Randolph County, Indiana - Chapter 7: Officers, 1914 (part 3 of 4)

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

Company C - Solomon Bantz, discharged June 16, 1865; Joseph A. Ellis, mustered out October 30, 1865; John M. Engleheart, died at Memphis May 9, 1865; Samuel A. Harris, mustered out August 28, 1865; Jacob A.

Jackson, promoted to second lieutenant, first lieutenant, mustered out with regiment; James Jones, mustered out June 6, 1865; Lorenzo D. Patterson, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps; Jonathan W. Stephens, discharged June 13, 1865; Lorenzo D. Veal, died at Memphis, Tenn., March 8, 1865; Lawrence G. Wiggins, mustered out August 28, 1865 ; Sanford Wine, mustered out August 28, 1865; John Wine, mustered out August 28, 1865; William G. Hill, recruit, mustered out August 28, 1865 ; Thomas C. Reynard, recruit, mustered out July igi 1865 ; Alexander S. Starbuck, recruit, mustered out August 28, 1865.

One Hundred And Twenty-Fourth Indiana, Three Years

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

Company B - Second Lieutenant, Jesse May, promoted captain, mustered out with regiment August 31, 1865. Privates - William Bailey, mustered out August 31, 1865; Samuel Conner, mustered out August 31, 1865; Isaiah Cowgill, mustered out July 3, 1865; Joseph Carver, mustered out August 31, 1865; William J. Clevenger, mustered out August 31, 1865; George E. Clevenger, mustered out August 31, 1865; William L. Dudley, died at Knoxville, Tenn., July 20, 1864; Silas W. Dudley, mustered out June 5, 1865; John Ensminger, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 31, 1864; Thomas Fostnow, mustered out August 31, 1865; Samuel Lewallen, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; George Lykens, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jonathan Mosier, discharged July 11, 1865; Samuel J. Pugh, mustered out July 13, ^865; Felix Ryan, died at Knoxville August 24, 1864; Sherrod W. Reece, promoted second lieutenant; second lieutenant in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment; first lieutenant in Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth; mustered out as second lieutenant August 31, 1865; William B. Thornburg, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; John Woolford, mustered out June 22, 1865.

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

Company G - Captain, Henry H. Neff, promoted major, lieutenant colonel, resigned May 24, 1865; First Lieutenant, Asa Teal, promoted captain, mustered out with regiment August 31, 1865; Second Lieutenant, Joseph A. Bunch, promoted first lieutenant, mustered out with regiment August 31, 1865. Sergeants - William M. Fisher, promoted second lieutenant, mustered out August 31, 1865; James M. Hamilton, mustered out August 31, 1865, as first sergeant; James McConnell, mvistered out May 24, 1865; James Mehan, mustered out July 10, 1865; Lewis PhiUips, mustered out August 31, 1865. Corporals' - Anderson S. Mincer, discharged November 29, 1864, sergeant; Abram Heaston, mustered out June 3, 1865, sergeant; Caleb Saunders, mustered out August 31, 1865, as sergeant; Joseph Mote, mustered out August 31, 1865, as sergeant; George W. Grimes, mustered out August 31, 1865, sergeant; Samuel Williams, died at Newton, Ind., October 12, 1864; John

P. Smith, mustered out August 31, 1865; John R. Fisher, mustered out July 6, 1865. Musicians - David R. McNees, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jesse Bobe, mustered out August 31, 1865. Privates - Francis Abernathy,' mustered out August 31, 1865; Edward Adams, mustered out August 31, 1865; Theodore C. Burg, mustered out June 17, 1865; John R. Bales, mustered out August 31, 1865; Charles Barnes, mustered out August 31, 1865; -George W. Boyer, mustered out August 31, 1865; William Braden, mustered out August 31, 1865 ; Lafayette Brobst, discharged January 26, 1865, wounds; John D. Brodrick, mustered out August 31, 1865; Truman A. Brown, mustered out July II, 1865; Jonathan F. Bundy, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; John Burk, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; William J. Brown, mustered out August 31, 1865 ; Benjamin Coby, died at Union City, Ind., February 17, 1864; John W. Cox, mustered out August 31, 1865; Samuel D. Cole, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; Samuel C. Crain, discharged May 8, 1865, wounds; Thomas H. Clark mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; John Conner, died at Atlanta October 4, 1864; Alexander H. Davis, mustered out August 31, 1865 ; George R. Driver, died at Nashville, Tenn., December 22, 1864; Thomas J. Edwards, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, mustered out August 25, 1865 ; Benjamin W. Evans, mustered out August 31, 1865, as Hospital Steward; William Faris, mustered out August 31, 1865; Enos M. Ford, mustered out July 6, 1865; Josiah Frizzell, mustered out June 6, 1865; George M. Goodman, mustered out August 31, 1865; Thomas A. Gustin, died at home October 20, 1864; Samuel Gustin, mustered out August 31, 1865; Albert J. Harris, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; David R. Hickman, mustered out August 31, 1865; William Huffman, mustered out August 31, 1865; Milton Huffman, mustered out August 31, 1865; Daniel Houser, mustered out August 31, 1865; Martin Ingle, mustered out August 31, 1865; David James, mustered out August 31, 1865; George Jones, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jacob S. Jones, mustered out August 31, 1865; David Jarrett, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; William Jarrett, mustered out June 14, 1865; John J. Kisler, mustered out August 31, 1865; William Kennon, died at Union City February i, 1864; Samuel F. Locke, mustered out August 31, 1865; John Leahy, not mustered out; William Linkerdorfer, mustered out August 31, 1865; James M. Moore, mustered out August 31, 1865; John N. Murray, died at Chattanooga August 15, 1864; Leander S. Murray, died at Bridgeport, Ala., April 20, 1864; John McGuay, mustered out August 31, 1865; William Miller, mustered out June 5, 1865; Joseph L. Mofifitt, died at Marietta, Ga., August 10, 1864; Samuel E. Nickey, discharged August 23, 1864, wounds; Robert Pain, mustered out August 31, 1865; Newton Peterson, not mustered out; Hugh V. Poyner, mustered out May 11, 1865; William A. Ranier, mustered out August 31, 1865; James A. Ramsey, died at Nashville, July 7, 1864; Granville Roads, mustered out June 12, 1864; Michael Ryan, not mustered out; Michael Roman, not mustered out; Mahlon J. Rainer, died at Newbern, N. C, March 22, 1865, wounds; James D. Reeves, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, mustered out August 25, 1865; William H. Reed, mustered out August 10, 1865; Robert W. Routh, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jeremiah Skiner, mustered out August 31, 1865; David Smith, mustered out May 30, 1865; John W. Stiles, mustered out August 31, 1865; John Suter, mustered out August 31, 1865; William M. Sutton, mustered out as corporal August 31, 1865; Jaities Swathwood, mustered out August 31, 1865; Andrew J. Skaggs, died at Big Shanty, Ga., June 28, 1864, wounds; Benjamin M. Stines, mustered out August 31, 1865; Milton C. Stakebake, mustered out July 10, 1865; Charles Schneckengast, mustered out August 31, 1865; Samuel W. Thomson, killed at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864; Fletcher Truax, mustered out August 31, 1865; Thomas C. Todd, mustered out August 31, 1865; Martin W. Watts, mustered out June 17, 1865; John B. Warner, discharged May 9, 1865, as corporal, wounds; Levi Welch, discharged February 9, 1865; Thomas J. Way, mustered out August 31, 1865.

Company H - Captain, James L. Neff, killed at battle of Wise's Forks, N. C, March 10, 1865; First Lieutenant, Thomas S. Kennon, discharged December 20, 1864, disability; Second Lieutenant, Levi Wolf, resigned June 14, 1864. Sergeants - Edmund Engle, promoted to second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain, mustered out August 31, 1865; Peter M. Shultz, promoted second lieutenant, mustered out as sergeant August 31, 1865; John R. Mote, died at Knoxville, Tenn., August 8, 1864; James M. Gunckel, mustered July 6, 1865; Thomas Adamson, discharged March 12, 1865, as hospital steward. Corporals - John Quincy Adams Roberts, mustered out June 17, 1765, as sergeant; George W. Fisher, mustered out June 16, 1865; Robinson H. Bailey, mustered out August 31, 1865; Samuel L. Adams, mustered out August 31, 1865; John M. Benson, died at Knoxville, Tenn., September 7, 1864, sergeant; George W. Smithson, mustered out August 31, 1865, as sergeant; Rufus G. Mote, mustered out May 30, 1865. Musician - Isaiah Ryan, from Fortieth Ohio. Privates - Andrew J. Ballentyne, discharged July 10, 1865; Albert Banta, died at New Albany, Ind., December 13, 1864; Jacob Barnes, mustered out August 31, 1865; James Bartholomew, mustered out August 31, 1865, as musician; Joseph Bentley, died at Louisville March 25, 1864; William Boltz, mustered August 31, 1865, as corporal; Samuel Bright, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; George W. Brown, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jefferson Bush, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; Elihu Coats, killed near Atlanta, Ga., August 5, 1864; George Coates, mustered out May 30, 1865; Gilbert L. Cox, died at Altoona, Ga., June 2.y, 1864; Olinthus Cox, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; Erastus Corwin, mustered out June 16, 1865; John W. Edwards, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps November 20, 1864; Martin E. Ferrell, mustered out August 31, 1865; James W. Ferrell, mustered out August 31, 1865; John C. Ferrell, mustered August 31, 1865; Andrew J. Goodman, died at Richmond, Ind., March 21, 1864; William Goshorn, mustered out August 31, 1865; Jacob F. Groshaus, promoted second lieutenant, mustered out August 31, 1865, as first sergeant; John Grow, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; Thomas D. Guncle, mustered out July 6, 1865 ; George M. Haas, mustered out August 31, 1865; Eli J. Harris, died near Atlanta, Ga., August 6, 1864; John H. Hart, mustered out August 31, 1865; James T. Hart, mustered out May 30, 1865; Henry Hobbick, mustered out May 30, 1865, as corporal; Thomas Horner, mustered out July 6, 1865 ; Amos C. Jessup, mustered out July 10, 1865; William P. Jessup, died at Chattanooga April 27, 1864; Robert Kirkley, mustered out August 31, 1865; John Kizer, died at Marietta, Ga., April 28, 1864; Leander C. Lasley, mustered out August 31, 1865; Charles C. Lawrence, mustered out August 31, 1865; John Lyon, record indefinite; Manuel D. Miller, died at Louisville, Ky., April 3, 1864; Andrew H, McNees, mustered out August 31,- 1865, as corporal; James Miranda, mustered out August 31, 1865; George N. Perkins, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; Charles H. Pierce, mustered out August 31, 1865; Henry M. Robinson, discharged June 27, 1864; Henry Ross, mustered out August 31, 1865; Benjamin F. Sasser, mustered out May 30, 1865; John C. Sears, record indefinite; James Shearer, died at Kno'xvjlle, Tenn., July 11, 1864; Reuben Shockney, mustered out August 31, 1865; George C. Terrell, died March 22, 1865, wounds; Jesse M. Vanhart, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps August 3, 1864; Isaac B. Vaughn, mustered out August 31, 1865; Joseph M. Vaughn, mustered out August 31, 1865; John R. Winship, killed at Wise's Forks March 10, 1865; William W. Whiting, mustered out August 31, 1865; John A. Zimmerman, died at Indianapolis September 5, 1864. Recruits - Albert Coats, mustered out August 31, 1865, as corporal; John Harris, mustered out August 31, 1865; William H. Johnson, mustered out August 31, 1865; James McConaughey, mustered out August 31, 1865; Milton Meranda, mustered out August 31, 1865; Francis Parker, mustered out August 31, 1865; Lawrence

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

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

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

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

Officers - Quartermaster, Charles A. Dresser, appointed adjutant pro ttfm. ; recommissioned quartermaster, honorably discharged August 24, 1865.

son, mustered out December 2, 1865; Thomas C. HoUoway, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., November 23, 1864; Thomas O'Neal, died at Knoxville, Tenn., August 16, 1864; Elisha B. Porter, discharged June 7, 1865; David S. Porter, mustered out December 2, 1865, as corporal; Joseph W. Smith, mustered out December 2, 1865, as corporal; James A. Williams, mustered out August 30i 1865.

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

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

Call issued by Gov. ]\Iorton April 21,, 1864. One Hundred and Thirtysecond to One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiments were organized under the call. The One Hundred and Thirty-fourth was mustered in at Indianapolis May 25, 1864, Colonel, James Gavin; seven companies were recruited from the Fourth and three in the Fifth District. They proceeded immediately to Tennessee for garrison and guard duty.

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

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

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

Regiment left Indianapolis November 25, 1864, for Nashville, Tenn. ; thence to Murfreesboro, being stationed in Fort Rosecrans. In a skirmish south of Murfreesboro one was wounded.

Upon Hood's defeat, it marched to Columbia, Tenn., December 28, 1864; embarked in steamers on the Tennessee for Washington .City, January 16, 1865 ; moved to Alexandria February 3, 1865. Embarked on ocean steamer for Fort Fisher, N. C, February 3, 1865. took part in severe fighting in the siege and capture of Wilmington. At the battle of Town Creek Bridge, N. C, February 20, 1865. Entered Wilmington, N. C, February 23, 1865. Marched to Kingston, N. C, March 6, passing over a distance of eighty-five miles, largely swamps, in five days. Set out for Goldsboro, N. C, March 19. Arrived at Raleigh, N. C, April 14, remaining there till the 6th of May. Marched to Greensboro; on duty there till July 11, 1865. Mustered out of service at Greensboro, July 11, 1865. Arrived at Indianapolis July 21. Public reception July 25. Addresses by Gov. Morton and Maj. Gen. Sherman. Regiment paid off July 28, 1865, and discharged.

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

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

Company A - Captain, Theodore F. Colgrove, promoted lieutenant colonel ; First Lieutenant, Nelson Pegg, promoted captain, mustered out with regiment; Second Lieutenant, Edmund B. Warren, promoted first lieutenant, dismissed June 23, 1865.

Privates - John W. Allen, Matthew Arnold, John Q. Adamson, William F Emory, mustered out August 4, 1865; Daniel Elliott, Christian Greaf, mustered out August 4, 1865; George Girard, mustered out July 11, 1865; Calvin Hardin, James C. Hartz, mustered out August 4, 1865; Daniel Jones, mustered out May 15, 1865; William H. Justice, mustered out May 17, 1865; Robert L. Kirwood, mustered out August 4, 1865; James C. Knox, mustered out July 17, 1865; Miles O. Long, died May 16, 1865; Abraham G. Long, mustered out August 4, 1865; Charles D. Lewis, mustered out August 4, 1865, as corporal; George Lamm, Thomas McGinnis, Francis Rodenberger, mustered out August 4, 1865; Samuel H. Sturgeon (really Jay county), mustered out August 4, 1865, as sergeant; Henry H. Sweet, died April 2, 1865;

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

Company B - Benjamin Bayless, George W. Debolt, Frank Kukler, mustered out August 4, 1865; John R. Whitacre, mustered out August 4, 1865, as sergeant.

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

Twentieth Battery, Light Artillery

Men from Randolph county may have been in the batteries, but most of the names have no residence attached, and hence no account can be given of such, for which facts, if any "Randolph county boys" are thereby omitted, we are exceedingly sorry, but how to help the matter we are unable to tell.

Randolph Battalion, Indiana Legion

Many of the officers and men in them enHsted in active service, and spent more or less time at the front and elsewhere with the regiments in which they enrolled their names.

Fortieth Ohio

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

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

Recapitulation

Eighth Regiment (three months), 78; Sixth (three years), 2; Seventh (three years), 3; Eighth (three years), 69; Ninth (three years), 37; Eleventh (three years), 2; Twelfth (three years), 2; Thirteenth (three years), 6; Sixteenth (three years), i; Nineteenth (three years), 148; Twentieth (three years), 47; Twenty-first, First Heavy Artillery, 13; Twenty-seventh (three years), 3; Twenty-eighth, First Cavalry (three years), i; Thirty-first (three years), i; Thirty-third (three years), i; Thirty-fourth (three years), 4; Thirty-sixth (three years), 4: Forty-second (three years), 3; Forty-seventh (three years), 2; Fifty-fourth (one year), 39; Fifty-fifth (three months), 88; Fifty-seventh (three years), 76; Sixty-ninth (three years), 369; Seventy- first (three years), 2; Seventy-fifth (three years), 4; Seventy-seventh (three years), 2; Eighty- fourth (three years), 308; Eighty-ninth (three years), i; Ninetieth, Fifth Cavalry (three years), 48; Ninety-seventh (three years), i; Ninety-ninth (three years), 21 ; One Hundred and Fifth (Morgan raid), 143; One Hundred and Sixth (Morgan raid), 203 ; One Hundred and Ninth (Morgan raid), 56; One Hundred and Seventeenth (six months), i ; One Hundred and Nineteenth, Seventh Cavalry (three years), 94; One Hundred and Twenty-first, Nineteenth Cavalry (three years), 18; One Hundred and Twenty- fourth (three years), 208; One Hundred and Thirtieth (three years), 6; One Hundred and Thirty-first, Twelfth Cavalry (three years), 4; One Hundred and Thirty-fourth (100 days), 90; One Hundred and Thirty-ninth (100 days), I ; One Hundred and Fortieth (one year), 13; One Hundred and Forty-seventh (one year), 127; One Hundred and Fifty-fourth (one year), 2; One Hundred and Fifty-sixth (one year), 5; Twentieth Battery, Light Artillery, i ; Fifth Colored United States Troops, i ; Eighth Colored United States Troops, i ; Twenty-third Colored United States Troops, 3 ; Twentyeight Colored United States Troops, 3 ; Forty-second Colored United States Troops, 3; Forty-fifth Colored United States Troops, 2; other colored soldiers, 14; other colored soldiers, Greenville settlement, Ohio, 14; Fortieth, Ohio (three years), 12. Total credit to Randolph, or supposed to belong thereto, 2,373.

This list is, of course, partly uncertain. Most of the persons named are known to have belonged to Randolph, but some have been put down as probable citizens of the county. Doubtless a considerable number really belonging to the county have been credited elsewhere, while in some cases she has received credit for men really residents of other counties. We have done our best toward an accurate statement and with that are obliged to be content.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

serving in the west consolidated into two companies, September 24, 1864; mustered out June 24, 1865. The battaHon in the east consolidated into one company June 23, 1864; discharged July, 1865.

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

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

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

Ninetieth Regiment, Fifth Cavalry - Companies G, L and M and the recruits transferred to the re-organized Sixth Cavalry June 23, 1865 ; mustered out September 15, 1865.

Battle List

Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, Ninth, Twenty-seventh, Forty-second, Fifty-seventh, Seventy-fifth, Eighty-fourth; Atlanta, Ga., July 21, September 2, Sixth, Ninth, Twelfth, Twentyrseventh, Thirty-first, Forty-second, Fiftyseventh, Seventy-fifth, Eighty-fourth, Ninety-seventh, Ninety-ninth, One Hundred and Twenty- fourth. One Hundred and Thirtieth; Atchafalaya, La., July 28, Eighth, Forty-seventh; Stone Mountain, Ga., July, Seventeenth Regiment; Hillsboro, Ga., July 31, Ninetieth (Fifth Cavalry); Fort Morgan, Ala., August 5, Thirteenth, Twenty-first (First Heavy Artillery); Leesburg, - Va., August, Seventh Regiment; La Mavoo, Miss., August 18, One Hundred and Nineteenth (Seventh Cavalry) ; Yellow House, Va., August 19, Twenty-first, Seventh; Lovejoy's Station, Ga., September 2, Ninth, Eighty-fourth, Ninety-ninth; Jonesboro, Ga., September i. Ninth, Twelfth, Fifty-seventh, Seventy-fifth, Eighty- fourth, Ninety-Seventh, Ninety-ninth, One Hundred and Thirtieth; Fort Wagner, S. C, September 7, Thirteenth; Strawberry Plains, Va., September 15, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Deep Bottom, Va., September 18, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Opequan, Va., September 19, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Fort Gilmore, Va., September 19, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Chapin's Bluff, Va., September 20, Thirteenth, Twentieth; Fisher's Hill, Va., September 20, Eighth Regiment; New Market, Va., September 23, Eighth Regiment; Sulphur Branch Trestle, Ala., September 25, One Hundred and Twenty-first (Ninth Cavalry); Pulaski, Tenn., September 27, Seventy-first (Sixth Cavalry); Huntsville, Ala., October I, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry) ; Goshen, Ga., October, Seventeenth; Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, Eighth, Eleventh; Little River, Ga., October 26, Ninety-seventh, Ninety-ninth; Carrion Crow, La., November 3, Thirty-fourth; Griswoldsville, Ga., November 23, Twelfth; Columbia, Tenn., November 26, Ninth; Franklin, Tenn., November 30, Ninth, Thirty-first, Fifty-seventh, Eighty- fourth. One Hundred and Twentyfirst (Ninth Cavalry), One Hundred and Twenty-f ourth ; Murfreesboro (defense), Tenn., December 7, One Hundred and Fortieth; Little Ogeechee River, Ga., December 8, Ninty-seventh, Ninety-ninth; Nashville, Tenn., December 15, 16, Ninth, Thirty-first, Fifty-seventh, Seventy-first (Sixth Cavalry), Eighty- fourth, Eighty-ninth, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth, One Hundred and Thirtieth, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Ninth Cavalry); Fort McAllister, Ga., December 13, Ninety-ninth; Savannah (siege), Ga., December 10 to 21, Twelfth, Forty-second; Wilkinson's Pike, Tenn., December, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry) ; Overall's Creek, Tenn., December, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cav-

1865 - ^Fort Fisher, N. C, January 14, Thirteenth, One Hundred and Fortieth; Fort Anderson, N. C, February 19, Thirteenth, One Hundred and Fortieth; Town Creek Bridge, N. C, February 20, Thirteenth, One Hundred and Fortieth; Wise's Forks, N. C, March 10, One Hundred and Twenty- foflrth, One Hundred and Thirtieth; Averysboro, N. C, March 16, Forty-second; Bentonville, N. C, March 19, Twelfth, Forty-second, Seventy-fifth, Xinety-seventh; Spanish Fort, Ala., March 27, April 19, Twenty-first (First Hea\y Artillery), One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thriteenth Cavalry) ; Ebenezer Church, Ala., April i. Seventeenth; Mobile, Ala., March 2"] to April I, Twenty-first (First Heavy Artillery), Sixty-ninth, Eightynineth. One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry) ; Selma, Ala., April 2, Seventeenth; Hatcher's Run, Va., April 2, Twentieth; Clover Hill, \'a., April 9, Twentieth; Fort Blakely, Ala., April 9, Sixty-ninth, One Hundred and Thirty-first (Thirteenth Cavalry) ; Macon, Ga., April 20, Seventeenth; Palmetto Ranch, Texas, May 13, Thirty-fourth Regiment, last battle of the war.

Rebel Prisons Prison Life

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

A considerable number of men from Randolph county, Ind., were so unfortunate as to be captured and to suffer imprisonment. Among them were W. A. W. Daly, Charles Potter, Barnes, of Washington township;

Edward Simmons, Van Sipe, of Jackson township, and doubtless many others. Barnes died in Andersonville. Daly spent time at Andersonville, Millen, Florence, Savannah and Charleston - fourteen months in all. Some of his experience is given under the head of reminiscences in another part of this work. We avail ourselves of a statement made and published (Prison Report by Congressional Committee, 1867-69) concerning Calvin W. Diggs, enlisted from Jay county, but for many years a resident of Winchester, Randolph county, condensing it to suit our present purpose.

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

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

Mr. Diggs very seldom spoke of his prison experience, always shrinking from recalling his horrible experiences endured there. Mr. Diggs lived in Winchester until his death. May 22, 1912.

Prison Experience Andersonville

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

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

As for cooking, Mr. Warrell's squad had a kind of pan, which they had made of a plate of sheet-iron some one had managed to get hold of as they were coming in the cars in their passage to Andersonville. It would hold water and they made mush in it and what not. They had no salt, their bread had no salt and none was furnished that he ever heard of.

Sometimes fresh beef would be furnished,, and Warrell says : "I always ate mine raw, because I thought it would help to keep the scurvy off that so many suffered and died with. Their mouths would swell and grow raw, their legs and feet would swell twice the natural size, teeth would come loose and fall out, and they would die rotting by piece meal."

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

No utensils of any kind were furnished the prisoners, and many had none at all. The only thing we had was the pan, one-half a foot deep and a foot square. It was stolen once, but we got it again. Those who had money could buy of the guards, corn-bread, or meal, or tobacco. The men would trade anything they had for corn-meal or bread. Every morning would be heard the cry of men wishing to barter - 'who'll trade meal for tobacco,' etc. At first, the boys used to cheat the rebels. They would show a nice pair of boots perhaps, and make the rebel throw down his meal, etc., first, and then fling a pair of boots, a poor, worthless pair, far over the stockade, and when Johnnie had found them the 'Yankee rogue' would be gone and could not be discovered. They stopped all this pretty soon by refusing to trade unless the 'Yank' would throw his 'article' first.

The supply of wood was one stick of pine cord wood to twenty-five men, divided by one man into twenty-five parts (one ax was supplied to I GO men) and distributed by one man turning, his back and telling who should have each particular pile. Each man would take his quota of wood and cut it up into splinters as fine as shavings or matches, and with these make infinitesimal fires to cook their mush. This splitting of their wood and making and watching their 'teeny-weeny' fires would take hours and hours of weary time. No shelter of. any kind was furnished. We had a piece of blanket. We dug a hole a foot or two deep, fixed up a bit of a pole and stretched the blanket fragment over so as to keep the dew of?, and then slept in that hole. In the winter we would keep warm in the night by 'trotting' round, among the sleeping men hour after hour, and then we would sleep in the sunshine in the daytime when it was hot. My shoes were stolen and I had none the whole winter. We had no matches, nor flints, n9r any means to produce fire. We had to depend on some one else. Somebody would have fire, and we would kindle ours when we needed. Once in a while molasses was issued, and often the men could trade it off for meal or bread."

"I was captured near Sunshine Church, Ga., during Stoneman's raid, 1 20 miles south of Atlanta. The expedition set out for the purpose of releasing the prisoners at Macon and Andersonville. We went to Macon, but the prisoners had been moved. Stoneman attacked Macon, but McCook failed to come to time, and we fell back. The rebel advance was met at 10 o'clock p. m. We skirmished until next day, and were surrounded and forced to surrender. So instead of releasing the prisoners at Andersonville, the soldjers were scooped into that awful den themselves. I entered that 'hell above ground' August 2, 1864; was taken to Charleston in November; to Florence in December; afterward to Wilmington, and at length to the Union lines at Goldsboro, N. C, in March, 1865, for parole.

I went in hungry; never had a full meal; could have eaten any day at one meal my whole rations for an entire day, i. e., had they been fit for a human creature to eat, which they were not. Our bread was mostly made

I went in weighing 216 pounds, ,but in seven months, when paroled, my weight was only 145 pounds. I had remarkable health for such a place, but language cannot describe such a den of horrors !

I had, when captured, a suit of well worn army clothes, and I wore the same without change, with no soap, until I was nearer naked than clad.

The brook was filth itself. I had no vessel to wash in. There was no water for any purpose but that dreadful stream, thick with the vileness of 35,000 living and dead prisoners. The only time we had the means of washing in clean water was in a heavy rain which fell. The prisoners stripped, and stood rubbing each others' backs and limbs as the rain poured in torrents upon them. Soon after that rain, a great wonder came to pass in that stockade. A spring of pure, clean water came gushing forth in the midst of that prison pen, and ran a life-giving stream, enough for those famishing people. It seemed almost like the stream flowing from the 'rock in the wilderness.' The water of this spring sufficed for drinking and cooking, though but little of that was done, in sooth. Men were in line waiting their turn at that heaven-sent fountain all day long. Sometimes the 'waiting line' numbered 1,000 men. Before that spring burst forth from out that cursed ground, the filthy water of the brook was all that anybody in that stockade could procure, except that now and then a poor fellow had found a little water by digging.

One day a poor fellow (among scores and hundreds of others like him), bespoke my pity who had got fast in the mire of the brook, and I helped him out. Great numbers, sick and helpless, were there besides, and I worked helping the poor wretches a long time, until at last I had to quit to save myself.

I have counted as many as seventy corpses lying stiff and stark at the gate, in one morning, of persons who had died in one dreadful night; and the living would fight for the privilege of carrying a comrade's lifeless remains forth to the burial-ground outside, because by so doing one got the chance to bring in an arm load of wood gathered outside.

"During that awful suffering, the great body of those men stood firm and steadfast in their loyalty, resisting every attempt to seduce them from their allegiance to their native land. Many times we were marshaled in (35)

True as steeel, those heroic men continued faithful to their flag, many of them even unto death. And those who lived to gain their freedom, if able for duty, rejoined their regiments and finished their terms of service on the tented field."

William Warrell, Company K, Fifty-third Ohio, nine months, Union City; Chester Warrell, Company K, Fifty-third Ohio, nine months. Union City; Jeremiah Torney, Fortieth Ohio, eighteen months. Ward township; Leven B. Moyer, Fortieth Ohio, eighteen months; Stephen Boast, Fortieth Ohio, eighteen months; Newton Founts, Fortieth Ohio, Kansas. Others are as follows :

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

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

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

James H. Murray, One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment, Company F, died at Murfreesboro, Tenn., of disease, January i, 1865, buried at National cemetery at Murfreesboro.

Samuel H. Webb, Eighth Regiment (three years). Company G, died at Ridgeville, Ind., October 22, 1864, of wounds rece!ived at Pea Ridge, Ark.

Spanish-American War

When Lee surrendered at Appomattox it was the hope and prayer of all American citizens, regardless of" former beliefs, and opin'ions, that the war, with all its horrors and ravages would never again be known to the United States.

Lessons of the past four years with all the realities of the war were such that it seemed imposs'ible that again we should be called upon to take up arms in any cause. However, this was not to be. The United States, indeed, became its brother's keeper and lent an ear to the call for relief from oppression and tyranny in Cuba.

Again the fife and drum were taken from the attic, the sword from its scabbard and the musket from its place on the wall, and pressed 'into service in the name of humanity at the call of President McKinley in 1898.

Indiana was found much better prepared to respond than it was at the beginning of the Civil war. It had been evident for a long while that the United States would have to 'intercede for the oppressed in Cuba.

Governor Mount, of Indiana, received instructions to prov'ide four regiments of infantry and two batteries of light artillery, Indiana. The National Guard was ordered to report at once to General McKee at the fair grounds at Indianapolis. The response to the call of Governor Mount was as enthusiast'ic as was the call of Governor Morton in 1861, indeed the entire 125,000 called for by the president could have been secured in a few hours in Indiana alone. The companies were all recruited to the number of eighty-four in a few minutes time. Excitement ran high all over the state. In nearly all towns public meet'ings were held.

Winchester, the home of Company F, was no exception to this rule. A meeting was called and held in the court room and short addresses were made by the veterans of '61. White-haired men, trembling with emotion, gave words of counsel, cheer and warning to the boys about to leave. The talk of one man, Capt. W. A. W. Daly, was exceptionally impress'ive. The audience fully appreciated the fact that the words of this man were spoken by one who had spent years in the service of his country, suffering innumerable and unspeakable horrors in the prison pens of Andersonville. What, indeed, must have been the emotion of this good man when before him sat in the company, about to depart, three of his own sons.

The company marched to the Big Four station accompanied by the entire population of the city and surrounding country and left for camp at Indianapolis accompanied by the best wishes and prayers of all those left behind. Company F was the only company enl'isted in this war from Randolph county, and of it we take the following from a history of the National Guard of Indiana :

Company F is the second military organization which has flourished in Winchester. On August 28, 1883, the Winchester Light Guards were organized and mustered into state service October 15th following. The company served through but one term of enlistment as Company I of the Second Regiment. The officers were Captain Enos M. Ford, First Lieutenant Albert M. Russell, and Second Lieutenant Benjamin C. Marsh.

The present company was organized September 22, 1896, with fifty-five members, and was mustered in by Major W. S. Rich. It was assigned to the second regiment as Company F. and such it has been since.

There was not a man with any military experience and the members paid no attention to the preliminary work, but at once took up the school of the (36) soldier, with the result that they were turned down on their first inspection and were compelled to wait six months before they could secure their arms and equipment.

As no camp of instruction was held during the summer of 1897, the company decided to hold one of 'its own at Lake Pequanaha, about ten miles from Winchester. A requisition was made for tents and kitchen utensils and the company left for the lake on the second Saturday in July. When the men arrived about six in the evening, it was found that the tents and supplies were 'in Winchester, and it was necessary to send a detail back for them. The things reached the camp about four the next morning. The guard mount was ludicrous in the extreme, and blank cartridges were issued to the guards and bayonets fixed. Three days of the camp were sufficient, and the company returned home. During the winter, dances and minstrel entertainments were given, while football games and indoor gymnast'ics were frequent.

At midnight on April 25, 1898, the orders to report in Indianapolis for muster into United States service were received, and, as had been previously arranged, two rounds were fired from a cannon and by one o'clock the drum corps was out. Messengers were sent into the country and Lieutenant Jericho received recruits as fast as he could administer the oath and swore in the last one ten minutes before the train left. The company took fifty men in uniform and thirty, without, and the one thing most vividly remembered by the members was the first d'inner at Camp Mount, which was followed the next day by a chicken dinner, some twenty-five chickens having disappeared from neighboring hen roosts the previous night.

The second regiment of Indiana National Guard of which Company F was a part "was the second regiment to be mustered 'into United States service, and on May 10 it became the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Regiment Indiana Volunteers. The regiment was doomed to great disappointment so far as active service was concerned, for it did not get beyond camp l*ife. It moved to Chickamauga on May 16, leaving Indiana in the evening and reaching Chattanooga the following evening. The men remained in the cars all night, and the entire day following was consumed in moving to Lytle, Georgia, a distance of but twelve miles, as troops were pouring into the park from all parts of the country and there was but one railroad from Chattanooga to Lytle. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon the train reached Lytle and the regiment started on a three-mile march for camp. It was dark before campmg place was reached, and the men bivouacked for the night. The next mornmg camp was established and the reg*iment was brigaded with the Second Ohio

"Five months of monotonous routine duty followed, which was not brightened by any prospect of seeing duty in Cuba or Porto Rico. The grounds became so unsan'itary that a portion of the troops, including the regiment, was ordered to Camp Poland, near Knoxville, Tennessee, and camp was broken on August 25 and established at Camp Poland the following day. There it remained until September 12, when it was ordered to Indianapohs to be mustered out. The regiment reached Camp Mount two days later, and was furloughed for thirty days from September 17. It re-assembled October 17, and was discharged November 4."

Compan)' F did not lose any men in the serv'ice but has lost an unusually large number since, as will be seen in the following sketch of the company written by Rosecrans Bosworth, for the reunion of -the company held in Winchester, October 9, 1913.

A sketch of the origin and history of Company F, 158th Ind. Vol. Inf., and some notes of the reunion held Thursday, October 9, 1913, at Winchester, Ind.

In 1886 John R. Wright, son of Chris. Wright, a charter member of the G. A. R., and Mary Wright, a charter member of the W. R. C, became a charter member of the camp of Sons of Veterans, now commonly known as "Old 44" He was assigned and naturally took to that part of the old ritual "drilling the squad". Along about that time several of our citizens, led by William Reinheimer and J. W. Macy, bought the cannon, which is now mounted near the southwest corner of the court house, for reunion, salute and political use. There was a large part of the year it was not in use and the boys in the "drill squad" of "Old 44" got to talking about "working it." Mr. Wright got permission of the committee in charge and organized a cannon squad known as "L,ittle 44 Battery," which became so proficient that it was taken to St. Joe, Mo., in 1890, and won first prize in a contest there. On its return, enthusiasm ran high, and, urged by citizens and members of the squad, Mr. Wright tried to get a commission to organize a battery ,of artillery at Winchester. He was informed by those in control of the Indiana Guard that the, artillery branch was full, but that they would be glad to have an Infantry company at Winchester, and gave him the necessary papers, and in 1896 Company F. Second Indiana National Guard was mustered into service. J. R.

Wright, captain, Dr. G. C. Markle, first lieutenant, and Walter Daly, second lieutenant, all "Old 44" boys, as were a large number of the enlisted men.

As I did not join Company F till just before they were mustered into the United States service, I know little of its history, but will try to get it later, but the resignation of Lieutenant Markle, late in '97, and the resignation of Captain Wright early in '98 together with other conditions had left the company not in the best of conditions when the Spanish war came in 1898, almost like thunder out of a clear sky. As soon as it looked like war the company was recruited as soon as possible and the officers who later went into United States service were elected and on March loth were commissioned, Walter H. Daly, captain; Will O. Jericho, first lieutenant; H. G. Conklin, second lieutenant, H. A. Smith, first sergeant; H. O. Stace, quartermaster sergeant.

On April 29th congress passed the famous resolution of intervention, which amounted to the sariie as a declaration of war. On the 23d the call for 125,000 volunteers was issued. On the night of April 25th Captain Daly received order to remove his company to the State Fair Ground, near Indianapolis. To tell the story of these hours needs a better pen than mine, the boys have told me of it, some try to joke about it, but make a "sorry out of it," but the moisture usually gathers in the eye when it is mentioned ; it was mighty serious. "War is Hell" and no earthly power could tell what might have happened to "that bunch of kids" who were so dear to those they were leaving.

Early the next morning, the 26th of April, 1898, I found them quartered in the agricultural hall at the State Fair Ground, and they were a hungry bunch. On May loth we were mustered into the 158th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and on the i6th we were on our way to Camp Thomas in Chickamauga Park, near Chattanooga, Tenn., where we arrived, landing at Lytle Station, Ga., on the i8th, and marched two and one-half miles east to near Jay's Mill, which is in the northeast corner of the reservation, where we went into camp and stayed in that one spot till August 25th, when we broke camp and were taken to Camp Poland near Knoxville, Tenn., arriving there the next day. We stayed there until September 12th when we left for Indianapolis, arriving there the 14th. On the 17th we were furloughed for thirty days, returned in due time and were dischargd'on November 4. Then we scattered, each one going to his own home as fast as he could.

Oh, the stories, volumes of them, that could be told by, and on each one of us, and it would be mighty interesting reading to a lot of people, too. The landing in Camp Mount hungry and the several things that were done to get food. How the mind drifts back to Ray Klefeker, to the blanketing, the running the guard line, and Comrade Wigmore on the road to Chattanooga, the pretty girls at Somerset, Ky., the march to camp near Jay's Mill, the bath in Chickamauga creek, the pup tents, the measles, the Midway just out of the park east, the hospital, the drills - six a day, two on Sunday. Talk about drilled regiments, if there was a better outside the standing army of Eiirope, I would like to see it.

The guard house, well we had everything I ever heard of, in army life, but the hard marching and fighting, and I don't know of one in Company F but would far rather had that, than have had the dreary heart and digestion, wiecking time and the food we had at Camp Thomas, but then we had the quartette and Charles Daly with his kodak and diary and his helpful way with all the boys, and by the way, he is the one that ought to be writing this "history"; Lis Daly, Busic, Kid Burris, Ep. Ayres, and his mules, Austin, Benson, whispering Hubig, Jackson, Dotterer, Kellar, Munden, Rogerson, Sims, Stanley, W'alrod, Warrum and the dog, Wigmore, Lewis, Pierson and Wandering Brannon, any and all of whom could be depended on to put on a stunt on short notice of his or their inimitable specialty and an absolute guarantee of no two alike and something new each time. This helped a lot.

So many things spring into mind but I do not dare to take the space. Then came the rumor, "we are going home," how I would remember the look of joy that broke over their faces when they heard it, always followed by a look of pain perhaps setting down with face in hands and the plaintive cry, "Oh, if we had only seen some service"; a few swore that they would never go to their old stamping ground until they had seen some service, and some didn't, some joined the i6oth and i6ist in or on the way to Cuba, some went into the regular army and saw service in the Philippines, China, etc. Jackson and Burris were in the Chinese Tientsin-Pekin trouble and another died from the effects of this campaign, etc., then we got back at last to Indianapolis and how the ladies of that city banqueted us and our personal friends met us and could not do enough for us and the furlough and the wonderful banquet in Gordon Rink, then the empty space for more of the glory of mother, wife or sweetheart and home for the rest.

Well, we separated and no concerted action had been taken in these fifteen years to keep track of each other for either the protection of our interests or the pleasure of renewing old times. While getting ready for Home Coming Day some of our boys thought, why wouldn't it be a good time for Company F to come home, all the close-by boys were called together and a temporary organization formed by electing Sergeant Howard, chairman; Sergeant Smith, secretary-treasurer ; Lieutenant Jericho, chairman ; reception committee, U. G.

Daly, Stanley and Troy Smith on time, place and banquet committee. Bosworth, Ziegler and Charles Daly on invitation and program. We all went to work and had things moving nicely, invitations were sent to each member of the company whose address could be had, and to the regimental, battalion and hospital officers for a reunion to be held the afternoon and evening before Kome Coming Day; soon answers came back till we were assured of near forty coming. They began drifting in some days before the day set till there were thirty registered whea we set down to the banquet. To me this reunion was one of the pleasantest experiences of my life. In the afternoon we met informally in the present armory offices and had an old-time camp talk. It was mighty interesting to hear Grant Pierson and Charlie Sims tell the anecdotes of camp life all the way to who greased the 'dummy track.' And Lester Burris, Sel. Jackson and Ed Lewis telling of the wonders of China, the Philippines and all over the world. Then came the banquet in the Sons of Veterans Hall at 7 p. m. Captain Daly presided and had prepared a fine program, which, after the welcome address and response, the latter by Comrade Sims, as he only can do it and the reading of very nice and interesting letters from Colonel Harry B. Smith, now at the head of a large sheet metal company, at Salisbury, N. C, Major H. T. Conde, with a mercantile company, with headquarters in Peoria, 111., and Sergeant Major Moorehead, at the head of the law department of the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, and some of our Company F boys. The boys then took charge, and oh, the time they did have, I couldn't describe it if I would, I wouldn't dare if I could. You of Company F who read this see who was there in the list at the end of this article, you will understand. At a late hour we settled down as First Sergeant Smith began to call the roll as he used to and those who knew told of those absent, of the living, what they were doing, and where, of the dead (eighteen of them) all they could, some we have lost track of and want to hear from them_ badly.

Company F was mustered into the United States service with eighty-three officers and men; in June Charles Daly came back to Randolph county and enlisted twenty-seven more who were mustered in June 22nd making no officers and men. Following the roll call came the business. It was unanimously carried that we should have a permanent organization to be known as the Company F 158th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Reunion Association, which should meet each year as determined by previous meeting, that we should have a president and secretary-treasurer by election and that he should appoint a historian and three of an executive committee of five of which the president and secretary shall be members, whose duty it will be to make all the arrange- ments for the next reunion. All officers to hold office one year or until their successors are selected. The election results as follows : Captain Daly, president, Fir^t Sergeant Smith, secretary-treasurer, President Daly appointed the following: Historian, R. J. Bosworth; Executive Committee, R. J. Bosworth, F. W. Howard and P. H. Stanley.

As this was a meeting to perfect a permanent organization and find out what the comrades wanted in the future, it was decided that nobody outside of the regiment would be invited, but it was the almost unanimous wish of those present that the wives and families of the members of the company be invited to our next reunion and that it be held in Winchester, as near as possible to thenext Home Coming Day, if there is one next year, if not the executive committee to fix the date. It was carried that a payment of 50 cents be asked each member to meet the expenses that will have to be met in perfecting and keeping up our organization, especially that which will fall on our secretary, who will have his hands full from now on in keeping track of the boys and answering letters on everything pertaining to the company and its members. This fee should be sent to Secretary Smith as soon as possible.

The following is the roll call of Company F as given by Adjutant General Gore's report. There is a * before the name of each one who registered at the reunion, the address of each one is given following the name, if dead the facts as known are given, if no data is given the address is not knowrL

(1) Promoted from sergeant July 25. (2) Transferred to hospital corps June 27. (3) Promoted from corporal July 7. (4) Promoted from private July 7. (S) Transferred to band June 14. (6) Appointed August 20. (7) Discharged August 13. (8) Discharged August 8. (9) Discharged September 4. (10) Discharged August Id

The company served through the war with Spain and on the reorganization of the guard the former members of the company reorganized it and were assigned to their old regiment with the same letter. The company was mustered in June 13, 1900, with the following roster:

Company I was mustered into the service of the state of Indiana at Union City, on March 20, 1900, and was designated as the nineteenth separate company, until the regimental organization previous to the annual camp of instruction, when the company was assigned to the Second Battalion of the Second Infantry, and given the letter I.

At the time of the organization and muster-in of the company the complement of commissioned officers consisted of Captain John W. Arthur, First Lieutenant James R. Griffis, Second Lieutenant Don P. Shockney.

Captain John W. Arthur resigned April 21, 1900, and Captain Edwin A. Anderson was elected to succeed him April 23, 1900. Captain Edwin A. Anderson resigned October 9, 1900, and First Lieutenant James R. Griffis was commissioned captain, and First Sergeant Edward G. Evans was elected First Lieutenant, October 15, 1900. First Lieutenant Edward G. Evans resigned February 6, 1901, and Second Lieutenant Don P. Shockney was elected first lieutenant, February 11, 1901, First Sergeant Charles C. Early being elected second lieutenant, February 11, 1901.

Capt. James R. Griffis had served during the Spanish-American war as a member of the first regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Captain Griffis died at his home in Cleveland in 191 3.

The roll of the company in 1901 was : Captain, James R. Griffis ; First Lieutenant, Don P. Shockney; Second Lieutenant, Charles C. Early; First Sergeant, Rosko L. Whisler; Sergeants, Daniel P. L. Bupt, Frank Read, Charles S. Hoover; Corporals, Curtis Coby, Edward J. Kaucher, Harry J. Sutton and George T. Crawford; Musicians, Claude R. Bolen and Amos Underwood; Privates, William F. Bailey, Leolon Black; William E. Bannon, Charles A. Brown, George W. Cumrine, Frank E. Dunn, Oliver S. Dennison,

Name. Date Enlisted. Previous Service

Company F has the distinction of being one of the oldest companies in continuous service in the state of Indiana. Its officers have been men .of

The heroic deeds and sacrifices of the soldiers of Randolph county was to be commemorated in another way other than to live in the hearts of all loyal people of the county.

It remained for James Moorman, a man of Quaker faith and conscientiously opposed to the settlement of disputes by war to start a fund with which to build a monument in honor of the union soldiers.

Mr. Moorman bequeathed a fund of $2,000.00 to be used for this purpose, and named Capt. J. R. Jackson, J. W. Macy and Capt. William W. Macy as trustees of that fund. The people of the county highly appreciated this gift but felt that something more than a $2,000.00 monument should be erected and to this end a petition was presented to the county commissioners March 9, 1889, in which "the undersigned petitioners citizens and voters of Randolph county, Indiana, respectfully pray your honorable body to appropriate out of the funds of said Randolph county a sum of money which, with the two thousand dollars devised for that purpose by James Moorman, deceased, added, will be sufficient to build a suitable monument in commemoration of the services and patriotism of the soldiers who fought and died in defense of this country during the late rebellion and in defense of the union of the states and the rights of man, pursuant to the provisions of the act of the general assembly of the state of Indiana entitled "An Act Empowering County Commissioners to Appropriate money for the Erection of Soldiers' Monuments," Approved April 11, 1885, and your petitioners will ever pray."

The county examined the petition carefully and after having found that the majority of the voters of the county were 3,756 and that the petition- had been signed by 3,914 voters granted the prayer of said petition and appropriated the sum of $25,000.00. At this same meeting they appointed an advisory committee to act with the board of commissioners and the trustees named in the will of James A. Moorman, deceased, to select plans and a place for the erection of the monument and to assist in the contracting and constructing of the work. The committee thus appointed was composed of A. O. Marsh, David Fudge, Edmund Engle, John W. Hill, Dr. Henry Hunt, William Kerr, Alexander A- Knopp, Lewis N. Cook, William A. W. Daly, Elza Mclntire and T. F Moorman.

On the 2nd day of their deliberations they adopted the designs shown by A. A. McCain, of Indianapolis. Mr. McCain was paid $100.00 for the designs and specifications. On the 22nd of May Isaac Hogston was contracted with to make an excavation twenty-eight feet square and eight feet deep for the foundation. The same day Luther L. Moorman was contracted with to put in the foundation. The contract" for the erection of the monument was let to A. A. McCain on the i8th day of July, 1889, at $23,000.00. The corner stone was laid August 15, 1889, by Charles Travis, department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. The monument was to have been completed October ist, 1890, but was delayed by changes made in the design.

The original design called for a bronze statue of Mars at rest ten feet high from bottom of feet to crown of head with spear and eagle but this was later changed to the American color bearer.

"The design of the architect was to build a monument in honor of the memory of the union soldier that would be military, not only in its ornamentation, but in the character of its architecture, something entirely different from the common style of shaft or pyramid. The base is twenty-seven feet square, with four cannon muzzles on each front, at each corner of the parapet of the base are placed four bronze figures representing each of the four branches of the service, infantry, cavalry, artillery and navy; these figures are six feet six inches in height and are natural positions. The infantry man at the northeast corner, stands erect, as if looking for the enemy, his gun held firmly, and ready for instant use; the artillery man, at the south- \\est corner stands erect with his rammer held firmly as though ready for work. The sailor at the southwest corner is setting on a capstan in a very natural position, as if on the lookout for an enemy. The cavalryman stands on the southeast corner, his right hand rests on an unsheathed sword, and he is heavily booted and spurred, as though ready to mount for the fray."

On the southwest and north sides are Grand^Army badges, below which are to be found on bronze tablets in raised letters are following inscriptions :

'"And the same land that gave them birth, has caught them to the breast, And we will pray that from their clay full many a raise may start, Of true men, like you men, to act as brave a part."

"In the God of battle trust, die we may - die we must, but O where can dust to dust be consigned so well As where heaven its dues shall shed, on the martyred patriots bed And the rocks shall raise their heads of his deeds to tell."

"On the east front of that portion of the monument set apart for patriotic sentiment on the die thereof there shall be a tablet of bronze, on size sufificient to properly fill such space upon which shall be the following inscription in raised letters, said inscription to be in the order as given herein, to wit :

'A member of the society of friends and conscientiously opposed to war but recognized the great value of the services of the union soldier to our country and to the cause of human liberty, by his last will and testament contributed $2,000.00 to the erection of this monument.

In commemoration of the services and patriotism of the soldier who fought, and died, during the late rebellion, in defense of their country, the union of the states, and the rights of man, the board of commissioners of the county of Randolph on petition of a majority of the voters of said county had erected this monument.

The story is told that when the artist was seeking a model for the artilleryman that he discovered a man who afterward posed. This man was an iron worker in Chicago. During the time in which the statue was being made it was found he was a first cousin to John Brown,. the hero of Osawatomie.

Above these G. A. R. badges encircling the tower is a sheet of bronze six feet wide and twenty-four feet in circumference, covered with reliefs of scenes in a soldier's life, while engaged in battle, the whole making a continuous picture where infantry, artillery and cavalry are all engaged. The monument is fifty-five feet high, the standard, eighteen feet, which makes the height, from and including the base, seventy-three feet.

This monument is not surpassed anywhere in originality and design and durability of construction and it will stand for ages to commemorate the glorious deed of the Heroic sons of this grand county who went forth to battle and to die that this nation might live.

"It was on the programme for the G. A. R. to form on west side, the S. of V. on the east side, and the W. R. C. on the south side of the monument. But by some oversight, no steps had been taken to preserve these spaces for them and when the procession arrived at the monument, the people had crowded up so solidly that all semblance of order was lost, and comparatively few members of either of the three orders participating in the ceremonies secured positions to either see or hear the ceremonies at that place. On the platform were Department Commander, C. M. Travis, Senior Vice- Commander, P. D. Harris, Junior Vice-Commander, D. B. Campbell; Assistant Adjutant General, I. N. Walker; Officer of the day Armstrong, I. P. Watts, Chaplain, representing department of Indiana, G. A. R., Luther Puckett, representing the army in marching order, including a chicken on his bayonet, Will Chapman, representing the navy, in full naval uniform with small ship, Guard of Honor, representing the G. A. R., Capt. J. W. Newton, representing the Sons of Veterans, Mrs. Maggie Ginger, representing the W. R. C.

The corner stone was laid by Department Commander Travis, assisted by the department officers above named in accordance with the ritual of the Grand Army of the Republic.

As the flag was hoisted on the staff by Comrade J. S. Hiatt, the Miller Band played the 'Star Spangled Banner,' rendering the 'Red, White and Blue,' while the stone was being placed in position.

The Sons of Veterans, deposit within the receptacle formed in the corner stone of the northeast corner of this foundation, upon which are to be erected, artistic columns in commemoration of the noble deeds of the fallen heroes, a roster of the various camps of this county, together with a ritual of our tenets and teachings, and a badge of our membership.

if this depositation shall be found by the people of future ages, when all animate representation of the loyal soldier, and that grand order of the Sons of Veterans shall have passed away, it will evidence the fact that in the time past there were soldiers loyal and true and there existed the order of the Sons of Veterans.

The pages of history will teach that those Sons of Veterans were all American born citizens, and that the Sons of Veterans enjoyed that noble distinction of being Sons of Veterans by birth and by organization.

As the veteran soldier and sailor marches step by step toward the final camping ground, where he will hear the last bugle call, let him be assured, that the union he fought to preserve, will, by the Sons of Veterans, be fully maintained.

As the soldier and sailor preserved our flag unsullied, without a star obscured so will the Sons of Veterans preserve it in its original glory.'

In behalf of the Woman's Relief Corps of Randolph county, I deposit this ritual and badge. The department of Indiana was organized September 17, 1884, and has a membership of 3,253. May heaven's choicest blessing rest on the organization.'

The procession then reformed and marched to the fair grounds, where the following gentlemen were elected to serve as officers for the ensuing year :

Winchester was selected as the place and the second Wednesday in August, 1890, as the time for holding the next annual reunion of the Association." (37)

The change in the design and other unlocked for troubles were such that the monument was not completed until April, 1892. The unveiling ceremonies were held Thursday, July 21, 1892, with the following program: county. On that day the beautiful monument erected to the memory of the men who went from this county, to battle for the rights of men and to maintain the best government on earth, was unveiled and formally dedicated with impressive ceremonies. The governor of our state and the highest officer of the Grand Army of the Republic and part of his staff, honored the people of this county and the men in whose memory the monument was erected by their presence on that occasion.

The day was a perfect one, the rain of the previous evening having laid the dust and relieved the immense throng of people from all discomfort from that source. All teams and vehicles were excluded from the streets around the square, hitching places having been arranged for elsewhere. This may have worked some trouble in a few cases, but the wisdom of it was generally acknowledged, and all concede that it was the proper thing to do. People began coming in at an early hour and the trains on both railroads were crowded, the Big Four running a special train from each direction to accommodate its patrons. Little Battle 44 had fired the national salute from the mound in the fair ground at an early hour, returning to town in time to open the programme of the day's exercise with an exhibition drill. The boys did well as they always do, and surprised their large audience by their proficiency, and were heartily applauded. After music by the band invocation by Chaplain I. P. Watts and a song by the school children, Newton J. McGuire, Commander Indiana Division, S. of Vs., was introduced and delivered a very patriotic and eloquent address. This closed the forenoon exercises.

Gov. Chase arrived from the west soon after noon. He was met by the band and old soldiers and escorted to the Irvin House for dinner. The Governor and the Department Commander and his staff were escorted to the east side of the public square by the G. A. R. where a very large audience was waiting for them, and promptly at 1 130, several martial bands present, furnished some soul-stirring music that reminded the older people in the audience of the war, after which Captain A. O. Marsh called the assemblage to order. Rev. R. D. Spellman, formerly Chaplain of the One Hundred and First Indiana Volunteers, made a very impressive invocation. This was followed by the little girls singing the hymn, 'America', in such an impressive manner they were applauded. Captain Marsh then made a brief and appropriate address in which he gave a short history of the monument and stated the purpose for which it was built. It is representative in every respect. It's stones were laid at Gettysburg and Mission Ridge, in the sacrifice of the blood of so many patriotic men, and they are cement- ed with the tears of widows and orphans. It stands a memento to the noblest cause that a people ever fought for - of the grandest struggle the world has ever known. In conclusion he introduced Department Commander J. B. Cheadle, and requested him in the name of the loyal people of Randolph county, and of the Grand Army of the Republic of Indiana, to dedicate the monument.

Commander Cheadle was received with applause, and before beginning the formal dedicatory services as laid down in the ritual of the Grand Army, delivered a short but effective address appropriate to the occasion. In behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic of Indiana, he congratulated the patriotic people of Randolph co'unty for erecting a monument which will stand for all time a silent but enduring memento of the most decisive crisis in the history of the world's progress and to the de\'otion and self-sacrifice tipon which rests constitutional and popular government. It tells a story of a people who dropped their vocation of peace, which they loved and subjected themselves to the harsh discipline of the camp and the danger of battle to preserve free government and peqDetuate popular institutions. Other ages have built monuments in honor of kings or events of interest to kingly rule, but those like the present are the first to be raised to tell the story of the devotion of a whole people to a government of a people. Mr. Cheadle spoke elociuently of the men for whom this monument stands, and urged upon those present to impress upon the plastic minds of the young the great value of the government and the institutions which were saved with the victory of the union cause. We need to teach a higher Americanism. Let us appreciate the privileges of our government and institutions, to the end that the government of the people, for the people and by the people shall live.

The impressive ceremonies of the dedication then followed, which were performed by the Department Commander with Captain W. D. Stone as Senior Vice Commander; O. R. Weaver, Acting Junior Vice Commander; Rev. John A. Moorman, Department Chaplain, and Adjutant General Irvin Robbins; Colonel M. B. Miller, Officer of the Day; I. N. Stratton, Officer of the Guard; O. M. Mills, Wm. Chapman, Samuel Fox, Isaac Sipe, W. P. Miller, Shed McLain; Geo. F. Addlerman, A. J. Woods, N. McFarland. J. W. Ginger, Stephen D. Warwick and E. W. Bond, Guards. At the conclusion of the ritualistic services, O. M. Mills, representing the infantry; Isaac Sipe, the Cavalry: Samuel D. Fox, the Artillery, and Wm. Chapman, the Navy; took their places on the monument, each at the statuary of that branch of the service he represented. Mrs. Allie Mills took her place at the bronze tablet encircling the monument. At a given signal the flag was raised on the flag staff, at the southwest corner of the monument, the K. of P. band playing the 'Star Spangled Banner' amrd enthusiastic cheering. The vast audience had risen to their feet and faced the monument, and when Adjutant General Robbins gave the signal, Mrs. Mills pulled the cord, which unveiled the bronze encircling the monument, and the representatives of the branches of the service, loosened the flags that covered the statutes. The little girls sang 'The Flag of the Free', and thus ended the formal part of the dedication. Captain Marsh then introduced Governor Ira J. Chase. The Governor was given a very enthusiastic welcome. When the applause had subsided the Governor said that, 'Three generations have beheld the dedication services. Thus two generations are educated in regard to the issues and results of the war. and know the story of patriotism and devotion which that epoch called forth. The boys and girls who witness this service will tell it to their children when they are older, and even to their grandchildren, so that four or five generations, at least, will know the story as handed down from parent to child. Therefore, four or five generations, at least, will be inspired by the story of patriotism, and when these have passed away the monument, decade after decade, will mutely point to the page of history which will glow for all time with the patriotism of the men and the sacrifice of the women of the Civil war period. Thus these monuments are better to preserve the government of the people than standing armies. As it is a source of boundless satisfaction to me to know that my ancestors fought for the country in the Revolution and the War of 1812, it will be cause for congratulation to the Sons and Daughters of the Veterans from Randolph county who can point to that monument and say, with elation, 'It was built to commemorate the services of my father'. These monuments teach that it is the greatest thing in the world to be an American - that to have a citizen who served his country in the hour of danger, and in peace, to have been true to the highest interests of the nations, is comparably better than to wear a title which has been inherited and to be a burden to the people. Wars in the old world have made men no better because they have been for conquest, but the greater part of the men who fought for the union are better men, better citizens, now than they would have been without such service, and their example has given a new birth to the love of country. The temperance women have their motto, 'For God, and home, and country,' better for God, country, home for there can be no good happy home in a wretched, turbulent and impoverished country. Thank God, the work of the war of 1861 was so well done that no one here, will witness another war in this land. It has taught the lesson of patriotism and the equally important lesson of respect for and obedience to constituted authority, and for the rights of all, white and black." He passed on to pay a tribute to women of war period, and noted the fact that large numbers of women were present on these occasions. 'It is not,' said he, 'too much to say that the spirit of patriotism never dies in the heart of women, as a sentiment. People talk of the fires of liberty on the mountain tops - better burn them in the hearts of the people. I ask one thing of you who are parents and teachers and that is to grind into the very being of your children what the war for the union was fought for; that that monument stands because the men and women of 1861 were true to God, country and duty, and because they were faithful; that starry flag is tossed by the bright sun this afternoon.'

"When the Governor told of the elderly lady who left her home and came twenty miles to see the old flag of the Eighth Indiana, which was carried by her husband, and who died with it in his hands, and how they left her alone with that, there were very few dry eyes in the large audience.

"Captain W. R. Myers was on the programme, but wrote the Committee that he was advised by his physician and dentist not to attempt public speaking yet, and his place was filled by Irvin Robbins, a prominent Democratic soldier, of Indianapolis. Mr. Robbins had a very short notice that he was expected to speak but he gave a very fine address, showing what the Grand Army had done in securing the building of monument, erecting soldier's asylums and homies, and passage of pension laws. The order has kept alive the spirit of patriotism by its meetings and its camp fires, and he appealed to every soldier to join the order."

The Camp Fire

"The simple announcement that there would be a camp fire held in the evening kept a large part of the audience in town, as the camp fires are justly regarded as the cream of all soldier's reunions and meetings. The Committee was again disappointed by the failure of Judge James B. Black and Hon. Thomas Boyd, who were advertised to be present. Governor Chase, Commander Cheadle and Commander McGuire were prevailed upon to remain and make short speeches.

"The camp fire was opened by music by the band and prayer by Elder I. P. Watts; Governor Chase was introduced and after expressing his regrets at the absence of so many of the expected speakers, delivered a most pleasing address, pleading eloquently for a higher type of Americanism, and drew many lessons from the history of the war that were very mteresting. He was followed by Department Commander Cheadle, who like the Governor, was a private soldier, and spoke from that point. He gave a graphic history of the battle of Richmond, which his regiment was engaged in before they had drilled or was instructed in the manual of arms. His story of the young English boy who was killed in the battle and the death of a widowed mother, of a broken heart over that only son, was very affecting, and was only an instance of thousands of the tragic incidents growing out of the. war.

"N. J. McGuire followed in behalf of the Son's of Veterans in an eloquent speech, earnestly appealing to all sons of men who fought in the battles and won the victories of the great war to unite in perpetuating the glorious deeds of their fathers and preserving the government and principles for which they fought.

"Chairman Marsh then announced that he had noticed a boy on the streets that was wearing a bronze button and wanted him to 'explain how he came by it, and called upon J. L. Lafollette to rise and explain. Mr. L. responded and began by saying he was not surprised that Marsh didn't know he was in the army, as he went in the army so late and came out so early that one of his best and most intimate friends and fellow-townsmen. Col. J. W. Headington, didn't know that he had been in the army at all, until he applied for admission to the G. A. R. He made an eloquent speech, telling how the farmers of Jay county used to hitch up to their wagons and bring their soldiers to Winchester, that then being their nearest railroad station, to the trains, on their way to the seat of war. For that reason the people of his county felt a warm interest in the grand monument unveiled today, and more than three hundred of them were present to witness the unveiling, despite the busy time with the farmers.