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GREENE COUNTY COURT HOUSE.
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
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GREENE COUNTY, IND.
WITH REMINISCENCES OF PIONEER DAYS
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PREFACE.
All life and achievement is evolution ; present wis- dom comes from past experience, and present commercial prosperity has come only from past exertion and suffer- ing. The deeds and motives of the men that have gone before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and a privilege. It required great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the pres- ent conditions of the residents of Greene county, Indiana, with what they were one hundred years ago. From a trackless wilderness it has come to be a center of pros- perity and civilization, with millions of wealth, systems of intersecting railways, grand educational institutions, marvelous industries and immense agricultural produc- tions. Can any thinking person be insensible to the fasci- nation of the study which discloses the incentives, hopes, aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so strongly laid the foundation upon which has been reared the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpetuate the story of these people and to trace and record the so- cial, political and industrial progress of the community
from its first inception is the function of the local his- torian. A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of preservation, and which unite the present to the past, is the motive for the present publication. The work has been in the hands of able writers, who have, after much patient study and research, produced here the most complete biographical memoirs of Greene county, Indiana, ever offered to the public. A specially valuable and interesting department is that one devoted to sketches of representative citizens of this county whose records deserve perpetuation because of their worth, effort and accomplishment. The publishers desire to extend their thanks to these gentlemen, who have so faithfully labored to this end. Thanks are also due to the citizens of Greene county, Indiana, for the uniform kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking and for their many services rendered in the gaining of necessary information.
In placing the "Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Indiana," before the citizens, the publishers can conscientiously claim that they have carried out the plan as outlined in the prospectus. Every biographical sketch in the work has been submitted to the party interested for correction, and therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is solely due to the person for whom the sketch was prepared. Confident that our efforts to please will fully meet the approbation of the public, we are,
Respectfully,
THE PUBLISHERS.
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INDEX.
Abbott, John
88
A Burial Vault
139
Adams, Curtis W. 315
Ad Quod Damnum 174
Alderson, Thomas 774
733
Allen, John D.
1199
Anderson, James
1198
Anderson, Andrew
133
An Unprovoked Murder
815
An Earlier Race
142
Arrangement of the Mounds
141
A Short Ceremony
69
A Wedding Without a Honeymoon.
Axe, William
840
Axe, Thomas J.
396
Bach, Benjamin
624
Ballard, Thomas F.
843
Ballard, Mrs. Catharine
662
Ballard, John J.
528
Banking Institutions of Linton
273
Barnett, Clarence C.
817
Barratry-First Case
200
Bays, A. J.
446
Beasley, A. M.
1104
Beasley, Joseph E.
946
Beasley, Alex.
998
Bench and Bar
227
Benjamin, Elmer S.
939
Bennett, Marion
599
Bennett, William C.
358
Berns, John
680
Berns, E.
1181
Bingham, Frederick
105
Black Creek Mill Dam
180
Bland, Hon. Oscar E.
975
Bland, William H.
678
Bloomfield State Bank
278
Blevins, James
89
Bough, Captain William
1190
Anthony, Geo. R.
129
A Pre-Historic Murder
70
878
Baker, Henry
1184
Ballard, W. P.
993
Bedwell, James A.
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Bovenschen, William 1010
Boyd, W. D. .
757
Bradford, D. A. 643
Bradford, Thomas
253
Bredeweg, H. G.
1038
Brewer, Joseph I.
1036
Bristle Ridge School House.
154
Brookshire, George W.
367
Brown, Isaac
414
Buck, Rev. J. W.
1051
Bull, James E. .
496
Bunger, Alfred R.
968
Burdsall, Asa
584 90
Burnett, Joshua
820
Bucher, Jacob
539
Buskirk, R. M.
834
Byers, Joel
441
Callahan, John
475
Calvert, John O.
400
Cavins, Col. E. H. C.
448
Cavins, Col. Aden G.
1260
Caris Land Suits
219
Caswell, E. K.
128
Chambers, B. F., M. D ..
90
Chemical Constituents of the Idol.
145
Clenny, William
747
Citizens State Bank, Bloomfield.
279
Coffins in Early Times
84
Copper Implements
93
Cook, P. M., M. D.
1288
Coleman, William
1060
Corbley, Richard J.
398
Combs, John D ..
490
Combs, Charles E.
907
Conway, William
93
Cornelius, W. F.
1174
Cotton Was King
266
Court Proceedings
215
Commercial State Bank, Worthington. .
788
Courts of Greene County, by E. H. C. Cavins.
161
Cranial Measurements 143
Cravens, William R., M. D. 1016
Cravens, James M.
516
Cravens, Samuel Coleman
384
Cravens, Elmer R., M. D.
656
Callahan, R. D.
745
Cavins, Samuel R.
1238
Carrell, Benjamin
933
Cession Treaties
917
Chaney, Francis
92
Cisney, John W.
146
Conway, William
1087
Brewer, Mary E.
1005
Brooks, Alfred L.
716
Brock, David
Burcham, James
1128
INDEX.
Crane, Rev. James Daniel
327
Craig, William A.
608
Cromwell, Fred R.
870
Crites, John
766
Curtis, Joshua B.
1066
Cullison, Kinsey
1138
Darnell, Rev. William N.
828
Danely, William T.
883
Danielson, Christian
914
Davis, William S.
206
Death of President Lincoln.
212
Deckard, James A.
772
Deckard, W. H.
1276
Dempsey, S. D.
797
Dickinson, David M.
811
Dillard, Prof. V. E.
929
Dixson, S. P.
1032
Dixon, N. G.
247
Dobbins, John T.
502
Downing, Michael
110
Downing, Andrew
114
Doney, Harvey L.
331
Duke, Richard M.
390
Dugger, T. H.
792
Dugger, Francis M.
632
Early Marriages
69
Early Settlers
247
Easton, George B. M.
931
Edington, M. G.
1131
Edington, Capt. Elijah
645
Edington, William W.
1272
Edwards, Francis L. 355
Ellis, Stephen 984
473
Emery, Chas. A.
388
English, J. D.
904
Eminent Legal Practitioners
176
Eveleigh, Robert E.
533
Evans, Rev. Alex. R.
1014
Famous Slander Suit
167
Faucett, Mason
1266
Faucett, Levi J.
752
Faulk, David S.
894
Ferguson, Lovell R. 462
Fellows, Col. Levi 416
Financial Institutions of Bloomfield. 278
First National Bank of Linton 276
First Indictment for Murder 166
First Case of Barratry 200
First Court in Bloomfield
168
Fifty-ninth Regiment
29
First Common Pleas Court
196
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Davidson, John
1262
Cullen, Joseph
668
1249
Death of Joshua Holding.
1080
Dixon Families in Greene County
Emery, Nathaniel
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First White Visitors
131
First Log Cabins
251
Fields, Otis G.
606
Fields, Daniel H. 988
Filbert, J. B.
672
Fitzpatrick, Oscar
960
Fields, Arl
460
Flory, Rev. Henry
558
Fourteenth Indiana Regiment
19
Forty-third Indiana Regiment
27
Founder of Greene county.
253
Forbes, L. S.
1176
Foster, Samuel
1264
Franklin, John T.
676
Freeman, Job
336
Fry, Philbert
813
Gageby, Frank A.
1170
Gainey, Wm. W.
505
Gastineau, John N.
943
Gastineau, Henry
1172
Getting an Education Under Difficultles.
153
Gheen, John H.
564
Good Old Times 55
1067
Good, Wm. H.
1093
Goad, Clemen Q.
350
Gordon, William
526
Gillett, Lucian
1006
Gilliland, James H.
551
Gilliland, John C.
554
Gray, John W., M. D.
492
Gray, Simeon, M. D.
781
Gray, Dr. George B.
876
Graham, John W.
313
Greene County Sixty-nine Years Ago, by Henry Baker
40
Greene County Towns
236
Green, Joseph W.
790
Greene, A. E.
1218
Hains, Samuel
478
Haig, William M.
318
Hall, Lewis R.
901
Hale, Jacob A.
860
Hamilton, William J.
1143
Hamilton, John
457
Hanna, Levi
572
Harting Brothers
941
Hart, Homer O.
823
Harrah, John M., M. D.
936
Harrah, P. J.
1279
Harvey, Sipple
95
Hassler, Henry
604
Hassler, Frederick 470
Hastings, Willard J.
1112
Haseman, Prof. J. H.
1203
Hattabangh, Andrew J.
411
Hatfield, Jeremiah
404
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Hatfield, Jeremiah
638
Hatfield, Joel
629
Hays, Samuel F.
1257
Hays, Wilbur A. 659
Haxton, H. D. . 1254
Haxton, Emery F.
890
Heaton, James W. 424
Henderson, Hon. Chas. E. 706
Hendren, Gilbert H.
1048
Hendren, G. H., Jr ..
955
Henninger, Rev. George S.
809
Heitman, William, Jr.
1095
Heim, Chas. F.
1023
Herrington, William L.
885
Herzog, Frederick S.
651
Hindman, Alva E.
472
Himebrook, Frederick W.
`862
Hill, Johnson
1091
Hill, Henry C.
744
Hixon, W. H.
1116
Hixson, Clinton D.
1178
Holmes, Helmer
566
Howe, C. C.
1187
Holscher, Benjamin F.
980
Howard, Thomas H.
324
Hurt, Joseph S.
1285
Hudson, James M.
333
Hunt, H. D.
944
Humphreys, Hon. Andrew
690
Humphreys, James M.
1108
Humphreys, James H.
699
Humphreys, Guy H.
1252
Hunter, William
1135
Hunting Incidents
150
Huffman, Henry
95
Hyde, Loren A.
1226
Ingersoll, Theodore
723
Indian Occupancy, by Col. E. H. C. Cavins
126
Indian Conspiracies
135
Industrial Development of Greene County.
295
Iron Ores of Greene County
280
Irwin, R. P. 1110
Jackson, Samuel R.
847
James, James S.
560
Jean, Charles W.
856
Jessup, C. F.
739
Jewell, Henry T.
769
Johnson, R. T.
986
Johnson, William
596
Keys, Robert R., D. D. S.
1082
Kelly, Albert B.
725
Kirk, Chas. C.
927
Kramer, Angust
995
Lang, Francis
96
Langton, James J.
880
Langton, B. F.
882
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Lamb, John T. 344
Laughlin, Seth
622
Lawrence, Joseph 103
Laymon, Jacob
588
Leavitt, Joseph D. 487
Lehman, Wm.
1210
Leonard, Joseph
1044
Letsinger, Lewis E.
1222
Lester, Peter S.
555
Life In the Woods
261
Linton Coal
298
Linton Trust Co.
275
Linton Bottling Works
941
Lowe, Arthur
653
Lowder, H. R., M. D.
418
Lowry, John M.
1154
Mason, William
107
Mason, Henry
109
Mathias, H. Julian
444
Mansfield, W. H.
518
Marshall, Alfred F.
798
Maddock, W. B.
464
Maddox, Clyde O. .
695
Martin, Prof. L. H.
845
Maxwell, Samuel A.
1085
McDowell, J. M.
898
McDermont, Francis
952
McKee, Robert T.
1158
McIntosh, Hon. D. W.
1056
McIntosh, William J.
512
Mcintosh, Hon. J. P.
865
Meant Business
71
Methods of Practice
198
Members of the Greene County Bar.
225
Military History, by Col. E. H. C. Cavins.
17
Missionary Work Among the Indians
129
Miller, D. N.
381
Miller, Edward E.
785
Miller, Madison
849
Milam, John I.
1244
Milam, A. L.
803
Miller, William H.
731
Mitten, Benjamin B.
760
Moss, Hon. William G.
1064
Moss, Hon. Joseph
307
Moss, Claude S.
1275
Moss, William M.
544
Moss, Clyde S.
1271
Morgan, C. O. 696
Morgan, H. C.
965
Morgan, J. B.
1000
Morgan, John L. 1235
Murder of William Walker
191
Murder of Phoebe Graves. 182
Murder of James Rainwater.
204
Murder of Jacob Sicker
217
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INDEX.
Murray, William A. 837
Mullis, Andrew C. 394
Myers, Josiah D. 776
Myers, George F. 618 Myers, Andrew J. 1022
Nash, William O.
801
Neal, Henry T.
1192
Neal, Elmer E.
368
Neidigh, Daniel
568
Newsom, John W.
1309
New Court House 172
35
Nickerson, Hoyt H. 548
Norvell, Horace V. 499
98
Ockerman, Joseph R.
375
Official Record Greene County.
229
Olgus, William
1164
Olgus, Charles
1208
Oliphant, Capt. Joseph T.
824
Oliphant, J. L.
438
Old Log School Houses of Sixty Years Ago
153
Old Methods of Farming.
264
One Coat Answered for Both
72
One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment 38
Other Terms of Court 175
Other Interesting Events 272
Other Practitioners 187
Osbon, Guy G. 806
Osburn. Nicholas W.
509
Owen, Thomas C.
480
Owen, Henry C. 442
Ore Deposits
289
Padgett, Thomas I. 1114
1041
Parker, F. M.
421
Person, James H. 1220
Phillips, I. N. 963
.242
Pioneer Mail Carriers
82
Pioneer Physicians
258
Pioneers' Liquor
80
Pearce, Harvey O. 1216
143
Porter, George C., M. D. 720
Porter, W. A. 615
Poe, John A. 1119
169
Price, Levi M.
1312
Price, Charles A.
948
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Ray, Mrs. Anna B.
1212
Ramsey, Franklin 1232
Ritter, William Drayton 736
Ritter, Moses 1046
Riddle, Hon. John A. 1147
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Price, Ivil
1200
Parks, W. L.
Pioneer Reminiscences
Pottery, Japanese Vases, Images, Etc.
Ninety-seventh Regiment
Oakley, Fielding
INDEX.
Reminiscences 194
Revolutionary Pensions 171
Revolutioners 88
Riley, Hon. Camden C.
972
Richeson, Oris B. 378
Risher, John W.
1025
Rose, Bishop Asbury, M. D.
352
Roach, James T.
1230
Roach, David C.
541
Roberts, C. H.
1133
Routt, William '1303
Roth, William G. 670
586
Ryan, Thomas M.
536
Sargent, William G.
427
Scalp Dance
149
Scott, Joseph P.
430
Second Indiana Regiment in Mexico.
. 18
Secrest, Thomas F.
853
Second Term of Court 163
640
Sessions of Court After War
214
Seventy-first Regiment of Sixth Cavalry
32
Sharples, Thomas
612
Sharp, George H.
1012
Sharp, . David
406
Shaw, Charles G.
1072
Shepherd, Willlam G.
392
Sherwood Family
1292
Sherwood, Elmer T., M. D.
576
Sherwood, Clinton T. 728
1019
Sherwood, E. H.
959
Sherwood, James B.
1151
Shelburn, James
687
Shields, Thomas J.
991
Slinkard, Nathan V.
1241
Slinkard, William L.
888
Slinkard, Cyrus L.
1206
Slinkard, John F.
1318
Smith, Robert
620
Smallpox In the Early Days.
79
Some Early History
256
Smith, John B.
1077
Spelbring, Frank
977
Sparks, George M.
373
Speeker, John I.
719
SquIre, E. B.
1267
Squire, David O.
1039
Stafford, John F.
1124
Stafford, Berlin
1089
Stalcup, F
872
Stalcup, Willlam T.
574
Stockrahm, Peter 997
Stewart, Granville D. 592
Stewart, Davld W.
590
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Sherwood, Will H.
INDEX.
Stewart, John 523
Strietelmeier, William 1008
Steelman, Henry 982
Stephenson, Major M. C. 664
Stephenson, William L. 684
Strauser, Joseph A. 363
Storm, John 99
Sugar Making Time
77
Swango, Abraham
613
Sweat-houses 148
Talbott, J. E. 1096
Taylor, George D.
751
Taylor, John S.
1165
Templeton, John A.
1321
Templeton, William W.
910
Terhune, D. J.
592
Terhune, David D.
1074
Terry, W. A.
891
The Rousseaus
178
The Log Chain Case.
201
The Mast Case
203
The Bennett-Patterson Slander Suit. 210
220
The New Court House.
172
The Delawares
127
The Indians
146
The Indian Chief and the Whiskey
271
The Master's Window
155
Thomas, Alva R.
455
Thomas, Marion A.
1102
Thirty-first Regiment
24
Third Term of Court
165
Tinstman, W. C.
899
Treaties
128
Turvey, Hiram
1168
Turner, Joseph E.
704
Twenty-first Regiment, First Heavy Artillery.
22
Vails, Joseph M.
682
Van Slyke, Peter C., Sr.
122
Vest, James M.
364
Watts, Henry D.
648
Waggoner, Sllas P.
597
Warinner, Rev. John C.
1140
Warner, W. H.
1079
Warner, L. W. :
1062
Warren, George W.
630
Watson, Elsworth
602
Warnick, Thomas
118
Welsman, Jesse F.
950
Weems, Robert F.
778
Wells, George W.
1069
Wetnight, David
793
Wheeler, Peter
1126
Wier, James F.
409
Wiginton, Henry
570
Wilson, A. F.
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869
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The Hardin Murder Case.
INDEX.
Wild Game
268
Wilson, Frank
741
Wilkerson, William
109
Wilkie, Israel
484
Williams, Henry
920
Wingler, Joseph
1100
Winters, B. F.
925
Wolford, Hon. J. W.
320
Wolford, Edwin L. ..
433
Wolford, William F.
1162
Wolf, Henry A.
832
Workman, John B.
1122
Worthington Mounds
138
Woman's Rights
179
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MILITARY HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA.
BY COLONEL E. H. C. CAVINS.
From the earliest settlement of Greene county, there was a marked military spirit exhibited by the settlers, for an unusually large number of old soldiers settled in the county. The Revolutionary soldiers, remembered by some of our oldest residents, were Colonel John Stakely, who served on Washington's staff, Zion Brewer, Wil- liam Wilkerson, John Storms, Adam Rainbolt, Joseph Lawrence, Isaac Hamlin, James Blevins, Joshua Burnett, John Shroyer, Henry Huffman, Abel Westfall, Cornelius Westfall, Willis Fellows, William Sulser, Jefferson Dover, Daniel Woodsworth, Peter Ingersol, David Rust, John Abbott, John Chaney, William Conway, Fielding Oakley, Michael Downing, John P. Phillips, William Clenny, Francis Lang, Solomon Wilkerson, Sipple Har- vey, Robert Ellis, Solomon Carpenter, William G. Bry- ant, Abraham May, David Sobie, and a Mr. Branham.
The old soldiers of the Indian wars and the War of 1812 were Elijah Skinner, Ben Skinner, Adam Stropes, Frederick Bingham, Daniel Dulin, William S. Cole, John Cavins, Samuel R. Cavins, Jesse Cravens, George Abbott,
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Thomas Osborn, Major George R. Sarver, Alumbee Ab- bott, J. C. Andrews, Cornelius Bogard, Cornelius Van Slyke, and probably many others.
For fifteen years after the organization of the county militia musters were fairly well attended, but after that the interest gradually relaxed, until the musters were en- tirely abandoned.
The first colonel was Levi Fellows, suceeded by Thomas Warnick, and the last was Samuel R. Cavins, who was commissioned by Governor Noble on the 2d day of March, 1836, to hold the office until he was sixty years old.
The names of the other militia officers are not well preserved in tradition, and the writer does not know of any record of them. Among the majors were J. W. Wines and John R. Dixson. Among the captains were D. M. Ingersol, John Burch, William Richey, Josiah Buskirk, Charles Shelton, James G. B. Patterson, Joseph Storm, Leonard Nicholson, Ruel Learned and Norman W. Pierce. Some of our old residents can remember the white plume, tipped with red, that decorated the hat of the militia officer.
SECOND INDIANA REGIMENT IN MEXICO.
On the 8th day of June, 1846, a company from Greene county was accepted by the governor, and on the
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twenty-second day of June was mustered into the service as Company E, Second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Lovell H. Rousseau was captain, Adam Stropes, an old soldier who was wounded at the battle of Horse Shoe, was first lieutenant, and David Erwin was second lieutenant.
The regiment was engaged in the battle of Buena Vista on February 23, 1847, and Company E lost in that engagement three killed and seven wounded.
Captain Rousseau became a famous major-general in the war of the Rebellion, and later was a member of congress from the Louisville district in Kentucky, and still later was a brigadier general in the regular army.
FOURTEENTH INDIANA REGIMENT.
On the call of President Lincoln for seventy-five thousand volunteers, a company was organized in Greene county and E. H. C. Cavins was elected captain. The company was not accepted at that time, for the reason that the call was filled. On the first call for three hundred thousand the company was accepted, and assigned as Company D, in the Fourteenth Regiment of Indiana Vol- unteer Infantry, Colonel Nathan Kimball commanding the regiment.
The regiment had been organized originally for one year, and Company D of the one year's service refused
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to enlist for, three years, and the company took its place in the regiment and reported for duty at Terre Haute, May 7, 1861, and E. H. C. Cavins was commissioned captain. The regiment was mustered into the three years' service on June 7, 1861, being the first regiment mustered into the three years' service in Indiana. This made Captain Cavins the junior captain in the regiment, but on the expiration of its term of service he was colonel of the regiment, which was armed with smooth-bore mus- kets altered from flint lock to percussion lock, except that five Enfield rifles were issued to each company. The regiment afterwards armed itself with Enfield or Spring- field rifles from the battlefields on which it was engaged, completing its arming at Antietam.
On the 5th of July, 1861, the regiment left Indian- apolis for western Virginia, and was in active campaign there until June 30, 1862, when it embarked at Alexan- dria, Virginia, and joined the Army of the Potomac on the second day of July at Harrison's Landing, and was assigned to the Second Corps. From that time, during the term of its service, it shared the fortunes, honors, dangers and hardships of the Second army corps. The engagements in which it participated where any of the regiment were killed, or mortally wounded, were Cheat Mountain, Greenbrier, Kernstown, Harrison's Landing, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, Mine Run, Morton's Ford, Wilderness,
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. Spottsylvania, Totopotomy, and Cold Harbor. The regi- ment was in fifty-nine other engagements, and detach- ments from the regiment were in six other engagements, and veterans and recruits were in eleven other engage- ments.
The losse's of the regiment were one hundred and fifty-five killed or mortally wounded, four hundred and thirty-seven wounded, seventy-two died of disease, two hundred and seventy-two discharged on account of disease, one hundred and thirty-six discharged by general orders, and forty-nine discharged on account of wounds.
The percentage of killed, excluding non-combatants, resignations, discharges on account of disease and general orders and desertions, was over twenty-five per cent., and excluding the same, more wounds were received in battle than there were soldiers in the regiment. This does not include killed and wounded, after the veterans and re- cruits were transferred to the Twentieth Regiment.
In Company D there were forty recruits, five of whom were killed and eighteen wounded before the re- cruits were transferred to the Twentieth Indiana Regi- ment.
This heavy loss among the recruits was probably caused by so many of them going into the Wilderness campaign, just after their enlistment, and before they learned to protect themselves. The last battle was Cold Harbor, after which the veterans and recruits were trans-
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ferred to the Twentieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and participated in all the battles in which Hancock's famous corps was engaged, the last engagement being at Appomattox.
The regiment is classed as one of Fox's fighting regi- ments.
TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT, FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY.
Late in May, 1861, E. E. Rose, a veteran of the Mexican war, began to raise a company, of which he became captain. William Bough, another veteran of the Mexican war, who was wounded at the battle of Buena Vista, was first lieutenant, and Spencer L. Bryan was sec- ond lieutenant. The company was assigned as Company C, Twenty-first Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and the regiment was mustered into service on the 24th day of July, 1861, for three years, with James W. Mc- Millen as colonel.
The following week it was ordered East, reaching Baltimore on the 3d of August, where it remained until February 19, 1862, during which time it participated in General Lockwood's expedition to the eastern shore of Virginia.
The regiment sailed from Baltimore to Newport News, from which place it embarked on the 4th day
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of March, 1862, and sailed with Butler's expedition. On the 15th day of April it left Ship Island and was at the mouth of the Southwest Pass during the bombard- ment of Forts St. Phillip and Jackson.
On the 29th day of April a part of the regi- ment landed in the rear of St. Phillip and waded across to the Quarantine, while the others went through Pass L'Outre up the Mississippi to New Orleans. This part of the regiment was the first of Butler's army to touch the New Orleans wharf on the Ist of May, and immedi- ately marched up into the city, the regimental band play- ing "Picayune Butler's Coming, Coming."
The regiment went into camp at Algiers, where it remained until the 13th of May, making frequent forages into the interior. It captured many steamers on Red River and the sea-going blockade runner Fox on the gulf coast.
On the Ist of June it was landed at Baton Rouge, where it remained until the post was evacuated. On the 5th of August it participated in the battle of Baton Rouge, fighting for over three and a half hours against an entire brigade without faltering, and sustaining a loss of one hundred and twenty-six killed and wounded.
On the 8th of September it surprised Waller's Texas Rangers at Des Allemands, killing twelve and cap- turing thirty-five persons. In October the regiment was sent to Berwich Bay, where it remained until the later part of February, 1863.
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During its stay here portions of the regiment were temporarily transferred to gunboats, and participated in almost daily engagements with the iron clad "Cotton," and took part in the engagement at Cornet's Bridge and the destruction of the "Cotton."
In February, 1863, the regiment was changed from an infantry regiment to heavy artillery, and was desig- nated as the First Heavy Artillery.
It took part in the engagements at Camp Bisland, Port Hudson, Sabin Pass, Red River expedition and the reduction of Forts Morgan and Gaines, and Spanish Fort, and the capture of Mobile. Captain Rose resigned on the 8th of December, 1863, after which time Cap- tain William Bough had command of Company C until the close of the war.
THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT.
Company F, Thirty-first Regiment, Indiana Volun- teer Infantry, was organized in September, 1861, with William B. Squire captain, John T. Smith, first lieuten- ant, and William Thompson, second lieutenant. The regiment was mustered into service September 15, 1861, with Charles Cruft as colonel. Later Lieutenant John T. Smith became colonel.
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