Randolph County, Indiana - Military, 1882 (part 1 of 4)

Military

REVOLUTIONARY WAR. ANDOLPH had small connection with the war of Independence. A few old soldiers came to these wilds to spend the tranquil evening of their days amid the Western forests. One

Another was laid to restin Mt. Zion Graveyard, in White River Township, not far from the former residence of William Kennedy, himself a pioneer of that region, perhaps the earliest to setile east of Winchester. He is stated to have been one hun dred and five years one month and fifteen days old, dying February 15, 1851, not, indeed, of weakness and old age, but, as will be presently seen, by a fatal accident, bringing his life to a premature close.

The ancient veteran must have been more than twenty-nine years old at the first rattling of musketry at Lexington, and nearly forty years of age during the closing huurs of the great struggle for independence. And he lived on through toil and trouble till he reached his one hundred and sixth year. How much longer the ancient soldier might have dwelt among men cannot now be told. His life was brought to an untimely end by an un- good, and he had not ceased to perform active labor on the farm. While upon a load of oats which was being driven to the barn, after he had loaded the sheaves as they were pitched by a boy from the shock, in the month of August, 1850, as the wagon drew up alongside the stable where the grain was to be deposited, he was somehow jostled from the load, and, being blind, he could not see to shield himself. Falling upon the end of a log projecting from the corner of the stable. his ribs were broken, and internal injuries were received. Yet even this did not suffice to kill the old veteran, but he clung to life still, lingering on from August, 1850, till February, 1851, and only dying at the latter date.

We know not much of his history. It would have been a thing of interest to trace, had the thing been possible, his pathway backward into the mists of departed years, and discover the momentous events during a life of so unusual duration, and his own connection therewith.

He was a child when Gen. Washington, himself a mere youth, accomplished his perilous journey, at a risk of life several times repeated, through the Virginia mountains to the valley of the Ohio, to give warning to the French that the English intended not to allow them an undisturbed occupation of that wondrous stretch of country in the Mississippi Valley, and bearing back the answer which hurled French defiance against English threats of warning. And when that war closed, when the Gallic power yielded the contest and gave the English free scope through that whole vast continental territory, that aged soldier, who died! a violent accidental death in the latter half of the nineteenth century, was, though young, yet a man in stature and in strength, able to hew through the busy world his stubborn way, either in the conflicts of rugged war, or in the hardy labors of the workshop or the farm. He was a lad of nine years when the world was startled by the earthquake which tumbled the city of Lisbon to ruins, and whelmed thousands of her terrified people fathoms deep beneath the wrathful billows of the Atlantic.

When the young republic of the West shouted rejoicing acclamations for the elevation of the venerated Washington to the chief magistracy of the nation he had saved, our soldier had advanced into the forty-fourth year of his earthly existence. He witnessed the accession of thirteen Presidents, five of whom performed a double service. :

There were doubtless others, perhaps many of them, who dropped in one by one, accompanying, in their old age, or following their sons or their daughters from the wora-out lands east of the Alleghanies, into the Western Paradise, the grander Canaan of the " New Era."

This aged patriarch was almost threescore years and ten when the very earliest, emigrant planted his stake in the soil of Randolph, and he hoped, doubtless, when he changed his domicile from the land of the rising to that of the setting sun, simply to behold with his failing eyesight the paradise of the poor and the landless, and to thank God, as he closed his aged eyes, for the prospect that his posterity would enjoy so goodly a land through the ages to come.

But lo! through more than a generation he was Spared to witness with his own vision the transformation which began in 1814 and progressed in a rapidly increasing ratio to his latest day.

The one who was buried in the cemetery at Fairview was the father of Antony McKinney, who was himself a pioneer of Green Township, and a soldier in the war of 1812.

Meshach Lewallyn, the earliest emigrant to settle in Franklin, was an old man when first he plunged into the dark forests on the banks of the Mississinewa.

James Massey, too, who was among the very first on the same river above what long afterward came to be the bustling town of Deerfield, was an old man.

Gen. Silas Colgrove

Among the many prominent citizens of this county, few, if any, are entitled to more recognition and popular gratitude than he of whom we write. As a pioneer, as an attorney and as a soldier, he occupies a place that is inseparably a part of the history of Randolph County, and in each of these positions has rendered distinguished services. He is a native of Steuben County, N. Y., where he was born on the 24th of May, 1816. His educational advantages in youth were limited, being only such as the common schools of early days afforded. But the meager instructions there received were the groundwork for a rich and varied store of useful knowledge, acquired by patient study at leisure times, and by his energy and diligence, hé has risen to the first rank in his profession. He is one of a family of eighteen children, of whom all but one grew to maturity and were married, and fifteen are still living. Five reside in New York, three in Ohio, and others in Indiana, Dlinois, Minnesota and California, respectively. In 1887, the subject of this sketch was united in marriage with Miss Rebecca P. Stone,in New York, and in the fall of the same year left home with his bride for the West. He was accompanied as far as Winchester, Ind., by some relatives, who were en route to Illinois, but at this point he.took leave of them, having decided to locate here. He began the study of law at his home in New York, completing his course of preparation in the office of Zachariah Puckett, one of the early attorneys of Winchester. He was admitted to the bar of Randolph County in 1889, and has been one of its foremost members in the years that have followed. In April, 1889, he was elected Justice of the. Peace, serving five years in this capacity. In 1852, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the district composed of the counties of Randolph, Henry, Wayne, Jay, Blackford, Grant and Delaware, in which capacity he served two years. In 1856, he was elected Representative to the State Legislature, from the district composed of the counties of Henry, Wayne, Randolph, Jay and Blackford, serving four years. His term of office | had scarcely expired when the slumbering fires of rebellion broke out, and a call was made upon the patriotism of every American citizen. He was the first in on the roll of enlisted men. It was enrolled as that of a private soldier, and he expected to serve in that capacity. But in three days-he had a company of 140 men, and before they left for Indianapolis, he was elected Captain by a unanimous vote. Of this number, 100 were accepted for the three months' service, the remainder returning to their homes. This company was assigned to the Kighth Regiment, and Captain Colgrove was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel. The regiment was in Maj. Gen. McClellan's army, in the West Virginia campaign, with Gen. Rosecrans as their brigade commander. They took part in the battle of Rich Mountain, and assisted in the capture of Garnett's forces. At the expiration of his term of enlistment, Ool. Colgrove returned to Winchester, and assisted in organizing the Highth Regiment for the three years' service. Shortly afterward, however, he was appointed Colonel of the Twenty-seventh Regiment

- Indiana Volunteers, which was sent forward and placed under the command of Brig. Gen. Banks. They took part in the terrible battle at Ball's Bluff, and helped to convey the dead across the Potomac after the fight. The regiment was a part of the Army of the Potomac, serving first with the Fifth and afterward with the Eleventh Corps, and participating in all the important battles in which these corps were engaged. Finally, the Eleventh and Twelfth were consoli dated, under the name of the Twentieth Army Corps, with Gen. Hooker in command, and sent to Chattanooga, where they joined Gen. Sherman, remaining with his army until the fall of Atlanta. During his period of service, Col. Colgrove was wounded several times, but remained bravely at his post, although his injuries were sufficiently serious to justify him in leaving the service, had he chosen to do so. He was a brave officer, and his distinguished services to the Union were recognized by President Lincoln, who conferred. upon him the rank of Brigadier General, by brevet, on the 7th of August, 1864. He resigned, later in that year, and returned to his home at Winchester, having, in the meantime, been appointed by Gov. Morton to fill the unexpired term of Judge Elliott, who had been chosen one of the Judges of the Supreme Oourt of Indiana. In the same year, he was elected President of the Cincinnati, Fort Wayne & Grand Rapids Railroad, and on the 19th of December, 1864, was appointed President of the Military Commission for the trial of Horsey, Milligan and Bowles, the traitors. The trial was in progress for a period of 100 days, and the defendants were found guilty and sentenced to death. This sentence, however, was commuted to imprisonment for life, and the trio were finally set free by the Supreme Court of the United States, on the ground that a miljtary tribunal had no jurisdiction over the offense. In 1865, Gen. Colgrove was elected Judge of the circuit composed of Randolph and Delaware Counties, serving six years. In 1878, he was again elected to this office, continuing to occupy the bench until 1879. Retiring from this position, he resumed the practice of his profession, in which he is still actively engaged. As an attorney, he has attained marked success; as a judge, his opinions were always profound and his decisions just. He was always respected for his kindness and courtesy in this capacity; and his entire course on the bench was marked by a conscientious fidelity to the trust reposed in him. As a citizen, he has always been enterprising and public-spirited, and during his residence in this county has been identified with many of its public improvements. In politics, he affiliated with the Whig party during its existence, but afterward became a Republican, and has ever since continued to act with that party. He united with the Odd Fellows of Winchester at an early day. He has lived nearly half a century in this.community, and by an upright, honorable life has gained the confidence and esteem of all who know him. His wife still survives, and shares with him the regard of a large circle of friends. To blesg their wedded life; there were eleven children, four of whom are now living. One gon became celebrated as an eronaut, but lost his life in the pursuit of this perilous profession, near San Francisco, Cal.

Captain W. W. Macy

William W. Macy was born October 17, <o4, in Bandolph County, Ind. Heiss lineal descendant of Thomas Macy, who came from England, probably as early as the year 1685, and certainly not later than 1689. He was one of the first settlerg of Salisbury, Mass.; was a man of prominence, and the progenitor, perhaps, of all: who bear the name of Macy in the United States.

William W. Macy represents the ninth generation. His father, Dr. William Macy, owned and operated a steam saw mill at Farmland,'and the son was engaged in assisting him about the mil! when not attending school, by hauling logs through the woods; he became an expert in the management of oxen, this being his favorite branch of labor. At this vocation, too, and at that youthful age he manifested a zeal and an unyielding purpose, which have since so prominently characterized his career, both in military and civil life. His winters were spent in attending the public school of his district, and before his studies were interrupted by the war, he had acquired a fair common school education.

On the 15th of July, 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company 'C,'' Nineteenth Regiment, Indiana Infantry Volunteers, and was mustered into the seryice at Indianapolis, on the 29th of the same month. Shortly afterward, and before entering the field, he was promoted to the rank of Fifth Duty Sergeant. His regiment arrived at Washington City on the 9th of August, 1861, and was assigned to duty with the Army of the Potomac, forming a part of the First Brigade, First Division, First Army Corps. The battle of Cedar Mountain, on the 9th of August, 1862, was the first engagement in which the regiment participated, the preceding year having been passed in the routine of camp life. After this, they had their full share of the "grim labor of war,'' participating under command of Gen. Pope in the skirmishes against Stonewall Jackson along the Rappahannock, and in the battles of Gainesville, the second Bull Run, Sovth Mountain and Antietam. In the last named engagement, Mr. Macy receiverl a slight wound in the scalp, a minie-ball leaving its track across his head. Though painfal, it was not serious, and did not unfit him for duty. He took part in the battles of Fredericksburg, December 12 to 15, 1862, his regiment going into winter quarters at Belle Plain Landing, on the 18th of the same month.

On the 26th of April, 1863, he received his commission as First Lieutenant, having been promoted to that rank during the winter, for meritorious services. He took an active part with his regiment in the campaign of the following spring, participating in the battles of Fitz Hugh Crossing, April 28; of Chancello¥sville, May 8, and of Gettysburg, July 1 to 4, 1868. On the morning of the 8d of July, just about day~ break, as he was lying asleep on the ground, he received the second minie-ball wound in the head, this one proving more serious than the first, though leaving less of a scar. On the ist of November, 1863, he was detailed to return to Indiana on recruiting service, and after accomplishing his mission successfully, re-joined his regiment on the 24th of February, 1864. On the 8d of March following, he fell ill with smal)- pox, and for » month and o half was confined to the hospital, receiving a leave of absence of thirty days, after his partial recovery. On the Ist of June, 1864, he again joined his regiment, which was then at the Pamunky River, Va. From that time until the close of the war, he was constantly with the regiment, taking an active part in al! the battles in which it was engaged, viz.: Petersburg and Richmond; the attack on the Weldon Railroad, August 18-21; the battles of Hatcher's Run; Gravelly Run, and in the running fight after Lee's army, from his evacuation of Richmond to his surrender at Appomattox, on the 9th of April, 1865.

In the meantime, he had been made the recipient of higher honors in the way of promotion. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Indiana Regiments were consolidated, under the name of the Twentieth Regiment Indiana Veteran Volunteers, and Lieut. Macy was commissioned Captain of Company A. His conduct as a soldier was brave and honorable, and his advancement from the ranks to the command of a company was but a just recognition of his valiant services. At Petersburg, on the 29th of July, 1864, he was in line, a little to the left, at the springing of the mine in front of that city. He was in the service just three days leas than four years, being mustered out at Indianapolis, on the 12th of July, 1865. During the review of the troops at Washington, just after the close of the war, his company formed a part of the Grand Army that filed through the Nation's Capital, under the inspection of. the Generals who had led them to victory on the field.

Capt. Macy gladly resumed the arts of peace, and, after his return from the army, spent some time in attendance at Liber College, Jay County, Ind., preparing himself more fully for active business life. Retiring from college, he for a time engaged in commercial pursuits at Union City, Ind. In 1870, Sheriff Ford selected him to serve as Deputy, and at the death of said Sheriff, in 1878, he was appointed to fill the vacancy, which duties he discharged for about nine months with fidgjity. In 1874, and again in 1876, he was made Deputy Sheriff, under W. A. W. Daly, and in 1878, the Republicans of Randolph County elected him Sheriff, the duties of which office he discharged with marked ability for two years.

_ Capt. Macy now occupies a responsible position in the Pension Department at Washington, D. C., to which place he was appointed in May, 1882.

On December 20, 1867, Capt. was united in marriage with Miss Alice Addington, a native of Randolph County, Ind., and a young lady of rare culture and acoomplishments. For about six years, she was associated with the schools of this county, being a popular and successful teacher. She was the daughter of John L. and Sally Addington.

A young man, also, by the name of Albert H. Addington, now in his sixteenth year, and a nephew of Mrs. Macy, has been living with them sinoe the fall of 1878, béing considered as one of the family.

In all the relations of life, Capt. Macy has proved himself a gentleman of irreproachable integrity, and has won the esteem of all who know him.

As a public officer, he was reliable and efficient. As a soldier, was a favorite oe his army comrades. While as a citizen, he isa valued member of the community.

But as to who or how many of the aged men who came to the new West had been soldiers under Washington, or Gates, or Schuyler, or Morgan, or Greene - had witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, or of Cornwallis at Yorktown, or had felt the blood trickling from their chapped and frozen members as they tracked, with unshod feet, the winter snows of Valley Forge, is now unknown to mortal man.

But, though the remembrance of the men as individual citizens may perish, the memorial of their inestimable services remains more enduring than imperishable marble; the freedom bequeathed by a nation of heroes to succeeding generations of men dwelling in this fair land - " The land of the free and the home of the brave."

The name of the ancient hero of whom the especial sketch is given above was W. E. Fitzgerald. Another veteran pioneer, still older, but who died two years later, and who was born one year later (1747), lies buried in Pleasant, Hill Cemetery, east of New Salem, in Jackson Township. He was one hundred and six years and seven months old, having been born in 1747, eight years before the old French and Indian war, and the same length of time before the earthquake at Lisbon.

We do not know whether William Cline was a soldier of the Revolution or not, nor, in fact, anything of his parentage, or birth-place, or history. He was twenty-eight years old when the first crash of hostile arms wakened the morning echoes on Lexington Green in 1775; was in the ripeness of manhood, at the age of forty-two, when Gen. Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the new Western republic at New York, on the famous 30th of April, 1789; was verging to old age, at fiftyfive, when Ohio joined the sisterhood of States, in 1802; was nine years past his full threescore when Indiana boldly stepped intv line to the '' music of the Union," in 1816; was ninety years old and nine when old '' Rough and Ready marched his army to the Rio Grande against the self-confident Mexicans; and for almost seven more annual suns, he yet lingered on these mundaneshores after his days had rounded out their full century of years for this aged veteran as a dweller in this world of labor and of sorrow.

As a link to bind the history of Randolph to that rough and stormy time when the whole region of Western Ohio was a theater of war; when the forests were filled with cordons of fortresses stretching far and grim along the border; when army after army cut their '' traces" through the pathless woods, of which at least the names ''St. Clair's Trace," ''Wayne's Trace," '' Hull's Trace." still remain to greet the ears of the present generation - for the purpose of marching against the bloody Indians; when the women and children of Western Ohio crowded into block-houses built in the dense forests, while the husbands and grown-up sons were, almost to a man, with Harmar, or St. Clair, or Wayne, and many of whom never returned from those fatal and bloody defeats; when the hunters of Kentucky, those hardy and gallant foresters of the olden time, flocked across the Ohio to defend the northern frontier and secure a peaceful home inthe coming years for their own posterity- - we repeat, we give, as a solitary link to connect these days with those times of cruel warfare with savage nature and more savage men, a narrative concerning a single veteran of the Army of tie Northwest, who did faithful and heroic service during those times, through three long, eventful years - from January, 1792, to January, 1795 - which period comprises the time in or near which occurred the bloody defeats of Gens. Harmar and St. Clair, and the decisive victory of Gen. Wayne - '*Mad Anthony " Wayne - which last fully convinced the Indians that further resistance to the rising power of the whites: was but a vain and fruitless struggle against destiny and fate.

This veteran, herein referred to, was David Thompson, grandfather of Mrs. J. F. Hedgepeth, of Union City, Ind. As will be seen, ha was a Corporal in the United States service, and his grand-daughter possesses valuable relics in the shape of copies of papers once belonging to her venerable progenitor, transcripts of which are given a little below.

David Thompson seems to have been a Virginian, as he emigrated from that State to Wayne County, Ind., in 1820. aire died of cancer, in Delaware County, Ind., October 22, 1847.

He must have been anold man. He entered the United States Army in 1792. If he was then twenty years old, he must have been born in 1772, and in that case his uge at his death would be seventy-five years. He was probably somewhat younger than

"Died, October 22, 1847, David Thompson, of cancer, who wus aremarkableman. He served three years in the old Indian wars, being under Gen. Wayne in his celebrated campaigns against the Indians, and of the General's private scouts. And for reckless and daring bravery, he had no equal."

Testimonial

The bearer, David Thompson, has served as a Corporal in the Army of the United States, from which he has obtained an honorable discharge. But in justice to the said Corporal, for the many services he has rendered the public, I consider it my duty, and am fully warranted to say that his conduct has uniformly met with my approbation, as well as that of all other officers who have had the opportunity to know him. Corporal Thompson was generally employed in reconnoitering the Indian country, in paths leading to and from the Indian villages, as well as being constantly in advance of the army during the campaign. While thus engaged, he assisted in the capture of seven Indian prisoners, all warriors, except one, while in the vicinity of their towns gaining information for the army. In the accomplishment of his object, several skirmishes ensued, in which he behaved in a brave and soldier-like manner. And when the garrison of Fort Recovery, which I had the honor to command, was surrounded and attacked by nearly two hundredsavages, this Corporal Thompson made his escape through them, with intelligence to the Commander-in-Chief, who was twenty-four miles from the place, for which I now beg leave to return him my sincere thanks, and hope that all good people who are friends to their country may receive and treat with respect the said David Thompson, a reward he has merited.

Alexander Gibson Copy

These are to certify that the bearer hereof, David Thompson, a Corporal of the Fourth Sub-Legion, has served in the above said Legion and in Capt. Gibson's company for the space of three years, and is, for the reason below mentioned, discharged from the service of the United States, he having received his pay up to the 1st day of January, 1795, clothing of all kinds, and all other just demands for the time. of his enlistment in the Legion to the day of his discharge, as appears by the following receipt. He is discharged, having faithfully served the whole term of time for which he engaged.

And, to prevent any ill use that may be made of his discharge, by its falling into the hands of any other person whatsoever, here follows a description of the said David Thompson :

He is twenty years of age, five feet, eleven inches high, dark complexion, black hair and black eyes, born in the county of Amherst; State of Virginia, a farmer.

William Clark Anthony Wayne

It is certain that a large number of the early pioneers were soldiers in the Indian wars during the closing years of the eighteenth century, either as residents of Ohio, Virginia or Kentucky. We should delight to record their names, and their service as a part of the work of patriotism performed by the men of that generation, but time and space fail us, and the requisite information is not at hand..

INDIAN waR oF 1811-13. No settlers had at that time come into Randolph. The Indians were here, and emigrants had planted themselves in Preble County, Ohio, and perhaps in Darke, and in Wayne County, Ind ; and the savages roamed through all that country. A few outrages, yet only a few, were committed in the region; none, however, on the soil of Randolph. Morgan was killed in Wayne. The man burned at the stake met his fate near Muncie, in Delaware County.

War is cruel, and savage warfare is always attended with features of peculiar atrocity; yet it is remarkable how uniform is the testimony of those who had then moved into these wilds that the Indians molested none who were peaceable. Mrs. Diggs, the wife of William Diggs, who is still alive, and now known as '*Old Billy Diggs," and who resides with his children in Iowa, used to relate to her oldest daughter (and the rest) that the Indians would come to her cabin on White River after her settlement had been made in Randolph County, and tell how easily they might have killed and scalped her and her sister as the Indians lay in hiding among the bushes, while the girls were milking the cows, at their forest home in Wayne County. But they did the maidens no harm.

An account, perhaps sufficiently long, is given of the troublous years of the Indian war of Tecumseh and his fierce and savage brother, the Prophet, in the chapter on Indian history, and in the reminiscences given by several of the pioneers; and no further space will be occupied here with details concerning it.

The history of the general war of 1812-15 of course belongs not to Randolph, except that participants therein may have afterward pitched their tents within its borders, and spent the remnant of their days upon its fruitful domain. But to trace such facts in detail would swell too greatly the bulk of our present treatise, and we forbear.

Soldiers In The Indian Wars

David Thomson came to Greenville with Connor, Wayne's army. His daughter, widow of Judge Beers, north of Greenville, died in the summer of 1881.

John Martin, father of Mrs. Mary Reeder, born in 1773, came to Warren County, Ohio, before 1794; was with St. Clair and Wayne, and with Harrison at Tippecance and the Thames in 1811-18, and with Col. Crogan at Fort Stephenson. He came to Randolph County in 1822, and died in Missouri in 1839, sixty years old.

Soldiers And Wives Who Have Had Pensions

Thus the tombstones and the pension rolls bear witness to the presence in former days within the limits of Randolph of a large number of the soldiers of those old wars. And doubtless many more than the ones whom we have mentioned made their domicile in early times in this county of ours, but we cannot trace them, and must be content.

A very curious reminiscence of the military doings of '' auld lang syne'' has been discovered among the old papers of Judge Edmund B. Goodrich, now in possession of Mrs. John C. Goodrich, widow uf the ex-Clerk of Randolph County.

tt seems theré was a ''militia system" in the " Hoosier State" many years ago, though how long it lasted we are unable to tell. That it was in active or attempted operation in 1832, at least, is shown by the relic referred to. It is an old paper, purporting to contain a list of persons fined for refusing to bear arms on account of "conscientious scruples" against the practice; also a list of persons not scrupulous in that respect who were fined for absence or other dereliction of militia law. In the first list, the fine is $1.50 in each case; in the other, the amount varies from 25 cents to $10. The regiment concerned was the Seventieth, and there seem to have been six companies, with Jeremiah Smith as Colonel of that same regiment. The redoubtable Captains were Messrs. Comer, Butler, Denton, Hunt, Fleming, Heaston. Butler resided at Déerfield; Heaston, at Winchester; Hunt, probably near Huntsville; Denton's men were residents of Nettle Creek region; Fleming's men were from Stony Creek; and Comer's from Greensfork, Jericho, White River, etc.

The "conscientious '? men were returned from three companies - Comer's, Denton's and Fleming's. There seem to have been none of that sort in either Butler's, Heaston's or Hunt's. How many Capt. Comer had of non-delinquents it would be interesting to know, as he returns sixty-one of the "scrupulous"' sort. Capt. Denton gives but four, and Capt. Flyming, twentyone, or eighty-six inall. Of the other persons fined '' for cause," there were in Butler's company, fifteen; Denton's, forty-three: Hunt's, forty-four; Fleming's, twenty-two; Comer's, none; total, 154; grand total, 240; perfect ones, unknown.

It may not be amiss to append the names of those who refused to' bear arms, as it will be a very fair index of the Quaker element at that time among those of military age:

Among those fined ''for cause," perhaps for want of a "primer'' to their guns, or some other heinous military offense, occur such names as Elias Kizer, Daniel Worth, William Macy, Burkett Pierce, Temple Smith, David Bunker, Philip Brown, Isaac Amburn, James Porter, William Chamness, William Smith, Smith Masterson, Samuel Hawkins (then of Jay County), Samuel Simmons, Daniel B. Miller, Davis Pegg, Stephen Dye, Hamilton Snodgrass, Joseph Jay, John Borroughs, Lemuel Vestal, Andrew Aker, Henry D. Huffman, Jacob Harshman, William Lumpkin, Thomas Maulsby - and so on, to the tune of 154 in all.

The surviving veteran pioneers who find their names in the above list will doubtless chuckle with glee at reading this ''reminder" of what must have been regarded, even at the time, as a huge joke.

The papers are made out in all due form, signed by Jeremiah Smith, Colonel, and Judge of the Court of Appeals, delivered to Edmund B. Goodrich, Paymaster of Seventieth Regiment; and the list is receipted by Robert Irvin, Constable, with order to him to collect the fines aforesaid. Whether any at all were paid is not now known. Jesse Way says that Robert Irvin used to relate, years afterward, that, as he was on his collecting tour, he lodged with a good-natured Quaker, one of the number who were fined for "scruples," and that, on asking his host what was his charge - "T charge thee," was the reply, ''that thee go home and find some better business, and never be caught in such a scrape again as long as thee lives."

Robert replied, "I believe I will do it,'' and he did it, and kept the advice, too. He used to laugh over the joke, and say that it was the best advice he ever got in his life.

Mexican War

MEXICAN WAR. War had, to Randolph County dwellers, been a thing wellnigh unknown. Until the struggle of the rebellion, only one other had called our nation to arms, and that was small and of short duration, viz., the Mexican conflict. And in that contest, barely three (as we have been told) were Randoiph County boys - Allen O. Neff, Augustus Kane and William D. Stone. Capt. John Neff did, indeed, joi the army at that time, and rendered service for several years, but he did not goto Mexico: Kane was much on the sick list, and Neff was shortly transferred to the band, so that the reputation of Randolph for warlike valor in this struggle would seem to have been left in the exclusive keeping of William D. Stone. He was in the war fourteen months, seeing, in that time, some severe service, and taking part in several hard battles, especially those fought by our gallant little army around the city of Puebla, as well as in some others.

When the regiment containing our "especial three" arrived at Vera Cruz, Gen. Scott had stormed San Juan de Ulloa and had captured Vera Cruz; had set his eager legions on their march into the interior; had climbed the frowning heights of Sierra Gorda and hurled backward in inglorious defeat the armed Mexican legions; had crossed the smiling Table Lands, occupied the unresisting city of Puebla, and captured the strong fortress of Perote; and had pressed still onward, till his gallant troops had invested the capital. They had fought and won the memorable contests at Churubusco and Chapultepec, and Molino del Rey, and had at length marched in triumph into the imperial city of the Montezumas, and were taking a brief respite from their warlike labors in that renowned metropolis.

The regiment to which that before-named ''three"' belonged had, after undergoing a somewhat romantic experience on their outward passage, landed at Vera Cruz. In company with other regiments, they took up their cotrse of march for Puebla, drove off the Mexican army, who had for a considerable time been beleaguering that town in possession of the American forces, relieved the besieged garrison, and entered the city amid the plaudits of the rescued ones.

In May, 1847, he enlisted in the Fourth Indiana Volunteers as a private. In the Gulf of Mexico, bound for Galveston, on board the Ann Chase, one of the boilers exploded. Several men were: killed, and sixty-five went on boats and upon rafts to the Louisiana Shore, nine miles away, landing near the mouth of Caleasieu River. Stone was one of that company. For some unknown reason, the steamer managed to repair somewhat the damage done, and went on her course, leaving that company of men in the swamps, helpless and desolate, to their fate. They would not give up, however, and footed it sixty-five miles, having no food nor any suitable drink, through swamps and jungles, during two days and nights, to Sabine City, La., at the mouth of Sabine River. Here they stayed a week. At this point, thousands of Texas cattle used to cross. The cattle had to swim, and the alligators would often catch them. Every little while, a bullock would give a spring and a plunge, and that was the last of him. An alligator had him.

The boys, to pass away the time, tried hunting. alligators. Four of them took a skiff, with only one gun for them all, and .owed out into the river.

So they fixed a rope to the skiff and threw it around the head and neck of the creature. The moment he felt the rope, he started for the gulf at full speed. He dragged the boat and its frightened crew half a mile or morein "double quick." The boys tried to get him to shore. After bringing him into about four feet of water, one of the men, Brewer by name, a big, burly fellow, tall and stout, jumped from the boat into the river to pull on the rope and help land him. Instanter the alligator " took for" Brewer, and the chap made some rather lively splashing through that water about that time.

longer than that, and larger by far than they cared to encounter again, and so they gave up the business. Three hundred men were still on board the steamer, and, made for Galveston, paying no heed to the men on shore. They reported at Galveston that sixty-five men had made the shore, and that they were on the coast starving. A schooner was sent for them outright, and they were found at Sabine City. By that schooner the squad were conveyed to Galveston; thence to Brazos de Santiago. Most went by steamer, but fifteen of them went in another way, to wit, by an old yaw]. What possessed them to go out on the gulf in such a crazy conveyance is "one of those things that no fellow can ever find out." But go they did, and a sorry time they made of it. When out on the gulf, the yawl would dip and veer, first one side and then the other, and they came near drowning many times; but, through God's mercy, they were spared to tread once more the solid land.

Mr. Stone says: '' But we did one thing that was not planned. Col. Gorman, of the Fourth Indiana, had put a lot of hams into the bottom of the yawl to be conveyed to Brazos. We got at these, pitching them out, one after one, to the sharks."

From Brazos, the regiment was sent up the Rio Grande some two hundred miles by steamer to Gen. Taylor, but they were ordered to report to Gen. Scott, at Vera Cruz; and, marching back by land to Matamoras, they took passage over the gulf again to the Mexican fortress and seaport, San Juan de Ulloa (Sahn Hwahn da Ool-yo-ah), and Vera Cruz (Va-rah Crooz), which, however, had been reduced and captured before their arrival.

The Mexican forces, meanwhile, had retaken a part of the route from Vera Cruz to the metropolis, and had surrounded Puebla with an army of 7,000 men, under Gen. Ria, the place being held against them by the gallant Gen. Childs, with only a small garrison.

The little army fought every day, more or less, for twentynine days, all the way to Puebla. At Huamantla, 1,500 American soldiers routed 5,000 Mexicans, secured the pass in triumph, and raised the siege of Puebla.

Gen. Scott, before this time, had taken San Juan de Ulloa (at Vera Cruz), and had fought Sierra Gorda at the pass up to the heights of the Central Table Land; had taken Puebla and Perote, and had also, about this time, fought and won the terrible batles of Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and Molino del Rey;

After Puebla, they fought at Tlascala to protect the '' tobacco train,'' a bevy of wagons laden with a supply of that fragrant weed for the use of the American soldiers.

The bombardment of Atlixco on the march, though a cruel thing, was nevertheless a magnificent spectacle. The artillery was posted on the heights, and the town lay far down, hundreds of feet below in the valley. It was in the night, and the track of the shells through the starlit sky could be distinctly seen as they went speeding on their path of destruction. The shells would burst in the midst of the town, scattering death and ruin far and wide. The city could not long endure so unequal a contest, but surrendered at discretion.

These troops did not go to the City of Mexico, as Gen Scott was in possession, and the actual war was over. The army remained in the conquered country during some months, till the treaty of peace had been made. The evacuation then took place, and the soldiers came home during the summer of 1848.

(Capt. Stone has in his possession a Mexican sword, captured by him in a hand-to-hand fight at Puebla. He was one of a patrol, and, suspecting a certain house, they entered, and found it filled with Mexican soldiers. The Mexicans fought, but they were beaten, and Capt. Stone captured the sword, turning it over to the Quartermaster, and Gen. Joseph Lane gave it to the captor as a memento of his valor, and he has it yet.)

Capt. John Neff, Winchester

He was commissioned Captain in the United States army in 1846, during the time of the Mexican war. He did no service in Mexico, but was stationed at St. Louis, under Col. Enos Mc- Kay, as Assistant Quartermaster. His labors were great, and his responsibilities extensive. At one time, his Colonel wished transportation for $120,000 in gold and silver, chiefly the latter, to Fort Leavenworth. The steamboats refused to carry it for less than 2 percent upon the whole amount. The Colonel would not submit to such extortion, and directed Capt. Neff to convey the funds to their destination overland, and asked him, ''What escort do you wish?" ''The less the better," was his reply. He took four men, and, with a wagon laden with the precious treasure, they drove through in fourteen days. When four days out, the discovery was made that their guns. were utterly useless; but they accomplished the journey without mishap, at a cost of about $130, thus effecting a saving to the Government of $2,270.

It would seem that Capt. Neff's duties did not embrace any direct connection with the Mexican war, but the time of his service was during its progress, and he was aresident of Randolph County, and a faithful and efficient officer; and this brief account of his labors would appear to be not out of place at this point in our history.

War Of Secession

Before 1861, war's grim and terrible front was a sight which, by the mass of the dwellers of Randolph, had never yet been seen. 'They had read of wars, but most had never taken any part therein. Even military musters and training days had been out of vogue so long that only the elders in the land had ever witnessed even those mock presentments of martial display.

It was, therefore, a marvelous scene to behold, when rebellion lifted on high her Gorgon head and raised aloft her traitorous arm, and our country sounded the sudden alarm of fierce and furious war, how, from city and hamlet and farm throughout our wide-spread land, and from this county of ours as well, there sprang forthwith hundreds and thousands of brave men, unskilled, indeed, in the practice of war, yet nobly loyal, eager to press into the ranks as defenders of their native land.

None knew till then how much he loved his country. A sublime sight, indeed, it was to see, when the Union flag had been lowered in defeat and surrender from the walls of Fort Sumter, how rose, in Litter indignation and lofty defiance, the heart of a mighty nation, torn and rent indeed by sedition and treason, but stalwart and powerful still.

Randolph County had been for years before the outburst of the civil war strongly Republican in politics, and its loyal people naturally responded with enthusiasm to the agonized call of the commonwealth in distress. Though it is indeed true that party lines were nearly ignored and men of widely varying political opinions enlisted like brothers in acommon cause, into the armies that were mustering East and West, like a mighty host, to avenge the wrongs of the country and to maintain the integrity of the nation. Great numbers, first and last, from Randolph County, joined the Union armies, and helped to bear aloft, through hostile regions, the glorious stars and stripes; and came back, at length, victorious, from fields bravely fought and nobly won, or lay down, one by one, from time to time, on Southern soil, to rise upon earth no more; and a simple tombstone in a national burying-ground, consecrated ly a nation's tears, in the far-off South, remains the sole memerial of their existence and their deeds. Nay, to many of our dear ones lost, even this poor boon was denied, and of the spot in which their lifeless frame found its last earthly rest, like the place of the sepulcher of Moses of old, ''no man knoweth to this day."

And yet, though grand the uprising and numerous the bands that enlisted from our county, still it is a fact, strange though it may seem, that to obtain detailed, accurate accounts of the companies (whole or partial) that were enrolled from within its bounds during the progress of the war of the rebellion, has been found to be well-nigh impossible. Soldiers of the conquering armies remain in abundance, but each man can tell only his own tale, and none can furnish the history of his company or his regiment.

It would surely seem a strange thing, now we look back upon the events of the time, that no accurate list even of the names of Randolph soldiers is to be found anywhere within any record kept by the authority of the county or by herdirection. She sent her sons by hundreds and by thousands into the tented field, but who went, or what they did, or how they came back, or whether they ever returned or not, seemed to be no concern of hers. And she would not appear to care, even to this day, now twenty years gone by since the power of that witchcraft of rebellion burst upon our people, enough for the memory of her soldier heroes to take a reckoning of them; but it has been left to a precarious private enterprise to hunt them out haphazard, and that under the disheartening certainty that large numbers of those who joined the armies of the country and murched away full of heart and hope to risk aJl that to them wus dear, have died unnoted and unknown, and their very memorial has been lost from among men.

It has, indeed, been one of the purposes actuating the labors of the author and the publishers of these sketches to rescue from oblivion every name that can possibly be found belonging to a heroic soul who nobly volunteered in his country's cause.

Yet the work is sufficiently difficult of accomplishment. lmost the only documentary evidence available is found in the report of Adjt. Gen. Terrell to the Governor of Indiana shortly after the close of the war. Gen. Terrell doubtless did his best, with the materials at his command or within his reach: yet those who are familiar with the matter know and deply regret the fact that the report referred to is greatly deficient, not to say largely erroneous.

The truth is that the military reports furnished to the Adjutant General's office must have been wonderfully lacking, both in accuracy and completeness. It is a veritable fact, for instance, that out of the 208,367 names of soldiers enlisted from Indiana in the war vf the rebellion, no clew is given concerning about forty-five thousand of those soldiers, as to where they came from, and about fourteen thousand are wholly unaccounted for. This is asad showing, though, indeed, not very wonderful. Still, when searching is done, as now and in future time will be attempted by relatives and friends, to find the record of acquaintances and kindred dear in the memorial volume referred to, with what a sigh of unavailing regret will the bootless search be ended, to think that no mark nor token remains of services rendered, of sacrifices made - nay, perhaps it may even be of life shed forth as a free-will offering on the altar of country and of right. And so many are without record of residence and of final result that it will be in no wise remarkable if the names of many Randolph men are not to be found in the record which in this work is attempted to be made, to tell to coming generations what Randolph County did to secure the preservation of the Union, and to maintain the integrity of the nation.

So that, while we would desire exceedingly to furnish a detailed history of Randolph County in this respect, sheer necessity compels us simply to generalize the matter, and to be content with a meager recital of such scanty, and, for the most part, isolated facts as the materials within reach will allow.

It is estimated by those who may be presumed to be best qualified to judge that more than two thousand men, at one time and another, joined the Union army in the war of 1861 from the fields and workshops and dwellings of brave and loyal Randolph.

The regiments to which these men belonged were found, during ths progress of the conflict, everywhere in the front, marshaled against the serried ranks of armed rebellion. At the opening conflicts at Rich Mountain, etc., in West Virginia; at Bull Run and Ball's Bluff; with Lyon at Wilson's Creek, and Mulligan at Lexington; at South Mountain and Antietam; at Shiloh and Vicksburg and New Orleans; at Chickamauga and Chattanooga and Atlanta; at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; at Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor and the Wilderness; at Charleston Harbor and Wilmington and Mobile; at Savannah and Columbia and Raleigh; at Resaca and Kenesaw; at Franklin and Nashville; at all points where hard and bloody work was to be done; and, moreover, in the wretched and murderous prison pens of the Southern Jand - at Libby and Danville and Florence; at Millen and Savannah and Andersonville - the worst the world has ever seen - in all these places, and in others still, were found Randolph men to perform their part, and to endure the toil and the danger, and the suffering and wounds, the sickness and death, that lay in the path of duty.

Tender boys, who had never slept off a feather bed in their lives, and who had lived abundantly and daintily always, went cheerfully to the field, wrapped their frames, weary with long marching, contentedly, and even merrily, in their blankets, and lay down without a murmur on the cold, damp ground, or upon the rails laid in the mud to keep their bodies from actually sinking in the mire, after a supper made of corn shelled from the cob and hastily parched in a scanty fire kindled upon the ground. Hardships and privations, forced marches and camping without food or water in the woods and in the trenches; fierce and sanguinary battles, wounds, imprisonment and death - all these were borne cheertully, as though it were a summer pastime, or accepted meekly as a sacrifice needful to be made for the defense of a country, the richest, the noblest and the best beneath the circuit of the sun.

Through all coming time, the war of 1861 in the United States will be reckoned to have been aconflict waged by the people, and carried on to the very end by their indomitable will and their unconquerable spirit; by their relentless determination that traitors should be made odious and that treason should be crushed.

And thus it came to pass, that, in spite of political Generals, and commanders ignorant or dissipatéd, or even secretly tainted with covert sympathy for treason and hostile to liberty, the spirit of the common soldiery triumphed over every obstacle, and bore the country straight forward to assured and abundant victory and triumphant success.

Gen. Ousterhaut said to Gen. Hooker, as they stood side by side viewing the magnificent charge up Lookout Mountain to fight the '' Battle in the Clouds,' when Gen. Hooker said, ''See your men; they are in disorder," as they went rushing at the top of their speed over rocks and logs, every man bent on being foremost at the summit.

'"*Cheneral Hooker! Cheneral Hooker! You sees my mennsh? Dey bees all Prigadeer Chenerals! Dey git to te top of dat mountain all right - you see!"

The rank and file felt each man of them as if on them each one lay the burden of conquering the rebellion. Like the ancient Swiss heroes, Arnold Van Winkelried and his compeers in the little Swiss army, boldly facing the serried Austrian phalanx, each man for himself felt

And so it did. Gallant deeds and noble daring and heroic endurance have had their reward. And, while many remained to lay their bones in that hostile land, many more survived to return with the laurels of the victor on their honored brows, and the land is filled with the survivors of that memorable conflict, still energetic for guod, and active in every manly enterprise for gain, and for public and private advantage, and foremost to achieve success in every worthy and profitable undertaking.

God grant to put far away the evil day that shall call these heroes and others like them to form once more the marshaled line to go forth in battle for their country's cause.

Many of the Randolph County soldiers suffered the horrors of imprisonment worse than death in those prison hells in the rebel land, the like of which the world never saw before; and many gave up their lives in those dens of horror and filth and starvation. 'Tongue cannot describe, imagination cannot conceive, the human mind instinctively even refuses to believe as possible (so utterly fiendish were they) the terrible facts of those awful months; the unutterable woes inflicted upon our luckless countrymen condemned to drag out weary weeks and months in those fearful prison pens on those waste and scorching Southern lains! 7 But those scenes are past, thank heaven! let them live only in the memory of a nation shuddering even yet at their unspeakpy Ween.)

Grand Uprising

On the 13th of April, 1861, Fort Sumter was evacuated. The news reached Indianapolis Sunday morning, April 14. On the morning of April 15, Gov. Morton telegraphed to President Lincoln as follows: ExEcuTIvVE DEPARTMENT, ' Indianapolis, April 15, 1861.

On behalf of the State of Indiana, I tender to you, for the defense of the Nation, and to uphold the authority of the Government. ten thousand men.

The same day, President Lincoln called for 75,000 troops, and the quota of Indiana was set at 4.683 officers and men, to serve for three months.

The day after the call, 500 men were in camp. By the 19th of April, 2,400 men were on hand, and they were pouring in by every train, and in less than seven days, more than twelve thousand men had been tendered - -nearly three times the number called for. One company was there from Randolph of 140 men, April 18, Capt. Colgrove.

When this work had been accomplished, there remained incamp at Indianapolis twenty-nine companies besides, and sixty-eight companies had been raised and tendered that had not come forward. Out of these, Gov. Morton determined to organize severa) State one-year regiments, and instructed to form five such reziments.

On the 11th of May, 1861, five regimests were reported as complete - the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourreenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and, shortly afterward, the Seventeenth was mustered tnto service.

Allen, four companies; Bartholomew, three companies; Boone, one company; Benton, one company; Clay, one company; Clinton, one company; Cass, two companies; Carroll, one company; Delaware, one company; Dearborn, five companies; Daviess, one company; Decatur, two companies; Elkhart, one company; Floyd, two companies; Franklin, one company; Fountain, one company; Fayette,one company; Grant, one company; Howard, two companies; Henry, two companies; Hamilton, two companies; Hendricks, one company; Hancock, three companies; Huntington, one company; Jefferson, five companies; Jennings, two companies; Jackson, one company; Johnson, one company; Jasper, two companies; Kosciusko, two companies; Knox, two companies; La Porte, three companies; Morgan, one company; Marion, eight companies; Madison, one company; Montgomery, four companies; Miami, one company; Martin, one company; Monroe, one company; Ohio, one company; Owen, two companies; Porter, one company; Putnam, four companies; Parke, one company: Rush, one company; Randolph, one company (146 men); Ripley, two companies; Shelby, three companies; St. Joseph, two companies; Tippecanoe, four companies; Tipton, one company; Union, one company; Vigo, three companies; Vanderburg, one company; Vermillion, one company; Wayne, one company; Wabash, one company; Warren, one company; Washington, one company.

Seventeen companies were formed by taking the men for each from more than one county. Doubtless many, probably all the counties in the State not named above, sent volunteers in connection with other counties. Many of them were represented in the mixed companies above specified. The forty extra men from Randolph were sent home.

Highth, three months; Sixth, three years; Seventh, three years; Eighth, three years; Ninth, three years; Eleventh, three years; Twelfth, three years; Thirteenth, three years; Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first (First Heavy Artillery), Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth (First Cavalry), Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-sixth, Forty-second, Forty-seventh, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-seventh, Sixty-ninth, Seventy-first, Seventy-fifth, Eighty-fourth, Highty-ninth, Ninetieth, Ninety-seventh, Ninety-ninth, One Hundred und Fifth, One Hundred and Sixth, One Hundred and Ninth, One Hundred and Seventeenth, One Hundred and Nineteenth (Seventh Cavalry), One Hundred and Twenty-first (Ninth Cavalry),,One Hundred and Twenty-fourth, One Hundred and Thirtieth, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry), One Hundred and Thirtyfourth, One Hundred and Fortieth, One Hundred and Forty-seventh, Fortieth Ohio, ete.

This list may be even now incomplete, since it is true that many are put down to the wrong county, as Randolph men to Wayne, Jay County men to Randolph, etc., and for great numbers their places of residence were left entirely blank - a defect much to be regretted, indeed, but which, at this late day, it is impossible to supply.

Many Randolph soldiers also enlisted in regiments from other States, or in the regular United States service. For instance, a large number joined the Fortieth Ohio Regiment, of which Col. Jonathan Cranor was the commanding officer.

Besides, most of the colored volunteers from Randolph (of whom there were many) joined in such a way that their names do not appear on the record made by the Adjutant General's office as enlisting from Randolph, or, indeed, from the State of Indiana at all.

Very many, also, of the soldiers now residing in Randolph, enlisted from other counties, and many, too, even from other States, which fact causes tho preparation of -a full and accurate account of the soldiers of and in Randolph to be a task doubly and trebly difficult.

The Adjutant General's office is not to be blamed for its lack of information, since doubtless the reports of the regiments and companies have been given as they were furnished. Yet'it is a matter of deep regret that the chief available source of statistical authority in this matter should be so incomplete and defective, not to say erroneous, as it even is, however, in some cases. Every possible effort was made by the Adjutant General's office to correct errors and to supply omissions, and, in great numbers of cases, with gratifying success; yet, in very many instances also, no additional or rectifying information has been obtained.

State Relief, Etc

This branch of the subject is very extensive, and might well receive a far more elaborate discussion than can be attempted in this work, And it may be questioned by some whether, in a local history of a single county, any special mention of this department of military action should be made. But, to the writer of these articles at least, it seems clear that such action will be a thing especially appropriate, even in a history of Randolph County.

Since the work performed by the State of Indiana through the pre-eminent activity of Gov. Oliver P. Morton, assisted by his numerous subordinates, was greatly prominent throughout the entire war, and since, as will be related, one of our own citizens was closely connected with that work, almost from the very beginning of the conflict, it will be eminently in place to insert a brief account thereof in this history of Randolph County, and hence we proceed to the pleasing task. The war broke out so suddenly and rose so rapidly to gigantic proportions that the Government found itself without adequate means of equipment or of support.

The soldiers were hurried to the conflict, but the Nation, unused to war, knew not how to handle so vast a movement. The supplies, particularly of clothing, were scanty and tardily furnished. Gov. Morton was among the first to foresee and to attempt to provide for the destitution. August 20, 1861, he telegraphed from Washington to Indianapolis: '' Urge Maj. Montgomery (United States Quartermaster at Indianapolis) to get overcoats of any good material, and not wait. for a public letting. Do have them made at once. The men are suffering and I am distressed for them. Perhaps a few thousand can be forwarded by Capt. Dickerson at once from Cincinnati."

This urgency came none too soun. The men were already shivering under the damp and chilly nights of the mountains of West Virginia. This direction was given before any complaints from the troops had come to hand.

But in two days those complaints began to arrive. Maj. Montgomery failed to furnish a supply, but Capt. Dickerson, at Cincinnati, sent forward 4,000 overcoats in care of Gen. Rosecrans, then in'command in Western Virginia. They did not arrive, however. September 14, 1861, Gen. Asahel Stone, Commissary General, was sent forward to assist in hunting them up; 1,200 were found and pushed through, but it was some weeks before the "tape'' was broken and supplies in quantity were received. October 7, Brig. Gen. J. J. Reynolds, then commanding an Indiana brigade, telegraphed thus: '" Clothing is coming forward. In a few days we shall have a.supply for the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth Regiments, except shoes and socks and caps - the last not so important - shoes and socks much needed. These regiments have suffered gieatly, but not a man among them has any fault to find with the Governor of the State."

Gov. Morton saw that the men would suffer, especially for overcoats, and he resolved that they should be supplied, if "Uncle Sam" would pay, well; if not, the boys must have coats, anyhow. He went to New York and bought, through Hon. Robert Dale Owen, purchasing State agent, 29,000 overcoats. For a part he paid "regulation price'? - $7.75, but for the rest he had to pay $9.25. Quartermaster Gen. Meigs refused to pay more than $7.75, and Gov. Morton said: ''If the United States will not pay for them, Indiana will. The troops must not suffer." When complained of, Gov. Morton replied: ' Well, the overcoats have been bought, no matter now by whom, so the men get them."

But other things must be had and in abundance. October 16, 1861, Gov. Morton appealed "to the patriotic women of Indiana for additional blankets, socks, gloves, mittens, woolen shirts and drawers," to be furnished at once and forwarded to the camps. This appeal was earnest, eloquent and patriotic, and not in vain.

reports in substance: ''This proclamation met with a most cordial response, and many thousands of dollars worth of blankets, socks, gloves, mittens, shirts and drawers were forwarded, as also sheets, pillows, pads, bandages, lint and dressing-gowns, for hospital use, in so much that a circular was issued announcing that the supply was enough." - Indiana was the first to organize for temporary relief, under the energetic supervision of the Stute Commissary General, Asahel Stone, Esq. The duty of this agency was "to render all possible relief to our soldiers, especially to the sick and wounded, whether in transit, in hospitals or on the battle-field.'' By this agency, sanitary supplies, hospital stores, donated or purchased, surgeons, nurses, etc., were sent forward wherever needed, und Indiana was generally "first on the ground" to proffer a helping hand.

the '' General Military Agency of Indiana'' was established by the appointment of Dr. William Hannaman, of Indianapolis, a gentleman of large experience, integrity and humanity, as General Military Agent,'' December 16, 1862; and local agents were appointed in the army and elsewhere, who were directed to do 'everything possible to be done for the comfort of the soldiers.'' Steamers were chartered to carry stores, surgeons and nurses and to bring home the sick and wounded. Boats were dispatched, heavily laden with vegetables, hospital stores, cJothing, delicacies for sick and convalescent soldiers, etc., bringing home hundreds on hundreds of sick and wounded to hospitals and homes. Supplies were sent to the prisons. Claims for bounty, back pay, etc., were collected. The pay of the soldiers was conveyed to friends at home by hundreds of thousands of dollars. The good done by this and other agencies is beyond the power of language to express.

The State Sanitary Commission was established still earlier, February, 1862. Contributions were large and frequent. The order of Freemasons contributed at one time $10,000. The State Sanitary Fair, in the fall of 1863, netted $40,000. The results are reported by Dr. Hannaman thus:

Total to State Sanitary Commission, $606,570.78; contributions to United States Commission from Indiana, $16,049.50; contributions to soldiers' relief by counties, etc., $4,566,898. 06, making in all above $5,000,000, besides vast amounts of which no record was ever kept.

Courier, Dr. Talbot Bullard and Gen. A. Stone, 500 packages, several nurses and surgeons. The steamer brought back a large number of sick and wounded soldiers. Four surgeons (among them Dr. Bullard) died on the trip or soon afterward.

December 19, 1863, left Cairo, Ill., for a trip down the Mississippi River. At Port Pillow, Fifty-second Regiment, left fourteen barrels potatoes, two barrels of onions, six barrels of apples, three barrels of turnips, four dozen cans of fruit. At Memphis, Twenty-fifth and Eighty-ninth Regiments, fifty barrels of potatoes, five of onions, five of turnips, two of crackers, thirty of apples, twenty dozen cans of fruit, four boxes of clothing. At Helena Hospital, 400 sick men, twenty barrels of potatoes, nine of onions, fifteen of apples, five of turnips, twenty dozen cans of fruit. At Vicksburg, Twenty-third and Fifty-third Regiments, forty barrels of potatoes, twenty-six of apples, ten of onions, ten of turnips, two of cabbage-and twenty dozen canned fruit. Vicksburg General Hospital, forty barrels potatoes, thirty of apples, ten of turnips, twenty dozen canned fruit, one box bottled whisky. At Natchez Marine Hospital, three barrels of potatoes, two of onions, four of apples, one of crackers, two dozen canned fruit. At Baton Rouge, Twenty-first Regiment, forty barrels potatoes, ten of onions, twenty-five apples, five corn meal, ten turnips. Baton Rouge Hospital, one barrel of cabbages, one of pickled cabbage, one of crackers, four of apples, two onions, four potatoes, one turnip, one box bottled whisky, two duzen canned fruit, four boxes clothing, two boxes reading matter. At New Orleans, 441 barrels of potatoes, 438 barrels of apples, 121 onions, 148 turnips, 18 of crackers, 112 boxes canned fruit, 23 boxes bottled whisky, 160 boxes reading matter and clothing - 2,012 packages in all, mostly barrels. October 24, 1863, eleven boxes of clothing and one bale of blankets were shipped to Richmond for Union prisoners; 200 caps, 200 shirts, 200 pair of drawers, 200 pair of socks, 20) blouses, 700 blankets, 200 pair of trousers, 200 great coats, 200 pair of shoes. Why so large an amount of supplies was left by the City Belle as above at New Orleans is not explained. Doubtless there was a sufficient reason; perhaps many regiments were stationed there at the time.

James H. Turner, Agent Indiana Sanitary Commission, at Chattanooga, during Sherman's advance to Atlanta, summer of 1864, during the period between February 15 and September 1, distributed as follows: 2,640 barrels of potatoes, 15,985 pounds of dried apples, 1,295 gallons of kraut, 1,168 cans of fruit, 1,278 pounds of dried peaches, 442 bottles of wine, 137 bottles of whisky, 988 bushels of onions, 461 dozen eggs, 493 pounds of butter, 211 gallons apple-butter, 157 pounds small fruit, 132 dozen lemons, 220 bottles ale, 558 pounds crackers, 39 pounds rice, 1,800 pounds corn meal, 100 pounds tobacco, 19 bed sacks, 230 gallons pickles, 35 bottles cordials, 995 shirts, £10 drawers, 124 sheets, 77 pillows, 182 pillow slips, 9 comforts, 3,149 pounds rags, 4,055 bandages, 355 fans, 82 pants, 35 combs, 445 handkerchiefs, 543 pairs socks, 228 towels, 308 pads, 450 comfortbags, 25 boxes reading matter.

Transmission Of Money

During the course of the war, 40,060 packages, containing about $2,000,000, were sent home through the State agents without expense to the senders (except the expressage from the agent's residence) and without the loss of a single package.

June, 1862, a building was erected, 150x24 feet, with a kitchen twenty-four feet square; 100 feet were fitted with bunks. In the fall, another building, 250x24 feet, for a dining-hall, seating about 1,000 men, was added. In 1863, a third building was made, 150x24 feet, for a hospital. In April and May, 1864, two more were built, 175x28 feet each, accommodating 1,000 men with bunks. The ''Home" could then lodge 1,800 and feed 8,000, yet Gen. Stone says there were times when not half could be accommodated that needed to be cared for. The saving in rations alone amounted, from August, 1862, to January, 1865, to $71,310.22. Total meals furpished in three years and ten months, 3,777,791, showing an average per day in 1862 of 1,400; 1863, 2,240; 1864, 4,498; 1865, 2,842; 1866, 463.

The above brief and imperfect statement gives but a slight idea of the importance and magnitude of the operations of Indiana as a State in aid of the Federal Government in suppressing the rebellion.

Indiana began the movement of separate State co-operation; was chiefly first at every place of need and continued to be a model of promptness, efficiency aud economy, and, in the execution of this vast work, under the hand of our noble war Govyernor, Gen. Asahel Stone, our respected fellow-citizen, was proved a valuable, efficient and successful assistant.

Bounties, Relief, Etc

Very soon after the war commenced, the fact became apparent that great and speedy efforts would be needed for the relief of the families of the soldiers. Their wages were not enough for the purpose, those wages were often greatly in arrears, and to send the money home when obtained was nearly or quite impossible. The Legislature of Indiana passed an act, authorizing counties, cities and towns to afford relief when needed and to levy a tax for that special object. Great sums were raised under this act and expended for bounties and relief. Often bonds were issued and funds obtained by the sale of the bonds. 'Townships also acted and raised and expended large amounts for the support of soldiers' families.

This issue being of doubtful legality, the Legislature passed another act, March 3, 1865, legalizing the action of cities, towns and villages, as also townships when approved by the County Commissioners, and directing the levy of a tax for payment. The next day, still another act became a law, levying 3 mills on the dollar for the years 1865 and 1866, to aid sick soldiers, soldiers' families, etc. The Legislature passed several laws evincing a similar generous and patriotic spirit and a sincere and earnest purpose to discharge the whole duty of the State to her suffering children.

County Relief, Etc

The loyal citizens throughout the whole North were active and enthusiastic from first to last in rendering assistance in every possible way to the soldiers in the field and to their families at home. Much of their aid went through the State Commissioners, but no small amount was sent forward privately as individual benefactions to special friends or the companies or regiments to which they belonged. The author of Delaware County Histery, lately published, has collected much information of this sort as to that county. Perhaps a similar account might be obtained concerning Randolph County, if the requisite pains were to be taken. The author regrets that time has failed him to make the needed researches in this particular.

Only eleven counties in the State have exceeded Randolph in the amount raised by taxation for soldiers' relief, to wit: Decatur, Delaware, Hamilton, Jackson, La Porte, Marion, St. Joseph, Tippecanoe, Vigo, Wabash, Wayne.

Doubtless like other railroad towns, Union City and Winchester fed the soldier as they passed to and fro on the trains along the railroad, and collections of money and goods were made throughout the townships and the county at large for sanitary and relief purposes, and the loyal people gave freely of their means to cheer their heroes at the front and their dependant ones at home. Possibly at some future day it may be practicable to collect details of information as to this most interesting topic, but for the present we must forbear.

National Action, Etc

In many other ways, by hospitals, nurses, etc., labor and money have been expended for their benefit both during and since the war. Thus the Nation has shown her generous, motherly kindness, and declared that the soldiers were her constant care. Suffering and distress have, of course, existed nevertheless; yet wonderful efforts have been exerted without ceasing to help and comfort, to relieve and bless. The National bounties are stated below.

It is understood to be a fact that the soldiers at the Dayton Soldiers' Home, and presumably at the other institutions of the kind throughout the country, are allowed to have and enjoy full possession and full control of their pensions, in addition to the support furnished them at the "Home" at which they may be residing,

National Bounties Authority, To Whom, Time

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Besides this bounty land is given to each soldier, and also the length of service in the army is deducted from the time otherwise requisite to fix a homestead claim.

County Bounty

According to the Adjutant General's report, Randolph had given up to that time $115,705. In this respect other counties have far exceeded her. But the fact that large bounty had to be offered by the county is not aproof of superior loyalty, but rather otherwise. Fifty-four counties exceed Randolph in the amount of bounty reported as paid by public taxation. One exceeds a million dollars ($1,224,000); two average $500,000; seven more above $300,000; seventeen more exceed $200,000; twenty-seven more above $115,000. These statistics, though accurate, may, perhaps, not be full, since in some cases, at least, the counties have expended money in this matter in later years. For instance, Delaware County, in the Adjutant General's report. is rated at $230,905.75, whereas she actually did expend at least $360,000, her full amount for bounty having been $181,900.

The whole sum throughout the State for bounty and relief, up to 1869, is estimated at fully $20,000,000 - a wondrous sum, willingly paid for the safety of the Federal Union, besides, of course, twenty times that amount in public National expenditure as the share of Indiana in the general burdens endured on account of the war.

National Pensions

All civilized nations pension their injured or disabled soldiers or provide for those dependent upon such. The survivors (as also their unmarried widows) of the war of 1812 receive $8 per month. Those injured or disabled in other military service receive sums differing in monthly amount, rising in some extreme cases, as for the loss of both hands, eyes or feet, to $72 per month; and those dependent upon such soldiers obtain, in case of death, the amount which he would have received if living, with, in some cases, an additional $2 monthly for each: child under sixteen years of age. The Nation has, in addition to giving pensions established several '" Soldiers' Homes," at which disabled soldiers may receive a complete support. The ''Home" nearest Randolph County is at Dayton, Ohio, at which, as in like manner elsewhere, no pains or expense is spared to furnish maintenance and comfort to these "heroes of the Nation," and in these "'Homes'' several thousand enfeebled or disabled men are enjoying the bountiful supply furvished by the National Government to such crippled and helpless ones.

Such struggles, such burdens borne, such sacrifices made, men, money, means, so freely, so lavishly, so persistently given- - such hardships, perils, sufferings, wounds, imprisonment and death so heroically endured - such fearful things undergone through four long and bloody years over the face of a vast continent, show the determination of a mighty people that the integrity of the Nation shall be forever inviolate. Loyalty to the Union lies deep and steadfast in the hearts of the people, and in that grand, that sublime conviction, Randolph County, like the rest of our noble commonwealth, is settled and grounded in a purpose firm, steadfast, unalterable! Sic sit semper (so be it always).

Account Of Regiments

Eighth Regiment Infantry, three months - The Highth Regiment of Infantry of Indiana Volunteers was mustered in the service April 25, 1861, William P. Benton, Colonel. The musterin took place at Indianapolis, and the muster-out at the same place, August 6, 1861. The statistics of the regiment are as follows:

The regiment was made up of three from Wayne, one from Grant, one from Randolph, one from Delaware, one from Wabash, one from Madison, one from Hancock and one from Henry.

They remained in camp at Indianapolis until June 19, 1861, when they were ordered to Western Virginia, which was reached by rail via Cincinnati, Marietta and Parkersburg. Remaining at Clarksburg two days, the regiment marched thirty miles, to Buckhannon, to find the rebels, who had, however, moved to Rich Mountain. "Thither the troops marched July 9, and lay in camp July 10 in front of the foe, ascending the mountain the next day; fought the battle of Rich Mountain July 11, 1861, driving the rebels from their position on the mountain, and sustaining a loss of three killed and seventeen wounded.

Going into camp at Beverly for two weeks, on the 24th of July, they returned to Indianapolis, and were soon afterward mustered out of service, August 6, 1861.

The troops in the campaign in Western Virginia performed good service. At the expiration of the term, Maj. Gen. McClellan addressed Gov. Morton as follows:

Headquarters Army Of Occupation

GovERNOoR - I have directed the three months' regiments from Indiana to move to Indianapolis ; there to be mustered out and re-organized for three years' service.

I cannot permit them to return to you without again ae eg 3 my high appreciation of the distinguished valor and endurance of the Indiana troops, and my hope that a short time only will elapse before I shall have the pleasure of knowing that they are again ready for the field.

"The General tenders to all his thanks for the soldierly bearing, the cheerfu! performance of every duty and the patient endurance of the privations and Godtes of campaign life which all have so constantly exhibited. * * They have cheerfully endured the fatigues of long and dreary marches by day and night, through rain and storm; they have borne the exhaustion of hunger for the sake of the country. Their labor and sufferings were not in vain. The foe they met and vanquished. Your friends welcome you with pride and exultation. Your State and country acknowledge the value of your labors."

After the dissolution of the regiment, the great body of its members re-entered service in the Highth Indiana Infantry, enlisted for three years. The officers and men from Randolph County belonging to the Eighth Indiana Three Months' Regiment are as follows: Lieutenant Colonel, Silas Colgrove, mustered out; re-enteréd service as Colonel Twenty-seventh Regiment. (Where no time is given the person was mustered out at the close of service.

Company C, Highth, three months- - Captain, Silas Colgrove, promoted Lieutenant Colonel April 26, 1861, Thomas J. Lee, resigned; First: Lieutenant, E. M. Ives, mustered out, term expired; Second Lieutenant, Allen O. Neff, mustered out, time ex- .

Company G - Second Lieutenant, George W. H. Riley, promoted Captain Company C; Captain in Highth Three Years' Infantry; also Lieutenant Colonel,One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Indiana Regiment. No losses or casualties occurred in Company C. Every man came back safe and sound as he went out, leaving his country better for the peril he had undergone i in her behalf, and happy in the experience he had gained in the brief campaign spent among the bluffs and mountains of Western Virginia.

Was mustered in at Indianapolis September 20, 1861 ; Colonel, T. T. Crittenden. Mustered out at Chattanooga September 22, 1864. Officers, 46; men, 950; recruits, 126; died, 242; deserters, 48; unaccounted for, 10; total, 1,118.

The Sixth Regiment was re-organized from the Sixth Three Months' Regiment September 20, 1861. Its first service was to cross to Louisville, Ky., then threatened by Buckner, which it performed the very day of its organization, being the first body of troops to enter Kentucky from a Northern State. They marched to Muldraugh's Hill, forty miles distant, camping near Elizabethtown. The Sjxth was assigned to Rousseau's Brigade, of McCook's Division, and marched with the division to Munfordsville and Bowling Green, and, in March, 1862, to Nashville; March 29, 1862, they left for the Tennessee River, reaching Shiloh April 7, and fighting bravely in the battle of Shiloh April 8, saving a battery from capture, and with a determined charge 'aiding to turn the tide of victory. The regiment was in the siege and battle of Corinth.

They then marched with Buell's army through Tuscumbia, Huntsville, Florence and Stevenson to Nashville and to Louisville, arriving October 2, 1862. Thence they returned to Tennessee, marching with Rosecrans upon Murfreesboro, and fighting in the battle of Stone River December 31, 1862, January 1 and 2, 1863

The regiment campaigned between Murfreesboro and Chattenooga during the summer of 1863. It was at Chickamauga September 19 and 20, Col. Baldwin being killed on the first day. It skirmished at Brown's Fer y October 27, and fought at Mission Ridge November 25. They marched into Hast Tennessee and remained till the spring of 1864.

The gallant Sixth returned to Northern Georgia for the Atlanta campaign, taking part at Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Buzzard Roost, Dallas, New Hope, Allatoona Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta and before Atlanta. __

They returned to Chattanooga in August and the body of the regiment was mustered out September 22, 1864. The veterans (few in number) and the recruits were transferred to the Sixtyeighth Indiana. When that regiment was mustered out, nineteen cf the old Sixth were found still in service, and they were again transferred to the Forty-fourth, and were mustered out with that regiment September 14, 1865.

Company H, Sixth Indiana,t hree years - William H. Johnson, wounded at Chickamauga, Tenn., September 20, 1853. Hiram Phillips, appointed Corporal, mustered out September 22, 1864. James Chandler, died October 1, 1863, wounded at Chickamauga. SEVENTH INDIANA INFANTRY (THREE YEARS).

Mustered in at Indianapolis September 13, 1861; Colonel, Ebenezer Dumont. Mustered out in the field September 20, 1864. Officers, 45; men, 1,001; recruits, 207; veterans, 46; died, 212; deserters, 26; unaccounted for, 27; total, 1,299.

The Seventh Regiment was re-organized for three years September 13, 1861, under Col. Dumont, and moved immediately to Western Virginia, joining Gen. Reynolds at Cheat Mountain October 3, 1861; it was in the battle at Greenbrier, Va, and shortly afterward marched into Shenandoah Valley, camping there through the winter.

The regiment fought at Winchester Heights March 30, 1862, and at Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862, and at Front Royal, Va., June 12, 1862. Marching under Gen. Shields to Fredericksburg and back to the Shenandoah, it was assigned to Gen. McDowell's Division. They were with Pope in the Army of Virginia, being engaged at Slaughter Mountain August 9, 1862, and at Second Bull Run August 30, 1862. They pursued Lee into Maryland, and fought at Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862, with a loss of two killed and eight wounded. At Ashby's Gap, Va., their loss was four killed and six wounded. It took part in the great battle of Fredericksburg, Va., under Burnside, December 13, 1862. They were at Chancellorsville, Va., May 2 to 5, 1863, and at Gettysburg, Penn., July 1 to 4, 1863, losing heavily in both battles. The regiment was engaged at Mine Run, Va., November 30, 1863. After camping at Culpeper, Va., till the spring of 1864, they moved with Grant in the fearful campaign of that awful year through the "great and terrible Wilderness"" and most of the sanguinary battles during that fearful summer. They fought in the campaign of 1864 in front of Richmond, as given below:

Wilderness, May 5, 6, 1864; Laurel Hill, May 7, 1864; Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864; Po River, May 10 to 12, 1864; North Anna, May 25, 1864; Bethesda Church, May 30, 31, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. The assault on Petersburg was made June 16, 1864, and the Seventh was in that fierce but unsuccessful attack. It remained in the siege of Petersburg till August 18, and then moved to cut the Weldon Railroad, and took part in the fight at Yellow House, Va., August 19, 1864. On the 28d of September, 1864, the Seventh was consolidated with the Nineteenth, under the name of the Nineteenth, and this new regiment again with the new Twentieth (made up of the Fourteenth and Twentieth united) October 18, 1864.

Its members were mustered out with the Twentieth Indiana July 12, 1865, returning to Indianapolis for payment and final discharge. Its battles were these:

A formidable list of battles indeed for a single regiment! Twenty-three engagements, and among them Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. The blood curdles at the heart only to think of so fearful un experience of three such long years of hardship, peril and bloodshed as was undergone by the heroic and unconquerable Seventh Indiana.

Mustered in at Indianapolis September 5, 1861; Colonel, William P. Benton. Mustered out at Savannah, Ga., August 28, 1865. Officers, 46; men, 1,000; recruits, 177; re-enlisted, 480; unassigned recruits, 17; died, 245; deserted, 75; unaccounted for, 47; total, 1,672. :

The Kighth Indiana Regiment of infantry left Indianapolis September 10, 1861, arriving at St. Louis the next day. Joining Gen. Fremont's army shortly, they marched to Jefferson City, reaching that town September 14, staying there a week, and while there being united with the brigade commanded by Col. Jeff. C. Davis, of the Twenty-second Indiana Volunteers. September 22, the regiment set out for Springfield. Reaching that place in fourteen days, they returned to Otterville in seven days. At Warrensburg, Mo , they aided in capturing 1,300 rebels, December 17, 1861. Returning to Otterville, the regiment encamped till January 24, 1862, and then joined Gen. Curtis at Springfield, continuing the march to Cross Timbers, Ark., soon after which the Eighth participated in the great battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., March 6, 7 and 8, 1862. Remaining at Cross Timbers nearly a month, the regiment crossed the Ozark Mountains, marched down White River Valley, and so to Batesville, Ark. They made a halt for two months at Sulphur Rock. Helena on the Mississippi was reached July 13, 1862. This march was a severe journey, provisions being very scarce and hard to get. Four ears of corn and a little meat were often a day's rations. On this march the battle of Cotton Plant was fought.

In August, the battle of Austin took place; October 6, 1862, they were put under command of Gen. Steele, went to Sulphur Hill, near St. Louis, thence to Ironton, where they arrived October 11. The regiment was kept on the march to and fro in Southeast Missouri till March 5, 1863 They were then sent to Milliken's Bend, where they were assigned to Benton's Brigade, in Carr's Division of the Thirteenth Corps, McClernand commanding. April 29, 1863, the regiment crossed the Mississippi, and helped to fight the battles near Port Gibson, losing thirtytwo; they were at Jackson May 14; at Champion Hills May 16; at Black River Bridge May 17, and in the siege of Vicksburg from May 19 till July 4.

July 5, the regiment went again to Jackson. The place was captured and the troops returned to Vicksburg July 24, remaining there til] August 20. They were then ordered to Carrollton, near New Orleans, by steamer, as also across the country through the Teche region, under Gen. Banks, and thence via Berwick City over the waters of the Gulf to Texas. November 17, the fort on Mustang Island, near Aransas Pass, was taken by the Union troops, and, November 27, Fort Esperunza was captured.

They went thence to Indianola, and there re-enlisted as veterans, January 1, 1864, 417 out of 517 being mustered into the new organization. Before this time, the losses by death in the regiment were as follows: Killed in action, 48; died of wounds, 32; died of disease, 137; total, 217. Of course, a larger number still had been discharged for disability, while yet many recruits had joined their ranks.

The regiment in the spring received a furlough and reached Indianapolis April 22. In May, they returned to the South, went to Morganza Bend, July 27, and defeated the confederates at Atchafalaya July 28. Soon afterward, this veteran regiment was transferred from the extreme South to the army on the Atlantic seaboard. They reached Washington City August 12, 1864, being sent immediately to Berryville, Va, and joining the Nineteenth Corps. They were with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley campaign, being present in the battles of Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, September 19 and 22 and October 19. January 16, 1865, the regiment left for Savannah, Ga., by way of Baltimore, reaching the former place January 26, 1865, after a rail and steamer trip of ten days. It was retained on duty in Georgia till August, 1865.

They were mustered out (probably at Savannah) August 28, 1865. They arrived at Indianapolis September 17, 1865, under Col. John R. Polk, with fourteen officers and 245 men.

Gov. Morton addressed the returned veterans in words of blended welcome and farewell, as they were assembled in his presence in the capitol, and that heroic band of faithful comrades, many of whom had gone thrvugh fire and flood together and traversed a continent in company, gave each to each the parting hand and sought each for himself his home and family and friends.

again; down the river to Vicksburg, thence to New Orleans; through Louisiana to Texas, home on a furlough, and to New Orleans; thence by a single movement to the eastern slope of the Alleghanies and the sea; to the Shenandoah and to Georgia, and at last, '' When that cruel war was over," they made just one more movement, from the waters of the Gulf to the lovely valley of the Ohio, und to the homes of their childhood and the abodes of their youth and manhood.

Corporals - Charles C. Smith, appointed Hospital Steward April 1, 1862; Samuel H. Webb, wounded at Pea Ridge, veteran; died October 22, 1864, of wounds; William Pogue, veteran; mustered out August 28, 1865; Jefferson Bush, discharged March 12, 1863, disability; James M. Thomas, discharged October 27, 1862; disability; Stanton J. Peelle, discharged for promotion as Second Lieutenant in the Fifty-seventh Regiment.

Musicians - William Farra, veteran, mustered out August 28, 1865; Henry C. Voris, wounded at Pea Ridge, veteran, mustered out August 28, 1868.

Privates (mustered out with regiment August 28, 1865)--- Michael Doyle, veteran; John Farra, veteran; Isaac Gillum, veteran; Elijah Harlan, veteran, appointed Corporal; Kenworthy C. Hollingsworth, veteran, anpointed Corporal, captured at Cedar Creek; Nathaniel Pugh, veteran; Edward Stanton, veteran; Sylvanus White, veteran; William W. Smith, veteran.

George Bartholomew. mustered out Sept. 4,1864; Mansfield W. Bly, transferred to Mississippi Marine Brigade March 12, 1863, discharged; Henry C. Brandon, died May 5, 1863, of wounds received at Port Gibson, Miss.; Samuel Bumpas, discharged November 28, 1863; Thomas W. Coffin, veteran, mustered out June 7, 1865; Joseph S. Duer, appointed Corporal, wounded at Vicksburg, mustered out September 4, 1864; George W. Fisher, discharged October 16, 1862, disability; John Ford, mustered out June 14,1865; Grover G. Fowler, discharged for wounds at Pea Ridge, Ark; John French, died at Union City, Ind.; Thomas Gillum, record indefinite; Edward Fray, discharged December 23, 1862, disability; George W. Grimes, wounded at Pea Ridge, discharged March 17, 1863, disability; Abner Hinshaw, died at St. Louis January 7, 1863, disease; John T. Jenkins, veteran, killed at Opequan, Va., September 19, 1864; Richard E. Jenkins, died at St Louis, Mo., April 16, 1863, disease; Benjamin Jordan, mustered out September 4, 1864; Wesley Jordan, mustered out September 4, 1864; Lewis Mock, veteran, record indefinite; Isaac C. Moody, died, date unknown; Charles C. B. Mullen, record indefinite; Clark Predmore, mustered out September 4, 1864; William Pullman, wounded at Pea Ridge and Vicksburg, mustered out September 4, 1864; Michael Rariden, died at Union City, Ind., December 20. 1863; James C. Smith, discharged De. cember 31, 1861, disability; James T. Smith, wounded at Pea Ridge, mustered out Soptember 4, 1864; George W. Starbuck, record indefinite; William Stine, discharged January 8, 1863, minority; Isaac C. Sutton, discharged August 9, 1862, disability; Martin R. Thomas, died at Winchester, Ind., August 10, 1862, disease; William Tutor, record indefinite; Henry T. Warner, died at St. Louis, Mo., October 10, 1862, disease; Samuel Wilson, died at St. Louis, Mo., November, 1861, disease; Charles Wood, died at Humansville, Mo., November 12, 1862, disease; Christian H. Wright, discharged May 17, 1862, disability:

Alexander Jordan, veteran, captured at Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864, mustered out September 22, 1865; Charles Mc- Guire, died at St. Louis February 22, 1863, disease; Anthony Mincer, died June 7, 1868, of wounds received at Vicksburg; John W. Page, veteran, mustered out June 14, 1865; Francis M. Puckett, veteran, discharged June 14, 1865; Isaac A. Sharp, discharged March 17, 1868, disability; Ezra Smith, discharged December 31, 1862, disability; John R. Smith, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps May 31, 1864; Letaman A. White, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps May 31, 1864.