Madison County, Indiana - Chapter 17: Military History, 1914

Madison County in the War With Mexico - The Civil. War - Loyal Spirit op the Citizens - Meeting at the Courthouse - The First Company From Madison County - Rosters of the Various Com¬ panies - Historical Sketches op the Regiments in Which They Served - Cavalry and Artillery Organizations - Spanish-American War - Madison County Represented in Two Regiments.

It has been said that war brings an element of patriotism that can¬ not be developed by any other means. However that may be, the sons of Madison county have never been backward in responding to the coun¬ try's call for volunteers in time of need. The county had been organ¬ ized but twenty-three years when the nation became involved in a war with Mexico over the annexation of Texas to the United States. Formal declaration of war was made by the Congress on May 11, 1846, and almost immediately afterward came a call for troops. Under that call Indiana sent out two regiments - the First and Second Volunteer In¬ fantry - in each of which were a number of Madison county men, but in the absence of the muster rolls it is impossible to tell just how many or who they were.

A second call was made by President Polk in May, 1847, when a com¬ pany was organized at Marion, Grant county, composed of volunteers from that county and Madison. John M. Wallace, of Marion, was commissioned captain of the company, which marched to Indianapolis, via Anderson, and reported to the state authorities that it was ready for service. From Indianapolis the company proceeded by rail to Madison, thence down the Ohio river by steamboat to Jeffersonville, where it went into camp. On the last day of May it was mustered into the United States service and assigned to the Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry as Company A. This regiment, commanded by Colonel Willis A. Gorman, left Jeffersonville early in June by steamer bound for New Orleans and upon arriving there ordered to Brazos Santiago, near the mouth of the Rio Grande. It then marched about 160 miles up that river and remained there for nearly a month, when it returned to the mouth of the river. Soon after that it embarked on a vessel for Vera Cruz, wdiere it was attached to the brigade commanded by General Joseph Lane. On September 19, 1847, General Lane left Vera Cruz to go to the relief of Colonel Childs at Puebla, where there was a hospital filled w'ith sick and w r ounded American soldiers threatened by the Mexican General Santa Anna.

At the battle of Huamantla, October 9, 1847, Colonel Gorman came up to the support of the United States cavalry just in time to turn defeat into victory, and after the capture of the city his regiment was stationed at the arsenal. A few days later the Fourth Indiana led the advance in the assault on Puebla, which resulted in another victory, and Colonel Childs' garrison of sick and disabled soldiers was rescued from a perilous position. From that time until the close of the war the Fourth was on duty and was engaged in a number of skirmishes with the enemy. On December 19, 1847, it joined the main body of the army under General Winfield Scott, in the city of Mexico, where it remained on guard duty until orders came on June 1, 1848, to return home. The regiment marched to Vera Cruz, sailed from that city for New Orleans, then proceeded by steamboat up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Madison, Indiana, where it was mustered out dn July 20, 1848.

The members of Captain Wallace's company who enlisted from Madison county were: Nineveh Berry, commissary of subsistence; Joseph Hunt, corporal; Reuben Stephenson, drummer; Levi Brewer, Jacob Booser, William Collis, John Dedman, Thomas Dillon, Alexander Greenlee, Solomon Harpold, John Hicks, Levi Knowlton, Benjamin Moore, James Moore, Samuel Moore, Isaac Rheubart, Jacob Spucher, David Vanasdell, privates. John Dedman died at Perote, Mexico, December 11, 1847, and Thomas Dillon died at Puebla on March 28, 1848. Jacob Spucher was discharged at New Orleans on June 15, 1848, for disability, and the other men were mustered out with the company at Madison.

During the quarter of a century that followed the war with Mex¬ ico, a number of veterans who had served in that conflict settled in Madison county. On November 14, 1874, a number of these veterans met at the auditor's office in the courthouse at Anderson and made preparations to attend the convention of the surviving soldiers of the Mexican war at Indianapolis on January 7 and 8, 1875, "and unite with them in an appeal to a generous country and patriotic Congress and executive, to add the names of the surviving soldiers in the Mexican war to the list of pensioners, to the end that the Nation's bounty may be extended to all, who, by their deeds of noble daring have contributed to maintain the rights and uphold the honor of our country either at home or abroad."

Eight of the fourteen townships in the county were represented in the meeting as follows: Adams, John Probasco; Anderson, Nineveh Berry and W. J. Philpot; Boone, Micajah Francis; Duck Creek, J. R. Morris and S. T. Tetrick; Fall Creek, H. P. Shaffer, John Hicks and

-Brady; Jackson, John Ilendren; Pipe Creek, R. P. Moler, Brannock and James Ripley and Robert P. Garretson; Union, Levi Brewer. A glance at these names discloses the fact that Nineveh Berry and Levi Brewer were the only ones credited to Madison county at the time of the war, the others having become residents at a later date.

slavery question was a ' 1 bone of contention" in nearly every session of the national congress. During the political campaign of 1860 threats were frequently made by some of the slave states that, if Mr. Lincoln were elected, they would withdraw from the union. South Carolina carried out this threat on December 20, 1860, when her state convention passed an ordinance of secession. Mississippi seceded on January 9, 1861; Florida, January 10th; Alabama, January 11th; Georgia, Janu¬ ary 19th; Louisiana, January 26th, and Texas, February 1st. Hence, when Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, he found seven states already in rebellion against his authority. Arkansas, North Caro¬ lina, Tennessee and Virginia subsequently passed ordinances of seces¬ sion.

Early in the year 1861, Major Robert Anderson, who was in command of the defenses in Charleston harbor, removed his garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in order to be in a stronger position in case an attack were made. The secessionists looked upon this as a hostile move¬ ment and began the erection of batteries with a view to the reduction of the fort. On January 9,1861, the steamer Star of the West, an unarmed vessel bearing supplies to Major Anderson, was fired upon and forced to turn back. Officially, the Civil war dates from this incident, but the general public was not thoroughly aroused to the gravity of the situation until three months later.

At half past four o'clock on the morning of April 12, 1861, the first shot of the Civil war, as popularly understood, was directed against the solid walls of Fort Sumter. A constant cannonading was kept up until the 14th, when the garrison was permitted to retire from the fort with the honors of war, saluting the flag before it was hauled down. Major Anderson capitulated on Sunday, and on Monday, April 15, 1861, Pres¬ ident Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to preserve the union and suppress the rebellion.

All over the north, when the telegraph flashed the news that Fort Sumter had been fired upon, the excitement was intense. On Saturday evening, April 13th, two days before the call for troops was issued, a mass meeting was held at the courthouse in Anderson to consider the situation. Speeches were made by Dr. Townsend Ryan, Colonel Milton S. Robinson, Robert D. Traster, Joseph Buckles, of Muncie, then circuit judge, and others, all expressing the same opinion - that the national administration should be upheld at all hazards. Political differences were forgotten in the general indignation at the insult offered to the flag. In an hour's time every man present who was eligible for military duty - and some who were not eligible - volunteered his services, in case they were necessary, to preserve the union. Altogether, 186 men volun¬ teered, a company was at once organized and W. R. Myers was elected captain, but declined in favor of Hiram T. Vandevender.

On Tuesday, April 16th, Governor Oliver P. Morton issued his call for volunteers to fill the state's quota of the 75,000 troops called for by the president. The next day Captain Vandevender tendered the gov- ernor a full company of one hundred men, which was accepted, and on the 22nd was mustered into the United States service for three months as Company E, Eighth Indiana Infantry, with Hiram T. Vandevender, captain; John T. Robinson, first lieutenant; James Fergus, second lieu¬ tenant; John D. Johnson, first sergeant; William T. Ryan, James A. Giles and William H. Miller, sergeants; Francis McKahan, Andrew H. Rockenfield, George H. Dula and Ephraim Doll, corporals; Andrew Kramer and David Kilgore, musicians, and the following privates:

The regiment, commanded by Colonel William P. Benton, remained in camp at Indianapolis, engaged in drilling, etc., until the 19th of June, when it was ordered to western Virginia and on the 22nd went into camp near Clarksburg. Here it was assigned to a brigade commanded by General William S. Rosecrans and moved to Buckhannon. On July 11, 1861, it was engaged at Rich Mountain, where Joseph Beck was killed in a charge upon the enemy's position. On July 24th it was ordered back to Indianapolis, where it arrived four days later, and on August 6, 1861, was mustered out.

After the three months' campaign the regiment was reorganized under its old commander - Colonel William P. Benton - and on Septem¬ ber 5, 1861, was mustered into the United States service at Indianapolis for three years "or during the war." At different times during this service, the regiment bore upon its muster rolls the names of 139 Madi¬ son county boys. James K. Bigelow was made assistant surgeon; Wat¬ son Adams, Joseph Geik, William F. Fisher and Jacob H. Kinsey were members of Company A; Alfred Painter, Alfred and Avery Riggs and James Williams served in Company E; John A. Gimckle, John Lloyd and Jasper Rutherford, in Company F; John N. Elder, Elijah Fiant, Alexander Hale, Charles Kelly, John Kelly, William B. Pruett and David N. Robinson, in Company I.

In the reorganization Captain Vandevender's company became Com¬ pany K, the roster of which at the time of muster in on September 5, 1861, was as follows: Hiram T. Vandevender, captain; Lorenzo D. McAllister, first lieutenant; George H. Dula, second lieutenant; John

On September 10, 1861, the regiment left Indianapolis for St. Louis, where it was assigned to the command of General Fremont. It took part in pursuit of General Price as far as Cross Hollows, Arkansas, was engaged with the enemy at Pea Ridge, and in March, 1863, joined Gen¬ eral Grant's army at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana. In the campaign against Vicksburg it fought at Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge and a number of minor engagements. As part of General McClemand's corps it was engaged in the assault on the works at Vicks¬ burg, where Captain Vandevender was fatally wounded, his death oc¬ curring on May 23, 1863, Lieutenant McAllister being promoted to the command of the company. After the surrender of Vicksburg, the Eighth was ordered to join General Banks in Louisiana and operated in that state and Texas until in August, 1864, when it was ordered to Virginia. There it was assigned to the Nineteenth corps, which was part of General Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. The regiment took part in the battles of the Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek and in January, was transferred to Savannah, Georgia,

George \V. Lewis was a private in Company D, Ninth Infantry, and the Eleventh Infantry received forty-one recruits from Madison county in March, 1865. They were distributed to the various companies as fol¬ lows: Company D, Benjamin Elliott and Jacob Payne; Company E, Isaac Beeman, Samuel Beeman, Francis M. Boyden, Myron J. Boyden, Jesse A. Brumley, William Barnett, Lewis Brown, Samuel S. Dewitt, Se¬ bastian E. Douglass, John Fisher, John G. Foland, Nelson Foland, Greenberry L. Freeman, Presley 0. Garnis, John S. Ilougham, Ensley Hoover, Enos Hoover, William W. Miller, D. C. Marvin, John W. Myrick, William Neese, John Richwine, William H. Rollins, Samuel Shultz, Nathan F. Young; Company F, John G. Barnett, Michael Dougherty, William Kurtz,. Asa T. Lewis, Hugh J. Pippin, John B. Clark; Company H, Harvey Clark, Noah B. Evans, Thornton Wilson; Company K, Calvin G. Crampton, Charles H. Davis, Timothy Sullivan. Three recruits - William H. Harding, Frank Somers and William T. Smith - were not regularly assigned to any company. During the en¬ tire service of these men they were engaged in guard duty at Balti¬ more, Maryland.

Madison county was well represented in the Twelfth Infantry dur¬ ing its first term of enlistment for one year, and when the regiment was reorganized for the three years' service, in the summer of 1862, a large part of Company G was recruited in Madison county. Of this company James Huston was Captain; Robert Alfont, second lieutenant (promoted to captain after the death of Captain Huston from disease contracted while a prisoner of war); Ralph Cooper, first sergeant (promoted to first lieutenant) ; Richard J. Waterman and Thomas S. Huston, ser¬ geants; John H. Hiday, Zachariah Kinnamon and John H. Cottrell, corporals; Richard Alfont, Reuben M. Alfont, John W. Alexander, Thomas B. Bannon, Henry Borchording, Benjamin Copper, Nathaniel Copper, William Doty, Charles V. Harding, John Humphries, Joseph Huston, James Jordan, George W. Kelly, James N. Kinnamon, Levi M. Kinnamon, James McGuire, Ralph McGuire, John McVey, Lewis Mi¬ chael, James Moulden, William H. Moulden, William T. Moulden, Edward Pauley, George W. Piper, Mark Phillips, Isaac Ridenour, Vantly Rumler, Amos Rush, Daniel Rush, Thomas M. Rush, Thomas Steel, Amos Wilson, James Wilson and Daniel T. Wynn, privates.

Moses D. Gage, a Madison county man, was chaplain of the regi¬ ment, and the following members of Company K were also from this county: David T. Brooks, William Connell, Thomas D. Denny, John Engle, Charles Faulkner (corporal), Alexander Ford, Alexander Hor-

The regiment was mustered into the United States service at Indian¬ apolis on August 17, 1862, for three years, and on the 30th of that month was in the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, where it lost 173 in killed and wounded. Among the latter was Colonel William H. Link, commanding the regiment, who died on September 20, 1862. Nearly the entire regiment was captured and after being exchanged joined the army under General Grant in Mississippi. It participated in the cam¬ paign against Vicksburg, was at the battle of of Jackson, Mississippi, and then accompanied General Sherman to Chattanooga to relieve Gen¬ eral Thomas, who was there besieged by the Confederates under General Bragg. At the battle of Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863, the Twelfth lost sixty-two in killed and wounded. In 1864 it was with Sherman on the Atlanta campaign and later participated in the cele¬ brated ' 4 march to the sea." Then, up through the Carolinas, taking part in numerous engagements, it marched via Richmond to Washing¬ ton, where it was in the grand review of May 24, 1865, after which it was ordered to Indianapolis. There it was mustered out on June 14, 1865, with the exception of some recruits and drafted men, whose term of enlistment had not expired, and who were transferred to other regi¬ ments.

Dr. George F. Chittenden was assistant surgeon of the Sixteenth Indiana Infantry during the regiment's one year's service, and when it was reorganized for the three years' service he was appointed surgeon. George F. Williams, another Madison county man, was quartermaster of this regiment, having been promoted to that position from quarter¬ master-sergeant.

In the reorganized Sixteenth the following Madison county men en¬ listed in Company A: Eli Adams, Solomon Armfield, Solomon Bond, Ziba Darlington, Solomon F. Hardy, Thomas M. Hardy, Charles James, Joseph James, Davis Morton and George F. Williams.

Company K was recruited in Madison county. The roster of this company was as follows: Charles T. Doxey, captain; Edward 0. Doxey, first lieutenant; Oliver C. Davis, second lieutenant (promoted from first sergeant) ; John C. Blackmore, Clark P. Slade, Albert C. Davis, ser¬ geants; Elisha J. Puckett, James Watkins, George W. Jennings, Wil¬ liam A. Jennings, Culpepper Lee, Sylvanus Vanhorn, Henry Wolfe and Milton Dove, corporals; James T. McCardle and William Ransbottom, musicians; Jesse Harris, wagoner.

Like the Twelfth, the Sixteenth Infantry was at first mustered into service for one year. It was mustered out on May 14, 1862, and imme¬ diately began the work of reorganizing for the three years' service. Under command of Colonel Thomas J. Lucas it was mustered in on August 19, 1862, and the same day started for Kentucky to repel the invasion of that state by the Confederates under General Kirby Smith. At the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, August 30, 1862, the regiment lost 175 in killed and wounded and about five hundred in captured or missing. The prisoners were paroled and on October 1, 1862, all sur¬ viving members of the command reported at Camp Morton, Indianapo¬ lis, where the regiment was reorganized, enough recruits coming in to bring the strength up to the proper quota. The recruits in Company K were: Stephen Corwin, Benjamin Cavins, Pendleton Claud, Charles Dinwiddie, James R. Ellison, Peter Emmett, Francis Glardon, James S. Kimberly, Jacob Kribs, John Lee, Abner J. Luck, William Mason, John W. Moore, Lewis Moore, James Sellers, William Seymour, Frank¬ lin Slim, Joseph Westlake and James Ward. There were also six Madi¬ son county boys added to the regiment but appear on the records as "unassigned." They were Timothy Akers, John Dunley, William Madsagin, Aaron Weston, Jeremiah and James Wilson.

On November 26, 1862, the regiment was again ordered to the front and joined General Sherman's forces at Memphis, Tennessee. It was the first regiment to enter the enemy's works at Arkansas Post when that place surrendered on January 11, 1863, after which it assisted in the construction of the famous canal around Vicksburg. It was in numerous engagements around Vicksburg and participated in the siege of that city, losing sixty men in killed and wounded during the siege. After the fall of Vicksburg and the battle of Jackson, the Sixteenth was sent to Louisiana and took part in General Banks' Red River cam¬ paign in the early part of 1864, protecting the rear of the army on the retreat to New Orleans. It remained in Louisiana, engaged in various lines of duty, until June 30, 1865, when it was mustered out at New Orleans, the men proceeding to Indianapolis, where they drew their final pay and were discharged.

Company G was recruited in the county and was mustered in with the regiment for three years, at Indianapolis, June 12, 1861, under com¬ mand of Col. John T. Wilder. At the time it entered the service the officers of the company were as follows:

Arduous service decimated the ranks of the company until it became necessary to add almost as many recruits as there were names upon the original muster roll. The recruits added at various times were as follows: William A. Akers, Henry Baker, Sidney Barton, William Bassett, Aaron Bunnell, John Burr, William Chapman, Abraham Charles, Alfred Clendenin, Luther F. Clifford, Madison Cox, Elijah Curry, Abel Davenport, Theodore Ellis, George L. Evans, Albert G. Gunckel, William Hiser, Martin Holt, Albert Hoover, William H\iffman, Thomas Hughes, Nelson Hunter, Joseph Hurst, William Ingram, Conrad Leatherman, Beam Lockman, Jacob Martin, James A. Martin, Edward Maxwell, Samuel B. McDonald, Ransom McKibbin, Jason S. McMullen, William E. Menifee, Michael Miller, Ransom P. Moler, Jor¬ dan Ooten, John Osborn, Isaac N. Proctor, John Quillian, Alexander Reynolds, Samuel Ritter, Noah Roach, John B. Rucker, John C. Scrog¬ gins, John Shawhan, John Shea, Elias Shook, Thomas J. Smith. Charles J. Stewart, David Stewart, Joseph Stephens, Andrew J. Summa, Elijah Sutphin, Joseph A. Swope. There were also a few Madison county recruits that were unassigned to any company.

On July 1, 1861, the regiment left Indianapolis for Virginia. It was part of General Reynolds' cbmmand at the battle of Greenbrier and in November was ordered to join General Buell at Louisville, Kentucky. For a while it was in Nelson's division, but in February, 1862, was assigned to General Wood's division, with which it marched to Pitts¬ burg Landing, but being in the rear did not reach the field of Shiloh until after the battle was over. During the remainder of the year 1862 it was on duty in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama and was fre¬ quently engaged with the enemy. On February 12, 1862, Colonel Wilder received orders to mount his regiment by ''confiscating horses belonging to the inhabitants of the country," and from that time until April 1, 1863, the men were engaged in expeditions to secure horses, acquiring great skill in finding horses that had been concealed. After being mounted the Seventeenth was constantly employed on scouting expeditions and in May the men were armed with Spencer rifles. At Hoover's Gap, Colonel Wilder, without waiting for orders, attacked the enemy, and though outnumbered five to one held his position until reinforced, when the Confederates were driven from their position. After the battle of Chickaraauga, in which the regiment took part, it remained in the vicinity of Chattanooga until the last day of Novem¬ ber, when Wilder was ordered to the relief of General Burnside at Knoxville. There it charged through the enemy's lines that surrounded the Union troops. In January, 1864, the regiment became a veteran organization by reenlistment and after the veteran furlough joined General Sherman for the Atlanta campaign. It formed part of General Wilson's command in the famous raid through Alabama and Georgia in the early part of 1865. From May 22d to August 8, 1865, it was on post duty at Macon, Georgia, and on the latter date was mustered out of service. The men reached Indianapolis on the 16th of August and were there finally discharged.

Company A of this regiment was organized in Anderson by Capt. Isaac M. May. A number of the men came from Delaware county and for some reason not plain the company is credited to that county in the adjutant-general's report. The complete muster roll of the com¬ pany at the time of muster-in was as follows:

Isaac M. May, captain; James L. Kilgore, first lieutenant; Alonzo I. Makepeace, second lieutenant; Charles T. Doxey, first sergeant (pro¬ moted to second lieutenant of Company I) ; Charles H. Davis, Julius Voit, Oliver 0. Davis, Adam Gisse, sergeants; Jonathan Tower, James M. Mitchell, Tilman A. Snelson, Asahel Burris, George W. Curleaux, George W. Gibson. Charles E. Watkins and George W. Dove, corporals; Thomas C. O'Neal and Oscar W. Ray, musicians; Bryant Taylor, wag¬ oner. Captain May was promoted to major and Lieutenant Makepeace became captain. Lieutenant Kilgore having resigned soon after the regi¬ ment was mustered in. Sergeants Voit and Gisse each served as second lieutenant of the company at some period of its service and Sergeant Oliver C. Davis was made second lieutenant of Company K, Sixteenth

Subsequently the following recruits from Madison county were added to the company: James M. Abbott, Enoch Adams, Stephen Adams, Jacob Bolen, Amasa H. Brown, Clinton A. Burke, Simeon J. Clem, Levi Dove, Henry Duross, Ephraim B. Eager, Thomas Fletcher, Daniel Hoppis, Zenas M. Kinnaman, William A. Kendall, James Leamy, John McGregor, Elias Modlin, Archy H. Peak, Jesse Parson, Seth C. Peden, John Pitman, Nathaniel Rigsby, Joseph D. Smith, John D. Titherington and John J. Tucker.

Several members of the regimental band were from Madison county. Those known to have been from this county were James L. Bell, William Cole, Oliver and Volney B. Irish, John Pyle, John W. Beem, Samuel D. Yanpelt and Byron Scribner. In addition to the members of the band and Company A the following recruits from the county were added to Company E: Bartley A. Bose, William J. Brunson, John P. Helvie, William Helvie, Jasper Hoppis, James Love, Oliver Love, John W. Modlin and David Turner.

The Nineteenth was mustered into service at Indianapolis on July 29, 1861, with Solomon Meredith as colonel. Eleven days later it joined the Army of the Potomac at Washington and from that time until mustered out it was almost constantly on the firing line, being a part of the famous 4 'Iron Brigade." Among the engagements in which it participated were Gainesville, Manassas Junction, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the various actions of the Mine Run compaign, and most of the battles of the campaign from the Rapidan to the James in 1864. Major May was killed at the battle of Gaines¬ ville, August 28, 1862, where the regiment lost one hundred and eightyseven in killed and wounded, and his body was never recovered, though his widow and friends made diligent search for his remains. The two soldiers who buried him were both killed and no trace of his last resting place was left. Captain Makepeace commanded Company A at Gettys¬ burg, where he was captured. He was confined first at Libby prison and later at Salisbury, North Carolina. Twice he succeeded in making his escape from prison, but each time was recaptured. He is now a resident of Anderson. On July 28, 1864, those of the Nineteenth whose time had expired were mustered out and the three hundred and three veterans and recruits were consolidated with the Twentieth Infantry, which was mustered out on July 12, 1865.

Madison county was well represented in this regiment, which was organized at Camp Stilwell, Anderson, where it was mustered in on September 16, 1861, for three years, with Asbury Steele as colonel. Among the regimental officers were the following Madison county men: Townsend Ryan, lieutenant-colonel (afterward surgeon of the Fiftyfourth Indiana infantry); John W. Ryan, adjutant; Thomas N. Stil¬ well, quartermaster; Francis A. Griswold, chaplain; Simeon B. Harriman, assistant surgeon; Benjamin B. Campbell, quartermaster sergeant, promoted quartermaster and captain of Company H; Nineveh Berry, commissary sergeant; James M. Berry, hospital steward.

The regimental band was also composed of Madison and Grant county musicians, viz.: George W. Aumach, William J. Bourk, Christian S., Clinton M., and Reuben H. Burley, Eli A. Collins, George B. Ed¬ monds, Charles F. Hedrick, Edwin C. % Hurry, Allen Jaqua, Charles A. Jones, James G. Mcllhenny, Horace B. and Samuel D. Makepeace, Har¬ vey S. Marks, Charles B. Northrop, Franklin H. Pilcher, Silas A. Pulse, Henry Reid, John J. Shaffer, Elijah D. R. Stout, Albert Thomas and James C. Wood, all of whom were mustered out on August 21, 1862, by order of the war department.

In Company C the following privates came from Madison county: Jonathan D. Ayers, John F. Beecher, Charles Compton, John H. Groves, Isaac H. Hamilton, Francis B. Howe, Thomas Kelsey, James Kline, Alanson Palmer, William II. Sale, John M. Smith. The recruits added to this company later were David Divilbiss, George W. Fox and Nathan W. Rogers.

Company D was a Madison county company, with the exception of a few men. Of this company Jonathan Jones, of Alexandria, was cap¬ tain ; Samuel Henry, of Pendleton, first lieutenant; Columbus W. Moore, of Summitville, first sergeant; Joshua L. Fussell, Orin L. Walker and Joseph M. Irwin, sergeants ; Enoch E. McMahon, Isaac P. Jones, Francis A. Tomlinson and David K. Carver, corporals.

The greater part of Company E, Thirty-fourth Infantry, was re¬ cruited in the western tier of Madison county townships. Francis M. Hunter, of Duck Creek township, was commissioned captain; Hiram G. Fisher, of Fishersburg, first lieutenant; Francis M. Boyden, of Perkinsville, second lieutenant. The sergeants of the company were John E. Markle (promoted to captain of Company K), Charles Blake and William H. H. Quick. The corporals were Warren Cole, Robert S. Benefiel, Sanford W. Newland, John W. Foland, Daniel F. Ham, Ben¬ jamin F. Wise, John W. Brattain and John H. Moore. William E. Kurtz and John W. Newland enlisted as musicians.

On October 16, 1861, the Thirty-fourth left Anderson for Louisville, Kentucky, where it remained in Camp Wickliffe until February 14, 1862, when it received orders to reinforce General Grant, who was then engaged in the reduction of Fort Donelson. The fort surrendered before the regiment reached there and it was ordered to Cairo, Illinois, where it joined the expedition against New Madrid, Missouri. In that movement it played a conspicuous part, then assisted in the capture of Fort Pillow, was then in Arkansas until April, 1863, when it joined General Grant for the campaign against Vicksburg. It was in action at Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, during the siege of Vicksburg, at Jackson, Mississippi, and after the fall of Vicksburg was ordered to Louisi¬ ana. To this regiment belongs the honor of having taken part in the last battle of the Civil war - at Palmetto Ranclie, Texas, May 13, 1865. This action occurred not far from the old battlefield of Palo Alto. The union troops were attacked by a superior force of the enemy, armed with artillery, and forced to fall back toward Brownsville. Companies B and E of the Thirty-fourth Indiana covered the retreat and were cut off from the main body and captured. In the engagement the regiment lost eighty-two men in killed, wounded and prisoners. John J. Williams, usually referred to by his comrades as "Jeff" Williams, a private of Company B, who enlisted from Jay county, was killed at Palmetto Ranche and is said to have been the last man killed in battle in the Civil war. His portrait hangs in the hall of Major May Post, G. A. R., at Anderson and is pointed out to visitors by members of the regiment. The Thirty-fourth was one of the very last of the volunteer regiments to be mustered out, which was done at Brownsville, Texas, February 3, 1866, and fifteen days later the men received their final pay and dis¬ charge at Indianapolis.

In this regiment Elmer B. Warner was captain of Company I for awhile, and James McDerman, Enos Miller and Daniel F. Mustard served as privates in the same company.

This regiment was partially formed at Camp Stilwell, Anderson, but the organization was completed at Indianapolis, where the regiment was mustered in by companies from December 9 to 13, 1861. James R. Slack, of Huntington, was commissioned colonel; Milton S. Robin¬ son, lieutenant-colonel; George Niehol, quartermaster; Peter H. Lemon, commissary sergeant. The last three of the above named officers were from Madison county.

Company G was recruited in Madison county and was mustered in with John T. Robinson as captain; John F. Eglin, first lieutenant; Wil¬ liam R. Myers, second lieutenant (both lieutenants were promoted to captain through .changes in the official roster of the company) ; Mc¬ Clure H. Bryant, Henry Vinyard (promoted first lieutenant), Joseph McMullen, sergeants; Jacob E. Waymire, Mathias Snelson, David E. Clem, John M. Caster and Frederick Rent, corporals; John M. Hankey and Harrison Jackson, musicians; John Wyman, wagoner.

In Company H George Sloan held the rank of sergeant and the fol¬ lowing Madison county boys were mustered in as privates: Moses Chap¬ man, Albert A. Manning, William Z. Manning, Jonathan Nave, William Sailer, Albert Sloan, Milton Sloan. The recruits added to this com¬ pany were: Joseph Creviston, William H. Lain, John and Joseph Lit¬ tle, Andrew J. and Francis M. Sale, George B. Strather, Sewell D. Walker and James Wallace.

The Forty-seventh left Indianapolis on December 16,1861, for Bardstown, Kentucky, and it remained in that state until the following Feb¬ ruary, when it was ordered to join General Pope at Commerce, Missouri, for the movement against New Madrid and Island No. 10. From that time to December, 1863, it was with the Thirty-fourth, an account of which regiment has been given. In December, 1863, the Forty-seventh was assigned to the Department of the Gulf and formed part of General Banks' army in the Red River campaign of 1864. In March, 1865, it was ordered to Mobile to take part in the siege of that city and distin¬ guished itself in the assault on Spanish Fort (April 8th), when that stronghold surrendered. It was then sent back to Louisiana and re¬ mained in that state until mustered out on October 23, 1865.

When this regiment was mustered into service on August 19, 1862, John M. Petit was colonel, but in October his health became so impaired that he was forced to resign and Milton S. Robinson, lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-seventh, was commissioned to succeed him. Joseph F. Johnston and Levi S. Saylor, two Madison county boys, enlisted as privates in Company E and the latter was killed at Chickamauga, Sep¬ tember 19, 1863.

Company G of this regiment was recruited in Madison county and was officered at'the time of muster in as follows: Joseph T. Smith, cap¬ tain; John B. Frazer, first lieutenant; William L. Philpott, second lieu¬ tenant; William J. Hilligoss, George M. Overshiner, Joel W. McMahon, John W. Chamness, sergeants; Royson T. Boyden, George H. Hilligoss, Stephen Metcalf, Daniel U. Clymer, James Reeder, James E. Powell, Luther C. Harman, corporals; Simpson Carpenter, wagoner.

In Company I, Joseph Gwin enlisted as corporal and was promoted to first lieutenant; John Abner was the company wagoner, and the follow¬ ing privates enlisted from Madison county: Samuel Bach, Artemus Bid¬ dle, Joseph Brittinham, Thomas W. Eaton, Moses Good, Elisha Hollo¬ way, Jesse Holloway, Abram R. Lilley, Henry P. Michael, Elijah Morse, John W. Norris, Charles Rowles, Jonas 0. Smithers, Elias Summers, Frederick Swigert, Jesriel Ween, Wesley S. White, Hiram Wykoff.

The early service of the Seventy-fifth was in Kentucky and Tennessee. On January 5, 1863, it marched to Murfreesboro, where it was assigned to Reynolds' division of the Fourteenth army corps, and in June follow¬ ing was an active factor in the Tullahoma campaign. It was then en¬ gaged in the various maneuvers preceding the great battle of Chickamauga, where it lost ninety-eight in killed and wounded in the first day's fighting and in the second day's fighting it lost fifty-three. In Novem¬ ber following it was engaged in the 44 charge without orders" upon the Confederate position on Missionary Ridge, and the next day pursued the retreating enemy to Ringgold, Georgia. It was engaged in nearly all the principal engagements of the Atlanta campaign in 1864, and was one of the regiments that followed Sherman in the celebrated march to the sea. Then followed the campaign through the Carolinas, the sur¬ render of General Joseph E. Johnston, the march to Washington, via Richmond, and the grand review. The regiment was mustered out at Washington on June 8, 1865, except a few veterans and recruits, whose time had not expired, and these were consolidated with the Forty-sec¬ ond Indiana Infantry, which was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, July 21, 1865.

Company B of this regiment was recruited in Madison county and when mustered into the United States service at Indianapolis on August 28, 1862, was officered as follows: Samuel Henry, captain; Elijah Wil¬ liams, first lieutenant; Jonathan W. Zeublin, second lieutenant; Andrew J. Scott, Moses D. Gage, Benjamin F. Bowsman, Preston L. Brown, ser¬ geants; George II. Brown, George W. Waitman, Amos J. Davis, Wil¬ liam English, George Rinewalt, Joseph M. Rogers, James II. Smither and William J. Mullen, corporals; William H. Bolinger and William H. Pardue, musicians; Davis Daily, wagoner.

Recruits - Elmore B. Crump, John Ebert, Andrew Fifer, Jehiel T. Harder, William Ifert, William F. Jarrett, Paul C. Jones, Philip G. Jones, George A. Nicholson, John A. Reed and Simon C. Thomas.

Immediately upon being mustered in, the regiment left Indianapolis under command of Colonel Charles D. Murray, with Judge Ilervey Craven, of Pendleton, as lieutenant-colonel. Captain Henry, of Com¬ pany B, was promoted to major and Lieutenant Williams was made captain. After a short stay at Louisville the Eighty-ninth was assigned to Colonel Wilder's command, which was engaged in guarding the Green river bridge on the Louisville & Nashville railroad. On Septem¬ ber 14, 1862, the regiment received its baptism of fire in the battle of Munfordsville. Two days later the enemy made another attack on the garrison and the regiment lost two killed and several wounded. On that day the garrison surrendered to a vastly superior force and the men were paroled. Upon being exchanged they assembled at Indian¬ apolis on October 27, 1862, and moved at once to Memphis, Tennessee, where the regiment remained on duty until in January, 1864. It was with General Sherman on the Meridian expedition, after which it was ordered to Louisiana, as part of General A. J. Smith's command, and remained in that state, being frequently engaged with the enemy, until ordered to Vicksburg in May. From that time to February, 1865, the regiment was in numerous battles and skirmishes in Mississippi, Mis^ souri and Tennessee. Major Ilenry was killed by guerrillas near Greenton, Missouri, November 1, 1864. In March, 1865, it was ordered to Mobile and there assisted in the capture of Spanish Fort. It was then on duty at Montgomery and Mobile until July 19, 1865, when it was mustered out and the men returned to their homes.

Upon the muster rolls of this regiment the name of John Hendren appears as a recruit in Company C. In Company D were Elmore T. Montgomery, first sergeant; Thomas Shannon, corporal, and the follow¬ ing privates: Andrew J. Applegate, David L. Boyden, Wilson P. Car¬ penter, Jonathan Corey, Spencer Dewitt, John W. Etsler, Elias Foland, Joseph Foland, Thomas Foland, Martin Griffith, Albert Hadley, John Hollingsworth, John R. House, Alexander McClintock, John Miller, Silas Pearsol, Smith D. Shannon, George D. Sheets, John Showan, Sebron Wheeler.

Company E was raised in Madison county. The official roster of this company at the time it was mustered into*service was as follows: Josiah Sparks, captain; Frederick Cartwright, first lieutenant; David Richart, second lieutenant; Joseph F. Lenfesty, first sergeant; John C. Mont¬ gomery, George W. Lowthen, Jonathan T. Taylor, John W. Smithurst, James E. Cook, William Moore, corporals; Wylie Bird and Thomas W. Cook, musicians.

sergeant and was promoted to first lieutenant, and the following Madi¬ son county boys served as privates: William Holloway, Robert F. Lynch, James Miller, Israel Messier, John W. Nedrow, Isaac Price, Charles Sloan and Joseph Whitwright.

This regiment was recruited at Wabash and was mustered in on September 7, 1862, with William Garver as colonel. Its first service was in Kentucky, repelling the invasion of General Kirby Smith, after which it was assigned to the duty of guarding the Green river bridge on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad until December, 1862, when it was sent in pursuit of General Morgan, who was then raiding Kentucky. In January, 1863, it was assigned to the same brigade and division in the Fourteenth Army Corps as the Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry, and its subsequent history is identical with that of the Seventy-fifth. It was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, June 19, 1865.

A considerable portion of Company H in this regiment came from Madison county. Nicholas Anderson, Jonathan Brattan, Godfrey Hass, 0. B. Shaul and Daniel Valentine held the rank of sergeant; Jesse Smithers and Alfred Valentine were corporals; William Wendle was one of the company musicians, and the following served as privates: Theo¬ dore Baker, Newton M. Baldwin, Joseph Bock, Anderson Bolinger, Elijah Bolinger, Henry Bolinger, Andrew Brattan, Samuel Brattan, William Brown, Alexander Burditt, William Everett, John Ford, John Hedrick, James Kerr, John McClese, Henry Maine, Martin Otlinger, Wilber Shaul, Eli Smithers, George Smithers, Henry Smithers, James Smithers, William Smithers, R. L. Snider, Abraham Swigert, Frederick Swigert, Samuel Taylor, Eli Thomas, James Valentine, John Valentine, Maberry Welchel, Wesley White and Burwell Williamson. Dennis McCarty served in Company B, and John H. McCoy and John Maler in Company K.

This regiment was one of those known as "Minute Men," and was in service only a short time during the Morgan raid in the summer of 1863. It was commanded by Colonel Kline G. Shryock. In the One Hundred and Tenth, also an organization of "Minute Men," there were three companies from Madison county, viz.: Company C, Benjamin Sebrell, captain; Ephraim B. Doll, first lieutenant; Josiah Sparks, second lieutenant. Company G, Warrington B. Roberts, captain; John W. Obrist, first lieutenant; H. B. Makepeace, second lieutenant. Com¬ pany I, Isaac P. Rinewalt, captain; Volney B. Irish, first lieutenant; J. Reese Rinewalt, second lieutenant. In the absence of the muster rolls it is impossible to give a complete list of the men. The service of the regiment was the same as that of the One Hundred and Fifth, and it was commanded by Colonel Graham N. Fitch.

Thomas N. Jones, of Anderson, was appointed surgeon, and Dr. Braxton Baker, also a Madison county physician, assistant surgeon. Company B was recruited in Madison county. Its official roster at the time of muster in was as follows: Ephraim B. Doll, captain; William H. Mayes, first lieutenant; John M. Hunt, second lieutenant; William D. Noble, first sergeant; William P. Watkins, sergeant; James E. Noble, Lewis Hubbard, John Kesling, John S. Sellers, Lewis C. Maye, Labin Tunis, Francis M. Lewark, corporals; David Harris and John A. Moore, musicians.

Samuel Jones was a corporal in Company H and Dr. Braxton Baker, who was promoted to assistant surgeon, was first enrolled as a private in that company. The greater part of Company K was recruited in Madison county. In the latter company William M. O'Banion and John Starr were sergeants; Milton Crowell, George W. Newhouse and Henry King, corporals; R. K. Cunningham, musician; and the following were Privates - Enos Baker, John S. Barton, Joshua Barton, Orville P. Baydan, Isaac T. Bird, Robert W. Bird, George W. Black, Daniel P. Buck, Frederick Cartwright (promoted to first lieutenant), Owen D. Colvin, John W. Creamer, William Creamer, William T. Cunningham, Horton J. Dobson, William H. J. Fleener, Henry Gardner, John C. George, George Godwin, Sylvanus Gordon, Elbert Harrison, David A. Hendrix, Davidson L. Hendrix, Wesley B. Hollingsworth, Leonard Ingram, Franklin Johnson, Milton Johnson, Lemon Jones, Spicer Jones, John H. Kearns, Eli D. Kelly. William J. Kelly, Thomas Kendal, James man's army for the Atlanta campaign. It was engaged at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Lost Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree C reek, the battle of July 22, 1864, and after the surrender of that city the regiment, forming part of the Twenty-third corps, came back to Nash¬ ville, where it was engaged with the Confederate Army under General Hood on December 15-16, 1864. Early in 1865 orders were received to move to Washington, D. C., whence it was sent to North Carolina, and it was present at the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston. From April to December, 1865, it was on guard at Charlotte, North Carolina. It left that place on December 2, 1865, and on the 13th reached Indianapolis, where the men received their final pay and dis¬ charge.

In connection with the organization of this regiment, a pleasant little incident occurred while it was in camp at Kokomo. Colonel Thomas N. Stilwell, of Anderson, had been very busy during the earlier years of the war in raising troops, and was an important factor in the organi¬ zation of the One Hundred and Thirtieth. In his relations with the men his conduct was such as to win their esteem and confidence, and as a token of their regard the officers of the One Hundred and Thirtieth and the One Hundred and Thirty-first "chipped in" and purchased a $400 gold watch, which was presented to Colonel Stilwell. The pres¬ entation speech was made by Captain Edgar Henderson, a former resi¬ dent of Anderson, and was appropriately responded to by the recipient.

In the foregoing pages only those regiments have been mentioned in which Madison county furnished a whole, or a considerable part of a company. There were a number of Madison county men scattered through other infantry regiments, and as far as it has been possible to obtain the names of these men, they are included in the following list:

Thirteenth - Wallace Allen, Jeremiah Baxter, Jacob Beidler, Merritt S. Bicknell, Nathan J. Blowers, Spencer H. Buck, John Carpenter, James Cox, James M. Davis, Thomas M. Donahoo (corporal), Daniel Edwards, John R. Fitzgerald, Samuel Howard, Robert Hughes, Thomas Hughes and George Pugh were all members of Company I, and William Gossett was a musician in Company II.

Fortieth - William II. Pyle was quartermaster of this regiment, Frank Hardy was a private in Company A, and John S. and Thomas Welsh in Company Li.

Forty-second - On the muster rolls of Company I of this regiment appear the names of Samuel Brattan, Martin L. Otlinger, Abraham Swigert and James Valentine.

Fifty-seventh - Wesley W. Seward was a sergeant, Samuel Ham and Dewitt C. Markle, corporals, and Jeremiah Gray, James Gilmore, George W. Ham, Jacob Ham, William J. Ham, Joseph Huston, Thomas B.

Seward and Jeremiah Sullivan were privates in Company F. This regi¬ ment was sometimes called the Methodist regiment, because its first colonel, John W. T. McMullen, and the lieutenant-colonel, Franklin A.

Hardin, were both Methodist ministers, and a large number of the men were members of that church. It served through the Atlanta campaign and then returned to Nashville with General Thomas.

Fifty-ninth - Only two Madison county men appear in this regi¬ ment - Addison Conklin and William Hafiick - both of whom were recruits in Company F.

Sixty-ninth - In Company H Samuel Hardin and William II. Huston were corporals and the following were privates: Josiah Blake, Carroll C. Bronnenberg, William Bronnenberg, William C. Clark, William B.

Troy, Clark W. and James W. Wright. In Company II was Levi Brewer, a veteran of the Mexican war and a Madison county man, but as he enlisted in Indianapolis he is credited to Marion county.

One Hundred and Thirty-fifth - This was one of the "One Hundred Days'' regiments. In Company F were Elliott and Hiram Waymire, who enlisted from Madison county.

One Hundred and Thirty-sixth - Company I) of this regiment con¬ tained fifteen men from Madison county, viz.: Henry Anderson, John Anderson, Isaac Beaman, Thomas J. Boggs, Henry B. Cole, Spencer L.

One Hundred and Forty-fourth - This was also a one-year regiment. Upon its rolls appear but two Madison county men - John B. Blandford and Henry Smith - both of whom were privates in Company K.

One Hundred and Forty-seventh - Madison county was better repre¬ sented in this than in any other of the one-year regiments, a large part of Company F having been recruited in the county. Of this company George W. Dennis was first sergeant ; Madison Watkins and John F. Henry, sergeants; Andrew Younce, Jeptha Ballenger, Jesse Forkner and Samuel T. Wilson, corporals, and the following were privates: George W. Blazer, William H. Brown, John Cannon, James P. Carroll, Leander Carty, Lewis Carty, Patrick Crook, Lewis Dean, Allen Delph, James M. Fidler, George W. Hackleman, John Hamilton, John Harris, William W. Kersey, John Madden, John C. Matthews, Philip Mills, John Saunders, David Schrackengast, James Seybert, Curtis Six, Charles R. Walker, James T. Wall, Benjamin Ward, Marion Webb and William W. Whitehead.

One Hundred and Forty-ninth - In Company C of this regiment were six privates from Madison county, to wit: Elisha J. Baldon, Samuel Baldon, John Hamrick, John C. Hart, Joseph W. McDonald, John C. Nelson.

One Hundred and Fifty-third - In this regiment the only man cred¬ ited to Madison county was George W. Thorn, who was first lieutenant of Company K.

One Hundred and Fifty-fourth - William Brown was commissioned second lieutenant of Company I, in which the following privates were credited to Madison county: George Bear, Wesley Call, Richard Clark, Daniel W. Hadley, Richard Harris, David C. Hawk, William R. Hollowell, William F. Lee, William B. Moulden, Harrison H. Pratt, Isaac W. Pemster, George Robinett, Leander M. Scheean, Andrew J. Sullivan, Daniel I. Sullivan, John T. Sullivan, Hezekiah and Wilson T. Trueblood.

One Hundred and Fifty-fifth - This was the last of the one-year regi¬ ments. In Company F were Charles Adams, Isaac Hopper, Harrison Hyfield, Andrew A. Kaufman and Elba Musick.

This was the Nineteenth Indiana Regiment in the order of formation. It was organized late in the year 1862, with Felix W. Graham as colonel, and was sent to the front in detachments. A portion of Com¬ pany K was recruited in Madison county. Of this company Alanson E. Russell, of Pendleton, was second lieutenant; David C. Johnson, sergeant, Philemon E. J. Mills, corporal, and the following served as privates: Richard M. Andrew, Charles A. Bates, John Buser, James W. Combs, James W. Cook, William E. Crain, Ross Crossley, George W. Cummins, Perry C. Cummins, Simon Cummins, Madison Davis, Thomas L. B. Hayes, Darius R. Huston, Samuel C. Huston, William Landphire, Oliver H. Morse, Albert Newman, James Payne, Junius C. Samuels, John W. Short, Harper W. Smith, Isaac Thurston, Madison Watkins. In Company I was one Madison county man - Isaac S. Harger.

In March, 1863, the several companies of the regiment was con¬ centrated at Glasgow, Kentucky, and for the remainder of their service the men almost lived in the saddle, scouting, skirmishing and foraging in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was with General Stoneman on the raid to the rear of Atlanta and was mustered out on June 16, 1865.

Originally this regiment was an infantry organization and was known as the Thirty-ninth Infantry. It was mustered in as such on August 29, 1861, with Thomas J. Harrison as colonel, and continued as infantry until April, 1863, when the men were furnished horses and the regi¬ ment served as mounted infantry until the 15th of the following October, when Companies L and M were added, bringing it up to the standard of a full cavalry regiment. It was then reorganized as the Eighth Cavalry. Madison county was represented in Companies A, B, E, G, I, L and M.

Company A - Upon the muster rolls of this company were the names of six privates from Madison county - Thomas J. Adair, Thomas J. Clevenger, Leroy S. Fallis, William E. Mayo, John H. Poor and Augustus Simington.

Company B - In this company were Privates John A. Applegate, George W. Hosier, George W. Lamar, John Landers, James M. Teeters, Uriah Vermillion. John A. Applegate was promoted to company quarter¬ master sergeant.

Company E - Fifteen Madison county men enlisted in this company, viz.: William Aldridge, John E. Boyer (sergeant, promoted to captain), John Cook, Joshua Fisher, Samuel Fisher, William Foland, Noah W. Hall, David McCoy, Ephraim Nicholson, James Nicholson, James A. Nicholson (promoted second lieutenant), William F. Nicholson, Andrew T. Welchel, John Welchel and Jacob Worts.

Company I - In this company were eleven privates - Reuben B. Aldrich, Martin Beckwith, Scott Cole, Abraham Eshelman, Jacob Eshelman, Robert S. Faussett, Allen Fisher, Stewart Fisher, Samuel Lanum, Edward C. Stephenson and Job Swain. The last named was promoted to sergeant.

Company L - This company contained more Madison county men than any other in the regiment. They were Privates William L. Barker, Travis M. Bowers, John A. Bowsman, George I. Burr, Rollin Carroll, Addison Fisher, George Fisher, Thomas L. Fisher (promoted to com¬ missary sergeant), Nathan Fuller, William Gearhardt, James Gwinn, George Harpold, Jacob M. Harpold, Stephen John, Henry Johnson, Lewis Klepfer, James W. McGraw, William P. Miller, Amos Ratcliffe, Joseph Shebo, Madison Teeters, Mathers Tobin, Samuel Welsh, Samuel Wolf and Jacob M. Wysong.

After being reorganized as a cavalry regiment, the command was engaged in courier duty about Chattanooga until the spring of 1864. It took part in the Rousseau raid into Alabama, the Atlanta campaign, the McCook raid around Atlanta, and then followed Sherman to the sea and up through the Carolinas. It was mustered out in North Carolina on July 20, 1865, and the men were finally discharged at Indianapolis on the 2nd of August.

Madison county was represented in two batteries of light artillery. In the Second Battery were Robert Brickley, John Hardin (promoted to second lieutenant), James M. Irish, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Y. Johnson, Mathias Jones, Lewis Koeniger, John B. Lewis, Valentine McNeer, Charles A. Maul, Corydon W. Maul, George W. Measer, William W. Roberts, George W. Swain and Charles Vandevender. This battery served in Missouri and Arkansas and was in a number of spirited engagements with the enemy, including the battles of Cane' Hill, Prairie Grove, Buffalo Mountain, Poisoned Spring, Marks' Mills and Jenkins' Ferry. Late in 1864 it was sent to Tennessee, where it joined the army under General Thomas and took part in the battle of Nashville. It was mustered out at Indianapolis on July 3, 1865.

In the Eighteenth Battery were Samuel B. Agnew, Albert Allen, William Black, Francis M. Evans, Harvey W. Hubbard, John Johns, John D. Johnson (promoted to second lieutenant), Ezra Loyd, William L. McAninch, Abram S. McCorkle, George S. McMullen (promoted to sergeant), John R. Malcolm and Joel H. Wood. This battery was mustered in at Indianapolis on August 24, 1862, with Eli Lilly as captain. Until the spring of 1864 it was in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was in the battles at Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, and a number of minor actions, and during the Atlanta* campaign was in action almost daily. After the fall of Atlanta it returned to Tennessee and it formed part of General Wilson's command in the famous raid through Alabama and Georgia. It was mustered out at Indianapolis on June 30, 1865.

(Note - I n the foregoing muster rolls it is probable that some of the names are misspelled, but as they are copied from the reports of the adjutant-general, it was deemed advisable not to attempt any corrections.)

Under the provisions of the act passed at the special session of the legislature in 1861, "for the organization and regulation of the Indiana militia," ten companies of the "Indiana Legion" were formed in Madi¬ son county. They were the Foster's Branch Guards, organized June 10, 1861, Burwell Williamson, captain; Alfont Guards, organized June 24, 1861, John Patterson, captain; Fisherburg Union Guards, organized June 24, 1861, H. G. Fisher, captain; Perkinsville Grays, organized June 28, 1861, H. G. Fisher, captain; Green Township Rangers, organized September 11, 1862, William Nickleson, captain; Home Guards (Pendle¬ ton), organized July 18, 1863, Isaac P. Rinewalt, captain; Morton

Nobles, organized July 25, 1863, A. J. Huffman, captain; Alfont Guards No. 2, organized July 25, 1863, Warrington G. Roberts, captain; Mans¬ field Guards, organized August 1, 1863, Ephraim B. Doll, captain; Alexandria Guards, organized August 8, 1863, Jonathan Jones, captain. These companies were never called into the field, but a large number of their members enlisted in other companies and were mustered into the service of the United States.

While the "Boys in Blue" were at the front, the county authorities and loyal citizens at home were not unmindful of the country's defenders and the necessities of their families. In September, 1861, the commis¬ sioners appropriated $200 for the purchase of lumber to be used in fitting up a camp for'the accommodation of a regiment being organized at Anderson, the money being made payable to Thomas N. Stilwell, commissary. At the same session the sum of $300 was appropriated for the relief of soldiers' families and the trustees of the several townships were instructed to look after such families and see that their wants were relieved. In August, 1862, at a special session of the commis¬ sioners ' court, it was ordered that ' 4 an allowance of one dollar per week be made to each soldier's wife or widowed mother, and fifty cents to each child under ten years of age, ' ' the disbursements to be made by the township trustees. A month later the board ordered a tax levy of ten cents on each $100 worth of property in the county to provide a fund for the relief of soldiers' families. This order and the one preceding it remained in force until the war was over.

A special session of the commissioners was held in November, 1863, when it was ordered that each volunteer credited to Madison county be paid fifty dollars bounty when he produced the certificate of the muster¬ ing officer and presented it to the county auditor, and fifty dollars more at the expiration of his service. To raise the money for this purpose a levy of twenty-five cents on each $100 worth of property was ordered. Up to June, 1864, the county treasurer had received for military pur¬ poses $10,812.97, and had disbursed $10,700.

When the call for 300,000 men was made by the president in 1864 ? the commissioners of Madison county, in order to fill the quota, ordered the payment of a bounty of $400 44 to each volunteer or drafted man," and at the same time authorized a bond issue of $200,000. Altogether, the amount of money expended by the county for bounties and in the relief of soldiers' families was $354,940. This can be ascertained from the records, but the amount given by private citizens in their individual capacity will never be known. Many a sack of flour, many a basket of groceries, many a bundle of school books, found their way in an unosten¬ tatious manner to the home of some soldier's wife, that her children might be fed and enabled to attend school. If the value of all these donations could be ascertained it would doubtless aggregate more than the official appropriations of the county. And it is greatly to the credit of the noble women, whose husbands were engaged in fighting the battles of their country, that they were not too proud to accept these offerings of charity. Even cast off clothing was accepted without the feeling that it was a reflection upon their poverty, but rather a grateful recog¬ nition on the part of some loyal neighbor of the sacrifice they had made

For four centuries after the discovery of America, Cuba was a dependency of Spain. In 1850 Narcisso Lopez planned an expedition for the liberation of the islanders, but it faded. Four years later the Cuban junta in New York organized a movement upon a larger scale, but news reached Spain and the undertaking was "nipped in the bud." In 1868 there was a general uprising among the Cubans, which was followed by a ten years' war, during which Spain sent over 100,000 troops to the island. At the end of that war the debt of $200,000,000 was saddled upon the Cubans and this soon started another revolution. The Cubans moved slowly, however, and it was not until February, 1895, that an open insurrection broke out in the provinces of Santiago, Santa Clara and Matanzas. Within sixty days 50,000 Spanish troops were in Cuba, under command of General Campos. He was superseded by General Weyler, whose cruelties aroused the indignation of the civilized world and forced the Spanish government to send General Blanco to take his place. #

In the meantime legislatures and political conventions in the United States had passed resolutions asking this government to recognize the belligerent rights, if not the independence of Cuba. About ten o'clock on the evening of February 15, 1898, the United States battleship Maine, then lying at anchor in the harbor of Havana, was blown up and a number of her crew were killed. This brought the excitement in the United States to fever heat, and on April 11, 1898, President McKinley sent a special message to Congress asking for authority to intervene in behalf of the Cubans. On the 20th Congress passed a resolution, which was approved by the president the same day, recognizing the inde¬ pendence of Cuba and demanding that Spain withdraw all claims to and authority over the island. On the 25th war was formally declared by Congress, though two days before the president had declared the ports of Cuba in a state of blockade and called for 125,000 volunteers to enforce the resolution of Congress.

Late on the afternoon of April 25, 1898, Governor James A. Mount received a telegram from the secretary of war announcing that Indiana's quota of the 125,000 troops would be four regiments of infantry and two light batteries. The telegram also stated that it was the president's wish "that the regiments of the National Guard or state militia shall be used as far as their numbers will permit, for the reason that they are armed, equipped and drilled. ' '

Instead of four regiments, the state raised five, which were numbered to begin where the Civil war numbers left off. The Indiana regiments recruited for the Spanish-American war were therefore the 157th, 158th, 159th, 160th and 161st. Company I of the One Hundred and Sixtieth was originally Company I of the Fourth Regiment, Indiana National Guard. In this company were a number of Elwood men. Alexander

Dillon held the rank of corporal and the following served as privates: John J. Altmeyer, Nalzo Andrews, Walter Barbo, William Brothers, Cullodin Coyle, Edward Douglass, Harry Douglass, Edward E. Garretson, William Henderson, William Kennedy, Gustave Kappahan, Francis Kramer, Peter W. Lamb, George Martin, Walter Napier, Peter Peal, Richard G. Smith, Rolla Thurman.

Indiana National Guard. When mustered into the United States service with the regiment, the company roster was as follows: Kenneth M. Burr, captain; John B. Collins, first lieutenant; George C. Sausser, second lieutenant; Herbert C. Brunt, first sergeant; Robert H. Antrim, quartermaster sergeant; John J. Ellis, Lee C. Newsom, George H. Durbin, Chauncey 0. Towell, sergeants; Claude S. Burr, Dorr S. Worden, John A. Ross, David V. Martin, Howard F. Henry, Robert N. Nichols, corporals; John L. Hopper, Roscoe Cook, musicians; Thomas M. Dee, wagoner; YTilliam Neff, artificer.

These recruits were made necessary because for some reason about twenty-five of the original company were rejected by the mustering officer for different causes, whereupon Captain Burr telegraphed a friend in Anderson to recruit twenty-five additional men. A recruiting office was opened in John Keener's cigar store, on Meridian street, and in less than half an hour the quota was full. An amusing incident occurred in connection with the recruiting. Among those who came forward to offer their services was a young man known as "Splinks" Myers, an employee of the American Wire and Steel Company, who had been married but a few days before. After he had signed the roll, the recruiting officer asked Myers if he had sent word to his wife. "Hell, no," answered Splinks, "she'll see it in the paper in the morning." Upon arriving at Indianapolis Splinks expressed his disappointment because the recruits were not met by a band and escort, refused to be sworn in, and beat the recruiting officer back to Anderson. That ended his military career.

The One Hundred and Sixtieth was mustered into the United States service on May 12, 1898, and proceeded directly to Camp Thomas, at Chiekamauga Park, Georgia, where it remained until July 28th, when it went to Newport News, Virginia. In August it was transferred to Camp Hamilton, Lexington, Kentucky, and in November to Columbus, Georgia. On January 15, 1899, it was ordered to Matanzas, Cuba, and remained there until the following March, when it returned to the United States and was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, April 25, 1899. Captain Burr continued in the service, was appointed major in the regular army and assigned to duty in the Philippine Islands.

The armory of the old Company C, Fourth National Guard, is located at the corner of Ninth street and Central avenue, Anderson, The company was called out by Governor Matthews at the time of the great strike in the coal fields and impressed everybody by its soldierly conduct. At the beginning of the movement to Cuba in January, 1899, Sergeant Lee Newsom and Sister Benita, for several years connected with St. John's Hospital at Anderson, were especially honored by being sent in advance to arrange the hospital service.

Winfield T. Durbin, of Anderson, was commissioned colonel of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment, and John R. Brunt, also of Anderson, was appointed quartermaster. This regiment was mustered in on July 15, 1898, and was assigned to the Seventh Corps, commanded by General Fitzhugh Lee. On December 13, 1898, it left Savannah, Georgia, for Havana, and remained on duty in Cuba until the follow¬ ing March, when it returned to Savannah and was there mustered out on April 30, 1899. In 1900 Colonel Durbin was elected governor of Indiana.