History of Cass County, Indiana, from its earliest settlement to the present time; with Biographical Sketches and Reference to Biographies, Volume I, Part 19

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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At New Albany, Captain Tipton accepted a lieutenantcy in the regular army and Stanilaus Lasselle was elected to the captaincy of the Cass county company. On the 19th of June the company known as Company G, was mustered into the service by Captain Churchill, of the United States army. The following persons composed the company : Captain, Stanilaus Lasselle; first lieutenant, Wm. L. Brown; second lieutenant, David W. Dunn; first sergeant, Jas. H. Tucker; second ser- geant, Jacques M. Lasselle; third sergeant, Edwin Farquhar; fourth sergeant, Thomas H. Weirick; first corporal, Henry W. Vigus; third corporal, T. W. Douglass; fourth corporal, Thomas Bringhurst; fifer, Leonard H. Keep; drummer, James M. Vigus; surgeon, Wm. Fosdick; color bearer, J. Stephenson ; James Anderson; Geo. W. Blakemore.


Privates : J. S. Armitage, David C. Buchanan, W. B. Buchanan, J. Briscoe, James T. Bryer, Sylvester Berry, L. B. Butler, Wm. Bock- over, H. Bowman, J. Bowser, D. Barrett, D. S. Barbour, S. Bailey, O. Bailey, W. B. Buckingham, B. Crawford, G. T. Case, James Cox, W. C. Crumley, S. M. Cotner, G. Coleman, J. Cotter, Peter Doyle, J. Dawson, James W. Davidson, A. Daniels, T. S. Dunn, Robt. Denbo, J. Duel, G. Emerson, I. H. Foreman, Wm. F. Fosdick, A. B. Foster, D. B. Farring- ton, O. H. P. Grover, Elijah M. Green, John B. Grover, A. D. Graham,


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N. F. Hines, C. B. Hopkinson, A. Hunter, C. Hillhouse, D. W. Johnson, R. L. Kelly, W. B. Kelly, L. H. Keep, J. Kernodle, Joshua S. La Rose, J. Loser, James L. Morse (elected corporal at Mier, Mexico), F. O. Miller, W. Miller, T. P. McBean, W. W. McMillen, J. C. Moore, John Martin, S. L. McFaddin, (elected corporal at the mouth of the Rio Grande), T. Montgomery, E. McGrew, J. Monroe, Wash. Obenchain, B. W. Peters, J. D. Patterson, B. Purcell, J. Pfouts, Max Reese, P. Rector, S. B. Richardson, S. D. Rhorer, W. T. Shepperd, R. L. Stuart, P. C. Smith, S. Thompson, S. L. F. Tippet, W. Thompson, J. M. Vigus, Wm. L. Wolf, L. G. Ward, F. T. Windrick, P. N. Whittingill, and D. Yopst.


There were three Indiana regiments formed at New Albany, the first, second and third. The Cass county company was put in the first regiment with James P. Drake, as colonel; C. C. Nave, lieutenant col- onel and Henry S. Lane, as major.


After their term of service in Mexico the company was mustered out on June 15, 1847, at New Orleans, at which time the officers were Stanilaus Lasselle, captain; Wm. L. Brown, first lieutenant; David M Dunn, second lieutenant; Geo. W. Blakemore, third lieutenant; J. H. Tucker, first sergeant; J. M. Lasselle, second sergeant; T. A. Weirick, third sergeant; H. W. Vigus, fourth sergeant; H. P. Turner, first cor- poral; T. H. Bringhurst, second corporal; S. L. McFaddin, third cor- poral; J. M. Morse, fourth corporal; L. H. Keep, fifer; J. M. Vigus, drummer; and E. Farquhar, hospital steward.


When mustered into service the company contained ninety-three men; when mustered out, fifty-seven men, thirty-one having been previously discharged on account of ill health while in Mexico and three died and were buried in Mexico, to-wit: W. B. Buchanan, Dyer Barrett and Caleb B. Hopkinson.


Line of march of Company G, First Regiment Indiana Volunteers in the Mexican war, as reported by T. H. Bringhurst.


Left Logansport on June 8, 1846, with ninety-three members and thirty-three wagons, furnished by the citizens of Cass county. Ate dinner at Deer Creek, furnished by the citizens. Slept at Burlington on the night of the 8th, and at Eagle Village on the 9th. Arrived at Indianapolis on the 10th and encamped in the fair grounds. Left Indi- anapolis on the 11th and marched to Franklin. Left Franklin on the 12th and marched to Edinburg on the railroad, and from there on rail- road to Madison. Left Madison on 13th on steamer "Adelaide," arriv- ing same evening at Louisville and transferred to New Albany, where we remained in Camp Whitcomb until July 5th, when we left on the steamer "Grace Darling," for New Orleans, arriving there on the 11th. Left New Orleans on the barque "Sophia Walker," a vessel of three hundred and fifty tons burthen. Was towed by a steamer to the mouth of the Mississippi river and turned loose in a storm which continued the entire voyage. Landed at Brazos, on the Texas coast July 19th and marched to the mouth of the Rio Grande, arriving there on July 21st. Next day marched up the river to Camp Belknap, near the town of Buerta, nine miles from the mouth. Remained here until August 31st, drilling, etc. It was here that the battle of invalids occurred. The sick in the hospital largely outnumbered the men on duty. One day a fight broke out among the invalids in the hospital requiring all the well men in the regiment to quell the riot. The regiment marched out nearly to Monterey, Mexico, but were. ordered back to the Rio Grande for guard duty, but late in January, 1847, Company G was ordered to Monterey in expectation of a battle at Saltillo, but the battle was fought at Buena Vista, while Company G was encamped near Monterey, where


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they spent some time, and until their time expired and they returned to the Rio Grande and Brazos and shipped to New Orleans where they were mustered out and boarded the steamer "Cincinnati" for home, arriving at Logansport on July 4, 1847, where they were honored in a deserving reception by the citizens. After the departure of the company of enlisted men, Lieutenant Tipton returned to Logansport and secured the enlistment of a company of regulars to serve in Mexico or elsewhere as directed by the war department.


This company was soon ordered to Mexico and landed at Vera Cruz and engaged in numerous battles under the command of Gen. Winfield Scott, the hero of Lundy's Lane during the War of 1812. In the invest- ment and capture of the city of Mexico, the Cass county boys were the first to enter the city and the consecrated halls of the Montezumas, and De Witt C. Weimer first raised our battle flag, the emblem of American liberty, over that nation's ancient capital. In the storming of Cha- pultepec, the "Mexican citadel," Cass county troops were in the van and first to plant the American flag upon the ramparts of this renowned fortress.


CAPT. SPIER S. TIPTON'S COMPANY OF UNITED STATES MOUNTED · RIFLEMEN


Adams, James A .; Bridge, Franklin H .; Boss, Michael; Butterfield, Wm .; Brison, John; Bailey, Isaac I .; Barber, Daniel; Butler, Francis H .; Bear, David; Bancroft, Joel E .; Bean, Robert; Burke, Henry M .; Conckling, Gary H .; Clair, Joseph; Chapman, Wm .; Clifford, Henry ; Cumesky, James M .; DeFord, Robert; DeFord, Joseph; Dougherty, Michael; Dale, John; Douglass, Joseph; Ford, Wm. F .; Flynn, James; Franklin, Andrew R .; Freleigh, Andrew; Farlee, Lawrence; Funk, Henry K .; Ferrell, James; Graham, James; Grandstaff, Wm .; Hines, Jonathan D .; Hose, Jacob; Hunter, Joseph; Hammerly, Wm .; Hoor, Obid; Hollingsworth, John ; Huntress, Orin ; Hackenthorn, John ; Haines, Joseph; Kisling, David; Kirkham, Watson; Lequire, James; Lloyd, Benj .; Lopp, John; Myers, Alpheus; Mooney, Chas .; Manary, Chas .; Maurer, Daniel; McGrew, John; Murphy, Wm. C .; McCormick, Thos. B .; Munger, Edson M .; Nattage, Henry; Newton, Frederick P .; New- house, Joseph ; Pettit, Michael S .; Phipps, John; Preston, John; Purcell, John; Pomroy, Benj. ; Pope, John A .; Raney, John W .; Riddle, Isaac B .; Rinehart, Geo .; Sordelet, Francis; Scott, John C .; Scott, Newton G .; Scott, James M .; Shaw, Conrad; Shoe, John H .; Sellars, Isaac; Sort- wel, Daniel; Shurrum, John; Symms, James; Snively, John; Steele, Hugh H .; Sires, Thomas; Slusser, John; Sample, Elon A .; Shannon, David R .; Sampson, Geo .; Slevin, Pat. S .; Thompson, Luther; Thomp- son, Harry ; Tenny, Edwin L .; Underwood, Samuel; Vigus, Carter L .; Vigus, Thomas P .; Vanblarigan, Henry; Vandine, Abner; Weimer, DeWitt C .; Wasson, Wm. H .; Woods, Benj. R .; Webster, Milton; Yantis, Samuel L.


The following Mexican war soldiers, while not enlisting in the local companies, yet have honored Cass county by living and dying in the county, and should be listed here, as a part of the military history of the county :


David Stumbaugh; Andrew Mehaffie; Hiram Lott, died 1899; Wm. Miller; William Jones; John Lyons; J. J. Google; Irvin Masters.


Capt. Spier S. Tipton, Gary H. Conkling, Samuel L. Yantis, and Frank Bridge fell victims to war's terrors and their remains now repose on Mexican soil.


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DEATH OF LIEUTENANT WIMER


De Witt C. Wimer, the color bearer, who was first to plant our flag upon the dome of the ancient hall of the Montezumas, returned to Logansport where he lived a respected soldier citizen until his death, August 4, 1861, being the day on which the first three months troops enlisted in the Civil war, returned to be greeted with rejoicing and jollification by the people. In the midst of this rejoicing the brave spirit of Ensign Wimer passed to its eternal rest. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Layton, the services were held in Spencer square (between Ninth and Tenth and Market and Spear streets) and was attended by a large concourse of people, including his military associates and the fire companies of the city. To the solemn strains of music his remains were borne to their last resting place and a parting salute fired over his grave by those who esteemed him for his manly conduct in the services of his country.


ONLY MEXICAN SOLDIER LIVING


Henry Galloway, residing at 403 Clifton avenue, Logansport, is the only Mexican soldier living within Cass county and it is reported that he is the only one in the state. He was born in Kentucky in 1815; moved with his parents to Knightstown, Indiana, and enlisted at Greenfield, Indiana, in Capt. J. K. Bracken's company for the Mexican war and marched from Vera Cruz to the old City of Mexico. Mr. Galloway never went to school a day in his life and had no educational advantages, but was a gallant soldier and a sturdy citizen. He came to Logansport in 1847. Married Mary Ross in 1850; had thirteen children, nine of whom with his wife have been called to the better land. His youngest daughter, unmarried, keeps house for the grim old soldier in their humble home. Mr. Galloway is a brick maker, but unable to work for many years, al- though he walks down town, unaided.


From a strict view of the comity of nations, the Mexican war was not justified and cannot be defended. It was Gen. U. S. Grant, however, who said, that when your country was once engaged in war, it was the duty of its people to stand by and uphold their country, whether right or wrong, and he who held back, criticized, or aided his country's enemies in time of war should be deemed a traitor. Following this dictum, Cass county responded patriotically to the call of their country and heroically de- fended the same although the writer has since talked with some of the returning soldiers, who declared that this was an unjust and indefensible war.


It makes not the slightest difference whether the reader approves or disapproves of the Mexican war. He will read descriptions of the vic- tories won by those volunteers over vastly superior numbers, and will rejoice that they were Americans, and that he is an American. The Mexi- can war made three candidates for the presidency : Taylor, Scott and Pierce. Taylor and Pierce were elected; Scott defeated. A treaty of peace was concluded at Gaudaloupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848, and President Polk proclaimed it on July 4th and our army was withdrawn and the war with Mexico was ended.


As a balm for the wounded pride of the Mexicans for the loss of territory (Texas, California, etc.), the United States paid Mexico $12,- 000,000 and assumed debts owing to Americans by Mexico of $3,500,000. The treaty also adjusted the boundary line between the two nations prac- tically as it exists today.


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LOCAL MILITARY COMPANIES


In the later fifties Capt. D. H. Chase was instrumental in organizing a local company of militia known as the "Cecil Grays." The names of this company of would-be soldiers are not now obtainable. In 1859 the Cecil Grays disbanded or was reorganized and name changed to "Zouave Guards." This local company of militia was organized by Capt. D. H. Chase, and on the breaking out of the Civil war in 1861 the "Zouave Guards" were the first company enlisted in Logansport, under D. H. Chase, and served in the Ninth Indiana Regiment, but were never called on for military service, prior to their enlistment in the United States service.


LOGAN GRAYS


This was a local company of militia also organized by Capt. D. H. Chase in 1873 and had their armory in Richardson's hall at No. 427 Mar- ket street. They were thoroughly drilled in military maneuvers by their captain who was a strict disciplinarian. On October 9, 1874, governor and later vice-president, Thomas A. Hendricks, visited the Grays at their armory and spoke in very complimentary terms of their soldierly bear- ing and excellent drilling, and promised that the state would furnish them with new and improved guns. On October 5, 1875, the Logan Grays attended a soldiers' reunion at Ft. Wayne and competed for a prize offered for the best drilled company and they, under the command of Capt. Chase, carried off the prize.


For many years the Grays went into camp every summer at "Camp Chase" in the woods on the north bank of Eel river, north of the Davis bridge, where they would drill, practice shooting and perform other duties of real soldiers. The Logan Grays was considered the best drilled and most soldierly appearing company in the state, and appeared in full dress parade on many public and patriotic occasions, such as the clebra- tion or observance of Washington's birthday, the 4th of July or Decora- tion day.


In 1885 they uniformed and organized a "drum corps" consisting of eight members as follows: Harry Norton, John Tomlinson, Howard Stitt, Charles Swigart, Elmer Worstell, Bert Walters, Robert Bryer and Charles Purcell.


About 1874 or '75 there was a strike and other labor troubles among the employees of the Baltimore & Ohio and other railroads at Indianapolis and south of there. The difficulties became so threatening that the gov- ernor called out the militia and the Logan Grays promptly responded and headed by the Cicilian band marched to the depot and took the Panhandle train for Indianapolis, where they overawed the rioters with- out the firing of a gun and in a few days returned to their homes with- out the loss of a man. The following members of the company were engaged in this bloodless expedition :


Captain, Dudley H. Chase.


Corporals: James P. Henderson, Geo. Naylor, W. P. Parkin, Lon Bond.


Privates: M. S. Rizer, Frank Comingore, Groves Knowlton, Hugh Hillhouse, Milton Crain, John Dunkle, Mart Morrisey, Ed Neff, Ed Alexander, Will D. Pratt, J. H. Meek, Frank Richardson, John Brisco, Will D. Craig, Thomas Roush, Will Hall, Thomas C. Haire, H. C. Ham- montree, Mart Lux, Chas. Ringleben, Simon Oppenheim, John Schwerdman.


The company kept up its organization for about twenty years, but from deaths, removals and other causes it was finally disbanded.


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BOY SCOUTS


The "Boy Scout" movement in Logansport was brought about ·through the efforts of Louis Oren Wetzel, an energetic young man who was born and educated in Virginia, but is now a resident of Logansport and is a commercial traveler out of our city, as well as scout master and also holds a commission from the National Council as special field scout commissioner with jurisdiction throughout the entire state of Indiana.


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The object of the movement is to teach the adolescent boy the true principles of self reliant manhood. Each boy on admission to the troop promises on his honor to "do his duty to his God and his country, to help other people at all times, and to keep himself physically clean, men- tally awake and morally straight." The local troop is chartered by the National Council Boy Scouts of America who exercise jurisdiction over all the troops in the United States. Each boy must observe the twelve rules of the council, which are as follows: 1st, a scout is trustworthy; 2nd, a scout is loyal; 3rd, a scout is helpful; 4th, a scout is friendly ; 5th, a scout is courteous; 6th, a scout is kind; 7th, a scout is obedient; 8th, a scout is cheerful; 9th, a scout is thrifty; 10th, a scout is brave; 11th, a scout is clean; 12th, a scout is reverent. This troop is absolutely non- sectarian as are all first-class troops, and the Logansport troop is self-supporting and self-sustaining, and was organized January 6, 1912, and now numbers 112 members, with new members coming in constantly. The troop is divided into two companies, Co. "A" and Co. "B;" the officers of "A" company are as follows : Captain, Chas. Guy ; lieutenant, Myron Oppenheimer; 1st sergeant, Daniel Drompp; 2nd sergeant, Ken- dall Wipperman; 3rd sergeant, Merle Reinheimer; 4th sergeant, Clive Mckay. Officers of "B" company are : Captain, John Brickley ; lieuten- ant, John Burdge; 1st sergeant, Marshall Raber; 2nd sergeant, Everitt Crockett; 3rd sergeant, Carl Reinheimer; 4th sergeant, Robert Harrison. Troops meet in G. A. R. hall first three Saturdays of each month. The troop is planning to erect a wireless station as soon as they are able and intend to have one that will be for commercial use as well as for educa- tional purposes. They are also building a log cabin on the Jones farm, northeast of the city, which they will make a sending station and also a place to rest while on trips in this vicinity. Mr. Wetzel and his scouts are doing a noble work and it is reliably stated that they have reclaimed a number of boys who would probably have been in some correctional school had it not been for the teaching of "scout craft."


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WAR OF THE REBELLION


The presidential election of 1860 was a three-cornered fight. The radical slave holding element of the South supporting John C. Brecken- ridge, of Kentucky, the moderate Democrats the candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, and the Republican party, Abraham Lincoln. The radical Democrats of the South not only wanted to retain their slaves, but also to extend slavery into the territories; the conservative or Doug- las Democrats, trained along between these two extremes, while the Republicans, under Lincoln, maintained that slavery must not be ex- tended but curtailed with a view of final extinction, the government re- munerating the slave holders for their slaves. As Lincoln expressed it: "The nation could not permanently exist, half slave and half free." During the campaign of 1860, the South made threats that if Lincoln was elected they would withdraw from the Union and set up an inde- pendent government of their own, whose cornerstone was slavery. No sooner had the result of the election been announced and that Abraham


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Lincoln would be the next president, than the southern states began to plan to carry out their threat. Consequently upon the threatening aspect of affairs in the South, and a strong probability that a rupture was likely to occur in the near future, the current of public opinion and expres -. sion in Cass county foreshadowed an earnest purpose on the part of the people to give their support to the incoming president (Lincoln) in what- ever legitimate way he might propose to steer the ship of state through the breakers obtruding to interfere with the progress and development of that liberal sentiment which characterized the policy of the majority of the American people as expressed at the ballot box in November, 1860. That current of opinion became stronger and more expressive day by day as time advanced toward the inauguration of the new administration. After March 4, 1861, indeed long anterior to that date, the spirit of op- position was so distinctly exhibited in the leading actions of adherents of the late administration of James Buchanan and the belligerent attitude assumed by them, that the peace-loving conservative element of the so- ciety at large became a unit on the question of the propriety of main- taining the supremacy of the laws and the constitution.


The condition of affairs during the few days after Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, that preceded the first acts of war, left no doubt in the minds of our people that war would be inevitable and that without delay. When therefore the telegraph announced that Fort Sumter, in Charles- ton harbor had been fired upon, and that the laws of our country had been set at defiance-that open rebellion had been inaugurated, all party distinctions were forgotten in the common impulse to maintain the integrity of the national Union and the determined purpose to meet force by force, if need be, engaged the attention and called forth the energies of all parties in Cass county to aid in the accomplishment of the one grand object-the perpetuity of our country undivided.


The announcement of President Lincoln's proclamation and a call for 75,000 volunteers and a quick response of Gov. Morton tendering the requisite quota of Indiana found the people of Cass county ready for the conflict.


Capt. D. H. Chase of the "Zouave Guards," whose military fervor had long before induced him to organize a company of boys, which he armed and uniformed at his own expense and drilled them until they had become thoroughly disciplined, familiar with the manual of arms and skillful in warlike evolutions, was the first to tender the services of his company. The president's proclamation was issued on Monday, April 15, 1861, the proclamation of Gov. Morton on the 16th and on the same day Captain Chase received a dispatch from Adjt. Gen. Lew Wallace, accepting his tender and ordering him to report his men at headquarters. Almost simultaneously with the movement of Captain Chase, Thos. S. Dunn, who served in the Mexican war, opened an office in the old round corner stone building that then stood at the southeast corner of Fourth and Market streets and succeeded in rapidly enlisting men. The office was opened Wednesday, April 17, 1861, and on the Saturday following he had enrolled 125 men, good work for less than three days.


On Monday the 21st, Captain Chase's company and that of Captain Dunn, went into camp at Indianapolis.


Other recruiting officers were opened and the enlistments continued to be rapid. Captain, afterwards Col. Wm. L. Brown, commenced re- cruiting on Friday, April 19th, and on Tuesday, the 23d, his company was full. Captain Chamberlain opened a recruiting office on Monday the 22d, and began to enlist men to be called the Union Grays, and the ranks were soon filled. On the same day Col. N. G. Scott, a member of


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the rifle regiment, under General Twiggs, during the campaign from Vera Cruz to the Mexican capital, began to enlist recruits, and the work proceeded rapidly. Although several hundred men had been enlisted in Logansport within the week succeeding the president's call, yet the number of recruits ready and anxious to enlist seemed not to have diminished.


Captain Chase and Dunn's companies left for Indianapolis on Mon- day, April 22, 1861, and mustered into the service the following day as Company K and D of the Ninth Indiana Regiment, three months men. Prior to the departure of Captain Chase and while they were parad- ing in their armory, preparatory to marching to the Wabash depot, Col. C. C. Loomis, of this city, presented Captain D. H. Chase an elegant pair of epaulets. The occasion was of much interest and particularly gratifying to the company of Zouaves, who under Captain Chase, did do their whole duty in the perilous times which surrounded the nation. In presenting the epaulets, Colonel Loomis said in part: "Yourself with those under you are about to leave your homes to fight for freedom against the enemies of our hitherto peaceable, prosperous and happy country. But in an evil hour an insidious foe has invaded our rights and is now striving to force our nation into anarchy, bloodshed and ruin. The young men of our land, with brave hearts and strong hands, are now called upon, in this hour of our country's danger, to stand up for the rights so gloriously bequeathed to us by those revolutionary heroes who have now gone down to their graves, covered with honor and glory. Our fathers thought it no hardship to risk their fortunes and lives, and all that they held dear, if by any means they could transmit to posterity the liberties which we have hitherto enjoyed.


"Our mothers, too, whom we with pride remember, were willing to sacrifice if necessary, their sons, the pride and joy of their hearts, that tyranny and oppression might be driven from the land. To per- petuate those liberties, you are now called from the homes and friends you love so well, to assist in rescuing the ship of state which has so · long withstood the storm, from a treacherous and rebellious crew. May the consciousness that the cause is just, urge you forward and give you courage to stand manfully for the right, uphold the dignity of our country and preserve and perpetuate the Union.




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