Henry County, Indiana - Chapter 9, 1906 (part 2 of 2)

On February 25, 1864, while a member of the above named firm, Benjamin F. Murphey was married at New Castle to Harriet D. EUiott. daughter of WiUiam and EHza Elliott, and a niece of the late Judge Jehu T. Elliott. She was born at Centreville, Wayne County, Indiana, December 5, 1827, and died in New York City, at the residence of her daughter, September 29, 1903.

At the end of a year, Mr. Murphey withdrew from the firm of Miles Murphey and Company and went to New Orleans and Oiarleston and perhaps other points in the South, where he engaged in the buying and selling of cotton. In April, 1865, he was in Washington City and was present at Ford's Theatre, the night of April 14, 1865, and witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

After the close of the war, Mr. Murphey returned to Chicago and organized the commission house of B. F. Murphey and Company, of which Benjamin F. Allen, of Des Moines, Iowa, was the silent partner. At the end of a few years, this firm was dissolved and Mr. Murphey organized the B. F. Murphey Packing Company, which he actively and successfully conducted until his death.

He was for many years a member of the Chicago Board of Trade of which association he was long a director, and for a time, vice president, and also acting president. He was very popular with his fellow members of this great aggregation of traders and was universally recognized as a broad-gauged and progressive man. On the occasion of his death, April 14, 1883, the Board of Trade adjourned out of respect to his memory and adopted appropriate resolutions.

His union with Harriet D. Elliott was an exceedingly happy one. They were the parents of the following named children : A daughter, born January 31, 1866; died in infancy; Frank Elliott Murphey, born February 21, 1868; married to Netta Canon, daughter of Lindsay and Naomi Canon, of Peoria, Illinois, in Chicago, February 10, 1897, now resident in Indianapolis, where he is one of the resident agents of the N. K. Fairbanks Company of Chicago ; Harriet Arathusa, born March 3, 1871, now the wife of William B. T. Keyser, of New York City, to whom she was married October 25, 1892. Her husband is in active business in the metropolis. The infant daughter above mentioned and Mr. and Mrs. Murphey are buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago.

Addenda

Colonel Miles Murphey, after leaving the service of William Silver, established a store for himself and was for many years the leading merchant of New Castle, having first a primitive structure, then a frame, and later a brick, on what is now known as the ''Murphey Corner." The firm was originally Miles Murphey alone, followed my M. and W. (William, his brother) Murphey, and then by M. and D. (Daniel, his nephew) Murphey.

When George W. Goodwin was a youth, his father was a leading mail contractor, and the former, for many years, carried the mail from New Castle to Dublin, Milton and other points.

Explanation Of Military Terms And Abbreviations

Army. - All troops, Serving in a specified district, were designated as belonging to an army named after the principal river in the district, except in the then far West. Thus the forces operating in Maryland and Virginia became - The Army of the Potomac; in Virginia, troops not belonging to the Army of the Potomac, operating along the James River became - The Army of the James; in Western Tennessee and along the Mississippi River - The Army of the Tennessee ; in Middle Tennessee - The Army of the Cumberland ; in Kentucky and along the Ohio River - The Army of the Ohio ; on the lower Mississippi - The Army of the Mississippi ; on the Gulf of Mexico - The Army of the Gulf ; west of the Missouri River - The Army of the Frontier. In most instances, as the war progressed, these armies were drawn entirely away from the river after which they were named but continued to bear the name, as when Sherman marched from Atlanta to the Sea, he took with him the Army of the Tennessee.

Division. - Two or more brigades, usually three, constituted a division, commanded by a Major General. In the Civil War, the brigade, in many instances, being commanded by a Colonel, the division was commanded by a Brigadier General.

Brigade. - A body of troops, either artillery, cavalry, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under command of a Brigadier General or the ranking Colonel in the brigade. In the Civil War, a brigade usually consisted of four regiments of cavalry or infantry, with a battery of light artillery attached.

Discrepancy Between Dates of Muster. - In some of the batteries and regiments there is an apparent discrepancy between the dates of muster for the men and for the organization of the battery or regiment. This arises from the fact that the men were mustered in as fast as recruited, while the battery or regiment was not fully organized and the field and line officers commissioned, until the number of men enlisted for it approximated the maximum number required. In other instances, the muster-in of the men is after the organization of the battery or regiment. This arises from the fact that men were recruited after the field and line officers were commissioned.

Enrollment. - The entry of a soldier's name on the roll of a company, in process of formation, or on the regimental roll, at the time of enlistment. After enrollment it was necessary to pass a physical examination and to be accepted by the surgeons before a soldier could be accepted by the United States officers for muster-in.

Muster-in. - After acceptance for service, each soldier took the oath of allegiance to the United States and an oath of obedience to all superior officers. This constituted muster-in.

Recruit. - A new member enHsted in a company or battery, after the same had been mustered into the service of the United States. One not a member of the organization at the date of its original muster.

Re-organization in the Field. - When a regiment was so depleted in numbers that its members were consolidated into new companies, as in the case of the 7th Indiana Cavalry, the companies being reduced from twelve to four, it was said to have been re-organized in the field. Again the 30th Indiana Infantry was reorganized in the field, by having consolidated with it, the veterans and recruits of the 36th Indiana Infantry, and perhaps others. Again the 20th Indiana Infantry, after it had veteranized, was re-organized in the field, by having consolidated with it the veterans and recruits of the 7th and 19th Regiments of Indiana Infantry.

Veteran. - During the Civil War soldiers, who had served through one term of enlistment and had then re-enlisted, were specificially designated as veterans.

A'eteranized. - When a sufficient number of the men of a battery of light artillery or a regiment of cavalry or infantry re-enlisted to enable it to retain its battery or regimental formation, the organization was said to have veteranized.

Veteran Reser\'e Corps. - Soldiers whose term of enlistment had not expired, who were unfitted, by reason of wounds or disease, for duty at the front, but who were convalescent in hospitals or camps in the rear, were organized into new companies and regiments and assigned to duty in guarding Confederate prisoners, suppl}- trains on the way to the front, railway bridges, and in keeping lines of communication open and in performing all duties in the rear, from which able bodied soldiers could be relieved for dutv at the front.