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PRESS COMMENTS.
Scores of men and women are yet living who remember that awful April day when the news came that Sumter had fallen, that Lincoln had called for troops, and that, be it long or short, the most terrible of all wars, a civil war, was upon the people.
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The issue of the Ledger of Saturday, April 20, 1861, told the story locally and generally. Fort Sumter surrendered on the afternoon of April 13th and this was the first issue after that event. And it appears that so great was the excitement that this issue was not printed until Monday, the 2211d. The news of the attack and fall of Sumter is given in a series of of- ficial communications showing the progress of the fight from day to day, the last dispatch from Charleston reading: "Fort Sumter has been uncondi- tionally surrendered. The fort was taken possession of tonight."
When the news reached Danville all business was suspended and men stood about the streets discussing, almost in a whisper, the future of the land. Men doubted if a company could be organized in Danville. Joseph S. Miller thought it worth while to try and, going to his law office, he drew up a muster roll, signing it himself first. Then he went out on the street and name after name was added and public enthusiasm increased with each signature.
Under the heading, "War Spirit of Old Hendricks," the Ledger tells of this as follows :
"The President's call for men was received here on Monday last. On Tuesday Joseph S. Miller headed a list of volunteers. On Wednesday the Governor was petitioned to appoint Hon. James M. Gregg colonel of the county militia. On Thursday his commission came and he gave notice to all liable to do military duty to meet him for immediate service and organize the militia in every township. On Saturday morning the town was alive with people from all parts of the country. The volunteers, numbering over fifty, were formed into line before the Odd Fellows' hall and a national flag was raised from the roof of the building amid the shouts of the people and the roar of musketry. Colonel Gregg then responded to a call for a speech. Messrs. Campbell, Colonel Nave, W. L. Gregg, S. A. Russell and V. Lingen- felter also spoke and one hundred and eight men enrolled themselves. Their captain, James Burgess, was offered and accepted by the governor and they leave this evening. In the meanwhile, L. S. Shuler commenced another com- pany. continued all day Sunday and this evening will tender a second full company to the governor."
Among those who signed was Warner L. Vestal, editor of the Ledger, and his enlistment caused the following to appear in the paper :
"The editor and proprietor, WV. L. Vestal, having volunteered in the service of the United States, has put in John Irons as editor and agent dur- ing his absence. Four of our compositors, W. P. and George Gregg, J. N.
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Vestal and B. B. Freeman, having also volunteered and the Devil. W. H. Carnes, having gone with the captain of the company, the news room is left with no other force than the old stand-by, the former foreman, T. O. Thomp- son. The paper will probably be behind for an issue or so. But unless an- other call is made by the government the Ledger will be on hands as usual after all hands have got the hang of the new arrangement."
That the paper was late in being published is evident, for, although it was dated April 20th, the following item concerning the departure of the Hendricks county volunteers tells of an event which happened on the 22nd as follows :
"One hundred and eight of as gallant fellows as ever dared to meet a foe left our town Monday evening, April 22nd. Hon. James Burgett, cap- tain; P. S. Kennedy, Esq., first; Joseph S. Miller, Esq., second; and W. P. Gregg, Esq., third lieutenants. Such unanimity of purpose was never wit- nessed among our people before. Parties now date this back no further than Monday the 15th inst. The bombardment of Fort Sumter proved to be a great uniter of parties in this county. In fact, there is but one party, that of the Stars and Stripes, in old Hendricks and it is dangerous to avow any other principles. So hot have matters become that one fellow here had nearly been slaughtered at the meeting here on the 20th inst. by mistake. Swords and bayonets flashed around him like lightning and but for prompt assistance his life would have been out of him in twenty seconds."
It is unfortunate for this generation that more of the local scenes are not described in the issue of the Ledger, but the excitement was too great, the tension too strong to write. Editorially, the Ledger said :
"It becomes our duty this week to announce the lamentable fact that war has been inaugurated in our own country by the rebels of the Confeder- ate states. The attack made on Fort Sumter by the rebels was successful. Major Anderson has been compelled to surrender and, however humiliating it may seem to others, we can not but regard it as a point gained. We will now find out whether we have a government or not, and if we have, woe be unto those who have for years been plotting its ruin. The people in this part of the country are a unit for the Union. We know no man as a Repub- lican, a Douglas or a Breckinridge Democrat. Party lines have been aban- doned and, although it has been predicted that in case of an attack upon the government the North would be divided and the rebels receive the support of a strong party here, we are of the opinion that not one company can be found north of Mason and Dixon's line who are willing to assist the traitors.
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The present state of affairs is much to be regretted, but we of the North can not help it. For four months every act of aggression, of insult, and inso- lence has been done in the secession states against the government and people of the American nation, which can possible be conceived except the actual conflict of arms. This has come and henceforth we have to hear the sound of war and the combat of battles. The record is made up. The position admits of but two sides. He who is not for his country is against it. Let every loyal heart now rally to the country. Let the flag be borne aloft and the battle will end with a victory for the Union, for humanity and the world."
Elsewhere the Ledger says: "Hon. J. M. Gregg has been commissioned by the governor as colonel of the sixth military district of Indiana. Mr. Gregg is a Democrat and was delegate to the Charleston convention. In this hour of our country's distress we are glad to see that all party lines are obliterated and that all go for the glorious flag and Union which have con- ferred so many blessings upon us as a people. The appointment of Mr. Gregg is a good one and he will do all in his power to enforce the laws and sustain the union."
The Ledger also says: "On Tuesday (the 16th) an effort was made to organize a company of militia here to be tendered to the governor for the maintenance of the government and the enforcement of the laws. Before night twenty-six men were enrolled. At the meeting Tusday night several more signified their willingness to, serve their country and the company will soon be made up. Wednesday morning another meeting was held and the company proceeded to the election of temporary officers. The band played martial music and everything was astir. After marching around to the com- mons east of town Captain Kennedy proceeded to drill the new company. Colonal Nave's hall was secured and there in the evening the company drilled again. The greatest excitement and enthusiasm prevails and all men of all parties are determined the government shall be sustained at all haz- ards. The stars and stripes are floating from stores, offices and other buildings."
Local mention is made of the marriage on Sunday, April 21st, of George Gregg and Miss Annie Vawter and Charles F. Hogate and Miss Julia De- pew. The Ledger says: "The boys left with their company for the national service the following day, leaving their newly-made wives praying for their safe return."
The original muster roll of this first company from Danville, the one used at Indianapolis April 24th when the company was sworn into the serv- ice of the United States, is as follows :
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It bears the names of James Burgess, captain ; Peter S. Kennedy, first lieutenant ; Joseph S. Miller, second lieutenant ; Charles F. Hogate, Orion A. .Bartholomew, Will C. Banta, Warner L. Vestal, sergeants; Joseph B. Ho- man, William M. Walker, Virgil H. Lyon, Hubbard B. Lingenfelter, cor- porals, Miltiades Cash, drummer ; James Landon, fifer ; Joseph Allison, Sam- uel Armstrong. A. Beard, William Bartley, James J. Beyy, Americus Bland, Jefferson J. Bolt, Simeon Buchanan, Franklin J. Burcham, Jesse T. Burhop, Albert S. Burgan, Dennis Brewer, Harrison Brown, Benjamin A. Cord, James M. Crane, Thomas J. Crane, Jonathan P. Curtis, Robert M. Curtis, John Emmons, Allen C. Evans, James C. Faulkner, George Filer, Robert V. Franklin, Brook B. Freeman, James P. Gilland, Jeremiah Givens, George Gregg, William P. Gregg, James Hackley, Joseph Hackley, Jacob N. Holts- claw, Marshall Holtsclaw, William G. Homan, Erastus F. Hunt, Frank H. Huron, William W. Irons, William M. Jenkins, Moses Kebner, Thomas J. Kirtley, Edward D. Lotshar, James T. Matlock, Aquilla S. McCormick, William T. Miller, John S. Moore, John O'Haver, William F. Parker, Will- iam Pearson, Jewett J. Perkins, Samuel R. Perkins, George Richards, Mar- cus D. L. Robins, Madison H. Rose, James Scearce, John T. Scearce. Nathan J. Scearce, John W. Smith, William D. Smith, Charles Stephen, Joshua C. Thompson, Orlando Todd, John N. Vesta' Tonathan Wadley, John C. Walker, Alfred Welshans.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
On July 8. 1863, news came to Indiana that a large rebel force under command of Gen. John H. Morgan had crossed the Ohio river near Mauc' port and was moving on Corydon, Indiana. Governor Morton at once issued a call and within forty-eight hours sixty-five thousand men had tendered their services. Thirteen regiments and one battalion were organized for the emergency. In the second of these, known as the One Hundred and Third, were seven companies from Hendricks county. The regiment left Indian- apolis by rail on the evening of July 11th and reached Vernon the next morn- ing at three o'clock. Here Colonel Shuler impressed a number of horses and, mounting one hundred and forty-six men from his own command and that of Colonel Gregory's, moved in pursuit of Morgan. These troops came in sight of Morgan's rear guard on the afternoon of the 13th, captured several stragglers, skirmished with detachments of the enemy near Harrison, Ohio, and entered that town shortly after Morgan's rear guard had departed. Next morning the pursuit was resumed and continued as far as Batavia, Ohio,
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when, upon learning of Morgan's capture, the command returned to Indian- apolis and was mustered out July 16th.
Lawrence S. Shuler was a colonel: Virgil H. Lyon, lieutenant-colonel; Samuel J. Banta, major ; and Frank Coons, adjutant, were the higher officers in this regiment. Other officers were William H. Calvert, Richard Duddy, Tyra Montgomery, John Franklin, William M. Brown, William Little, Aquilla S. McCormick, Joseph Wood, Jesse S. Ogden, Joseph O'Haver, Rob- ert Curry, William F. Parker, Joseph Allison, James L. Smith, Erastus F. Hunt, Scott Miller, David T. Cox.
NUMBER OF ENLISTMENTS.
The following will show the number of men from Hendricks county and the companies and regiments in which they served during the Civil War. These figures are compiled from Adjutant-General Terrell's reports and in- clude re-enlistments and substitutions, so that the list is not exactly true, but as much so as possible to obtain.
Regiment.
Company.
Number of Men.
Seventh (three months)
A
77
Seventh (three years)
B
IIO
Seventh (three years)
H
108
Seventh ( three years)
I
Eighth
B
2
Eleventh
19
Thirteenth
I
Seventeenth
2
Eighteenth
H
I
Twentieth
F
2
Twentieth
G
4
Twentieth
H
2
Twenty-first
E
32
Twenty-sixth
A
2
Forty-seventh
I
Fifty-first
A
106
Fifty-first
C
78
Fifty-first
K
8
Fifty-third
A
62
Fifty-fourth (three months)
H
I
81
1
A
I
I 1
I
1
I
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1 1
1
I
1 1
f
1
1
1
1
1
I
I
I
I
I
1
1
I
1
I
1
1 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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Number
Regiment.
Company.
of Men.
Fifty-fourth (one year)
F
87
Fifty-fifth (three months)
G
2
Fifty-ninth
B
22
Seventieth
4
86
Seventieth
H
I
Seventieth
K
35
Fourth Cavalry (Seventy-seventh Regiment)
31
Seventy-eighth
E
9
Seventy-ninth
C
I
Seventy-ninth
F
3
Seventy-ninth
K
94
Ninety-eighth
G
69
Ninety-eighth
H
35
One Hundred Seventeenth
1
100
One Hundred Seventeenth
B
IOI
Ninth Cavalry
I
82
One Hundred Twenty-fourth
D
46
One Hundred Thirty-second
H
89
One Hundred Forty-eighth
A
3
One Hundred Forty-eighth
B
60
One Hundred Forty-eighth
C
34
One Hundred Forty-eighth
D
I
One Hundred Forty-eighth
F
IO
One Hundred Forty-eighth F
7
One Hundred Forty-eighth I
G
I3
One Hundred Forty-eighth
H
3
One Hundred Forty-eighth
I
20
One Hundred Forty-eighth
K
1
1
1
16
Eighth U. S. Colored Infantry
7
Total
1,772
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1
1
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I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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1
1
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COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
In the Seventh Regiment, James Burgess was a captain ; P. S. Kennedy and J. S. Miller, lieutenants; and in the three-years service W. C. Banta was captain, A. M. Luke, V. H. Lyon, J. V. Hadley, J. W. Adams, lieutenants ;
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in Company H, S. J. Banta and E. D. Bryant were captains, M. D. L. Rob- bins, Jonathan Wadley and R. M. Curtis were lieutenants. In Company F of the Twetieth, John Kistler was a captain. In Company A of the Twenty- seventh, Samuel Porter and J. F. Parsons were lieutenants. In the Fifty- first, W. W. Scearce, J. W. Sheets, J. H. Fleece, Milton Russell, J. A. Givins, Samuel Lingerman, D. W. Hamilton, George Gregg and G. H. Adams were captains ; W. A. Adair, John Emmons, Harvey Slavens, W. H. Harvey, A. T. Dooley, C. E. Stephens and George W. Scearce were lieutenants. In the Fifty-third, W. L. Vestal was a colonel; H. C. Perkins, adjutant; J. W. Scearce, adjutant ; Robert Curry, captain ; W. D. Smith, lieutenant. In the Fifty-fourth (three months), J. H. Gray was captain of Company H; J. W. Lakin and T. J. Kirtley, lieutenants. In the one-year service of this regi- ment W. H. Neff was commissioned captain; D. D. Jones and B. F. Davis, lieutenants. In the Fifty-fifth, Frank A. Coons was a lieutenant, but later became captain in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth. In Company B of the Fifty-ninth, W. A. Rogers and S. W. Minter were lieutenants. In the Sev- entieth, James Burgess became colonel and Leroy H. Kennedy was surgeon; in Company A, Z. S. Ragan and W. C. Mitchell were captains ; J. M. Rogers, J. F. Banta and J. J. Wills were lieutenants. In Company K, J. T. Matlock and J. C. Hadley were captains and O. A. Bartholomew was lieutenant. In the Fourth Cavalry, L. S. Shuler became a colonel; T. R .. Lawhead, adjutant ; Henry Cox, surgeon ; J. W. Smith, captain; William Irvin and J. W. Tinder, lieutenants. In Company E of the Seventy-eighth, A. J. Lee was commis- sioned captain; Snoddy Anderson and John Harrison, lieutenants. In Com- pany C of the Seventy-ninth, Eli F. Ritter was a captain; in Company F, Benjamin T. Poynter was a lieutenant; in Company K. J. W. Jordan and D. W. Hoadley were captains; Tyra Montgomery and A. T. Stone, lieuten- ants. In the Ninety-eighth, J. B. Homan. Tilberry Reid, John Worrel and B. F. Thomas were captains; L. D. Robinson, surgeon; J. C. Hussey, B. A. Reid, lieutenants. In Company H of this regiment, J. F. Parsons and Nehemiah Rawlings were lieutenants. In Company A of the One Hundred Seventeenth, Isaac Wantland was captain ; T. J. Kirtley and J. H. Harris, lieu- tenants. In Company B, W. S. King was captain; T. S. Marshall and C. F. Hogate, lieutenants. In Company I of the Ninth Cavalry, V. H. Lyon, William Robbins and T. J. Cofer were captains ; W. H. Calvert, J. S. Watts and T. J. Conaty, lieutenants. In Company D of the Hundred and Twenty- fourth, John Kistler, Van L. Parsons, M. K. Stanley and A. M. Williams were lieutenants. In Company H of the One Hundred and Thirty-second,
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W. S. King was a captain and Z. K. McCormack and J. M. Emmons, lieu- tenants. In Company B of the One Hundred Forty-eighth, J. H. McClure and E. M. Woody were lieutenants; in Company C, R. M. Curtis was a captain ; N. J. Scearce and M. D. L. Brown were lieutenants; in Company K, S. J. Banta and J. M. Odell were captain and lieutenant respectively.
BOUNTY AND RELIEF.
The county gave bounties to volunteers during the war amounting in all to $27.750, while the several townships paid the following amounts : Center, $16,000; Washington, $30,000; Liberty, $35,000; Franklin, $10,000; Clay, $20,000; Marion, $36,000; Eel River, $45.000; Union, $20,000; Lincoln, $10,000; Brown, $21,500. This made a total of $266,250.
Not content with this, the local authorities also resolved to care for the needy families of volunteers and for this purpose the county appropriated at various times amounts aggregating $50,200. Each of ten townships con- tributed $1,000.
The relief work at home was energetic and prompt. Whenever money could not be obtained by asking, it was appropriated.
DRAFT.
A draft became necessary in Indiana in the fall of 1862, and the enroll- ing commission made the following report for Hendricks county : Total militia, 2,443 ; total volunteers, 1,352 ; total exempts, 506; total conscientiously opposed to bearing arms, 150; total volunteers in service, 1,271 ; total subject to draft, 1,787. But two townships in this county were behind in their quotas, Union and Eel river. The former was required to supply nine and the latter twenty-three to this draft.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
Hendricks county did not supply a full company to the Indiana militia during the Spanish-American war. The declaration of war by Congress and President Mckinley's call for troops in the month of April, 1898, brought great excitement to the county and many recollections of the days of '61.
On Friday night, April 22, 1898, an immense crowd gathered in the court room at Danville. The college band played lively airs and a Cuban flag waved from the gallery. Solon Enloe called the mass meeting to order
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and Judge John V. Hadley was elected chairman, following which election the latter made an address. Enloe followed, then George C. Harvey, C. W. Stewart, Thad S. Adams, O. E. Gulley and Messrs. Hack, Lane and Young of the Central Normal College. Solon Enloe then moved that a roll be pre- pared for those who were prepared and willing to go the front. While the band played patriotic airs and Judge Hadley waved the flag, one hundred names were affixed to the roll. A committee was appointed consisting of Enloe, Harvey and Julian D. Hogate, and these men went to Indianapolis to inform the Governor that they were ready.
Some disagreement in the election of officers resulted in the disbanding of the company. The men most eager to serve their country and flag, how- ever, were not to be thwarted, so they went to Indianapolis and enlisted. They were sworn in on Tuesday night, May 10th, and that night returned home to say good-bye. The public responded and accorded them a reception and ban- quet. A list of the men, most of them in the Second Regiment, who went from Hendricks county to the war follows: E. M. Swindler, O. O. Marshall, Charles Sims, J. M. Gregg, R. D. Warner, Oliver Sears. Walter Thomas. Aquilla Miles. Rome Phillips, Frank H. King, Albert Ayres, David Stutes- man. Claude Adams, Herschell Hall, Solon Enloe, Guy Roach, Edgar Penn- ington, Fitz Roberts, Oat Johnson, J. W. Estep, Ralph Beauchamp, Orlando Davis, Clark Howell, Charles Temple, Harry Stephenson, J. Bolen, Sigel Bolen, James Bowen. William King.
CHAPTER XVIII.
HISTORY OF JOURNALISM.
THE EARLY NEWSPAPER.
In this day of huge metropolitan newspapers and up-to-the-minute news stories, it is hard to realize the handicap under which the newspaper of fifty, or even thirty, years ago labored. Facilities for receiving and publishing news had not reached the point of perfection attained today. The editor of today is a business man, a manager, a news medium; years ago he was a moulder of public opinion, a controller of local politics. The paper was known by the editor, but now the editor is known by the paper. Crude hand presses, meager supply of type and other simple paraphernalia of the early printing shops have given way to the linotype, power presses which turn out over a hundred papers a minute ready for the subscriber, and other wonderful inventions and methods used in modern newspaper production.
In Hendricks county the growth of the newspaper has been very sub- stantial, although it has been retarded by the close proximity of Indianapolis and the large dailies there. The resident of Danville and other larger town- ships is enabled to receive the city paper almost as soon as a local edition. The papers in Hendricks county have been restricted to weekly editions due to this fact alone, for otherwise the population and interest of the county would warrant more frequent issues.
BEGINNINGS IN HENDRICKS COUNTY.
The year 1846 saw the beginning of journalism in Hendricks county. In the spring of that year the Danville Advertiser was established, with Joseph Graham as publisher and Dr. H. G. Todd as editor. Doctor Todd and several other enterprising citizens bought the press and gave it to Mr. Graham for the sole purpose of giving the town of Danville a newspaper. In size, the Advertiser was a six-column folio, composed almost exclusively of reading matter. Very little advertising matter found its way into the
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sheet. Politically, the paper was Whig. The paper was established to pro- mote the interests of this party and it continued so during the period of its existence. After a few years, the paper changed hands and from then on had a varied career, having several owners, appearing under several names, until 1856, when it came out as the Danville Republican. Under this title it was issued until the spring of 1864.
HENDRICKS COUNTY UNION.
On the day of April 23, 1856, the first issue of the Hendricks County Union was published by W. P. Gregg & Company. The paper was decidedly in favor of war. At the top of its first page it printed each day, "To preserve the Union, soldiers must fight at elections as well as fight in the field." The name Union was selected instead of Republican in order to gain the support of the war Democrats, which in large measure it accomplished. The paper was under splendid editorial management and met success from the very start. The above mentioned firm continued to publish this paper until July 14, 1856, when Col. Lawrence S. Shuler, a soldier, became sole proprietor, with Col. James M. Gregg as editor and Gideon B. Thompson in charge of the local department and assistant in the management of the business. Colonel Shuler continued to publish the paper until April 20, 1865, when he sold it to James L. Singer, who became editor and publisher and remained as proprietor of the news- paper until March 15, 1866, at which time John N. Scearce bought the office. Mr. Scearce continued in charge for over thirteen years and changed the name of the paper to the
DANVILLE UNION.
Under Scearce's management the paper had a very prosperous career. During a part of this time Dr. A. Furnas was agricultural editor and con- tributed largely to the value and interest of the paper. In 1866 O. H. Smith was educational editor. On the 2nd of January, 1879, Mr. Scearce sold the Union to J. E. Sherrill, who had begun the publication of the Danville Repub- lican. Sherrill merged the Union into the Republican, but the new paper was of short life. On January 30, 1879, less than one month after the suspen- sion of the Danville Union, another Hendricks County Union came into ex- istence.
The new firm was South, Hathaway & Company, and the paper at once struck the public favorably, there being something of advantage in the old name Union. In a few weeks Mr. Sherrill sold his Republican office and busi-
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ness to the new Union firm, S. F. Wishard and James B. Greene being added to the proprietors. A. G. South soon left the company and in a few months Mr. Greene also retired, the paper being continued by Hathaway and Wish- ard. On August 4th of the same year Mr. Wishard sold his share to John R. Rankin and Hathaway and Rankin were proprietors until November 7th, when O. H. Smith bought out the interest of Mr. Rankin. Smith became editor and in December, 1880, bought out Robert F. Hathaway's share of the paper, thus becoming sole editor and proprietor. On February II, 1882, he sold to Parker & Bowen of the Republican, who continued to issue the Union from their office for about two months on account of certain advertising contracts.
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