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By Act of Congress of April 29, 1812, the Academy was reorganized. The provisions of this Act have furnished the general principles upon which the Military Academy has since been conducted and controlled ; a more adequate corps of professors was authorized; a maximum of 250 Cadets was fixed; and the age and the mental requisites for admission were prescribed.
In 1817, under the provisions of the Act of 1812, and the able superintendency of Major Sylvanus Thayer; Corps of Engineers, the present era in the Academy's history began.
Until 1843, a prescribed residence was not a legal qualification for appoint- ment, but the selection of one Cadet from each Congressional district had grown to be customary. In this year the custom became the law, Congress prescribing that the Corps of Cadets should consist of one from each Congressional district, one from each Territory, one from the District of Columbia, and ten from the United States at large, to be appointed by the President.
By Acts of Congress approved June 6, 1900, and June 28, 1902, the Corps of Cadets as now constituted consists of one from each Congressional district, one from each Territory, one from the District of Columbia, two from each State at large, and forty from the United States at large, all to be appointed by the President and, with the exception of the forty appointed from the United States at large, to be actual residents of the Congressional or Territorial districts, or of the District of Columbia, or of the States, respectively, from which they are appointed. Under these Acts, and under the apportionment of Members of Con- gress according to the 12th Census, the maximum number of Cadets is 521.
The total number of graduates from 1802 to 1905, inclusive, is 4,452.
The following named representatives of Henry County families have been admitted as Cadets to the Academy.
GEORGE WHITFIELD HAZZARD.
George Whitfield Hazzard was appointed to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, entering the Academy, July I. 1843, where
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he remained until July 1, 1847, when he was graduated fifth in his class and promoted in the army to
SECOND LIEUTENANT, 4TH ARTILLERY, JULY I, 1847.
Served: in the War with Mexico, 1847-48, at Camargo; on frontier duty at posts on and scouting along the Rio Grande, 1848-49; in garrison at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1850,-Fort Washington, Maryland, 1850-52,-
(FIRST LIEUTENANT, 4TH ARTILLERY, MARCH 31, 1850, )
as Aid de Camp to Brevet Brigadier General Walbach, and Acting Assistant Adjutant General, 3rd Military Department, August 1, 1852, to October 8, 1853, at Baltimore, Maryland; in garrison at Fort Hamilton, New York, 1853-54,- and Fort Brown, Texas, 1854-55; as Adjutant, 4th Artillery. April 13, 1855. to December 14, 1857,-at Baltimore, Maryland, 1855-56,-and in Florida Hostili- ties against the Seminole Indians, 1856-57; on frontier duty at Fort Leavenworth. during the Kansas Disturbances, 1857-58,-Fort Laramie, Dakota. 1858-59,-and on Exploration and Descent of Platte River from Fort Laramie to
(CAPTAIN, 4THI ARTILLERY, JULY 6, 1859, )
its mouth, 1859; on leave of absence, 1859-61, and in garrison at Fort McHenry. Maryland, 1861.
Served during the Rebellion of the Seceding States, 1861-62: in command of Regiment in Kentucky, October, 1861, to March, 1862; in the Defenses of (COLONEL, 37TH INDIANA VOLUNTEERS, OCTOBER 17, 1861, TO FEBRUARY 15, 1862,) Washington, commanding Company, Marchi 22-31, 1862; and in the Virginia Peninsular Campaign (Army of the Potomac), April to June, 1862, being engaged in the Siege of Yorktown, April 13 to May 4, 1862,-Battle of Fair Oaks, June I, 1862,-Battle of Peach Orchard, June 29, 1862 .- Battle of Savage Station, June 29, 1862,-and Battle of White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862, where he was mortally wounded.
Died of Wounds, August 14, 1862, at Baltimore, Maryland.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
The Hazzard family of Indiana came, originally from Sussex County, Dela- ware. In the early 'thirties, the family began to emigrate to Indiana. First came David Hazzard, who settled at Laurel, in Franklin County. Another ยท brother, Henry, stopped at Cambridge City, Wayne County. Samuel Hazzard, the father of the author of this History, settled in New Castle in 1835. where he afterwards married Vienna, daughter of Asahel and Catharine Woodward. These three brothers were merchants of their respective towns. George W. Hazzard. the youngest brother of the family, was making his home with Samuel Hazzard in New Castle when, in 1843, he was appointed a cadet at the United States Military Academy. There was another brother named William, a Methodist minister, who remained in Delaware. All of these brothers were natives of Sea- ford, Sussex County, Delaware. Their grandfather. Captain Cord Hazzard. served in the Revolution, and their father, George Hazzard, was a soldier in the War of 1812-15.
George W. Hazzard was born in Delaware, August 31. 1825, and died at the Maryland Infirmary, Baltimore, Maryland. August 14, 1862, of wounds received at the battle of White Oak Swamp, Virginia, June 30. 1862. He is buried in
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the Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. He married Mary Eleanor Elder of Baltimore. They had two children and his widow and one child still survive him, being residents of Washington City. In 1861 he accompanied Presi- dent-elect Lincoln from Springfield to Washington City.
WILLIAM RALPH HENRY.
The best account that can be given of the appointment of William Ralph Henry, as a cadet, to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and of his subsequent tragic death, is found in a letter, received by the author of this History, from Brigadier General A. L. Miles, United States Army, Superin- tendent of the Academy, which is as follows :
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT, NEW YORK, June 9, 1905. MR. GEORGE HAZZARD, New Castle, Indiana.
My Dear Sir :- In reply to your letter of the 6th instant, inquiring about certain appointees to the Military Academy from Henry County, Indiana, I beg to say that William R. Henry was admitted to the Academy on July 1, 1847, aged nineteen years and three months. He was appointed from New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, on the recommendation of Congressman Caleb B. Smith. The records carry him as having been born in Virginia and as having died August 23, 1849, crossing Lake Erie to Buffalo, New York, while he was returning from his furlough. The following quotation from a letter addressed to Captain H. Brewerton, Superintendent of the Military Academy, and signed by H. Garrard. dated Buffalo, August 24, 1849, tells all that is known of his disappearance :
"Captain Brewerton.
"Dear Sir :- It is with much sorrow that I am compelled to write to you concerning the disappearance of Cadet Henry.
"Mr. Henry and myself were on board the steamboat Queen City, crossing from Sandusky City to Buffalo. Last night just before retiring he requested me to awake him on our arrival at Buffalo. I went to his state room, on reaching this place, this morning, but his berth was empty, although all the clothes he had worn the previous day were as he had placed them on going to bed.
"I remained together with Mr. Norris on board until every possible search and inquiry had been made, but as yet nothing has been discovered concerning his fate. Mr. Henry's trunk is in charge of James C. Harrison, Agent Reed's Line, Buffalo, New York.
"I have the honor to be
Your obedient servant.
Believe me
H. GARRARD," Very truly yours,
A. L. MILES,
Brigadier General U. S. Army, Superintendent. BIOGRAPHICAL.
In 1834 there emigrated from Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Vir- ginia, to New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, a man, who, for twenty years, was a prominent figure in the affairs of the county, Colonel Ralph Berkshire. In Virginia he had been a Colonel of Militia and for several years was a member of
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the House of Delegates in the Virginia Legislature. There came to New Castle, with Colonel Berkshire, his son-in-law, William G. Henry, and his family. The two opened a dry goods store in New Castle, in a frame building which stood on the north side of the public square. The venture was continued for less than two years and was not a success. After this Colonel Berkshire turned his attention to the law and to politics. He was an ardent Whig and as such was elected, at the August election in 1839, to the lower house of the Indiana Legislature. His colleague from Henry County was Robert M. Cooper. Both sat in the twenty fourth regular session of 1839-40, which convened on the first Monday in December, 1839. Colonel Berkshire was afterwards elected Probate Judge of the county, serving the full term of seven years, from August 14, 1843, being preceded by Samuel Hoover and succeeded by Milton Wayman, who held the office at the time it was abolished by the present constitution, which became effective, November 1, 1851.
Berkshire died in 1854, at his home in New Castle, which stood on the ground now occupied by the handsome residence of Theodore R. Vaughan, diagonally across the street from the Presbyterian Church. His remains are interred in the old cemetery in New Castle. His wife also died in New Castle and is buried in the old cemetery.
After the failure of the mercantile enterprise above mentioned. William G. Henry, who was a highly educated man and polished gentleman, and who had also been in the Virginia Legislature, turned his attention to teaching, his first school being in the old Henry County Seminary, in the Winter of 1836-37. He had among his pupils, Martin L. Bundy, Luther C. Mellett, James T. Moore and Reason Powers. In the Winter of 1838-39, he taught school in Liberty Town- ship, near the home of the late Samuel D. Wells, and during this period, died in New Castle, and was buried in the old cemetery. He left, surviving him, his widow and four children, namely : Charles, William R., Marshall G. and Cornelia. His widow in 1842 married Thaddeus Owens, who was at one time a considerable figure in New Castle. He came from Dearborn County, Indiana, in 1834 and for several years kept hotel on what is now known as the Citizens' State Bank corner. He went from New Castle to Cambridge City and thence to Hagers- town, keeping hotel in each place. He died and was buried in Hagerstown.
When Colonel Ralph Berkshire and wife, accompanied by William G. Henry and family, came to New Castle, they brought with them the first piano ever seen in that place.
William Ralph Henry was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1828. and as stated, came to Henry County, with his parents. His grandfather. being an influential Whig and a warm supporter of Caleb B. Smith, secured his appointment to the United States Military Academy. At the end of two years spent in the Academy, he came home on furlough and while in New Castle, chancing one night to sleep in the old frame hotel, which stood where the Bundy House now stands, he was found, the next morning, in a room distant from the one to which he had been assigned. Incidents of similar character showed him to be a somnambulist and his death, as related in the letter of General Miles, must doubtless be ascribed to this fact. The author acknowledges himself to be indebted to Judge Martin L. Bundy for the biographical information above set forth.
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JOHN EDWIN HOLLAND.
John Edwin Holland was appointed to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, from New Castle, Indiana, on the recommendation of Congressman David Kilgore. entering the Academy, July 1, 1860, where he re- mained until February 3. 1861, when he resigned. The cause of his resignation was his belief that civil war was imminent and his determination to become an active participant therein. Before entering the volunteer service, however, he rendered valuable aid to the companies being organized in Henry County, because of his military knowledge, gained while at the Academy.
He entered the army in Company C, 36th Indiana Infantry, and was mustered into the service of the United States, as Second Lieutenant, September 16, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant and mustered as such, August 3, 1863. Transferred to the Signal Corps, September 18, 1863. Honorably discharged, July 4, 1864.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
The Hollands came originally from Guilford County, North Carolina, to Butler County, Ohio, settling near Oxford, and from there the family moved to Union County, Indiana. The county records relating to transfers of land show that the family came to Henry County, in the Fall of 1830, locating in Dudley Township, in the extreme southeastern part of the county. The old family record in possession of Mrs. Mary Waddell, of Straughn, a daughter of Henry Holland, shows the following :
Reverend Joshua Holland, son of Laban Holland and Rebecca, his wife ; born December 25, 1774; died February 10, 1850.
Nancy Jones, daughter of William and Mary Jones; born about the year 1784: died October 24. 1874.
The two were married in Guilford County, North Carolina, July 17. 1808, by the Reverend Moses Crume. Both are buried in the Holland Cemetery, in Dudley Township, near Straughn. Their children were as follows: John Wesley, born June 24. 1809; Laban, born October 4, 1810; Polly, born January 20, 1812: married to Stanford Waddell, January 10, 1833; Joshua, born November 29. 1813; Asbury, born March 20, 1815: died August 19. 1856: William Hunt, born May 14, 1818; Henry, born May 19, 1820; died March 28. 1900; buried in Hol- land Cemetery ; David, born February 16, 1822; died October 5, 1850; Elijah, born August 27, 1824; died at the residence of his brother, Henry Holland, in Dudley Township, September 24, 1863; buried in Holland Cemetery: Nancy, born August 8, 1827. died November 8, 1851 : Lemuel, born March 15, 1829; died April 1, 1852 : one child died in infancy.
Of the above named. special mention may be made of Henry, Elijah and Joshua Holland, second. Henry Holland was for many years a farmer and honored citizen of Henry County, living near the Holland Cemetery, in Dudley Township, where he is well remembered; Elijah Holland was for a number of years a resident of New Castle, being associated with his brother Joshua, in the general mercantile business, and, during the Civil War, was connected with the Paymasters' Department, under Major Martin L. Bundy, but he was compelled to relinquish the latter service on account of ill health.
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JOSHUA HOLLAND (SECOND) AND FAMILY.
Joshua Holland (second) and Nancy Ramsey were married June 6, 1838, by the Reverend D. V. Smock. The Ramsey family were from Crawford County, Pennsylvania, near Geneva. When Joshua Holland was fourteen years of age, he was apprenticed at Liberty, Union County, Indiana, to learn the trade of a cabinet maker, serving, altogether, nearly five years. After this he worked at his trade, as a journeyman, for two years and then clerked in different stores in Knightstown, for six years. His long and honorable business career began in Knightstown.
The first account of him in the public affairs of Henry County is as postmaster at Knightstown, serving from March 25, 1835, to April 6, 1837. In 1840-41 he was County Collector. This was an elective office, which existed in Indiana from 1822 to 1840, and it was the Collector's duty to travel over the county, collect the taxes and deposit the proceeds with the County Treasurer, who up to 1841 was selected by the County Commissioners. At that time the office became elective and Joshua Holland was elected, serving as Treasurer for the then term of three years, from 1841 to 1844. He was thus the last County Collector and the first elected Treasurer of Henry County. This office brought him from Knightstown to New Castle, where he continued to reside until his death.
When his term as Treasurer had expired, he engaged in mercantile business, having for his partner, Robert Woods, of Knightstown, under the firm name of Woods and Holland. Their store was on the north side of the Court House square. This partnership continued until 1850, when Mr. Holland succeeded to the business and moved his store into the south room of the Murphey Block, just then completed, where he remained in business until after the Civil War, when he built and occupied the store room now used by Vaughan and Company. He continued there until 1873, when he retired from active business. In 1883-85 Joshua Holland served as County Commissioner, which was his last public office and which may be said to have marked the termination of his long and active business and official career.
John Edwin Holland, son of Joshua and Nancy (Ramsey ) Holland, is a well remembered young man of New Castle. He was educated in the public schools of the town and trained to the mercantile business in his father's store. After his discharge from the army in 1864, he took a position under his old com- mander, Major Isaac Kinley, in the office of the Provost Marshal for the district at Richmond, where he rendered efficient service in securing and forwarding recruits to the army and in discharging other important duties. While holding this position, he was united in marriage, at Richmond, on May 22, 1865, with Virginia Caroline Wiggins, born June 21, 1842, daughter of William and Emma ( Pyle) Wiggins. The war being over he returned to New Castle and joined his father in business, but his health rapidly failed and he died April 8, 1867. His wife had died on March 17, 1867, and his remains were buried by her side in Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Indiana.
Joshua Holland's family record, now in the possession of his niece, Mrs. Florence (Grubbs) Starr, of Richmond, Indiana, shows the following: Joshua Holland, born at Oxford, Ohio, November 29, 1813; died April 20, 1894; Nancy
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Ramsey, born October 19, 1815; died February 28, 1897. The two were married June 6, 1838. The children were: John Edwin, born April 5, 1841 ; died April 8, 1867; Mary Elizabeth, born December 14, 1843; died April 18, 1870; Alice Tone, born September 1, 1845; married to William Clinton Murphey, November 29, 1866; died December 22, 1869; William Clinton Murphey, husband of Ione, born January 7, 1842; died July 21, 1898; William Henry, born September 22, 1847 ; died August 28, 1869; Anna Eliza, born December 31, 1849; died Febru- ary 27, 1872; Anna Florence Murphey, only grandchild of Joshua and Nancy Holland, was born October 12, 1867; died February 22, 1885. All of the above. except Jolin E. Holland and his wife, are buried in South Mound Cemetery, New Castle.
CHARLES LA FAYETTE CALVERT.
Charles La Fayette Calvert was appointed to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, from New Castle, Indiana, as the successor of John E. Holland, on the recommendation of Congressman David Kilgore, entering the Academy, July 1, 1861, where he remained until February 19, 1864, when he resigned to enter the army in the volunteer service, in the Civil War. He enlisted in New York City, in Company F, 165th New York Infantry, and was mustered into the service of the United States, as a private, April 7, 1864. He was mus- tered out August 26, 1865. He served with his regiment in the Department of the Gulf. He was stationed for a time at New Orleans, Louisiana, and afterwards, when the regiment came North, he was on duty in New York Harbor. His object in entering the volunteer service was to take an active part in the war, which he saw was coming to a close, expecting to get a commission in the volunteers, and then at the close of the war, to be transferred to the regular army. In this, unfortunately, he did not succeed. Cadet Calvert was a born soldier and had he remained at West Point and graduated, or had he succeeded in getting his com- mission in the volunteers and then a transfer to the regular army, at the close of the war, he would undoubtedly have had a long and honorable military career.
In the Summer of 1863, when he was at home on furlough, the Morgan Raid occurred and during this time, Cadet Calvert served as a volunteer aid on the staff of Brigadier General Henry B .. Carrington, commanding the troops at Indianapolis.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
James. Calvert, born May 15, 1808, and Amanda Washington Clift, born August II, 1811, were married in Mason County, Kentucky, October 31, 1833. Wilson Clift, a brother of Amanda W., was about this time engaged in hauling bacon from New Castle, Indiana, to Cincinnati, Ohio, and there in February, 1834, the newly married couple met him and made the trip with him in his: wagon to Henry County, where they settled on eighty acres of land on Flat- rock, near New Castle. Later they left the farm and moved to the latter place. In 1840 they moved to Anderson, Indiana, where Mr. Calvert engaged in mer- cantile business until 1846, when he sold out and returned to New Castle, where he bought of Bushrod W. Scott the frame hotel, afterwards known as the Calvert House, which stood on the corner now occupied by the Citizens' State Bank.
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After a few years, he sold this hotel and moved to his farm, two miles northwest of New Castle, adjoining the county farm, now owned, in large part, by Joseph M. Brown. A few years later, he rented his farm and returned to New Castle, where he leased and kept the hotel, which had formerly been his, but which had, in the meantime, become the property of George W. Lennard. Here he remained until about the breaking out of the Civil War, when he again returned to his farm, where he continued to live until 1867, when he exchanged the farm with Charles Slatter for property in Indianapolis. He moved to the Capital City and resided there and elsewhere on a near-by farm until his death, July 24, 1879, at the age of seventy one years. He is buried in the old Cemetery, New Castle. His wife died, January 18, 1890, in her seventy eighth year, at Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana, where she is buried.
Charles La Fayette Calvert, son of James and Amanda W. (Clift) Calvert, was born in Anderson, Indiana, September 2, 1840. There were five other chil- dren, named respectively : James Nelson, Henry Clay, Redmond, Caroline V. and John H.
The above biographical facts were obtained from Charles L. Calvert, who is now a resident and prominent business man of Liberal, Seward County, Kansas.
OMAR BUNDY.
Omar Bundy was appointed to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, on the recommendation of Congressman Milton S. Robinson, entering the Academy, July 1, 1879, where he remained until June 13, 1883, when he was graduated fiftieth in his class and promoted in the army to
SECOND LIEUTENANT, 2ND INFANTRY, JUNE 13, 1883.
Served : On Frontier duty at Fort Lapwai, Idaho, October 2, 1883, to June 9.
(TRANSFERRED TO 3RD INFANTRY, MAY 13, 1884.)
1884,-and Fort Missoula, Montana, to August 18, 1885; under instruction at the Infantry and Cavalry School of Application, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, September 1, 1885, to July 1, 1887; and on Frontier duty at Fort Missoula, Montana, to May 21, 1888,-and Fort Meade, South Dakota, to March, 1891.
(FIRST LIEUTENANT, 3RD INFANTRY, MAY 26, 1890. ).
Served: In the Campaign against Sioux Indians in South Dakota during the Winter of 1890-91 ; at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1891 to 1898, where he performed the duties of Regimental and Post Quartermaster from April, 1895. to April, 1898 .- At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War
(CAPTAIN, 6TH INFANTRY, APRIL 26, 1898.) (CAPTAIN AND COMMISSARY OF SUBSISTANCE, U. S. VOLUNTEERS, MAY 12, 1898-DECLINED.)
he went with his regiment to Mobile, Alabama, and to Cuba; took part in battle of El Caney, Cuba, July 1, 1898, and was present at the siege of Santiago; in Cuba to July II, 1898 .- On recruiting service at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to March
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7, 1899 .- Garrison Duty at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to May 17, 1899 .- En route to and in the Philippine Islands to June 21, 1902.
(REGIMENTAL QUARTERMASTER, MARCH 10, 1899, TO AUGUST 31, 1899.)
With Company on the field on the Island of Negros, Philippine Islands, from Sep- tember 1, 1899, to July 31, 1900. Acting Inspector General, Department of the Visayas, August 1, 1900, to September 1, 1901. Provost Marshal, Iloilo, Philip- pine Islands, September 1, 1901, to May 19, 1902, on which date his regiment embarked for the United States. Garrison duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from July 2, 1902. Assistant Instructor, Department of Law,
(MAJOR, 6TH INFANTRY, JULY 12, 1904.)
at the Infantry and Cavalry School, September 1, 1902, to September 1, 1904. Commanding Second Battalion, 6th Infantry, from September I, 1904, to Sailed from San Francisco with his regiment for duty in the Philippine Islands, March 1, 1905. Now in the Islands.
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