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Second Lieutenants-William L. Thompson, promoted First Lieu- tenant; John F. Gwin, mustered out with regiment.
First Sergeant -- John F. Gwin.
Sergeants-Daniel W. Gaskill, William A. Wampler, James M. Thomas, William Jennings.
Corporals-John N. Thomas, Andrew H. Ellis, Jefferson McIndoo, William C. Gentry, William F. Paynter, Vincent H. Cooksey, Benjamin W. Bailey.
Musicians-William I. Keith, Thomas L. Yark.
Privates-Daniel H. Anderson, John Q. Adams, George W. Acord, Wiley Bailey, John P. Brown, Andrew J. Bray, Riley S. Buchanan, Marion F. Brasket, William F. Bray, John W. Babbs, James C. Brown, James Bus- kirk, John P. Brown, Bennett Buskirk, Joseph A. Cooper, Miles L. Con- oner, James C. Caveness, Nicholas Chrisman, Vincent A. Dent, James W. Devore, David W. Deem, George W. Denny, Henry C. Denny, James Davis, John F. Douglass, Joseph Elswick, Eli Frazier, Benjamin Filer, Daniel W. Gallup, Joseph A. Goss, Dudley Gillespy, John W. Gillespy, Richard Green, Isaac E. Green, John . N. Hutton, James H. Hurd, Thomas F. Hammond, Alexander Hatton, William Houston, Thomas A. Holmes, Edward Hale, Frederick S. Hale, William Kiphart, James M. Kirk, David P. Keslough, John M. Logan, James A. Landrum, David W. Landis. James Lemon, George Limerick, Amos W. Littlejohn, Isaac N. Littlejohn, Harvey J. Laughlin, James Light, William C. McGuire, Stephen Medaris, William McQuatt, Edmund B. Martin, Joseph McIn- doo, James H. McBride, Andrew J. Modrell, Taylor S. Moore, William Matthews, Samuel Mounts, Joseph B. McKee, Dustor S. Nichols, John New- kirk, David C. Pugh, Cullen M. Redmund, William H. Ryan, John W. Rumple, James South, John S. Snodgrass 1, John S. Snodgrass 2, Joseph N. Tyler, John N. Tackett, John G. Taylor, Theodore Will- iams, James M. Wilson 1. James M. Wilson 2, Joseph A. Wilson, De- laney D. White, William H. Walters.
Company D, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana .- On the 20th day of December, 1864, a call was made for eleven regiments from the State of Indiana to serve one year.
During the months of January and February, 1865, a company was recruited in Owen County, and organized by selecting David M. Dobson, Captain; Harvey J. Dittemore, First Lieutenant; and John A. Harrold, Second Lieutenant.
Proceeding to Indianapolis, it was mustered into the service as Com- pany D, of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana, on the 25th day of February, 1865. It left Indianapolis on the 3d of March for Nash- ville, and a few weeks afterward it was ordered to Decatur, Ala., in which vicinity it did duty until the close of the war. While at Decatur, it received the surrender of the rebel forces under command of Gens. Roddy and Polk. On the 18th day of September, 1865, it was mustered out, and arrived at Indianapolis on the 27th. The officers and men of this company rendered faithful service to their country during the closing months of the rebellion.
The following are the names of the officers and men who served in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana:
Captain-David M. Dobson.
First Lieutenant-Harvey J. Dittemore.
Second Lieutenant-John A. Harrold.
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First Sergeant-Henry M. Pierce.
Sergeants-Joshua R. Merrell, William H. Gallup, William Smith, James A. May.
Corporals-Thomas J. Jury, Charles Yockey, Joseph W. Robinson, Thomas E. Dittemore, Charles Mills, Thomas A. Hughes, Martin R. Phillipi, Richard N. Mull.
Privates -- James R. Anderson, Lewis F. Ambrose, John Anthony, Andrew J. Baker, John Brewer, Daniel Brewer, Benira Bolling, Walter A. Bennett, Samuel Baker, Jackson A. Bartlett, Joseph Berlien, Henry Byers, Robert M. Crist, George H. Crist, William H. Cain, John F. Car- penter, Samuel Dowdell, David F. Decamp, William Ealy, David Ever- hart, Madison Everly, William Forbes, Samuel Forbes, John B. Fillin- ger, Jonathan Franklin, James Franklin, Samuel Gambler, Vick Gallup, Benjamin F. Green, Jacob Groce, Richard Gray, Daniel Gray, John W. Grimes, Benjamin W. Hughes, John S. Hughes, Isaac T. Holbert, Daniel Harsh, Wilson P. Hargen, Thomas M. Hixon, Joseph Hancock, Edward B. Howe, Edgar E. Johnson, Rufus L. Kennedy, James M. Kirk, Will- iam I. Keith, Peter Lawrence, Peter Loneer, Benjamin McBride, Will- iam A. Mounts, David D. Mills, Isaac Miner, Joseph H. Mayfield, Augustus S. Nations, Israel Newport, John H. Noel, Isaac Noel, Will- iam N. Owen, Nicholas W. Osborn, Thomas B. Price, Francis H. Powell, Jesse Powell, William O. Pinkster, Jesse Pinkster, Isaac Pegg, Thomas Reese, John B. Rader, Thomas R. Randall, Elias Stepbens, Absalom Smock, Samuel Sanderson, Samuel M. Scott, George W. Shaffer, Will- iam B. Thomas, Samuel O. Turner, William A. Thacker, James Vande- venter, Jacob Vandeventer, William H. Vandeventer, William S. Wilson, Samuel H. Wisely, David Work, George W. Work, John Work, Edward S. Wharton, Nathan Wood, Isaac H. Wheeler, Seth Young, Daniel Zellers.
The eleven companies mentioned in these pages, of which a brief account has been attempted of the organization and service, doubtless contained many men who were not residents of Owen County. It is also true that many citizens of Owen County enlisted in companies and regiments organized outside of the county. This is notably true of Company F, Twenty-seventh Indiana, and Company I, Eighty-second Indiana. Both these regiments were organized in Monroe County, and enrolled a great many Owen County boys among their number. Com- pany I, of the Eighty-second, perhaps contained a majority of Owen County residents.
Thomas Pratt, of Spencer, belonged to Company F, Twenty-seventh Indiana, and was killed at Atlanta August 23, 1864.
Among the members of Company I, Eighty-second Indiana, who went from our county, William R. Arthurs, of White Hall, was killed at Mis- sion Ridge November 25, 1863, and David Stogsdill, of the same place, was killed at Chickamauga September 20, 1863.
Frank White was commissioned Captain of Company F, Fifteenth Indiana, when it was mustered into the service, was promoted to Major of his regiment March 9, 1863; was transferred to the Seventeenth In- diana, and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel November 20, 1864, and was mustered out with the regiment as Brevet Brigadier General.
James Secrest was commissioned Captain of Company G, Thirty- eighth Indiana, September 16, 1861, and resigned September 14, 1862.
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We now proceed to give the names of Owen County soldiers who were appointed to regimental offices during the war:
Colonels-Jesse I. Alexander, Fifty-ninth Indiana; Thomas A. McNaught, Fifty-ninth Indiana; Benjamin F. Hays, Twenty-first Indiana.
Lieutenant Colonel-Frank White, Seventeenth Indiana, brevetted Brigadier General.
Majors-John H. Martin, Fourteenth Indiana; James Grimsley, Twenty-first Indiana; Harrison Woodsmall, One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana.
Adjutants -- Allen T. Rose, Thirty-first Indiana; James W. Archer, Fifty-ninth Indiana.
Quartermasters-James M. Alexander, Fifty-ninth Indiana; Alfred Brown, Fifty-ninth Indiana.
Surgeons-Dudley Rogers, Fifty ninth Indiana; Samuel D. Rich- ards, Fifty-ninth Indiana; Jabez C. Hilburn, Ninety-seventh Indiana.
Assistant Surgeons-Frederick A. Schell, Seventy-first Indiana; John M. Stucky, Fifty-ninth Indiana; Maston G. Mullinix, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana; James M. Goss, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana; William V. Wiles, Eighty-fifth Indiana.
Capt. James S. Meek, of Company H, Ninety-seventh Indiana, was detached from his command to serve as Acting Quartermaster of the regi- ment. At the end of his first year's service, he was advanced to the position of Acting Quartermaster of Gen. Cockerel's brigade. He was retained on staff duty to the close of the war, being successively pro- moted to the highly responsible positions of Quartermaster of Gen. Ewing's Division; then Property Quartermaster of the Fifteenth Army Corps; to the position of Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Ten- nessee; afterward to the position of Property Quartermaster for the de- partment.
Of the great number of soldiers for the Union who have removed to Owen County since the close of the war, and are now residents here, it is impossible to give any adequate account. There are very many such. Thomas H. Boswell, Major of the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry ; Capt. Ed R. Bladen, William S. Mead, and scores of others. Officers and men deserve extended notice did space permit.
As to the aggregate number of soldiers furnished by Owen County in the war for the Union, it is impossible to speak with accuracy. It has already been stated that many men from other counties enlisted in com- panies which were recruited and organized in this, and that many from Owen enlisted in other places. From the best information that can be obtained, it is safe to say that these about offset each other. The num- ber of soldiers and recruits enrolled in the eleven companies organized in this county was 1,355. We think this falls short of the actual num- ber furnished by the county.
The following table shows the number of men, including recruits, from Owen County, and the number killed and died from disease in each company :
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COMPANY.
REGIMENT.
NUMBER EN- LISTED.
KILLED
DIED.
H
Fourteenth Indiana
114
19
5
I.
Nineteenth Indiana.
137
17
9
B
.
Twenty-first Indiana.
181
6
9
B
Thirty-first Indiana.
153
13
22
A
Fifty-ninth Indiana
158
6
15
F
Seventy-first Indiana
130
9
12
B
Ninety-seventh Indiana
103
3
16
F
Ninety-seventh Indiana
89
4
11
H
Ninety-seventh Indiana.
90
4
21
G.
One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana
100
4
D
One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana
100
8
In other commands
3
Total.
1355
84
132
Total killed and died from disease
216
Of the character of the service rendered by the soldiers in the war of the rebellion little need be said. Its marches, its hardships, its battles, called for endurance and bravery of the highest order. The enemy had to be sought and met on his own soil; long lines of communication had to be guarded; great armies in the South, and organized treason in the North, had to be overcome. But the soldiers of the Republic were equal to the task, and, although many privates deserted, and many officers resigned on account of dissatisfaction with the objects for which the war was prosecuted, the great army moved on, keeping step to the music of the Union, until Appomattox came at last.
The last march had been made, the last battle had been fought, the last comrade had fallen on the gory field, the victory had been won, the last foe had surrendered. Peace, like the blessed sunshine, filled the land; and the sweet hour for return to home and loved ones had arrived.
When the soldiers of Indiana returned to Indianapolis, ou their way home, each regiment was received with an ovation by the people, and were addressed in eloquent words of welcome and praise by Gov. Mor- ton. Perhaps no Governor in the Union had been so thoughtful of the interests and comforts of the soldiers of his State, and so fruitful in plans and methods to alleviate their sufferings in the field, as our own great War Governor. His untiring efforts and sleepless vigilance in their behalf, no less than his unfaltering devotion to their cause, and his unbounded faith in ultimate success, made him the pride of Indiana soldiers in the field. Now that their warfare was ended, and they were returning to acknowledge with gratitude his services, their hearts swelled with pride as they listened to the noble words of approbation and praise from the lips of their truest friend.
No soldier can forget that day. His triumph was as perfect as truth. No man would ever rise to dispute the righteousness of his cause. Every traitor to his country would be compelled to salute the flag of the Union, and scores of demagogues would hasten to proclaim themselves the soldier's best friends who had up to that hour been the bitterest enemies of his cause.
When the commanders and soldiers of ancient Rome returned to the great city, after having ravished and despoiled some distant province or land, bringing with them the rich spoils of the campaign and scores of wretched captives, doomed to perpetual slavery, they were received by every demonstration which could add glory to their triumph. But the
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soldiers of this glorious Republic, returning to the bosom of their homes and friends in 1865, after all their hardships and battles, had a greater triumph than was ever dreamed of by the citizens of imperial Rome. They brought no goods and spoils, torn from conquered foes; but they bore back the banner of a restored Union, with every stripe and every star to shine and to bless like the stars in the heavens. They came with no captives chained to their chariot wheels; but they had made good the proclamation which Abraham Lincoln had put into writing, that four millions of slaves and their descendants should be free forever.
And they brought peace and prosperity to a Union which had so long been distracted by its enemies.
" O first of human blessings, and supreme !
Fair Peace! how lovely, how delightful thou!
By whose wide tie the kindred sons of men
Like brothers live, in amity combined
And unsuspicious faith; whose honest toil
Gives every joy, and to those joys a right
Which idle, barbarous rapine but usurps. Pure is thy reign."
Many of the surviving soldiers of Owen County have for several years advocated the erection of a suitable monument to commemorate the life and services of Owen County soldiers. About one year ago the mat- ter took definite shape, and the Owen County Soldiers' Monumental Association was organized, with the following officers: Capt. Wiley E. Dittemore, President; Vice President, Gen. Thomas A. McNaught; Sec- retary, Nathaniel D. Cox; Treasurer, Capt. David E. Beem; Executive Committee, Capt. James W. Archer, Chairman, Capt. James S. Meek, Capt. Edward R. Bladen, S. H. H. Mathes and Frank H. Freeland.
The aim of the projectors is to raise by voluntary subscription at least $2,500, with which to erect a suitable monument in Riverside Ceme- tery at Spencer. It is intended that the name of every soldier who enlisted from this county shall be inscribed thereon. Some of the town- ships have been pretty thoroughly canvassed for subscriptions, with encouraging success. About one-half the required sum has been sub- scribed in Washington Township, and it is hoped that the soldiers and citizens throughout the county will see to it that this patriotic enterprise does not fail. It is due to the memory of the noble dead who died in defense of the Union; it is due to the glorious cause in which they per- ished; it is due to the rising generation, who should be taught the value and cost of our republic, and its beneficent institutions.
Considering the great number of ex-soldiers that still survive, and the vast power and influence they could exert should they have organized for mercenary or selfish purposes, their most eloquent eulogy consists in the fact that they have not organized for any such purposes. Fears were expressed by a great many during the war that when the soldiers of the army were discharged and sent home great demoralization would take place throughout society by reason of their return. Such persons had a low conception of the motives which prompted the great mass of those who volunteered to aid in suppressing the rebellion. Having little love for the Union themselves, they could not understand that these volun- teers went forth at their country's call, ready to die if need be, in her defense. Such was the purpose that filled and thrilled the hearts of the Union volunteers. It is no wonder, then, that when they returned they did so as fathers, husbands, brothers, lovers and sons, loving their country, their families and their God in the highest possible sense; and to-day, if disturbances should arise in society, or the peace and existence
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of the nation be threatened by enemies within or foes without, the citi- zen soldiers of the republic, disciplined in war and taught to venerate her flag, could be relied upon as the surest protectors of society.
But while the soldiers have not banded themselves together for any improper or selfish motives, they have united to some extent, to keep alive the fire of patronism in their hearts, and to revive the memories of their soldier days.
THE G. A. R.
The Grand Army of the Republic is an organization of soldiers, pure- ly non-partisan in its character, having the above objects in view. It is to cultivate friendships between comrades; to keep green the memory of those who perished in the field; to live over, in memory, the soldier life; and, above all, to teach the youth of the land that the first duties of a citizen are to his family, his country, and his God; and these are its high purposes.
At the present writing, there are two Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic in Owen County, to wit: Gettysburg Post, No. 93, at Spencer, numbering eighty-five members, Post Commander, Capt. David E. Beer; and Freedom Post, No. - , at Freedom, numbering fifty members, Post Commander, Albert W. Dyar.
VETERAN SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION.
There is also a general organization including all the soldiers in the county, known as the " Veteran Soldiers' Association of Owen County." This association has had annual re-unions for several years, which it is intended to perpetuate. The last one, held in Spencer on the 20th of September. 1883, was a great success and an enjoyable day, 10,000 peo- ple being present. It is estimated that there are at the present writing (1883) not less than 800 surviving soldiers in Owen County.
PENSIONS.
It has been often said that republics are ungrateful. Not so our own. She has remembered and rewarded her soldiers with a substantial grati- tude unparalleled by any other nation on the globe. The Congress of the United States, acting upon the theory that the disabled soldiers and the widows and orphans of those who died are the wards of the nation, has granted pensions with a liberal hand.
.There are at the present time 218 persons receiving pensions in Owen County, distributed among the following classes:
Invalid soldiers. 153
Survivor, war of 1812. 1
Widows, war of 1812 10
Widows, war of the rebellion. 42
Fathers. .3 Mothers. .6 Minors. .. 3
The charge has been freely made in many quarters that the soldiers, as a class, are cormorants, feeding on the body of the nation. The fig- ures disprove the charge. Not one soldier in five is a pensioner. It is true applications have been made and allowed in cases not mer- itorious, but these are the exception. The volunteer soldier saved the Government from being torn in pieces by traitors, and placed the na- tion on the highway of unexampled wealth and prosperity, and surely he is entitled to a meager allowance for his services as compensation for wounds or disease.
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SPENCER.
BY WILLIAM RICHARDS.
T the mind of a foreigner unacquainted with the history of Spencer, or of this country, it would never occur that only sixty-five years ago the site of Spencer was an unbroken wilderness; that there are yet living those who saw it as it was before Columbus landed on the shores of the new world, or the cavaliers of Cortez invaded the Halls of the Montezumas. It is difficult for any but an American to realize that with- in the memory of living men, where is now an intelligent and populous community, "circled with all that exalts and embellishes life, the rank thistle nodded in the wind and the wild fox dug his hole unscared." Such a thing is found only in America, and is possible only with Ameri- cans. Cities like Chicago and Denver rise almost like magic within a few years. It is the peculiarity and pride of American civilization that it advances so swiftly, that the dull and slow going mind of Europe is unable to follow or comprehend it. Accustomed to the stupidity and snail-like pace of the old world, the brilliancy of American enterprise is to the European as the whirl of a great city to an unsophisticated rustic. It is on account of this pardonable density of the faculties of compre- hension and perception that European writers generally speak in a vein of unfavorable criticism upon anything that is American. For the same reason Dickens became disgusted with what he was by nature incapable of under- standing, and went home with the dyspepsia and mental indigestion. An Englishman has a horror of any rapid change or improvement, or of anything that even faintly savors of radicalism. It is exceedingly ex- asperating to him to be compelled to make a change in his map, and rapid progress confuses his mind and rouses his ire. It will be many years in the dim future before it will dawn on his mind that the howls of the wild beast and the savage are not still heard in the streets of New York and Boston, and before he will so write it down in his book. That so soon after the first white man saw the country, he is surrounded with the comforts and luxuries of an advanced civilization, the descendant of the pioneer owes to the fact that he belongs to a superior and chosen people.
SELECTION OF THE COUNTY SEAT.
Where the county seat was to be located was for some time in doubt. The eastern part of the county favored Gosport, and Mundy's Station was also a rival, and even till within a recent date Gosport continued to shake her fist at Spencer and demand the location of the capital. Our lively little neighbor has, however, become reconciled to the inevita- ble, and has turned her " court house square " into a park. Brintons- ville was laid off by Adam Brinton, an eccentric old bachelor, at what is now called Mundy's Station. It would have been a formidable rival for the county seat but for an attempt of Mr. Brinton to make a speculation out of his lots. At the sale of lots he employed a venerable preacher to act as "puffer," and run up the price of the lots; but the people getting
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wind of this bland and childlike scheme of Adam and the preacher, re- fused to invest, and the town of Brintonsville still has a large number of unoccupied corner lots in an excellent locality. In 1819, on petition of citizens, the Legislature appointed Commissioners to select a location for the county seat of Owen County, Ind., and on the 6th day of March, 1819, they reported as follows:
TO THE WORSHIPFUL THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF OWEN: We, the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature at their last session to fix the seat of justice in said county of Owen, being met and being duly sworn according to law, report as follows, to wit: That we have selected and received as a donation for the use of said county seat one hundred acres on the northwest side of White River; also fifty acres on the east side of White River, etc.
Here follows a description of the site selected, it being in the bend of the river east of Spencer, with fifty acres opposite on the east side of the river. The report was signed by John Allen, John Engle, John Mil- roy, William Bruce and Toussant Dubois, the Commissioners appointed. The " worshipful " the County Commissioners were Robert D. Milner, John Michel and Thomas McNaught, the father of Gen. T. A. McNaught. The place selected was surveyed by James Galletly, for which he was allowed $8. For some reason, John Dunn, who had agreed to donate this land for the site of the county seat, failed or refused to do so, and the Legislature appointed another Board of Commissioners to select a suitable location. The Commissioners' record, Book No. 1, page 21. gives the following account of their proceedings:
Special session Board Commissioners at the house of John Dunn, February 12, 1820. Present, James A. Steele, John Johnson and Jesse Evans, County Commis- sioners.
On motion of John Tipton, James Ward and Patrick Collan, gentlemen who were appointed by the last Legislature to select a place or situation in the county of Owen, which is to remain the permanent seat of justice for said county, the said Commissioners having had said business under consideration, and now report ac- cordingly, which report stands in the following words and figures, to wit:
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF OWEN COUNTY: We the undersigned, being appointed by an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled an act to establish a permanent seat of justice for Owen County, and approved the 29th of December, 1819, Commissioners to fix the seat of justice for said county; and, after being sworn, have obtained by donation of Richard Beem seventy and a half acres of land, part of the southeast quarter of Section numbered 20, in Township 10 north, of Range 3 west, of Philip Hart ten acres of land, being part of fractional Sections 21 and 28, and of Isaiah Cooper twenty-one and a half acres of land, part of fractional Section numbered 29, the whole one hundred and ten acres of land, on which we have unanimously agreed to fix the seat of justice for said county. Isaiah Cooper has reserved the right to ferry from the land donated by him, but no land or landing attached thereto. Richard Beem reserves the rails on the land donated by him; also the use of the sugar camp for the present season. We have also obtained from John Bartholomew by donation thirty acres of land on the east or south side of said river for the use of the county of Owen, reference being had to the bonds herewith filed, will more fully and at length explain the situation of the aforesaid land, all of which is respectfully sub- mitted by
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