the colonelcy devolved upon his lieutenant colonel, John J. U'ilder, of Greensburg. Lieutenant Colonel Wilder continued in command until his resignation in October, 1864, when Jacob J. Vail was appointed. Several men from Greensburg served in the Seventeenth, but the roster does not show any Elkhart County enlisted men.

The Nineteenth Regiment numbered among its captains from Elkhart County, John R. Clark, J. W. Shafer and Julius M. Waldschmidt, of Company G. The non-commissioned officers and privates of that command, nearly all of whom were from Elkhart County, numbered ninety-seven.

Lieuts. A. W. Simmons and E. F. Hubbell. The regiment was the first of the Union forces to land at the New Orleans wharf under Butler and the first to enter that southern city. For distinguished services in the Louisiana campaign, the Elkhart County company was afterward transferred to the First Heavy Artillery.

There were several men from Millersburg in the First Cavalry, or Twenty-eighth Regiment, and more than a hundred officers and privates joined the Twenty-ninth from the county, mostly incorporated as Company B. The regiment was in command of John F. Miller, of South Bend, who was placed at the head of a brigade soon after the arrival of his command in Kentucky, and afterward became a leading Union officer. After the war he was appointed collector of the San Francisco port and elected United States senator from California. He died in 1880, during his senatorial term.

Company B of the Twenty-ninth was mustered into the sen-ice in the fall of 1861, under command of Capt. H. G. P. Oblinger; first lieutenant, Henry G. Davis; second lieutenant, James M. Bams. In December, 1862, Lieutenant Davis succeeded Oblinger as captain and was subsequently promoted lieutenant colonel. One Hundred and First Regiment United States Colored troops. He was succeeded by Capt. Levi M. Hess. The remaining officers of the company were : First lieutenants, Richard McCarvey, John Hines and Jacob Miller; second lieutenants, Elijah A. Macomber and Jacob Miller. The regiment served with credit in the Rosseau, Buell and Rosecrans campaigns.

Company K, of the Thirtieth Regiment, was recruited from Elkhart County, largely from Goshen. Kaufman Funk, its first captain, was succeeded by Mj'ron A. Hawks, Y. S. Amlie, S. B. McGuire, John E. Thompson, Thomas H. Chance and W. N. Culbertson. The three last named were promoted from the rajjks. The non-commissioned officers and privates mustered over ninety strong. From Shiloh to Nashville the Elkhart County contingent gave a good account of themselves.

The Second Cavalry, or Forty-first Regiment, comprised the Elkhart County Company K - its officers and privates numbering nearly lOO. The regiment obtained its first war experience on the road to Corinth in April, 1862, and the cavalry received fresh honors at Gallatin, Vinegar Hill, and Perryville. In 1864 it entered upon the Atlanta campaign under General Sherman. Company ]\I was recruited in Goshen in October, 1861. Albert S. Blake, captain, was suceceded by Joseph A. S. Mitchell, first lieutenant ; first lieutenants, J. A. S. Mitchell, Henry H. Dunlap, William C. Blaine and William D. Stover. Hiram F. Kidder, of Goshen, was adjutant.

The military element of Elkhart County was also included in the roster of the Forty-fourth Regiment. Company I was composed almost entirely of men from that section. The regiment was officered as follows: Col. J. F. Curtis; Lieut. Col. J. C. Hodges; Adjt. S. E. Smith ; Capts. A. Heath, D. S. Belnap, and O. D. Scovel ; Lieuts. W. H. Houghland, F. Baldwin, C. M. Hinman, C. W. Green and Piatt Hougland. On everj' field from Fort Donelson to Chickamauga this regiment distinguished itself. During the period of the war 408 of its men were killed.

The Forty-eighth Regiment was composed principally of men from Elkhart and St. Joseph counties. Companies A, H, G and I being almost entirely from the former county. The officers of the regiment furnished by Elkhart County were as follows: Colonels, Norman Eddy and Edward J. Wood ; lieutenant colonel, J. W. Leitch; majors, B. D. Townsend, O. C. Charles and L. Murray; chaplain, J. W. Smith ; surgeon, F. T. Bryson ; captains, Alfred Billows, W. P. Allen and H. E. Robbins ; lieutenants, A. B. Crampton, E. J. King and I. J. Parmeter.

In September, 1861, Dr. E. W. H. Ellis was appointed by Governor Morton commandant of a recruiting camp, established at the fair grounds two miles south of Goshen. Early in October, Company A, then commanded by Capt. D. B. Townsend, marched to the camp. The regiment, as organized, showed the following roster of officers: Norman Eddy, colonel; Edward J. Wood, lieutenantcolonel; Dewit C. Rugg, major; Edward P. Stanfield, adjutant; Charles L. Murray, quartermaster ; John W. Smith, chaplain ; Levi J. Hamm, surgeon ; Frank T. Bryson, assistant surgeon ; E. E. L. Billings, commissary pro tem. Company A was recruited at Elkhart and Company G at Middlebury. Goshen furnished Company L

Originally, Company H was the German unit of the Fortyeighth, and was mustered into the service December 27, 1861, under Capt. Gustavus Paulus. He retired in July following and was succeeded, in succession, by Gotlieb Schauble and J. C. McBride. During the progress of the war J. Rohrig was promoted to a first lieutenancy and George ^^'. Hollingshed promoted to second lieutenant. As the months passed and new recruits were required to fill up its ranks, the company lost somewhat its German stamp, and by the end of the war many nationalities were represented.

E. J. Wood. He was promoted to the rank of major and was succeeded as captain by George W. Gibbon, whose term expired in January, 1865. The lieutenancy was generally occupied by Goshen men, viz. : A. S. Fisher, E. S. Foljambe and W. R. Ellis, each of whom went up higher.

The Forty-eighth, as a regiment, made a good record for itself during its years of hard fighting. From the siege of Corinth to its final march from Raleigh to Petersburg, 213 men dropped from its ranks forever.

Elkhart Count}-. The regimental staff included, with others, the following from the county : Colonel, Alyron Baker ; lieutenant-colonel, C. B. Mann; major, W. B. Jacobs; adjutant, J. H. Schutt; quartermaster, John Stetler; assistant surgeons, J. O. A. Bassett and H. C. Dodge. Under Capt. ]\Iyron Baker, Company E was mustered in July 25, 1862. Those who served afterwards were William B. Jacobs and David P. Deardorff; first lieutenants, W. B. Jacobs, D. P. Deardoff, David H. White and F. B. Rosslewyn ; second lieutenants, the last three, with Edgar A. Platte. Captain Jacobs was commissioned major, May i, 1865, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel March 13, 1865. Col. Myron Baker was killed in battle during the Atlanta campaign. Company I was recruited at Benton and Goshen. Captains, David Howell, Everett F. Abbott, Charles E. Thompson, Christopher C. Beane; first lieutenants, Abbott, Beane, Thompson; second lieutenants, Beane, Thompson and Edward L. Barlow. Captain Abbott was killed at Jonesboro, Georgia, September I, 1864.

Company G was mustered in at Elkhart during August, 1862, under Capt. P. F. Davis, who died in the following February. The successive captains were C. B. Mann and Orville T. Chamberlain and the lieutenants, Jackson Wolverton, Bierce Moulton and Jacob Eyer.

Captain Chamberlain, although born in Kosciusko County, was brought to Elkhart when but an infant. His father was a physician and a druggist and gave the boy a good education. He was a clerk in his father's store, learned the printer's trade, taught school and when the war commenced was, at the age of nineteen, a graduate from the commercial department of the Notre Dame University. From the ranks of Company G he advanced, through the two lieutenancies, to the grade of captain. On the battlefield of Chickamauga he was appointed acting adjutant of the regiment, which position, with the captaincy of his company and the post of judge advocate bi court marshal for the division, he held most of the time during the remainder of the war. For bravery in battle he was recommended for appointment to the regular army. Shortly after his return to Elkhart he received a commission from the President as first lieutenant in the United States army, but on that very day his father died and he remained at home to assist in caring for the family. Captain Chamberlain was afterward admitted to the bar and practiced successfully for many years. He also served as town clerk, as district attorney and as city attorney. He is a leader in Grand Army and Loyal Legion matters.

Company D, One Hundredth Regiment, was recruited in Elkhart County. It was mustered in during September, 1862. The superior officers of the regiment credited to Elkhart County were : Colonels, A. Heath and Ruel M. Johnson; major, W. H. Venamon; quartermaster, A. M. Tucker; surgeon, W. C. Matchett. Ruel M. Johnson was succeeded as captain of Company D by William H. \'enamon and John W. Geisinger; the first lieutenants were Venamon, Geisinger and Asa A. Norton. The regiment saw active service under Grant in the \'icksburg campaign.

The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment, or Twelfth Cavalry, was organized in March, 1864. Among the officers were Maj. Josiah B. Cobb. Major Cobb was captain of Company D of Elkhart County, when it was mustered in and was succeeded by Benjamin F. Curtis and John H. Pinney; first lieutenants, Charles Fish and Andrew C. Nye ; second lieutenants, Curtis, Nye, Edward Hubbell and Ira Hoops.

Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth regiment, secured its roster in this county with headquarters at Goshen. Capt. Samuel B. McGuire promoted major, and afterwards lieutenant colonel, was succeeded by Edward E. Metcalf ; first lieutenants, Henry Clay,

Metcalf, N. W. Shervvin, Martin L. Duck ; second lieutenants, Duck and Wm. Kelly. From the Battle of Resaca in May, 1864, to Franklin in October, and from the attack on Hood's position in December to Wise Forks in March of the following year, this regiment acquitted itself well.

The One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, "100 days" men, was organized in May, 1864. Elkhart County furnished Company K, Myron Hawks, captain ; George W. Best, first lieutenant ; Albert Yates, second lieutenant.

Company D, of the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, was organized in Elkhart County during the fall of 1864, for one year's service, Thomas H. Chance, captain ; Joseph H. Foiogne, David Frankfader, first lieutenants; Frankfader and William Holland, second lieutenants.

A large roster of Elkhart County men was found in the ranks of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment, especially in Company E, which was organized in March, 1865. Capt. Julius Waldschmitt of Goshen was raised to the rank of major and succeeded by Jacob W. Livinghouse; first lieutenants, Livinghouse, Jesse F. Carmien ; second lieutenant, Cornelius M. Boyd.

The total number of volunteers and drafted men furnished by Elkhart County was 2,984. Amount of bounty paid to the enlisted men, $192,611.97. For the relief of soldiers' families from the county treasury, $60,420.48.

The draft of 1862 was carried out under Commissioner Dr. E. W. H. Ellis, Marshal W. A. Woods and Surgeon M. M. Latta, and the township marshals, with the following result: Harrison, 47; Jackson, 28; Union, 24; Clinton, 12; Benton, 6; Baugo, 6; and Locke, 5 ; all forming a company of 128 men, who proceeded to Camp Morton under Doctor Ellis and were fonnally assigned to the command of Capt. Edwin Billings. The five subsequent drafts were

Much of the work of relief, which, as the years of bloodshed drifted along, accomplished so much in sustaining the courage of the soldiers in the field, was never recorded in dollars and cents. In these vital movements the women were always at the front, or, as well put by one of the appreciative citizens of the county: "Not the least factor in the sum of loyalty was the work of the ladies." The boxes and bales of necessities and delicacies which they sent to the soldiers were simply amazing. Their busy fingers were always at work for their relief societies. Immediately succeeding the commencement of hostilities the women of Elkhart County resolved themselves into the Soldiers' Aid Society, which met in October, 1 86 1, adopted by-laws and organized for effective work in the field and at home. Among those prominent in this work may be mentioned : Mrs. H. W. Bissell and Misses Reynolds, Abbott, Beardsley, Hudson, McCord, Martin, Miller, Powell and Stauffer. The pulpits spoke out, entertainments for the benefit of the soldiers were given by the dififerent social, fraternal, literary, military and religious organizations, private individuals gave liberally of their means, and professional men not only of their means but their time and efiforts. Many of the latter going south to nurse the sick and wounded, and the enlisted surgeons lent a free hand in army hospitals. Many thousands of dollars were dispensed among the families of soldiers, and those who gave in this manner are hardly less worthy of recognition than those who marched away in the ranks.

The troops raised in Elkhart County for participation in the Spanish-American war, comprised Company C and Company E, originally of the Third Ohio National Guard, with headquarters respectively at Goshen and Elkhart. All the companies from Northeastern Indiana responded to President IMcKinley's call so promptly that they were the first to be mustered into the service of the United States, being officially designated as the One Hundred and Fiftyseventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry and popularly, not long afterward, as the Indiana Tigers. They were mustered into the national military service May lo, 1898, and, although they saw no active campaigning, were always eager for it. Furthermore, only an unforeseen accident, as we shall see prevented their departure for Cuba.

The two Elkhart County companies left for Camp Mount, Indianapolis, over the Big Four, on the 26th of April, 1898, the day after the declaration of war by the United States. When the National Guard of Northeastern Indiana were mustered into its service as the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, the following were named as the regimental stafT : Colonel, George M. Studebaker, South Bend; lieutenant-colonel, Willis T. May, United States army ; chaplain, Charles S. Medbury, Angola ; adjutant, Harry K. Scott, Angola; quartermaster, Harmon L. Hutson, Angola; surgeons, Emmett L. Siver and Walter W. Barnett, Fort Wayne; majors, George W. Feaser, South Bend; Edwin H. Fitzgerald, Goshen ; Aubry L. Kuhlnian, Auburn ; Charles F. Cline, Goshen, sergeant major; Joseph P. Hawks, Goshen, commissary sergeant promoted to quartermaster sergeant, October 12, 1898.

On May loth the regiment left Indianapolis under, orders to camp at Chickamauga Park. Chattanooga, Tennessee, was reached May nth, where the soldiers disembarked. The next day they marched to Camp Thomas at the park, where the regiments were put through arduous military duty for twenty days. Under sealed orders the regiment embarked on trains June ist, bound for Tampa, Florida. It was on this occasion that the One Hundred and Fiftyseventh Regiment received their sobriquet of Indiana Tigers. The account is given by Lieut. Col. Will T. May and is reliable: "The railroad men at Chickamauga Park gave the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Infantry the title of Tigers on account of the regiment's activity and willingness, and the way it went about its tasks. The day the regiment was to start from Chickamauga Park for Tampa, Florida, the First Infantry of Ohio was also to go. The Ohio regiment was ordered to begin its preparations three hours before the Indianans started to pack up. The time was given so that the Ohio regiment might load its train and get out of the way of the Tigers, and prevent confusion in the railroad yards. The Tigers then loaded thirty wagons on eighteen flat cars, filled eight stock cars with officers' horses and army mules, packed twelve box cars with rations, tentage and other camp equipment, and climbed into their own cars in an hour and forty minutes. The railroad men looked on in astonishment as the Hoosiers performed their work. No regiment of regular troops ever made better time. The Tigers overtook the Ohio men and passed them before they were out of the railroad yards. After the Tigers reached Tampa some one tried to give them the name of Studebaker's Kittens, but Tigers clung to them."

The sealed orders which were received at Chickamauga showed that the regiment was bound for Port Tampa to join Shafter's expedition to Cuba, but the eager soldier boys were to be sorely disappointed. Upon arrival at Tampa, June 3d, the horses, ammunition and rations were loaded on the transport, when a collision occurred, whereby a hole was made in the bow and the regiment was cheated out of the chance to get in front of Santiago.

For two months, until July 30th, the boys remained in camp at Port Tampa. A\'hile there, they were on two camp grounds. Then, on July 31st, a change was made to Fernandina, Florida, where the regiment stayed until August 31st. On the ist of September it started for Indianapolis, reaching there on the following day. The boys were given a furlough of a month from September loth, and were joyfully received at home. They had done their duty nobly and shown the spirit of the American soldier. Again, upon October loth, the regiment gathered at Camp Mount and on November ist was mustered out of the service of the United States.

As to the details of the participation of the two home companies of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Regiment, it may be stated that Company C, of the old Third National Guard, was organized at Goshen, September 14, 1892, and mustered into Uncle Sam's service April 26, 1898. Captain, Elias D. Salsbury; first lieutenant, Charles Slade ; second lieutenant, Joseph A. Collins; first sergeant, Eugene F. Gordeau ; quartermaster sergeant, Orlando W. Bale ; sergeants, John Roach, Thomas H. Mew, Warren Carpenter and Leroy Darnell; corporals, Harvey A. Hawks, Richard

Company C lost by death a number of its members. Lieut. Charles Slade, Charles E. Perry, Charles F. Simon and James Boomershine died before the muster-out in November, and James Girtin and Bert S. Hebert, afterward, as the result of fever contracted in camp. Joseph A. Collins was promoted to the first lieutenancy, July 21, 1898; Sergt. Thomas H. Mew to the second lieutenancy, on the same date, and Henry L. Hawks to a sergeancy, August i, 1898. The other changes in the company were only minor.

A number of the Goshen boys enlisted with other companies of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh during the war. They were: George W. Carpenter, Xorman C. Carpenter, William E. Deutsch, John L. Griffith, William Horn, William F. Kinsel, George C. Mann, Harry Miller, Charles O. Phillips, all of Company A, and Orba Method, of Company G.

Major Heatwole received his commission on May 25, 1898, and served on various general staffs in the South and Cuba until the time of his death. J. B. Gattschall served under Major Heatwole as civilian clerk.

The official roster of Company E, of Elkhart, was as follows: Captain, Joseph E. Graves; first lieutenant, Norman E. Beall; second lieutenant, August Groll; orderly sergeant, W. Hayes Hopkins ; sergeants, Harry H. Goldman, Charles Hook, John A. Cooper, L. Arthur Jones, Spencer E. Pangborn ; commissary sergeant, Edward A. Lefebre; corporals, Charles E. Fetzer, Frank Carper, George Adams, Robert Darling, W. A. Kyte, Guy T. McBride, Joseph Witman; musicians, Robert Higgins, Arthur L. Boice ; artificer, John E. Smith; wagoner, Frank E. Smith. Besides the foregoing, there were nearly ninety privates in the company. The last "private" mentioned in the roster was "Sport" Goldman, the pointer dog belonging to Sergt. Harry Goldman. He was the company's mascot, and remained with it through all the hard times of camp life until the regimental furlough, commencing September lOth.

The ranks of Company E were diminished by two brave boys while in the South. Sergt. L. Arthur Jones, a popular non-commissioned officer died in the regimental hospital at Fernandina, Florida, August 19, 1898. Then, on September 2d, just as the hospital train reached Indianapolis on the journey home, Corp. Robert Darling passed away. The remains of both the boys were shipped to their Elkhart homes where they were laid to rest with military honors.