History of Cass County, Indiana, from its earliest settlement to the present time; with Biographical Sketches and Reference to Biographies, Volume I, Part 18

Author: Powell, Jehu Z., 1848- [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago and New York. The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 763


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1858; Elwood P. Sine, May 9, 1859; N. B. Barron; John Guthrie, May 10, 1859; John Wertz, May 10, 1859; T. C. Annabal, May 8, 1860; Aaron M. Flory, November 26, 1860; Simeon M. Bliss, May 14, 1860; J. Brown Wright, May 9, 1860; Whitman S. Benham, November, 1860; D. P. Baldwin, November 16, 1860; Andrew H. Evans, May 7, 1861; Stewart T. McConnell, December 11, 1861; Wm. L. McConnell, 1864; Dyer B. McConnell, May 29, 1865; Henry C. Thornton, July 24, 1865; Frank Swigart, September 12, 1865; D. P. Jenkins, 1865; Wm. Powell, 1866; Maurice Winfield, December 17, 1866; John A. Chappelow, August 26, 1867; James M. Howard, February 27, 1867; DeWitt C. Justice, July 27, 1868; John C. Nelson, April 3, 1868; Dennis H. Palmer, November 12, 1871; Chas. B. Stuart, September 19, 1873; John R. MeNary, April 28, 1873; Thos. J. Tuly, September 1, 1873; Alex. S. Guthrie, March 11, 1874; Wm. Guthrie, October 17, 1874; Philip Ray, March 11, 1874; Thos. A. Stuart, September 7, 1874; E. J. C. Kelly, April 27, 1874; Wm. W. Thornton, February 15, 1875; Emory B. Sellers, February 2, 1875; Frank Herald, May 5, 1875; Jos. Y. Ballou, February 20, 1875; Frank B. Lincoln, March 2, 1875: W. R. Anthony, October 12, 1875; A. B. Leedy, November 1, 1875; H. J. McSheey, September 13, 1875; Willard McDowell, November 22, 1875; Wager Swayne, February 8, 1876; Phil H. Greele, May 9, 1876; W. H. Elliott, February 8, 1876; Willard F. Riggle, April 5, 1876: Elijah Herchberger, September 14, 1876; W. H. Jacks, November 20, 1876; Milton Hanson, November 20, 1876; Robt. Guthrie, May 8, 1876; D. A. Snyder, December 6, 1876; Chas. E. Hale, March 17, 1877; John C McGregor, April, 1877; Rufus Magee, June, 1877; Fred W. Munson, 1878; Geo. E. Ross, 1878; Patrick H. McGreevy, May 13, 1878; James J. Shaffrey, May 29, 1878; James W. Conine, May 1, 1878; E. S. Daniels, February 19, 1878; Simon P. Sheerin, June 6, 1879; Hugh J. Crawford, December 2, 1879; Michael D. Fansler, 1881; G. W. George, September 15, 1880; M. S. Coulter, September 7, 1880; W. D. Owen, February 18, 1881; Asbury E."Steele, May 19, 1884; Weldon Webster, December 24, 1884; Calvin R. Booker, November 7, 1884; C. B. H. Moon, November 15, 1884; Thos. McSheehy, December 1, 1885; P. W. Bartholomew, September 18, 1885; Chas. E. Merrifield, March, 1886; Geo. T. Hatley, September 13, 1886; A. G. Jenkins, 1883; W. S. Wright; Frank L. Justice; E. G. Wilson; Joseph P. Gray; J. T. Tomlinson ; John R. O. Conner, June 24, 1887; Frank M. Kistler, Sep- tember 6, 1887 ; M. B. Lairy, September 19, 1888; Geo. W. Fender, March 24, 1888; Douglass B. Stevens, April 4, 1888; Edgar B, McConnell, March 6, 1888; K. M. Landis, July 13, 1889; Geo. W. Walters, June 16, 1889; Chas. N. Jeffres, November 7, 1889; Benj. F. Methoven, July 18, 1889; Geo. W. Kistler, September 27, 1892; O. P. Kistler, May 23, 1892; John B. Smith, April 15, 1892; James T. Petty, April 7, 1892; Fred Landis, September 11, 1893; Willard C. Fitzer, September 21, 1893; Claude C. Bishop, September 12, 1894; James A. Bryer, April 22, 1894; James A. Cotner, November 5, 1894; Geo. A. Gamble, June 19, 1894; Michael A. Martin, January 16, 1894; Robt. Cromer, February 4, 1894; Geo. P. Chase, September 3, 1895; James C. Newer, February 1, 1895; Thomas B. Reeder, September 3, 1895; John S. Lairy, September 3, 1895; Thos. A. Peden, June 18, 1895; Alfred Raber, September 3, 1895; Maurice J. Winfield, September 2, 1895; B. B. Richards, September 20, 1895; A. F. Stukey, May 30, 1881; F. A. Briggs, June 10, 1897; Web. P. Matthews, September 6, 1898; N. O. Ross, Jr., December 20, 1897; J. Wesley Jones, January 20, 1900; F. W. Schneeberger, June 8, 1898; Adelbert P. Flynn, October 17, 1900; Frank A. Jones, January 23, 1900; B. C. Jenkins, November, 1900; Walter S. Coppage, October 10, 1900; Wm. C. Dunn, November 29, 1901; Chas. A. Stuart, September 20, 1901;


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Geo. E. Ross, April 23, 1902; Sidney C. Rosenberg, January 28, 1902; O. B. Conant, March 10, 1903; Michael F. Sullivan, January 13, 1902; John H. Stephens, December 16, 1903; Fred G. Six, November 3, 1903; Wm. B. Sanderson, September 7, 1904; Thos. C. Bradfield, June 22, 1904; Chas. A. Barnhardt, June 19, 1905; Chas. Beebe, September 27, 1905; L. J. Burdge, April 6, 1905; Frank R. Campbell, November 13, 1906; Willard C. McNitt, September 21, 1906; Edgar B. Goodnow, March 19, 1907; Robt. C. Hillis, February 4, 1907; Erritt B. Dill, May 3, 1907; Walter W. Foskett, March 28, 1907; Herbert Miner, June 25, 1908; Samuel G. Gifford, December 21, 1908; Ross J. Hazeltine, March 11, 1909; Chas. A. Seleague, September 8, 1909; H. H. Howell, November 10, 1910; Ernest R. Wilkins, June 25, 1910; Roscoe Grabble, November 7, 1910; Louis P. Erny, September 7, 1911; Jas. D. Douglass, December 22, 1911; Michael L. Fansler, September, 1905; Alfred R. Hovey, Jan- uary 22, 1912.


THE PRESENT (1912) LIST OF ATTORNEYS


S. T. McConnell, Dyer B. McConnell, M. Winfield, Rufus Magee, John C. McGregor, John C. Nelson, John W. McGreevy, John G. Meck, Wm. T. Wilson, Thos. H. Wilson, Chas. E. Hale, George E. Ross, Joseph T. McNary, Quincy A. Myers, Geo. C. Taber, Charles E. Taber, D. D. Fickle, Geo. W. Funk, A. G. Jenkines, B. C. Jenkines, Frank M. Kistler, J. A. Chappelow, J. T. Tomlinson, Geo. W. Fender, M. F. Mahoney, E. B. McConnell, Geo. W. Walters, Jesse Taber, M. B. Lairy, Peter D. Smith, John W. Harvey, John B. Smith, Geo. S. Kistler, Willard C. Fitzer, Geo. A. Gamble, F. V. Guthrie, Geo. A. Custer, J. A. West, B. B. Richards, D. C. Arthur, J. H. Neff, C. E. Yarlott, James F Fry, Chas. H. Stuart, Geo. E. Ross, Jr., O. B. Conant, B. F. Long, John H. Stevens, M. L. Fausler, L. J. Burdge, Robt. C. Hillis, T. C. Bradfield, Walter W. Foskett, Frank Campbell, E. B. Dill, Paul M. Souder, Webb Matthews, Samuel G. Gifford, Virgil Berry, H. H. Howell, Roscoe Grable, Joseph M. Rabb, Ernest R. Wilkins, Louis P. Erny and James D. Douglass.


LAW FIRMS IN 1912


Some of the partnerships in legal business are the following firms: McConnell, Jenkines, Jenkines & Stuart; Rabb & Mahoney; Kistler & Kistler ; Long, Yarlott & Souder; Wilson & Wilson; Fausler & Foskett; Hillis & Bradfield; Howell & Conant; Fickle & Arthur.


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CHAPTER XIII MILITARY HISTORY


OLD TOWN BATTLE-BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE-BLACK HAWK WAR-IRISH RIOTS-INDIAN DISTURBANCES-MEXICAN WAR-LOCAL MILITIA- WAR OF THE REBELLION-PUBLIC SENTIMENT-FIRST ENLISTMENT- LIST OF VOLUNTEERS-ROLL OF HONOR-INCIDENTS G. A. R.


The citizens of Cass county and country in general are a law- abiding and peace-loving people. Their greatness is shown by their obedience to civil law and their engaging in industrial pursuits, yet their inborn disposition to defend the right and chastise the wrong has always predominated, inciting them to take up arms in the support of the one and to oppose the other.


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Cass county has ever been ready and willing to do her full duty in times of war, rebellion, insurrections or where the civil law has been set at naught by any foe of civil liberty.


There have been seventeen American wars: Dutch, 1673; King Phil- ip's, 1675; King William's, 1689; Queen Ann's, 1744; French and Indian, 1753; American Revolution, 1775; Indians, 1790; Barbary, 1803; Tecumseh, 1811; War of 1812; Algerine Pirate, 1815; First Seminole, 1817; Black Hawk, 1832; Second Seminole, 1845; Mexican, 1846; South- ern Rebellion, 1861; Spanish American, 1898.


Of these wars Cass county has participated actively in only the three latter, besides furnishing militia for various infractions of the civil law in the county and state.


Long before Indiana was carved out of the Northwest territory and made into a state and many years before Cass county was settled by whites, the red men built a town, composed of rude huts or wigwams on the north bank of Eel river extending from the east side of Twelve Mile creek in Adams township, thence west across that creek and Mud branch about two and a half miles westward to a bluff just east of the Layton farm to the east line of section 11, Clay township. The Indian name of the town was "Ki-na-pa-com-a-qua." It was also known as "Eel River Town." The French called it "L'Auguille," but it was generally known to the Americans as "Old Town." One hundred and twenty-one years ago it was a very important town and a great factor in the affairs of the Indians of the upper Wabash, being one of the headquarters for as- sembling, organizing and despatching Indian expeditions and forays against the white settler along the borders of Kentucky and Virginia. These attacks were so frequent and savagely brutal they could be sub- mitted to no longer. In 1791, General Knox was secretary of war and or- dered Gen. James Wilkinson to destroy "Old Town" Indian village and capture or scatter its savage occupants. Gen. Wilkinson's force consisted of 525 men, mostly Kentucky troops who left Fort Washington on Au- gust 1, 1791, and pushed forward through almost impenetrable forests to the Wabash river, which he crossed about seven miles east of the


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present city of Logansport on August 7, 1791, and marched north to the rising ground supposed to be the land now known as the Walker and Kidd farms in section 18, Miami township. Gen. Wilkinson in his re- port to the secretary of war says: "I crossed the Wabash river and followed the Indian path a north by east course. At the distance of two and a half miles my reconnoitering party announced Eel river in front and the town on the opposite side. I dismounted, ran forward and examined the situation of the town as far as practicable without expos- ing myself, but the whole face of the country from the Wabash to the margin of Eel river, being a continued thicket of brambles, blackjacks, weeds and shrubs of different kinds, it was impossible for me to get a good view without endangering discovery. I immediately determined to put two companies on the bank of the river opposite to the town and above the ground I then occupied, to make a detour with Maj. Caldwell and the second battalion until I fell into the Miami trace and by that route to cross the river above and gain the rear of the town, and leave directions with Maj. McDowell, who commanded the first battalion to lie 'perdue' until I commenced the attack, then to dash through Eel river with his corps and the advance guard, and assault the houses on the front and left. When I was about to put this arrangement into execution, word was brought me that the Indians had taken the alarm and were flying. I instantly ordered a general charge, which was obeyed with alacrity. The men forcing their way over every obstacle, plunged through the river with great intrepidity. The enemy was unable to make the smallest resistance. Six warriors were killed. Thirty-four prisoners were taken. Two men of Gen. Wilkinson's force were killed, and one wounded. He encamped in the town that night and the next morning cut up the surrounding corn, then scarcely in the milk, burned the town, mounted the young warriors, squaws and children, and started for the Kickapoo village on the prairie." The power of the Indians was broken. Many relics have been picked up on this battleground and one old sword found there by Israel J. Berry was presented to the Cass County Historical Society, and is now found among its collections.


The society is now negotiating for and hopes to secure the Old Town battleground and make it a permanent public park and erect a monu- ment thereon to commemorate the brave deeds of Gen. Wilkinson and his heroic band.


BOLD HILL BATTLE


Tradition tells us that in 1791 an engagement took place on Bold Hill, in the southern part of Miami township, a mile or more west of Lewisburg. A sergeant and eleven men encamped on "Bold Hill." A band of Indians, superior in numbers, attacked the sergeant's forces, wounding several. Ever since this battle, the hollow into which the Indians were driven and defeated, has been known as "Bloody Hollow." At the time it was supposed the Indians belonged at Ki-ua-pa-com-a-qua; a part of a band sent out on a foray before Gen. Wilkinson's arrival and the white troops was an advanced guard of Gen. Wilkinson's expedition.


BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE


While this battle was fought before Cass county was settled by white men, yet many of the soldiers engaged therein became prominent pio- neers of the county and a brief sketch of this battle is worthy of notice in our county history.


Tecumseh, the great Shawnee chief and warrior, for several years prior to 1811, was endeavoring to form an Indian confederacy of all


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the tribes in this region of the country of which he would be the head and chief personage. The declared purpose was to drive the white settlers from west of the Ohio river. He held that the great spirit had given these lands to the Indians for a hunting ground and no tribe could . cede their right to the whites without the consent of all the other tribes, and that the white settlers had no right or title to the land but were usurpers and should be driven off. Tecumseh was ably assisted by his brother, the Prophet, and they had great influence with the Delawares, Wyandots, Miamis, Kickapoos, Pottawattomies, Winnebagoes, Chippe- was and others.


Gen. William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana territory with headquarters at Vincennes, saw impending trouble and had several con- ferences with the wily Shawnee chief. At these conferences Joseph Bar- ron, later a pioneer of Cass county, acted as interpreter. He, with Walter Wilson, was sent by Gen. Harrison with messages to the Prophet, who disregarded the flag of truce and held the messengers as prisoners and condemned them to death and would have executed the sentence had not Tecumseh interfered. This was one noble trait of Tecumseh, he never violated a flag of truce. The differences were only partially adjusted. Tecumseh went south to perfect the confederacy. Gen. Harrison, how- ever, was prepared for the worst, but the Prophet contrary to Tecumseh's instructions, attacked Gen. Harrison, who with 700 men was encamped on the Tippecanoe river, above Lafayette a few miles, on the morning of November 7, 1811, but was repulsed and routed. Gen. Harrison's loss was thirty-seven killed, twenty-five mortally wounded and one hundred and twenty-six wounded. The Indians left thirty-eight killed on the field of battle and the number of their wounded will never be known for, as was their custom, they were carried off.


The following old Cass county pioneers of whom further sketches will be given were engaged in the Battle of Tippecanoe : Gen. John Tip- ton, Gen. Walter Wilson, Maj. Daniel Bell, Joseph Barron, Sr.


BLACK HAWK'S WAR


In the spring of 1832 the renowned Sac chief, Black Hawk, refused as per treaty, to leave his lands in western Illinois and move beyond the Mississippi, and made war on the settlers in Illinois and western Indiana.


On Sunday morning, May 18, 1832, the people on the west bank of the Wabash were thrown into a state of great consternation on account of the report reaching them that a large body of hostile Indians had approached within ten miles of Lafayette and killed two white settlers. There was great excitement and old men, women and children to the number of over 300 flocked into Lafayette. There was much uneasiness on the part of the settlers in Cass county lest the Pottawattamies of this section should go on the war path and the few citizens of Logansport organized a small company of militia, but were never called on for active service as the Illinois troops in which the immortal Lincoln bore an honorable part ran down and captured Black Hawk and his band on the banks of the Mississippi near Prairie du Chien, August 2, 1832.


The following additional Indian fighters are accredited to Cass county, but we find no record of their particular services: Capt. A. M. Higgins, Black Hawk war, William Atwood, Simon Kenton, Geo. Mott.


RIOTS OF THE IRISH LABORERS


About July 12, 1835, while the Wabash and Erie canal was being constructed, the rival parties of Irish laborers known as the "Fardowns"


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and "Corkonians," engaged upon that work, became involved in riotous proceedings and used their "shelalaghs" upon each other, and threaten- ing a general devastation along the line of the canal, necessitating the intervention of the military power of the state. Upon the call of the governor, Gen. John Tipton, of Logansport, was put in chief command and his son, Capt. Spier S. Tipton, with a company of Cass county militia, left immediately for the scene of the riots near Peru, and soon restored order and quiet, and the Irish combatants went back to work. The following is a list of the names comprising this company of militia: Capt. S. Tipton; Stanilaus Lasselle, lieutenant; Jacob Hull, ensign; Samuel B. Linton, first sergeant; Daniel Sparks, second sergeant; John Sellers, third sergeant; Daniel Clary, fourth sergeant; Joshua Shields, first corporal; Amos Roe, second corporal; Cam. Moore, third corporal; Geo. Myers, fourth corporal; privates : D. D. Pratt, Wills Buzan, Thos. G. Davis, Isaac Booth, John Blackburn, James Young, Wm. Dickey, Austin Pate, Martin O'Brien, Philip Leahey, Daniel McCarty, Jeremiah Green, Hugh Ensby, John Goldsberry.


POTTAWATTOMIE INDIAN DISTURBANCES


In September, 1836, when the annual payment of the Indians was made, there arose differences among them in reference to the distribu- tion of the money and some of the braves having partaken of too much "fire water" became quite belligerent. Col. Abel C. Pepper, then Indian agent, as a means of preserving the peace and suppressing dis- order, notified G. W. Ewing, colonel of the Seventy-eighth Regiment of Indiana Militia, who at once called out the Peru Grays, under the com- mand of Capt. A. M. Higgins, and the Logansport Dragoons, under the command of Capt. G. N. Fitch. The timely arrival of these troops poured oil on the troubled waters and all differences were amicably. adjusted without bloodshed.


Capt. G. N. Fitch's company was composed of the following per- sons : George Weirick, first lieutenant; James Dunn, second lieutenant; S. K. Weymore, cornet. Privates: Geo. Rush, James T. Miller, David Johnson, Andrew Rube, Jesse Evans, B. O. Spencer, Edwin Davis, J. McClary, R. C. Weirick, John Howard, J. H. Myers, J. P. Gaines, J. Medary, C. B. Fitch, Jay Mix, M. Washburn, Philip Pollard, John B. Dillon, J. Lemon, Wm. Conner. The company was mustered into ser- vice September 25, 1836, and discharged October 1, 1836.


REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND WAR OF 1812


Cass county had no existence but was only the habitat of the wild Indians and wilder animals, at the time of the Revolutionary war and War of 1812. It is, however, entitled to the honor the following sol- diers lent to it by making it their last home and resting place.


REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS


James Buttler; Peter Bowyer; Christian Krider, died 1847; John Pulee; Alexander Scott, died 1844; John Ward; David Douglass, died 1839.


SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812


Gen. Richard Crooks, died 1842; James Troutman, died 1847; David Douglass; Thomas Skinner, died 1881; Darius Lunsford; Alexander Jennings, died 1866; John Griffin, died 1861; John Enritt, died 1870; . Isaac Caw, died 1870; Joel Black, died 1883; Jacob Bookwalter, died 1896; Christian Kreider, died 1839; Geo. Lowman, died 1872; Reuben


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Perry, died 1875; Geo. M. Fickle; David Scott shot and killed by Har- rison, February 12, 1838; Benjamin Jones, died 1852; Joseph Sellers; John Hill; Ebinezer Bridge; Mr. Hammond; Joseph Hammerly; Robt. Murray, died 1872; Daniel Hale; Gen. Hyacinth Lasselle, died 1843; David Douglass, died 1845; Wm. Cooley, colored, was servant of Gen. Andrew Jackson; Geo. Weirick, died 1851; Col. I. N. Patridge, died 1847; Gen. Richard Crooks, died 1842; Benjamin Purcell, died 1859; Jordan Vigus; N. D. Grover, died 1875; Samuel Chappel, died 1839; Joseph Barron, Sr., died 1843; Sidney Baldwin; Dr. Fred Fitch, died 1850; Thos. Jones, died 1847; Robt. McCanliss, Sr .; James McDonald, died 1846; Dixon McCoy; Dr. Samuel C. McConnell; Geo. Davis; Jeptha York, died 1846; John R. Chilcott, died 1875; Wm. Kline, died 1855; Wm. R. Coone, died 1864; Peter Berry, died 1855; John Watts; James Hood; David Hillhouse; Joseph Venard; John Long; Henry Conrad; Nathaniel Williams.


MEXICAN WAR


Differences between the United States and Mexico having assumed a hostile attitude, the president of the United States, James K. Polk, by proclamation, May 11, 1846, announced that a state of war existed between this country and Mexico. Congress at once authorized a call for 50,000 volunteers and upon this authority the president issued his call on May 13, 1846. James Whitcomb, the governor of Indiana, on May 23d, issued a proclamation directing the enrollment of volunteers in conformity with the president's order. The news of the declaration of war and the governor's call for volunteers soon reached Logansport. Capt. Spier S. Tipton immediately began the enlistment of. men for the war. Military enthusiasm ran high and a complete company was soon enrolled and on the 8th of June, 1846, the company left for the seat of war under the command of Capt. Spier S. Tipton. For several days previously, it had been noised about that the company would leave on that day, and as a consequence the town was full of people, from all sections of the county, to witness their departure and wish them God speed. At this time there were no railroads in the state and the boys left by the way of the Michigan road south to Indianapolis, thence to New Albany, the place of rendezvous for all the Indiana soldiers, before taking transportation by way of the Ohio and Mississippi for the seat of war. The First Indiana Regiment, containing the Cass county con- tingent, was stationed at Camp Whitcomb (named after Governor Whit- comb), near New Albany, until Sunday, July 5, 1846, when they took passage on the steamer, "Grace Darling" for New Orleans, and from there they embarked on a government ship and were landed at Point Isabelle, near the mouth of the Rio Grande, and became a part of General Taylor's command.


Before leaving for the seat of war the ladies of Logansport made a handsome flag and presented the same to the company, the presenta- tion address was delivered on Spencer Square, by Mrs. N. P. Lasselle, who spoke in part, as follows: "The ladies of Logansport present this flag to your company as a testimony of the admiration with which we regard the promptness displayed by you in answering your country's call in the hour of danger. This promptness assures us that you possess the courage to defend with bravery the flag now presented, and that you will return it with honor or return it not at all. Dearly as we love our friends, sooner would we, that their blood should dye the plains of Mexico, and this flag should be their winding sheet, than they should disgrace themselves or it by dastardly conduct. The ground selected to Vol. 1-9


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present it was chosen on account of its associations. The square (between Ninth and Tenth and Market and Spear streets) on which we stand, bears the name of one of our noblest pioneers, Captain Spencer, who fell whilst bravely fighting for his country upon the battlefield of Tippecanoe. And upon this square rest the remains of General Tipton (Tipton was buried on Spencer Square, but later removed to Old Ceme- tery, then to 'Mt. Hope), the father of your captain. He was an inferior officer in the company of the gallant Captain Spencer, and when Cap- tain Spencer and other superior officers had fallen, Tipton took com- mand of the company with such coolness and courage that he was pro- moted to the rank of captain immediately after the action; and we doubt not that the son is worthy of the sire. Not far distant (in the Old Cemetery) lies the father of Lieutenant Lasselle; he, too, was in the War of 1812, and it is a strange coincidence that he should have borne at that time the same rank which his son now bears in your company. He was noted for his bravery, and we trust, indeed, we know the same spirit which animated him now animates his son that is with you today. In conclusion, if it will add to your courage on the battlefield, or cheer you in the weary marches you have to encounter in Mexico, I can assure you, that the aspirations of the hearts of those by whom this flag is presented, will ascend daily to the God of Battles to protect you in the hour of peril and enable you to return with safety and honor to your home and friends."


CAPTAIN TIPTON'S REPLY


"In behalf of the Cass County Volunteers, I accept the flag pre- sented by the ladies of Logansport. It is a beautiful offering, evincing at once their taste and patriotism. It shall ever be our purpose to ren- der ourselves worthy of the sacred trust. Your hands have wrought it to be borne in sight of the enemies of our country, in the front ranks of war. So shall it be borne. We promise to protect it at every hazard. It shall remind us when in foreign lands of our home and the fair hands that made it. We are about to leave for the seat of war, some of us in all probability, never to return, but rest assured that whatever be our fate, we will carry this flag in triumph or defeat, but never to dishonor."




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