History of Wabash County, Indiana, Volume I, Part 27

Author: Weesner, Clarkson W., 1841-1924
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1020


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THE SOCIETY NOW


The present Wabash County Medical Society numbers sixteen mem- bers, with the following officers: Dr. W. A. Domer, president; Dr.


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Z. M. Beaman, vice president; Dr. L. E. Jewett, secretary-treasurer; Drs. F. W. Kitson, G. P. Kidd and L. O. Sholty, censors.


OLDEST MEMBERS


The oldest members of the society, in point of connection with it, are Dr. R. F. Blount, who was admitted in 1865, and Drs. Perry G. Moore and T. R. Brady, both of whom joined in 1871.


DR. T. R. BRADY


Doctor Brady is a native of Wabash County. In his twentieth year he enlisted for the Union service and was severely wounded at Mis- sionary Ridge. Although he was obliged to retire from active service for a time, he returned to the front as soon as his condition would permit, and was with Sherman's army in its march and campaigns to Atlanta and through the Carolinas. He was mustered out at India- napolis in 1865, entered the Presbyterian Academy at Logansport, then studied medicine, and completed a two years' course at Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he graduated in 1869 with the degree of M. D. Doctor Brady at once located in Lincolnville, this county, for practice, and at once acquired standing in the community as a physician and a citizen.


DR. PERRY G. MOORE


Doctor Moore, who has the distinction of being both an able physi- cian and an advisory editor of this work, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, March 26, 1845. His father, Thomas M., was also a physician ; practiced for several years in Cleveland and Mayfield, Ohio, dying in the latter place in February, 1846. Dr. Moore's mother, formerly Martha Martin, was a native of England, but when a young girl came with her parents to Cleveland, where she was reared and married. She died in the May following her husband's decease (1846), and the son Perry G., was therefore left an orphan when little more than a year old. Through the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Philbrick the boy found a home and was educated.


After completing the common branches, he spent several years in the study of medieine with Dr. Ira Lyman, of Chester, Ohio, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in the class of 1865-66. In November of the latter year Doctor Moore located in Rich Valley and secured a large practice, besides building up an extensive


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trade in drugs and general merchandise. In September, 1887, he moved to the City of Wabash, where he has since resided as a leader in his profession and a genial, well-informed gentleman and a useful citizen.


Doctor Moore married Melissa Beroth, of Rich Valley, February 1, 1870, and four of their children are living: Lura M., born March 1, 1874; married to Van C. Cook of Mansfield, Ohio (her present residence) April 17, 1902. They have one daughter, Vangelene. Perry H., born July 4, 1881, married Eva Crabill, October 16, 1907, and now living in Wabash. Lalan B., born March 31, 1883; married Leroy Dennis, October 16, 1907; residence Wabash. They have one daughter Lalan Louise, age five years. Merrill M., born March 20, 1890; residence Wabash.


CHAPTER XVI


MILITARY MATTERS


COL. WILLIAM STEELE-COL. JAMES WHITMORE-GEN. JOHN B. ROSE- CAPT. JOSEPH EWING-CAPT. ABRAHAM HACKLEMAN-OTHER SOL- DIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812-MEXICAN WAR SOLDIERS-FAIL TO GET INTO ACTION-THOSE FROM WABASH COUNTY-INDIANA IN THE CIVIL WAR-FIRST WAR MEETINGS IN WABASH COUNTY-FIRST VOLUNTEERS -DEPARTURE OF COMPANY II, EIGHTHE REGIMENT-GEORGE CUBBERLY TAKES THE OVEFLOW-THE BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN-ILART'S ACCOUNT-DEATH OF EMMETT-MUSTER-OUT OF COMPANY HI-THE SOLE DESERTER-DR. JAMES FORD-GEN. CHARLES S. PARRISH-THIE REORGANIZED EIGHTH INDIANA-BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE -- LOSSES TO LOCAL COMPANIES-ON VETERAN FURLOUGH-DISCHARGED-COMPANY F. SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT-COMPANY HI, TWENTIETH INFANTRY- FIRST COMPLETE INDIANA CAVALRY REGIMENT-CAPT. ALEXANDER HIESS-RECORD OF THE SECOND INDIANA CAVALRY CONTINUED -- CAPT. HIESS TAKEN PRISONER-IIIS CIVIL RECORD -- THE SEVENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY-AAT CHICKAMAUGA CREEK-MISSION RIDGE-TO ATLANTA -- THROUGH THE CAROLINAS TO WASHINGTON-COLONEL PETTIT'S HOME SERVICES-HON. CALVIN COWGILL-COMPANY A, EIGHTY-NINTH REGIMENT -- CAMP PETTIT, AT WABASH-COMPANIES F AND K, 101ST REGIMENT-DR. BAZIL B. BENNETT-CAPT. B. F. WILLIAMS-FIERCE FIGHT WITH MORGAN'S MEN-AT CHICKAMAUGA-WITH SHERMAN'S ARMY-CAPTAIN WILLIAMS AT HOME-MEMORIAL HIALL, WABASH- LAST WABASH COUNTY INFANTRY-FOURTEENTH INDIANA ARTILLERY -- MAJOR M. HI. KIDD-CAPT. FRANK W. MORSE-EMMETT POST NO. 6, G. A. R .- COMPANY D, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.


The Mississinewa expedition into Wabash and Grant counties, as an effective means of protecting the rear of the American army of invasion directed against Detroit and Canada, has already been described as an important feature of the War of 1812. Lieut .- Col. John B. Campbell, with his brave little force of dragoons and infantry, taught the Indians of the Wabash Valley a lesson which left Harrison's army free to operate against the British troops.


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COL. WILLIAM STEELE


A number of citizens who afterward became residents of Wabash County served both as officers and privates in the war of 1812. The character best known to the local community was Col. William Steele. Ile went from Eastern Indiana as a soldier, and moved to the Town of Wabash in 1834. Ile was the first justice of the peace in the county, and at its civil organization was elected clerk of the Circuit Court. Later he held other public offices of local importance, and in 1851 was elected a representative in the lower house of the State Legislature. Subsequently he served his constituents in the Constitutional Conven- tion, and for more than forty years preceding his death was a useful and honored citizen of Wabash County. He died in the City of Wabash on the 30th of August, 1876, at the age of ninety-five years.


COL. JAMES WHITMORE


Col. James Whitmore left his native State of Virginia at the age of thirty and settled in Madison, Ohio. While a resident of the Buck-eye state he was commissioned colonel of militia, and in the War of 1812 performed efficient service in defending the frontier against the British and Indians. In after years he came to the county and died at Wa- bash in 1854.


GEN. JOHN B. ROSE


Gen. John B. Rose was a lieutenant in the War of 1812, and received honorable mention by his commanding officer for gallant eonduet at the battle of Plattsburg. IIe served as sheriff of Union County, Indiana, was a member of the State Legislature in early times, and spent the last two decades of his life in Wabash County, where he died in May, 1875, at an advanced age.


CAPT. JOSEPHI EWING


Capt. Joseph Ewing was a Pennsylvanian, and was a son of Judge John Ewing, who became a prominent citizen of Montgomery County, Ohio. In 1811 the former received a captain's commission from Gov- ernor Meigs. At first his company (of the First Regiment, Ohio Mili- tia) guarded the frontier settlements of the state, and in 1812 was transferred to the North under the immediate command of General Harrison. Subsequently he became a public character in Ohio, but Vol. 1-17


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spent the later years of his life in Wabash County, where he died November 25, 1865, in his eighty-second year.


CAPT. ABRAHAM HACKLEMAN


Capt. Abraham Hackleman was born September 25, 1775, at the foot of King's Mountain, North Carolina, near the place where the battle was fought toward the close of the Revolutionary war. In the War of 1812 he was a member of Captain Bryson's company, and held a subordinate position under that officer in guarding the frontier of Kentucky, into which state he had moved in 1802. In the spring of 1806, then in his thirty-second year, he moved to Franklin County, Indiana. Ile became a resident of Wabash County in 1849, and died in the City of Wabash during October, 1858.


OTHER SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812


Conrad Saylors was a Carolinian by birth and served as a private in the War of 1812. Hle was a pioneer of Franklin County, Indiana, and represented that section of the state in one of the early sessions of the Legislature. For several years before his death he was an honored citizen of Wabash County, and died at Wabash in 1847.


William Kent represented the naval contingent. As a boy he served in the United States navy in the war with the Barbary States and was present at the bombardment of Tripoli, Algiers. He was a sailor on the Great Lakes at the outbreak of the War of 1812, at once entered the navy again and participated in the defense of Forts George and Niagara. In after years he farmed in New York and Indiana, and died at Wabash on the 16th of October, 1855. He was buried by Hanna Lodge No. 61. A. F. & A. M., of which he was an active member.


' Jesse Shaw, for over thirty years a resident of La Gro Township, was a native of North Carolina, and saw service in Virginia during the later period of the War of 1812, coming to Indiana in 1830 and to Wabash in 1853. He died at his home in La Gro Township in January, 1884. more than eighty-seven years of age.


Other soldiers of the War of 1812, who have made their homes in Wabash County, were Robert McGee, an Irishman who served in a New York company; Joseph Pauling, who was adjutant in a Pennsylvania regiment ; Garnett Haydon, a Kentnekian who died at Wabash in 1865; Constance B. Jones, who is said to have assisted the wounded Gen. Winfield Scott from the battlefield of Lundy's Lane; Triplet Lockhart, a resident of Fayette and Wabash counties, who died at Wabash dur-


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ing 1864; Thomas Tyre, who saw service as a guard at the entrance to Hudson River; George K. Cook, a Kentuckian who fought under Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, and John MeClintock, who helped build old Fort Meigs in Southeastern Ohio.


MEXICAN WAR SOLDIERS


The presidential proclamation announcing a state of war between the United States and Mexico was issued May 11, 1846, and on the 22d of that month Gov. James Whitcomb, of Indiana, issued his call for troops. As the County of Wabash was then but sparsely settled, a company was not expected to be enlisted within its borders. Its re- cruits united with the company enlisted at Fort Wayne by Capt. Davis W. Lewis, leaving Wabash the second week of June, 1846. They were transported on a packet canal boat by way of Fort Wayne for Cincinnati, thence down the Ohio River to New Albany, the place of general rendezvous for Indiana troops. There they were mustered into the service of the United States by Colonel Churchill, of the United States army, on the 22d of June, 1846, and sebsequently organized as Company F, of the First Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, com- manded by Col. James P. Drake of Indianapolis.


The company roll was filed in the office of the adjutant general of the state of the 10th of June, 1846, being the twenty-ninth company. An hour later, on the same day, the roll of another company was filled, making the thirtieth, thus filling completely the requisition for three regiments. The first regiment was not fully equipped until the second week of July, when it took transportation by steamboat for New Or- leans en route for the Rio Grande. Arriving at New Orleans, the regiment went into camp on the old battle ground-where General Jackson, on the 8th of January, 1815, defeated the British under General Packenham, the final engagement of the War of 1812.


FAIL TO GET INTO ACTION


The company failed to get into action, although the boys were ready. After being transported across the Gulf of Mexico, at one time they were within five miles of Monterey, but were finally ordered back to New Orleans and were mustered out of the service June 16, 1847. The members of the company then took passage on a steamboat for Cincinnati, whence they were transferred by canal to Wabash, arriving at the home dock late in the month of June, 1847, after having been absent a few days more than one year.


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THOSE FROM WABASH COUNTY


Elijah Hackleman has compiled a list of those who volunteered in Captain Lewis' company from Wabash County, a few of whom never returned.


Moses W. Ross went out as corporal of the company, and returned to enjoy a long and honored life. He was a native of Decatur County, Indiana. Levi Ross, a younger brother and a native of Hancock County, was also a member of Company F, First Regiment, and at the expiration of his year's service reenlisted for three years as a regular. In August, 1861, he assisted in recruiting Company F, of the Second Cavalry, and entered the Union service in the Civil war as first lieutenant of that command. After the battle of Pittsburgh Landing he was promoted to the captaincy of his company for meritorious conduct, but died while at Louisville, Kentucky, on official business, March 7, 1863.


Abijah A. Cox served as corporal during the full term of his enlist- ment, and a few years after his return to Wabash moved to Grant County.


Clinton Lafavour became a resident of Kansas, and John Kizer, of La Gro, who was sergeant, moved to California a few years after return- ing to Wabash County.


Charles Rozelle, also of La Gro, moved to Sacramento City, California, and Ebenezer Rozelle, a brother, left his body on the banks of the Rio Grande, where he died October 23, 1846. William Rozelle, another brother, became a California gold hunter, while Isaac B. Rozelle, a fourth brother, died at the mouth of the Rio Grande on the 23d of August, 1846.


Thomas Hurley also went from La Gro, where he died many years after, and Thomas Benge enlisted from North Manchester, where he died long afterward.


Neely Benge, a son of the last named, died near the mouth of the Ohio while returning to Wabash on siek leave.


In September, 1846, several months after the departure of the volunteers for the seat of war, Capt. Spier E. Tipton, son of Gen. John Tipton, a recruiting officer of the regular army, sent two or three days in Wabash and enlisted the following men: William M. Haekleman, son of Dr. James Hackleman, who immediately went to New Orleans, was mustered into the regular army and died in April, 1847, as the result of injuries received at the storming of Vera Cruz; Ab Van Dyne, who participated with the United States army in the siege and capture of Mexico City and died a few days later from sun- stroke.


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INDIANA IN THE CIVIL WAR


No state in the Union was more prompt or generous in furnishing troops and money than Indiana. A striking comparison of her contri- butions in life and treasure with those furnished by the country at large has been made by William II. Smith in his "History of Indiana," from which we quote: "Five of the first six regiments were sent to operate in West Virginia, and there fought the first battles of the war. The remaining regiment, the Eleventh, was sent to Cumberland, Mary- land, and it was a scouting party from that regiment that shed the first blood in battle on the soil of Old Virginia. Thus it was that Indiana was the first to the front in West Virginia and Old Virginia. The Legis- lature met and promptly provided for the borrowing of $2,000,000 to aid in the support and organization of troops for the defense of the Union. It will be in place, at this point, to say that so energetie was the governor, so patriotie were the people, that every call made on Indiana for troops was filled in the shortest space of time by volunteers until after war had been raging for three and a half years, with the single exception of a small draft made in 1862, in a few localities, for the purpose of equalizing the burdens; these localities having been a little slack in furnishing their quota of volunteers. At every call Indiana had some troops standing to her credit. No state in the Union was more prompt in this matter.


"It is also proper to state that to preserve the Union Indiana fur- nished more soldiers than did the original thirteen colonies to establish it. For the war with Mexico the United States called into service 112,000 soldiers, or 96,000 less than Indiana furnished during the Civil war.


"To show the magnitude of the struggle and the part Indiana bore in it, a few figures will suffice. The American loss in killed during the last war with Great Britain was 1,877; in the war with Mexico, 1,953, making a total in killed in two great wars, of 3,830. This in- chides those who died from wounds. In the last war Indiana lost in killed, 3,434, died from wounds, 2,383-a total loss of 5,817, or 2,000 more than the total loss of the whole country in two great wars. In the War of 1812-15 the loss to the American armies from killed and wounded was 5,614, or 203 less than Indiana lost in killed outright and died from wounds, in the Civil war. The total loss of American troops (killed and fatally wounded) in the Mexican war was only 4,373, as against the total loss of Indiana soldiers during the Civil war of 5,817. Indiana also lost, during that period 19,392 from disease, making a total loss during the war of 24,416.


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energies of the people were turned toward the war and its prosecution. In money, the cost of the war to the people amounted to many millions of dollars. In addition to what was expended by the state the counties and townships expended a total of $20,258,640. They gave in the way of bounties $15,492,876; for relief of soldiers and their families, $4,566,898, and for miscellaneous expenses, growing out of the war, $198,866."


FIRST WAR MEETINGS IN WABASH COUNTY


Considering her population, Wabash County has a bright record in the Civil war, and no section of the state evinced more pronounced individual patriotism. Fort Sumter was attacked April 12, 1861, the news reaching Wabash at noon the next day, through the ageney of a telegraphie dispatch sent by George E. Gordon, then at Indianapolis, to William K. Thurston. A call was immediately issued for a meeting at the courthouse in the evening of that day.


The town was wild with excitement and every man and boy was eager for action. Speeches were made and applauded, but what was more to the point a number of volunteers eagerly stepped into the recruiting office opened by Charles S. Parrish and Joseph M. Thompson. On the following day (Sunday, the 14th) Sumter surrendered to the Confed- eraey, and on Monday, the 15th, Governor Morton called for 10,000 men to defend the nation. The same day President Lincoln, called forth the militia of the several states to the number of 75,000. The war was on; but neither North nor South knew what an awful conflict was before the country.


On receipt of the dispatch from Mr. Gordon, Captain Parrish ealled upon Hon. Elijah Hackleman, then somewhat familiar with military affairs, and especially conversant with conditions in the county, stated that he had decided to join the army and asked for his assistance in aronsing the sentiment which would lead to the raising of troops. That night, after they had attended the meeting at the courthouse in Wabash, they went to Ashland (now La Fontaine), made the first war speeches in that part of the county and several volunteers offered themselves for service.


FIRST VOLUNTEERS


On Monday, the 15th, after the fall of Fort Sumter, notices for another meeting at the courthouse in the evening were posted through- out the town. When night eame every inch of standing room was taken and the enthusiastic and determined citizens were addressed by Revs.


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R. Toby and J. Fairchild, Captain Parrish, a Mr. Cole, of Cincinnati, and others. Hon. J. D. Conner presided and called attention to the practical object of the meeting which was to receive names for a local company. A number of names were enrolled before the meeting adjourned, and by the following Friday about 150 had volunteered their services and held themselves at instant call to go to the front.


DEPARTURE OF COMPANY H, EIGHTH REGIMENT


This first company from Wabash County would have left for Indian- apolis, the general rendezvous for Indiana troops, on Saturday morning, the 20th of June, had not the patriotic ladies of Wabash urged them to remain until Tuesday morning and accept a supper and a banner which they proposed to present to them on Monday evening.


This program was not carried out to the letter, for on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock the company assembled at the courtroom with closed doors and elected the following officers: Charles S. Parrish, cap- tain ; Joseph M. Thompson, first lieutenant ; Frank Dailey, second lieu- tenant, and John R. Polk, third lieutenant.


At 7 o'clock a boat laden with citizens and accompanied by a brass band arrived from La Gro to participate in the farewell ovation. The troops marched to the Union schoolhouse, where the ladies presented the company with a beautiful banner and a bountiful supper.


At 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning, April 23, 1861, these first volunteers from Wabash County left by rail for Indianapolis, and two days afterward were mustered into the service of the United States as Company II, Eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.


GEORGE CUBBERLY TAKES THE OVERFLOW


The men from Wabash County had offered their services so freely that there were twenty-five more than the Eighth Regiment could receive. Accordingly George Cubberly, of La Gro, with this excess as a nucleus, began recruiting for some other regiment. He was first commissioned as first lieutenant in Captain Parrish's company, but on the 12th of June was assigned to the same rank in the new company (F, of the Seven- teenth Regiment), and was subsequently promoted to the captainey of Company I.


THE BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN


The Eighth Regiment, which received the bulk of the first volun- teers from Wabash County, was commanded by Col. William P. Benton,


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of Richmond. Company HI remained in camp with its regiment until the 19th of June. On the morning of that day the Eighth and Tenth regi- ments went by rail to Clarksburg, West Virginia, thence marched to Buckhannon, thirty miles distant, where the enemy were reported to be encamped. Upon arriving at that point, it was learned that the Con- federates had moved on to Rich Mountain. At Buckhannon, the Eighth and Tenth Indiana regiments were assigned to the brigade commanded by General William S. Rosecrans. On the 10th of July the entire Union force marched toward Rich Mountain, where the enemy had concen- trated, and on the following morning the battle opened.


IIART'S ACCOUNT


The following account of the engagement is taken from the state- ment of David L. Hart, a famous scout and the guide to General Rose- erans' column, who afterward became well acquainted in Wabash County ; "I was with General Rosecrans as guide at the battle of Rich Mountain. The enemy-4,000 strong-were strongly intrenched at the foot of the mountain on the west side. They had rolled whole trees from the mountain side and lapped them together, filling in with stones and earth from a trench outside. General MeClellan, after reconnoitering their position, sent General Rosecrans with the Eighth, Tenth and Fifteenth Indiana regiments, the Nineteenth Ohio and the Cincinnati Cavalry, to get in their rear. I went with them as a guide.


"We started about daylight, having first taken something to eat (but got nothing more until 6 o'clock next night, when some of them got a little beef) and turned into the woods on our right. I led, aecom- panied by Colonel Lander, through a pathless route in the woods by which I had made my escape about four weeks before. We pushed along through the bush, laurel and rocks, followed by the whole division, in perfect silence. The bushes wetted us thoroughly and it was very cold. Our circuit was about five miles. About noon we reached the top of the mountain, near my father's farm.


"It was not intended that the enemy should know of our move- ments, but a dragoon with dispatches from General MeClellan, who was sent after us, fell into the hands of the enemy, and they thus found out our movements. They immediately dispatched 2,500 men to the top of the mountain with three cannon. They intrenched themselves with earthworks on my father's farm just where we were to come into the road. We did not know they were there until we came on their pickets and their cannon opened fire upon us. We were then about a quarter of a mile from the house and skirmishing began. I left the advance and


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went into the main body of the army. I had no arms of any kind. The rain began pouring down in torrents, while the enemy fired his eannon, cutting off the treetops over our heads quite lively. They fired rapidly. I thought from the firing that they had twenty-five or thirty pieces. We had no cannon with us. Our boys stood still in the rain about half an hour.


"The Eighth and Tenth then led off, bearing to the left of our posi- tion. The bushes were so thick we could not see out, nor could the enemy see us. The enemy's musket balls could not reach us. Our boys, keeping up a fire, got down within sight and then pretended to run, but they only fell down in the bushes and behind the rocks. This drew the enemy from their intrenchments, and when our boys let into them with their Enfield and Minie rifles I never heard such screaming in all my life. The Nineteenth, in the meantime, advanced to a fence in a line with the breastworks and fired one round. The whole earth seemed to shake. They then gave the Indiana boys a tremendous cheer, and the enemy broke from their intrenchments in every way they could. The Indiana boys had previously been ordered to 'fix bayonets.' We could hear the rattle of the iron very plainly as the order was obeyed. 'Charge bayonets' was then ordered, and away went our boys after the enemy. One man alone stood his ground, and fired a cannon until shot by a revolver. A general race for about three hundred yards followed through the bush, when our men were recalled and reformed in line of battle to receive the enemy from the intrenchments at the foot of the mountain, as we supposed they would certainly attack us from that point ; but it seems that as soon as they no longer heard the firing of the cannon they gave up all for lost. They then deserted their works and took off whatever they could. A re-enforcement, which was also coming from Beverly to the aid of the 2,500, retreated for the same reason.




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