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. April 7, 1862.
Corinth, Mississippi, (Siege of)
. April 30 to May 30, 1862.
Perryville, Kentucky.
. October 8, 1862.
Stone's River, Tennessee
.December 31, 1862, to January 1-2, 1863.
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Tullahoma Campaign, Tennessee. June 23-30, 1863.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, (In defense of,
during battle of Chickamauga)
September 19-20, 1863.
Missionary Ridge, Tennessee. . November 25, 1863.
Buzzard Roost, Georgia.
. February 25-27, 1864.
Rocky Face Ridge, Georgia
. May 5-9, 1864.
Resaca, Georgia.
May 13-16, 1864.
Dallas, Georgia.
May 25 to June 4, 1864.
New Hope Church, Georgia.
May 28-30, 1864.
Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, (First Assault) .
June 23, 1864.
Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, (General Assault)
. June 27, 1864.
Peach Tree Creek, Georgia, (Hood's first sortie) July 20, 1864.
Atlanta, Georgia, (Hood's second sortie)
July 22, 1864.
Atlanta, Georgia, (Hood's third sortie)
July 28, 1864.
Atlanta, Georgia, (Siege of)
July 28 to September 2, 1864.
Jonesboro, Georgia
August 31 to September 1, 1864.
Columbia, Tennessee.
.November 24-28, 1864.
Spring Hill, Tennessee
November 29, 1864.
Franklin, Tennessee.
.November 30, 1864.
Nashville, Tennessee.
December 15-16, 1864.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL FRANKLIN ALLEN HARDIN.
Franklin Allen Hardin was born in Adams County, Ohio, October 11, 1830. In the Spring of 1843, he with his parents came to Wayne County, Indiana, settling near Centreville. At the early age of sixteen, with such qualifications as only a common school education afforded, he resolved on the Christian ministry as the business of his life, and was admitted to the North Indiana Conference of the. Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he continued his labors until the begin- ning of the Civil War.
The North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was. held in New Castle, in April, 1860, and at that time the Reverend Franklin A. Hardin was designated and appointed Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Castle. At the Conference held in April, 1861, he was reappointed to the same charge. When the Civil War began, the Reverend Hardin was very active in encouraging enlistments and in assisting in the organization of the first com- panies that volunteered from the central part of Henry County. So great was his activity in this direction that he came to be called, "The fighting parson." When the 36th Indiana Infantry was organized, at the especial request of its. Colonel, William Grose, the Reverend Hardin was designated as Chaplain of the regiment, but before he could accept this position, he, with the Reverend J. W. T. McMullen, also of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the urgent instance of Governor Morton, undertook the organization of the 57th Indiana Infantry, the regiment which immediately succeeded the 36th in old Camp Wayne, Richmond, Indiana. McMullen became Colonel and Hardin, Lieutenant Colonel, of the regiment, as is set forth in the foregoing roster and history of the regiment.
Unschooled in the art of war, and associated with officers and soldiers, scarcely one of whom ever before even so much as drilled in a company, the task was a very difficult one; but he continued with the regiment through the long campaign from Louisville to Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Tuscumbia, Mc-
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Minnville, and back to Louisville. There he asked to be relieved on account of impaired health. He had become devotedly attached to the regiment and it was a great trial to him to sever his relation with such a noble body of men.
Shortly after his return home, he was called to the pastorate of a church in Chicago, to which place he removed in the Spring of 1865 and where he now resides. He is seventy four years old but continues his ministerial labors as zealously and acceptably as ever. He holds sacred the memory of the soldiers with whom he enlisted and wants to meet all of them on parade :
"When the General has come With sound of trumpet, not of drum, And when the well dressed ranks shall stand In full review, at his right hand."
LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT HENRY CLAY ELLIOTT.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Henry Clay Elliott of the 57th Indiana Infantry was born March 25, 1839, on his father's farm, near New Castle, Indiana. His parents were Stephen and Mary (Carroll) Elliott. The father was born Decem- ber 26, 1806, in a log cabin, on the banks of the Little Miami River, where Waynes- ville, Ohio, is now located. In 1807 he moved with his parents to Wayne County, Indiana, and settled on the Whitewater River, near Richmond, and his father cut the first stick of timber ever cut by a white man where that city now stands. He came to New Castle in 1823 and helped build a log cabin on the hill, a little south of the present residence of Thomas Jordan, corner of Indiana Avenue and Eleventh Street. He died December 4, 1896. The mother was born December 23, 1809, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died February 22, 1859. Both of the parents are buried in Elliott Cemetery, two and a half miles south of New Castle. They were married on June 25, 1829, and were the parents of nine children, four of whom died in infancy. The remaining five, who grew to maturity, were named as follows: Zurilda, now the wife of Robert M. Chambers, of New Castle; Eliza, now the wife of William N. Clift, of New Castle ; Henry Clay, the subject of this sketch; Sarah, afterwards the wife of Francis Marion McDowell, of Winamac, Indiana, now deceased; and Jehu T., junior, deceased. Sarah is buried in South Mound and Jehu T., junior, in Elliott Cemetery. He was born January 30, 1845, and died September 6, 1895.
HENRY CLAY ELLIOTT.
Henry Clay Elliott was raised on the well known Stephen Elliott farm, two and a half miles south of New Castle, and lived there until the breaking out of the Civil War. From the farm to the battlefield was his first step into the realities of life. Inspired by the loyalty and example of his ancestors, at the age of twenty two years, he enlisted in Company B, 8th Indiana Infantry (three months), and was mustered into the service of the United States, as a Sergeant, April 25, 1861. This company was raised in and about New Castle, in a single night, and was immediately sent to Camp Morton, Indianapolis. It was commanded by Captain Frederick Tykle, of Middletown. The regiment under the command of Colonel William P. Benton was mustered in April 25. 1861, and at once moved into West
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Virginia, where on July II, 1861, it took part in the battle of Rich Mountain. Sergeant Elliott was mustered out with the regiment, August 6, 1861.
After his experience in this short term regiment, Sergeant Elliott still turned his thoughts eagerly to the war, and in the Fall of 1861 assisted in the organization of what became Company F, 57th Indiana Infantry, and reported with a portion of the same at old Camp Wayne, Richmond, Indiana, where the 57th had its headquarters for organization. Here he was tendered a commission as Lieutenant and Adjutant of the regiment, at the request of Colonels McMullen and Hardin, and others of the regiment, and was mustered into the service of the United States, as such, November 18, 1861. He was afterwards made the mustering officer of the regiment, by order of General Thomas J. Wood. He served with the 57th Indiana in all of its marches and battles, until he was promoted, and at the battle of Stone's River, Tennessee, he was wounded, December 31, 1862. He was with the regiment until the day after the battle of Chickamauga, when he was advised by General Larz Noble, Adjutant General of Indiana, of his appointment as Lieutenant Colonel of the 118th Indiana Infantry, a six months' regiment, then stationed at Greenville, Tennessee. He joined that regiment at the point named and immediately assumed command, the Colonel, George W. Jackson, being absent on detached service. He remained in command of the regiment until it was mustered out at Indianapolis, at the expiration of its term of service, in March, 1864. The histories of the several regiments to which this soldier belonged, as published elsewhere in this History, are substantially the military history of Lieu- tenant Colonel Elliott, and perpetuate a record of soldierly devotion to country and flag, deserving of the highest meed of praise.
On May 17, 1864, Henry Clay Elliott was married to Kizzie, daughter of the Reverend Thomas M. McWhinney, then residing near Richmond, Indiana. There were born to this union, two children, namely: Warren Everett, now a resident of Chicago, Illinois, and William Henry Morton, now a resident of Phoenix, Arizona.
Lieutenant Colonel Elliott, after his return from the war, was for several years a merchant at Richmond, Indiana. He subsequently moved to Kansas and, for a period of twenty five years, traveled as representative of different wholesale grocery houses of Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago. For about twelve years of this time, he represented the great firm of Franklin MacVeagh and Company. Since about the year 1897, he has made his home at New Castle, the abode of his youth. He is a member of the George W. Lennard Post, No. 148, Grand Army of the Republic, New Castle, of which he has filled all the chairs up to that of Post Commander. He is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
JEHU T. ELLIOTT, JUNIOR.
Jehu T. Elliott. junior, the brother of Henry Clay Elliott, served as a Morgan Raid Minute Man, during the brief invasion of Indiana by the Confederates under General John H. Morgan, in July, 1863. He afterwards enlisted in Company B, 134th Indiana Infantry, a one hundred day regiment, and was mustered into the service of the United States, as a private, May 24, 1864. He was appointed Sergeant and mustered out with the regiment, September 14, 1864. He again enlisted in the 79th Indiana Infantry and was mustered into the service of the
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United States, as a private, September 30, 1864, but was not assigned to any com- pany of the regiment. On account of his superior clerical qualifications, he was detailed at the headquarters of General Henry B. Carrington, commanding the Department of Indiana, where he remained until May 15, 1865, when he was mustered out with the regiment, as "unassigned."
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HENRY MUNSON CROUSE, M. D.
MAJOR AND SURGEON 57TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, INDIANA VOLUNTEERS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Among the leading physicians of Henry County is Dr. Henry Munson Crouse, of Knightstown. He is a native of Knox County, Ohio, where he was born July 25, 1830. His parents were George and Lydia (Melcher) Crouse, both natives of Virginia who lived near Richmond in that State before settling in Ohio. His parents were pioneer settlers of Ohio, having come to that State at an early day and settled in Knox County, near Mt. Vernon, in time to take up and enter public lands. In later years the parents moved to Mt. Vernon and made that place their home. To them were born three sons and one daughter, the subject of this sketch being the third child and next to the youngest son. Henry Munson Crouse lived on his father's farm until he was about sixteen years of age when he left the farm and went to Gambier, Ohio, and became a student in Kenyon College, one of the well known educational institutions of the "Buckeye State." Here he entered upon a course of study for the full term of four years and graduated upon the completion of his course with honor to himself and his alma mater.
Immediately following his graduation from Kenyon College, Dr. Crouse began the study of medicine, having for his preceptor, Dr. John W. Russell, a prominent practising physician of Mt. Vernon, with whom he remained four years. While pursuing his medical studies under the direction of Dr. Russell, he also attended lectures at the Cleveland Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from that institution in 1855. His education was now completed and he began to look for a favorable location for the practice of his profession, finally selecting Knightstown, Henry County, Indiana, as his future home, where on March 12, 1855, he began the earnest practice of medicine. From that day to the present time, excepting the period of his absence during the Civil War, Dr. Crouse has lived continuously at Knightstown and completely identified himself with that community and its interests.
The beginning of the Civil War found him firmly established in his profession but the demand for the services of skilled physicians and surgeons at the front became greater, daily, as the war progressed and Dr. Crouse felt himself called to offer his services to the Government. He enlisted in the 57th Indiana Infantry and was mustered into the service of the United States, as Assistant Surgeon, April 23, 1862, and two months later, on June 17, 1862, he was commissioned and mustered as Major and Surgeon of the same regiment, which position he continued to hold until increasing ill health and general disability compelled him to resign, September 9, 1863. As long as his health permitted, he had performed every military duty devolving upon him. His military service covered the sanguinary battles of Shiloh, (Siege of) Corinth, Perryville and Stone's River, and in his retentive memory are stored many incidents of camp and field which the Doctor takes pleasure in relating.
As soon as his health permitted, after his return from the war, Dr. Crouse resumed the practice of his profession at Knightstown, administering to the wants of the sick and the afflicted until, in the year 1900, when he retired from practice.
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Henry M. Crouse and Nancy Helen Mar, daughter of Robert and Hannah Woods, were united in marriage at Knightstown, March 4, 1857, and to this union was born, December 12, 1858, one son, Coleman F. Crouse, who, after at- taining his majority, resided for some years in San Francisco, California, where he was inspector of customs in the service of the Government. He afterwards left the public service and engaged in the banking business at Dawson, Alaska. From Alaska he returned to Knightstown, in October, 1902, where he now resides and is engaged in agricultural pursuits. The parents of Mrs. Crouse were old residents of Knightstown and a sketch of the life of her father, Robert Woods, who died October 21, 1892, and incidentally, of his family, will be found elsewhere in this History. He was the founder of the First National Bank, of Knightstown, and the president of the same from its organization to the time of his death.
Dr. Crouse, from his early youth, has been a hard student and from his own experience realizes the advantages of education. He has always taken an acute interest in matters relating to school, college and university. During his long residence at Knightstown, covering a half century or more, he was for some time a member of the school board and watched with solicitude the growth and prosperity of the schools of that place. Besides his services to the cause of edu- cation in his adopted home, he has occupied other positions of public responsibility. acquitting himself therein with credit to himself and distinct advantage to the city. In truth, Dr. Crouse has ever been recognized by his fellow citizens as a man of sterling worth and unusual attainments. His high position in the medical fraternity is attested by the fact that he has for many years been an honored member of the medical societies of the State and of the county and is well known for the active part he has taken in the work and deliberations of those respective organizations.
Dr. Crouse is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken all of the degrees of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Royal Arch Chapter. Knights Templar and Scottish Rite up to and including the Thirty Second Degree. He is Past Master of Golden Rule Lodge, No. 16, A. F. and A. M., at Knights- town. He is also a charter member of the Jerry B. Mason Post, No. 168, Grand Army of the Republic, of which organization, nationally and locally, he is an earnest supporter, regarding the right to wear the Grand Army button as a mark of deserved distinction and honor.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOHN ALTHANS CRAFT.
CAPTAIN, COMPANY A, 57TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, INDIANA VOLUNTEERS, MECHANIC AND MERCHANT.
John Althans Craft has always been the good citizen, as he was the good and brave soldier during the time that tried the souls of thousands of loyal American citizens. His parents were Abraham Craft, born in Washington County, Pennsyl- vania, in 1802, and Margaret (Althans) Craft, born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1801. They were married in 1822. The children were : one who died in infancy; John A .; Eli R .; Homer H .; and Olive C., afterwards Mrs. Nathan P. Morse ; George W .; Elizabeth Ann; and Sarah Margaret, now the widow of Dr. E. R. Floyd, living in Jersey City, New Jersey. All of the above are now deceased except the first and last named.
Following the marriage of the parents, they settled near Youngstown, then in Trumbull County, Ohio, now the county seat of Mahoning County, in that State. In April, 1836, the family emigrated from Ohio to Hancock County, Indiana, and located near the center of Jackson Township, three miles northwest of Char- lottesville. Abraham Craft died at Kennard, October 20, 1886; his wife, Margaret, died August 3, 1855. The father is buried at Greensboro, in Henry County, and the mother in Gilboa Cemetery, south of Cleveland, in Hancock County.
JOHN ALTHANS CRAFT.
John Althans Craft was born near Youngstown, Ohio, September 1, 1824, and came to Hancock County, Indiana, with his parents, in 1836. He received a fair education in the schools of his locality in Ohio, supplemented by further education in the primitive schools of Indiana, and thus enabled himself to teach, which he did for several terms in Hancock County. Young Craft, during his stay at home, partially learned the trade of a shoemaker, under the instruction of his father, but subsequently apprenticed himself, when he was about twenty years of age, to Peter Probasco to learn the trade of a plane maker. Peter Probasco had been a resident of Cincinnati but, at the time now spoken of, was living on a farm which he owned near Charlottesville, Hancock County, Indiana, upon which he built a shop and established the business of plane making, for which purpose he had brought from the "Queen City of the West," a complete outfit of the neces- sary tools and machinery.
During the period of his apprenticeship, he received, as compensation, his board and lodging and extra pay of one dollar a day, when he helped in the harvest field on the farm. After finishing his trade, during which he had become an expert plane maker, he worked for Mr. Probasco until by economy he had become possessed of his own "kit of tools." In 1846, full of laudable ambition to win his way in the world, he walked from Charlottesville to Cincinnati, carrying his tools and clothing. At Cincinnati, he went to work for E. F. Seybold and Company, wholesale hardware merchants and manufacturers. Since that time the methods of making planes, of which there were various kinds used by carpenters and builders, has been practically superseded by modern self-acting machinery.
After some time spent with the above named firm, Mr. Craft, now some-
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what past the age of manhood, was taken ill and returned to his Indiana home near Charlottesville, but the Cincinnati firm, which was wonderfully well pleased with his workmanship, used to send him material to be manufactured into planes and then marked with their name, which finished product he would ship to them at Cincinnati. Even at this late day, planes of Mr. Craft's make, stamped in his own name, are in use among those who must at times, of necessity, use the old fashioned but very useful tool. Mr. Craft's fame as a plane maker gradually but surely spread throughout the country and it was not long until he was unable to keep abreast of the local demand. In Hancock County there are yet many planes made by Captain Craft. He continued at his trade until 1857 when he bought a small tract of land one-half mile north of Char- lottesville and farmed until 1864.
John Althans Craft and Eliza Ann Fries were married in Rush County, Indiana, near Charlottesville, July 26, 1849, by the Reverend Hugh Wells. Mrs. Craft, who is still living at a ripe and motherly old age, was the daughter of Daniel and Mary (Shultz) Fries. She was born in York County, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1825. Her parents came to Indiana in 1838.
At the opening of the Civil War and very soon after the firing of the first gun which aroused the loyal spirit of the Nation, Mr. Craft was pleasantly and happily located on his small farm, near Charlottesville, his family at this time con- sisting of himself and wife and five children. Notwithstanding these family ties, with the full concurrence of his loyal and patriotic wife, he determined to enter the army. Accordingly, in the Fall of 1861, he took an active part in recruiting what afterwards became Company A. 57th Indiana Infantry, in which he enlisted October 17, 1861. Upon the organization of the company, Mr. Craft was chosen by his superior officers for the honorable position of First Sergeant and was mustered into the service of the United States, as such, at old Camp Wayne, Richmond, Indiana, November 18, 1861. Company A was considered a Henry County company because all of its first commissioned officers were from Knightstown.
The regiment moved into Kentucky and thence to Tennessee and was in the battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862, in which Sergeant Craft participated. On June 16, 1862, Sergeant Craft was commissioned First Lieutenant of his com- pany and was mustered in as such, July 30, following. In August, Lieutenant Craft was detached and sent to Indianapolis on recruiting service, where he remained until the following December. When the time came for a change in his duties, he was highly complimented for his efficiency by General Henry B. Carrington, Post Commander, and was sent by the latter to the front in charge of a number of soldiers. At Louisville it was found impossible to procure trans- portation by way of the railroad to Nashville, because of the cutting of all com- munications by General John H. Morgan of the Confederate forces. Con- sequently, a fleet of boats was made up to descend the Ohio River and thence to steanı up the Cumberland River to Nashville, loaded with supplies for the army of General Rosecrans, which had just fought and won the famous battle of Stone's River. Lieutenant Craft was placed on one of the boats with twenty five armed men, the whole fleet being preceded and followed by gunboats, there being great danger of attack all along the line. Upon reaching Nashville, Lieu-
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tenant Craft was relieved from duty with the fleet and at once rejoined his regi- ment at Murfreesboro.
For further valorous and meritorious service, First Lieutenant Craft was promoted and commissioned Captain of his company and was mustered in as such, February 22, 1863. Shortly afterwards, on account of the serious con- dition of his health, Captain Craft, on March 25, 1863, resigned from the army and at once returned to his home on the farm north of Charlottesville. It is worthy of note that all of the promotions received by him, during his term of service in the army, came to him unsolicited and unexpected.
After his return home to resume the life of a civilian, he was more than a year in recovering his health. In April, 1864, he left his little farm and with his family moved into the village of Charlottesville where he soon after engaged in the dry goods business in which he continued successfully and satisfactorily to himself and patrons until 1881, when he sold out and moved to a farm east of and adjoining Charlottesville, it having early been the policy of Captain Craft to invest his surplus money in land. He remained on this farm until March 30, 1903, except three years spent in Knightstown, where he assisted in the organiza- tion of the Citizens' State Bank and became its first cashier. He is now a director in the bank. In 1903 he moved back to Charlottesville which he now regards as his permanent home and where himself and wife in their declining days are com- fortably and happily situated.
From 1891 until July 5, 1904, Captain Craft had an interest in a general store in Charlottesville under the firm style of Craft and McGraw. He practically retired from active business in 1904 and can now look back upon a life successfully and happily spent. He has owned about seven hundred acres of excellent land, all of it practically within sight of Charlottesville, but he has divided over six hundred acres of this land among his devoted children. He is a firm and decided Republican in politics ; he does not profess any particular religion but has a warm place in his heart for all Christian denominations. From boyhood to old age, as civilian and as soldier, Captain Craft has never chewed tobacco nor smoked a cigar, nor has he ever indulged in the use of intoxicating liquor of any kind, nor has he ever been guilty of profane or obscene language. He has ever been a devoted husband, an indulgent father and an esteemed citizen. He is a member of the Jerry B. Mason Post, No. 168, Grand Army of the Republic ; Golden Rule Lodge, No. 16, A. F. and A. M .; Knightstown Chapter, No. 33, Royal Arch Masons, and Knightstown Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar, all of Knights- town. Indiana.
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