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RESPONSE TO FIRST CALL TO ARMS.
The first call for troops was for seventy-five thousand men for three months. So many were offered that a few of the more insistent of the over- flow were organized and mustered in for one year. About the time of the Bull Run disaster, President Lincoln called for three hundred thousand for three years, or during the war. This call was filled promptly. Dearborn county sent out one company for the Eighteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, one for the Twenty-sixth Regiment, two for the Seventh Regiment, two for the Thirty-second Regiment, one for the Thirty-fifth Regiment, one for the Thirty-seventh Regiment, one for the Forty-fifth Regiment, and one for the Fifty-second Regiment, ten companies in all. Besides these who went as a body, numerous of her young men enlisted in companies organizing ir other counties. In the summer of 1862 President Lincoln again issued a call for three hundred thousand men to serve for three years, or during the war, and again the country responded. Dearborn county, always patriotic and always ready to answer the call of her country for service, gave up of her young men cheerfully. The reverses to our arms had brought the exultant enemy to the water's edge on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river, during August, 1862, and the Confederate soldiers could be found just across the river securing cattle, horses and other supplies much needed for their use. Their troopers could be heard at all hours of the night by the home-guard sentinels, who were vigilantly guarding the river front. It is said that at one period. for a month or more, the sentinels of the Union home guards con- stantly walked their beats from the Big Sandy river to Cairo. This condition of affairs encouraged enlistments. Men past the age for army service mounted their horses and assisted in urging the able-bodied and the young to enlist. In a few weeks Dearborn county had recruited three companies for the Eighty-third Regiment and seventy-five other men who enlisted in the same regiment, in companies raised over the line in other counties, one company for the Fourth Cavalry and two for the Sixty-eighth Indiana. Later on, in 1864, two companies were raised for the hundred-days service, and two for the one- year service.
ONE THOUGHT WAS PARAMOUNT.
At the first and second call to arms, in the first and second call for troops for three years, or during the war, in the summers of 1861 and 1862, the men paid no attention to either the conditions for which they enlisted or what
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would be their fate if wounded and discharged helpless. They only thought of the one fact: That the government was in danger and that it must be saved. Later on, matters became reduced to more of a business proposition, and while none the less patriotic, yet the impulsive rush of indignation that the old flag should be assailed had cooled down to that of firm resolve. Some must stay at home to look after and care for the wives and children and to pro- duce what was just as necessary as men at the front-supplies to feed the latter while battling for their country. Dearborn county offered bounties to encourage enlistments; organized help was created to look after the wife and family of the man at the front; societies were organized to prepare needed articles for the boys on the battle line : the sanitary commission and the Chris- tian commission had its branches in every neighborhood, and the whole coun- try, by the summer of 1864, had become an organized body to further the cause of the Union and to crush rebellion.
To bring to the people of the county of the present day some idea of the cost of the war to the county during the four years, aside from the loss of her young men it may be stated that the county paid out for bounties to en- listed men during the struggle the sum of two hundred and ninety-five thou- sand three hundred and five dollars, and it paid out of the public funds for re- lief to the families of the soldiers the sum of ninety-three thousand three hun- dred and thirty-five dollars, besides an amount for miscellaneous requirements of seven thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, making a grand to- tal of three hundred and ninety-six thousand and sixteen dollars for all de- mands. Dearborn county has for its part in the great war an Honor Roll of one thousand nine hundred and forty-six men who were enlisted in the coun- try's service. Besides these, numbers went to other counties and enlisted, for which there can be no proper account given here.
EQUIPPING EARLY COMPANIES.
The work of recruiting, equipping and preparing for the field so many men was heavy and took much of time and money. Indiana had no militia system, and people did not even know what officers were necessary for an organized company. The details of drill, discipline and equipment were un- known and unappreciated, because unknown. It the pioneer days of Indiana a good militia system was in vogue. It was well organized and systematized into companies, regiments, brigades and divisions, with commands officered throughout, so that men could be rapidly mobilized and made ready for any
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emergency. But the Indian had gone to the West and, the menace of the red man no longer existing. people were lulled to the entertainment of a feel- ing of security not justified by existing conditions. At the birth of statehood and for some fifteen years afterwards, even up to 1832, the route to much political preferment was through the titles obtained in the militia, and captains, colonels, majors, and even generals, were plentiful. This, however, ceased about 1832 to 1836, and men looked to other fields as a better route to preferment in politics, hence when the Civil War came on, the material was here, but it was in a state of nature and had to be constructed into a military machine. This took much labor and money. However, at no time during the struggle did the people of Dearborn county ever shrink from the outlay of either men, money or labor. Patriotic throughout, her citizens lived up to the reputation of their pioneer forefathers who had fought the battles of the Revo- lution and had conquered the red men and the wilderness.
THE SEVENTH REGIMENT.
In the call for troops for the three-months service, Dearborn county re- sponded and its men were assigned to the Seventh Regiment. Benjamin J. Spooner was appointed by Gov. Oliver P. Morton the lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, and David E. Sparks was made its quartermaster. Companies D, E and G were furnished by Dearborn county. The officers of the three com- panies were as follow : Company D-John F. Cheek, captain; Jesse Arm- strong, first lieutenant; Eli Mattock, second lieutenant. Company E-John H. Ferry, captain; Henry Waller, first lieutenant; Alexander B. Pattison, second lieutenant. Company G-Nathan Lord, captain; L. K. Stephens, first lieutenant; William Francis, second lieutenant.
The non-commissioned officers and privates of Company D were as fol- low : First sergeant, Montgomery C. Howard; sergeants. James B. Dougli- erty, James McLeaster and Elsin B. Miller; corporals, Robert B. Huff, Lib- erty V. McLeaster, James F. Vaughn and Frank A. Epstein : musicians, Al- bert Kem and Jacob Orne; privates, Minich Ahart, Daniel B. Allen, Charles Allen, Joseph Backert, John Bartholomew, Job Bench, James Boyd, Charles E. Brashear, John Breakey, Curry B. Brown, William Busch, Charles A. Burk, James Chapman, George W. Clermont, Ira D. Chamberlain. George B. Colt. David O. Crosby, Philip B. Crooker, William H. Daniels, Thomas J. Daw- son, Charles Dougherty, James J. Foley, August Garnier. William Gabler. James Glardon, Cyrus S. Horton, William Howard, William H. Hudson,
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Abraham Junker. John Junker, Lewis T. Kem, James Keys, Eli M. Knapp. Cyrus L. Knapp, George WV. Lambertson, Albert Lewis, Edward B. McAllis- ter, Charles A. McCright, Charles M. McCright, John McClintock, William McGinnis, Jacob Meyer, John C. Miller, David L. Morris, Drury H. Nothern, Robert K. Purnell, Jacob Rief, James Reddens, Evan A. J. Sanders, Christian Seidel, Henry J. Seigfreid, Seth S. Simonson, Morgan Simonson, James Skelton, Christian Slonegar, Paul Truitt, George A. West, Henry White, Thomas Whiteford, Thomas Williams, Hiram S. Wiley, Charles J. G. Work- hizer, William Young and Benjamin F. Worth.
Company E-First sergeant, Benjamin F. Burlingame; sergeants, Ab- ner G. Withrow, George C. Watson and John WV. Christy ; corporals, Schuyler P. Shutts, Jesse B. Holman, William V. Hoover and Richard H. Foulk ; musi - cians, George H. Durham and John S. Hope; privates, James Abdon, George Anderson, George W. Angelo, John J. Bailey, Joseph Barnhart, Louis Beach, George Behrens, James Brown, James Bruner, James Burdite, Dudley H. Bur- lingame, Eleazer Cole, Jacob B. Cortant, Charles H. Cronley, George Daniels, John Denton, William H. Drake, Porter Durell, Edwin Ellis, Valentine Ewald, Harvey Fisk, Henry Fisk, Casper Flusch, Cyrus B. Goodwin, James N. Gould, Charles F. Gregory, John Hisey, Gastrous Hockstetter, James House, Archibald Johns, Levi B. Jones, George S. Johnson, Charles Kerch- mer, Albert Kerr, William Kerr, Gottleib Keiser, Charles Lacock, George W. Lowe, Wesley G. Markland, Charles B. Miller, Ernest Navel, James Nelson, Henry Niebaum, John Parker, James L. Passell, Richard Pattison, Henry Smitkin, William Shepperd, Henry C. Shepperd, Henry Shryer, Isaac W. Shutts, Henry J. Smith, Levi Smith, Theodore Sheldon, William Speer, Dun- reith Stage, James C. Stewart, Washington Stockwell, Ebenezer D. Vincent, James Ward, William Wheeler, Henry Wheeler and Richmond Wymond.
The non-commissioned officers and privates of Company G are as follow : First sergeant, Isaac D. Jones; sergeants, John Griffith, George Meyer and James M. Brashear ; corporals, Solomon H. Hayes, Charles Bryant, John Low and John H. Wemke; musicians, George T. Harbold and Isaac Bolander ; pri- vates, Joseph Ahart, Simeon Alfred, Frederick Amann, Michael Amos, Joseph Ashcraft, William Beggs, James Biddinger, Richard Bryant, Charles B. Burkam, James Callahan, James M. Christie, Charles G. Davis, Charles Degan, William H. Durant, Peter Emmert, Stephen Exceen, Frank Farrar, Edward Fasnacht, Charles Fasnacht, Lewis Hasbagh, Omar T. Hayes, Charles Han- nessy, Christopher Hennings, Charles Hennings, Jack A. Hudson, Conrad Herzog, Edmond H. Kelso, John G. Kohlermann, Robert M. Kauffman, Dan-
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iel Leroy, Louis Lommel, Simeon D. Lowe, Henry F. Mason, Nicholas Miller, Thomas McBride, James H. McBride, Robert McBride, Myron McMullen, James McMullen, Charles Neff, Thomas Posey, Middleton Purnell, John Re- gairet, Michael Risner, John M. Robinson, William Ross, Frederick Schultz, Charles A. Simonton, John P. Smith, Peter C. Smith, George W. Smith, Will- iam Smith, Anthony W. Snyder, Benjamin Southard, Frank Shornhauser, John Stancombe, Thomas Sykes, Sebastian Tittel, Edward H. Taylor, John Vogel, Henry Williams, Charles Worth, Paul Weber and Mathews Weibel.
THE THREE-YEAR SERVICE.
At the first call for three-year men Dearborn county furnished two com- panies for the Seventh Regiment, the commissioned officers being as follow : Company A-David Lostutter, Jr., served as adjutant for a time and Benja- min F. Burlingame as quartermaster. The officers of Company A were, John H. Ferry, captain; Alexander B. Pattison, first lieutenant and Benjamin F. Burlingame, second lieutenant. Company K-Jesse Armstrong, captain; Homer Chisman, first lieutenant, and James F. Vaughn, second lieutenant.
The non-commissioned officers and privates of the two companies were as follow : Company A-George C. Watson, first sergeant; sergeants, James C. Stuart, William Wheeler, Albert Kerr and Richard H. Foulk; corporals, Palmer Chisman. Thomas Hess, James Wheeler,. Austin Robertson, Ernest Noebel, Henry Fisk, Harry Fisk and James Abbott; musicians, William H. Nelson and John Miller : wagoner. Daniel H. McMullen ; privates, John An- derson. Clarence Ball, Mitchell Bernard, Joshua Blackburn, Richard Block. James Brewington, Ellis Brown, William Buffington, William Burke. George W. Canfield. Robert Chancem. John Christy, William Clark, Joshua Clements. George Columbia. Samuel Cole, Jacob B. Coutant, John A. Ceigher, John Cure, George Curtis, Samuel Davis, James Davis, Lewis B. Day, William Edwards, Marion Elwell. Samuel Gillison. Ezra Gillingham, Henry Glismar. Warren Goodrich. Cyrus C. Guysinger, Thomas Holcomb, James Hundley. Asa B. Hubbartt. James Hubbartt, John N. Hubbard, George H. Husher- man, William Juman, Alfred James, John Ketcham, Sylvester Knapp. James Loundsberry, Charles Liebhart, William Luke, Martin Matting, William Marsh, Henry E. Miller, Levi Miller, Patrick Murphy, Clinton McAdams. Michael McGee, Fernando C. Nichols, Henry Pieper, Henry Pottebaum, Will- iam Ramsey. Lemuel Record. James Richardson, Oron Richardson, John Richards. Christian Schlereth. Mahlon Shaw, John Skelton, Henry J. Smith.
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Andrew H. Smith, James Stansfield, Gillette Stevenson, Enos Suits, Austin Sweet, Joseph Thompson, William Vincent, John Walker, Michael Whalen, John White, William White, John Whiteaker, Jesse Whiteaker, William Windsor, Benjamin Windsor, James B .. Wills, Jehiel Williams and Oliver Worley; recruits, William Armstrong, William Baker, Alzimo Buck, William Chamberlain, Charles Cole, Bonaparte Ewan, John D. Holcombe, John Little, Harvey Platt, Jesse Stage and Henry Wheeler.
Company K-First sergeant, Peter Galen; sergeants, Seth S. Simonson, James Chapman, Thomas Williams and Paul Truitt; corporals, George W. Lambertson, Volney McLeaster, Philip E. Crooker, James M. Boyd, Andrew J. Connelly, Daniel Allen, George W. Harding and James Murray ; musicians. Henry Pruitt and Minich Ahart; wagoner, James Skelton; privates, William G. Abbott. Joseph Ahart, Hugh Alexander, Chris Y. C. Alden, Francis M. Brown, Jacob Bump, Henry Bull, William O. Butler, William W. Campbell. James Coleman, Isaac Crontz, John Crozier, Levi Culver, Jonathan Curtis, William B. DeHart, Henry Dennis, Alonzo Dixon, Asa C. Emerson, William W. Fitzgerald, Frank Funerheide, George W. Furgason, Thomas Godfrey, Isaac L. Goble, Thomas Grogan, Michael Gleason, John H. Groff, Philip B. Grubbs, James Hamilton, Jesse Harper, Theodore Halberstadt, Martin Hines, William Howard, John F. Isentrager, John M. James, John Westfall Johnson, Charles Jones, Mack Joseph, Abraham Junker, Andrew Kunkel, James Lam- bertson, David Lawrence. Merit I.eming, Benjamin Marshall, George Mar- quett, William Merrill, Fletcher Meredith. John C. Miller, Nicholas Minich, Jo- seph Mitchell, John Myers, James McBride, Robert McBride, Charles A. Mc- Cright, Peter J. Newman, George W. Nevitt, Frank R. New, Jacob Orn, Aaron Oshorn, Albert Parsons, Thomas Peak, Sidney Pile, John W. Pine, John Roark, William Ripking, James Robinson, John Roberts, James Ross, John Russell, Frederick Schultz, Christian Slonegar, James M. Smith, John Smith, George Smith, William Snyder, Leonidas Sowders, Robert Stack, William Standriff, John Tracy, John H. Weaver, Patrick Welsh and William Williams ; recruits, Jonathan P. Alden, John Chapman, Joseph Felix, John Gladwish, Ve- chel Hobbs, Peter Miller, Peter Parsons. David Rapp. Orland Stuart, Lewis Stone, Edward Taylor, Jacob Weber, Elliott Wainscott. John Brown, Harry Roberts, Charles A. Shepard and John Sturdeman.
The Seventh Regiment served in the Army of the Potomac during the whole period of its service. It was in every campaign that that army under- took, and suffered heavy losses. both from disease and battle. Company K. from this county. lost eight men killed outright in battle: seven wounded : four died from disease, and sixteen were discharged for disability.
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Company A lost nine killed in battle; had sixteen wounded, and twenty were discharged for disability, the company mustering out forty-six men at the end of the service. Company K mustered out forty-eight men at the end of the service.
THE SIXTEENTH INDIANA.
The Sixteenth Indiana Regiment was mustered in for one year, April 23, 1861. It was made up from the overflow of men offered for the three-months service, along with five other regiments for a similar term of service, the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth. In the one-year service Thomas J. Lucas' was commissioned the regiments' lieutenant-colonel, and Edward Jones, of Aurora, its chaplain. Two of its companies were re- cruited in Dearborn county, Company G and Company I. The officers of Company G were, Albert G. Dennis, captain; William J. Fitch, first lieu- tenant, and Philip Dexheimer, second lieutenant. Company I had the follow- ing officers: John A. Platter, captain; William Copeland, first lieutenant, and Israel Phalin, second lieutenant.
Non-commissioned officers and privates of the two companies were as follow : Company G-First sergeant, Peter F. Glardon ; sergeants, John Lem- uel, George W. Robinson, Henry H. Robertson and Thomas Clinton; cor- porals, Lewis B. Rounds, Henry J. March, John T. Pruett and Henry Geisert ; Musician, Samuel Plummer ; privates, Amos G. Barrett, Thomas E. Blaisdel, Nicholas Brownagel, Virgil D. Bridges, Hiram Crist, John B. Erwin, Peter Fisher, Alfred Fisher, Charles Fisher, John Fitzpatrick, Peter Froyn, Haborn Garrison, James N. Gregory; John Haas, John Hingstler, Jacob Howser, Lawrence Krieg, William Knapp, William Kress, Joseph Lansing, John Metz- ler, Rudolph Meyer, George Miller, John Miller, Thomas Murray, Patrick Mccullough, John McGraw, John Oldenback, Jacob Orth, Jacob Obert, Peter B. Parsons, Robert Patterson, Henry Peppenhouse, Moses Preston, Joseph Posey, Michael Roth, Hezekiah K. Rounds, Henry Rosenbush, Solomon Scott, John Skelton, Joseph Sell, John Sullivan, George Sullivan, William Samitz, Charles Wells, Adam Whipple, Franklin Wright and Steward Wilson; re- cruits. John Burkhart. Enoch Blaisdel, James Bridges, Daniel Castorm, John Curtin, Jenkins Davis, Martin Doughty, William Hayman, George W. Hollis, Joseph Lemuel. Jesse Lee. John T. May. John A. Merrill. Benjamin Morgan Hiram McCarty, Benjamin McCoy, Thomas Robinson, William Robinson, John Rodgers and Amos Robinson.
Company I had non-commissioned officers and enlisted men as follow :
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First Sergeant, Edward H. Green; sergeants, Curtis K. Emrie, James Steven- son, Charles C. McCreary and Allen W. Lewis; corporals, William R. Mil- burn, Robert J. Bennett, John H. Thompson, Zarah Teany, Daniel Holbrook, James. M. Davis, Edwin T. Gipson and Benjamin F. Richards; musicians, James H. Bailey and Joseph L. Stilwell; privates, Francis M. Abbott, Enoch Abbott, William H. Barker, Byron Brier, William H. Barnett, Joseph W. Brit- ton, Mathew Burris, Franklin Burris, Asaph Buck, Algemore Buck, Manard Bell, Henry J. Boatman, Charles M. Bailey, William H. Connell, Wilford A. Connell, Joshua Conn, James H. Childers, William Chamberlain, David Cris- well, George W. Cain, Jacob Deffner, George H. Davis, Michael Dunfrey, William B. Daniel, John H. Durbin, Christian Haller, George W. Harvey, Henderson Huffman, William H. H. Isgrigg, Allison Johnson, George Les- lie, Mollika Loftus, William Loftus, William H. Masury, Reuben L. McCon- nell, Manius McDermott, Joseph T. Plummer, John Quinn, Elliott W. Rozell, Lemuel Smith, James R. Smith, Michael Skaal, Joseph Supernaut, Jesse Stage, James Stokes, Abram Seay, William H. Taylor, Albert E. Trester, Andrew J. Thornton, Patrick Tool, Varnal D. Trulock, Isaac M. Thompson, Edwin Woodward, David White, John Ward, Robert Walsh, Edmond Yocum; re- cruits, Blythe W. Buffington, William Commons, William H. Conn, William V. Enos, Henry C. Hutchinson, William B. Huffman, John Q. Kelso, Peter F. Norris, Thomas D. Powell. Calvin D. Stodghill, Charles W. Ward and John Vincent.
REORGANIZED FOR THREE YEARS.
The Sixteenth, in the one-year service, served with the Army of the Potomac and took part in only one engagement, that of Ball's Bluff, Virginia, where it was involved in a slight skirmish. After its return home and mus- ter out, the regiment was reorganized and recruited for three years. Thomas J. Lucas was appointed colonel by Governor Morton; Benjamin F. Gatch, of Dillsboro, chaplain, and James D. Gatch, of Dillsboro, assistant surgeon. The regiment had one company from Dearborn county, which was designated as Company E. When the company was filled William H. Terrell, of Man- chester, was made its captain : James Stevenson, of Aurora, first lieutenant, and William H. Jordan, of Manchester, second lieutenant.
The non-commissioned officers and privates were: First sergeant, Charles B. Miller : sergeants. John Simms. Lewis Van Wedding. William H. Barker and John H. Whiteford: corporals. William W. Jennings. Theodore Cross. John Anderson and Robert C. Williams : musicians, Oliver D. Platt and
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Thomas F. Duncan; privates, George Anna, John Bolley, David H. Bishop. David Barrows, Levi Brown, Charles W. Bennett, William Britz, Robert Beggs, Alexander Campbell, Patrick Carty, Henry Cortez, John Courtney. John Cunningham, George Defenbaugh, Frederick Dixon, Frederick Daymon. John Eikler, James Erkskine, William Felick, Thomas Fisher, Christian Gab- ler, Joseph H. Graham. George Gutzwiller, Jonathan H. Hutchins, Joseph Huber, Samuel Kittle, Edmund A. Kastner, William H. Lowes, Jacob La- mont, William Lows, Francis M. Long, Andrew J. Larrison, Oliver Larrison. Philip Lantz, Claiborne H. Morris, Mahlon H. Morton, William Morton, Henry Morton. I.orenzo Manlief, Robert Manlief. John W. Manlief, Samuel McMullen, Robert McMullen, Daniel H. McMullen, Luther Mason. Frank Moll, George W. Mendell, Peter Mudica, John G. Miller, Henry Mintzman, Valentine Nead, John Oatman, Purdy Platt, Lewis M. Platt, Henry Palmer. James A. Parsons, Robert E. Russell, Joseph Russell, Jeptha K. Ruble, Will- iam WV. Runyan, George W. Roesch, William Shafer, George WV. Sawdon, Henry Sillett, Thomas Shanks, John F. Todd, William Tibby, Reuben H. Ter- rell, Joseph Weaver, John Weaver, Jeremiah Weller, Philip Weller, George W. B. Wertz, Joseph H. Wise, Talma Wilcox, Americus Walser, Perry Wil- son and Frederick M. Zeh; recruits, John Barrows, Edward Byron, Charles Bohlans, John M. Clark, Robert M. Clark, William Cline, Daniel Callahan, Maston Dashiel, William Eikler, Johnson J. Fiddick, Daniel B. Guernsey, Ed- ward Holmes, Thomas J. Huffman, John Healus, Harmon Hilshir, Joseph Hilshir, Thomas Healy, George Morris, John Mills, Elymas S. Prall, James M. Ruble, James R. Sousley, Omar T. Tibbetts, William Wilson, Thomas E. Wallace and Joseph T. Waters. Besides these men there were twenty-three unassigned recruits from Dearborn county who were sent to the regiment, but were soon musteredy out before being assigned to any company.
The Sixteenth Indiana, after being recruited for three years, saw much . service. It took part in the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, in less than a month after it was mustered, losing nearly two hundred men killed and wounded. The company from Dearborn county was recruited mostly from Manchester and Dillsboro and it lost, by being killed in battle, six men. It had nine wounded and twenty-one who died on account of wounds or disease.
THE EIGHTEENTH INDIANA.
The Eighteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was one of the first to organize under President Lincoln's three-year call in 1861. Its colonel
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was Thomas Pattison, of Aurora, and Henry D. Washburn, of Newport. In- diana, was its first lieutenant-colonel. but Jesse L. Holman was afterwards promoted to that position. Andrew P. Daughters, of Moores. Hill, was its surgeon at one time, and Peter M. Bigney, assistant surgeon.
The company from Dearborn county was raised about Aurora and Moores Hill, and the officers, when mustered into the service, were: James L. Hol- man, captain: Andrew P. Daughters, first lieutenant, and Robert G. Cuil- ningham, second lieutenant. The non-commissioned officers and privates were : Judson B. Tyler. first sergeant ; Sanford G. Given, Robert R. Patti- son. George WV. Brown and George B. Bruce, sergeants; George Bailey, Al- fred C. Brumblay, Benjamin Draper and Michael Tearney, corporals; James Huffman and David H. Frazier, musicians, and Jacob Bedenger, wagoner. The privates were: Edward Abbott, David C. Alfred, Thomas J. Bailey, Omer T. Bailey, James Barkley, John Bailey, Hugh Barkley, Lawren F. Bai- ley, William M. Berry, Andrew Beinkamp, Freeman J. Bell, Ephraim J. Brun- son, James Burns, Andrew J. Burlingame, George Brownacle, James Byard. Sandford Carbaugh, George Carbaugh, Laban H. Cox, Thomas Cunning- ham, David Daniels, Henry J. Daughters, William DeSaune, George Degant. William Darby, James Dewitt, John Davis, Joseph Emberger, Philip Frank, Jacob Garth, Martin Garrity, Thomas Garrity, Thomas Gavin, Thomas C. Gillis, Ephraim Gooderson, John Graves, Albert Harding, David Harding. John M. Haught, John F. Hankins, Henry Hephentine, Oscar Henry, John Henderson, James B. Hunt, Aaron Hunter, Joseph Hill, Charles Keiser, Will- iam Kelley, Andrew Kemph, Samuel Knapp, John N. Lee, William Little. Adam C. Loder, Thomas J. Lowe, Daniel Maple, Nicholas Miller, Martin Mitchell, James Moore, Otho WV. Moore, Robert W. Pendergrast, Robert Ramsey, Jackson A. Reed, Benjamin Roberts, James T. Robinson, James. Schofield, John Sell, Harrison Smith, Norval G. Sparks, Frank Staker, Will- iam Stanton, Van Buren Straight, John C. Swift, Jesse L. Summers, James Thompson, William W. Thornton, Michael Trapp, Levi Wainscott, John R. Walser, James Wirts, Judson Williams, Lewis Winkley and George T. Wright; recruits, Elias Bridgewater, Benjamin Cobb, William Farley, Adolphus Mark, George Patterson, William Richards, Leonard Rigsby, Noah Tryon, William White and John P. Worley.
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