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The next important move of the Second was that in pursuit of Forrest to Jackson in July, 1863. In the winter of 1863-4 the regiment re-en- listed as veterans, and after a farlongh returned to Memphis, from whence it again joined in the pursuit of Forrest and in the operations against Hood in Tennessee. During the fall it had several severe engagements, and was constantly on the scout. Its officers were mentioned with high praise by commanders, for the conduct of the regiment during the campaign. It did not go with the march to Macon, Georgia. It was mustered out at Selma, Alabama, Sept. 19, 1865.
MISCELLANEOUS REGIMENTS.
COMPANY D.
James McMerdo, Sixth Corporal, enlisted August 2, 1861, promoted Fifth Corporal, Sixth Sergeant October 15, 1862, Second Lieu- tenant February 2, 1864, wounded at West Point, Mo., February 25, 1864, veteranized March 1, 1864.
Barker, Johnson, Eighth Corporal, enlisted Angust 2, 1861, promoted Seventlı Corporal, Second Cor- poral, Sergeant, veteranized March 1,1864.
Stephen B. Stark, Bugler, enlisted Angust 2, 1861, promoted from private.
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Thomos T. Andrews, Bugler, enlisted August 1, 1861, veteranized March 1, 1864.
PRIVATES.
Baxter, William, enlisted August 2, 1861, died at Rienzi, Miss., July 19, 1862.
Cartright, Thomas, enlisted August 2, 1861, veteranized March 1, 1864.
Hall, James, elisted August 1, 7861. Edmonson, David, enlisted June 1, 1864.
Perkins, Zadoc, Company D, en- listed - , re-enlisted as veteran, March 1, 1864.
Irion, Silas B, Co. I, Fourth Cav- alry, discharged November 5, 1862; for disability.
Hampton, John, Co. B, Second Cavalry, enlisted January 27, 1865.
Crosthwait, Harry W., Third Cav- alry, enlisted December 12, 1863, Co. A.
Moore, John W., Third Cavalry, en- listed December 23, 1863, Co. A.
Randolph, John W., Third Cavalry,
enlisted December 23, 1864, Co. A.
Bishop, Aaron, Second Cavalry, en- listed June 6, 1864, company un- known.
Shore, Hopewell, Second Cavalry, enlisted February 2, 1864, com- pany unknown.
Williams, Parkerson, Co. D, Third Cavalry, enlisted Feb. 15, 1864. Stradley, Samuel A., Co. H, Fourth Veteran Cavalry, enlisted Decem- ber 11, 1863.
Aldrich, William H., Co. I, Third Cavalry, enlisted February 15, 1864.
Biddle, Perry L, Co. I, Third Cav- alry, enlisted February 13, 1864. Brice, Wm. C., Co. I, Third Cav- alry, enlisted December 12, 1863. Bane, Robert, Co. I, Third Cavalry, enlisted February 22, 1864. Dillon, Francis M., First Battery, enlisted December 23, 1863.
Turpin, Asa, Second Battery, en- listed October 24, 1862. Scott. John D, Second Battery, en- listed December 1, 1862.
Davis, Milton R., Second Battery, enlisted October 2, 1862.
RECAPITULATION.
The patriotism and loyalty of Warren county is evidenced by the hearty and liberal response made to the demand for men to fill the ranks of the army. She was represented in twenty regimental organizations, and fur- nished nine hundred and sixty-six men, or largely in excess of her quota. The number of commissioned officers was as follows:
One Brevet Brigadier General; one Colonel; three Lieutenant-Colonels; two Majors; two Sergeant Majors; four Surgeons; three Adjutants; three Quarter Masters; fourteen Captains; twenty-one First Lieutenants; twenty- three Second Lieutenants.
George W. Clark, Brevet Brigadier General, promoted from Colonel Thirty-Fourth Infantry.
Paris P. Henderson, Colonel Tenth Infantry.
P. Gad Bryan, Lieutenant-Colonel First Cavalry.
John M. Cochrane, Major Tenth Infantry. John Kern, Major Thirty-Fourth Infantry. William M. Bryant, Adintant Thirty-Fourth Infantry. James M. Bryan, Battalion Adjutant First Cavalry.
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Henry S. Bowman, Adjutant Tenth Infantry.
Lewis Todhunter, Quarter Master Forty-Eighth Infantry.
Charles W. Davis, Surgeon Thirty-Fourth Infantry. David B. Allen, Surgeon Thirtieth Infantry.
Victor H. Coffman, Assistant Surgeon Thirty-Fourth Infantry. Hezekiah Fisk, Assistant Surgeon Fifteenth Infantry.
Victor H. Coffman, Sergeant-Major Thirty-Fourth Battalion.
Hubbard C, Henderson, Sergeant-Major Forty-Eighth Infantry. Joseph T. Meek, Quarter-Master Sergeant, Thirty-Fourth Infantry. Wesley M. White, Quarter-Master Sergeant Forty-Eighth Infanty.
Ephriam G. Sandy, Quarter-Master Sergeant Thirty-Fourth and Thirty- Eighth Infantry consolidated.
John W. Brown, Commissary Sergeant Third Infantry.
James Talbott, Commissary Sergeant, Forty-Eighth Infantry.
John M. Folger, Hospital Steward, Thirty-Fourth and Thirty-Eighth Infantry consolidated.
Adam L. Ogg, Captain Co. A, Third Infantry.
John M. Cochrane, Captain Co. G, Tenth Infantry.
M. C. Randleman, Captain Co. B, Tenth Infantry.
E. J. Kuhn, Captain Co. G, Tenth Infantry.
William P. Guthrie, Captain Co. B, Thirty-Fourth Infantry.
Daniel H. Lyons, Captain Co. C, Thirty-Fourth Infantry.
James H. Knox, Captain Co. D, Thirty-Fourth Infantry.
John Kern, Captain Co. H, Thirty- Fonrth Infantry.
James S. Clark, Captain Co. C, Thirty-Fourth Infantry.
James A. Dungan, Captain Co. B, Thirty-Fourth Infantry.
Ebenezer Herring, Captain Co. H, Thirty-Fourth Infantry. John M. Lee, Captain Co. D, Thirty-Fourth Infantry.
Robert Longshore, Captain Co. A, Forty-Eighth Infantry.
George M. Walker, Captain Co. D, First Cavalry.
George W. Clarke, First Lientenant Co. G, Third Infantry.
Philo G. C. Merrill, First Lieuten- ant Co. G, Third Infantry.
Samnel Irwin, First Lieutenant Co. G, Third Infantry.
Isaac Sexton, First Lientenant Co. B, Tenth Infantry.
Jolin M. Cochrane, First Lieutenant Co. G. Tenth Infantry.
James H .. Millen, First Lieutenant Co. G, Tenth Infantry.
E. J. Kuhn, First Lieutenant, Co. G, Tentlı Infantry.
Hezekiah Fiske, First Lieutenant Co. G, Fifteenth Infantry.
Daniel Embree, First Lientenant Co. G, Fifteenth Infantry. William Michael, First Lieutenant, Co. G, Eighteenth Infantry. John S. C. Wasson, First Lieutenant, Co. B, Thirty-fourth Infantry.
Cyrus F. Boyd, First Lieutenant, Co. B, Thirty-fourth Infantry.
Hubbard C. Henderson, First Lieu- tenant, Co. C, Thirty-fourth Infan- try.
Elias Perry, First Lieutenant. Co. C, Thirty-fourth Infantry.
Thomas L. Dilley, First Lieutenant Co. D, Thirty-fonrth Infantry. Ebenezer Hcrring, First Lientenant Co. H, Thirty-fonrth Infantry.
Robert E. Martin, First Lieutenant Co. A, Thirty-fourth and Thirty- eighth consolidated.
John McAndrew, First Lientenant Co. E, Thirty-fourth and Thirty- eighth consolidated.
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Alexander H. Paiseley, First Lieu- tenant Co. G, Fortieth Infantry.
Ashel Ward, First Lieutenant Co. A, Forty-eighth Infantry. Philo G. C. Merrill, Second Lieuten- ant Co. G, Third Infantry.
Charles L. Anderson, Second Lieu- tenant Co. G, Third Infantry.
Oren Adkins, Second Lieutenant Co. B, Tenth Infantry.
W. N. Cooper, Second Lientenant Co. B, Tenth Infantry.
Robert Longshore, Second Lieuten- ant Co. G, Tenth Infantry.
John M. Cochrane, Second Lienten- ant Co. G, Tenth Infantry.
J. S. Smith, Second Lieutenant Co. G, Tenth Infantry.
Hezekiah Fiske, Second Lieutenant Co. G, Fifteenth Infantry.
Daniel Embree, Second Lieutenant Co. G, Fifteenth Infantry. James S. Clark, Second Lientenant Co. C, Thirty-fourth Infantry.
John M. Lee, Second Lieutenant Co. D, Thirty-fourth Infantry.
Augustus B. Swift, Second Lieuten- ant Co. D, Thirty-fourth Infantry. Thomas L. Dilley, Second Lieuten- ant Co. D, Thirty-fourth Infantry. James A. Dungan, Second Lieuten- ant Co. G, Thirty-fourth Infantry. Thomas G. Milligan, Second Lieu- tenant Co. H, Thirty-fourth Infan- try.
John McAndrew, Second Lieutenant Co. H, Thirty-fourth Infantry.
Clinton J. Comins, Second Lienten- ant Co. I, Thirty-fourth Infantry. Moses F. Clark, Second Lientenant Co. A, Thirty-fourth and Thirty- eighth consolidated.
Archibald R. Henry, Second Lien- tenant Co. E, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth consolidated.
S. B. Lindsay, Second Lientenant Co. A, Forty-eighth Infantry.
William B. Ramsey, Second Lieu- tenant Co. D, First Cavalry.
John C. Hammon, Second Lieuten- ant Co. D, First Cavalry.
DECORATION DAY-1878.
Warren county has never had a formal soldiers' re-union, but has kept green the memories of " the times that tried men's souls," by faithfully decorating the graves of the dead who gave their lives for the canse.
That of 1878 was, perhaps, the most notable of these events. The India- nola Tribune, of the following week, we find the following faithful ac- connt of the ceremonies of that occasion, which we reproduce as follows:
In his address last Thursday, the substance of which we publish below, Rev. Berry alluded to that quotation from Shakspeare, which says that the good which men do is interred with their bones while the evil lives after them. Mr. Berry, with very good reason for doing so, discredited the truth of the first part of this oft quoted statement. That the good which men sometimes do lives after them needs no better argument than was for- nished last Thursday when nearly every citizen of Indianola and surround- ing country assembled for the purpose of honoring the soldiers who sacri- ficed their lives during the late war that our country might be preserved. Decoration day is, as Mr. Collings, the President of the day, expressed it, one in which all can forget political and other differences and become of one accord in strewing our soldiers' graves with flowers. Democrats and Republicans, Christians of all sects, men of various business connections, the old folks and the children-all vied with each other in the enobling ex- ercises of the day.
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THE MARCH TO THE CEMETERY.
The ladies had sent flowers in abundance to the court-house during the forenoon, and other ladies, there assembled, lost no time in arranging taste- ful and fragrant bouquets. Three basketsfull were sent to the cemetery in advance, and many were carried there by citizens. The procession formed at one o'clock, it being headed by the carriage containing the President of the day, Mr. George Collings, the speakers, Messrs. Carpenter and Berry, and the Chaplain, Rev. Silas Johnson. Following this carriage was a large wagon containing the ladies of the glee club, and the little girls who were to decorate the graves, carrying swords made of evergreens and flowers and flags. Next came soldiers, bearing arms, under command of J. W. Barnes, headed by the drum corps and followed by citizens on foot and in carriages. The procession was very long, extending several blocks. The venerable 'Squire Cozad was the standard bearer. Reaching the cemetery, president, speakers, chaplain, glee club, decorating committee and soldiers marched to the speaker's stand, passing near the gate, under an arch on which were the words, in evergreen letters, "Our Honored Dead." This arch was a subject for much admiratian.
REV. T. S. BERRY'S ADDRESS.
After music by the glee club and prayer by Rev. Johnson, Mr. Collings introduced Rev. T. S. Berry, of this city, who spoke substantially as fol- lows:
Mr. President and Fellow Citizens:
The great dramatist makes Mark Antony say over the dead body of Cæsar:
" The good that men does is interred with their bones, the evil lives after them."
Either he lived in a worse age than ours or once he was mistaken. Now at least, it is not true. Men seldom get justice while they live, seldom do they fail to get it when they are dead. There may be men here who were not in sympathy with our soldiers when they fought; none are here who do not feel the propriety of these services and cordially share in them.
I trust that we are gathered here with an intelligent appreciation of what we do. It will be wickedness if this annual service shall ever be- come a mere ceremony. It ought to be prefaced with a period of study, that it may be performed in suitable spirit, and bring proper results. We should come to these graves with no less-perhaps with more-emotion than we visit the graves of those we have buried out of our own families. These men were our neighbors, our friends, our brethren; but they bear a relation to us out of which a sense of gratitude should come, and an affec- tion not felt for even our deceased relatives. Late in the war, a poor man, with a large family, was drafted. Unable to buy a substitute, he was pre- paring to answer the inexorable call. A neighbor, without responsibilities, perceiving his distress, volunteered to go in his place. He fell, and was buried in a hospitable cemetery in Nashville. After the war a man was seen erecting a plain head-board by a grave in that cemetery, while he watered it with tears. Being asked the cause of his grief -- if a son or a brother had fallen-the poor man said, " he died for me, he died for me,"
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telling the story of his friendship. As properly may we come to these graves to-day, bringing our flowers and realizing that these inen died for us. They stood between ns and our homes and the danger and lost their lives that ours might not be lost. "There is no glory to a dead soldier," said Grant, when he abandoned the idea of capturing Vicksburg by assault and restored to siege. Yet when the grand review at Washington followed the collapse of the rebellion, five hundred thousand Union soldiers were not there to share in it. Their lives had purchased triumph for the rest. The national republican convention of 1864 pledged the nation that "the memories of those who had fallen in its defense shall be held in grateful and everlasting remembrance." We can do no more, and we are met to fulfill that pledge.
Fellow citizens, it becomes ns-it behooves us-as we stand by these graves, to remember why they fell. The answer to that question will teach us at once humility and vigilance. The war that made these graves was no burst of passion from the surface of society. It was a volcanic erup- tion, caused by interior and long struggling forces. Since the smoke of battle was lifted none fail to see that slavery was the cause, and honest thinking will show that the guilt of slavery was distributed through the whole nation. The constitution, framed in 1787, was in perfect dissonance with the declaration of 1776. That constitution recognizing the fact of slavery, providing for three-fifths representation for slaves-compelling the rendition of fugitive slaves and clearing the seas for the slave trade for twenty years-was indeed protested against by our section, but it received the indorsement of the delegates from all the States, and was afterward ap- proved by the several State conventions. Slavery blunted the conscience and corrupted the morals of the South, but the blunting and corruption were natural results of slavery and the whole country was guilty in fixing that evil upon them. The heavens rule, justice demanded expiation and our 500,000 fallen heroes were no more than our share of the sacrifice. The great president had conviction of this awful ill-desert when he said " if God wills that it [the war] continue until the wealth piled up by the bondsmen two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and antil every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn by the sword-still it must be said ' the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'" If our fathers had been valiant in dealing with this question when their consciences were right upon it, this giant which terrified the land might have been strangled in his cradle and their children saved from a baptism of blood.
The same God rules now. If injustice to American Indians, or Chinese or any other race or class shall cry to Him, He will exact of us in blood, payment to the last farthing.
It is not unnatural for us, standing by these graves, to feel indignation rise toward those who shed their blood. Against this feeling let us heroic- ally set ourselves! Cultivation of malice will simply cheat us of the pos- * session of which five hundred thousand lives were the purchase price-a union restored and maintained in heart as well as in territory. May our flowers, to-day be incense to God as well as tribute to our honored dead, and may the blood of a million victims cement the whole country into real and everlasting reunion.
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GOVERNOR CARPENTER'S ADDRESS.
The address of Mr. Berry was delivered without the aid of notes, and was listened to with the closest attention. He was followed, after music by the choir, by ex. Governor Carpenter, whose address we here give:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN :- The first inaugural address of Abraham Lin- coln closed in these solemn and pathetic words: " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Standing as this great brained and great hearted man then did, confront-' ing a treasonable confederacy of seceding states whose ambassadors were boldly seeking the recognition of their new government, whilst throughout all the South, men were training to the use of arms and the discipline of the camp, his anxiety to speak some magic words which would alloy the madness of disunionism aroused liis mind to a passion akin to the inspira- tion " which touched Israel's hallowed lips with fire." And yet in pres- ence of these tremendous issnes, with the burden of peace or war resting upon his soul, he could command no words more affective, nor appeal to any sentiment more inspiring to patriotism, then to recall the memories stretching from battle-fields and patriot graves to the hearts and hearth- stones of all the people. Seventeen years have come and gone since the American people listened with hushed breath to the solemn utterances of that address. The echo of the plaintive voice in which these words were uttered still lingers on the ear, notwithstanding since they were spoken, the tread of more than a million marching men has shaken the continent, whilst the roar of battle and groans of dying men have seemed to fill the very air of Heaven. And when this deadly strife had ended in the defeat of treason, the mystic chords of memory mere stretching from new and un- numbered battle-fields and from 800,000 additional patriot graves to hearts and hearth-stones all over this broad land. It is therefore appropriate and heart touching and ennobling for those who feel a desire to keep alive the memories and the patriotic influences and purposes of the war, while at the same time they pay a tribute to the memory of inen who made the last sae- rifice possible in support of a canse, to join in the beautiful ceremonial which brings us here to-day. But what can I say to add to the impressive- ness or to deepen the emotions of this occasion? These silent mounds, tenderly decorated by the hand of affection, speak more impressively than is possible to human utterance. Yet it may not be amiss, standing as we do to-day above these graves, for ns to consider briefly low we may best preserve the institutions for which these men laid down their lives. If these dead heroes could come back and direct the methods by which their memories should be perpetuated and their homes honored, they would tell us: "If you preserve the institutions which we died to save, if you enlarge and perfect them, and so keep and direct public sentiment that the com- rades who stood by our sides in the supreme hour, shall never, in the lan- guage of the great general who led ns, be called to apologize for the part they took in the war, it will more truly honor the dead, than any apotheosis of our names or than the erection of monuments to our memories." And,
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my fellow-citizens, nothing can more surely lift ns, the living, above our- selves, and teach us that life and its great purposes are not combined in the petty ambitions and vexations which so constantly engross our thoughts and employ our time, as coming back on each returning decoration day, to this cemetery, and laying our hearts upon these mounds and mingling our tears with the surviving friends of these dead lieroes.
It is well, too, for us, when standing in this solemn presence, a spot where all vindictiveness should be put under our feet, and when inspired by the calm and considerate judgment which comes of meeting face to face . amid scenes that forcibly remind us of the inevitable hour, to glance at the principles for which these men and their comrades fought, and at the re- sults of the victory they achieved. If any one who fell fighting in Con- federate ranks had found a grave in this beautiful cemetery, and some gen- erous and tender heart had sought out that grave and covered it with flowers as a tribute to a brave man, who, though fighting in a bad cause, fell like a soldier, the magnanimity which led to such generous considera- tion for a fallen foe would have the approval of brave men everywhere. But when we are told that the grave of the soldier who died that free gov- ernment might not perish from the earth, and that of him who died in the vain attempt to destroy free government, should both alike be tenderly decorated because the time has come for us to forget the difference between the two, my soul revolts at the suggestion. The cause for which these men fought was right, that of their enemies wrong, and neither lapse of time nor change of condition can ever alter this great fact of history. And he who, anywhere or in any presence, or for any purpose, flippantly says that where the North and South met in arms, Greek met Greek, and that the Union forces were victorious because they had the most Greeks, belittles the sacrifices of the most tremendous conflict of the century, upon the re- sult of which were suspended issues equal to those that led Him who rules upon the land and ocean to stretch forth His arın and part the waters of the sea that lay in the pathway of his chosen people. When the mother, the wife, the sister, bade the son and husband and brother the last good-bye, and encouraged them to go forth to do, and dare, and if needs be die, for the Union, they believed that the God who directed the footsteps of the pilgrim to Plymouth Rock, and to whom Washington prayed when his little army seemed upon the verge of ruin, was upon the side of battalions mustering to save the present government of the earth, and that his face would be turned against those fighting to establish an oligarchy as oppres- sive as the rule of the Pharoahs. When we cease to remember the distinc- tion between fighting bravely for a good cause, and fighting with equal bravery for a bad cause, we say to the world, that we have arrived at a period in our history when we believe in order to foster trade, to restore prostrate business, to build railways, to sell our merchandise, and to market our farm products, it is necessary to sell our convictions and that they are therefore sold. If our coming here one day in each year will but prevent us from surrendering our souls to sordid and mercenary principles, and keep us during the remaining three hundred and sixty-four days of the year from being dissatisfied, selfish, and complaining lives, the mystic chords of memory will not stretch from these patriotic graves to our hearts and hearth-stones in vain.
Again, walking the streets of this silent city, impressively reminds us of the sacrifices it has cost to preserve free government, and of the fact
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that new sacrifices may be required of ns. It perhaps is unnecessary that I should here and now dwell upon dangers which to-day threaten the peace. and safety of the great cities of the country. The tranquil homes which compose the agriculturalists of the great West do not start from their slumber at every strange midnight sound, and look from their windows with a shuddering fear of seeing beneath them a communistic mob bearing a torch in one hand and spoils in the other. We may congratulate our- selves that our lives are cast in places where the only reminder we have that this social element, which is old in Europe but new in America, has been transplanted to our shores, is in the occasional cringing tranip who begs a meal at onr doors. But it behooves ns to discard doctrines which may encourage socialistic tendencies on the farms and in the villages of the West. These great cities that throb and pulsate with commercial life are the exchanges and consumers of our surplus, and the public sentiment of all our town meetings, our common schools, our colleges, our churches and our firesides, must roll back upon their uneasy population such a de- mand for public order that the enemies of peace will shrink to their dens of shame and their haunts of crime. Let us be careful that we ourselves cultivate no doctrines and accept no dogmas whose logical deductions will themselves build up a Commune even upon the prairies. I. would not have capital given any advantage over labor, either in legislation or in public sentiment, nor would I permit corporate wealth by any special priv- ileges to override the rights and interests of the small capitalist and the toiler on the farm. On the other hand I would not stifle the ambition and enterprise of great accumulators, if it were possible by legislation to effectually hedge the way that leads to the wealth of the millionaire. He who would establish the precedent of attempting to control private ac- cumulations, or would seek to produce an equilibrium in ownership, by advocating the regulation of the hours of toil and the wages of the laborer, or would attempt the illusory scheme of leveling the capital of the conntry by watering the currency which becomes its wealth and forms the basis of its exchanges, may himself live to reap the logical consequences of his illogical theories.
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