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USA > Indiana > Wells County > Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana : Containing portraits of all the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with accompanying biographies of each : a condensed history of the state of Indiana : portraits and biographies of some of the prominent men of the state : engravings of prominent citizens in Adams and Wells counties, with personal histories of many of the leading families, and a concise history of the counties and their cities and villages, pt. 2 > Part 7
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The following little incident was eharaeter- istie of pioneer times: During the presiden- tial campaign of 1856, when the Republican party was running their first candidate, John C. Fremont, for President, against James Bu- ehanan, William A. Garver, Democratie ean- didate for Congressman from this district, came into Bluffton afoot, dusty, shabby and weary, on his electioneering tour. John P. Greer, a resident lawyer, conelnded to meet him in a publie debate and " flax him out," which appeared to be as easy as " rolling off a log." Garver accepted the challenge, and
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the event proved that he was an invincible " singe-cat," far too strong for Greer. The occasion was an exciting one. Every citizen, being interested in the attack on the unpre sentable, dust-begrimed denizen of the Indi- ana forests, turned out to see what they thoughit would be a very unequal contest; and " unequal," indeed, it turned out to be, but, to the astonishment of all, the heaviest weight was on the other side.
In the report for 1874 we have James P. HIale indicated as " Temperance-Democrat- Republican." This eurious feature may be accounted for by the temperance "ernsade," headed by Newton Burwell and others. In the sketch of Mr. Burwell, elsewhere, will be found a brief account of his movement. [See also "Temperance," under head " Miscel- laneous".] The temperance people, who con- elnded it was time to be doing something, and something that was effeetual, undertook that year to reform each party " within it- self" ; and as the Democrats were in so great majority . that a nomination by them was equivalent to an election, the "ernsaders " undertook to reform their ticket for that year. Mr. Ilale, who was first placed on the tieket for county surveyor, joined the temperance movement, and thus lost his place on that tieket, the Democrats nominating Mr. Rhodes in his place; then the Republican and temperance people fused, uniting on Mr. Ilale, with the result as there given.
Very few independent candidates have run for office in Wells County, as party nomina- tions came into vogue throughout the North- ern States previous to the settlement and organization of this eounty, and have been the system ever since. The county being largely Democratic, and the members of that party being famous for pulling well together, very few of them have felt at liberty to set themselves up as independent candidates, and,
of course, no member of any other party would have any object in becoming an inde- pendent candidate. In those districts where the Republicans have a heavy majority, there are generally many independent candidates.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
1837. - Solomon Johnson, James Scott, Robert C. Bennett.
1838-'39-'40 .- Solomon Johnson, James Scott, John Higgins.
1841 .- William Prillaman, James Wright, Amos Townsend.
1842 .- William Prillaman, James Wright, Thomas T. Smith.
1843-'44 .- James Wright, Samnel Decker, Levi Young.
1845 .- James Wright, Levi Young, Will- iam Studabaker.
1846-'47 .- Levi Young, William Studa- baker, Nathaniel Batson.
1848. - William Studabaker, Nathaniel Batson, Henry Miller.
1849 .- William Stndabaker, Henry Miller, James Bell.
1850 .- Henry Miller, James Bell, John A. Deam.
1851 .- James Bell, John A. Deam, James Fulton.
1852 .- John A. Deam, James Fulton, James Dailey.
1853 .- James Fulton, William Kirkwood, James Dailey.
1854 .- William Kirkwood, William Stud- abaker, John Ogden.
1855 .- William Studabaker, John Ogden, James Bell.
1856-'57 .-- John Ogden, James Bell, Ga- briel II. King.
1858-'59 .- John Ogden, Samuel B. Arnold, William Linn.
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1860 .- Samnel B. Arnold, William Linn, Leonard S. Walker.
1861 .- William Linn, Leonard S. Walker, Joseph Meredith.
1862 .- Leonard S. Walker, Joseph Mere- dith, Jolin W. Davenport.
1863-'64 .- Leonard S. Walker, John W. Davenport, Alexander Lee.
1865. - Leonard S. Walker, Alexander Lee, Bowen IIale.
1866 .- Alexander Lee, Bowen Hale, Jacob Farling.
1867 .- Bowen Hale, Jacob Farling, Ben- jamin Lowry.
1868-'69 .- Jacob Farling, Benjamin Low- ry, Lewis Prillaman.
1870 .- Lewis Prillaman, William W. Smith, Burket M. Elkins.
1871 .- Burket M. Elkins, M. C. Blue, I. J. Covanlt.
1872 .- Bnrket M. Elkins, Emanuel Pope- joy, Leonard S. Walker.
1873 .- Leonard S. Walker, William Kirk- wood, Emannel Popejoy.
1874 .- Leonard S. Walker, William Kirk- wood, Peter Studabaker.
1875 .- William Kirkwood, Peter Studa- baker, Samuel L. Riddile.
1876-'77 .- Peter Studabaker, Samuel L. Riddile, J. D. Goodin.
1878 .- Peter Studabaker, J. D. Goodin, John Sowards.
1879 .- Peter Studabaker, John Sowards, Sylvester Lonnsbury.
1880-'81. - Peter Stndabaker, Sylvester Lonnsbury, Ephraim M. Middangh.
1882-'83 .- Peter Studabaker, Ephraim M. Middaugh, George L. Warner.
1884 .-- George L. Warner, William II. Rupright, Isaae Fishbaugh.
1885-'86 .- William HI. Rupright, Isaac Fishbaugh, William Carner.
NOTE .- The new board held their first session in
December of each of the years above mentioned. Hence the last mentioned above are in office until December, 1887.
AUDITORS.
Bowen IIale, 1837-'41; Lewis S. Grove, 1841-'50; James Dailey, 1850-'59; John McFadden, 1859-63 ; Theodore Horton, 1863-'67; Samnel M. Dailey, 1867-'71; Michael C. Blue, 1871-'75; George E. Gar- diner, 1875-'79; Elmore Y. Sturgis, 1879- '83; Naaman T. Miller, 1883.
TREASURERS.
Adnah IIall, 1837-'48; Henry Courtney, 1848-'50; William Il. Deam, 1850-'55; John Wandle, 1855-'59; Peter Studabaker, 1859-'62; Elijah A. IIorton, 1862-64; Jacob V. Geary, 1864-'66; William H. Deam, 1866-'70; John Ogden, 1870-'74; Lemuel Bachelor, 1874-'78; Lawson Popejoy, 1878- '82; James P. Deam, 1882-'86; Jolm E. Sturgis, 1886.
CLERKS.
Bowen Hale, 1837-'55; George MeDowell, 1855-'59; Thomas L. Wisner, 1859-'67; James R. MeCleery, 1867; William J. Craig, 1875-'83; J. II. Ormsby, 1883.
RECORDERS.
Bowen Hale, 1837,-'51; Wilson M. Bul- ger, 1851-'59; Samnel M. Dailey, 1859-'63; Wilson M. Bulger, 1863-'71; James R. Ben - nett, 1871; David E. Bulger, 1879; E. B. MeDowell, 1882-'87; John G. Banıngard- ner, 1887.
SURVEYORS.
Jolın Casebeer, 1837; Sylvanns Church, --; Samnel G. Upton, 1853; George P. Mann, 1853-'57; Elijah A. IIorton, 1857- '62; James A. Gavin, 1862-'67; Michael C. Blue, 1867-'71; Finley HI. Rhodes, 1871- '73; James P. IIale, 1873-'77; John E. Beil
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1877-'83; T. W. Barton, 1883-'87; Gabriel T. Markley, 1887.
SHERIFFS.
David Bennett, 1837; Isane Covert, 1837- '41; Lewis Linn, 1841-'43; Isaae Covert, 1843-'45; Lewis Linn, 1845-'47; Isaae Co- vert, 1847-'49; Amza White, 1849-'53; Michael Miller, 1853-'57; Evan II. Phillips, 1857-'59; Michael Miller, 1859-'61; Na- thaniel De Haven, 1861-'65; Manuel Chal- fant, 1865-'67; Isaiah J. Covault, 1867-'69; Manuel Chalfant, 1869-'71; Isaiah J. Co- vault, 1871-'73; William W. Wisell, 1873; James B. Plessinger, 1877-'81; M. M. Jns- tus, 1881-'85; Ilenry Kirkwood, 1885-
JUDGES OF PROBATE.
Thomas Wallace, W. 11. Parmalee, Nun MeIntyre and Bowen Ilale. These served in the order named, from the organization of the county until about 1851, when, under the new State Constitution, the probate busi- ness was merged into the cirenit court.
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.
Besides the many old settlers noticed in a previous chapter, many will query what has become of the old-time candidates for office. We therefore append some items in answer to their inquiry.
Amza White, elected sheriff in 1848, died many years ago. His widow and children are still living in Bluffton.
Joshna R. Randall, candidate for Repre- sentative in 1848, lives six miles northeast of Bluffton, on a farm.
James Bell, county commissioner 1849- '51, is station agent at Keystone.
James L. Warden, prosecuting attorney in 1851, afterward eireuit and supreme judge, was an able and honorable jurist. He died at Fort Wayne, when he was judge of the Superior Court of Allen County.
Thomas L. Wisner, who has been in office much of his life, is still living, in Bluff- ton.
Ellison Covert resides at Ossian.
Nun MeIntyre and Joseph A. Williams are not living.
Joseph Gorrell is still living, at Ossian. James Fulton died a few years ago.
John Ogden is still alive, in Bluffton.
William A. Deam lost a great deal of property here, but is now doing well in Wichita, Kansas.
William Kirkwood, father of the present sheriff, lives south of Bluffton ten or twelve mniles.
George P. Mann, surveyor, died many years ago.
George T. Riddile: see medical chapter.
John Wandle, Sylvanns Church and Sam- nel Deeker have been dead many years.
Lewis Prillaman moved to his farm three miles above Bluffton, where he now re- sides.
Wilson M. Bulger, David Peppard, Nelson Kellogg and Michael Miller are living in Bluffton, retired from the activities of a business life.
David Truesdale lives five miles north of Bluffton.
James Dailey, father of IIon. Joseph S. Dailey, is still living, northeast of Bluffton.
Samuel B. Arnold, of Jackson Township, and George MeDowell, are deceased.
Henry Prillaman died many years ago.
Evan II. Phillips, R. C. Bennett, Jr., Herod S. True, Elijah A. Horton and Malilon Elwell are all deceased.
Gabriel II. King is living at La Gro.
Henry Thoma is a furniture dealer in Bluffton.
James Burwell: see chapter on the Bar.
John R. Coffroth is a prominent lawyer in Lafayette, Indiana.
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&OT only want of space, but also a distaste for repeti- 2 tions, fulsome flattery and cheap praise for the patriotism of the Wells County soldiery, for- bids us to indulge in such glittering generalities here, and we proceed at once to facts and figures.
The first wave of sound from the tumbling walls of Fert Sumter reverberated from the solid wall of the yeomanry of Wells County, bearing upon its crest the following sixteen patriots, the first to enlist from the county, without waiting for hortatory speeches, bounties, or what else might first turn up: W. W. Angel, Saml. M. Karns, Dwight Klinck, Saml. D. Silver, Philip W. Silver, Jacob V. Kenagy, John T. Cartwright, James A. Starbuck, George M. Burwell, Andrew J. Barlow, Thomas J. Barlow, James A. Bounds, Jolin C. Campbell, Isaac II. Lefever, Robert J. Rogers, Isaac P. Wilmington.
Uriah Todd, a resident of the county, enlisted from Ohio at the same time.
There being no railroad in the county, the above named patriots, recruited by the first on the list, went in large wagons to Fort Wayne the next day after Sumter was bom- barded, and took the ears for Indianapolis, the place of rendezvous. They were placed in the Twefth Regiment.
At this point the imagination is impatient to cast aside and repress the external noise and rush of material things, and hover, charmed, over the motherly significance of every little convenience and comfort furnished the son of war as he goes forth to distant lands, with the chances against his ever returning alive. And when in the terrible battle-field or in the tedious, lonesome, mala- rious camp, he receives from home a bottle of preserves or a package of kniek-knaeks, done up in elean napkins as only feminine hands ean do them, ean he fix his mind, even for one moment, upon the real significance of these things, which is indeed more spiritual than material, withont shedding a tear? And the longer the mind dwells upon it the longer
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it wishes to dwell, until it collapses into a vacuity of thought from sheer exhaustion. Let him feel these things who can; others cannot be made to feel them with ever so much rhetoric. This secret of life-and-welfare preservation, perceived only by trne mothers, is too sacred even for poetry, or for words in any form.
The Glass school district, two miles west of Ossian, comprising twenty-one families, sent fifty soldiers to the last war! Can any community in the Union beat that? Volun- teering was very prompt throughout Wells County; and the two drafts that were made argues nothing against the patriotism of the people, for many good citizens maintain, with a fair show of reason, that all our soldiery should be raised by draft.
October 6, 1862, there were drafted from Jackson Township, 18; Chester, 19; Liberty, 2; Rock Creek, 6; Union, 17; Nottingham, 28, and Ilarrison, 19; total 109. From Jefferson and Laneaster Townships none were drafted. A second draft, for eleven men, took place in 1864. There was no open resistance to the draft, or to any other execu- tion of military law, during the war; but we are informed that there existed in this conn- ty a society of Knights of the Golden Cirele.
The bounty paid by the county for volun- teers during the war footed up $100,000; by the townships, 826,650; total, $126,650. Total paid by the county for the relief of soldiers' families, $1,424; by the townships, $10,000; total, 811,424. Grand total of moneys raised and paid out, $138,074.
In order to give some outline of the career of the Wells County soldiery in the battle- field, we subjoin a brief sketch of the engage- ments in which their respective regiments participated.
Some of the regiments- the Forty-seventh and Eighty-ninth Infantry and the Eleventh 36
and Thirteenth Cavalry -in which Wells Connty was represented, are sketehed in the history of Adams County in this work, and we here give an account of the other prinei- pal ones.
TWELFTH REGIMENT.
For the one year service this regiment was organized from the surplus of companies that had reached Indianapolis in answer to the eall for six regiments of three months troops, and was accepted for State service for one year, May 11, 1861, with John M. Wallace as Colonel, succeeded by William H. Link. A few Wells County men were in this regi- ment, and did duty in General Banks' Army of the Shenandoah. In May, 1862, after the expiration of their term, they were reorgan- ized for the long term of three years, with Colonel Link continuing in command. They fonght in Kentucky and followed Sherman in his grand mareh to the sea, and were mus- tered ont June 8, 1865, only 270 strong.
TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
This was organized at Madison July 15, 1861, for a three years' campaign, with Jef- ferson C. Davis (then a Captain in the regu- lar army) as Colonel. It started ont in Missouri, under General Fremont, to relieve Colonel Mulligan at Lexington; but before reaching him he had surrendered. It was then ordered through Southern Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and was with Sherman in the march to the sea, and back through the Carolinas to Washington, and thenee home.
THE THIRTIETH REGIMENT
was organized at Fort Wayne, and mustered into service September 24, 1861, with Sion S. Bass as Colonel, succeeded, after his death at Paducah, Kentucky, from a severe wound, by Joseph B. Dodge. This regiment tought through Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and
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Texas, in which last State it remained on duty long after the war closed, having suffered severely in privations and in losses of men.
THE THIRTY-FOURTH REGIMENT
was organized at Anderson September 16, 1861, with Asbury Steele as Colonel. Re- maining in camp at Jeffersonville until November 15, and then at New Haven, Ken- tneky, for a month longer, it embarked on transports on the Ohio River below Louis- ville, with General Nelson's Division, and arriving at Cairo it was detached, and arrived at New Madrid, Missouri, March 3. There it was engaged in the siege until the place was evacuated March 14. The next morn- ing, at Merriweather's Landing, fourteen miles below, it repelled an attack by the enemy. With a battery of two thirty-two- pounder siege guns it ent off the rebel retreat from Island No. 10, and this was the means of the subsequent capture of the whole garri- son. Returning to New Madrid April 7, it remained there as a garrison until June 14, during which time it assisted in the capture of Fort Pillow. Thenee it was taken by boat down the Mississippi River and up the White to Aberdeen, Arkansas, near which place it soon had a successful skirmish with the enemy. Remained at Helena, Arkansas, until the next spring, making frequent expeditions against the enemy, the most important of which was a sneeessful two weeks' operation in clearing Yazoo Pass.
During the spring of 1863 it was engaged in constructing bridges near Vieksburg. May 1 it had a snecessful skirmish with the enemy at Port Gibson, capturing two field pieces and forty-nine prisoners, but lost forty-nine killed and wounded. On the 16th it participated in the battle of Champion Ilills, where it captured a regiment, but lost seventy-nine men killed and wounded. Among the latter
was Lientenant-Colonel Swain, from Wells County, who died from his, wounds on the 17th of the next month. The regiment par- ticipated in the siege of Vicksburg until its surrender, then in the siege of Jackson, Mis- sissippi; next in Louisiana under General Banks; then in Texas and back to New Or- leans, and then home on a veteran furlongh.
Returning to Texas, it fought the last bat- tle of the war, May 12 and 13, 1865, at Pal- metto Ranelie, adjoining the old battle-field of Palo Alto, near the mouth of the Rio Grande. With a battery of six field pieces, 250 of the regiment drove 500 of the enemy, mounted, a distance of three miles in three hours. The Colonel, David Bransom, having received news of the surrender of Kirby Sinith, the last one of the rebels holding ont in the older States, gave the order to cease firing, with a peculiar, joyful fervency that is difficult to describe. But the firing could not eease, as our men were obliged to defend themselves for the moment, irrespective of defense of their conn- try; for the enemy by this time got their gun in position and poured a destructive fire into the ranks of our men, compelling the main body to fall back. The Colonel ordered Companies B and E to remain toward the front as skirmishers to cover the retreat. These companies were soon surrounded and forced to surrender. The loss to the Thirty- fourth was eighty-two, in killed, wounded and prisoners. This scene was witnessed by hundreds of men perched in the rigging of eighty men of war and other shipping, as the hazy sun quietly settled down in a fading glamor behind the sandy hills on the west- ern bank of the Rio Grande. It would be interesting to know what member of the Thirty-fourth Indiana-possibly a Wells County man- fired the last gun of the great- est war that ever drenched the earth in blood!
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After this the regiment was ordered to va- rious places in Texas, and finally, long after the war elosed, was innstered ont.
The officers in this regiment from Wells County were Major John L. Wilson, Lien- tenant-Colonel William Swaim, Major ITar- rison L. Deam, Captains William Wilming- ton and John Phipps, and Lieutenants George HIarter and Andrew C. Fulton.
SEVENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.
The companies composing this regiment of infantry were raised in the Eleventh Con- gressional Distriet, the camp of rendezvous being at Wabash. They were mustered into service August 19, 1862, with John U. Pettit as Colonel, and comprised 1,036 men. Ad- vaneing to meet General Bragg's forces, it was ordered back; but soon afterward it gave chase to Morgan, the raider. Without eross- ing the Ohio River to the north, it was or- dered to Murfreesboro. At this time it was a part of the " Indiana Brigade," which com- prised also the Eighty-seventh, and the One Hundred and Thirty-First regiments. In June following the Seventy-fifth started toward Tullahoma, and was the first to enter the rebel works there. September 19 and 20 following, in the battle of Chickamauga, it lost seventeen killed and 107 wounded.
Remaining at Chattanooga some months, it next engaged in the noted battle at Mis- sionary Ridge, November 25, losing five killed and seventeen wounded. The next summer it was engaged in the siege of At- lanta, until its evacuation, and the ensuing winter marched with Sherman to the sea, and through the Carolinas and Virginia to Wash- ington, where it was inustered ont of service.
Many men from Wells County were in this regiment, among them Captain Sandford R. Karns and Lientenant James A. Starbnek.
THE EIGHTS-EIGHTH INDIANA INFANTRY,
in which nearly a full company of Wells County volunteers were organized, was main- ly recruited from the Fourth Congressional Distriet, rendezvousing at Fort Wayne. Mustered into service August 29, 1862, with George Humphrey as Colonel, it was soon or- dered to the front near Louisville, Kentucky, to resist the approach of Kirby Smith. Next, under General Rousseau's command, it pur- sued General Bragg, engaging in the battle of Perryville, with considerable loss of numbers in killed and wounded. Subse- quently it participated in the battle of Stone River, December, 1862, and January, 1863; remained in eamp near Murfreesboro till June 24; engaged in severe skirmishes at Tullahoma, Hillsboro and Elk River; in the battle of Dug Gap, Georgia, repulsing the rebel General l'olk; battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and all the battles lead- ing to the occupation of Atlanta, and on the grand mareh to the sea under Sherman, and so on with the main army on its return to the North, and was mustered out at Wash- ington, June 7, 1865. This regiment did an immense amount of fighting and marching, spending very little time in eamp.
THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST
Regiment of Indiana Infantry took more of Wells County's sons than did any other, and it was made up wholly from the Eleventh Congressional District. In it were Major Peter Studabaker, Dr. C. T. Melsheimer as Assistant Surgeon, Captain Andrew J. Bar- low, Captain George Lindsey, Lientenant William Miller, Lieutenant Simon Krewsen and others. The members of the One Hun- dred and First rendezvoused at Wabash in August, 1862, and were mustered into ser- vice September 7, with William Garver, of Noblesville, as Colonel. Their first duty in
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the field was the defense of Covington, Ken- tucky, against the threatened attack by Kirby Smith. Next the regiment went in search of Bragg's forees, marching about to many a point, and then in pursuit of John Morgan for a week, in mind and rain, and was nnsuc- cessful. Then it visited various points in Tennessee, engaging in skirmishes and other duties, with camp and headquarters at Mur- freesboro. In March, 1863, our men (in the Second Brigade) were skirmishing around and beating up hidden rebels, and, happen- ing upon Morgan with 3,700 men, repulsed him, with considerable loss. The One IIun- dred and First lost forty-three killed and wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Doan, of Marion, was in command.
On the 27th of April the regiment moved with its division to MeMinnville, captured seventy prisoners, some stores, and destroyed the railroad in that vicinity. May 31 Colo- nel Garver resigned and Lieutenant-Colonel Doan assumed command. On the 24th of June the whole army made a forward move- ment, engaged in a successful contest at Hoover's Gap, and marched from place to place, and, after marehing all one night, ar- rived at the field of Chickamauga on the morning of September 19. Here the One Hundred and First participated in one of the bloodiest encounters of the war, and, with others, was repulsed with fearful loss, namely thirteen killed, eighty-five wounded and six- teen missing.
After another skirmish or two, the One Hundred and First took part in the storming of Missionary Ridge, and then, in battles and skirmishes too numerous to mention here, it fought its way along, with the rest of Sherman's army, all the way to Savannah, and back through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington, making as brilliant a record for bravery and fidelity ns any regiment in
the army. Mustered out at Louisville, Ken- tucky, after having marched, during its terin of service, 3,507 miles, traveled by railroad 759 miles, and by steamer 650 miles, a total of 4,916 miles.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH.
A respectable representation of Wells Con- ty's patriotic citizens risked their lives for their country in this regiment, among the officers being Captains William II. Covert and James A. Millikin and Lieutenant John S. Campbell. The regiment was recruited wholly from the old Eleventh Congressional District, then comprising the counties of Wells, Adams, Jay, Blackford, Grant, Hun- tington, Wabash, Tipton, Madison and Ham- ilton during the winter of 1863-'64, rendez- voused at Kokomo, and mustered into service March 12, 1864, with Charles S. Parrish, of Wabash, as Colonel. The men were imme- diately ordered to Nashville, Tennessee, and then to Charleston, East Tennessee, where they were in camp until May 3, when they took up the line of march until they first met the enemy at Rocky Face Ridge, away down in Georgia. After participating in the battle there, they were again engaged in va- rious skirmishes, terminating in the eele- brated battle of Resaca, where they successfully repelled a furious charge from the enemy. Pursuing the Confederates still further, skirmishing was the order of exer- cises every day, in rain, without rations, etc., until they again met the enemy, June 17, at Lost Mountain. Subsequently they were en- gaged in the battles of Pine Mountain, Kene- saw Mountain, the siege of Atlanta, battle of Jonesboro, etc., until the army extinguished Ilood's forces near Nashville.
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