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In Company G of this regiment Lafayette Messler enlisted as a
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sergeant and was promoted to first lieutenant, and the following Madi- son county boys served as privates : William Holloway, Robert F. Lyneh, James Miller, Israel Messler, John W. Nedrow, Isaae Price, Charles Sloan and Joseph Whitwright.
This regiment was reernited at Wabash and was mustered in on September 7, 1862, with William Garver as colonel. Its first service was in Kentucky, repelling the invasion of General Kirby Smith, after which it was assigned to the duty of guarding the Green river bridge on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad until December, 1862, when it was sent in pursuit of General Morgan, who was then raiding Kentucky. In January, 1863, it was assigned to the same brigade and division in the Fourteenth Army Corps as the Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry, and its subsequent history is identical with that of the Seventy-fifth. It was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, June 19, 1865.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTHI INFANTRY
A considerable portion of Company HI in this regiment came from Madison county. Nicholas Anderson, Jonathan Brattan, Godfrey Hass, O. B. Shaul and Daniel Valentine held the rank of sergeant; Jesse Smithers and Alfred Valentine were corporals; William Wendle was one of the company musicians, and the following served as privates: Theo- dore Baker, Newton M. Baldwin, Joseph Bock, Anderson Bolinger, Elijah Bolinger, Henry Bolinger, Andrew Brattan, Samuel Brattan, William Brown, Alexander Burditt, William Everett, John Ford, John Hedriek, James Kerr, John McClese, Henry Maine, Martin Otlinger, Wilber Shaul, Eli Smithers, George Smithers, Henry Smithers, James Smithers, William Smithers, R. L. Snider, Abraham Swigert, Frederick Swigert, Samuel Taylor, Eli Thomas, James Valentine, John Valentine, Maberry Welchel, Wesley White and Burwell Williamson. Dennis MeCarty served in Company B, and John II. MeCoy and John Maler in Company K.
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This regiment was one of those known as "Minute Men," and was in service only a short time during the Morgan raid in the summer of 1863. It was commanded by Colonel Kline G. Shryoek. In the One Hundred and Tenth, also an organization of "Minute Men," there were three companies from Madison county, viz .: Company C, Benjamin Sebrell, captain; Ephraim B. Doll, first lieutenant; Josiah Sparks, second lieutenant. Company G, Warrington B. Roberts, captain ; John W. Obrist, first lieutenant; H. B. Makepeace, second lieutenant. Com- pany I, Isaac P. Rinewalt, captain; Volney B. Irish, first lieutenant ; J. Reese Rinewalt, second lieutenant. In the absence of the muster rolls it is impossible to give a complete list of the men. The service of the regiment was the same as that of the One Hundred and Fifth, and it was commanded by Colonel Graham N. Fitel.
ONE IIUNDRED AND THIRTIETHI INFANTRY
This regiment was organized at Kokomo and was mustered into service on March 12, 1864, with Charles S. Parrish as colonel. Dr.
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Thomas N. Jones, of Anderson, was appointed surgeon, and Dr. Braxton Baker, also a Madison county physician, assistant surgeon. Company B was reeruited in Madison county. Its official roster at the time of muster in was as follows: Ephraim B. Doll, captain; William H. Mayes, first lieutenant: John M. Hunt, second lieutenant; William D. Noble, first sergeant; William P. Watkins, sergeant; James E. Noble, Lewis Hubbard, Jolm Kesling, John S. Sellers, Lewis C. Maye, Labin Tunis, Francis M. Lewark, corporals; David Harris and John A. Moore, musicians.
Privates-Corbin Adams, Isaae Adams, Moses Adams, Albert Arm- strong, Joseph Atwell, Eli Baldwin, Newton M. Baldwin, Gilbert Bel- ville, Spencer G. Bevelheimer, William Black, Samuel Bowers, Ezra Bradriek, Abner Brothers, Alfred Brown, Joseph Clark, Elias Creamer, Joseph Davidson, John Dyer, William H. Earls, Jacob P. Ellis, Wesley Ellsworth, James England, James F. England, James Fifer, George Gaddis, James P. Garrett, Sylvester George, Allen Gustin, Samuel Gustin, Stephen S. Hall, Samuel Harpold, George Jenkins, Gabriel Little, Dennis McCarty, Esta A. Makepeace, Francis M. G. Melton, William Moler, John O'Bryant, Thomas HI. O'Neal, William R. Parish, John Paul, Ezra Piekering, Jacob M. Plow, Henry Rains, William D. Rains, David Ranek, Charles A. Rausch, Jacob Rector, James Roaeh, George D. Samuels, Levi Sanders, Stephen N. Sargeant, James Shay, Charles H. Smith, Leroy Smith, Levi Smith, John D. Smithson, Judah B. Smithson, James Sneed, George Sullivan, Henry H. Thompson, John Tokley, Lewis D. Tucker, John Tomlinson, Elijah 1yra, Philip Vande- vender, Dempsey Waggy, William Waggy, Perry Watkins, William Webb, Isaac Wood, Joshua Wood.
Samuel Jones was a corporal in Company H and Dr. Braxton Baker, who was promoted to assistant surgeon, was first enrolled as a private in that company. The greater part of Company K was recruited in Madison county. In the latter company William M. O'Banion and John Starr were sergeants; Milton Crowell, George W. Newhouse and Henry King, corporals; R. K. Cunningham, musician; and the following were
Privates-Enos Baker, John S. Barton, Joshua Barton, Orville P. Baydan, Isaac T. Bird, Robert W. Bird, George W. Black, Daniel P. Buek, Frederick Cartwright (promoted to first lieutenant), Owen D. Colvin, John W. Creamer, William Creamer, William T. Cunningham, Horton J. Dobson, William H. J. Fleener, Henry Gardner, John C. George, George Godwin, Sylvanus Gordon, Elbert Harrison, David A. Hendrix, Davidson L. Hendrix, Wesley B. Hollingsworth, Leonard Ingram, Franklin Johnson, Milton Johnson, Lemon Jones, Spicer Jones, John H. Kearns, Eli D. Kelly, William JJ. Kelly, Thomas Kendal, James C. King, Peter Z. T. Lane, Quinton Laydon, William B. Linder, John Lindley. Caleb McCoy. John II. McCoy, William Mathes, James Miller, John Moter, Stephen Norman, John Powell, Philip Raeder, James T. Ray. Lewis Rix, William Sinelair, Asbury C. Starr, Lewis Taylor, Alvah II. Vickey, Philip Waggy. John T. Wells, George H. Widner, Z. T. Williamson. Miles F. Wood. Daniel D. Word, Zenas J. Wright.
For the first six weeks of its service, the One Hundred and Thirtieth was on duty in Tennessee, but on May 3, 1864. it joined General Sher-
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man's army for the Atlanta campaign. It was engaged at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Lost Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, the battle of July 22, 1864, and after the surrender of that city the regiment, forming part of the Twenty-third corps, came back to Nash- ville, where it was engaged with the Confederate Army under General Hood on December 15-16, 1864. Early in 1865 orders were received to move to Washington, D. C., whence it was sent to North Carolina, and it was present at the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston. From April to December, 1865, it was on guard at Charlotte, North Carolina. It left that place on December 2, 1865, and on the 13th reached Indianapolis, where the men received their final pay and dis- charge.
In connection with the organization of this regiment, a pleasant little incident occurred while it was in camp at Kokomo. Colonel Thomas N. Stilwell, of Anderson, had been very busy during the earlier years of the war in raising troops, and was an important factor in the organi- zation of the One Hundred and Thirtieth. In his relations with the men his conduet was such as to win their esteem and confidence, and as a token of their regard the officers of the One Hundred and Thirtieth and the One Hundred and Thirty-first "chipped in" and purchased a $400 gold watch, which was presented to Colonel Stilwell. The pres- entation speech was made by ('aptain Edgar Henderson, a former resi- dent of Anderson, and was appropriately responded to by the recipient.
MISCELLANEOUS INFANTRY REGIMENTS
In the foregoing pages only those regiments have been mentioned in which Madison county furnished a whole, or a considerable part of a company. There were a number of Madison county men scattered through other infantry regiments, and as far as it has been possible to obtain the names of these men, they are included in the following list :
Thirteenth-Wallace Allen, Jeremiah Baxter, Jacob Beidler, Merritt S. Bicknell, Nathan J. Blowers, Spencer H. Buck, John Carpenter, James Cox, James M. Davis, Thomas M. Donahoo (corporal), Daniel Edwards, John R. Fitzgerald, Samuel Howard, Robert Hughes, Thomas Hughes and George Pugh were all members of Company I, and William Gossett was a musician in Company HI.
Thirty-third-John Cassell, Joseph A. Davis, William A. Edson and John Hughes served as privates in Company E.
Fortieth-William H. Pyle was quartermaster of this regiment, Frank Hardy was a private in Company A, and John S. and Thomas Welsh in Company B.
Forty-second-On the muster rolls of Company I of this regiment appear the names of Samuel Brattan, Martin L. Otlinger, Abraham Swigert and James Valentine.
Fifty-seventh-Wesley W. Seward was a sergeant, Samuel Ham and Dewitt C. Markle, corporals, and Jeremiah Gray, James Gilmore, George W. Ham, Jacob Ham, William J. Ham, Joseph Huston, Thomas B.
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Seward and Jeremiah Sullivan were privates in Company F. This regi- ment was sometimes called the Methodist regiment, because its first colonel, John W. T. MeMullen, and the lieutenant-colonel, Franklin A. Hardin, were both Methodist ministers, and a large number of the men were members of that church. It served through the Atlanta campaign and then returned to Nashville with General Thomas.
Fifty-eighth-In Company E of this regiment were John Black, Alfred Haskins, Jacob Smith, James Stephenson, William M. Priee, and Joshua W. Williamson ; and in Company G were Robert F. Lynch, Isaae Messler, James A. Miller, John W. Nedrow, Isaae Price, Charles Sloan and Joseph Whitright.
Fifty-ninth-Only two Madison county men appear in this regi- ment-Addison Conklin and William HIafliek-both of whom were reeruits in Company F.
Sixty-ninth-In Company H Samuel Hardin and William H. Huston were eorporals and the following were privates: Josiah Blake, Carroll C. Bronnenberg, William Bronnenberg, William C. Clark, William B. Hankins, William N. Ilankins and John Waggoner.
Eighty-fourth-In this regiment John Gensler, Samuel Lamar, John W. Shroyer and Granville M. Walden were privates in Company D. These men were transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps in September, 1863.
Ninety-ninth-Twelve Madison county men served as privates in Company B of this regiment, viz .: Daniel Bolen, John M. Harlin, Samuel H. Harlin, Edward P. Johnson, Jaeob H. Julions, John G. Keller, Logan H. Layne, Henry Mullen, Robert Mullen, Christopher C. Troy, Clark W. and James W. Wright. In Company H was Levi Brewer, a veteran of the Mexican war and a Madison county man, but as he enlisted in Indianapolis he is credited to Marion county.
One Hundred and Thirty-fifth-This was one of the "One Hundred Days" regiments. In Company F were Elliott and Hiram Waymire, who enlisted from Madison county.
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth-Company D of this regiment con- tained fifteen men from Madison county, viz .: Henry Anderson, John Anderson, Isaae Beaman, Thomas J. Boggs, Henry B. Cole, Speneer L. Dewitt, Sebastian E. Douglas, John S. Houghan, Edward G. Huffman. Jesse Sehuyler, Michael Schuyler, Jesse Schraekengast, John W. Wise, David B. Yale and George W. Young. The service of the regiment was for one hundred days.
One IIundred and Fortieth-(one year's service). Christian II. Runkle was a corporal in Company C and in the same company were Privates William F. Baker, Elijah Beck, John L. Langley, James Payne, Edwin D. Sweetzer, Lewis W. Thomas, Isaae B. Wood and Daniel M. Zedeker. In Company H were Privates Elbert Cooper, Joseph W. Franklin, John Griffith, Joseph G. Gustin, Granville Pearson, Alfred Penee. Peter Vanmeter.
One Hundred and Forty-second-John S. Neese was a corporal in Company I, and in the same company John Anderson, Robert M. Brown, David W. Hosier, Andrew J. MeClintock, Henry Wise and Alexander
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Wise, privates. This regiment was recruited for the one year's service.
One Hundred and Forty-fourth-This was also a one-year regiment. Upon its rolls appcar but two Madison county men-John B. Blandford and Henry Smith-both of whom were privates in Company K.
One Hundred and Forty-seventh-Madison county was better repre- sented in this than in any other of the one-year regiments, a large part of Company F having been recruited in the county. Of this company George W. Dennis was first sergeant; Madison Watkins and Jolm F. IIenry, sergeants; Andrew Younce, Jeptha Ballenger, Jesse Forkner and Samuel T. Wilson, corporals, and the following were privates : George W. Blazer, William H. Brown, John Cannon, James P. Carroll, Leander Carty, Lewis Carty, Patrick Crook, Lewis Dean, Allen Delph, James M. Fidler, George W. Hackleman, John Hamilton, John Harris, William W. Kersey, John Madden, John C. Matthews, Philip Mills, John Saunders, David Schrackengast, James Seybert, Curtis Six, Charles R. Walker, James T. Wall, Benjamin Ward, Marion Webb and William W. Whitehead.
One Hundred and Forty-ninth-In Company C of this regiment were six privates from Madison county, to wit: Elisha J. Baldon, Samuel Baldon, John Hamrick, John C. Hart, Joseph W. McDonald, John C. Nelson.
One Hundred and Fifty-third-In this regiment the only man cred- ited to Madison county was George W. Thorn, who was first lieutenant of Company K.
One Hundred and Fifty-fourth -William Brown was commissioned second lieutenant of Company I, in which the following privates were credited to Madison county : George Bear, Wesley Call, Richard Clark, Daniel W. Hadley, Richard Harris, David C. Hawk, William R. Hollo- well, William F. Lee, William B. Moulden, Harrison H. Pratt, Isaac W. Pemster, George Robinett, Leander M. Scheean, Andrew J. Sullivan, Daniel I. Sullivan, John T. Sullivan, Hezekiah and Wilson T. Trueblood.
One Hundred and Fifty-fifth-This was the last of the one-year regi- ments. In Company F were Charles Adams, Isaac Hopper, Harrison Hyfield, Andrew A. Kaufman and Elba Musick.
FIFTH CAVALRY
This was the Nineteenth Indiana Regiment in the order of formation. It was organized late in the year 1862, with Felix W. Graham as colonel, and was sent to the front in detachments. A portion of Com- pany K was recruited in Madison county. Of this company Alanson E. Russell, of Pendleton, was second lieutenant; David C. Johnson, sergeant, Philemon E. J. Mills, corporal, and the following served as privates : Richard M. Andrew, Charles A. Bates, John Buser, James W. Combs, James W. Cook, William E. Crain, Ross Crossley, George W. Cummins, Perry C. Cummins, Simon Cummins, Madison Davis, Thomas L. B. Hayes, Darius R. Huston, Samuel C. Huston, William Landphire, Oliver HI. Morse, Albert Newman, James Payne, Junius C. Samuels, John W. Short, Ilarper W. Smith, Isaac Thurston, Madison Watkins. In Company I was one Madison county man-Isaac S. Harger.
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In March, 1863, the several companies of the regiment was con- centrated at Glasgow, Kentucky, and for the remainder of their service the men almost lived in the saddle, scouting, skirmishing and foraging in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was with General Stoneman on the raid to the rear of Atlanta and was mustered out on June 16, 1865.
EIGHTII CAVALRY
Originally this regiment was an infantry organization and was known as the Thirty-ninth Infantry. It was mustered in as such on August 29, 1861, with Thomas J. Harrison as colonel, and continued as infantry until April, 1863, when the men were furnished horses and the regi- ment served as mounted infantry until the 15th of the following October, when Companies L and M were added, bringing it up to the standard of a full cavalry regiment. It was then reorganized as the Eighth Cavalry. Madison county was represented in Companies A, B, E, G, I, L and M.
Company A-Upon the muster rolls of this company were the names of six privates from Madison county-Thomas J. Adair, Thomas J. Clevenger, Leroy S. Fallis, William E. Mayo, John H. Poor and Augustus Simington.
Company B-In this company were Privates John A. Applegate, George W. Hosier, George W. Lamar, John Landers, James M. Teeters, Uriah Vermillion. John A. Applegate was promoted to company quarter- master sergeant.
Company E-Fifteen Madison county men enlisted in this company, viz .: William Aldridge, John E. Boyer (sergeant, promoted to captain), John Cook, Joshua Fisher, Samuel Fisher, William Foland, Noah W. Hall, David McCoy, Ephraim Nicholson, James Nicholson, James A. Nicholson (promoted second lieutenant), William F. Nicholson, Andrew T. Welchel, John Welchel and Jacob Worts.
Company G-Only two names of Madison county men appear upon the rolls of this company-William C. Antrim and James R. Hanshaw.
Company I-In this company were eleven privates-Renben B. Aldrich, Martin Beckwith, Scott Cole, Abraham Eshelman, Jacob Eshel- man, Robert S. Faussett, Allen Fisher, Stewart Fisher, Samuel Lanum, Edward C. Stephenson and Job Swain. The last named was promoted to sergeant.
Company L-This company contained more Madison county men than any other in the regiment. They were Privates William L. Barker, Travis M. Bowers, John A. Bowsman, George I. Burr, Rollin Carroll, Addison Fisher, George Fisher, Thomas L. Fisher (promoted to com- missary sergeant), Nathan Fuller, William Gearhardt, James Gwinn, George Harpold, Jacob M. Harpold. Stephen John, Henry Johnson, Lewis Klepfer, James W. McGraw, William P. Miller, Amos Ratcliffe, Joseph Shebo, Madison Teeters, Mathers Tobin, Samuel Welsh, Samuel Wolf and Jacob M. Wysong.
Company H-In th's company were Robert A. Armfield, William II. Bradley, Thomas Camel, Thomas Casto, Orlando Ellis, Carna Parsons, Vol 1-20
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Frank Rector, Richard B. Shetterly, Andrew Shetterly, John 1. Smith and William B. Tinker.
After being reorganized as a cavalry regiment, the command was engaged in courier duty about Chattanooga until the spring of 1864. It took part in the Rousseau raid into Alabama, the Atlanta campaign, the MeCook raid around Atlanta, and then followed Sherman to the sea and up through the Carolinas. It was mustered out in North Carolina on July 20, 1865, and the men were finally discharged at Indianapolis on the 2nd of August.
ARTILLERY SERVICE
Madison county was represented in two batteries of light artillery. In the Second Battery were Robert Brickley, John Hardin (promoted to second lieutenant), James M. Irish, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Y. Johnson, Mathias Jones, Lewis Koeniger, John B. Lewis, Valentine McNeer, Charles A. Maul, Corydon W. Maul, George W. Measer, William W. Roberts, George W. Swain and Charles Vandevender. This battery served in Missouri and Arkansas and was in a number of spirited engagements with the enemy, including the battles of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Buffalo Mountain, Poisoned Spring, Marks' Mills and Jenkins' Ferry. Late in 1864 it was sent to Tennessee, where it joined the army under General Thomas and took part in the battle of Nashville. It was mustered out at Indianapolis on July 3, 1865.
In the Eighteenth Battery were Samuel B. Agnew, Albert Allen, William Black, Francis M. Evans, Harvey W. Hubbard, John Johns, John D. Johnson (promoted to second lieutenant), Ezra Loyd, William L. McAninch, Abram S. McCorkle, George S. McMullen (promoted to sergeant), John R. Malcolm and Joel H. Wood. This battery was mustered in at Indianapolis on August 24, 1862, with Eli Lilly as captain. Until the spring of 1864 it was in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was in the battles at Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, and a number of minor actions, and during the Atlanta campaign was in action almost daily. After the fall of Atlanta it returned to Tennessee and it formed part of General Wilson's command in the famous raid through Alabama and Georgia. It was mustered out at Indianapolis on June 30, 1865.
(NOTE-In the foregoing muster rolls it is probable that some of the names are misspelled, but as they are copied from the reports of the adjutant-general, it was deemed advisable not to attempt any corrections.)
Under the provisions of the act passed at the special session of the legislature in 1861, "for the organization and regulation of the Indiana militia," ten companies of the "Indiana Legion" were formed in Madi- son county. They were the Foster's Branch Guards, organized June 10, 1861, Burwell Williamson, captain; Alfont Guards, organized June 24, 1861, John Patterson, captain ; Fisherburg Union Guards, organized June 24. 1861, HI. G. Fisher, captain ; Perkinsville Grays, organized June 28, 1861, HI. G. Fisher, captain; Green Township Rangers, organized September 11, 1862, William Nickleson, captain; Home Guards (Pendle- ton), organized July 18, 1863, Isaac P. Rinewalt, captain; Merton
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Nobles, organized July 25, 1863 A. J. Huffman, captain ; Alfont Guards No. 2, organized July 25. 1863, Warrington G. Roberts, captain ; Mans- field Guards, organized August 1, 1863, Ephraim B. Doll, captain; Alexandria Guards, organized August 8, 1863, Jonathan Jones, captain. These companies were never called into the field, but a large number of their members enlisted in other companies and were mustered into the service of the United States.
While the "Boys in Blue" were at the front, the county anthorities and loyal eitizens at home were not unmindful of the country's defenders and the necessities of their families. In September, 1861, the commis- sioners appropriated $200 for the purchase of lumber to be used in fitting up a camp for the accommodation of a regiment being organized at Anderson, the money being made payable to Thomas N. Stilwell, commissary. At the same session the sum of $300 was appropriated for the relief of soldiers' families and the trustees of the several townships were instructed to look after such families and see that their wants were relieved. In August, 1862, at a special session of the eommis- sioners' court, it was ordered that "an allowanee of one dollar per week be made to each soldier's wife or widowed mother, and fifty cents to each child under ten years of age," the disbursements to be made by the township trustees. A month later the board ordered a tax levy of ten cents on cach $100 worth of property in the county to provide a fund for the relief of soldiers' families. This order and the one preceding it remained in force until the war was over.
A special session of the commissioners was held in November, 1863, when it was ordered that each volunteer eredited to Madison county be paid fifty dollars bounty when he produced the certificate of the muster- ing officer and presented it to the county auditor, and fifty dollars more at the expiration of his service. To raise the money for this purpose a levy of twenty-five cents on each $100 worth of property was ordered. Up to June, 1864, the county treasurer had received for military pur- poses $10,812.97, and had disbursed $10,700.
When the call for 300,000 men was made by the president in 1864, the commissioners of Madison county, in order to fill the quota, ordered the payment of a bounty of $400 "to each volunteer or drafted man," and at the same time authorized a hond issue of $200,000. Altogether, the amount of money expended by the county for bounties and in the relief of soldiers' families was $354,940. This can be ascertained from the records, but the amount given by private citizens in their individual capacity will never be known. Many a sack of flour, many a basket of groceries, many a bundle of school books, found their way in an unosten- tatious manner to the home of some soldier's wife, that her children might be fed and enabled to attend school. If the value of all these donations could be ascertained it would doubtless aggregate more than the official appropriations of the county. And it is greatly to the credit of the noble women, whose husbands were engaged in fighting the battles of their country, that they were not too proud to accept these offerings of charity. Even cast off clothing was accepted without the feeling that it was a reflection upon their poverty, but rather a grateful recog- nition on the part of some loyal neighbor of the sacrifice they had made
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in sending the ones they loved best to preserve the institutions the Revolutionary forefathers established.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
For four centuries after the discovery of America, Cuba was a dependency of Spain. In 1850 Narcisso Lopez planned an expedition for the liberation of the islanders, but it failed. Four years later the Cuban junta in New York organized a movement upon a larger scale, but news reached Spain and the undertaking was "nipped in the bud." In 1868 there was a general uprising among the Cubans, which was followed by a ten years' war, during which Spain sent over 100,000 troops to the island. At the end of that war the debt of $200,000,000 was saddled upon the Cubans and this soon started another revolution. The Cubans moved slowly, however, and it was not until February, 1895, that an open insurrection broke out in the provinces of Santiago, Santa Clara and Matanzas. Within sixty days 50,000 Spanish troops were in Cuba, under command of General Campos. He was superseded by General Weyler, whose cruelties aroused the indignation of the civilized world and forced the Spanish government to send General Blanco to take his place.
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