Randolph County, Indiana - Military, 1882 (part 3 of 4)

Not long after, another expedition, toward Holly Springs and Oxford, was undertaken. During the progress, Gen. Forrest dashed into Memphis, remaining, however, but a few minutes. Gen. Smith returned to Memphis with the army about August 29.

About September 22, Gen. Price, with 14,000 rebels, entered Missouri from Arkansas, and the Union cavalry, including 500 men of the Seventh Indiana, under Maj. Simonson, started after him, marching over a large part of Missouri and into the Indian Territory. This pursuit was successful in driving Price across the Arkansas into Indian Territory; and the Seventh returned, part to St. Louis and part to Louisville, while the part that remained at Memphis did good service in that region, among other things capturing Dick Davis, the noted guerrilla chief, and the terror of the region.

December 23, 1864, Gen. Grierson started for Colliersyille, Tenn., on his famous '' cavalry ride'"' through Mississippi, moving with great rapidity and destroying vast storeg collected for the rebel army at various points, as also railroads, factories, etc.

Another expedition was sent from Memphis into Arkansas and into Louisiana, but what for no one but the projector knows, as the country traversed was execrable and worthless, and had never been and never could be occupied by a military force.

Upon the surrender of the rebel armies, tlie Seventh Cavalry expected to be disbanded, but they were sent to Texas, being carried by steamer down the Mississippi, and up Red River to Alexandria, La., reaching that point June 23, 1865.

Here a force was concentrating of 3,000 cavalry, to be sent to Houston under command of Maj. Gen. Custer, who seems to have been 4 pompous, vain and cruel officer. Only twenty-five years

Two men were court-martialed for desertion, and sentenced to be shot. One suffered the fearful penaity. The other died from fright, in a curious manner.

Gen. Custer had decided to save the life of one, ordering him, instead, to Dry Tortugas for three years, telling the fact, however, only to his Provost Marshal. This officer, at the moment before the execution, stepped up to the commuted man to lead him away. Clapping his hand roughly upon the prisoner, the poor man, thinking himself shot, fainted away, and died shortly afterward from the effects of the fright.

During the march to Texas, Gen. Custer court-martialed two men for killing a runty calf, worth perhaps $1, and inflicted the penalty of shaving their heads, giving them forty lashes and marching them before the regiment on dress parade in this condition.

iven; eae Monday, August 14 - Weather warm, roads dusty, no houses, woods all pine, water very scarce and bad. Pitched my tent in a 'yaller-jacket's nest,' and swore blue blazes.

"Friday, August 18 - Marched out of the woods into the woods and through the woods, and camped God only knows where; nobody to inquire of; in the woods all day and in the woods all night."

"During all this time, I did not average more than three hours' sleep each night, although we made short marches each day. To sleep in the day time was impossible. I was broken out as thickly as ever one was with the measles, from the bottom of my feet to the crown of my head; and, during the heat of the day, I felt as though I were pricked by a million of pins, and sprinkled with hot ashes on the bare skin. The "itch" is not a circumstance to the "heat." In addition to this, lie down when you will in these pine woods, and*'you are alive with all manner of bugs and creeping things in a moment, and each one of this army of vermin would scratch, bite, sting and gnaw you all the time. Then, though there was abundance of pine forest, there was no shade. The trees stood eighty feet high without a limb, giving about as much shade as so many tall gate-posts."'

October 30, 1865, they left Hempstead for Austin, the State capital, arriving November 4, 1865. Hero they remained fil] the miuster-out, which took place February 18, 1866.

Proceeding to Galveston, the men crossed the gulf to New Orleans, thence by steamer to Cairo, and by rail to Indianapolis. A public reception and dinner were had, as being the last regiment '' come home from the wars." Gov. Baker and Gen. Shanks made addresses, and Col. Browne responded; and the men were paid, and joyfullysought their homes, happy, indeed, that " the cruel war was over."

Position and movements: Camp Shanks, Indianapolis, two months; Union City, Tenn., December 6-24, 1863; reconnoissance toward Paris, Tenn., December 14, 1863; return to Union City; pursuit of Forrest, December 24, 1863, and onward; battle and defeat of Okolona, Miss., February 22, 1864; loss, eleven killed, thirty-six wounded, thirty-seven missing; total, eightyfour; the regiment was brave and heroic, but was overpowered by numbers; second movement against Forrest, June, 1864; battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864; the battle was losv, but the regiment was complimented by the General for its valor; pursuit of Price in Missouri, November and December, 1864; Grierson's expedition into Mississippi, December 21, January 5,

1864, 1865; camp at Vernon taken December 28, 1864; large quantity of rebel stores destroyed; sixteen railroad cars loaded with pontons for Hood, and 4,000 new carbines; Alexandria,

Col. Shanks mustered out for disability October 10, 1865; Lieut. Col. Browne promoted Colonel October 10, 1865; mustered out at Austin, Texas, February 18, 1866.

Company B - Captain, Thomas M. Browne, promoted Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, brevetted Brigadier General; mustered. out February 18, 1866; First Lieutenant, George W. Branham, promoted Captain, discharged January 2, 1865; Second Lieutenant. Sylvester Lewis, promoted First Lieutenant, Captain, mustered out as Supernumerary on consolidation; Charles A. Dresser, Sergeant, promoted Quartermaster One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment, honorably discharged August 25, 1864; David §S. Moist, Sergeant, transferred to Company - , Seventh Cavalry, re-organized; Cyrus B. Polly, Sergeant, promoted Second Lieutenant, mustered out on consolidation; Jacob Hartman, Corporal, mustered out September 6, 1865; Granberry B. Nickey, Corporal, died at Indianapolis November 13, 1863; Zachariah Puckett, Corporal, died at Memphis February 5, 1865; Joseph W. Ruby, Corporal, mustered out September 19, 1865; George D. Huffman, blacksmith, captured at Okolona, Miss., February 22, 1864; William CU. Griffis, Quartermaster Sergeant, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Elisha B. West, Sergeant, transferred to Company D, re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866, as Commissary Sergeant; William R. Schindel, Sergeant, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Edwin M. Tansey, Sergeant, mustered out September 16, 1865, as First Sergeant; Robert G. Hunt, Corporal, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866, as Sergeant; Johr R. Perkins, Corporal, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Samuel Coddington, Corporal, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry reorganized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Joseph L. Coffin, Corporal, died at Indianapolis November 12, 1863; John Leamington, blacksmith, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry, re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; James Bright, Wagoner, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866.

Privates - Jeremiah Armstrong, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866, as Corporal; Edmund L. Anderson, discharged November, 1864; Charles L. Branham, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Justice Bonnell, discharged May 26, 1865: Orin Barber, died at Memphis, June 1, 1864; Antony S. Cost, transferred to Company D, Seyenth Regiment re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; James K. Clear, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cagalry reorganized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Alpheus Conyer, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, mustered out November 17, 1865; Edmund D. Cortes, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps October, 1864; Sanford Crist, discharged March 30, 1864; Daniel Coats, mustered out June 8, 1865; Nelson H. Elliot, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized; Eli Frazier, mustered out May 18, 1865: Isaac M. Gray, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; George W. Gray, mustered out October 11, 1865; Edward E. Gray, captured at Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864; Nathan Garrett, promoted First Lieutenant, Regimental Commissary, and Commissary of Battalion; Hamilton C. Gullett, mustered out May 17, 1865; Elias Helffine, died at Memphis March 7, 1864; Alfred Hall, died at Memphis March 7, 1864; Edward D. Hunt, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Andrew Huffman, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Vinson Huston, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Elijah Hazelton, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-orgunized, mustered out February 18, 1866; John C. Henshaw, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Mordecai M. Harris, mustered out September 19, 1865, as Sergeant; Francis M. Johnson, died at White's Station, Tenn., August 3, 1864; Stephen Kennedy, discharged August 16, 1865; John E. Keys, discharged March 6, 1865; John E. Kelsy, mustered out September 19, 1865, as Corporal; Hiram Lamb, mustered out May 24, 1865; Erastus Ludy, mustered out May 31, 1865; Thomas Little, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Alexander Little, transferred to Company D; Urias Lamb, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; William Milles, record indefinite; John Murphy, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; James W. Mattox, died at Hickman, Ky., February 6, 1864;-Patrick McGettigan, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; George W. Monks, transferred tg Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 14, 1866; James Moore, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; John R. Mauzy, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Harrison C. Nickey, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Henry S. Peacock, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized; Cass M. Peterson, mustered out May 24, 1865; Orvil B. Peterson, died at home July 30, 1864; Leander Pugh, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, mustered out November 17, 1865; George W. Shreeve, promoted Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, transferred to Company D, Residuary Battalion, mustered out February 18, 1863; David H. Seamans, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps October, 1864; Clement S. Strahan, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; George W. Smith (No. 1), transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, died at Austin, Texas, February 2, 1865; George W. Smith (No. 2), transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; William Stine, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; William Skinner, discharged June 14, 1864; Benjamin Throp, died at Memphis April 1, 1864; Alvah Tucker, died at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., May 30), 1864. (Elsewhere he is said to have died on the march on the cold New Year's - that statement is from a history of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment; this is from the Adjutant General's report; which is right we cannot tell.) Luther C. Williamson, died at Memphis, April 18, 1865; Elijah T. Wood, died at home August 12, 1864; John T. Williamson, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Christian H. Wright, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps October 20, 1864, as Sergeant; John M. Woodbury, record indefinite; Francis M. Way, promoted First Lieutenant, Captain, resigned February 1, 1865.

Recruits - John B. Hughes, mustered out June 15, 1865; D, McMahan, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Lewis Reeves, inustered out May 24, 1865; Joseph Shaffer, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Elisha B. Wood, transferred to Company D, Seventh Cavalry reorganized, mustered out February 18. 1866.

Company K - John B. Mellott, Corporal, discharged June, 1865; John H. Matchett, Corporal, transferred to Company FE, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; John W. Baler, transferred to Company E, Seventh Cavalry reorganized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Calvin P. Corbitt, transferred to Company E, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Winfield Gunkel, transferred to Company E, Seventh Cavalry re-organized, mustered out February 18, 1866; Calvin Harlan, discharged January 1, 1864; Richard E. Matchett; mustered out September 19, 1865, as Corporal.

A considerable number of the members of the One Hundred and Nineteenth were on board the ill-fated steamer Sultana, which was destroyod, with many hundreds of released prisoners going North, who had been allowed, in violation of all dictates of prudence, to crowd themselves upon that old hulk in their eagerness to reach their Northern homes. (See Sultana.) We should be glad to give a list of these men, but no such list is within our reach.

One Hundred And Twenty-First Regiment, Ninth Cavalry, Three

The regiment left Indianapolis May 38, 1864, for Pulaski, Tenn., and was on duty there till November 23, engaged in the Forrest and Wheeler campaigns of thetime. At Sulphur Branch Trestle, Ala., September 25, 1864, a detachment of the regiment lost, in an engagement with Forrest, 120 killed, wounded and missing.

On Hood's approach, the regiment fell back to Nashville, and the men were mounted and sent to the front. At Franklin, it suffered a toss of twenty-six officers and men. After Hood's retreat, they took up winter quarters at Gravelly Springs, Ala., from January 6 to February 6, 1865, and, at the latter date, proceeded to New Orleans. Turning over their horses, the Ninth returned to Vicksburg March 25. Remaining on duty there to May 5, they were remounted and employed in garrisoning posts in the interior of Mississippi. May 22, 1865, the regiment came again to Vicksburg, to be mustered out; but the act was not accomplished till August 28, 1868.

The number of men on the muster-out was 386. April 26, 1865, fifty-five were lost by the explosion of the steamer Sultana on her homeward passage up the Mississippi, they having been paroled from rebel imprisonment. The survivors reached Indianapolis in May, and were mustered out as paroled prisoners of war.

Company C - Solomon Bantz, discharged June 16, 1865; Joseph A. Ellis, ntustered out October 30, 1865; John M. Engleheart, died at Memphis May 9, 1865; Samuel A. Harris, mustered out August 28, 1865; Jacob A. Jackson, promoted to Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, mustered out with regiment; James Jones, mustered out June 6, 1865; Lorenzo D. Patterson, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps; Jonathan W. Stephens, discharged June 13, 1865; Lorenzo D. Veal, died at Memphis, Tenn., March 8, 1865; Lawrence G. Wiggins, mustered out August 28, 1865; Sanford Wine, mustered out August 28, 1865; John Wine, mustered out August 28, 1865; William G. Hill, recruit, mustered out August 28, 1865; Thomas C. Reynard, recruit, mustered out July 19, 1865; Alexander S. Starbuck, recruit, mustered out August 28, 1865.

One Hundred And Twenty-Fourth Indiana, Three Years

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH INDIANA, THREE YEARS. Officers, 41; men, 917; recruits, 79; died, 149; deserted, 37; unaccounted for 6; total, 1,037; mustered out, 565.

Company A - First Lieutenant, John W. Hannah, promoted Captain, mustered out with regiment August 31, 1865. Private, Isaac Clements, mustered out August 31, 1865.

Company B- - Second Lieutenant, Jesse May, promoted Captain, mustered out with regiment August 31, 1865. Privates - William Bailey, mustered out August 31, 1865; Samuel Conner, mustered out August 31, 1865; Isaiah Cowgill, mustered out July 3, 1865; Joseph Carver, mustered out August 31, 1865; William J. Clevenger, mustered out August 31, 1865; George I. Clevenger, mustered out August 31, 1865; William L. Dudley, died at Knoxville, Tenn., July 20, 1864; Silas W. Dudley, mustered out June 5, 1865; John Ensminger, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 31, 1864; Thomas Fostnow, mustered out August 31, 1865; Samuel Lewallen, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; George Lykens, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jonathan Mosier, discharged July 11, 1865; Samuel J. Pugh, mustered out July 13, 1865; Felix Ryan, died at Knoxville August 24, 1864; Sherrod W. Reece, promoted Second Lieutenant; Second Lieutenant in Company G, One Hundred and Fortyseventh Regiment; First Lieutenant in Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth; mustered out as Second Lieutenant August 31, 1865; William B. Thornburg, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; John Woolford, mustered out June 22, 1865.

Company F - Thomas Blakely, mustered out August 31, 1865; William Bradshaw, died at Nashville April 28, 1864; Simon W. Ross, died at Bridgeport, Ala., July 2, 1864.

Company G - -Captain, Henry H. Neff, promoted Major, Lieutenant Colonel, resigned May 24, 1865; First Lieutenant, Asa Teal, promoted Captain, mustered out with regiment August 31, 1865; Second Lieutenant, Joseph A. Bunch, promoted First Lioutanant, mustered out with regiment August 31, 1565. Sergeants - William M, Visher, promoted Second Lientenant, mustered out August 81, 1865: James M. Hamilton, mustered out August 31, 1865, as First Sergeant;. James McConnell, mustered out May 24, 1865; James Mchan, mustered ont July 10, 1865; Lewis Phillips, mustered ont August 81, 1865. Corporals - Anderson §. Mincer, discharge@d November 29, 1864, Sergeant; Abram Heaston, mustered out June 2, 1865, Sergeant; Caleb Saunders, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Sergeant; Joseph Mote, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Sergeant; George W. Grimes, mustered out August 31, 1865, Sergeant; Samuel Williams, died at Newton, Ind., October 12, 1864; John P. Smith, mustered out August 31, 1865; John R. Fisher, mustered out July 6, 1865. Musicians - David R. McNees, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jesse Bobo, mustored out August 31, 1865. Privates - Francis Abernathy, mustered out August 31, 1865; Edward Adams, mustered out August 31, 1865; Theodore C. Burg, mustered out June 17, 1865; John R. Bales, mustered out August 31. 1865; Charles Barnes, mustered out August 31, 1865; George W. Boyer, mustered out August 31, 1865; William Braden, mustered out August 31, 1865; Lafayette Brobst, discharged January 26, 1865, wounds; John D. Brodrick, mustered out August 31, 1865; Truman A. Brown, mustered out July 11,1865; Jonathan F. Bundy, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; John Burk, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; William J. Brown, mustered out August 31. 1865; Benjamin Coby, died at Union City, Ind., February 17, 1864; John W. Cox, mustered out August 31, 1865; Samuel D. Cole, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; Samuel ©. Crain, discharged May 8, 1865, wounds; Thomas H. Clark, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; John Conner, died at Atlanta October 4, 1864; Alexander H. Davis, mustered out August 31, 1865; George R. Driver, died at Nashville, Tenn., December 22, 1864; Thomas J. Edwards, tranferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, mustered out August 25, 1865; Benjamin W. Evans, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Hospital Steward; William Faris, mustered out August 31, 1865; Enos M. Ford, mustered out July 6, 1865; Josiah Frizzell, mustered out June 6, 1865; George M. Goodman, mustered out August 31, 1865; Thomas A. Gustin, died at home October 20, 1864; Samuel Gustin, mustered out August 31, 1865; Albert J. Harris, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; David R. Hickman, mustered out August 31, 1865; William Huffman, mustered out August 31, 1865; Milton Huffman, mustered out August 31, 1865; Daniel Houser, mustered out August 31, 1865; Martin Ingle, mustered out August 31, 1865; David James, mustered out August 31, 1865; George Jones, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jacob S. Jones, mustered out August 31, 1865; David Jarrett, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; William Jarrett, mustered out June 14, 1865; John J. Kisler, mustered out August 31, 1865; William Kennon, died at Union City February 1, 1864; Samuel F. Locke, mustered out August 31, 1865; John Leahy, not mustered out; William Linkerdorfer, mustered out August 31, 1865; James M. Moore, mustered out August 31, 1865; John N. Murray, died at Chattanooga August 15, 1864; Leander S. Murray, died at Bridgeport, Ala., April 20, 1864; John Mc- Guay, mustered out August 31, 1865; William Miller, mustered out June 5, 1865; Joseph L. Moffitt, died at Marietta, Ga., August 10, 1864; Samuel E. Nickey, discharged August 23, 1864, wounds; Robert Pain, mustered out August 31, 1865; Newton Peterson, not mustered out; Hugh V. Poyner, mustered out May 11, 1865; William A. Ranier, mustered out August 31, 1865; James A. Ramsey, died at Nashville July 7, 1864; Granville Roads, mustered out June 12, 1864; Miehael Ryan, not mustered out; Michael Roman, not mustered out; Mahlon J. Rainer, died at Newbern, N. C., March 22, 1865, wounds; James D. Reeves, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, mustered out August 25, 1865; William H. Reed, mustered out August 10, 1865; Robert W. Routh, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jeremiah Skiner, mustered out August 31, 1865; David Smith, mustered out May 30, 1865; John W. Sliles, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jchn Suter, mustered out August 31, 1865; William M. Sutton, mustered out as Corporal August 31, 1865; James Swathwood, mustered out August 31, 1865; Andrew J. Skaggs, died at Big Shanty, Ga., June 28, 1864, wounds; Benjamin M, Stines, mustered out August 31, 1865; Milton C. Stakebake, mustered out July 10, 1865; Charles Schneckengast, mustered out August 31,

30, 1864: Fletcher Truax, mustered out August 31, 1865; Thomas ©. Todd, mustered out August 31, 1865; Martin W. Watts, mustered out June 17, 1865; John B. Warner, discharged May 9, 1865, as Corporal, wounds; Levi Welch, discharged February 9, 1865; Thomas J. Way, mustered out August 31, 1865. Company H - Cuaptain, James L. Neff, killed at battle of Wise's Forks, N. C., March 10, 1865; First Lieutenant, Thomas S. Kennon, discharged December 20, 1864, disability: Second l.ieutenant, Levi Wolf, resigned June 14, 1864. Sergeants - Edmund Engle, promoted to Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain, mustered out August 31, 1865; Peter M. Shultz, promoted Second Lieutenant, mustered out as Sergeant August

31, 1865; John R. Mote, died at Knoxville, Tenn., August 8, 1864; James M. Gunckel, mustered July 6, 1865; Thomas Adamson, discharged March 12, 1865, as Hospital Steward. Corporals - John Quincy Adams Roberts, mustered out June 17, 1865, as Sergeant; George W. Fisher, mustered out June 16, 1865; Robinson H. Bailey, mustered out August 31, 1865; Samuel L. Adams, mustered out August 31, 1865; John M Benson, died at Knoxville, Tenn., September 7, 1864, Sergeant; George W. Smithson, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Sergeant; Rufus G. Mote, mustered out May 30, 1865. Musician - Isaiah Ryan, from Fortieth Ohio. Privates - Andrew J. Ballentyne, discharged July 10, 1865; Albert Banta, died at New Albany, Ind., December 18, 1864; Jacob Barnes, mustered out August 31, 1865; James Bartholomew, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Musician; Joseph Bentley, died at Louisville March, 25, 1864; William Boltz, mustered August 31, 1865, as Corporal; Samuel Bright, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; George W. Brown, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jeffecson Bush, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; Elihu Coats, killed near Atlanta, Ga., August 5, 1864; George Coates, mustered out May 30, 1865; Gilbert L. Cox, died at Altoona, Ga., June 27, 1864; 'Olinthus Cox, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; Erastus Corwin, mustered out June 16, 1865; John W. Edwards, transferred te Veteran Reserve Corps November 20, 1864; Martin E. Ferrell, mustered out August 31, 1865; James W. Ferrell, mustered out August 31, 1865; John C. Ferrell, mustered August 31, 1865; Andrew J. Goodman, died at Richmond, Ind., March 21, 1864; William Goshorn, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jacob F. Groshaus. promoted Second Lieutenant, mustered out August 31, 1865, as First Sergeant; John Grow, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; Thomas D. Guncle, mustered out July 6, 1865; George M. Haas, mustered out August 31, 1865; Eli J. Harris, died near Atlanta, Ga., August 6, 1864; John H. Hart, mustered out August 31, 1865; James T. Hart, mustered out May 80, 1865; Henry Hobbick, mustered 'out May 30, 1865, as Corporal; Thomas Horner, mustered out July 6, 1865; Amos C. Jessup, mustered out July 10, 1865; William P. Jessup, died at Chattanooga April 27, 1864; Robert Kirkley, mustered ut August 31, 1865; John Kizer, died at Marietta, Ga, April 28, 1864; Leander C. Lusley, mustered out August 31, 1865; Charles C. Lawrence, mustered out August 31, 1865; John Lyon, record indefinite; Manuel D. Miller, died at Louisville, Ky., April 3. 1864; Andrew H. McNees, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; James Miranda, mustered out August 31, 1865; George N. Perkins, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; Charles H. Pierce, mustered out August 31, 1865; Henry M. Robinson, discharged June 27, 1864; Henry Ross, mustered out August 31, 1865; Benjamin F. Sasser, mustered out May 30, 1865; John C. Sears, record indefinite; James Shearer, died at Knoxville, Tenn., July 11, 1864; Reuben Shockney, mustered out August 31, 1865; George C. Terrell, died March 22, 1865, wounds; Jesse M. Vanhart, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps August 3, 1864; Isaac B. Vaughn, mustered out August 31, 1865; Joseph M. Vaughn, mustered out August 31, 1865; John R. Winship, killed at Wise's Forks March 10, 1865; William W. Whiting, mustered out August 31, 1865; John A. Zimmerman, died at Indianapolis September 5, 1864. Recruits - Albert Coats, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Corporal; John Harris, mustered out August 31, 1865; William H. Johnson, mustered out August 31, 1865; James McConaughey, mustered out August 31, 1865; Milton Meranda, mustered out August 31, 1865; Francis Parker, mustered out August 31, 1865; Lawrence Powers, mustered out August 31, 1865; Levi Rhoads, mustered out August 31, 1865; Christian Richards, mustered out August: 31, 1865.

This regiment was mustered in at Kokomo March 12, 1864; Colonel, Charles S. Parrish. Mustered out at Charlotte, N. C., December 2, 1865. Officers, 40; men, 924; recruits, 22; died, 178; deserted, 21; unaccounted for, 9; total, 986.

Moved to Nashville March 16, 1864. Marched through to Murfreesboro, Tullahoma, Stevenson, Chattanooga and Cleveland to Charleston, Hast Tennessee, arriving March 24, 1864. Left Charleston for the front May 3, 1864. Atlanta campaign May 9, September 2, 1864. Camped at Decatur, Ga., till October 4, 1864. Pursued Hood to Gaylesville. Moved to Nashville and fought at Franklin and Nashville.

Camped at Columbia, Tenn., till January 5, 1865. Moved to Washington City aud to Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, N. C. Moved to Fort Anderson, N. C. Moved to Morehead City and Newbern March 1, 1865. Battle of Wise's Forks, N. C., March 8, 1865.

Marched to Smithfield April 11, 1865. render received April 12, 1865. Marched to Raleigh April 14, 1865. Johns:on's surrender April, 1865. Moved to Greensboro and to Charlotte. Stationed at Charlotte, N. C., till December 2, 1865. Arrived at Indianapolis December 13, 1865, with 27 officers and 540 men. Public reception in the State House Grove. Regiment received final payment and discharged and went home with glad hearts, feeling that the great work was done.

Officers- - Quartermaster, Charles A. Dresser, appointed Adjutant pro tem.; recommissioned Quartermaster, honorably discharged August 24, 1865,

Company I - Simon Burris, mustered out December 2, 1865; Henry H. Beach, mustered out June 8, 1865; John W. Campbell, mustered out May 16, 1865; David H. Dutro, mustered out December 2, 1865; Benjamin F. Emerson, mustered out December 2, 1865; Thomas C. Holloway, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., November 23, 1864; Thomas O'Neal, died at Knoxville, Tenn., August 16, 1864; Elisha B. Porter, discharged June 7, 1865; David S. Porter, mustered out December 2, 1865, as Corporal; Joseph W. Smith, mustered out December 2, 1865, as Corporal; James A. Williams, mustered out August 30, 1865.

One Hundred And Thirty-First Indiana, Thirteenth Cavalry

Statistics - Mustered in April 29, 1864, Indianapolis, Colonel, G. M. 8S. Johnson. Mustered out at Indianapolis in August, 1864. Officers, 50; men, 1,107; recruits, 236; died, 136; deserters, 87; unaccounted for, 9; total, 1,393.

Movements- - Left Indianapolis for Nashville as infantry April 30, 1864. Ordered to Huntsville as a garrison May 31, 1864, scouting and skirmishing through the summer of 1864, holding the post against the whole force of Col. Buford October 1, 1864. Companies A, C, D, F and I went to Louisville to draw horses and equipments for the whole regiment. Ordered to Paducah; left Paducah for Louisville and Nashville Novem ber 1, 1864. Those companies went to La Vergne and fell back on Murfreesboro, having two battles and twelve skirmishes, losing sixty-seven men. The other companies took*part at Nashville and the entire regiment united immediately afterward. Effecting a remounting, the regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade, Seventh Division Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi, Col. Johnson commanding the brigade. Left for New Orleans February 11, 1865; disembarked at Vicksburg; went on to New Orleans March 6, 1865, and to Mobile Bay; raid through Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi - 800 miles - under Gen. Grierson, to Columbus, Miss. Went to Macon, Miss., guarding railroads and capturing stores, ammunition and ordnance. Returned to Columbus and to Vicksburg. Mustered out of service November 18, 1865. Reached Indianapolis November 25, 1865. Dinner at the Soldiers' Home

Call issued by Gov. Morton April 23, 1864. One Hundred and Thirty-second to One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiments were organized under the call. The One Hundred and Thirtyfourth was mustered in at Indianapolis May 25, 1864, Colonel, James Gavin; seven companies were recruited from the Fourth and three in the Fifth District. They proceeded immediately to Tennessee for garrison and guard duty.

The 100-day regiments did a useful, though not a conspicuous service, enabling the trained soldiers to be sent to the front in the important and decisive campaign of 1864 in Virginia and Georgia and elsewhere.

Company F---Captain, George W. H. Riley, promoted Lieutenant Colonel, mustered out with the regiment; First Lieutenant, William M. Cox, promoted Captain, mustered out with regiment; Second Lieutenant, Joab Driver, promoted First Lieutenant, mustered out with regiment.

Elizaville, Lawrenceburg, Kendallville, Knightstown, Connersville, New Castle, Portland, Vevay, cne each; one from New Albany and Metamoras, and one from Columbia, New Haven and New Philadelphia.

Tenn.; thence to Murfreesboro, being stationed in Fort Roseerans. In a skirmish south of Murfreesboro one was wounded. Upon Hood's defeat, it marched to Columbia, Tenn., December 28, 1864; embarked in steamers on the Tennessee for Washi ington City, January 16, 1865; moved to Alexandria February

3, 1865. Kmbarked on ocean steamer for Fort Fisher, N. C., February 3, 1865; touk part in severe fighting in the siege and capture of Wilmington. At the battle of Town Creek Bridge, N. C., February 20, 1865. Entered Wilmington, N. C., February 23, 1865. Marched to Kingston, N. C., March 6, passing over a distance of eighty-five miles, largely swamps, in five days. Set out for Goldsboro, N. C., March 19. Arrived at Raleigh, N. C., April 14, remaining there till the 6th of May. Marched to Greensboro; on duty there till July 11, 1865. Mustered out of service at Greensboro July 11, 1865. Arrived at Indianapolis July 21. Public reception July 25.. Addresses by Gov. Morton and Maj. Gen. Sherman. Regiment paid off July 28, 1865, and discharged.

Company F - Second Lieutenant, Ezra W. Bond, mustered out with regiment; James HE. Ashwell, Samuel P. Cotton, musicians, mustered out July 11; 1865; Ira Adamson, mustered out July 11, 1865, as Corporal; George Byers, Joel F. Bales, mustered out July 11, 1865; George W. Edwards, mustered out May 25, 1865; Marion W. Farrens, Henry H. Hurst, Benjamin F. Jordan, mustered out July 11, 1865; James H. Murray, died at Murfreesboro January 1, 1865; Albert Pegg, Thomas J. Puckett, mustered out July 11, 1865; Walter W. Williams, not mustered out.

The One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment was composed of seven companies from the Fifth Congressional District, two from the Eleventh District and one from elsewhere. Organized March 13, 1865, at Indianapolis, Colonel, Milton Peden. March 16, 1865, the regiment left for Harper's Ferry, Va. They marched to Charleston, Va., and, during the summer, did guard duty at various places in that vicinity. It was mustered out August 4, 1865, arrived at Indianapolis August 9, 1865, with 32 officers and 743 men, and was publicly weleomed in the State House Grove, with addresses by Lieut. Gov. Baker, Gen. Benjamin Harrison and others.

Recruited in the Kighth Congressional District. Organized April 20, 1865; Colonel, Frank Wilcox; wont to Parkersburg April 28, 1865; continued on duty in Western Virginia till August 4, 1865; mustered out August 4, 1865; arrived at Indianapolis August 7, 1865, with 32 officers and 734 men. Reception at the Capitol grounds.

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT (ONE YEAR). Company B- - Benjamin Bayless, George W. Debolt, Frank Kukler, mustered out August 4, 1865; John R. Whitacre, mustered out August 4, 1865, as Sergeant.

Seventh and one each from the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Districts. Organized April 12, 1865; Lieutenant Colonel, Charles M. Smith. Served in Shenandoah Valley; mustered out at Winchester, Va., August 4, 1865; arrived at Indianapolis August 7, 1865, with 17 officers and 380 men.

Twentieth Battery, Light Artillery

Thomas E. Stanley, mustered out June 28, 1865. Men from Randolph County may have been in the batteries, but most of the names have no residence attached, and hence no account can be given of such, for which facts, if any " Randolph County Boys'' are thereby omitted, we are exceedingly sorry, but how to help the matter we are unable to tell.

First United States Veteran Volunteers Engineers Randolph Battalion, Indiana Legion

FIRST UNITED STATES VETERAN VOLUNTEERS ENGINEERS, Company B - William Milstead, from Company H, Hightyfourth Regiment, mustered out June 26, 1865. Company G - Allen Fowler, from Company E, Highty-fourth Regiment, mustered out June 30, 1865. Company G - Archibald March, from Company HE, EHightyfourth Regiment, mustered out June 30, 1865. Company I - William Chambers, from Company A, Hightyfourth Regiment, mustered out June 30, 1865. There were doubtless others, but we have no information concerning them. RANDOLPH BATTALION, INDIANA LEGION. Officers - Major, D. E. Shaw: Adjutant, James R. Jones; Quartermaster, Benjamin Peacock; Assistant Surgeon, Samuel G. Stafford. The companies composing the regiment were as follows: Buena Vista Home Guards - Captain, Zerah Masters; First Lieutenant, Oliver M. Mills; Second Lieutenant, Joel W. Busseuar. Rand»lph Greys - -Captain, R. B. Farra: First Lieutenant, W. W. Aker; Second Lieutenant, John K. Martin. Farmland True Blues - Captain, George McGriff; First Lieutenant, James H. McNees; Second Lieutenant, P. A. Stanley. West River Guards - Captain, John A. Hunt; First Lieutenant, Benjamin Peacock; Second Lieutenant, Arthur True; Second Lieutenant, John D. Jones. Liberty Tigers - Captain, Jacob A. Jackson; First Lieutenant, Alvin M. Owen; Second Lieutenant, Joel A. Newman. Maxville Regulars - Captain, Joab Driver; First Lieutenant, Thomas B. McIntyre; Second Lieutenant, Luther M. Moorman. Morristown Guards - Captain, Jesse May; First Lieutenant, Salathiel Ryan; Second Lieutenant, Jonathan R. Peoples. Union City Guards - Captain, Isaac P. Gray; Captain, George W. Thompson; First Lieutenant, George W. Thompson; First Lieutenant, John W. Griffith; Second Lieutenant, Raiford Wiggs; Second Lieutenant, Samuel L. Carter. Morton Rangers - Captain, Robert H. Grooms; First Lieutenant, George Spillers; Second Lieutenant, Oliver F. Lewellyn. Stone Guards - Captain, John S. Way; First Lieutenant, John K. Martin; Second Lieutenant, Edward Engle. Fairview Rangers- - Captain, Cyrus B. St. John; First Lieutenant, James R. Jones; Second Lieutenant, John W. Barger. Whether these companies of which the officers are given above performed any duty of any sort we are unable to state. Many of the officers and men in them enlistea in active service, and spent more or less time at the front and elsewhere with the regiments in which they enrolled their names.

Fortieth Ohio

Organized at Camp Chase in September and November, 1861; Colonel, Jonathan Cranor. All of Companies E and G, much of Company I and parts of F and K are said to have enlisted from Darke County, Ohio. The following persons were from Randolph County, Ind.:

Company B - Recruited by Capt. Reeves, promoted Major; Lewis Addington; William Brown, died March 19, 1863, at Piketon, Ky.; Martin Cox, John Ferrell, Jabez W. Freestone, veteran, died shortly after the close of the war, and buried at Portland, Jay Co., Ind.; George Hollowell, William Ingle, Corporal, killed at Kenesaw, Ga., before Atlanta; James Mendenhall, Joseph O'Neall, Lewis Phillips, Isaiah Regan, Drum Major; John Spotts, died in Georgia; two more, also, whose names were not obtained.

An amusing occurrence took place with one of the above, Lewis Addington, which may not be amiss to relate. After the regiment had veteranized and as they were coming home on furlough, when they were at Nashville, Tenn., Addington, seeing a boy peddling milk, kicked his bucket over, spilling all the milk.

He was arrested and kept so long that the other boys went home, had their furlough, returned to the front and were mustered in as veterans. Addington was not on hand, and, of course, remained a non-veteran. When he returned, instead of becoming a veteran, he simply served out his original time and was mustered out of the regiment. Speaking of the kick, he said: '"* Boys, that was the luckiest kick that I ever made in my life."

The movements of the regiment were as follows: Left Camp Chase for Kentucky December 17, 1861. Started for Sandy Valley via Mt. Sterling and McCormick's Gap December 26, 1861. Arrived at Paintsville January 8, 1862. Assisted in driving Gen. Humphrey Marshall from Kentucky in January, 1862. Skirmished at Pound Gap, Eastern Kentucky, March 16, 1862. James A. Garfield, Colonel, was commander of the brigade. Joined the Army of the Cumberland at Nashville, Tenn., February 28, 1863. Joined the Army of Kentucky at Franklin, Tenn., March 6, 1863. Had severe fighting near Franklin April 10, 1863. Stationed at Triune, Shelbyville, Wartrace and Tullahoma, Tenn., summer of 1863. In the battle of Chickamauga, Tenn., September 19, 2(), 1863; in the fights round Chattanooga November 24, 25, 1863; veteranized in January, 1864; Atlanta campaign, Ga., summer of 1864, doing severe and successful execution; Franklin and Nashville in December, 1864; consolidated with the Fifty-first at Nashville; pursued Bragg to Huntsville, Ala., and returned to Nashville; ordered to Texas in June, 1865; mustered out at Indianola, Texas, October, 1865. Returned their flag to the ladies of Greenville November 17, 1865; flag now in possession of Mrs. I. N. Gard, Greenville..

Kighth Regiment (three months), 78; Sixth (three years), 2; Seventh (three years), 3; Highth (three years). 69; Ninth (three years), 87; Eleventh (three years), 2; Twelfth (three years) 2; Thirteenth (three years), 6; Sixteenth (three years), 1; Nineteenth (three years), 148; Twentieth (three years), 47; Twentyfirst, First Heavy Artillery, 18; Twenty-se;enth (three years), 3; Twenty-eighth, First Cavalry (three years), 1; Thirty-first (three years), 1; Thirty-third (three years), 1; Thirty-fourth (three years), 4; Thirty-sixth (three years), 4; Forty-second (three years), 3; Forty-seventh (three years), 2; Fifty-fourth (one year), 39; Fifty-fifth (three months), 88; Fifty-seventh (three years), 76; Sixty-ninth (three years), 369; Seventy-first (three years), 2; Seventy-fifth (three years), 4; Seventy-seven'h (three years), 2; Eighty-fourth (three years), 308; Highty-ninth (three years), 1; Ninetieth, Fifth Cavalry (three years), 48; Ninety-seventh (three years), 1; Ninety-ninth (three years), 21; One Hundred and Fifth (Morgan raid), 143; One Hundred and Sixth (Morgan raid), 203; One Hundred and Ninth (Morgan raid), 56; One Hundred and Seventeenth (six months), 1; One Hundred and Nineteenth, Seventh Cavalry (three years), 94; One Hundred and Twenty-first, Nineteenth Cavalry (three years), 18; One Hundred and Twenty-fourth (three years), 208; One Hundred and Thirtieth (three years), 6; One Hundred and Thirty-first, Twelfth Cavalry (three years), +; One Hundred and Thirty-fourth (100 days), 00; One Hundred and Thirty-ninth (100 days), 1; One Hundred and Fortieth (one year), 138; One Hundred.and Forty-seventh (one year), 127; One Hundred and Fifty-fourth (one year), 2; One Hundred and Fifty-sixth (one year), 5; Twentieth Battery, Light Artillery, 1; Fifth Colored United States Troops, 1; Highth Colored United States Troops, 1; Twenty-third Colored United States Troops, 3; Twenty-eighth Colored United States Troops, 3; Forty-second Colored United States Troops, 3; Forty-fifth Colored United States Troops, 2; other colored soldiers, 14; other colored soldiers, Greenville settlement, Ohio, 14; Fortieth, Ohio (three years), 12. Total credit to Randolph, or supposed to belong thereto, 2,373.

This list is, of course, partly uncertain. Most of the persons named are known to have belonged to Randolph, but some have baen put down as probable citizens of the county. Doubtless a considerable number really belonging to the county have been credited elsewhere, while in some cases she has received credit

Of course, a considerable number, amounting to many thousands throughout the State, and doubtless to some hundreds in the county, are counted over again, the names of some occurring several times; but to make an exact account of such would hardly be practicable, and if it were so the good accomplished would not be worth the trouble.

Re-Organization Of Regiments, Assignment Of Recruits, Etc

EKighth Regiment Infantry (three months) - Re-organized under Col. William P. Benton, and mustered into service for three years September 5, 1861.

Sixth Infantry (three years) - Non-veterans mustered out September 22, 1864; the veterans and recruits were transferred to the Sixty-eighth Indiana. Upon the muster-out of the Sixtyeighth, June 20, 1865, nineteen men of the old Sixth Infantry were not entitled to discharge, and they were again transferred to the Forty-fourth Indiana and served therein till finally mustered out therewith, September 14, 1865.

Seventh Infantry (three years) - Non-veterans mustered vut September 3, 1864; veterans transferred to the Nineteenth Regiment. October 18, 1864, the new Nineteenth and the new Twentieth were consolidated, the new regiment being known as the Twentieth. The new Twentieth was mustered out July 12, 1865.

Twelfth Regiment (three years)- - Mustered out June 8, 1865; those not entitled to discharge were transferred to the Fortyeighth and Fifty ninth Regiments, and served till July 15 and 17 respectively.

Thirteenth Regiment - Consolidated into a battalion under Order 384 from Gen. Butler, dated December 2, 1864; five companies of drafted men and substitutes, assigned in the spring of 1865, and no further change till mustered out, September 5, 1865.

Sixteenth Regiment (three years) - Changed to a mounted infantry regiment, and, on the muster-out, June 30, 1865, the recruits were transferred to the Thirteenth Cavalry; discharged November 18, 1865.

Nineteenth Regiment - Seventh and Nineteenth consolidated September 3, 1864; transferred to the re-organized Twentieth; discharged July 12, 1865.

Twentieth Regiment - Fourteenth and Twentieth consolidated August 1, 1864. New Nineteenth and Twentieth united October 18, 1864. New Twentieth mustered out July 12, 1865.

Twenty-first Regiment - Changed to a heavy artilliery organization in February, 1863. Two companies were added and the regiment was recruited to the maximum. The regiment was called the First Heavy Artillery, and served as such ti]] mustered out, January 13, 1866.

Twenty-seventh Regiment - Non-veterans mustered out at Atlanta, Ga., November 4, 1864; the other transferred to the Seventieth, order dated October 12, 1864. Seventieth mustered out June 8, 1865; those not entitled to discharge transferred again to the Thirty-third, and mustered out with that regiment July 21, 1865.

Twenty-eighth Regiment, First Cavalry--The battalion of this regiment serving in the West consolidated into two companies, September 24, 1864; mustered out June 24, 1865. The battalion in the East consolidated into one company June 23, 1864; discharged July, 1865.

Thirty-sixth Regiment - Non-veterans mustered out under order of August 13, 1864; the others formed into one company and transferred July 12, 1865, to the residuary battalion of the Thirtieth, as Company H; mustered out November 25, 1862.

Sixty-ninth Regiment - Consolidated with a battalion of four companies January 23, 1865; mustered out July 5, 1865; recruits transferred to the Twenty-fourth Regiment; mustered out November 15, 1865.

Seventy-first Regiment, Sixth Cavalry - Changed to cavalry, order dated February 23, 1863; two companies added and the organization completed October 12, 1868. Original members mustered out June 17, 1865; recruits joined with those of the Fifth Cavalry June 25, 1865, new organization called Sixth Cavalry; mustered out September 15, 1865.

Ninetieth Regiment, Fifth Cavalry - Companies G, L and M and the recruits transferred to the re-organized Sixth Cavalry June 28, 1865; mustered out September 15, 1865.

Battle List

Ga., May 25, Sixth, Ninth, Twelfth, Seventeenth, Twentyseventh, Fifty-seventh, Ninety-seventh; Dallas, Ga., May 27, Sixth, Ninth, Twelfth, Seventy-fifth, HKighty-fourth, Ninetyseventh, Ninety-ninth; Bethesda Church, Va., May 30, 31, Seventh; Pumpkin Vine Church, Ga. June, Seventeenth Regiment; Petersburg, Va., June, 1864 to April 3, 1865, Seventh, Thirteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth; Kingston, Ga., June, Kightyfourth Regiment; Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, Seventh, Thirteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth; Guntown, Miss., June 10, One Hundred and Nineteenth (Seventh Cavalry); Tupello, Miss., June 14, Highty-ninth Regiment; Lost Mountain, Ga., June 17, Seventyfirst (Sixth Cavalry), One Hundred and Twenty-fourth, One Hundred and Thirtieth; Big Shanty, Ga. June 14, Seventh, Ninetyseventh, Ninety-ninth; Belle Plain Road, Ga., June, Seventeenth; Kenesaw, Ga. June 27, Sixth, Ninth, Twelfth, Seventeenth, Twenty-seventh, Thirty-first, Thirty-sixth, Forty-second, Fifty-seventh, Seventy-first (Sixth Cavalry), Seventy-fifth, Kighty-fourth, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth, One Hundred and Thirtieth; Marietta, Ga., July 3, Sixth, Ninth, Seventeenth; Chattahoochie, Ga., July 7, Seventeenth; Decatur, Ga., July 19, Ninety-ninth, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth, One Hundred and Thirtieth; Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, Ninth, Twentyseventh, Forty-second, Fifty-seventh, Seventy-fifth, Hightyfourth; Atlanta, Ga., July 21, September 2, Sixth, Ninth, Twelfth, Twenty seventh, Thirty-first, Forty-second Fifty-seventh, Seventy-fifth, Highty-fourth, Ninety-seventh, Ninety-ninth, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth, One Hundred and Thirtieth; Atchafalaya, La., July 28, Highth, Forty-seventh; Stone Mountain, Ga., July,\Seventeenth Regiment; Hillsboro, Ga., July 31, Ninetieth (Fifth Cavalry): Fort Morgan, Ala., August 5, Thirteenth, Twenty-first (First Heavy Artillery); Leesburg, Va., August, Seventeenth Regiment; La Mavoo, Miss., August 18, One Hundred and Nineteenth (Seventh Cavalry); Yellow House, Va., August 19, Twenty-first, Seventh; Lovejoy's Station, Ga., September 2, Ninth, Highty-fourth, Ninety-ninth; Jonesboro, Ga., September 1, Ninth, Twelfth, Fifty-seventh, Seventy-fifth, Hightyfourth, Ninety-seventh, Ninety-ninth, One Hundred and Thirtieth; Fort Wagner, S. C., September 7, Thirteenth; Strawberry Plains, Va., September 15, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Deep Bottom, Va., September 18, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Opequan, Va., September 19, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Fort Gilmore, Va., September 19, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Chapin's Bluff, Va., September 20, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Fisher's Hill, Va., September 20, Highth Regiment; New Market, Va, September 23, Highth Regiment; Sulphur Branch Trestle, Ala., September 25, One Hundred and Twenty-first (Ninth Cavalry); Pulaski, Tenn., September 27, Seventy-first (Sixth Cavalry; Huntsville, Ala., October 1, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry); Goshen, Ga., October, Seventeenth; Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, Highth, Eleventh; Little River, Ga., October 26, Ninetyseyenth, Ninety-ninth; Carrion Crow, La., November .3, Thirtyfourth; Griswoldville, Ga., November 23, Twelfth; Columbia, Tenn., November 26, Ninth; Franklin, Tenr., November 30, Ninth, Thirty-first, Fifty-seventh; Eighty-fourth, One Hundred and Twenty-first (Ninth Cavalry), One Hundred and Twentyfourth; Murfreesboro (defense), Tenn., December 7, One Hundred and Fortieth; Little Oyeechee River, Ga., December 8, Ninety-seventh, Ninety-ninth; Nashville, Tenn., December 15, 16, Ninth, Thirty-first, Fifty-seventh, Seventy-first (Sixth Cavalry), Kigthy-fourth, Higthy-ninth, One Hundred and Twentyfourth, One Hundred and Thirtieth, One Hundred and Thirtyfirst (Ninth Cavalry); Fort McAllister, Ga., December 13, Ninetyninth; Savannah (siege), Ga., December 10 to 21, Twelfth, Forty-second; Wilkinson's Pike, Tenn., December, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry); Overall's Creek, Tenn., December, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry); Vernon, Miss., December 28, One Hundred and Nineteenth (Seventh Cavalry).

1865 - Fort Fisher, N. C., January 14, Thirteenth, One Hundred and Fortieth; Fort Anderson, N. C., February 19, Thirteenth, One Hundred and Fortieth; Town Creek Bridge, N. C., February 20, Thirteenth, One Hundred and Fortieth; Wise's Forks, N. C., March 10, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth, One

April 19, Twenty-first (First Heavy Artillery), One Hundred and Thirty first (Thirteenth Cavalry); Ebenezer Church, Ala., April 1, Seventeenth; Mobile, Ala., March 27 to April 1, Twenty-first (First Heavy Artillery), Sixty ninth, Highty-ninth, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry); Selma, Ala., April 2, Seventeenth; Hatcher's Run, Va., April 2, Twentieth; Clovor Hill, Va., April 9, Twentieth; Fort Blakely, Ala., April 9, Sixtyninth, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry); Macon, Ga., April 20, Seventeenth; Palmetto Ranch, Texas, May 18, Thirty-fourth Regiment, last battle of the war.

Our Randolph soldiers, sharing abundantly in the hardships, perils and sufferings incident to a cruel and terrible war, bore also their full proportion in those most fearful and inexpressible scenes, the horrors, the tortures, the deaths incident to rebel prisons.

It had been the intention of the compiler of these sketches to give at some length am accouut of these loathsome and ghastly dens of corruption, disease and death; but they are too terrible. His mind recoils at the recital, and his soul cannot be held to the contemplation for the length of time needful to prepare such a statement. A few touches must suffice, and the mind of the reader must be left to guess or imagine the rest.

A considerable number of men from Randolph County, Ind., were so unfortunate as to be captured and to suffer imprisonment. Among them were W. A. W. Daly, Charles Potter, Barnes, of Washington Township; Edward Simmons, Van Sipe, of Jackson Township, and doubtless many others, Barnes died in Andersonville. Daly spent time at Andersonville, Millen, Florence, Some of his experience is given under the head of reminiscences in another part of this work. We avail ourselves of a statement made and published (Prison Report by Congressional Committee, 1867-69) concerning Calvin W. Diggs, enlisted from Jay County, but for many years a resident of Winchester, Randolph County, condensing it to suit our present purpose.

"J was a private of Company A, Highty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and was captured at Chickamauga September 21, 1863. For six days I was kept on the battle-ground, witnessing meanwhile the terrible sufferings from fearful wounds, aggravated by exposure and neglect. October 1, we were packed into cars like so many hogs and taken to Richmond - 900 miles. Arriving in Richmond October 10, we were searched, our money taken, amounting, in case of the 300 men on the floor where I was, to thousands of dollars. We were put into Smith's building, and lodged (365 in number) in the lower story, mostly under ground and filthy and damp. Rations, ten ounces of bread and three to six ounces of meat, not enough for a single meal, the meat being generally tainted and sometimes rotten, and the box containing it lined with skippers. The officer in charge (Turner) was abusive and cruel, and the prisoners did not dare to make even the simplest requests. November 14, 1863, we were taken to Danville, Va., and confined in five tobacco factories. The buildings contained about 2,500 prisoners. Rations at Danville, half a loaf of dark bread of very inferior quality. What it was made of we could not determine. After a while, corn-bread was substituted, of a wretched sort, meal very coarse and unsifted. A little meat also was given, and occasionally some soup, though both were filthy and abominable. The weather was very cold, winter of 1863-64, but we had no fire and very little clothing. We lay on the bare floor with no covering. Our Government furnished clothing to some exteut about Christmas, 1863, but much even of that passed before long into the hands of the rebels, since the hunger of the men was so very great that very many exchanged clothing for a little food to satisfy their terrible cravings. April 15, 1864, we -were sent to Andersonville. The prisoners from Belle Island had preceded us, and they were by far a worselooking, more wretched set of human beings than ourselves. The "dead line" was made by nailing slats on stakes about three feet high, and was about fifteen feet from the stockade. I saw two shot by the guards for crossing the 'dead line.' One was trying to get some better water by reaching beyond the line; the other went beyond the line on purpose and begged the guard to put an end to his misery.

"There was a bog or swamp of several acres on both sides of the stream on which the stockade was located. No arrangement was made for removing filth or excrement, and the prisoners had to resort to this swamp. The stream was the only source of supply for water. The condition of the swamp and of the stream may be imagined, but cannot be described. There were 30,000 prisoners in the stockade at one time, and there was a space of not more than three feet by six to each man. There'was almost no shelter, and the rainfall was fearful, at one time twenty days in succession; and the ground became much like a barnyard in the winter. Many dug holes in the ground to burrow in, but the rain would 'drown' them out. The clothing became reduced often to pants and blouse, or to drawers and shirt, and those inconceivably ragged, filthy and loathsome. Our rations at first were raw - one to one and a half pints of very coarse, unsifted meal, one gill of rotten, bug-eaten beans or peas, or sometimes rice; sometimes a little meat and occasionally a teaspoonful of salt. The cooking had to be done with the vile water of the execrable stream and in the smoke and soot of a pine knot fire. The effect of this wretched feeding was scurvy in its most terrible forms, mostly showing itself in pain and stiffness of limbs, running sores and the like. -In my own case, it caused contraction of limbs (so as not to be able to walk for two months), severe pain and spongy and bleeding gums (every tooth in my head being perfectly loose). Mer would lie helpless, covered with foul sores, dying and insensible, and vile vermin crawling in and out of these fearful ulcers. Most of the deaths occurred inside the stockade; few were taken to the hospital. The deaths inside the prison rose to fifty and seventy-five per day. A pack of hounds was kept to recapture escaped prisoners, since attempts to escape were numerous, chiefly by tunneling. Tunnels had to be dug from four to twelve rods, still, many were made and a considerable number of men got out of the stockade, though most of them were retaken and returned to the prison."'

This whole subject of life in rebel prisons is awful beyond the possibility of words to express. No adequate idea can be given of itshorrors. Even the unfortunate subjects of the treatment, as they now look back through the lapse of years to those fearful scenes, can scarcely believe them to be real; for it would seem impossible that men with high-sounding professions of honor and humanity upon their lips, could allow the perpetration of such atrocities and unheard-of cruelty. That such things were allowed and approved, however, is an unquestionable fact, attested by thousands upon thousands of wretched men who survived and by the piled-up graveyards around those prison pens.

Humanity perhaps could wish that the memory of such things should pass from among men, but the genius of history, calm but stern, demands that such atrocities as the Black Hole of Calcutta, the prison ship Jersey, the blowing of Hindoos from the mouths of loaded cannons, the siege of Leyden, the Sack of Antwerp and numberless similar events, and the still more atrocious scenes of Belle Island, Salisbury, Florence and Andersonville should be embalmed for the execration of the human race.

And yet the Southern authors of these unspeakable atrocities and the participants therein seem not to be aware that the permission to live untried and unmolested after these unimaginable crimes is a mercy before unheard of in the annals of mankind.

William Wurrell and his brother, Chester Warrell, enlisted in the Fifty-third Ohio Regiment, Company-K, August 22, 1861. They were living in Union City, Ohio, at the time. They were taken prisoners by the confederates near Atlanta, July 22, 1864, with a few others of the company. They were marched to Andersonville, arriving in a few days, and cast into that den of horrors. They say tongue cannot describe nor the mind conceive the fearful suffering, wretchedness and death of that awful place. Great numbers were already there, probably 30,000, and the mortality was terrible. Disease and death in their most horrid forms, struck down, day and night, month after month, the best and the bravest in that devoted band. The Warrells stood it comparatively well. William says his worst time was at Savannah, after being removed from Andersonville. He was thought to be near death, and he heard his tent mates planning how they would divide his clothes among them when he was dead. He did not let them know he heard them, but he told them he was not going to die, and he did not. He got better, but had to be led, half carried to the pump to wash, etc., for many days. The scenes were sickening. The bodies were all buried naked, the clothes being saved for those who were still alive to wear. The corpses were laid in tiers by the gate, and when 'the dead wagon came they were piled up in bulk till the wagon was full. Relays of men were kept outside on parole to dig graves for their poor comrades. Warrell thinks they were buried in separate graves each man by himself. (The author of * Andersonville" states that the bodies were buried in trenches four feet deep.) This last is probably the truth. They were taken to Millen, perhaps in October, 1864; then to Savannah and again to Florida, and at length to Andersonyille. They were exchanged at last, in about April, 1865, 5,000 of them being marched through Florida to Jacksonville in that State, and there passed into the Union lines. The confederates left the prisoners about eight miles from the National troops, told them the road to take and let them go, having been paroled not to bear arms till properly exchanged.

Much has been said of the wonderful spring that opened at Andersonville. Warrell saw it burst out. It was on rising ground several rods away from any hollow or bottom. The ground had been growing moist and watery for some days, and it was decided to dig to see what they could find, whereupon the water came forth abundantly. A barrel was set down for a spring or well, and spouts or troughs were laid for the water to run off. The stream was as large as one's arm, furnishing water enough for the whole camp. The water was pure and sweet and cold. One cannot imagine what a blessing was that wonderful spring to those wo-begone men shut up within the impassable walls of that crowded stockade. Before that time the water was absolutely unendurable, taken from that reservoir of unutterable stench and filth, the creek and the swamp through which it ran receiving, as it did, the offal from that seething mass of humanity, without the possibility of cleansing or purification. But to picture these things is utterly impossible. Those whg would see it attempted must read '' Andersonville," one of the most fearfully thrilling books ever put in print.

As for cooking, Mr. Warrell's squad had a kind of pan, which they had made of a plate of sheet-iron some one had managed to get hold of as they were coming in the cars in their passage to Andersonville. It would hold water and they made mush in it and what not. They had no salt, their bread had no

Sometimes fresh beef would be furnished, and Warrell says: ''T always ate mine raw, because I thought it would help to keep the scurvy off that so many suffered and died with. Their mouths would swell and grow raw, their legs and feet would swell twice the natural size, teeth would come loose and fall out, and they would die rotting by piece meal.

''T have seen,'' says Mr. Warrell, ""men dying with scurvy, naked, except a rag tied round their waist, and the maggots crawling from their flesh as they lay. Men would be sick with the diarrhcea, so sick they could not go away, and they would dig a hole in the ground near them and use it for the purposes of nature. Many such holes would be made within a short distance, and the result may be imagined. I never saw any one killed at the 'dead line,' byt have seen them after they had been killed. I saw a man shot by the guards as we were marching to Millen. There was a pile of staves as we passed along, and a man grabbed one of the staves, and the guard shot him and he fell dead, and we marched on and I never knew any more about him.

we got it again. Those who had money could buy of the guards, corn-bread, or meal, or tobacco. The men would trade anything they had for corn-meal or bread. Every morning would be heard the cry of men wishing to barter - ' Who'll trade meal for tobacco,' etc. At first, the boys used to cheat the rebels, They would show a nice pair of boots perhaps, and make the rebel throw down his meal, etc., first, and then fling a pair of bvots, a poor, worthless pair, far over the stockade, and when Johnnie had fuund them the 'Yankeo rogue' would be gone and could not be discovered. They stopped all this pretty soon by refusing to trade unless the 'Yank' would throw his 'article' first.

''The supply of wood was one stick of pine cord wood to twenty-five men, divided by one man into twenty-five parts (one ax was supplied to 100 men) and distributed by one man turn. ing his back and telling who should have each particular pile. Each man would take his quota of wood and cut it up into splinters as fine as shavings or matches, and with these make infinitesimal fires to cook their mush. Thissplitting of their wood and making. and watching their 'teeny-weeny' fires would take hours and hours of weary time. No shelter of any kind was furnished. We had a piece of blanket. We dug a hole a foot or two deep, fixed up a bit of a pole and stretched the blanket fragment over so as to keep the dew off, and then slept in that hole. In the winter we would keep warm in the night by 'trotting' round among the sleeping men hour after hour, and then we would sleep in the sunshine in the daytime when it was hot. My shoes were stolen and I had none the whole winter. We had no matches, nor flints, nor any means to produce fire. We had to depend on some one else. Somebody would have fire, and we would kindle ours when we needed. Once in awhile molasses was issued, and often the men could trade it off for meal or bread."

Andersonville Prison

The sum total of burials in that cemetery is fearful. Thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-six corpses were put under ground in a few terrible months. Seventy or eighty, sometimes, would be found ready to be carried outside the gates at the break of morning light upon that devil's den of disease, and filth, and awful death: The statistics stand thus: From New York, 2,396; Pennsylvania, 1,894; Ohio, 1,004; Illinois,

Tncident In Andersonville

An incident is related of Andersonville which is at least good enough tobe true. At one time, the rebel guards were said to have become wearied of their work, perhaps from sympathy with the wretched, hapless fellow-men under their charge. Gen. Howell Cobb, then and ever since a stern, relentless rebel, was sent to reconcile them to their horrid task. The soldiers were assembled, and they were harangued in his bitterest, most savage and threatening manner. While in the act of thus addressing the Confederate soldiers, the Federal prisoners inside happened to have started the singing of one of the ''songs of the war," perhaps the ''Flag of Freedom," or, mayhap, "' John Brown." The song spread through the whole stockade and resounded far outside the walls of the prison, and disturbed the sturdy rebel in his harangue. 'Hush that racket," he cried. Wirtz, who stood beside him, cursed and swore his choicest oaths, but of course in vain. Onrolled the glorioussong of freedom from the throats of scores of thousands of men, enthusiastic even in their despair. Wirtz and Cobb might as well have attempted to still the ocean waves dashing under the power of a maddening tempest upon a rugged, rock-bound shore. The love of country lay deep within those suffering, woe-begone hearts, and not even the horrors of Andersonville could quench the ceaseless fire, nor prevent it from bursting forth at times into a fierce, overmastering flame. 'God bless our native land!"

Statistics, Prisoners

The per cent of deaths at Elmira was large. The reason for it is to be found, however, not in the treatment of the prisoners after their capture, but in their condition before that event. They were ragged, feeble, half-starved when taken, and they died in spite of kind, careful, considerate treatment. Their men came to us in wretched condition and were restored to health and strength, so far as kind treatment could effect that result, and returned to the South well fed and fully clothed. Our men went to them healthy, well fed, warmly clad, and, after suffering untold and indescribable terrors, from starvation, filth, exposure and neglect, and the hideous diseases consequent thereon, such as were not lying in that crowded graveyard outside the stockade walls of Camp Sumter and elsewhere, came back to the Union lines naked, filthy, reeling with the weakness of long-continued and desperate hunger, or borne, helpless, by the Fecagth of friends, to the Union hospitals, often only to die amiong comrades, in a friendly shelter, despite the care, rendered all too late, bestowed by those who would gladly have saved the lives of the much enduring.men to their country and themselves.

Steamer Sultana

The Sultana was a steamer of large size, engaged in the Mississippi trade. She had an immense load - 2,000 soldiers, including many prisoners from Andersonville, etc. There were also many other passengers and a full crew, and much freight. She stopped at Memphis to unload 100 barrels of sugar. Passing on up the river, she exploded her boiler April 9, 1865, about seven miles above Memphis, hurling the pilot house and a part of the cabin high into the air. Many were buried in the debris, and many plunged into the river. The explosion occurred in the widest part of the channel, and comparatively few were saved. The steamer Bostona, a mile distant, came to the scene of the wreck and rescued a considerable number. The ironclad Essex came up from Memphis and saved sixty. Out of 2,200 on board, only 600 survived that terrible catastrophe. Some floated down the river past Memphis and were picked up. In a few seconds after the explosion, the ill-fated vessel was all on fire. She burned to the water's edge, and sank near the Arkansas shore. Forty of the members of the Seventh Cavalry were on board the Sultana, and only one out of them all escaped.

Sketch Of Officers

The following list is as complete and as accurate as the information at hand will permit. It is hoped that the errors, if any, are not important. It has been the intention to annex to the name of each officer his highest title, as also his present residence, or business, or both, when it is within the knowledge of the writer:

Silas Colgrove, Brigadier General by brevet, ex-Judge of Twenty-fifth Judicial District of Indiana, practicing attorney, resides at Winchester, Ind.

Stanley W. Edwins, Assistant Surgeon One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, lives in Madison County, Ind.; has been several terms a member in the Legislature of Indiana.

Francis M. Fleckenger, First Lieutenant Company H, Highty-fourth Regiment, killed coming home, at the close of the war, by a railroad in Tennessee.

Franklin Ford, Second Lieutenant Company A, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment, was Sheriff of Randolph County, and died eight or nine years ago, while in office.

Isaac P. Gray, Colonel Seventy-seventh Regiment, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, Governor of Indiana by the death of Goy. Williams during winter of 1880; practicing attorney at Union City.

Nathan Garrett, Commissary, One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment, died some years ago in Randolph County, an old man; buried in Huntsville Cemetery.

Joseph R. Jackson, Captain, Residuary Battalion, Company 'D, Sixty ninth Regiment, ex-Postmaster at Union City, Ind., real estate dealer and agent.

W. W. Macy, Captain Company A, Twentieth Regiment reorganized, late Sheriff of Randolph County, farmer west of Winchester. Clerkship Washington City.

Alvin M. Owens, First Lieutenant Company D, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, was Treasurer of Randolph County, is now u farmer, residing in Kansas.

Stanton J. Peelle, Second Lieutenant Company K, Fifty. seventh Regiment, practicing attorney at Indianapolis, member of Congress elected, 1880.

George D. S. Reece, Captain Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, resides on a farm on White River, above Muncie, in Delaware County.

George W. Thompson, Chaplain One Hundred and Fortyseventh Regiment, is a clergyman and physician; resided at Kendallville, Ind., but returned, in the fall of 1881, to Unior City, Ind., his former residence.

Michael P. Voris, Second Lieutenant Company B, One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, died at Winchester some years ago from a hurt with a base-ball club on his foot.

Francis Mt Way, Captain Company B, One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment, ex-Postmaster at Winchester, Ind.; removed to Minnesota inthe summer of 1881, but returned to Winchester in a few months; now resides at that place.

We group in one place the names of soldiers who died while belonging to the army, s9 far as information is to be found. The arrangement is alphabetical for convenient reference:

John Kizer, One Hundred and Tweuty-fourth Regiment, Company H, died at Marietta, Ga., April 28, 1864, of disease; buried in Marietta National Cemetery.

James H. Murray, One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment, Company F, died at Murfreesboro, Teun., of disease, January 1, 1865, buried at National Cemetery at Murfreesboro.

John Addington, Company A, Highty-fourth Indiana, died September 12, 1864, aged twenty-three years three months and fifteen days, New Dayton Cemetery.

John EH. Ballard, Company. F, First Indiana Cavalry, died October 24, 1864, twenty-nine years two months twenty-nine days, Cherry Grove Cemetery.

William Botkin, Company D, Sixty-ninth Regiment, wounded at battle of Richmond, Ky.; died at St. Louis, Mo., February 6, 1863, twenty-one years twenty-eight days; Union Chapel Cemetery, west of Bloomingport.

William H. Broughman, Company C, Highth Regiment Cayalry, died April 12, 1866, twenty years five months and eleven days, Union City Cemetery.

John Bolender, served six years as a grenadier, three years in active service against Napoleon Bonaparte; died December 19, 1865, seventy-four years eleven months and twenty-seven days; Winchester.

Lieut. Salathiel D. Colvin, in battles of Shiloh and Stone River, wounded at Chickamauga, died at Chattanooga October 9, 1863, thirty-five years six months and eleven days; Salem (Boundary) Cemetery.

William Cline, Revolutionary soldier, August 23, 1853, one hundred and six years and seven months, cemetery east of North Salem, Jackson Township.

John W. Cox, Company F, Thirty-sixth Indiana, enlisted September 6, 1861, wounded at Chickamanga, died at Chattanooga October 8, 1863, seventeen years seven months and twentysix days, Union Chapel, west of Bloomingport.

Jacob Cline, soldier, born in 1797, died February 1, 1840, forty-two years ten months and fifteen days, Windsor Cemetery. af ohn M. Driskill, Company B, Thirty-sixth Indiana, died at Nelson's Furnace, Ky., February 26, 1862, twenty-five years three months and twenty-six days, Union Cemetery, near Windsor.

Simon Driskill, Company B, Thirty-sixth Indiana, died at Nashville, Tenn, March 25, 1862, twenty-three years five months and twenty-five days, Union Cemetery, near Windsor.

William S. Driskill, Company B, Thirty-sixth Indiana, died December 31, 1862, twenty years six months and twenty-five days, Union Cemetery, Windsor.

Alfred Evans, Company H, One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment, died April 9, 1865, thirty-four years two months and fourteen days, Fairview Cemetery.

William Engle, Thirty-sixth Indiana, wounded at Shiloh, died May 2, 1862, aged twenty-one years four months and nineteen days, Union Chapel, west of Bloomingport, Ind.

William E. Fitzgerald, Revolutionary soldier, died February 15, 1861, one hundred and five years one month and fifteen days, Mt. Zion Cemetery.

John Hartman, First Sergeant, Company C, Fifty-seventh Regiment, served two years and four months, died March 19, 1864, twenty-two years and three months, Union City Cemetery.

David Heaston, born in Rockingham County, Va., came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1819; soldier in war of 1812; died December 18, 1865, seventy-one years ten months and fifteen days, Winchester Cemetery.

Franklin L. Keever, Company E, Thirty-sixth Indiana, died April 12, 1865, twenty-five years three months and twenty-five days, Fairview Cemetery.

Benjamin G. Lamb, volunteered July 26, 1862, in Company D, Sixty-ninth Regiment Indiana, discharged June 3, 1865, died August 29, 1872, thirty-three years and one day, Huntsville Cemetery.

Capt. J. Lawrence Neff, Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana, commissioned March 2, 1864; Resaca to Atlanta, Franklin to Nashville; killed at Kingston, N. C., at the head of his company, in the battle of Wise's Forks, March

James Q. Odle, Company C, Thirty-ninth Indiana, wounded at Shiloh, Tenn., died June 18, 1862, twenty-two years and thirteen days, Ritenour's Cemetery.

William Z. Pascall, Company C, Ninth Indiana Cavalry, died in hospital at Indianapolis May 2, 1864, eighteen years seven months and one day, Huntsville Cemetery.

Erastus H. Reed (son of Nathan Reed), Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, died August 20, 1864, eighteen years and ten months, Winchester Cemetery.

Thomas J. Rees, Company E, Thirty-sixth Indiana, killed at Pittsburg Landing April e 1862, twenty years nine months and twenty-seven days, Fairview Cemetery.

Marvel G. Street, Company EH, Thirty-sixth Indiana, died at Murfreesboro, Tenv., April 22, 1863, thirty-five years four months and four days, Fairview Cemetery.

Lieut. W. L. Steele, Company H, Highty-fourth Indiana, died at Franklin, Tenu., May 16, 1863, thirty-seven years three months and ten days, Winchester Cemetery.

Martin R. Thomas, Company G, Highth Indiana (three years), died August 3, 1862, twenty years ten months and seventeen days; buried at Winchester Cemetery.

George Woodbury, Highty-fourth Indiana, Company H, died at Franklin, Tenn., April 18, 1863, thirty-one years seven months and fourteen days, Fairview Cemetery.

Incident

INCIDENT. A Captain in a certain regiment from Indiana sang out, "Squad! Company! Stop! whoa! halt! God damn it!" A soldier was so "taken" with it that, for months and months afterward, whenever he saw that Captain, he would begin, "Squad, company," etc., "Cap" (he was a Sutler then) would reply, "Come to the tent and get acigar. You seem to think a thiag can never weur out!"

Religion In The Army

Though war is the parent of vice, and wickedness of all kinds flourishes in the army, yet, strange as it may seem, there was much religious feeling and considerable activity under favoring circumstances. In Sherman's camp on Black River, after the capture of Vicksburg, large and impressive meetings were held, and good religious work was done. A remarkable work commenced in Sherman's army during the Atlanta campaign, notably in front of Kenesaw. Prayer was often heard, and many meetings were held. In the six regiments of the brigade, to which the Fifty-seventh Indiana belonged, there was only one Chaplain, yet there were many religious men. A brigade union church was formed. Officers were chosen, and a preamble and resolutions were adopted as a basis of action, pledgingsto a Christian faith and practice, to flee from all vice, and from the special vices of the camp. The officers were: President, James Lord, Fiftyseventh Indiana; Recording Secretary, A. L. Kerwood, Fiftyseventh Indiana; Corresponding Secretary, W. W. Curnutt, Fortieth Ohio. Revival meetings were held, hundreds attended, and great numbers joined that ''Union Church" in the camp at the front. The organization was maintained throughout the rest of the war, and, altogether, accomplished great good. It is presumed that like cases occurred in other portions of the Union army, but not many others have come to our knowledge. In Gen. Sherman's camp, when his army lay in summer quarters near Big Black River, religious meetings were held night after night, at which great numbers attended, and the spirit of Christ appeared present in large measure to cheer and comfort believers, and to convict and convert sinners tothe Lord. In fact, while greut numbers of soldiers and officers were jrough, reckless, godless men, many, on the other hand, were pious men, who did all in their power for morality, good order and religion. DECORATION DAY.

Shortly after the close of the war of 1861, the custom arose of holding memorial services in honor of dead soldiers. Assemblies gather and go in procession to their tombs, and sing songs and perform martial music, deliver memorial addresses, and strew flowers upon the graves of the departed heroes of the war. This day (May 29) has been observed for say thirteen years. Sometimes the services are very interesting. The memories of the occasion often draw forth most solemn and impressive discourses from the orators of the hour.

For several years past, the impressive ceremonials connected with Decoration Day have been performed at each returning anniversary. At one of them, a most affecting discourse was given by President Burgess, of Butler University, Irvington, near Indianapolis.

In 1881, among other things, an address was delivered by Rey, C. G. Bartholomew, of Union City, Ind., and the presentation occurred of a sprig of willow, taken from the willow tree planted by La Fayette at the grave of Washington, and brought oiginally from a willow growing at the tomb of Napoleon, at St. Helena. The presentation and the accompanying speech were made by J. H. Stine, Esq., a citizen of Randolph, but for many years a Government employe at Washington City, who has rendered important and reliable service during his long residence at the national capital. A brief but most appropriate and felicitous response and acceptance was delivered by Bayard S. Gray, Esq., son of ex-Gov. Isaac P. Gray, many years a resident of Union City.

Mr. Stine had, on the forenoon of the same day, at Huntsville, delivered a Decoration address, and presented also a "sprig of willow" from '' Washington's Tomb," to be planted at the soldiers' monument in the cemetery there. Thus, by the slightest and most delicate, but imperishable of links, is forged and welded, in indissoluble strength, the chain which binds together the hearts of noble, patriotic heroes, through ages as they roll. Tender, precious links of a wonderful chain! A sprig of willow, uniting all these - Napoleon, Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo, St. Helena, Mt. Vernon, Trenton, Brandywine, Yorktown; the birth of the Great Republic; La Fayette at Washington's tomb; the civil war; Decoration Day; Randolph County, Ind. - all these and all the wondrous story of deeds of heroes performed by men for love of country or for fame through long ages past.

The day has been quite generally observed with fitting and most affecting ceremonies at the various cemeteries in the county, more detailed accounts of which cannot now be given.

Officers chosen for the year: Col. A. J. Neff, President; W. R. Way, First Vice President; Abram Lennington, Second Vice President; Gen. T. M. Browne, Treasurer; Capt. J. 8. Fisher, Recording Secretary; William E. Murray, Corresponding Secretary. Speechee were made by Col. H. H. Neff, Lieut. Stanton J. Peelle, Gen. T. M. Browne, Hon. John Enos Neff, Capt. Hdmund Engle, and perhaps others.

The association appointed Stanton J. Peelle to deliver the address for the next re-union, and adjourned to meet at Gen. Browne's on the first Saturday in January, 1876.

Annual re-union of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment and Fifteenth Battery, October 24, 1878 - Gen. Asahel Stone presented the welcoming address, and Private S. C. Crane delivered a memorial oration, closing with a fine poem chiefly commemorative of Capt. James Lawrence Neff, son of Col. H. H. Neff, who was killed March 10, 1865, at Wise's Forks, near Kingston, N. C.

Other re-unions have been held, some of them extensive, accounts of which are not at hand. One of two days occurred in the autumn of 1880 at the fair grounds of the Randolph Agricultural Association, near Winchester.

It would have been a fine success, but the weather was very rainy, and that greatly interfered with the assembling of the soldiers and citizens.. One was held at Richmond in the fall of 1881, attended largely by soldiers from Randolph and the whole region, lasting two days.

Other meetings of soldiers have been held at different times within the county or region, but we have discovered nv special account of their proceedings. :

It would seem that since the re-union held in 1875 was the ninth in number, there must have been eight preceding it, which might make them to have been begun, perhaps, in 1867.

Grand Army Of The Republic

The Grand Army of the Republic had its inception shortly after the close of the late war of the rebellion, and one of the objects sought to be attained by the organization is the perpetuation of the friendly relations existing among comrades in arms, who fought side by side for a common cause, and shared in common the dangers of the field, the hardships of the march, and the varied fortunes of war.

The organization is composed of the soldiers and sailors, and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the ammy, navy and Marine corps of the United States who aided in maintaining the honor, integrity and supremacy of the National Government during the late rebellion. Its objects, as set forth in the published rules and by-laws of the organization, are as follows:

1. "To preserve and strengthen those kind and fraternal feelings which bind together the soldiers, sailors and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion, and to perpetuate the memory and history of the dead.

2. 'To assist such former comrades in arms as need help and protection, and to extend needful aid to the widows and orphans of those who have fallen.

8. ''To maintain true allegiance to the United States of America, based upon a paramount respect for and fidelity to the National Constitution and laws; to discountenance whatever tends to weaken loyalty, incites to insurrection, treason or rebellion, or in any manner impairs the efficiency and permanency of our free institutions; and to encourage the spread of universal liberty, equal rights, and justice to all men."'

1865, in the war for the suppression of the rebellion, and those having been honorably discharged after such service, and members of such State regiments as were called into active service and subject to the orders of United States General officers between the dates mentioned, are eligible to membership in this organization; but it is expressly provided by the constitution that ''no person shall be eligible to membership who has at any time borne arms against the United States."

Posts, or local organizations, are formed by the authority of « Department Commander, or of the Commangéer in Chief (where no department organization exists), upon the application of not less than ten persons eligible to membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, the rank of posts being determined by the date of the charter under which they are acting. It is also provided that no post shall be named in honor of any living hero, however distinguished.

Under the rules governing the establishment of posts, the following-named gentlemen made application for the charter of Nelson Trusler Post, No. 60, G. A. R., at Winchester: Albert O. Marsh, William W. Macy, John E. Markle, William R. Way, Isaiah P. Watts, Nathan C. Simmons, John W. Macy, George U. Carter, Jonathan S. Hiatt, Clint D. Smith, Amos C. Beeson, Dennis Kelley, Samuel T. Remmell, John W. Henderson, Calvin W. Diggs, William H. Reinheimer, Seth D. Coates, Edmund Engle, Samuel R. Fielder, Ralph V. Murray, William Lenkensdorfer, F. B. Chapman, Thomas J. Way. Ezra S. Kelley, George W. Ennis, Richard A. Leavell, Luther G. Puckett, Sylvanus W. White and Jonathan Davis. The meeting for organization was held on the 15th of April, 1882, in the upper story of the Moorman Building, on the corner of Main and Washington streets; but immediately afterward the post moved to the quarters it now occupies, in the Reed Building, on Franklin street. By a vote of the members, the post was named in honor of Col. Nelson Trusler. of the Highty-fourth Indiana Regiment, many of 'the soldiers from this county having served under him.

After the usual ceremonies of organization, the following gentlemen were nominated and elected as officers of the post for the current year: Albert O. Marsh, First Post Commander; George U. Carter, Senior Vice Commander; William W. Macy, Junior Vice Commander; Ralph V. Murray, Officer of the Day; Richard A. Leavell, Officer of the Guard; Isaiah P. Watts, Chaplain; John E. Markle, Surgeon; William H. Reinheimer, Quartermaster; John W. Macy, Adjutant. The following officers were then appointed for the same period, viz., George W. Ennis, Sergeant Major; F. B. Chapman, Quartermaster Sergeant; S. T. Remmell, Hospital Steward; E. S. Kelley, Inner Sentinel; S. W. White, Outer Sentinel.

The field described is somewhat large - Tennessee, Red River, Chattanooga, the Atlantic, the Pacific - but the recital will relieve somewhat the dryness of the dull detail of bare facts.

I enlisted August 7, 1862, in Company A, Highty-fourth Indiana, at Camp Wayne, Richmond, Ind. under Col. Trusler. We went to Cincinnati and to Covington, Ky. The regiment was quartered in the sixth story of a building so full of vermin that the boys left in disgust, and slept on the sidewalks or whatnot. We were marched to the front, five miles out, with no arms nor ammunition in the reciment, though the rebels were in full view. Gov. Morton came and raised guns and cartridges; but the cartridges were two sizes too large for the guns. He came again, found how matters stood, went back, "pressed'' an old man with a cart, and others, and sent on other ammunition. The old man brought us five rounds apiece, the next man twenty rounds, the third a full supply. They proposed to Gov. Morton to give us "poor'' arms. "No,'' said he, " good equipments, or they go back to Indiana." They got the best. Our route was Gallipolis, Guyandotte, Catlettsburg, mouth of Cumberland, Nashville, Franklin, ete.

When Coburn's Brigade was captured at Thompson's Station, our regiment was ordered to re-enforce Coburn, and went on board the cars at Nashville at 4 o'clock P. M., and got to Franklin at 11 o'clock P M. We could have marched it in half the time. Gilmore sent Coburn, and then let him be taken, although he (Gilmore) had plenty of men who had-nothing else todo. He ordered us to do it and then held back his own troops, and us, too, and let Coburn be "gobbled up." In Chickamauga, there was bad generalship in our brigade. We had started from Tullahoma, and from September 7 to September 14, had been on the road. September 13 we started at daylight and kept on until 7 o'clock P. M.; drew rations and ammunition, and had supper, and were on the go again by 11 o'clock P. M., and kept on all night, and with little stop until 3 o'clock P. M.

We rested September 14 to September 18. The rebels had been driven from Ringgold, and we were ordered to find them. As we were marching, some women called out, "An hour ago they were here." Presently, as we marched through a thickety field, no skirmishers nor any watch kept, the '' rebs" poured a heavy fire upon the head of the column. They might have captured us all. We skirmished all night, and fell back one and a half miles at daylight. In the morning, we found them where they were the uight before. The Hightyfourth Indiana and the Fortieth Ohio were sent to attack what proved to be a whole rebel corps. We should have been captured but for the Colonel of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Illinois. We were flanked on all sides. He, hearing the firing, knew we were in trouble, and came without orders to our help. He came galloping up, his regiment after him on the full run, formed, and sent a volley into the advancing rebels, and checked them. We went back and re-enforced Thomas.

At the battle of Chickamauga, Thomas was caught in a trap, and came near being bagged. Two roads led to the trap. We marched on one, and the ''rebs" shut us up. Thomas was nearly sealed up, but finally escaped by the road we marched in on. He fell back to Chattanooga, but the front held Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. Bragg intended to take Chattanooga, but was prevented by a stratagem. On Monday night, as we were retreating, orders were given to camp, and build great fires all through. We did so, and made a grand #lumination. Bragg thought a great army had come up. His scouts reported "overwhelming re-enforcements." Bragg held still; then we marched again into Chattanooga. After Chickamauga, the "yebs"? held Lookout Mountain, and the wagon road from Stevenson, Ala. We had the railroad from Nashville to Bridgeport, and then the supplies had to be wagoned by a mountain road sixty miles instead of direct thirty miles. J'hat was a fearful time! I have stood in one place and counted at one time twenty mules or horses dead, or dying from starvation. Details were often sent to shoot animals that were too weak to stand. Soldiers were kept on half or quarter rations, und poor ones at that. Bread, crackers, etc., had to be piled in the open air, and it rained a large part of the time. The provisions would get wet and soaked and mouldy and spoiled, but it was that or none.

No building could hold the enormous amount of provisions needful for a supply. Bread would be piled in great heaps like immense piles of wood. Cracker-boxes would be heaped in piles as high as my head, and 600 yards long. An immense train of 900 wagons was captured and destroyed by the rebel cavalry. The country at large never knew how the brave boys suffered at Chattanooga, or bow hard pressed was our gallant army under "Old Pap Thomas,' while waiting for the long-drawn march from the river to the mountains. But Sherman made that march across three hostile States. Hooker's army was sent from the Kast, and the rebels were sent howling backward. Sherman's hardy legions drove Longstreet's hordes from Hast Tennessee, and his weary thousands found rest for a few short weeks in winter quarters in North Alabama.

"The siege lasted from September to November. The rebels tried to starve us out, and came nearer being successful than was agreeable to us. They could not take the place; for, while they had possession of Lookout Mountain, which apparently commsnded the town, our encampment was so low that they could not depress their fire so as to reach us. Provisions became scarce enough. Mules died of starvation in great numbers, and their carcasses lay in some places close enough together that you could walk upon them; and as for the men, three days' rations would consist of one army cracker and a small piece of beef. Men have been known to give $5 for a single ear of corn; yet the army enjoyed reasonably good health. We were camped in a cemetery, and two graves were under our tent.

"The siege of Chattanooga was-relieved by the arrival of Hooker's and Howard's Corps from the Eastern Army, and Sherman's Corps from Vicksburg."

Silas Colgrove, Late Circuit Judge

"One of the kidnappers shot the boy through the arm as he rode and blew his horn, but the boy was "game," and kept on riding and blowing. The man who fired at him was indicted for shooting with intent to kill, but was acquitted. I ([Mr. Colgrove] appeared in behalf of the boy.

"The slave hunters and negro haters undertook to enforce an old statute of Indiana against all the people of color of Cabin Creek settlement (and their name was legion), requiring such persons to give security for good behavior. A Justice of the Peace in the region notified thirty or forty "darkies" to appear before him and give bonds. A large number presented themselves, greatly troubled, not knowing what to do. They had tried to engage Moorman Way as their attorney, but for some reason he could not assist, and they engaged me to appear in their behalf. In some way we succeeded in quashing the proceedings for that time, and they were never renewed. Some of the people in that region were severely pro-slavery, and | never got such a tongue-lashing im my life as I received from some of them, especially from one of the ladies who was present at the trial.

"'T had a horse shot under me at Antietam, but was myself not hurt. At Gettysburg, my horse was shot through both fore legs, but not killed.

'cured, I was in the saddle in command of a brigade at Gettysburg. I was also hurt in the hand by a spent ball, which was a more severe wound even than the one in the thigh, since it disabled my hand for weeks.

"At Peach Tree Creek, Ga., four miles from Atlanta, I was wounded by a six pound solid shot passing between my side and arm, the wind of thé ball tearing the flesh from my side from the breast bone round to the backbone, three or four inches wide. The shot had first hit the sword and rolled it round nearly double, and in so doing the sword hit my elbow and shattered the arm terribly, breaking the elbow joint. The surgeon said, "The arm must come off." I said, '"No; save it if you can." They said, 'No; it must come off." Dr. King said, "No, don't do it; he can't live three hours." But I did, though, and the next day I refused to have it taken off, and my poor arm is now able to answer very well the uses for which it was given me.

'The poor wounded men lay by scores upon their hammocks dying with gangrene io the camp hospital, and they carried me away about a quarter of a mile, by a spring, and I stayed there until I became convalescent. My side became black, and the flesh dropped off and new flesh formed. In twenty days I was brought home, and not long after was able for business. I was wounded July 20, 1864, and in September I took my place as President of the Military Commission at Indianapolis."

William Commons, M. D., Union City, was born in 1836, in Wayne County, Ind., and educated at the public schools, and at Oberlin, Ohio, 1859-60. He received his medical training with Dr. Brandon, of Williamsburg, Wayne Co., Ind., and at Ann Arbor, Mich., and at Cincinnati.

He took one course at Ann Arbor, and graduated from Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati July 6, 1863. Before this, he had voluntered in the Sixteenth Indiana, Company I, being detailed as a medical cadet. He served his twelve months and was honorably discharged. On graduation, he was appointed Resident Physician at Cincinnati Commercial Hospital. In August, 1868, he was allowed to be examined for admission into the Naval Medical Corps. He passed, and was appointed by President Lincoln Assistant Surgeon United States Navy, and the same day, October 26, 1863, by Gov. Morton Assistant Surgeon Fourth Indiana Cavalry, then under Burnside, at Knoxville. He declined the second and accepted the first.

The naval appointment was confirmed by the Senate February 22, 1864. He had been ordered to report for duty on board the United States Receiving Ship North Carolina, at Brooklyn, N. Y., which was done November 28, 1863.

January 1, 1864, he reported for duty on Flagship Hartford, Admiral Farragut, Gulf Squadron. Here he remained during the summer of 1864, being in the battle of Mobile Bay when Farragut was lashed to the rigging on his flagship. The Hartford returned to New York in December, 1864, and was put out of commission. He came home on two weeks' leave, and married Lydia Jane, daughter of Edward Starbuck, late banker in Union City, January 17, 1865. He was ordered to proceed to Port Royal for service on the ironclad Patapsco; but while he was on the ocean passage, the Patapsco was blown up by a torpedo in Charleston harbor, and sunk, with the loss of all on board but four men. The ship which was taking him to Port Royal broke her shaft and put into Portsmouth under sail for repairs. He was then ordered to the steamer Passaic, which he joined April 7, 1865.