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On Thursday, June 23, the members of the Forty-sixth Regi- ment, enlisted in this county, returned on veteran furlough, and were greeted with a hearty welcome by our citizens. "The regiment arrived at 4 o'clock P. M., on the Cincinnati train, and forming near the Wabash Valley Depot, under command of Col. Bringhurst, marched down the railroad to Fourth Street; thence to Market, up. Market to Seventh; thence to Broadway, down Broadway to Fourth, and thence to the court house." At the court house Judge Biddle delivered the welcoming address, which was a brief but compli- mentary review of the gallant service rendered by the regiment.
After the expiration of their furlough the regiment returned to duty, and remained in the field subject to call, until it was finally mustered out of service on the 4th of September, 1865.
From time to time, according to the demands of the situation, Cass County continued to furnish the quota of men, under the sub- sequent calls of the President, until the close of the war. In the fall of 1864 and the spring of 1865, however, enrollments for drafts being ordered, the quotas were filled without resort to the draft in some townships, but in others it was enforced to a limited extent only. The total number of men furnished by Cass County under the several calls is scarcely obtainable, nor, indeed, is it necessary, since the county was always prompt in meeting the demand for
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troops, and by bounty and otherwise has not failed in whatever the country required of her in the bloody struggle to maintain the supremacy of the laws.
In the brief review of our war experience it has been the aim of the writer, not so much to prepare a complete history of military movements in the county, as to collate the leading, living facts per- tinent thereto. In this effort, no doubt, many incidents may have been omitted which otherwise would have been inserted, but alto- gether it is believed to be essentially correct, as gleaned from the local papers of the period. As a conclusion, the following abstract of relief funds and bounties will be found of interest: For bounties, the county at large paid, $127,825, and the townships an aggregate of $101,579, in all $229,404.
For the relief of soldiers' families the county paid the sum of $50,105.80, while the townships paid $32,519.13; total for relief, $82,624.93. For miscellaneous purposes, $3,379. Total expenses paid, $315,407.93.
Logansport Post, No. 14, of the G. A. R., was organized in Logansport on February 26, 1880, under a charter bearing the same date, with the following original members: Thomas C. Haire, Thomas H. McKee, James C. Chidester, D. Lainge, J. T. Powell, D. H. Mull, J. Y. Ballou, Frank Swigart, John W. Griggs, Alex. Hardy, J. W. F. Liston, D. B. McConnell, B. B. Powell, Samuel D. Meek, George P. McKee, Harvey H. Miller, R. R. Carson, O. B. Sargent, John R. Moore, D. L. Bender, Chas. E. Hale, W. F. Hen- sley, John Higley, Fred. Fitch, John Stanford, Joseph R. McNary, J. L. Herand, John R. Griggs, John H. Cole, Wm. M. DeHart, M. E. Griswold, Jasper A. Paugh, Henry Tucker, T. H. Bringhurst, Chas. H. Barron, J. A. Mowrey, L. H. Daggett, T. H. Ijams, W. H. H. Ward, George K. Marshall, A. W. Stevens, A. Miller, Joseph R. Hays, James W. Lesh, W. Dunn, S. A. Vaughn, A. H. Landes, A. McChord, W. A. Bigler, Sol. Smith, James Brosier, F. E. West, John Goring, Peter Keller, James H. Vigus, Oliver J. Stauffer.
The first officers were Joseph G. Barron, Commander; Joseph Y. Ballon, S. V. C .; John T. Powell, J. V. C .; O. B. Sargent, Q. M .; Thos. H. McKee, Chap .; Thomas C. Haire, O. D .; George B. McKee, O. G .; Frank E. West, afterward Adjt.
The present officers are D. B. McConnell, Commander; John C. Nelson, S. V. C .; George A. Linton, J. V. C .; Rev. E. S. Scott,
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Chap .; A. Coleman, Surg .; O. B. Sargent, Q. M .; John B. Winters, O. D .; Thos. J. De Wees, O. G .; H. C. Hammontree, Adjt .; Jacob M. Barron, Serj. Maj .; Jasper A. Paugh, Q. M. Serj. The number of members is 208.
CASS COUNTY'S DEAD IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
COMPANY K, NINTH REGIMENT (THREE YEARS).
First Lieut. Joseph S. Turner, died of wounds at Shiloh, Tenn., Apr. 1862; wounded Apr. 2, 1862.
Corp. Norris S. Davis, died at New Albany July 3, 1862.
Wagoner James R. Bevan, died, veteran, wounded at Marietta.
Addington, Lewis A., died Fetterman, Va., Feb. 17, 1862.
Bechdol, William H., died at Terre Haute, Ind., June, 1862.
Bechdol, Matthias B., died at Louisville, Ky., Feb. 26, 1862.
Boring, Thomas W., died.
Brown, Elias A., died at Evansville, Ind., Nov. 20, 1862.
Etnier, George, died at Bowling Green, Ky., Oct. 19, 1862.
Grant, Daniel A., died at Nashville, Tenn., Mar. 6, 1862. Growal, George W., died at Logausport, Ind.
Hall, Daniel O., killed at Battle of Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862.
Hilton, John C., died of wounds received at Stone River (at home). Hoover, John K., died at Nashville, Tenn., April, 1862. James, Benjamin A., died at home.
Kendall, Samuel P .. died in St. Louis of wounds received at Shiloh.
Lambert, Francis, died at Fetterman, Va., Feb. 13, 1862.
Little, John W., died at Corinth, Miss., Aug. 13, 1862. .
Rench, Lewis, died at Evansville, Ind., Nov. 3, 1863.
Rhonemus, Jacob, died at Evansville, Ind., of wounds received at Shiloh, Apr., 1862. Shaw, Isaac N., died at Fetterman, Va., Feb. 18, 1862.
Sweeney, Daniel, died at home.
Swinney, Samuel L., died at home.
Victor, Newton A., died at Evansville, Ind., Aug. 10, 1862.
Widener, David, died at Cheat Mountain, wounds received at Buffalo Mountain Jan. 5, 1862.
Willis, William, killed at Stone River Dec. 31, 1862
Billiard, William, killed at Lovejoy Station Sept. 4, 1864.
Choen, Montgomery, killed at Stone River Dec. 31, 1862.
Griffin, Calvin L., died of wounds received at Resacca May 14, 1864.
Kavenaugh, Maurice, died of wounds at Marietta, Ga., July 16, 1864.
COMPANY K, TWENTIETH REGIMENT (THREE YEARS).
Allen, Ira T., killed.
Dasch, George W., killed at Chancellorsville.
Morrisy, Patrick, killed at Gettysburg.
Hoffman, Matthias, killed at Gettysburg.
Welch Clay, killed at Fredericksburg Dec. 15, 1862.
COMPANY E, TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT.
Corp. Joseph M. Bennett, died at Evansville of wounds, May 9, 1862. Chesnut, Joseph W., killed at Stone River, Dec. 31, 1863.
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Christie, Robert W., died at Nashville, May 15, 1862. Calahan, Daniel, died of wounds received at Shiloh, Apr. 12, 1862. Grable, Harvey, died at Chattanooga, July 1, 1864. Helper, Samuel, killed in skirmish at Chattanooga, Sept. 19, 1863. Morrison, Theodore, killed at Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862.
MeElhany, Samuel, died at Huntsville, Ala., Aug. 27, 1862. Pownall, Isaac W., died at Nashville, May 2, 1862.
Wagner, John W., died at Camp Nevin, Ky., Nov. 25, 1861.
Calkins, David H., died at Chattanooga, Apr. 9, 1864. * Demoss Audrew, died at Bridgeport, Ala., (drafted) Jan. 6, 1865. Elliott, Silas, died at Chattanooga, July 28, 1865.
Enyart. Oliver B., died at Nashville, July 28, 1864.
Hamminger, Frederick, died at Nashville, Jan. 30, 1863.
Peterson, Joseph M., died (drafted) Nov. 21, 1864.
COMPANY H. THIRTY FOURTH REGIMENT (THREE YEARS).
Corp. Romulus T. Hale, died at Camp Wickliff, Ky., Jau. 21. 1862. Corp. Charles L. Holland, died at Paducah, Ky., Feb. 25, 1862. Foy, Cornelius, died at Sikestown, Mo., Mar. 18, 1862. Yeakey, John A., died at New Haven, Ky., Oct. 13, 1862.
COMPANY B, FORTY-SIXTH REGIMENT (THREE YEARS).
Corp. Robert T. Bryer, died at Helena, Ark., Dec. 18. 1862.
Jay M. Richardson, Musician, died at Logansport, Iud., July 21, 1864. Black, Asa, died Mar. 9, 1862.
Black, James, died Mar. 10, 1862.
Davis, Joseph, (vet.) died at New Orleans, La., Dec. 25, 1864.
Forgy, George W., died at Camp Wickliffe, Ky., Feb. 7, 1862.
Herrell, John, died at Memphis, Teun., Sept. 18, 1862.
Horner, William P., died at New Madrid, Apr. 21, 1862. Jump. Samuel L., died at Helena, Ark., Nov. 7, 1862.
Lyneb, Levi, died at New Orleans, La., Dec. 2, 1863.
McMillen, Adams, died at Memphis. Tenn., July 14, 1862. Nash, Augustine, died at St. Louis, Mo., Apr. 30, 1862.
Pfoutz, William, died May 17, 1863.
Pearson, Philip, died March 28, 1862.
Reed, Joseph, died at Louisville, Ky., 1862.
Rogers, Chauncey, died Sept. 8, 1862.
Rutt, Abraham, died at Worster, Ohio, June 17, 1862.
Smith, Nicholas D., died at Vicksburg, Miss., June 24, 1863.
Whittaker, Robert S., died March 1, 1864.
Bachelor, And. J., died of wounds at Vicksburg, Miss., June 17, 1863. Mummert, Harrison, died at Lexington, Ky., June 6, 1865.
See, Elihu, died at Lexington, Ky., Mch. 2, 1865.
COMPANY D, FORTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.(THREE YEARS).
Sergt. James A. Pepper, died at New Madrid, Mo., Apr. 19, 1862. Corp. Ambrose Updegraff, drowned in Mississippi River, July 2, 1862. Corp. William Laynear, killed at Champion Hills, Miss., May 16, 1863. Baer, George, died at Benton, Mo.
Cripliver, David, killed at Mansfield, La., Apr. 8, 1864.
Dunham, Nathan, died of wn'ds rec'd at Thompson's Hill, May 20, 1863.
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Dodd, George E., died at Helena, Ark., Oct. 9, 1862. Gransinger, Nicholas, died at Helena, Ark., Nov. 11, 1862. Hitchens, Jacob, died at St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 3, 1862. Hitchens, Alfred, killed at Thompson's Hill, Miss., May 1, 1863. Jones, Noah, killed at Thompson's Hill, Miss., May 1, 1863. Jones, David, died at Helena, Ark., Oct. 12, 1862. Loudermilk, Wm. W., killed at Thompson's Hill, Miss., May 1, 1863. Lynch, Thomas J., died at Milliken's Bend, La., Jan. 10, 1863. Perkins, Samuel, died at Mound City, Ill., Aug. 30, 1862. Powell, Wm. H., died at Helena, Ark., March 11, 1863. Shea, John, killed at Algiers, La., Apr. 21, 1864. Welsh, Nicholas, killed at Champion Hills, Miss., May 16, 1863. Williams, Joseph, died at Louisville, Ky., Dec. 25, 1861. Warfield, Benj., died at Louisville, Ky., Jan. 4, 1862. Williamson, John, died at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Feb. 26, 1863. Lumbard, Hiram, died of wounds Apr. 15, 1864.
COMPANY E, FORTY-SIXTH REGIMENT (THREE YEARS). Randall, Marion, died at Bardstown, Ky., Jan. 11, 1862.
COMPANY F, FORTY-SIXTH REGIMENT (THREE YEARS).
Eastwood, Matthias, died May 4, 1862.
Barr, William, died at New Madrid, Apr., 1862.
Eastwood, James H., died at Memphis, June 20, 1862. Taafe, Michael, killed at Champion Hills, May 16, 1863.
Tripp, James S., died at Memphis, 1862.
Tripp, Albert W., died at Memphis, 1862.
COMPANY H, FORTY-SIXTH REGIMENT (THREE YEARS). Washburn, Ira C., died at Memphis, Tenn., Oct., 1862. . COMPANY I, FORTY- SIXTH REGIMENT (THREE YEARS).
Surface, Martin L., Musician, died at Evansville, Ind., June 20, 1863. Button, T. G., died of wn'ds rec'd at Champion Hills, May, 16, 1863. Humbert, Thomas, killed at Champion Hills, May 16, 1863. Hancock, Milton, died of wn'ds rec'd at Vicksburg, July 27, 1863. Hunter, Samuel, died at Memphis, Tenn., July 24, 1863. Julian, V. J., died at Logansport, May 25, 1862. Johnson, Andrew, died at Logansport, May, 1862. Kistler, Jefferson, killed at Champion Hills, May 16, 1863. Mollinger, C. D., killed at Champion Hills, May 16, 1863. Oliver, William, killed at Champion Hills, May 16, 1863. Parish, J. G., killed in Arkansas, June 28, 1862. Stiver, Jonas, died of wn'ds rec'd at Champion Hills, May 29, 1863. Todd, James, died at Osceola, Ark., Apr. 15, 1862. Walters, J. W. (vet.), died at Royal Center, July 10, 1864. Walters, Samuel, died at St. Louis, Mo., Apr. 15, 1862. Davis, Henry, died of wn'ds rec'd at Port Gibson,;May 18, 1863. Persinger, Moses C., died at Indianapolis, May 1, 1863. Schrader, Fred'k, died at New Orleans, May 7, 1864.
COMPANY G, FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT. Serg. William Crooks, died at Nashville, Sept. 18, 1862.
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COMPANY G, SEVENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
Corp. Edward Lucas, died at Nashville, Tenn., May 12, 1863. Corp. Wm. McDonough, died of wounds, Feb. 9, 1863. Anderson, John R., died at Glasgow, Ky., Nov. 3, 1862. Antrim, James T., died at Gallatin, Tenn., Jan. 5, 1863. Bennett, Lewis H., died at Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 24, 1864. Binney, Isaac L., killed near Bellepont, Ala., April 25, 1865. Boozer, Peter, died at Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 3, 1863.
Dangerfield, B. F., killed near Bellepont, Ala., Apr. 25, 1865. Davis, William, died at Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 11, 1863.
Dugan, Lewis F., died at Paducah, Ky., May 9, 1863. Ertnier, William M., died of wounds, Mar. 23, 1863. Gorden, William, died at Bowling Green, Ky., Nov. 23, 1862. Hess, Samuel C., died at Silver Springs, Tenn., Nov. 17, 1862. Highman, Tilghman M., died at Louisville, Ky., Nov. 1, 1862. Johnson, Authony S., died at Louisville, Ky., Nov. 3, 1862. Lawrence, Harrison, died at Quincy, Ill., Mar. 13, 1863. Miller, Charles E., died at Bowling Green, Ky., Nov. 29, 1862. Palmer, John N., died at Naslıville, Tenn., Dec. 19, 1862. Perry, Reuben, died at Logansport, Dec. 7, 1862.
Poff, William, died at Louisville, Ky., Apr. 30, 1863. Powell, Ephraim, killed at Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862.
Roherberry, Henry G., died at Bowling Green, Ky., Dec. 1, 1862. Rouse, John L., died at Annapolis, Md., July 1, 1863. Scully, Edward, died at Lonisville, Ky.
Winters John F., died of wounds received at Blount's Farm, Ala. Bennett, John L., died at Huntsville, Ala., Apr. 24, 1865. Bennett, Thomas J., died at Decatur, Ala., Apr., 1864.
Cranmore, Gilbert, died at Pulaski, Teun., Sept. 17, 1864.
Hassich, Christian, died in hospital, -, Ala., June 24, 1864. Langton, David W.
COMPANY H, SEVENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
Corp. Ebenezer Harwood, died at Nashville, Dec. 10, 1862. Blackburn, Joseph, died at Perryville, Ky., Oct. 13, 1862. Burns, Samuel, killed at Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862. Chesnut, Samuel, died at Nashville, Dec. 26, 1862. Crain, John, died at Gallatin, Tenn., June 12, 1863. Fiddler, John H., killed at Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862. Foy, Reuben, died at Nashville, Nov. 22, 1862. Healey, Abner, died of wounds received at Stone River, Jan. 17, 1863. Henderson, James, died at Indianapolis, Sept. 4, 1863. Howard John, died at Gallatin, Tenn., Jan. 29, 1863. Julian, Nathan J., died at Silver Springs, Tenn., Nov. 18, 1862. Mehaffie, John, died at Gallatin, Tenn., Jan. 20, 1863. Pearson, Joseph, died at Silver Springs, Tenn., Nov. 20, 1862. Turflinger, Benj. F., died at Gallatin, Tenn., Feb. 2, 1863. Wolfkill, Alfred, died at Louisville, Ky., Jan. 20, 1863.
COMPANY K, EIGHTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT. Coppick, Derrick M., died at Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 14, 1864.
COMPANY K, NINETIETH REGIMENT, FIFTH CAVALRY. Standley, William H., died in Andersonville Prison, July 2, 1864.
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COMPANY D, NINETY-NINTH REGIMENT. Campbell, John, died at Moscow, Tenn., Apr. 14, 1863.
COMPANY K, NINETY-NINTH REGIMENT.
Sergt. Henry O. Morrell, supposed lost on Sultana, Apr. 27, 1865. Carter, Josiah T., died at Chattanooga, Tenn., June 28, 1864. Dreen, Abraham, died at Clinton, Ga., Nov. 21, 1864. Kemp, Manford, died at Cairo, Ill., March 11, 1864. Mattox, James N., died at Camp Sherman, Miss., Aug. 19, 1863. Wygand, James, died near Atlanta, Ga., July 24, 1864.
COMPANY F, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, TWELFTH CAVALRY.
Bernethy, Robert, died at Royal Center, June 29, 1965. Cowgill, Jackson, died at Memphis, Tenn., Mar. 25, 1865. McKee, Peter, died at Michigan City, Ind., Feb. 6, 1864. O'Connell, John, killed near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1864. Poor, George W., died of wounds, Jan. 20, 1865. Spader, William, died at home, Nov. 20, 1864,
COMPANY B, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
Brown, David, died at Andersonville, Ga., Aug. 8, 1864.
Cassell, George A., died at Portsmouth Grove, R. I., June 22, 1865. Deford, Jonas, died at Nashville, Tenn., Apr. 15, 1864. Hilton, Henry J., killed at Resacca, Ga., May 16, 1864. Hudson, Jarrett, died at Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 8, 1864. Morehart, Adam, died at Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 4, 1864. Powers, David W., died at Altoona, Ga., June 15, 1864. Tilton, Robert, killed at Dallas, Ga., May 31, 1864. Vigus, Horace B., killed near Lost Mountain, Ga., June 2, 1864. White, John, died at Michigan City, Ind., Mch. 7, 1864.
COMPANY G, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
Barber, Charles, died at Nashville, Tenn., April 18, 1864. Brooks, Joseph H., died at Logansport, Ind., Mar. 12, 1865. Carr, Patrick, died at Chattanooga, Tenn. Clary, Francis M., died at Loudon, Tenn., April 11, 1864. Vaneman, Ira, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., July 13, 1864.
COMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
Gorgins, Patrick, died at Salisbury, N. C., Feb. 11, 1866. Griffith, John, died at Nashville, Tenn., April 9, 1864. Jeffries, Inman H., died at Marietta, Ga., Aug. 2, 1864. Smeltzer, Milton, died at Nashville, Tenn., July 5, 1864. Taylor, George W., died at Nashville, Tenn., June 8, 1864.
COMPANY K, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. Sergt. Dallas F. Young, died at Louisville, Ky., of wounds, Oct. 24, 1864. Burley, Marshall P., died at Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 14, 1864. Clymer, Henry C., died at Nashville, Tenn., April 6, 1864. Creckpaum, Hugh, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., June 26, 1864. Daniels, Reuben, died near Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 1, 1864. Effinger, David, died at Michigan City, March 13, 1864.
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Harvey, Jacob, died at Marietta, Ga., Aug. 8, 1864. Jones, Robert, died at Burnt Hickory, Ga., of wounds, June 16, 1864. Martin, William H., died at Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 24, 1864. See, John J., died at Knoxville, Tenn., July 10, 1864.
Yeakly, Thomas J., died at Decatur, Ga., Sept. 8, 1864.
COMPANY A, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH REGIMENT.
Sergt. John W. Reeder, died at Walton, Ind., Sept. 1, 1865.
Corpl. Henry Kirkpatrick, died at Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 25, 1864.
Baker, Irvin, killed near Centerville, Tenn., by guerrillas, Nov. 27,:1864. House, David, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 10, 1864. Maness, Christopher, killed at Centerville, Tenn., by guerrillas, Nov. 27, 1864. Thomas, Albert, died at Knoxville, Tenn., July 18, 1864.
COMPANY K, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. Eichelberger, August, died at Tullahoma, Tenn., Sept. 18, 1864.
COMPANY B, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT. Shannon, James, died at Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 15, 1865.
COMPANY I, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
Kemp, Wilkinson, died at Nashville, Tenn., Mar. 1, 1865.
Kemp, Andrew J., died at Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 31, 1865.
Kennedy, James G., died at Nashville, Tenn., April 3, 1865.
COMPANY F, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT.
Corp. Calvin P. Carey, died at Nashville, Tenn., July 22, 1865.
Farrell, Edward, died at Nashville, Teun., July 15, 1865.
St. Clair, Reuben, died at Nashville, Tenn., July 15, 1865.
Taylor, Edward W., died at Tullahoma, Tenn., Apr. 24, 1865.
First Lieut. D. C. Weimer, Co. D, Ninth Regiment (three months), died at Logans- port, of wounds, Aug. 4, 1861.
Lieut .- Col. Wm. P. Lasselle, Ninth Regiment (three years), died.
First Lieut. Joseph S. Turner, Co. K, Ninth Regiment (three years), died of wounds received at Shiloh, Tenn., Apr. 16, 1862.
First Lieut. Madison M. Coulson, Co. K, Ninth Regiment (three years), died.
Col. William L. Brown, Twentieth Regiment (three years), killed at battle of Ma- nassas Plains, Aug. 29, 1862.
First Lieut. Ed. C. Sutherland, Co. F, Twentieth Regiment (three years), died May 26, 1864.
Capt. N. Palmer Dunn, Co. E, Twenty-ninth Regiment (three years), killed at Chickamauga, Sept. 19, 1863.
First Lieut. Matthew K. Graham, Co. B, Forty-sixth Regiment (three years), died at Logansport of wounds, Oct. 15, 1862.
Second Lieut. Loren C. Stevens, Co. B, Forty-sixth Regiment (three years), died of disease, Nov. 19, 1863.
Second Lieut. Alex. K. Ewing, Co. D, Forty-sixth Regiment (three years), died.
Second Lieut. Jacob Hudlow, Co. I, Forty-sixth Regiment (three years), killed at Sabine Cross Roads, Apr. 8, 1864.
Capt. James Finnegan, Co. C, Fifty-third Regiment (three months), died.
Capt. James W. Dunn, Co H, Fifty-third Regiment (three months), died.
First Lieut. Amos W. Mobley, Co. H, Fifty-third Regiment (three months), died.
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Second Lieut. Alex. Wilson, Co. F, Seventy-third Regiment, drowned.
Capt. Peter Doyle, Co. H, Seventy-third Regiment, killed at Stone River, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862.
First Lieut. Seldon P. Stuart, Co. K, Ninety-ninth Regiment, died.
Asst. Surg. John T. Brown, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment (Twelfth Cavalry), died at Logansport.
Capt. Benj. O. Wilkinson, Co. F, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment Twelfth Cavalry), died at Logansport.
Capt. John C. Barnitt, Co. B, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, died at Logansport.
Q .- M. Dan. H. Bennett, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, died.
Second Lieut. John C. Hilton, Co. K, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Davis, Charles S, private Co. K, Ninth Regiment (three months), killed by falling from a bridge.
Farquhar, Landon S., private Co. K, Ninth Regiment (three months).
Capt. James M. Lytle, Co. I, Twentieth Regiment, died at Washington City, D. C., of wounds received at the battle of Richmond, June 25, 1862, Aug. 19, 1862. Adjt. James M. Pratt, Eleventh Regulars, killed June, 1864.
CHAPTER VI.
BY T. B. HELM.
EARLY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL WORK IN THE COUNTY-PRIMITIVE "SCHOOL- MASTERS" AND "SCHOOL-MISTRESSES."-SCHOOLHOUSES AND FURNI- TURE .- EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN LOGANSPORT; SMITHSON COLLEGE HALL'S BUSINESS COLLEGE, AMERICAN NORMAL COLLEGE-COUNTRY SCHOOLS, TEACHERS AND FACILITIES-SCHOOLHOUSES-SCHOOL INSTI- TUTES-PROGRESS, ETC.
RIGINALLY, the country schools were in a condition corre- sponding with the idea of school work in back-woods settle- ments-without system, except in rare cases, irregular and barren of results. While it is true that many of the teachers connected with the school system in primitive Cass County were zealous and energetic in their fields of labor, much the larger portion of them were selected, not because of their known, but of their supposed, qualifications, and for the further reason that, during the winter season, when these schools were generally in progress, these candidates for pedagogic honors had nothing else to do. As a consequence, therefore, the schools, in the main, were wholly without system or discipline, and allowed to move forward in the channels in which, from force of circumstances, they involuntarily drifted. Among teachers no con-
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sultations were had, and hence no concert of action and few of the appliances incident to successful work. Black-boards were things unknown; wall-maps were not in use; text-books were few, varied and unsuitable; houses and seats-for little else was provided- were uniformly inconvenient and generally uncomfortable. In- deed, when we recall the opportunities and experiences of the past, and what came of them, it is a source of wonder that so many and such valuable results had been attained; for true it is that, from these same log-cabin country schools, have come many of our most active business men and women. Some of them, possibly many, had enjoyed the privilege of a slight "polish " in a term or two at the "Seminary," but much the larger portion were never so favored. With the meager opportunities enjoyed at home or at the old-time country school, their own native energies made them what they were.
At first, for many years, there were, in most districts, only sub- scription schools, presided over by the lucky " school-masters " and " school-mistresses " who, by dint of perseverance or special favor, were delegated as the instructors of youth, advantageous privileges of the free or public school system being then in an undeveloped state, : But a change has been wrought, however, by the onward march of improvement which has marked the progress of time during the li past third of a century of our local and State history. The average length of a district subscription school, before the advent of this - new era, was less than sixty days, while the average length of dis- trict schools, supported by the magnificent tuition fund of the State, during the school year of 1883-84, in Cass County, was 155 days. The character of the schools has improved, also, through the de- veloping modes of our present educational system. Schoolhouses, school furniture, school-teachers and school discipline have all ad- vanced in unison, as by a common impulse. The means whereby these great results have been accomplished are attributable to the county Superintendency to normal schools, State and county, to the work of institutes in the townships and in the county, to a more - rigid examination, and higher standard of scholarship and teaching capacity, whence a class of instructors has been brought into the field, who were able to accomplish infinitely higher and more ex- cellent results. And, of course, with the change from the pole- cabin dwellings, with no windows but a greased paper, or none ex-
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cept a hole between two of the logs next the big fire-place, and with only a single door, to the modern residence, costing thousands of dollars, has come also, yet with less rapidity than we could wish, a similar change in the construction and cost of public school edifices.
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