Henry County, Indiana - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 11 of those read), 1906

Chapter with an unread heading (no. 11 of those read)

Arrangement and Organization of Cavalry Regiments - Rosters of 2nd- 3RD-4TH-5TH Indiana Cavalry - Their Histories - Biographical Sketches of Private Thomas Mitchell Huston and Family - Major and Surgeon William Francis Boor and Family - Samuel Roof - Lieutenant and Quartermaster John Thornburgh and Family - Private Thomas Leonard Harti-ey and Family.

Henry County was represented in the cavalry organizations, arranged in the following order : Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, after which follow in a condensed form the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth.

All cavalry regiments were numbered twice. First, as cavalry regiments; second, in numerical sequence with the infantry regiments. The regiments, in which Henry County was represented, were, therefore : Second Cavalry (41st Regiment), Third Cavalry (45th Regiment), Fourth Cavalry (77th Regiment), Fifth Cavalry (90th Regiment), Seventh Cavalry (119th Regiment), Eighth Cavalry (39th Regiment re-organized as 8th Cavalry), Ninth Cavalry (121st Regiment), Tenth Cavalry (125th Regiment), Eleventh Cavalry (126th Regiment), Twelfth Cavalry (127th Regiment), and Thirteenth Cavalry (131st Regiment). There were thirteen cavalry regiments in all, numbered from one to thirteen, both inclusive.

In some of the regiments there is an apparent discrepancy between the dates of muster for the men and for the organization of the regiment. This arises from the fact that the men were mustered in as fast as recruited, while the regiment was not fully organized and the field 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 regiment. This arises from the fact that men were recruited after the field ofiftcers were commissioned.

Where there is a distinctively Henry County company of soldiers in any cavalry regiment, the field and staff of the regiment is published in full.

In the Civil War a cavalry regiment consisted of twelve companies, each company consisting of one hundred and three officers and men as noted below. A regiment was divided into three battalions of four companies each and officered as follows: Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, three Majors, one for each battalion; Adjutant with the rank of Lieutenant ; Quartermaster with the rank of Lieutenant ; Commissary with the rank of Lieutenant ; Chaplain with the rank of Captain ; Chief Surgeon with the rank of Major; Assistant Surgeon with the rank of Captain and Assistant SurQeon with the rank of Lieutenant.

Indiana Cavalry

The non-commissioned staff consisted of Sergeant Major, Veterinary Surg-eon, Quartermaster Sergeant, Commissary Sergeant, Hospital Steward, Chief Bugler and Saddler Sergeant, each non-commissioned staff officer having the rank of Sergeant.

A company, when recruited to its maximum strength, was officered and divided as follows : Captain, First Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant, First Sergeant, Quartermaster Sergeant, Commissary Sergeant, five duty Sergeants, eight Corporals, two Buglers, a Farrier, Blacksmith, Saddler, Wagoner and seventy eight privates, total one hundred and three.

In the following roster, the name of each officer and man is followed by his postoffice address at the time of enlistment. In some instances the soldier was not a resident of Henry County at the time of enlistment, but moved to that county after the Civil War. In such cases the name of the county from which he enlisted is substituted for the postoffice address and that is followed by the place of settlement in Henry County. The date of muster for the officers is the date they were actually mustered into the service of the United States and not the date of commission.

Company

Loveless Seward, Madison County. Middletown after the Civil War. Mustered in September 18, 1861. Veteran. Transferred to Company B, 2nd Cavalry, re-organized. Mustered out July 22, 1865.

James W. Brodrick, Greenville, Ohio. New Castle after the Civil War. Mustered in September 13, 1861. Appointed Corporal. Captured at Hartsville, Tennessee, December 7, 1862. Paroled. Exchanged. Mustered out October 4, 1864.

Henry Hubbard, Raysville. Mustered in September 13, 1861. Veteran. Appointed Sergeant. Transferred to Company C, 2nd Cavalry, re-organized. Killed at Nashville, Tennessee, December 16, 1864.

Jacob S. Walker, Wayne County. Near New Castle after the Civil War. Mustered in September 18, 1861. Discharged, disability, December 27, 1862.

Saddler

Thomas L. Hartley, Luray. Mustered in September 18, 1861. Captured in Atlanta Campaign, July 30, 1864. Held in Andersonville Prison, Georgia. Exchanged January 12, 1865. Mustered out June 12, 1865.

Wilson Hayden, Lewisville. Mustered in September 18, 1861. Captured at Look out Mountain, Tennessee, November 24, 1863. Died in Andersonville Prison, Georgia, date unknown.

Landy Van Matre, Middletown. Mustered in September 18, 1861. Veteran. Transferred to Company B, 2nd Cavalry, re-organized. Mustered out July 22, 1865.

Private

James T. Abshire, Sulphur Springs. Mustered in September 18, 1861. Captured in Atlanta Campaign. Held in Confederate prisons at Andersonville, Georgia, and Salisbury, North Carolina. Exchanged. Mustered out January 14, 1865.

James W. Harris, Vigo County. Knightstown after the Civil War. Mustered in November 1, 1861. Veteran. Appointed Corporal and Sergeant. Promoted First Lieutenant.

Francis M. Granger, New Castle. Mustered in October 22, 1862. Recruit. Transferred to Company D, 2nd Cavalry, re-organized. Died at Columbus, Ohio, March 10, 1865.

The Second Indiana Cavalry (Forty First Regiment) was the first complete cavalry regiment raised and organized in Indiana during the War of the Rebellion. It was organized in Indianapolis in September, 1861, with John A. Bridgeland, of Richmond, as Colonel. It was mustered into the United States service and remained in Indiana until the i6th of December, 1861, when it marched across the country to Louisville, Kentucky, and from thence to Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky. Its entire service was in the Army of the Cumberland. In October, 1864, the non-veterans of the regiment were mustered out and the veterans and recruits were consolidated into a battalion of four companies. This battalion was finally mustered out July 22, 1865. The most historic engagement of the regiment was at Chickamauga.

The Second and Fourth Regiments of Indiana Cavalry were so closely allied during the campaign ending with the battle of Chickamauga, both being in the same brigade, and both being engaged together in their fighting, that it is deemed best to make one sketch cover the service of both at Chickamauga. The cavalry under Brigadier General Robert B. Mitchell crossed the Tennessee River at Caperton's Ferry on September 3, 1863, and the same day crossed Sand Mountain at Town Creek into Lookout \^alley. On September 4tli, Colonel jMcCook, with the two Indiana cavalry regiments and the remainder of his division, marched as far as Rawlingsville, where he encountered the enemy and at once had an engagement, forcing the enemy to retreat and holding the field. This was the first engagement of any of General Rosecrans' Army south of the Tennessee River on the Chickamauga campaign. From September 4th until the battle of Chickamauga was fought, September 19th and 20th, there was not a day that this cavalry force was not brought into an exchange of shots with some portion of the Confederate Army. There was no rest for the cavalry as it hovered about and hung upon the enemy's flanks, keeping a constant watch on the movements of General Bragg's Army. On September i8th, Colonel E. M. McCook, with his division of cavalry, moved from Cedar Grove Church to Blue Bird Gap, Georgia.

On the night of September i8th, General Mitchell, in command of the cavalry corps, was ordered to draw in all of the cavalry imder his immediate command from Valley Head, at Dougherty's Gap, and at Blue Bird Gap, and to keep closed up on the Twentieth Corps, commanded by Major General Alex. McD. McCook. On the morning of the 19th all of the cavalry was in motion moving up McLemore Cove toward Crawfish Springs. During all of the day the cavalry was engaged in skirmishing with Wheeler's Cavalry until it arrived at Crawfish Springs. When near Crawfish Springs the Second Brigade, of which the Second and Fourth Indiana Cavalry formed a part, was attacked in force by the enemy's cavalry and artillery, and after an hour's hard fighting succeeded in repulsing the attack and holding the field. After this, during the remainder of the day, the cavalry was so disposed of that it could protect the supply and ammunition trains, except as to the Second Indiana, which was sent to the support of Wilder's Brigade in the closing hours of the battle of that day on the west line of Viniard field.

On Sunday, September 20th, both the Second and Fourth Indiana Cavalry were with the cavalry force contesting the crossing of the Chickamauga and guarding the trains and the hospital at Crawfish Springs, the Second being under the immediate command of Colonel E. M. McCook, and the Fourth with General jVIitchell, the corps commander. The enemy's cavalry and artillery, during the entire day, were in line of battle on the opposite side of the Chickamauga Creek, and, while at times the enemy made vigorous assaults, he was held in check. Later in the day on Sunday the Confederate cavalry was re-enforced by infantry.

Colonel Edward M. McCook's Division held its position on the lines about Crawfish Springs until about 5 p. m., when this division was ordered to cover the withdrawal of the trains up the Chattanooga Valley toward Chattanooga, and Colonel McCook reports that, "although isolated and almost surrounded by the enemy's infantry and cavalry, accomplished it in good order and without the loss of a wagon, bringing off also all of the cavalry wounded." None of our cavalry moved from the field of Qiickamauga until after General Mitchell had ascertained that the infantry lines on our left had been entirely broken and the safety of all our trains had been assured.

On the morning of September 21st the Second Indiana Cavalry was sent to hold the road leading from the main Crawfish Springs road through Wood's Gap, and intersecting the Chattanooga road near Rossville. On the night of the 21st, one squadron of the Second Indiana Cavalry and one scpadron of the First Wisconsin Cavalry were sent to reconnoiter the Crawfish Springs road, and passed through the enemy's lines as far as the field hospital, and returned. It must be remembered that on the night of the 20th our army fell back from the battlefield, and on the morning of the 21st had all passed through McFarland's Gap, and was en route to Chattanooga. On the morning of the 22d the Second Indiana Cavalry was ordered to move on to the Rossville road, and if attacked, to hold the enemy in check until the rear of the infantry column had reached Chattanooga. This regiment reached Rossville about sunrise and found that all of the Union troops had left Rossville, and soon after it was attacked by a heavy force of cavalry and artillery, threatening to cut off the troops moving on the valley road in the direction of Chattanooga. This regiment, by stubborn fighting, held its position under a heavy fire until re-enforcements arrived. This position was maintained until the infantry column had passed the Rossville road, when the Second Indiana, and the regiment that had joined it, the First Wisconsin, fell back to Chattanooga.

The Fourth Indiana Cavalry, in the engagements on the 20th at Crawfish Springs, bore its full share of the fighting, and on the 21st, near Rossville. supported a section of Battery D,, First Ohio Light Artillery, which was attached to the Second Brigade of the First Cavalry Division.

The State of Indiana has erected monuments to the Second and Fourth Indiana Cavalry, west of the Glenn Hill, near the railroad. The monument to the Second Cavalry bears the following inscription :

Indiana'S Tribute Second Regiment Cavalry

The 19th of September, 1863, this regiment was guarding the supply train in the rear of the army and after skirmishing all day the train was brought safely to Crawfish Springs.

The regiment also took part in all the operations of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Cumberland in the Atlanta Campaign, from May 5 to September 8, 1864. Included in its operations were the actions at the following points:

In 1865, the regiment joined in Wilson's Raid into Alabama, participating in the engagements at Centreville, AlaBama, April ist; Scottsville, Alabama, April 2nd : and West Point, Georgia, April i6th.

Biographical Sketch Of Thomas Leonard Hartley

There are men in this Hfe who face death with impunity and win for themselves as grand a name on the field of war in a few years as they do in the peaceful fields of agriculture in half a lifetime, but happy is the man who secures a rei^utation in both fields', as did the subject of this sketch. Tliis honored old veteran was a native of the Hoosier State, having been born in Prairie Township, Henry County, on the 3d of November, 1839. He was a son of Elisha and Sarah (Emerson) Hartley, the former a native of West \'irginia and the latter of Virginia. They were united in marriage in the latter State and came to Prairie Township in 1828 and here maintained their residence during the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of nine children, of whom those surviving are Joseph O., James, and Sarah C, now Mrs. Calvin B. ]\IcKinney.

Thomas Leonard Hartley attended the public schools of his township until he was twenty one years old. After leaving school he worked on the home farm for a short time and in September, 1861, enlisted in the Second Indiana Cavalry as a private, being mustered into the service of the United States on the i8th of that month. He served faithfully and courageously, gaining much reputation for gallantry in the face of the enemy until what was known as the Stoneman Raid around x\tlanta, July 26-31, 1864. The cavalry corps of the Federal Army under command of General George Stoneman was sent by General Sherman on a raid around Atlanta, with the view of cutting the communications of General Hood's army. The Second Indiana Cavalry formed a part of this corps and at Newnan, Georgia, in an affair with the Confederates, Private Hartley was captured after being wo'unded in the thigh and side. He was taken to the Andersonville prison, where he remained six months. Here he endured the severest treatment, going at one time for four consecutive days without food. Mr. Hartley's wounds and imprisonment impaired his health to a degree from wdiich he never entirely recovered. On account of his capture and imprisonment in Andersonville, he was not mustered out of the service until June 12. 1865, although his term of service expired October 4, 1864. Upon being discharged from the army he returned home and commenced farming for other people by the month, continuing this occupation for three years and at the same time attending to his father and looking after the latter's farm. At the time of his marriage, in 1868, he located on the farm in Prairie Township, near Luray, w^here he resided for many years and which he owned at the time of his death. He added to his holdings, from time to time, until he at last owned some two hundred and eighty acres of land, all arable and highly improved. He did not confine himself strictly to the tilling of the soil, but to some extent also engaged in the raising of live stock, which he found a profitable business.

Mr. Hartley was married on the ist of January, 1868, to Miss Qamenza A. Patterson, who was born September 29, 1847, the daughter of Amaziah B. and Lydia H. (Rejester) Patterson. This union was a most happy one and resulted in the birth of the following children: Leorah, born November 17, 1868, died in childhood; Lily B.. born December 29, 1870. also died in childhood; Edmond C.

born March 9, 1873, married Blanche Campbell and now resides on a farm in Delaware County, this State; Iva A., born October 2, 1874, died in childhood; Orpha Lee, born December 4, 1876, married Thornton C. Robe, who is now living in Prairie Township near Luray; Glenn Y., born Alarch 10, 1884, died in infancy.

In politics Mr. Hartley was a stamich Republican, always taking a keen interest and an active part in the campaign work of his party. He kept alive his old army associations by his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, belonging to the post at New Castle. Religiously he, with his family, was connected with the Methodist Protestant Church at Luray. Mr. Hartley had an extensive acquaintance throughout the county and the name of his warm personal friends was legion. He passed seasons of trial and struggle on the battlefield and in the business world until from the round of assured success, he could look back with a high degree of satisfaction on his progress up the ladder of life. In his public and private relations, he was recognized as possessing a strong sense of truth and always endeavoring to shape his life in accordance with that principle.

In March, 1903, he removed from his farm to Oakville, in Delaware County, where he resided until his death which occurred October 18, 1904. Two days later he was laid in his final rest in Powers' Cemetery, Henry County, near Luray. He was buried under the auspices of the George W. Lennard Post, No. 148, Grand Army of the Republic, New Castle, of which he was a member at the time of his death. The funeral was attended by a large concourse of his old friends and neighbors and by many of his comrades of the Civil War. His memory is appropriately perpetuated by the following resolutions :

Whereas, Death has again invaded our Post and detailed our beloved and esteemed Comrade, Thomas L. Hartley, for service in that Grand Army beyond the skies. Therefore,

Resolved, That by his death this Post has lost a true, tried, patriotic and genial comrade; his family a kind, considerate and devoted husband and father; the community a true neighbor and friend, - one to whom it was a delight to aid those in need of distress.

Resolved, That as a soldier his record was a good one, that his good qualities were attested by the large number of companions who served with him, being in attendance at his funeral, although some of them had to drive more than twenty miles.

In the following' roster, the name of each officer and man is followed by his postoffice address at the time of enlistment. In some instances the soldier was not a resident of Henry County at the time of enlistment but moved to that county after the Civil War. In such cases the name of the county from which he enlisted is substituted for the postofifice address and that is followed by the place of settlement in Henry County. The date of muster for the officers is the date they were actually mustered into the service of the United States and not the date of commission.

Company I w^as considered a distinctively Henry County organization and. for that reason, the names of all its members are published to complete the roster, whether they lived in Henry County or not. The name of the county from which he enlisted is substituted for the postofifice address after the name of each nonresident soldier.

Field Officers And Regimental Staff Colonel

Scott Carter, Vevay. Mustered in October 21, 1861. Resigned March 11, 1863. George H. Chapman, Indianapolis. Mustered in March 12, 1863. Promoted Brigadier General and Brevet Major General U. S. V.

Lieutenant And Commissary

John Greiner, Madison. Mustered in December 29, 1862. Resigned May 28, 1863. Philo G. Leslie. Corydon. Mustered in July 1, 1863. Mustered out October 26, 1864.

Pr Hate

William O'Neal, New Castle. Mustered in January 30, 1862. Recruit. Veteran. Transferred to Company A, 3rd Cavalry, re-organized. Mustered out August 7, 1865.

Company Q. M. Sergeant

William H.^ H. McGuffin, Knightstown. Mustered in October 18, 1861. Died at home, near Knightstown, Indiana, January 30, 1862, account of wounds received near Louisville, Kentucky, December - , 1861.

Robert F. Poer, Greensboro. Mustered in October 18, 1861. Captured at Chickamauga, Georgia, September, 1863. Held in Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia. Mustered out October 26, 1864.

Fakrieb And Blacksmith

James Horney, Knightstown. Mustered in October 18, 1861. Captured near Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 23, 1863. Died in Danville Prison, Danville, Virginia, February 15, 1864.

Elwood James, Knightstown. Mustered in October 18, 1861. Discharged, disability, June - , 1862. Re-enlisted September 24, 1862. Recruit. Transferred to Company L, 8th Cavalry, re-organized.

John H. Kennedy, Knightstown. Mustered in August 24, 1862. Recruit. Captured near Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 23, 1863. Died in Andersonville Prison, Georgia July 8, 1864.

Lewis Micha, Knightstown. Mustered in October 18, 1861. Captured near Chat tanooga, Tennessee, September 23, 1863. Died in Andersonville Prison, Georgia, July 18, 1864.

Theodore Young, Knightstown. Mustered in October 18, 1861. Captured at Jonesboro, Georgia, September - , 1864. Held in Confederate prison. Mustered out June 17, 1865.

Thomas M. Huston, Fayette County, Knightstown after the Civil War. Mustered in September 20, 1864. Recruit. Transferred to Company A, 8th Cavalry, re-organized.

Mustered For Three Years

The Third Cavalry (45th Regiment) was never wholly united as an organization at any time during its term of service. Six companies that had been originally organized for the First Cavalry and sent to the Army of the Potomac were, by order of the War Department, consolidated with four companies that had been sent to Kentucky, the ten companies bearing the designation of the Third Cavalry (45th Regiment). Two new companies were afterwards added to the organization. The right wing, composed of Companies A, B, C, D, E and F, served continuously with the Army of the Potomac and participated in the fortunes of that Army until August, 1864, when the veterans and recruits were re-organized into two companies (A and B) and attached to General Sheridan's army, in the Shenandoah Valley, remaining with his command to the end of the war.

The left wing of the regiment was composed of Companies G, H, I, K, L and M, which served as detachments in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama before being finally united under one command during the Atlanta Campaign, in 1864.

Company I was a distinctively Henry County organization and it is with its history we are chiefly concerned. The company was recruited in Knightstown and vicinity, largely by the efforts of Captain William C. Moreau, First Lieutenant Tilghman Fish, Second Lieutenant Oliver Giarles, and Sergeant Thomas B. Wilkinson. It was organized at Knightstown in August, 1861, and went into camp at Indianapolis, September 5, 1861, where it was armed and equipped. When the company left Knightstown, the officers and men took with them their own horses which were afterwards purchased by the Government. On November i, the company was transferred to Louisville, Kentucky, but through some misunderstanding, Captain Moreau failed to report to his superior officers there and moved on to Bardstown, Kentucky, reporting to General Alexander McDowell McCook at that place. When this became known to General Buell, the company was ordered back to Louisville, where it remained in Camps Rousseau and Jenkins until January, 1862, when it was ordered to report to General William Nelson at Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky. There, on January 25th, Captain Moreau and Lieutenants Fish and Charles resigned leaving the company without a commissioned officer. About February 2nd, new officers were commissioned : Argus D. Vanosdal, serving with the right wing, promoted from Sergeant Major of the regiment to Captain ; Thomas B. Wilkinson, promoted from Sergeant to First Lieutenant and Charles Hedrick, promoted from First Sergeant to Second Lieutenant. From the roster of Company I, it will be seen that Captain Vanosdal resigned May i, 1863, and William C. Moreau was again commissioned Captain of the company and so remained until January i, 1864, when he left the service for good.

From Camp Wickliffe the company, taking boat at West Point, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and was there placed on detached duty with orders to report to Colonel Stanley Matthews, Provost Marshal of Nashville. It acted as mounted provost guard at that place until the Autumn of 1862, when the company, with General Buell's army, moved back to the Ohio River, taking part in all the battles and skirmishes between Nashville and Louisville. Moving South again with General Buell's army, the company took part in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862, and thence marched on with the army to Nashville, where it remained until ordered to Stone's River, Tennessee, where on December 31st, 1862, and January ist and 2nd, 1863, it took part in that sanguinary battle. On March 20th, 1863, it was engaged at Vaught's Hill, near Milton, Tennessee. This was followed by the Tullahoma Campaign in which the company was especially active. After the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, in which it took part, the company marched to Marysville, in East Tennessee, where it was engaged in scouting and skirmishing until the beginning of the Atlanta Campaign.

When General Sherman began his campaign to Atlanta, the six companies belonging to the left wing of this regiment were united and assigned to the Second Brigade (Minty's) of the Second Division (Garrard's) of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and took part in all the battles and skirmishes of that hard fought campaign. At Cartersville, Georgia, the men of the company, whose enlistment had expired, were mustered out October 26, 1864, and the recruits were transferred to the Eighth Cavalry with which they continued to serve until mustered out at Lexington, North Carolina, July 20, 1865.

Both wings of the regiment saw arduous service and were represented in nearly all the memorable battles of the war, from South Mountain and Antietam, Maryland, to Appomattox Court House, Virginia, in the East, and Perryville, Kentucky, and Stone's River, Tennessee, to Bentonville, North Carolina, in the West and South. The regiment's achievements in the field can be gleaned from the general histories of the war. Here are given only the engagements in which Company I bore an honorable part, viz :

In the Civil War, Lieutenant Thomas Benton Wilkinson, Company I, 3rd Indiana Cavalry, was one of Henry County's bravest and most dashing officers. He is a native of Hancock County, Indiana, where he was born December 10, 1839. His parents were Daniel S. and Mary (Dickinson) Wilkinson, both natives of Mrginia. The father was born July 16, 1804, and died in August, 1878. He is buried in the old cemetery at Knightstown. The mother was born in 1807 and died in April, 1847. She is buried in the Harland Cemetery, in Hancock County. They were married near Clarksburg. Harrison County, West Virginia.

The children of this marriage, other than Thomas B., were Elmore, deceased : Elnathan, now residing in Knightstown; John H., Elizabeth H., Caroline and Martha, all four deceased; George M. who was a soldier of the Civil War in Company I, 3rd Indiana Cavalry, in the roster of which company, his services will be found fully set forth. He lost his life in the army and for that reason his name will .be found in the Roll of Honor, published in this History. Another brother, Rufus A., resides in Kansas City, Missouri. There are two children, by a subsequent marriage, now living : Leonidas K., of Chicago, Illinois ; and William F., of Danville, Illinois.

The family moved from "VV'est Virginia to Hancock County, Indiana, in 1836, settling on a farm of which the town of Shirley is now a part. In 1856, Mr. Wilkinson, the father, with his family, moved to Minnesota, where he remained eighteen months and then returned to Indiana, settling at Indianapolis. He lived there for several years and then moved to Charlottesville, Hancock County. From that point, he moved to Rush County where he lived until his death, as above stated.

Thomas Benton Wilkinson

Thomas Benton ^^'^ilkinson left home, at the early age of sixteen, to pursue his own fortune, and from that time, until the beginning of the Civil War, he was

He early enlisted in and assisted in recruiting Company I, 3rd Indiana Cavalry, and in the roster preceding this sketch will be found his services and promotions, in full. During the Atlanta Campaign, in the Summer of 1864, he was acting Assistant Quartermaster, on the staff of General Robert H. G. Minty, who commanded a brigade in one of the cavalry divisions of the Army of the Cumberland.

After rendering three years of faithful and arduous service to the cause of liberty and the Union, he returned to his home at Knightstown ; but he soon after engaged in the general mercantile business with his brother, Elnathan, at the old town of Elizabeth City, where he remained twelve years, doing a highly prosperous business. In 1879, he returned to Knightstown, where he has since resided, being engaged in the grain and milling business, under the firm name of T. B. Wilkinson and Company, his two sons, below named, constituting the "^Company." This firm owns and operates the well known "Eagle Mills," one mile northeast of Knightstown.

In politics Mr. Wilkinson has ever been an active Republican. He is one of the original stockholders in the Citizens' State Bank of Knightstown, of which he is also a director. He is a member of the Jerry B. Mason Post, No. 168. Grand Army of the Republic ; Golden Rule Lodge, No. 16, A. F. and A. M. ; Royal Arch Chapter, No. 33 ; Cryptic Council, No. 29, and Knightstown Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar, all of Knightstown. He has filled the highest positions in each of the above named bodies, and is justly regarded as one of Knightstown's most energetic and progressive citizens.

At Knightstown, on November 12, 1867, he was united in marriage with Miss Clay Anna Ball, a native of Ohio, born March 10, 1847, daughter of Orlando and Harriet Ball. This couple are the parents of the following children : Claude E., residing at Knightstown ; Aubrey C, residing at Raysville, where he married Estella, daughter of Giarles S. and Martha Hubbard ; Mabel G., residing at home with her parents, and Lena E., married to Earl D. Faulkner, a manufacturer, who resides at Winkinson. The sons and son-in-law are all highly prosperous and successful business men. The town of Wilkinson, in Hancock County, is named for this Wilkinson family.

Lieutenant Tilghman Fish

Tilghman Fish, the well known and progressive citizen of Knightstown, Indiana, was a soldier of the Civil War, in Company I. 3rd Indiana Cavalry, which organization he was active in recruiting. When the company was fully organized, he was the unanimous choice of his comrades for First Lieutenant, and was commissioned as such, September 13, 1861, and mustered into the service of the United States, October 18, 1861. On account of failing health, he was forced to resign, January 25, 1862. While his time at the front was brief, it did not measure his service during the War. After his return to Knightstown, he was very active in support of the Government, in encouraging enlistments, in soliciting and forwarding to the front sanitary and other supplies and in caring for the

Lieutenant Fish was born near Baltimore, Maryland, November 28, 1829. His parents were Tilghman and Eliza Fish, who came to Indiana in 1836 and settled at Richmond, Wayne County, where they remained three years. They then moved to Greensfork, in the same county, where they lived for seven years. Then removing to Raysville, Henry County, the father there bought or built and operated a woolen mill until 1852, when he disposed of the same. In 1856, the elder Fish removed with all his family, except the son, Tilghman, to Iowa, settling near Columbus Junction, in Louisa County, where the parents died and were buried. The other children of this family were Frank, who died at Richmond ; Elizabeth ; Anna Eliza ; Amanda and Evan.

When his father sold the woolen mill as above stated, young Tilghman Fish removed to Knightstown and has made that place his home to the present time, witnessing its growth from a small, straggling village to a thriving, enterprising, beautiful town, and himself playing an important part in this growth. He was for nine years in the grocery business and then for twenty eight years in the hardware trade. He is now retired from active business but devotes a portion of his time to the Citizens' State Bank at Knightstown, of which he is vice-president and director.

Mr. Fish was first married to Elizabeth Anderson, who died in 1853, about a year after their marriage. He afterwards married Margaret J. Bell, in Knightstown, October 20, 1854. They have no children. Mrs. Fish is a daughter of Harvey and Nancy Bell. She was born in Augusta County, Virginia, December 20, 182Q, and came with her parents to Indiana in 1832. The Bell family first settled in Rush County, near the old town of West Liberty, where they lived until 1840, when they removed to Knightstown, where Mr. Bell, for the remainder of his life, was a prominent business man and a highly respected and honored citizen. Harvey Bell was born in 1806 and died in 1886. His wife was born in 1809 and died in 1842. They were married in Virginia in 1827. Both are buried in the old Barrett Cemetery, Rush County, near the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home.

Tilghman Fish is a member of the Jerry B. Mason Post, No. 168, Grand Army of the Republic ; Golden Rule Lodge, No. 16, A. F. and A. M. ; Royal Arch Chapter, No. 33 ; Cryptic Council, No. 29, and Knightstown Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar, all of Knightstown. Politically, he has been a Republican from the organization of the party.

Mr. Fish's long and active business life merits the confidence and esteem of all who have been honored by his acquaintance. No man in Knightstown or, for that matter, in Henry County, enjoys a more enviable reputation.

Biographical Sketch Of Thomas Mitchell Huston Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, And Farmer

Thomas Mitchell Huston is a native of Fayette County, Indiana, and was born February 3, 1840. His parents were William and Jane (Ramsey) Huston. The mother was the first white child born in Preble County, Israel Township. Ohio. The father was a native of County Antrim, Ireland. The parents were married in Preble County, Ohio, and came to Fayette County, Indiana, about the year 1829. j\Ir. Huston's maternal grandfather Ramsey was a soldier of the War of 1812-15 and was the Captain of a company.

The subject of this sketch was raised in Fayette County, living until he was twenty eight years old on his parents' farm, situate in the southwest part of the county near what is now known *as the town of Orange. To his parents were born ten children of whom Thomas M. was the youngest son. On October 21, 1869, he was united in marriage with Mary E. Harris and to them were born two children, both of whom are living, namely, Frank C. Huston, residing in Indianapolis, where he is engaged in the real estate business, and Mrs. Eva Hinchman, wife of Ulysses Grant Hinchman, now residents of Fayette County, where Mr. Hinchman is a successful and prosperous farmer.

During the Civil War three members of the Huston family entered the service of the United States, to-wit : William Ramsey Huston, private. Company K, 37th Indiana Infantry, who served faithfully and gallantly from October 8, 1861, to October 27, 1864; James Miller Huston, private. Company H, i6th Indiana Infantry (three years' service), in which famous regiment he remained from August 12, 1862, to June 30, 1865, and Thomas Mitchell Huston, the subject of this biography. The military record of the latter shows that he was a private in Company L, 3rd Indiana Cavalry. He enlisted from Fayette County and was mustered into the service of the United States September 20, 1864, whereupon he was assigned to Camp Carrington, near Indianapolis. While there the time for the October election in Indiana approached and all of the soldiers in that camp were furloughed home to vote. The day prior to their departure for their respective homes. Governor Morton came to the camp and made a speech to them, which Mr. Huston describes as one of the greatest speeches he ever heard from the lips of man. Immediately after the election, Mr. Huston returned to Camp Carrington but was soon taken sick with typhoid fever and furloughed home where he remained until January 2, 1865. Between the time of his muster into the service of the United States and his return to Camp Carrington as above noted, the term of three years' service of the 3rd Indiana Cavalry expired and all of the veterans and recruits of that regiment were transferred to the 8th Indiana Cavalry, Private Huston being assigned to Company A of the last named regiment. Private Huston, with the other recruits for the regiment, left Camp Carrington for New York, January 31, 1865, and sailed from that city February 6, for Hilton Head, South Carolina. The trip occupied nine days during which there was a terrible storm and during the whole of one Sunday they were chased by a Confederate privateer. They remained a day at Hilton Head and were then transferred to a small vessel and sent up one of the numerous rivers or inlets emptying near Hilton Head, with the intention of making a landing and getting information, which would enable them to join General Sherman's army, which was then marching through the Carolinas. In this they were unsuccessful and returned by water to Beaufort, South Carolina, finally landing at a place about forty five miles from Charleston, to which city they marched overland, reaching tliere about the first of March. Among the interesting events in the soldier life of Thomas Mitchell Huston was the restoration of "Old Glory" to the walls of Fort Sumter, from which it had been banished by four years of bloody war. On April 14, 1861, the Confederates had compelled the lowering of the flag by a severe bombardment but now the identical flag then hauled down was again to be raised over the old fort. A Federal army, under General Quincy A. Gilmore, had taken possession of Charleston, February 18, 1865, and on April 14, 1865, by order of the War Department, to Alajor Anderson, who had lowered the flag, was now assigned the duty of restoring it to the battlements of the fort. In this welcome duty. Major Anderson was assisted by as many of his old garrison as had survived the shock of war. The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher delivered an address and during the day minute guns were fired in honor of the occasion. The day and place had been chosen by the government as most fitting to mark the close of the Civil War. Charleston, the beginning; Charleston, the end. The restoration of the flag was witnessed by Mr. Huston and his recollection of this memorable event is particularly vivid and exact. The day, however, was destined to be associated with the most tragic event in American history - the assassination of President Lincoln, upon the threshold of peace. Soon after these striking events above narrated. Private Huston with many other soldiers, at Charleston, was transferred by water to Moorehead City, North Carolina, and thence by rail to join the command of General Judson Kilpatrick, commanding the cavalry forces of General Sherman's army. He was with the army at the time of the surrender of the Confederate forces under General Joseph E. Johnston, at Durham Station, near Raleigh, North Carolina, and after that event went with his regiment to Greensboro and thence to Lexington, North Carolina, where the regiment was mustered out and soon afterwards returned to Indianapolis for final discharge.

After the close of the Civil War, Mr. Huston resided continuously in Fayett^:: County, the place of his nativity, until the year 1890, when he disposed of his possessions there and vvith his family moved to Center Township, Rush County, about five miles south of Knightstown, where he lived until 1901, when he established his home at the last named place where he has since resided, and which he regards as his permanent home. After his removal to 'Knightstown, Mr. Huston disposed of his Rush and Henry County farms and re-invested the pro- ceeds in Indianapolis rental properties.

The parents of Mr. Huston's wife were William and Sarah (Sutton) Harris. The father was a native of Delaware and the mother of Pennsylvania. They at first settled in Franklin County, Indiana, where they were married, March 18, 1842. They afterwards located in Fayette County, where they continued to reside until their respective deaths. William Harris, the father, died August 16, 1884, and Sarah Harris, the mother, died December 27, 1895. Both are buried in Fayette County, near the tOAvn of Orange. Mrs. Huston's paternal grandmother was

Mr. and Mrs. Huston are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in politics Mr. Huston has always been a loyal Republican. He was for a number of years a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being a charter member of the Post at Orange, Fayette County. Death, however, has been busy among its members and like many others it has ceased to exist.

Samuel Sutton Harris, the only brother of Mrs. Huston, enlisted in the army during the Civil War and became Corporal of Company F, 139th Indiana Infantr}'. He was mustered into the service of the United States June 5, 1864, and died at Mumfordsville, Kentucky, June 28, 1864, where he was buried but his remains have since been removed to a National Cemetery.

Aside from the stirring incidents of his war service, Mr. Huston's life has iDeen quiet and uneventful. Happy in his domestic relations, he has never sought publicity. In his chosen line, however, his has been a successful life and now to enjoy the years that are left him, he has retired from the active pursuits of life, content with a competency accumulated by his own labors.

The Fourth Cavalry (Seventy Seventh Regiment) was organized at IndianapoHs, August 22, 1862. At first the regiment was widely separated, two companies being at Carrollton, four at Henderson and the remainder, except Company C, at Louisville, Kentucky. Company C acted as escort for General A. J. Smith throughout the Vicksburg Campaign and the Red River Expedition, but finally joined its regiment in 1864. On account of the service of this company at Vicksburg, Indiana has erected a monument to the regiment at that place. The regiment operated extensively in Kentucky, engaging the enemy at Madisonville, Mount Washington, Mumfordsville and many other points. In February, 1863, it was at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and March loth fought the enemy at Rutherford's Creek, near that place. At Murfreesboro, the regiment being united, except the one company above mentioned, entered the campaign to Chattanooga, and September 19 and 20, took part in the battle of Qiickamauga. It took part in the East Tennessee Campaign and at Fair Garden participated in a severe battle with the enemy. The regiment was in the advance on Atlanta and took a conspicuous part in the McCook Raid. It was very active as a part of the cavalry corps throughout the Tennessee Campaign, and distinguished itself in the Alabama and Georgia Campaigns. Returning from Macon, Georgia, in May, 1865, it reached Nashville and there remained in the cavalry camp at Edgefield across the Cumberland River, until mustered out of the service, June 29, 1865.

This regiment and the Second Indiana Cavalry were so closely allied in the battle of Chickamauga, that the history of the two in that engagement is combined and fully set out following the Second Cavalry.

Henry County had but three representatives in this regiment, viz: Major and Surgeon, William F. Boor ; Lieutenant and Quartermaster, John Thornburgh, and Private, Joseph B. McGuffin. The facts for this brief history of the regiment are furnished by Lieutenant Thornburgh. Indiana has erected a monument to this regiment at Chickamauga, bearing the following inscription :

Fourth Regiment Cavalry

On the 19th of September, 1863, this regiment when guarding the supply trains about one mile from Stevens' Gap, had a spirited skirmish with the enemy's cavalry, repulsing it and bringing the train through. On Sunday morning, the 20th, the regiment with its brigade, was in line of battle near Crawfish Springs, and skirmished with the enemy until 4 p. m., when it was ordered to fall back by the Dry Valley road.

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William Francis Boor, M. D., was born in Perry County, Ohio, June lo, 1819. He is the si.xth of a family of seven children of Nicholas and Rachel (Guisinger) Boor, who were Pennsylvanians, of German descent.

Losing his father in early childhood, it became necessary for him to depend on his own exertions. As soon, therefore, as he was able, he was put to work assisting on a farm, or "striking" in his brother's blacksmith shop when he was so small that he had to stand on a block "to swing the heavy sledge with measured beat and slow." Working in Summer time and attending school during the Winter season did not fully meet the earnest desires of the young man for an education; but while educational opportunities were limited, his teachers were men of the most sterling worth - men of ''ye olden time school," who taught thoroughness in letters, purity in morals, and uprightness in character, which at times were almost severe. With such an instructor as Robert Stuart, and a determination to succeed, advancement was rapidly made, so that the pupil soon occupied the position of teacher, still pursuing his studies more zealously. Obtaining a good English education, in April, 1842, he became a student of medicine in the office of Drs. Dillon and Spencer, in Uniontown, Muskingum County, Ohio, with whom he studied three years.

The fertile and growing State of Indiana was then the attractive point of immigration, and to Henry County the young doctor made his way on horseback in June, 1845. Shortly after his arrival in Indiana he received a call from Carlisle, Monroe County, Ohio, and by the advice of his preceptor, Dillon, he returned to his native State, and at once engaged in a good practice in Carlisle. In visiting his patients, he would frequently contrast his climbing the rugged hills of Monroe County with "what might have been" in Henry County had he remained in the \\'est. In the spring of 1846, a fire breaking out in the block containing his office, everything he had was consumed but his horse and the clothes he wore. This circumstance confirmed him in his decision to leave Carlisle where he had made many friends in his year's practice. No railroads, and the stage lines not connecting, he again started on horseback for Indiana, arriving at ]\Iiddletown. Henry County, August, 1846. Here, in a short time he built up an extensive and profitable practice. Now fully established in his profession, he returned to Muskingum County, Ohio, and was there married April 15. 1847, to Miss Catharine E. Axline. This happy union was broken by her death in March, 1852. In the following October, determined upon obtaining greater proficiency, he entered the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in March, 1853. He also attended the practice of the physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital for one year (1852-3). Returning to Middletown, he again resumed his practice, day and night bearing the hardships of a pioneer doctor, plodding bad roads and corduroy bridges, exposed to the inclemency of the weather. In the spring of 1857 he disposed of his property, and prepared to leave Middletown. where he had practiced medicine eleven years. Strong ties of friendship and confidence had grown between practitioner and patrons that will never be broken. He had been interested in its growth from a mere village to one of the best towns in the county, except the county seat. The cars on the Panhandle Railroad whirled by many times in a day, and the almost impassable roads were being transformed into smooth, solid gravel pikes. He had assisted in the development of its morals, until, under the local option law of 185 1, all intoxicants were banished one mile beyond its incorporated limits. All these surroundings made it no small task for the Doctor to leave Middletown ; yet other circumstances arising, these became subservient, and accordingly, on April i, 1857, he was married the second time, removing to the neighborhood of his old home, in Perry County, Ohio. Here he bought a magnificent farm, and lived on it one year, then moving to New Castle, April i, 1858. Finding nothing so conducive to his happiness as the practice of his profession, he once more entered the physician's arena, with a kindly spirit, attending the sick faithfully, ever conscientious in the discharge of its duties.

In April, 1862, he was appointed by Governor Morton, Surgeon of the Nineteenth Indiana Infantry, but declined to serve ; yet on September 4, of same year, he accepted the Surgeoncy of the Fourth Indiana Cavalry, and served with that regiment until June, 1863, when he was appointed Brigade Surgeon of the First Brigade, Second Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland. Unfortunately for the medical interests of that department, he was obliged to resign his post November, 1863, because of the protracted illness of his wife. Upon returning to civil life he engaged with youthful ardor in his profession, which grows not old nor rusty with his years. By his studious devotion to his books, journals and newspapers, he kept himself up to the demand of the times in his art and in the current news of the day. By reason of his keen observation and calm judgment broadened by his practice of nearly forty years, none stood higher, and few there were whose counsels were sought more eagerly. Dr. Boor retired from active practice January i, 1885.

He was a charter member of the New Castle Medical Society, organized in 1856, which held regular meetings three times a year, until it was reorganized under the name of the Henry County Medical Society, as an auxiliary to the State Society of which reorganized society he was also a charter member. He was at various times chosen president of these societies, before which he read many papers on medical subjects, one of which we find as early as 1858. on "Femoral Phlebitis as a Sequela of Enteric Fever" - painful complication ushered in with a chill and increase of fever about the end of the second week, in which he argued its pathological identity with phlegmasia alba dolens - there having been no mention made of this troublesome complication in any of the medical literature at his command. He is also a member of the Indiana State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association. March 11. 1869, he was appointed physician to the Henry County Asylum, and on April 2, 1870, he received the appointment of United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions, both of which offices he held for nearly twenty years.

In the development of our educational interests the Doctor is an earnest advocate, being one of the three trustees, who argued and labored to bring up our schools to a free graded standard, under which system they are among the most successful in the State. As School Trustee he served for more than twelve years. Dr. Boor has never indulged in dissipation, as his splendid physique and perfect health, in the main, attest, weighing the heaviest, 218 pounds, but generally about 210. He never used intoxicants nor tobacco in any form. The Washingtonian movement originated in 1840, and in April, 1842, he joined the society. Subsequently the Sons of Temperance were organized ; the Doctor, joining them, worked for the abolishment of strong drink. He has been connected with all the temperance organizations, and given largely of his means for the furtherance of the cause. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, passed all the chairs, and been several times a representative of the Grand Lodge. He is also a member of the George W. Lennard Post, No. 148, Grand Army of the Republic, New Castle, in which organization he takes great interest. The Doctor's political attachments, though strong, are ever held subordinate to his sense of right, as seen in the fact that, although once a devoted Democrat, he left the party when it broke the Nation's compact and outraged the rights of man by repealing the Missouri Compromise. Since that event he has been a Republican.

The Doctor is a member of the Christian Church, and was immersed March 7, 1871, by Elder David H. Gary, then pastor of the New Castle Christian congregation. In church relation, as in other walks in life, a conviction of duty insures a steadfastness of purpose to the cause espoused. For many years he was President of the Board of Trustees and in the sacred trusts of a Deacon in the church and attendance at the Lord's-day services, his place is rarely if ever vacant. Business or pleasure, for the time being, are laid aside.

In finance. Dr. Boor has been eminently successful - a charter member of the First National Bank, a Director, Vice-President and President of the same, being first elected to the Presidency in 1885 and being thereafter annually re-elected until January, 1902, when he declined a re-election on account of his advancing age and other business interests demanding his attention. At the second reorganization of the bank in January, 1905, Dr. Boor was continued as a director, by the unanimous vote of the stockholders.

But, after all, a true man's light shines brightest in his own home circle. Should its rays be clouded there, they cannot fall with much warmth or force in their radiation on a church relation, business circle, professional engagement or general society. This phase of the Doctor's life the author cannot touch without giving more than a passing notice to his wife.

Sarah A. R. Roof, daughter of*Samuel Roof, a sketch of whom appears below, was born in New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, January 28, 1838. At a very early age she learned her A B C's, and when she was five years old - then reading in the second reader - she was sent to school, taught by Simon T. Powell. Books were her chief delight ; to be a teacher her highest ambition. Industrious in habit, i)ersistent in effort, utilizing her meagre opportunities with much ability, when she was fourteen years of age the earnest desires of her heart had been attained. Passing a critical examination by James S. Ferris, she received a teacher's certificate, and opened her first school. The subsequent years were spent in ardent devotion to literature, as pupil or teacher, until her marriage to Dr. William F. Boor, April i', 1857 - two lives now merged into one, complementing and supplementing each other; the one full of experience, and communicative; the other eager to grasp opportunities which were opening up, broadening and deepening channels for her Hfe work. From this home, "the spot of sunshine in a shadv place,*' emanates the hospitality of which we read : "I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me in : naked, and ye clothed me : I was sick, and ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye came unto me." A home of intelligence and culture, without formality or exclusiveness ; of industry and order, without disquietude or severity - home to them is an equal partnership, rather than a place to stay. Together business is planned, books studied, and the questions of the hour discussed. When the Doctor went into the army he left all of his business interests to his wife's management, which she judiciously controlled, sending her husband monthly or quarterly statements of their financial standing. Mrs. Boor's library, in number and variety of books, on almost all subjects, is perhaps not excelled by manv other private libraries in the State ; among them are books she purchased with her first earnings ; others valuable because of their antiquity. Her cabinet of rare minerals and shells, specimens in geology, archaeology, paleontology, Chinese and Japanese curiosities, would seem a life-work within itself. With her books, specimens and bric-a-brac she is conversant, and equally at home upon the moral, religious and political questions of the day.

Mrs. Boor is a charter member of the Christian Church at New Castle, and was immersed by Elder Benjamin Franklin, February 25, 1863. She has been Treasurer of the church, collecting and disbursing its funds ; Deaconness on the official Board, from the organization of the church in 1863 ; a member of the choir ; Manager of the Woman's Working Society ; President and Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society, auxiliary to the Qiristian Woman's Board of Missions ; later State Secretary and organizer of the State Christian Woman's Boards of Missions for five years ; and was a teacher for more than thirty years in the Sunday School.

Mrs. Boor was one of a committee of three appointed by the commissioners, provided by statute, to look after the interests of the Orphan Children's Home, as long as it was located at Spiceland. For fifty years she has been an earnest advocate of temperance and woman's suffrage. In these positions of responsibility and trust, as in the execution of her household management, her motto is, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."

Doctor Boor is the father of four children - two sons by his first wife, the younger, Milton G., dying in infancy. The elder son, ^^''alter Axline, was born January 2^, 1849, "^ ^liddletown, Henry County, Indiana ; studied medecine with his father, and was graduated from the medical department of the Michigan University, March, 1872. He attended a regular course, and was graduated from Bellevue Hospital College, New York, March, 1876. But few physicians at his age had his advantages, and none had made closer application and been rewarded with more successful results. In August, 1877, he entered into partnership with his father in New Castle, and until the time of his death, which occurred at New Castle, May 24, 1897, was one of the most efficient and active practitioners in Henry County. He was a member of the Henry County ^Medical Society, and had several times been elected as its presiding officer; also a member of the Indiana State Medical Society, and of the American ]Medical Association. In September, 1873, he married Angelia ]\I., the only daughter of Dr. Luther W.

Hess, of Cadiz. Two sons and one daughter were born of this marriage - Howard Hess Boor, born October 21, 1874; Frank O. Boor, born Alay 25, 1884, died February 5, 1902, and Hazel Axline Boor, born May 21, 1888.

By the second wife Dr. WiUiam F. Boor had a daughter and son. The daughter, Minnie L. Boor, was born in New Castle, April 5, 1858. When nearing her twenty second birthday she was suddenly and unexpectedly called hence in the early morn of the new year, 1880. She was possessed of an amiableness of disposition and gentleness of spirit rarely found, endearing herself to all. An active and devoted member of the Christian Church, she was ever found at her place in all the meetings. A graduate of the New Castle schools, under Prof. George W. Hufiford, and two years at Antioch College, Ohio, she attained a high degree of intellectual culture. Thoughtful for humanity, she was diligent in the temperance work and moral reforms of the day.

The son, Orville L. Boor, was born in New Castle, September 24, 1859. He and his sister Minnie were taught by their mother at home until they were prepared to enter the high school, then superintended by Prof. George W. Huflford. He was within one year of graduating w^ien the Professor was called to other fields of labor, and the graduating class disbanded. He studied medicine in his father's office about one and a half years, but on account of ill health was compelled to abandon the profession, and in the Spring of 1881 moved to his father's farm, in Prairie Township, where he continued to reside until 1888, having been very successful during the time he was on the farm. In August, 1888, he went to Toronto, Canada, and took a full course of study at the School for Veterinary Surgeons, from which he graduated in the Spring of 1890. He then returned to Indiana and began the practice of his profession as a veterinary surgeon at Muncie. In June, 1891, he was appointed by President Harrison as chief inspector of provisions prepared and packed for foreign shipment, with his headquarters at Hammond, Indiana, not far from Chicago, where great packing interests are located. He held this position until June i, 1893, when being a Republican, he relinquished the place, on account of the change of administration.

He was married April i, 1882, to Miss Cora L. Bouslog, daughter of Wesley and Amanda (Pickenpaugh) Bouslog. Of this union they have one son, Everett Blaine Boor, born June 7, 1884. Politically Walter A. and Orville L. Boor, having been nurtured upon the love of country and rocked in the cradle of patriotism, became active Republicans, 'U'alter so crmtinuing to the day of his death and Orville L. having been continuously of that faith.

The author thus contributes to Henry County history a sketch of one who, with his family, has been identified with her interests for more than half a century. That his career has been highly successful is generally known. There are no cascades, whirling eddies or shallows on his life-strand ; it has always been an even, deep and steady flow. He moves quietly on, and when he acts, does so without ostentation or show. By precept and example he gives to his fellow men, and more directly to his children and grandchildren, honesty, industry, economy, faith, hope, charity, upon which to build their own characters for time and eternitv.

Samuel Roof, father of Sarah A. R. (Roof) Boor, wife of Dr. William F. Boor, a sketch of whom appears above, was a native of Virginia, having been born in Shenandoah County, March 3, 1797, of German parentage. He was early apprenticed to learn the trade of a tanner, at which he became very proficient. He followed that occupation for more than half a century. He was united in marriage with Dorothy Steffy, of Rockingham County, Virginia, March 25, 1819. To them were born nine children, four sons and five daughters. About October i, 1835, Mr. Roof, with his wife and seven children, the youngest being then four months old, moved from Virginia to Indiana, arriving at Washington (Greensfork), Wayne County, November i, 1835, where they resided until March, 1837, when ]\lr. Roof entered into a contract with John Powell to take charge of the latter's tannery at New Castle, Henry County, and very soon thereafter became a permanent resident of that place, then a village of probably three hundred inhabitants. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Roof after they came to New Castle, namely : Sarah A. R. Roof, born in January, 1838, and Leah E. Roof, born in July, 1840. It is a notable circumstance that Samuel Roof and his wife were the first persons immersed, as Disciples of Christ, in New Castle, November 5, i839,by Elder James McVey. Mr. Roof was, for many years, an elder in the Christian Church, of New Castle, and a teacher in the Sunday School. No man was more uniform in his attendance at Church and more earnest in his devotion to the Christian religion. He was an excellent man in all respects and during his long life in New Castle had the sincere respect and confidence of all of his neighbors. He had no enemies.

Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Roof, John W., the eldest ; Erasmus ; James, the youngest, and Ann Eliza, are dead. Those living are Franklin, residing in Wells County, Indiana ; Leah E., now Mrs. Eli Murphey, of Tuscola, Illinois ; Elizabeth, widow of Abraham Brown, residing at Anderson, Indiana; Catharine, now Mrs. Larkin Murray, of Iowa, and Mrs. Sarah A. R. Boor, above mentioned. Samuel Roof died March 8, 1889. His wife preceded him to the grave, dying in December, 1871. Both are at rest in South Mound Cemetery, New Castle, Indiana.

Dr. Robert A. Spencer, of the firm of Dillon and Spencer, of L'niontown ( for the past sixty years known as Fultonham), attained great eminence in his profession and became Professor of Anatomy at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Cincinnati. Ohio. At the time Dr. Boor began his study of medicine. Dr. Spencer had private rooms especially fitted for educating young men in medicine and surgery, and all students were required to pass three years under his instruction, during which the Winter of each year was spent in the dissecting room. The opportunities thus afforded were eagerly seized by Dr. Boor, and his subsequent attendance at the Jefferson Medical College, and his attendance of one year at the clinics of the Pennsylvania Hospital connected with the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, for which he holds the certificate of that institution, rendered him an accomplished physician and surgeon.

Biographical Sketch Of John Thornburgh Author And Bank Cashier

At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, John Thornburgh was the junior member of the firm of H. and J. Shroyer and Company, drygoods merchants, New Castle, Indiana. Their business was situated on what is now known as the "Shroyer Corner," the building they then occupied being one of the most pretentious business blocks in the town.

Shortly after the beginning of the war, it became necessary for the Government to make provision for the payment of volunteers and to this end a number of additional paymasters of United States Volunteers were appointed. President Lincoln tendered one of these appointments to Martin L. Bundy. Each paymaster was entitled to two clerks, and prior to assuming his new duties, Major Bundy asked Mr. Thornburgh to become one of his clerks and the late Elijah Holland, the other. Mr. Thornburgh accepted the position thus tendered, disposed of his interests in the firm of H. and J. Shroyer and Company, and as soon thereafter as possible, went with Major Bundy to St. Louis, Missouri, where the Western Pay Department was then located. From the moment of their arrival. Major Bundy and his clerks were exceedingly busy, paying off troops at various points in the State of Missouri, besides paying the 4th Iowa Cavalry at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; the 3rd Iowa Infantry at Keokuk, in the same State, and a regiment of infantry at Quincy, Illinois. They also assisted in paying the troops at Rollo, Missouri, just after their return to that point from the Pea Ridge battlefield, and visited Jefferson City, Lexington, Palmyra, Hannibal, St. Joseph, Mexico, Cameron, Florence, Huntsville, Chillicothe and many other points in Missouri. Early in 1862 Major Bundy was transferred from St. Louis to Indianapolis.

In the Fall of 1862, while stationed at Indianapolis, Mr. Thornburgh was tendered the position of First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster of the 4th Indiana Cavalry. After considering the matter for several days, at the earnest request of Dr. William F. Boor, who had been appointed Surgeon of the regiment, Mr. Thornburgh accepted the position and was duly commissioned, September 17, 1862, the commission being signed by Governor Oliver P. Morton, attested by William A. Peele, Secretary of State, and countersigned by Larz Noble, Adjutant General of Indiana. The endorsement on the back of the commission is as follows :

"I do hereby certify that I mustered John Thornburgh, by authority of Governor Oliver P. Morton, into the service of the United States as First Lieutenant and Quartermaster, 4th Cavalry Regiment, Ind. Vol., Sept. 18, 1862.

Prior to muster in as above, the entire regiment with its full complement of officers and men, except one company and the Quartermaster Sergeant, George W. French, of Rising Sun, Indiana, had gone to the front, two companies being at Carrollton, Kentucky ; four companies at Henderson, Kentucky ; one company at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the others located at various points in the South. The

Lieutenant Thornburgh joined that portion of the regiment located at Carrollton, and from there, with two companies of the 5th Indiana Cavalry, under the command of Colonel Isaac P. Gray, who afterwards became the Governor of Indiana, moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and thence to Mumfordsville, where it spent the Winter of 1862-63. In 1863 the command was ordered to Nashville and subsequently to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where the full regiment, except the company at Vicksburg, came together and from which point it entered upon the famous campaign, having for its objective, Chattanooga. Before beginning this campaign, however, the 4th Cavalry, with a large portion of the troops at Murfreesboro, were ordered to Triune, Tennessee. A few days after reaching that point, the army started on its march to the South, but the Quartermasters with their trains were ordered back to Murfreesboro to await further orders.

At Triune, Lieutenant Thornburgh was taken with a severe attack of yellow jaundice and became so ill that the acting brigade surgeon. Dr. William F. Boor, and Colonel Edward M. McCook, in command of the brigade, decided it best lor him to resign. This suggestion was acted upon and though the army was on the march, with headquarters in the saddle, a few days after the return to Murfreesboro, Lieutenant Thornburgh received his discharge from the army on account of disability.

Lieutenant Thornburgh was educated in the public and common schools of New Castle, commencing first under the late Simon T. Powell and ending under Abbott and Ferris, principals of the New Castle Academy. Subsequently he spent one year (1854-55) at Asbury, now De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.

He was married to Eliza Josephine Elliott, eldest daughter of the late Judge Jehu T. Elliott, March 21, 1859. This date is further memorable in the family annals from the fact that on the same date, his brother, Jacob, started for Pike's Peak, Colorado, along with the late Dr. John Darr, Joseph McDowell and others. All returned the same year except Jacob, who died in a wagon at Beatrice, Nebraska, from an attack of typhoid fever, contracted by exposure to the waters of the treacherous Platte River. To the union of Lieutenant Thornburgh and Eliza Josephine Elliott were born six children of whom three survive, namely, Mrs. Edward D. Parsons Of Oak Park, Illinois, Mrs. Ellsworth D. McConnell of Aberdeen, South Dakota, and Miss Olive Louise Thornburgh, a teacher in the New Castle public schools.

Lieutenant Thornburgh was a practical printer and served his apprenticeship with the late Cornelius V. Duggins, editor and publisher of the New Castle Courier. After the death of Mr. Duggins in 1849, Mr. Thornburgh finished his trade with the late John W. Grubbs of Richmond, Indiana, the founder of the Courier, who at that time, 1841, was regarded as one of the best newspaper men of the period.

Lieutenant Thornburgh is probably best known throughout the county of Henry as the author of ''John's Occasionals," a series of letters which uniformly attracted the attention of the readers of the New Castle Courier and other papers of the county. These letters are largely of a reminiscent character and contain much matter of interest concerning the history of New Castle, of Henry County and of Eastern Indiana. At this writing, 1905, Lieutenant Thornburgh is the

President of the Henry County Historical Society and was for several years prior, Secretary of the same. To that institution and to its success, he has given his closest attention and hopes that in the coming years, it will occupy a place second to none in the history and annals of the county.

After Lieutenant Thornburgh's return from the Civil War, he became a partner with John M. Moore, now of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the drug business in New Castle, under the name of Moore and Thornburgh. After about four years in this business, he sold out in 1868 to William M. Pence and shortly afterwards went into the First National Bank of New Castle as bookkeeper. In a few months the bank was re-organized. Major Martin L. Bundy becoming president and Lieutenant Thornburgh cashier in the place of the late Daniel Murphey, resigned. Lieutenant Thornburgh continued in this position until the year 1873-4, when he resigned and was succeeded by the late Robert M. Nixon. Lieutenant Thornburgh then became associated with William H. Elliott in the law and insurance business and when the latter became proprietor and editor of the New Castle Courier, i\[r. Thornburgh continued with him as associate editor of the paper until 1880, when he disposed of his interests in New Castle and removed with his family to Richmond, Indiana, where for about two years, he was associate editor of the Richmond Palladium, now the second oldest paper in Indiana. Leaving Richmond in 1882, he removed with his family to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he resided for thirteen years. During that time he was assistant cashier of the private bank of Valentine G. Hush, until it went out of existence in 1886. He then helped to organize and was for a time the assistant cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of JSIinneapolis. He was also for three years, the cashier of the Home Savings and Loan Association, better known then as one among the numerous National Building and Loan Associations of the Northwest, most of which flourished for a brief period and then went out of business. They were not a financial success. Lieutenant Thornburgh was for two years connected with the Housekeeper Publishing Company, a paper established by the late Captain Alfred G. Wilcox, who was some years ago, editor and proprietor of the New Castle Courier. In 1895 Lieutenant Thornburgh and family left Minneapolis for Oak Park, Illinois, where they lived about four years and then in 1899 returned to New Castle where they expect to abide permanently.

Thornburgh Family

Lieutenant John Thornburgh was born in New Castle, Indiana, March 8, 1837, his parents being Jacob and Elizabeth (Hoover) Thornburgh. His father was a pioneer merchant of New Castle who settled at that place in 1825. During his brief life, aside from his regular business, he filled several offices of trust and responsibility. From December 12, 1828, to August 13, 1829, he was Sheriff of the county, having been elected to succeed Ezekiel Leavell, who resigned the office December 11, 1828. He also served as a Justice of the Peace, his commission bearing date September 29, 1829. He was also a member of the State Militia, being First Lieutenant of Cavalry August 4, 1829. He afterwards became an Associate Judge of the County, being elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Anderson, and served from February 19, 1839 to the time of his own death, February 10, 1840. The vacancy occasioned by his demise was filled by the election of Gabriel Cosand.

To Jacob and Elizabeth (Hoover) Thornburgh were born eight children, namely: Hiram, David, Oliver, William, Edwin and Calvin (twins), John and Jacob. Of these children, Oliver, William, Edwin and Calvin, died in infancy and all of the others are dead except John, the subject of this sketch. Hiram Thornburgh, born April 14, 1827, according to the best information, was the first white child born within the corporate limits of New Castle. He died April I, 1888. During his life he was known to almost every man, woman and child in New Castle and no man was held in higher regard and esteem by his friends and neighbors. He learned the tanner's - trade under the late John Powell and afterwards succeeded him in busniess, conducting the same successfully for many years. Jacob Thornburgh, the youngest son, was born December 8, 1839 ^"^ died at Beatrice, Nebraska, August i, 1859. He was one of the Darr-McDowell party to Pike's Peak in 1859, an account of which appears in another place in this history.

Lieutenant Thornburgh's father, Jacob, came to Indiana at an early day with his parents, Walter and Mary Thornburgh, from the Lost Creek neighborhood, near Knoxville, Tennessee, and settled at or near Economy, Wayne County. Their descendants, many of them, still live in and occupy much of the territory north of Hagerstown, Wayne County, extending well up into Randolph County. EHzabeth (Hoover) Thornburgh, his wife, was a daughter of the late David Hoover of near Richmond and was born September 21, 1807 and died October 8, 1881. After the death of Jacob Thornburgh, her husband, she was married to the late Simon T. Powell and of this marriage were born four children of whom but one, Henry Lycurgus Powell, of New Castle, survives.

The David Hoover above mentioned came to Indiana from North Carolina and settled on land immediately north of Richmond and now within plain view of that city, in the year 1806. He was a man of large information and was early recognized as a leader in matters touching the interests of the people of his community. He was one of the committee of three selected to find a suitable name for the site of the new town and it was by his suggestion that the name of Richmond was chosen. He was the second clerk of Wayne County and represented that county in the State Senate during the sessions of 1832, 1833 ^^''^ 1834. His farm north of Richmond was entered by him in 1806 and is still in the Hoover name, being now occupied by the widow of his son, David Hoover, and their children. David Hoover, the original settler in Wayne Coiinty, was for his time, a well educated man. He wrote a good, plain hand, could read the French language and render the poems of Robert Burns, like a born Scotchman. He was a representative man of the times, strong in his opinions and beliefs, and a position once taken, which he believed was right, he could not be swerved from.

In the following roster, the name of each officer and man is followed by his postoffice address at the time of enlistmenr. In some instances the soldier was not a resident of Henrv Countv at the time of enlistment but moved to that county after the Civil War. In such cases the name of the county from which he enHsted is substituted for the postoffice address and that is followed by the place of settlement in Henry County. The date of muster for the officers is the date they were actually mustered into the service of the United States and not the date of commission.

John R. Dykes. Middletown. Mustered in March 29, 1864. Recruit. Captured in Atlanta Campaign. Died in Andersonville Prison, Georgia, November 1, 1864.

Isom P. Henderson, New Castle. Mustered in August 9, 1862. Captured near Glasgow, Kentucky, June 7, 1863. Held in Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia. Mustered out June 15, 1865.

John Perry, New Castle. Mustered in August 8, 1862. Appointed Corporal. Captured In Stoneman's raid around Atlanta, Georgia. Held in Confederate prison. Mustered out June 16, 1865.

James Hutson, Hancock County. Knightstown after the Civil War. Mustered in January 27, 1864. Recruit. Captured in Stoneman's Raid around Atlanta, Georgia, July

Samuel Irvin, Luray. Mustered in August 20, 1862. Captured in Stoneman's raid around Atlanta, Georgia, July 31, 1864. Held in Andersonville Prison, Georgia. Died after release, near Jacksonville, Florida, April - , 1865.

The Fifth Cavalry (Ninetieth Regiment) was organized at IndianapoHs in the Fall of 1862. In the beginning of its service the regiment was much scattered, but the whole command came together in 1863 at Glasgow, Kentucky. In July, 1863, it started in pursuit of General John H. Morgan's Raiders, headed them ofif at Buffington Island, Ohio, and scattered them in every direction. After this service the command returned to Glasgow. In August it marched into East Tennessee with General Burnside's army, and was the first Federal regiment to enter Knoxville. Here it was employed in scouting across the Smoky Mountains to Greenville, Blountsville and Bristol, Tennessee.

During the Atlanta Campaign the regiment was engaged in all the important operations of General Stoneman's Cavalry. The regiment was mustered out of the service at Indianapolis in June, 1865.

The Fifth Cavalry was a fine regiment and was constantly in action from October, 1863, to June, 1865, participating altogether in twenty two battles and skirmishes.