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posed in it by friends and relatives of the volunteers who composed it.
" Drawn up on the fine parade grounds in front of Camp Logan, something like three hours were occupied in preparing to march. The scene was one of deep interest to the spectators, as was testified by the large number of persons who, during the hours which inter- vened from 8 to 11 o'clock, and on the march from the camp to the Wabash Valley Depot, watched every movement and attended every step of the regiment.
" The troops looked well in their uniforms, accoutrements and arms, and their soldierly bearing and ready and intelligent obedience to orders, indicated their rapid and satisfactory progress in the manual of arms.
"The oath was administered to the soldiers by companies, and at the conclusion, all the commissioned officers advanced to the front and center, where the oath was administered by Lieut. Phelps of the regular army, and the commissions of the company officers delivered to them.
"The march of the regiment was through a vast concourse of people, which increased in numbers as it approached the depot, where it was variously estimated at from 4,000 to 7,000.
"Owing to an unfortunate delay, the flag purchased in Cincin- nati for the regiment did not arrive till about the time the regiment reached the depot, and hence, the arrangements for its presentation at the camp were frustrated, and the singing of National songs by the Logan Glee Club omitted altogether. The flag was a hand- some one made of silk, with . 46th Reg. of Ind. Vols.' marked with silver cloth on the center stripe, and the whole displayed on a flag- staff ten feet long, handsomely ornamented. The flag was pre- sented at the depot by C. B. Lasselle, Esq., and was accepted in be- half of the regiment by Col. Fitch." The speech and response are as follows:
"Col. Fitch, Gentlemen, and Soldiers of the Forty-sixth Regi- ment :- Your fellow-citizens of Cass County, as the highest testi- monial they can give of the esteem which they bear you, and as a token of the anticipations they entertain of your future good conduct in the field to which you are called, have procured, and now present to you this National banner of our Union. In saying this much, we have said all, perhaps, that is necessary to be said; yet, we feel that
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we would commune still further with you, did our time permit; but it does not. Permit us to add, however, that we present you this flag with full confidence that its glories will not be tarnished, nor our confidence disappointed, while it remains in your hands.
"It is not necessary or proper on this occasion that we should refer to the causes or nature of the present unfortunate war. We will only say, let those causes be what they may, its termination successful or unsuccessful, or whatever shall be the judgment of posterity upon those who may have contributed to its existence, we can assure you that upon the faithful performance of your duty under the Government you will receive-as brave and generous men always receive-the approbation of your country.
"I need not tell you that we expect much of you, whether in the enemy's presence or in the enemy's country. We know the officers in command to be brave, skillful and humane, and we are fully sat- isfied of the courage, promptitude and obedience of those in the ranks. While in the enemy's country we shall look for no act of depredation or insult to private property or personal feelings that would be unworthy of you. Should it be your fortune, as it prob- ably soon will be, to meet the enemy upon the battle-field, we shall hope that the fame of Indiana, as yet unsullied in this strife, will be fully sustained by the gallantry of the Forty-sixth.
"Then take this flag, with our affections, our regrets and our hopes. Our prayer is that you may soon return with it in prosper- ity and honor; but we enjoin you, if you accept it, to return it with honor, or return it not at all."
Reply of Col. Fitch:
" Mr. Lasselle: We thank you, and through you the citizens of Cass County, for the flag which you have done us the honor to present to us. We accept it with gratitude; and we will treasure it as a me- mento of their kindness at all times, and wherever it may be our for- tune to be placed. As to the high anticipations you may have formed of our future good conduct in the field, I will only say that our acts shall speak for themselves, but I trust they shall not prove false to your hopes; and when we return, should we return at all, I promise you that we will do so with this flag above us, or we shall return with it around us. I accept it in the name of the regiment, and now place it in the keeping of the color-guard, who will bear it aloft be- fore us, reminding us of the kind hearts left behind us, and guiding us upon the path of honor and duty.'
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" At 12 o'clock the special train moved off for Lafayette, amid the cheers of soldiers and citizens, followed by earnest prayers for their protection from the dangers of the battle-field and the camp, and a safe return to their homes. The train stopped a short time at Delphi, where a large audience greeted the men with a glad wel- come. At Lafayette the regiment marched through the streets, escorted by the Fortieth Regiment, under Col. Blake."
The Forty-sixth Regiment reached Indianapolis safely, where it remained until Saturday, December 14, when it left for Kentucky. stopping at Camp Wickliffe, at which place it went into camp, march- ing thence, on the 16th of February, 1862, to the mouth of Salt River, but afterward to Paducah. From that time forward it was almost continually in active service.
The following is the composition of the Forty-sixth Regiment, so far as the companies, in whole or in part, were citizens of Cass County: Colonel, Graham N. Fitch; lieutenant-colonel, Newton G. Scott; major, Thomas H. Bringhurst; adjutant, Richard P. DeHart; quartermaster, David D. Dykeman; surgeon, Horace Coleman; chaplain, Robert Erwin; drum-major, James M. Vigus; fife-major, Alfred U. McAlister; bass drummer, William S. Richardson.
Company B-Captain, Aaron M. Flory; first lieutenant, John Castle; second lieutenant, John Arnout; first sergeant, Matthew K. Graham; sergeants, Franklin Swigart, Isaac Castle, E. B. Forgy, John W. Tippett; corporals, Theodore B. Forgy, Austin Adair, Robert I. Bryer, Thomas Castle, Loren O. Stevens, Thomas Jame- son, John R. Cunningham, Johnson M. Reed; drummer, Jay M. Richardson; teamster, George W. Cronk; privates, William Bell, Asa J. Black, James Black, Charles F. Bellington, Henry Brown, George Bruington, John W: Castle, Harrison Caller, Samuel S. Cus- ter, James Cumpton, Benjamin Carmine, George P. Dale, William Davis, George M. Doane, James C. Dill, J. W. Dague, Abraham Ellis, Dickenson Forgy, George W. Forgy, John D. Forgy, John Fox, Samuel Fox, James W. Gordon, William Guard, William H. Grant, Isaac Grant, John Horrell, William Hart, Samuel Haney, Amos Hart, Jesse Hulce, William P. Horney, Hezekiah Ingham, John J. Jameson, Samuel L. Jump, William B. Kerns, Levi Lynch, Reese D. Laird, George Lowbrick, Adams McMillen, George Mc- Carty, William R. Morse, Peter Mice, Stephen Mellinger, Henry Martin, Albert Michael, Marcellus H. Nash, Augustine W. Nash,
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George W. Oden, John N. Oliver, William Pfoutz, Frank Pfoutz, Samuel N. Pennell, Philip Pierson, Joseph Redd, Charles Reeder, William A. Rodgers, Theophilus Rodgers, Chancey Rodgers, George Rance, Abraham Rutt, Joseph Roberts, Samuel Stuart, Thomas Stu- art, John T. Shields, Joshua P. Shields, Joseph Specia, Nicholas S. Smith, Samuel Tipton; William F. Thomas, Aurelius J. Voorheis. Manlius Voorheis, Isaac J. Winters, Michael Welsh, Warren Wag- oner, Robert S. Whittaker.
Company D-Captain, John Guthrie; first lieutenant, Will- iam M. DeHart; second lieutenant, Charles A. Brownlee; first sergeant, Alex K. Ewing; sergeants, Le Roy J. Anderson, Jordan R. Tyner, Andrew J. Little, James A. Pepper; corporals, John B. Stephen, Elijah J. Hunt, Ambrose Up:legraff, John P. Lim- ing, William La Quere, William H. Crocket, Robert Bernethy. Cornelius B. Woodruff; drummer, T. W. Kendrick; teamster, James Williams. Privates, Thomas J. Bell, Martin V. Blue, Mich- ael J. Blue, David Bruminee, Joseph F. W. Boon, Josiah Budd, John Butler, George Baer, Moses M. Crocket, Patrick CliffordI, Samuel W. Cree, William Cornell, James W. Cloud, Jacob Crip- liver, Gao. A. Cassell, Downham, Patrick Dougherty, George E. Dodd, Joseph Dickey, David Dickey, Joseph H. Dobbins, Thomas De Ford, Terry Dunn, Anthony A. Eskew, Nicholas Gransinger, James Gardener, William H. Garey, Adam Hinkle, A. B. Herman, Ed- ward Hatfield, Jacob Hitchens, Alfred Hitchens, Samuel L. Ireland, Julius W. Jackson, Noah Jones, David Jones, Daniel O'Keefe, William W. Loudermilk, Andrew J. Lovengire, Thomas J. Lynch, Michael Murray, John McTaggart, Peter McDermot, Patrick Mc- Gloin, Wright L. Nield, George Nield, William Niles, Samuel Per- kins, Henry W. Powell, Thomas Robinson, Joseph H. Smith, George See, Andrew Stover, William H. Small, John Shea, Daniel W. Sam- uels, Perry Springstead, Robert Shaw, Lemuel H. Tam, James To- len, Andrew J. Woods, William Woods, Nicholas Welsh, Joseph Williams, Porter A. White, Benjamin Warfield, John Williamson.
Company I-Captain, James H. Thomas; first lieutenant, J. W. Frank Liston; second lieutenant, Napoleon B. Boothe; sergeant, Hampton C. Boothe; corporals, Frederick Fitch, Israel Washburn, Robert McElheny, John Douglass. Privates, Thomas Burton, Will- iam A. Custer, Walter Dunkel, Henry Fishbaugh, William Fallis, John Grass, William Hancock, Jacob Hudlow, John Humbard, Van
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Buren Julian, A. Johnson, Solomon Kline, Jeff Kistler, John Krel- ler, William Keefe, John May, Henry Myers, C. D. Mellinger, William Myers, John Means, William Oliver, John Persinger, George Porter, James Parish, S. M. Surface, John Stiver, William Spader, Charles Seagraves, James Todd, Valentine Todd, Samuel Todd, W. J. Walters, J. W. Walters, Dennis Whitmore, John A. Warfield, Eli Washburn, Taylor Wilson.
Company C-Capt. Schermerhorn, Thornton A. Burley, George Collins, Benjamin B. Chilcott.
Company F-Capt. Howell, David Connell, Samuel Grable, Corrigan Lawrence, James S. Tripp, Albert W. Tripp, Michael Traffe, Josep Willis.
Company E-Capt. Spencer, P. H. Burk, Frank M. Davis, George W. Clinger, Ed C. Means, James McCombs, George W. Murray, Nathaniel Nichols, F. M. St. Clair, Moses W. Tucker, John R. Waterbury, Roselle Young, Marion M. Young.
Company H-Capt. Sill, Ed B. Coulson, Richard W. Palmer.
An extract from a letter written by Dan H. Bennett, of the Ninth Indiana, bearing date April 9, 1862, gives a brief statement of the part taken by the companies from this county in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing :
" I have just returned this evening from the field of the hardest fought battle known to our history. As to the advance by the enemy and our victory, you have been apprised, no doubt, ere this, by tele- graph, and were I to attempt a description I would fall short of do- ing justice to the subject. The number of dead and wounded on both sides was terrible. The fight raged with indomitable fury over seven miles square, as that was the length of our color lines, and the enemy were driven by inches, as it were, for that distance.
"It is truly an appalling and heart-rending spectacle to pass over the field and witness the scenes connected with it. Dead and wounded strewn in every direction, and those in the last throes of death, appealing for aid, and no one to render them any assistance, and in consequence they were compelled to surrender up their ex- istence without the aid of a physician.
"Cass County boys were in the heat of the fight all day on Monday, yet they escaped remarkably. Below I give the names of the killed and wounded: Capt. Lasselle's Company K, of the Ninth -Killed, -Cathcart (initials not known) ; badly wounded, Lieut.
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Joseph S. Turner, M. P. Hearne, S. Hanna, S. Kendall, G. W. Langston, William L. McConnell, George Campbell; slightly wound- ed, Newton Victor, J. Rhonamus.
"Twenty-ninth Indiana, Company E-Badly wounded, J. M. Bennett, Tyre Douglass, S. Bishop, J. Chesnut, D. Callahan, Ben- son Enyart, Henry Pownell, J. W. Green; slightly wounded, M. Mitchell, George Myers.
"The entire loss of the Ninth Indiana, as I learned from Capt. Cole, acting adjutant, is 25 killed, 150 wounded, 10 missing. They lost their adjutant, one captain, killed and several officers wounded, among whom is Capt. Copp, the fighting preacher from Michigan City."
All accounts agree that the Ninth and Twenty-ninth Regiments · performed their whole duty at Pittsburgh Landing. The Twenty- ninth, in that engagement, was commanded by Lieut .- Col. David M. Dunn. During the battle, Capt. W. P. Lasselle acted as major of the Ninth, and the command of Company K devolved upon Lieut. Turner, who was shot through the kidneys, and died at Mound City Hospital, Illinois, on April 16, following. His remains were brought to this city on Saturday morning, April 19, by Patrick C. Johnson, of this city, a boy aged fourteen years, who was with Lieut. Turner at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, attended him during his illness, and was with him when he breathed his last in the hos- pital, the boy nobly doing all he could to make comfortable his dy- ing hours. The body was taken to the residence of W. T. S. Manly, where it lay until Sunday, when the funeral services and interment took place. The services were conducted by Rev. Silas Tucker and Rev. W. J. Vigus, at the Methodist Church.
"The corpse was buried with military honors. Capt. Chase (under whom Lieut. Turner served in the three-months' service) commanded the military escort, and the bier was followed by many of the returned volunteers who knew the deceased in Virginia, and knew him only to love and respect him. It was the most numer- ously attended of any funeral ever witnessed in this city, showing how properly our citizens appreciate the services of those who lay down their lives in the defense of the Union and the Constitution. As the farewell salute was fired over the grave of the departed many a tear was dropped to the memory of one who was respected by all who knew him, and whose bravery at Alleghany Mountain
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and Pittsburgh Landing won the admiration of his associates in arms.
"In 1859, he joined the Cecil Greys of this place, and after their disbandment he became orderly sergeant of the Zouaves. He always stood high in both companies as an able soldier and gentle- man, and was particularly noticeable for his modest and unassuming conduct. At the breaking out of the war in 1861, he accompanied the Zouaves to the field as second sergeant, and won the regard of his immediate commander and all the men. On the reorganization of the 'Bloody Ninth' he again enlisted in Company K, and was unanimously elected first lieutenant, which post he held at the time he received his fatal wound at Pittsburgh Landing. He was in command of a party of skirmishers, and was leading them coolly and gallantly forward when he fell. His last command was, ' Keep cool, and take good aim!'"
During the engagement at Pittsburgh Landing Lieut. Palmer Dunn was struck on the sword belt by a rifle ball, but it glanced and did not injure him.
A volunteer company for ninety days, under the call of Gov. Morton, was organized here May 29, 1862, at the Tipton Engine House, by the election of the following commissioned officers: Cap- tain, Carter L. Vigus; first lieutenant, Frank Rust; second lieuten- ant, John T. Powell. The service of the company was to guard the prisoners at Camp Morton, the regiment which before per- formed that service having been sent into the field. The company left for Indianapolis on the Chicago & Cincinnati Railroad, at 12 o'clock, Saturday, May 31.
Under a call issued by the Governor for three months, Capt. James W. Dunn, under a commission dated July 18, 1862, went into camp at Indianapolis the following day, with a full company of 101 men, with the following subordinate commissioned officers: Amos W. Mobley, first lieutenant, and John G. Meck, second lieu- tenant. They were mustered into the service on the 21st, as Com- pany H, of the Fifty-fifth Indiana Regiment.
Two additional companies from Cass County, the number neces- sary to make Seventy-fifth Regiment complete, were mustered into service August 16, 1862, as Company G; William L. McConnell, captain; Joseph A. Westlake, first lieutenant, and Robert J. Connolly, second lieutenant. Company H, Peter Doyle, captain;
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Daniel H. Mull, first lieutenant, and Andrew M. Callahan, second lieutenant.
A company of cavalry, with Benjamin O. Wilkinson as captain, Arthur M. Buell, first lieutenant, and Perry B. Bowser, second lieu- tenant, from Cass County, was mustered into service in the Ninetieth Regiment (Fifth Cavalry ) September 3, 1862.
At a meeting of the citizens of Cass County, held at the court house in Logansport, on Saturday, June 20, 1863, the flag of the Forty-sixth Regiment, presented by the citizens of Logansport on the morning of its departure for Indianapolis, which had been brought home by Lieut. A. K. Ewing, was returned by that officer to the citizens there assembled. Upon returning that battle-rent emblem to its original donors, Lieut. E. made a brief address con- cerning its history in the brilliant career of the regiment, and con- cluded by reading the following letter from Col. Bringhurst:
Near VICKSBURG, MISS., June 1, 1863. To the Citizens of Logansport:
The flag presented by you to the Forty-sixth Indiana Regiment, on its de- parture from Logansport, has become too nearly worn out to be of further use upon the field. On behalf of the members of the regiment, I return it the donors without stain or blemish, except that caused by exposure or from the balls of the enemy.
Your flag has cheered the regiment in the fatiguing marches, the privations and hardships and the battles of eighteen months. It has been borne before the enemy in six States. The pages of the Rebellion's history which speak of New Madrid, Riddle's Point, Fort Pillow, Memphis, St. Charles, Coldwater, Tallahatchie, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Champion Hills and Vicksburg, will make honorable mention of the regiment that carried your flag at those places, and of the earnestness with which its members sought to discharge the obligation they assumed in accept- ing it.
Very many of those who stood by at the presentation of this flag have fallen in iu battle or from disease. The remainder assure you that they are still devoted to the Union, the Flag and the great interests it represents.
Respectfully,
T. H. BRINGHURST,
Colonel Forty-sixth. Indiana Volunteers.
Rev. Mr. Irwin, of the Old School Presbyterian Church in the city, having been previously selected to make the reception speech on the occasion, addressed the meeting; and, at the conclusion, Rev. J. Colelazer, pastor of the Methodist Church, was called out. The addresses were characteristic of these gentlemen, and the sentiments expressed were in consonance with those of the audience. Capt. John Guthrie, Col. B. H. Smith and Lieut. A. K. Ewing were ap- pointel a committee, with instructions to have the names of the battles in which the Forty-sixth had been engaged placed upon the
Graham & Fitch,
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flag, which should then be deposited in the State Library, at Indian- apolis.
On July 10, 1863, a call by Gov. Morton for volunteers to repel the invasion of Indiana by John Morgan's band of cavalry was received here, in response to which an impromptu meeting was held at the northeast corner of Broadway and Fourth Streets, and organized by the appointment of Hon. D. D. Pratt, chairman, and S. L. McFadin, secretary. After a speech by Mr. Pratt, the meet- ing was adjourned to the court house. The scene there was most exciting, as name after name of our most prominent citizens and business men were added to the list of infantry and cavalry volun- teers. During the day the work of enlistment went on in the city most vigorously, and by night more than 140 names were on the infantry list and about thirty on the roll of cavalry. Among our citizens who volunteered were D. D. Pratt, S. L. McFadin, J. A. Taylor, G. N. Fitch, E. Walker, L. Chamberlin, C. B. Lasselle, W. G. Nash, D. W. Tomlinson, N. S. LaRose, W. L. McConnell, and many others. In the meantime, a committee, consisting of William- son Wright, D. W. Tomlinson, S. A. Hall, Job B. Eldridge, Lyman R. Legg and I. N. Cory, was appointed to visit the outer townships, and calling upon the people to rally them in force to repel the in- vaders of our soil.
At night the meeting in the court house was very numerously attended, and the utmost enthusiasm prevailed. A company of in- fantry was then and there organized by the election of John Guth- rie, captain; S. L. McFadin, first lieutenant; and John T. Powell, second lieutenant. A calvary company was also organized, and placed under command of Col. Fitch. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day (Saturday, 11th) the infantry company left on the Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad for Indianapolis, and were joined on the cars by volunteers from Boone, Tipton and Jackson Townships. The cavalry company left in the morning of the same day, at 7 o'clock, by way of the Michigan Road, and reached Indianapolis at 9 o'clock, P. M .- a rapid march. All these were mustered in as members of the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment minute men, of which G. N. Fitch was made colonel, and James M. Justice, quar- termaster. The prompt movement of the people of the State to re- pel the invader was so demonstrative that he beat a hasty retreat from our borders, and no further occasion existing for the service
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of these minute men, they were disbanded and mustered out, after a military experience of five days.
On Wednesday afternoon, January 13, 1864, a dispatch was re- ceived from Indianapolis, to the effect that Col. David M. Dunn, of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, with such of his men as had re-enlisted from this county, would reach here on the 5 o'clock Cincinnati train. Arrangements were immediately made to welcome them in an appropriate manner. Accordingly, on the approach of the train, the soldiers were greeted with cheers and the best strains of Wach- ter's band, A procession was formed, the band leading, the sol- diers next, and citizens following, and proceeded to the Barnett House, where Maj. McFadin, in a brief speech, extended a cordial welcome, in behalf of the city, to the gallant men who had displayed their heroism upon so many battle-fields. At the request of Thom- as H. Wilson, Esq., Maj. McFadin then announced to the soldiers that a bountiful supper had been prepared for them, and that lodg- ing and breakfast would be furnished them free of expense; after which Dr. Justice spoke for a few minutes, when Col. Dunn was called out, and briefly thanked the citizens who honored his brave and tried soldiers with so cordial and gratifying a welcome. Three cheers were then given for Col. Dunn, when the soldiers proceeded to the dining-room of the Barnett House, where a bountiful supper of oysters, etc., had been provided, and partook of a sumptuous meal. Everybody felt that it was not only a duty, but a pleasure to thus honor the brave.
On the evening of February 10, a complimentary supper was given to the soldiers of the Ninth and Twenty-ninth Regiments, at home on furlough, previous to their departure again for the seat of war. The supper was an elaborate expression of our people as to their confidence in the brave boys who, having previously periled their lives in our country's cause, were again about to leave us, to complete the work so faithfully prosecuted.
Early in February, 1864, Company K, of the Ninth Indiana, while here, made arrangements for the erection of a fine monument as a fitting tribute to the memory of Lieut. Joseph S. Turner, of this company, who died of a wound received in the battle of Shiloh. The company selected a beautiful lot in Mount Hope Cemetery, and before their departure had the ground cleared off preparatory to lay- ing the foundation stones and completing the elegant memorial.
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Friday, March 23, at noon, the members of Capt. Gifford's cav- alry residing in this county, reached home from Chicago. They were escorted by the Logan Brass Band and a multitude of our cit- izens, to the Barnett House, where they were welcomed, on behalf of the people of the county, by Judge Dykemau, in an excellent and appropriate address, after which they partook of an ample meal es- pecially prepared for them.
Very few of the men composing this company, who left here two years before under the command of Capt. Gifford, remained in the service and were present at the reorganization of the regiment in Chicago. Among those who returned was Spencer T. Weirick, of this city, who was first lieutenant of the company up to the time of the reorganization, and then he was the unanimous choice of the company for captain-a high testimonial of the esteem entertained by the company with whom he had been on duty during the long and arduous service of the cavalry in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and in other States.
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