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Twenty-eighth United States Colored-Dan Tucker, Charles Miller, Henry Jones, James Taylor.
Thirteenth Cavalry-One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment-John Colley, Elijah Ellis, Oscar H. Gregg, C. S. Gephart, B. F. Headlee, Peter Leaver, Samp- son Meiks, Adam S. Miller, James Muncey, Fred Newman, John Powell, Henry Pool, John Rankin, Levi Sagle, Peter Swinchart, Harrison Smith, H. J. Scott, Charles Smith, Jacob Weinacht, George Fromer, Wm. Iron, Richard MeNew, Ben Rathbone, Martin Bohannon, Wm. A. Saxon, Ira Hinchman, Jacob Warren, Robert Wooden; nnassigned, Benson Bear, John Carver, Henry Carver, John Fremont, Wm. Thacher.
Miscellaneous Volunteers-Perry Sisson, Lewis Green, Shade Childers, Joseph Ramsey, John H. Pike, John Grooles, Dr. G. M. Collins, Al. D. Hand, Sam Bo- heart, Ilugh L. English, Robert Flynn, M. M. Sears, Madison Grose, Dr. H. I. Bogart, Tim O'Keefe, S. C. Pegg, Isaac D. Waits, E. A. Corbin, David Richards, Wm. Roberts, A. J. F. Stewart, J. A. Stiers, F. M. Spaulding, John W. Study, Alex Johnson, John Stanley, Henry Wiggins, Orville Reason, John Hair, Henry Fowler, Lt. J. C. Rawdon, Leander Carlan, Milton Beard, Low Adams, Miron Beard, J. H. Brosius, JJ. A. Coleman, J. W. MeMath, Olinger Philip, Zach Pulliam, Henry Boekner, Ben Huddleson, Wm. R. Rogers, Henry Roelhman, Augustus Smith, John W. Shepherd, J. B. Sanders, M. L. Sisson, W. P. Smith, James Rob- erts, Thomas Dawson, W. H. Wood, J. W. Cooper, J. T. Wells, Byron Buell, Ervin Boheart, Henry Fowler, M. A. Pickering, Wm. Cracraft, Alex Abernathy, dohn L. Brown, Alex Offutt, Jas. J. Osborne, Adam Pettis, Wm. A. Pugh, Jas. H. Davis, W. O. Johnson, Sam Ridenbaugh, Basil Rhodes, C. G. Shaw, H. J. Stein, J. F. Sadler, Asa Sample.
THE SANITARY COMMISSION
The inadequacy of Goverment supplies at the out- break of the rebellion caused the solicitation of popular contributions, under the direction of the sanitary commis- sion, and in this movement Rush county took a leading part, as it has done at all times.
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When the state sanitary commission sent out its call to the citizens of Indiana, a Rush county branch was or- ganized with Rev. D. M. Stewart as its president. Com- mittees were appointed and a call was made in October, 1861, upon the people for surplus blankets, socks, gloves, mittens, etc., for the volunteers who were fighting the battles of the Union. The Rushville Sewing and Knit- ting Society was formed by many of the women of the town, a constitution was adopted, and each member agreed to devote one day of four hours each week to the cause. It is unfortunate from the viewpoint of local his- tory that there prevailed no adequate system of recording the actual contributions made during the war by the civil- ian population other than financial gifts. Certain it is, however, that those to whom fell the unromantic task of working quietly at home, nobly met the obligations placed upon them by Governor Morton and the sanitary com- mission. How many thousands of extra garments and comforts of various kinds were sent to the men at the front it is impossible to tell, yet it is known that no duty was shirked-no demand was too great. Toward the lat- ter part of April, 1864, it was reported that the Rush county branch had contributed $2,984.05 to the Indiana sanitary commission, and that Anderson township had won the "prize banner" for the largest contribution of all townships in the county per Union vote with $500. In the last year of the war the total undoubtedly was aug- mented by a considerable amount.
STATE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' ORPHANS' HOME
A permanent outgrowth of the admirable relief work done by the sanitary commission during the war was the eventual erection in this county of the magnificent Sol- diers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home in section 10, of Cen- ter township, two miles south of Knightstown. Soldiers' relief stations or "homes" were established for the tem- porary comfort of returning disabled soldiers and sailors
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of the Civil war, and on March 4, 1865, by direction of Governor Morton the legislature passed a bill assessing a tax of thirty cents on the $100 of property in the state, the proceeds to be applied to the relief of soldiers' fam- ilies. This tax in Rush county amounted to $10.148.48.
As the "Soldiers' Home and Rest" had grown out of temporary needs the time was nearing when thoughts of a home more permanent were agitated. On May 15. 1865, Governor Morton published an address to the people of the state, suggesting the outline and plan of action for this purpose. On May 25, he issued a circular letter to the clergy of the state, urging them to move their congre- gations to co-operate in the work. On the same day a meeting was held at Indianapolis, which selected Gover- nor Morton president of the board of directors : James M. Ray, treasurer: William Hannaman, secretary, and Rev. J. H. Lozier, financial agent. One director was chosen from each congressional district. The announcement of the formation of such a society was immediately followed by applications for admission from many disabled sol- (liers. The city council of Indianapolis gave the associa- tion the use of the city hospital buildings, and there on August 10, 1865, the home was opened, under the superin- tendence of Dr. M. M. Wishard. This was followed by Governor Morton's message to the legislature in extra session November, 1865, in which was shown the necessity of such permanent home. The people had been heavily burdened with the war and the appeal produced small results-only $4,994.55 being paid in, with $20,000 out- standing subscriptions. The government gave consent to use the military hospital at JJeffersonville, but the loca- tion and other objections made it undesirable and it was never used. The board of directors memorialized the legislature for an appropriation to purchase a tract of land where could be raised vegetables for use by the home.
Finally, from private donations, a tract of fifty-four acres was purchased for $8,500, known as the "Knights-
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town Springs," on which was one large building used as a hotel, and several small cottages, which afforded room for one hundred patients. On March 11, 1867, the legis- lature adopted the governor's suggestion and made the home of disabled soldiers a state institution, and oppro- priated $50,000 to erect buildings and for maintenance and appointed a board of trustees, consisting of Capt. H. B. Hill, of Carthage ; Charles S. Hubbard, of Knights- town, and William Hannaman, of Indianapolis. A sub- stantial brick building, three stories and an attic high, 153 feet long and 63 feet wide, was erected and dedicated with imposing ceremonies on June 15, 1867. The super- intendent's report for 1868, showed 400 admissions, 221 discharged, and as thirty-one had died there were 148 at the home. Under the legislative act creating the Indiana Soldiers' and Seamen's Home (then so called) admission thereto was granted to, totally disabled sol- diers and seamen, partially disabled soldiers and seamen, orphans of same, under fifteen years, without father or mother; orphans, under fifteen years, with mothers liv- ing, and widows of deceased soldiers and seamen. On the morning of December 25, 1871, fire destroyed that part of the institution occupied by the soldiers, and they were moved to the National Military Home at Dayton, Ohio. The orphans were left in full possession of the home until the legislature of 1879 provided for the care therein of feeble-minded children.' The two classes of inmates were maintained in the home until 1887, when the institution was reorganized as the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, and the feeble-minded children were removed to new quarters. The home has twice been destroyed by fire -September 8, 1877, and July 21, 1886-but in each case promptly rebuilt. Educational, religious and industrial training is given.
The law provides for the admission of children in the following order: (1) Orphan children of Union soldiers or sailors of the army or navy of the United States of the
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Civil war. the war with Spain, the war in the Philippine Islands, the war with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and their allies, or in the regular service of the United States; (2) children of such soldiers or sailors, whose mother is living: (3) children of permanently disabled or indigent soldiers or sailors of such service residing in this state or in any national military home having been admitted thereto from the state. Such children must be residents of Indiana, under sixteen years of age and destitute of the means of support and education. They may remain in the home until sixteen years of age unless sooner dis- charged for cause, and until eighteen years of age, if, in the judgment of the board of trustees. they are unable to earn a livelihood. Blank application papers may be ob- tained by addressing the superintendent. If transporta- tion is not otherwise provided. it can be obtained from the township trustee. It will be paid by the county if the child is a county ward. All the expense of maintaining the institution is borne by the state. The annual report on this institution carried in the current Indiana "Year Book" shows an enrollment of four hundred; received during the year ending September 30. 1919, 44; dis- charged, died or withdrawn during same period, 70; daily average attendance during same period, males 205, fe- males, 122: average member of officers, 10; teachers, lit- erary, 12 : industrial, 12 ; attendants. 13; domesties, labor- ers and other employes, 28; ordinary expenses, $119,- 579.27 : extraordinary expenses, new buildings and fur- nishings and permanent improvements, $11,447.76; re- ceipts and earnings, $210.68.
THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
The Grand Army of the Republic represents the spirit that preserved the Union at the time of the Civil war, and although it is now more than fifty years since the G. A. R. was organized, and although time has so thinned the ranks of the organization that there remains
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only a remnant of a once great military force, the hearts of the veterans are as true to the cause of democracy and their loyalty to the flag is as great as when they answered the call to duty more than half a century ago. The na- tional Grand Army of the Republic was organized at Decatur, Ill., April 6, 1866, by Dr. B. F. Stephanson, sur- geon of the Fourteenth Illinois infantry, and this post was followed rapidly by others all over the country. At Rushville, Joel Wolfe Post, No. 81, Grand Army of the Republic was organized on July 19, 1882, and was mus- tered in by Gen. James R. Carnahan, department com- mander. There were twenty charter members of the post, of whom the late Thomas A. Fritter was the last survivor. For many years after its organization, the local post was active in the affairs of Rush county, and the veterans, although few in numbers, still keep up their organization, participating in all the patriotic movements that their advancing years will permit. The charter roster follows : Post commander, Ulysses D. Cole; junior vice-com- mander, Wm. N. Stewart; chaplain, J. P. Orr; quarter- master, J. H. Spurrier; adjutant, John Fleehart; ser- geant, Geo. W. Wilson ; officer of the day, David S. Flee- hart; William Beale, Robert H. Bebout, Win. A. Cullen, Thos. A. Fritter, Wmn. F. Gordon, George Guire, John K. Gowdy, F. S. Jones, David Mason, Jas. H. Mauzy, Ben L. Smith, Dr. Wm. H. Smith, Edward Young.
There also are dwindling posts of the Grand Army of the Republic at Carthage and Milroy.
The Woman's Relief Corps was created by mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of Union veterans of the Civil war, for the purpose of aiding and assisting the Grand Army of the Republic to "perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead, extend needful aid to the widows and orphans, cherish and emulate the deeds of our army nurses and inculcate lessons of patriotism and love of country in the minds of children."
The Rushville auxiliary post, Joel Wolfe W. R. C.
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No. 68, was organized on August 27, 1887, with India Hackleman, president, and Siddie W. Cole, secretary. The organization began with twenty-two charter mem- bers, many of whom are now dead. On March 21, 1893, the W. R. C. Penny Social was organized, as a branch to assist in the making of comforts, quilts, carpets and cloth- ing and distributing them in such manner as not to have the recipients feel it a charity. In 1895, the order fur- nished a cottage at the State Soldiers' Home at Lafayette, Ind., with a complete complement of furniture, carpets. quilts and bed linen. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, near Knightstown (but in Rush county ) is always kindly and bountifully remembered on Christmas, as are also the needy and unfortunate, the sick and the aged at home, not only on that day, but on every day in the year. During the Spanish-American war and the World war, the organization was active in relief and Red Cross work. making many liberal donations to various causes.
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Thirty-three years after the close of the Civil war, the United States declared war on Spain. It is needless to enumerate the causes leading up to war except to say that the loss of 266 men of the battleship Maine in the har- bor of Havana on February 15, 1898, was the spark that fired the magazine of American indignation, and on April 26, 1898, war was officially declared. The President called for 125,000 men, and later, May 25, 1898, for 75,000 more.
The President's calls for volunteers met with instan- taneons response from the state of Indiana. The First, Second, Third and Fourth regiments, Indiana National. Gnard, were recruited to full strength and remmbered the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth and One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry reg- iments, to follow consecutively the numbers designating
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the regiments engaged in the Civil war. These four reg- iments were followed by the One Hundred and Sixty-first under the second call, and in addition to these five reg- iments, all of which were volunteer, there were two com- panies of colored troops, two batteries of artillery, and one company of engineers from the state. The One Hun- dred and Fifty-seventh, under Colonel Studebaker, was sent to Tampa to join General Shafter's expedition, but after being loaded and unloaded on transports, failed to get across to Cuba. The One Hundred and Fifty-eighth, under Colonel Smith, was sent to Chickamauga, where a scourge of typhoid fever decimated its ranks. The One Hundred and Fifty-ninth, under Colonel Barnett, was at Camp Meade until ordered home, and, together with the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh and One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiments, was mustered out at Indianapo- lis in November, 1898. The One Hundred and Sixtieth, under Colonel Gunder, was sent across to Mantanzas, Cuba, where they saw much hard service. The One Hun- dred and Sixty-first, under Colonel Durbin, was camped at the Indiana state fair grounds until August, 1898, when it was sent to Camp Cuba Libre, near Jacksonville, Fla., and was assigned to the Third brigade, Third division, Seventh army corps, under Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Thence it was sent to Camp Onward, near Savannah, Ga., and thence to Camp Columbia, near Havana, Cuba. Return- ing to Savannah on April 1, 1899, the regiment was there mustered out of the service on April 30, 1899. In Rush, as in every county in the state and in every community of the country, the sentiment was for war, and there was keen disappointment on the part of many men of military age in the county, who offered their services, but were refused because of quotas in their state being already filled. It was in the One Hundred and Sixty-first regi- ment that Company H of Rush county served under Cap- tain Gwinn and Lieutenants Joyce, Patton and Caldwell (deceased). The regiment lost seventy-two men by dis-
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ease, one of whom was a Company H man. Rush county furnished 102 privates for this company and thirty-four for service in the Philippines and for hospital service.
Few people comprehend the results of the Spanish- American war, because of its absence of slaughter, nor stop to reflect how near was the World war at that time. Germany's action at Manila and the attitude of the great powers was such that one unconsidered step might have started what came sixteen years later. The protocol was signed in August, 1898, and the treaty of peace in De- cember following.
Roster of Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment (Spanish American War)-Captain, James M. Gwinn; lieutenants, John F. Joyce, George H. Caldwell, Henry B. Patton; quartermaster sergeant, Joseph J. Caldwell; ser- geants, Charles E. Comstock, Charles E. Wolfe, Geston P. Hunt, Edgar Stiers; corporals, Jacob D. Felts, Wm. T. Mitchell, Leven E. Wallace, Riley Johnson, Fred Gross, Chas. A. Newbro, Wm. H. Robertson, John W. Innis, Harrison E. Wertz, Chas. F. Lindsay, Greely Perkins, Jesse F. Perkins; musicians, Edward Huffman, Basil Middleton; artificer, Jesse K. Jamison; wagoner, Charles W. Miller ; privates, Heber H. Allen, James F. Adams, Jesse W. Ailes, Fred Alexan- der, Ira Allenthorp, J. H. Armstrong, J. A. Armstrong, Frank C. Baylor, Arthur Baker, William H. Ball, Orville Bartlett, Fred Beale, R. G. Caldwell, Rue Cas- sady, A. B. Cauley, Thomas A. Dill, Il. W. Davis, Bert L. Devers, H. E. Emmons, Bert Fox, Fred C. Franeis, Clyde Gable, William E. Gardner, Ira E. Geiger, James Gilson, John Glass, Will Glisson, Fred Graves, Earl Greenlee, Jesse W. Guire, Harry Hall, C. E. Hambrock, Vern Harry, J. W. Hatfield, Clarence Hea- ton, O. R. Hilligoss, C. S. Hoffner, George Holder, C. F. Jester, Geo. B. Jones, R. H. Kenner, Win. Klingsworth, W. Lohrman, Harry C. Levi, Clint McCain, Michael P. McCoy, Fred MeCrory, Buford Marvin, C. M. Matthews, Clint M. Mil- ler, Thomas C. Moore, Fred Mootz, Irvin Morford, Will Myers, W. G. Newman, Frank Norris, James O'Day, C. W. Owsley, Ira H. Palmes, Ralph C. Parker, Chase Pearsey, Joe Phillips, G. A. Phummer, Edward Pollett, E. L. Ragan, H. V. Rucker, Jacob J. Runk, Henry Seibel, Robt. II. Shields, C. R. Smith, Lewis Smith, Wm. M. Stiers, L. M. Stratton, Charles Vest, Dudley Wells, Wm. T. Wha- Jen, H. E. Wilson, Monroe Young.
Philippine Service-The following Rush county men served in the Philippines : Forty-Fifth Volunteer Infantry, Company A-Voorhees Cavitt, "Harry Emmons, Richard O'Neil, *James O'Day, John Ernest, *Greely Perkins, Harry Riden- bangh, Will Mansfield, Thomas Fair, Carl Bnekner, Lon Sexton, *Edward Pollett, *Harry Levi, Fred Linton, Ambrose Culbertson, James W. Sweetman.
Attached to Other Companies and Regiments -* Lieutenant, George Caldwell; * Anthony Cauley, William Hendricks. Charles Hurst, E. M. Jones, *Geo. B. Jones, Stanley Kemp, *Charles Lindsey, *Harry Levi, Frank Moor, Commodore Moorlock, *Fred MeCrory, *Guy Neuman, *Jesse Perkins, Ed Perkins, *Jacob J. Runk. *Served in Company H, and later in the Philippines.
The following Rush county men served in the Hospital Corps: Charles J. Brooks and William Leming.
THE WORLD WAR
War had been raging with unprecedented intensity and barbarous cruelty for nearly three years, and the
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United States had suffered insults and criminal wrongs innumerable when, on April 6, 1917, Congress declared war on Germany. All Europe was ablaze, every nation of importance was an armed camp. Immediately after the declaration of war, this country forgot everything but how soonest to drive the Hun from bleeding France and Belgium. Soon millions of men were in camp. Thou- sands already were in the field, having joined the Cana- dian, English or French forces. Transportation was the great problem, for the ocean was alive with submarines and the seas scoured by German raiders. But this prob- lem, like all others, was solved, and two million soldiers under the Stars and Stripes were soon in Europe, and among them hundreds from Rush county. Only two units were organized in this county, but the miscellaneous en- listment was large. Company B, Fourth regiment, Indi- ana National Guard, under Capt. John H. Kiplinger and Lieutenants Blacklidge, Kreber and Gartin, with 132 enlisted men left on August 19, 1917, for Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Miss. Here, as everywhere, state troops lost their identity and became United States troops, so that tracing Rush county men is made most difficult. This company from Rush county, with few exceptions, reached France, many of them seeing hard fighting.
Roster of Company B-Captain, John H. Kiplinger; first lieutenant, Allan H. Blacklidge; second lieutenant, William A. Kreber; Aaron O. Adams, Garret J. Alford, Harold J. Alford, Anthony G. Amrheim, Corporal H. T. Armstrong, Cook Harry Barrett, Vannie Beard, Corporal Henry H. Ball, Howard Bankert, Milton F. Barnard, Walter G. Becraft, Roy Beeler, Paul Bennington, Harry L. Beaver, Ed. L. Black, Sergeant Wm. B. Brann, Sergeant Jesse O. Bridge, R. R. Bracken- ridge, Henry E. Brown, Lewis Brown, James E. Buchannon, Willard Buell, H. L. Burdoefer, Ralph W. Clark, Corporal Lawrence Cameron, Glen H. Calpha, Wm. L. Christopher, Thom. F. Christopher, Charles Clevenger, Wilbur H. Clevenger, Jesse M. Cline, Robert R. Conway, Corporal Lester Coons, John D. Colter, Charles J. Cortelyou, Floyd Cox, Jesse W. Cummins, Patrick J. Devaney, Carl R. Dudgeon, Clarence E. Dougoud, Corporal Glen F. Edwards, Corporal Cleo Ems- weller, Cook Walter D. English, Frank Farley, Sam H. Feeback, Lawrence A. Fisher, Harry R. Fritter, Ira A. Fultz, Leland C. Gardner, Sam Gardner, Edward E. Green, John W. Green, Glen Grosse, Gilbert P. Hamilton, Elmer E. Hendricks, Raymond F. Higgins, Charles Hokey, Hollis G. Holmes, Ernest Johnson, Lovel Keith, Herbert Kingery, Corporal Paul C. Koons, Earl M. Krause, Ray C. Land, Jesse M. Lanning, Robert G. Lanning, Irvin A. Lloyd, Sergeant Telles LaLonde, Herbert L. Maple, Paul B. Manning, John C. MeNally, Sergeant Fred MeCarty,
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Sergeant Mich. P. McCoy, Chester A Meal, Howard Miller, Raymond Miner, Roy Lee Montgomery, Donald Dean Moore, Frank W. Morgan, Frank Motts, Sergeant Geo. W. Myers, William C. Myers, Vergil Myers, JJulius Myers, Frank Nicholson, Herbert Nash, Oren E. P. Newland, Corporal Donald Newman, Sergeant Guy Newman, (Promoted to lieutenant ), Merrill M. Northam, Roy J. Oakley, Cor- poral Charley Pea, Corporal Ralph Pea, Corporal Howard Pea, Omer Pea, Donald E. Pease, Fred II. Perkins, Louis Perkins, Corporal Carl Peters, Henry Peters, William A. F. Peters, Charles R. Phenis, Charles R. Pindell, Leeher Allen Pope, Thomas V. Price, John W. Rawlins, Clifford T. Reese, Clarence E. Riley, Lytle Roberts, Willie L. Robeson, Erwin C. Rogers, George M. Ruble, Jesse Ruble, Cor- poral Hartford Sallee, Joseph Saunders, James L. Scott, Wallace S. Seott, Fred Smith, Edward A. Snider, Walter M. Snyder, Earl D, Spillman, Sergeant Philip B. Stapp, Raymond E. Stiers, George W. Stites, Carl Switzer, Elmer E. Taylor, Jess J. Taylor, Jacob W. Theobold, Charles J. Theobold, Elmer E. Thorpe, Edgar Troxell, Gordon Vannata, Alva II. Vansickle, Ralph Wagoner, Kenneth O. Walker, Grover W. Wallace, Charles R. Weed, Edward B. West, Grover I. Wheeldon, How- ard C. Whiteman, Frank P. Whitton, Colonel J. Wiley, John W. Wilkinson, Fay H. Wylie, John Wrigley.
Rush County Hospital Unit-The second military organization formed in Rush county after the declaration of war, was a sanitary corps, which was recruited by Dr. Lowell M. Green, of Rushville, in July, 1917. The unit, consisting of thirty-three men, thirty-one of whom were residents of this county, was mustered into the Federal service on August 5, as the Infirmary of the One Hun- dred and Thirty-ninth Field Artillery. After a month's training at Camp Wolfe, in Rushville, the company was ordered to Fort Benjamin Harrison, at Indianapolis, and on September 28, was transferred to Camp Shelby. Hat- tiesburg, Miss. Prior to their departure from Rushville. a mess fund, raised by popular subscription, and aggre- gating $725, was presented to the officers and members of the company as a patriotic offering of the citizens of the county.
Following is the roster of the Infirmary of the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Field Artillery :
Major, N. A. Carey; captain, Donald C. MeClelland; first lieutenant, Lowell M. Green; second lieutenant, Samuel Murphy; Raymond Benning, Sergt. Robert Craig, Edward M. Cooning, Clements J. Conrad, Scott Conde, Jr., Berlin T. Caldwell, Clayton B. Dagler, Marion T. Finney, Osro Farthing, Thomas S. Fos- ter, Harry K. Green, William E. Glover, Samuel W. Gathman, Sergt. C. W. Gott- man, J. F. Hermansdorfer, George Y. Hogsett, Lon A. Havens, Jr., Forrest E. Joyce, Russell II. King, Leo H. King, William T. Kellar, Ernest M. Mitchell, Sergt. J. S. McBride, Robert F. MeNeely, Fred Osborne, Wilbur R. Spivey, Errol JJ. Stoops, Alfred Sharp, Jr., Charles A. Sehrichte, Jerry Sullivan, James F. Walker, William M. Worth.
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