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drangh's Hill. On the 16th of February, 1562. the regiment went to Padneah, and from there it joined the army commanded by Gen. Pope, at Cameron. Mo. He was with his company, and participated in the engagements at Island No. 10. New Madrid and Riddle's Point. After these victories, there followed a siege of five weeks at Fort Pillow, and on the 5th of June, the battle- flag of the regiment was raised in trinmph over this stronghold of the enemy. The next day, the city of Memphis was captured. the Forty-sixth being the first regiment of Union troops which marched throngh its streets. On the 14th of June. he left Mem- phis with his regiment. participating in the brilliant engagement at St. Charles, where the regiment charged the rebel works, capt. ming the enemy's guns and a number of prisoners. Then fol- lowed the campaign of the fall and winter of 1562-63. including Arkansas Post. the Tallahachie. Dnvall's Bluff, Yazoo Pass and Fort Pemberton, in which the members of this regiment won imperishable renown. On the 12th of April. 1563. the regiment. which then formed a part of the Nineteenth Army Corps, started for Milliken's Bond, and took an active part in the memorable ompaign at Vicksburg. participating in the battles at Port Gib son, Champion Hills and Jackson, and during the siege of Vick- burg for forty four days. In these engagements, his regiment lost. in killed and wounded. more than one-fourth of the number engaged.
During these sanguinary engagements. his eouspienens brav ory had attracted the attention of his superior officers. He had already been promoted to the rank of Captain of his company. his commission dating May 26. 1562. On the 24th of September. 1863. he was detailed. by order of Gen. Grant as Signal Officer for the Department of the Gulf, and immediately reported to Gen. Banks for duty. He was assigned to duty as Chief Signal Officer of the Nineteenth Army Corps. How well he discharged his duties during the military movements in Louisiana and Texas may be seen from the following extract from the official report of Gen. Banks: " The signal corps has been of essential service in this department. in all our operations by land and water. In our recent movements npon the coast of Texas. it was the only means of communication between the inland bays and the coast. and, withont the assistance of the Signal Officer, it seems as if we would sometimes have been deprived of the power of commu nication. The gentlemen connected with the Signal Corps in this department are mien of excellent character, great energy and conrage, almost always in front of the army and in positions of danger. ** * 'I do not know that I have ever received a complaint of neglect of duty by any Signal Officer. I wish to make my nnqualified approval. both of the utility of the corps and the conduet of its officers." On the Sth of April. 1564. at the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, he was severely wounded in the left breast, and was carried from the field. His robust con stitution and determined spirit bnoyed him np. and, after some time spent at home under the care of loving hands and skillful treatment. he so far recovered as to be able to rejoin his command and serve his country until the termination of the war.
History shines brighter to-day under the record of his hero- ism. His faith in the final triumph of the holy canse for which he fought never faltered for a moment during the darkost days of that baptism of blood. Warm-hearted and genial, his friends are found wherever he was known. In September. ISBI. he was made a Master Mason, and he ever lived a consistent and worthy member of the order.
Capt. Pigman died on the 21st of December, 1866. He died
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in the pride and vigor of his manhood. at the early age of twenty- ! than the betterment of the county and community in which he six years; when life was spanned by the bow of promise; when honored and loved by a grateful people; and when prepared. to -.
wear the honors he had so nobly won., Alas! how true it is that
. "The boast of heraldry. the pomp of power; And all that beauty, all that wealth c'er gave. Await alike the inevitable hour ;
The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
ENOCH RINEHART.
Enoch Rinehart was born in Hampshire County. Va .. August 17, 1815. His paternal ancestry was of German extraction. and the maternal stock of Irish lineage. He remembered his pater- nal grandfather as a large, portly man, with a flowing beard and the sturdy habits characteristic of, the members of that religious society known as the Dunkards. His father was a well-to-do Virginia farmer, and, after receiving a liberal education, such as was attainable in that State in the country schools at that time. he assisted his father on the farm. „At the age of twenty-one, he became profoundly impressed with the belief that the Western States afforded better opportunities for a young man than did the ancient commonwealth of Virginia, and so it was he determined to come West and grow up with Indiana. He settled in La Fay- ette, in 1836, where he remained one year working at the carpen- ter's trade. From La Fayette he went to Monticello and worked there a year; thence to the then thriving village of Americus, where he engaged as clerk to Messrs. Walsou & Son, who were conducting a general merchandise store, and remained with them about a year. In November, 1839, he came to. Delphi and ac- cepted a situation with H. W. & A. H. Bowen, remaining with them until some time in 1841, when he was tendered a more lu- crative situation with Spears & Case, then doing a general mer- chandise business in this city. He remained in their employ until in August, 1844, at which time, in pursuance of the voice of his fellow-citizens, he entered upon the duties of Sheriff of the county. So faithfully and well did he perform the trusts of the office that he was honored with a re-election in 1846. March 10, 1847, he was appointed City Treasurer. In 1848, he engaged with George Robertson in the manufacture and sale of paper. and that business has engrossed his attention to the present time. In 1819, the paper-mill, built in 1846. was destroyed by fire. but was rebuilt in 1850-51, and is now standing. In 1857. in con- nection with Vine Holt, Esq., he erected a substantial business block on Main street, and, during the year following, built his large and handsome dwelling house on the corner of Front and Market streets. In all of the enterprises of public utility and advantage, he has always occupied advanced ground, and was tireless in their advocacy and liberal with his means in their ad- vancement. For twenty years, he was a moving spirit in the scheme of uniting the great city of Chicago with the capital of our State by an air-line railway, and, during several years, while the enterprise was struggling for a foothold, when it needed brave and unyielding men, he was a member of the Board of Directors. It is gratifying to remark that, at an early day, he will witness the consummation of that for which he so ardently hoped and zealously toiled. His interest in the building-up and develop- ment of the resources of the county has been active and continu- ous. For several years, he was the President of the Carroll County Agricultural Association, and gave the society a vast amount of his valuable time without pay or hope of reward other
lived. He is an active member of the Masonic order, and was a charter member of Mount Olive Lodge, No. 48, instituted Juno 13. 1842. Severing his connection with the parent lodge, ho became, a charter member of Advance . Lodge, No. 220, which afterward surrendered its charter. He then united with, Delphi Lodge, No. 516, in which he still retains membership -not nom- inal, but active. During his long membership, he has held many offices of trust and honor in the order:
Mr. Rinehart has been twice married. He was first united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth F. Parker. in Springfield, Va .. June 6. 1845, with, whom he lived but a. short time until the happy relations were destroyed by the hand of death. His sec- ond marriage was to Miss Isabelle.Moore. July 14. 1849. Three sons are living, the fruits of this union, viz. : Edward M., Will- iam A. and Harry M. : Mr. Rinehart is a representative type of the wide-awake American business man, who believes that his individual interests are best subserved by carrying forward the community in which he lives.
JAMES M. WATTS.
The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Burling- ton. Carroll Co .. Ind .. July 2. 1839. . His paternal great-grand- father. Andrew Watts. Sr .. was a native of South Carolina and served in the war of 1812. His father. Andrew Watts, Jr., was born in Tennessee May 25, 1801. His mother. Drusilla Watts, was born in Clarksburg. Va .. February 14. 1814. The parental families came to Indiana in 1829. and settled in Tippecanoe County. near Dayton. At this place. the parents of our subject were united in marriage. September 6, 1832, and soon thereafter moved to Burlington. Andrew Watts. the father, died in Del- phi April 29. 1871: the mother is still living. James worked on the farm until he was about fifteen years of age. attending school during the winter. He then entered a dry goods store at Logans- port, where he served about eighteen months. after which time he. spenti three years in school at Battle Ground. In 1860, be engaged as clerk in the dry goods store of Gaylord. Frisbie & Co .. in Delphi, where he remained until April 18. 1861, when, responding to the first call for volunteers, he enlisted in Com- pany A. Ninth Indiana Infantry, and served with the regiment through the West Virginia campaign. participating in the battles at Philippi. Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford. At the expiration of his term of service. July 29, 1861, he was minstered out, and, on the 5th of October following, he re-enlisted in the Forty-sixth Indiana Infantry. November 2. he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company A. and. May: 26, 1862. he was promoted to the First Lientenancy of the company. On the 20th of Octo- ber. he was appointed Adjutant of the regiment. Within the limits of a brief biographical sketch. it is impossible to give in detail the marches, countermarches and inovements of the com- mand. Much information of this character will be found' in the history of the Forty-sixth Regiment. in another department of this work. Suffice it to say that Mr. Watts was with the regi- ment in the Kentucky. Missouri and Mississippi River campaigns of 1862 and 1863. and participated in the battle at New Madrid, the bombardment of Island No. 10. the capture of Memphis and the battle at Port Gibson .. In the latter engagement. he received a gun shot wound, which, to a person of a less robust constitu- tion, would doubtless have proved fatal. The ball entered in front of the. second floating rib. traversed the upper abdominal
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cavity and passed out near the vertebral colomn. The wound was received May 1. 1863. After suffering intensely in the fickl hospital for twelve days, he was removed to an officers' hospital at Memphis, where. under better treatment. he rapidly recor- ered. and. the last of June. he was able to go home. After spending a month in the North recruiting his health. he rejoined his regiment at Vicksburg July 30. Thence he went with his command to New Orleans, where the regiment veteranized. and. in the spring of 1864. participated in the campaign known in history as " the Red River expedition of Gen. Banks." After this expedition, which was as fruitful in severo skirmishes and hard service as it was barren of good results. the command re- turned to New Orleans, and the veteranized part of the regiment etune home on furlongh. after which it re-organized and resmed service in Kentucky, performing garrison duty at Lexington. Thence the command went up the Sandy River to convey supplies to Gen. Burbridge's cavalry corps. After its return to Loving- ton. Mr. Watts, then Adjutant of the regiment, was transferred to and commissioned Major of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Indiana Infantry March 9. 1865. He at once joined his now regiment in the Shenandoah Valley, near Harper's Ferry. where he served until his regiment was minstered ont. Angust IS, 1865.
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abandoned the dry goods business, went to Selma. Ala .. and bo- came largely interested in an oil-mill. After two years of expe- rience in the manufacturing business, hequietly abandoned it and returned to Delphi. In 1873. he was appointed Postmaster, re- appointed in 1877. and again appointed in 1881.
Mr. Watts holds two brevet commissions under date of June 6. 1867. For "gallant and meritorions servic; at the battle of Port Gibson." he was made a Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, and for " gallant and meritorious service during the war." he was hon- ored with the rank of Brevet Colonel.
He is an active member of the Masonic order: was made a Master Mason in October. 1861: a Royal Arch member in 1566: a Knight Templar in 1876; and received the degrees of the Con- sistory to ard including the thirty second. in March. 1879. Ho lins served three term- as High Priest of Delphi Chapter. No. 22. and was a charter member of Delphi Lodge. No. 516. Ho has represented his lodge and chapter in the State grand bodies. Ho is an active member of the Methodist Church, with which he united in 1867.
December 31. 1866. he was married to Miss Cornelia J. Blanchard. who died June 4. 1874. October 11. 1876. he was married to Miss Josephine L. Blanchard, a sister to his former wife. In his life-work. Mr. Watts has been generally success
Returning to Delphi, he engaged in the dry goods trade as a member of the firm of Simpson. Watts & Howes. In 1869. he ! ful. and is deemed a valuable citizen.
ADAMS TOWNSHIP.
LOCATION, BOUNDARY, ETC.
Adams lies in the northwestero part of Carroll County. It is a township of irregular shape, owing to the course of the Wabash River, which forms its eastern boundary line, separating it from Rock Creek Township. Its northern boundary line i- the line between the counties of Carroll and Cass, while Jefferson Town- ship bounds it on the west and Tippecanoe Township on the sonth. Its natural features resemble those of other townships in the county, through which important water-courses have their way. From the central part of the township. the surface is a SETTLEMENT. series of gentle undulations, which gradually increase in altitude Although there were purchases of public lands in the township as early as the year 1826. it would seem they were purchased for purposes of speculation and not for settlement. All that part of Section IS lying in Adams Township was entered by James Hay- den, in April. 1826: but it is said he never was a settler, and this statement receives sanction by the large tract of land contained in this parchase. It was very unusual for an actual settlor to enter more than a quarter-section at a time, and still more com- mon for them to enter forty and eighty-acre tracts. It is likely. therefore, that Hayden was a capitalist. and held the land to sell at advanced prices, as did many others at a later day. A large proportion of the lands in the western and southwestern portions of the township were still held by the Indians after the settle- . ment of the eastern and northern parts had been begun; and, al- though these lands did not come into market until later. it is be- men, who. however, made no improvements and failed to identify themselves in any way with the history of the township. At just. toward the eastern extremity, terminating in bluff banks at the Wabash River, and facing that stream throughout its entire conrse through the township. Toward the western and north- western portions, the surface is quite level, and, in some places, fat and swampy. The greater portion of these low lands, how- ever, have been redeemed by a system of drainage, and made use- ful for purposes of agriculture. The township is well watered. there being two important streams besides the Wabash. These are Rattlesnake and Burnett's Creeks. both of which have been utilized since early days for their excellent water-power, turning milling machinery for nearly half a century. Saw-mills were numerous in early times as well as in later years. And the town ship, being heavily timbered, has proved a favorable locality for enterprises of that nature. Among the timber still standing there are large quantities of oak, hickory and poplar, all possess- lieved that some of them were occupied temporarily by white ing a market value and meeting with a ready sale. All the varie- ties of timber usually met with in this latitude flourished here in
great abundance, holding sway over the lands which, by subso- quent treaty with the Indians, were placed in the market for pur- chase and improvement by the whites, and of these varieties somo became almost extinet in the process of clearing lands for culti- vation. They covered a rich and fertile soil, which, in the years since the settlement began, has been successfully tilled by skilled hands. and well-kept farms have succeeded the forests through which the painted savage onee roamed iu quest of game.
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what time the settlement began, or who was the first white settler, it is impossible to say with accuracy. It is certain, however. that William Hicks was among the first, and perhaps an assertion that he was the very first would not be contradicted. He came to the township in 1828 or 1829, and settled on the banks of the Wabash, just above the present site of Lockport. He remained here but a few years, but while here he was a good citizen and am industrious man. He cleared and improved a portion of the land npon which he located, but finally removed to another lo- culity, and all trace of him is lost from that date.
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