Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 43

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
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But in 1862, the liorerunr, seeing the increasing tide of troops, and the innilequincy of the provision made for Them, resolved to establish n peroin. nent Home. This uns done by Quartermonster Stone, in July. 1-03, who erected buildings iu 1br grote on West street, just north of the Terre Hnulo Railrond. These bultilings were afterivaril added lo uml enlargeit, until they could lodge 1,800 men and feed 8,000 every day. From August, 1862, 10 lune, 1866, they furnished 8,777, 791 meals During 186-1, the lloine fur- nishedl nn nierige uf 4 198 meals per dny. The breml was supplied by a bakery under tho charge of the Quartermaster, so well comlurtil that all tho soldiers noeded, and thousands of loaves for the poor, irere proridel ont of the ralions of flour the theu were entitled to. The savings in the ritions of other artieley amounted to $71,130.24 The garings of flour, n sufler's fox "nil The sale of offal pill $19,642 19. So that This beneficent institution uns sustained almost entirely by the rations of the troops sheltered hy it. The ludies of the city, on alt holidays or nuted occasions, provided excellent diuners for all nl the lloine-cooked them, waited nl the Iable, und did all the service themselves

A Ladies' Home -- for the henefit of soldiers' ivives nud children-uns upened in n building near the depel, in December, 1867 An urerage of 100 a day was taken rare of until ils close.

After the ileparture of the three years troops, there came, far a time, n calm upon the domestic nspeel of the wir, broken only by The elamor of the neu'sboys' " Journul Extra !" "'Nother bafile! " and the Morgan raid, until the return of the reenlisted reteruns. As cach old regunent rerulistedl nt the ond of its term fer three years mere, it was allowed a furlough to come home, and thirty days to remain in the State. It was receired with salutes of guns, processions of all the itdops in The city, addresses by the Governor and its ourn offers, whil girenn good dinner at the House.

The Morgua raid, early in July, 18h3, produceil a good deal of exeile- ment, but it ended in nothing trorse than calling the citizens to University Square lo drill for a few days, and the sending away of the specie reserves of some of The binks.

The day the new, of the fight near Corydon reached here, " Michigan battery, which hu'l been siatiqueil here for some time, urns orilered to take The Jeffersonville ors to meet the adventurous Rebel. . As it pasaril down Tennessee street, nl the erussing of Indiann nrenne, n caisson exploded, blowing tuo men orer the tops of the adjacent shade trees, horribly mutila- ting 1limu and killing thetn instantly, nod mortally wounding n mon nud boy whe happened to be missing year nl the time."

The parl taken by Indiunn in the war for the Union uos olike houorable to the patriotism of the State nud to the administration of Gor. Mortun, irho, sinco the trar, has been ilistinguished as The " War Gorprior of lu- dinon " In the full of 18H0, Gor. Murion was elected as Lientenatal Gor- cruor on the lieket with Gor. lepry S. Lane. At The assembling of the LegiaInture, Ibe laffer uns elected 19 the Senale of the United States, and Mr. Morion sneeredeil him ns Gorernor. By this circumstance, and by bis election to the guberinloriol office by the people. in the fall of 1844, he became Governor of the State during the entire period of The Rebellion, and continued his administration till the session of The General Assembly in Decomber, 1867, when, being elected United States Sensior, he resigned, und The remainder of his termi urns filled by Lieut. Gor. Conrad Baker. In reply to his resiguntion, a joint resolution passed both branches of the Legislature highly commenlalorr of the charneler and abilities of Mr. Morton os Gor- cruor of the State, nud of his eminent services to the country during the Re- bellion.

Before the commencement of the war, while the popular ininil uns yet undecideil as to Ibo proper policy to be pursued in reference to the seceding States, Gor. Morton took strong gronwil in favor of The coercion of The South Anil the armed und forcible tunintenance of the integrity of the Union. Political sentiment in Imlinun, ut this time, iras divided luto firo parties irith reference to the war-the Coercionists and Coureutionists. El iras thought by the Infier that a Notinunl Conreunion should be elected ilireetly by the people, lo consider the difficulty belireen the tuo sections of the country, vil, if to adjustment could be made, it would he beller to let the South Iry A separate gurerniuent, allied by interes aud kindred to ourr. Iban to risk the chances of an uggressive war with a people better fitted hy Insies and mode of life for imilitary service than ire then were Ii the prop- osition should be rejecleil, il was thought that the South would be placed 20 clearly in the wrong Thul n resort to coercion would be less likely 10 repel The Border Stales of Europein sympathy. Gov. Morton then recenily cleeteil Lieutenant Gorerbor, set forth the grounds of the Cuercionists fully und offrelively in a speech delivered at the court house in Indianapolis, n. short titue after the Presplentinl election. The other side was milvoented ley the linlionapolis Journal, under The conduet of Mr. B. R. Sulprorr. The debate, though eurneyt, us be cemed the vital question, was nerer ougry or diyecourteous. It was protractedl till the first guu i'us fired at Forl Suuiler. Thal shot scattered All causes of difference hetireen the parties. The Sunth luvl beguu the war, nnif the Conventionists nero reliered of all fears ns 10 the effert of 'iggression by the gererutuent. If the South hind reuinined quiet, and left it to the North To decide whether there should be u'nr of lot, ondt to begin the irne, it is pol elest, eren nout, irbnl the i-sue might have been. The factious spirit ut home was dangerously strong, cien ugntust n defensire war . strengtheneil hy the effect of an affensive wur, oudl the union of all The slave Sinles, with European help, more openly aud unrestrictedly girro, and it mnight Irire defeated, as it did seriously embarrass the govern- wienl from 1862 to the snuitner of ISGt. The greul majority of the people throughout the State followed the lead of Gov. Morlon, and gnie their " voice for war."

In his first tuessige lo The General Assembly, courenel in exire session on the 24th of April, 1801, fior. Morteu said.

" We have puisseil from Ibe field of argument to the solenin fort of war, trhich exists by tho uet of the greeding States. The issue is forced upon us, wul must be necepter Erery uunn must lake his position upon the one side or upon tho olher. In lite of war, there is uo gronuil upon which a thiril party enn stood. It is the imperative duty of all men lo rally to the support of the gorerument, and to expend in its bebulf, if need hr, their fortunes nod their blood Upon The pregerration of this goverument depends our prosperity awl greatness as a ontion- our liberty and happiness as individu- als. We should approneh the contest, not na puliliciuns, hor as ambitious partisans, bul as pilriols, who cast aside erery selfish consideration when danger Ihreilens Their country The voice of party should he hushed, and the billerness that many have sprung out ut political couleais be at once for- giren and forgollen. Let us rise abore these poltri considerations, nud in. hugurate the ern when there shall be bill Que parly, and that for our country. The struggle is oue into which we enter with the deepest reluctance. We uro hound to the people of the sreading States by' the drarest ties of blood And institutions. They are our brothers and our fellow-countrymen ; hut if they regard uul their tender relations, how ian we? If they wrage unr upon us, auit put themselves in the attitude of public eneiniey, they must nssume all the responsibilities fucileut to thint position, bul while I deplore deeply The chiarneter of the contrat in irhich ie ure engaged, nevertheless we should meet il ny men 4 In rien of all the fuels, if becoures the imperative duty of Fuliana to moko suiluble proprirntion for tho emilest by proviiling umple suppltrs uf wuen and moner to iusure the protection of the State and the General Government in the prosecution af tle irar to n speedly and successful feriuluntion. I therefore recommend that $1,000,000 he appropriated for the purchase of arms und the munitions of war, and for the organization of such portion of ibe militia as may be ileeinedl necessary for

tho emergency , that n militin systemu be ilerised and ennttril looking chied; to rolunleers, which shall insure the greatest prolection to the Stile, and unily and ethicjener of the force to be employed ; Thal n huir be enacted defining aund punishing irenson ogniust the Stato : Ihn a Intr he enacted sus. penting the collection uf ilebts nguinst those who inuy be actually cupluyeil in the military service of the State or the United States ; That mitahle provi- sion be made by the issue uf bends of The State or otherwise, for raising the mouoy herein recommended to be nyproprinted."

The President's proclamation, calling for the first 75,000 rolnulrers, iras jagned ou the fall of April, 1861-tuo days after The surrender of Forl Smuter. Gor. Morlon immediately enlled for tho quota of Imhunn, trhich uns six regiments To such a pitch lind tho patriotism of the prople riven, that the call of the Governor ins responded to by more than four times the mupber required. Out of these tho six regimieuis trere organized. clelleil, arwed and equipped in less than six days, without nor assistance from the General Government, The funds lo Ge ont these regiments were raised hy contributions from ilifferent cities, toins and rorporatians, amd an appro. priation of $500,000 unde by the legislainte. The Legislature also volel nul appropriation of $1,000,000 for enlisting, omintnining und subsisting troops aud proriding munitions of n'nr.

Haring the necessary mens placed at his disposal, Gor. Marlon commis. sionod Rotil Dale Orren ugent lo purchase arius am munitions of war for the Slalo. In the discharge of his duties, Mr. Owen nut only yoved the Slato a lorge omonot of money, but procureil for the Imlinun regiments n better quality of rifles Thun any then known in the servier. The Arsenal, already referred to, uns establishedl nt Indianapolis n short time after the beginning of the tror, mul dil oxeellent sorrioo in tho way of supplying am- munition, not only lo the liulisuu soliliers, but lo many from other States. At ono lime. 600 hintily irore onipdoyed in the manufneture of ammunition. The arsenal uns uniler the superintendenee of Cupt, Il. SIrum, of the Unitedl Stales Army, nho litil beeu detailed lo lunt serrice n few weeks after the Inll of Fort Suroler. The funils for the preparation of the minipuuition nere all auranced by the State, nod the amminilion paid for by the General forein. ment after delirery. The Auditing Commilice connected with the finances of the Arsenal, in closing thrir report, speak ns folloirs of The good charneter und efficiency of Copl. Strinin " We cannol olose this report without bear- ing testimony to the ability, nutegrity nud economy with which Capt, Sirum has managed the affairs of the Arsenal."

At the request of Gor Morlen, in August, 1861, an Assistnul United States Quartermaster was appointed for the Stale. Prior to this, the State bnd supplied elnthing, camp equipage, etc., to the minount of $341,720 ; aud for camp equipage the smin of $05,800. During tho yeur 18G1, the State tras obliged to provide suppdies for her Troops in the fiolil, nudl for this purpose $91,100 were expendedl There were many other items of expense for which The Sinte disbursed Inrge suis of money, to nid the General Gor- erumeni, till the lutter was fully organized for irar. The counties ulso con- iributed lorgely, to the Sinte fuuds. We hare not the dula lo shoir the AInonni raised by ench county, but gire a few of them in illustration of the patriotism and liberality of the people :

Franklin County furnished for soldiers' bounties, $271,200; for the relier of soldiers' frinilies, 87,074 03 for miscellaneous military purposes, $5,705.32 ; in all, $450,954.37.

Union County, for soldiers' bounties, $89,118,30; for The rchef of sol- diers' families, $24,203.38, for miscellaneous militory purposes, $5,000, in all, $1GT,323.08.

Wayne County, for soldiers' bounties, 5379,093.351; for the relief of soldiers' families, $184,350, total, $468,4-13.35.

Jay County, for goliliers' bounties, $23,000; for the relief of soldiers' families, $53,085 36 ; total, $in,085.86. This county sent 1,044 voluntrers lo the field.

Randolph Counly furnished for soliliers' bounties, $114, 703; fur lhe re- lief of soldiers' fminilies, $94 147.68; Total, $210, 162.48. Dolowvore County, far sobliers' hounties, $$1,137 ; fur The relief of sol- diors' families, $170), 718 67 ; total, $230,905.67.

Fayetle County, for soliliers' bonutics, $100, în4, for tho relief of soldiers' fumilies, $64,346.87; for miscellaneous military purposes, $9,11)1.45; total, $264,331.82.

The city of Iodinunpolis appropriated as follous

The first appropriation by the city for war purposes iras one of $10,000 unde on the 10th of Aprit, for the support of our three-mouths rolunteers Others were frequently made for the purelinse of wood, pruvisions and other necessaries of destitute families In August, 1864, o purchase of 200 cords of wood was made, nud in the winter $3,500 uns appropriated. Contribu. ttons of fuel and food were occasionolly made all over the State by the farmers, who appointed a ilny to more in procession through the streets of the chief towns, trill wagons loniled with wood, flour, potatoes, ments, vege- Inbles aud fruits, to some pilnco of doposit. Tens of thousands of ilellars' worth were thuis colleeled anil distributed by duly appointed ogents. Very ninoy farmers ried nith each other who should giro most umnl munke tho most striking display, and wagons carrying five and even tru rorils of nooil, mud athers with mountains of food, irere tio unfrequent sights. Several of these were witnessed in Indianapolis. borge suma, both for solitiers mul Their families, were raiseil hy fuirs and by prirole contributions, Those far The fortner irero managed by the Senle Sanitary Commissiun, directed by Willinon Elninoman and Alfredl Harrison. The others were ilistributeil as the acca- sion prompted. A Sinte Annitary Fair was hetd in the old Eur grouwl, at the limo of the Sinte Agricultural Fuir of 1844, at which $10,000 were raiseil. During the ennlinuance of the Sanitary Commission there were mised and distributeil $004,070.78, Besides the sum of 516,1119.AD contrile uted to the United States Sanitary Commission from Indumnu. $1,500,894.01 was paid by conuties, townships nud towns for like purposes, making the total of contributious of this character, in this Stale, aloni $1, 200,000.

Expenses incurred for the support of soldiers' familien, though iu the aggregale of private and public contributions lurger Ibun Tho expenses for recruiting volunteers, yet fortu but a small part of the arcounts of the City Treasurer. Tor hruviest items there were made by huunties. Until the political opposition to the wvor began to make itself forminhle, nud deserlion haul diffused iliscouruging feelings, und the largo dirersion of labur to the nrmy hod raised irnges, nohoily thought of bounties. Famillos were left to the care of neighhorsand the irregularassistance of tho paymuster lul tvar vas found to be n tory serious business, and began to be viewed with a husi. noss eye. The soldier hual to be nasureil of something sofer thou n neigh- bor's care of his family He looked out for it himself, and the bounty was Ilie provision for it which he cxnelod At first it was light. In the fall of 1862, The city appropriateil Sh, 000 fur bounties, which Mayled lill May, 180's. Considerable expense was incurred for the cily regimeul during the alarm crented by Morgan's rald. On the 14th of December, 1813, an uppropria- liou of $25,000 wny mtulo for bounties, and additional mus were raised by committees in the different warils. A draft was avoided by thus filling bur quota with volunteers. During the aummor of Hill, the old regiments nhich lind rebulisted for three years more, as nearly all from this Stato did, were allowed lo rolurn home on n furlonghi, and thoir receptions, sometimes of daily occurrence, ivero one of the most interesting features of the war ns it could be seru in this lolitudr. The Seventeenth leginoul, ono of these, upon reinlisting, credited ilself to this city, thal is, vulisted ns coming from the city, nod in the unuher composing it, inde a set of against my subsequent draft. No bounty was asked at the time. But subsequently, as same of them complained, naturally enough, flint they got nothing, when others, raw recruita, gol hundreds of dollars, tho Council garo theut $2, 266, Un Ile suggestion of Gor. Morton, the Governors of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin nad lowa inet in This city April 21, 1864, and urged the President Int accept ser.

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rices of n lurgr hody of men, 85,000, from these States, for one hundred days, 10 gunrd Gen. Sheriuon's communications during his "manich lo the 302." The I'resulent consruled, and the city's quota of the 7, 415 nssigned 10 this Sinle, uns raised nl onee. Tho Conneil npproprinted $3,000 for the support of Their families, Our regiment, under Col, Sam. C. Vance, Lieul l'al. Cramer und Major Herrey Hutes, Jr., dit good service, limiter The rall fur 300,1H41 inen, of October 17, 1803, increaseil on The lel ol February, 1804, 10 600,000, and, on The Ilth of March, to 700,000, no dron iras ninde. The Siule's volunteers fithul ber quola, with 2, 1943 men lo spare. On The 18th of .Inly, 1801, a eull for GHI, 000 more mien uns made, und the city's quoin nas heed ml 1,258. For The first limo our cilizeus had lo beslir Them. prlres lu avoid a draft, Meelings were held during the summer to raise subscriptions on bounties, uml to procure volunteers, with roosiderable bul tol-autheient suceuxy, Sowie $ 10,000 nas subscribed, quil about eight hundred men enlisted, bul tho ilruft on the 28th of Sepletubrr found us four hundred and fifty men short. The drafted men raised a considerable sin to procure suhslimles, but, the prosper! looking durk, The City Conneil ninde 1u o appro- prinhous, our September 28th for $92,000, nud one Oelober 8il, for $40,01It), lo nssist them, nudl iluring October and Norember The quoln iny filleil af nul reprise of $180,000). On Decciuher 20th, 1842 nuother and the Inst call for hoops irns wunle. Tho nhole mminber demandled nos 31#1,000, and the Sinte'annola was 21,482, of which 3, 193 had been paid hy orer- enlistment on The preceding call. The Muyor, Mr. Curry, minde repeated recenurndaliens of uppropriations for bonnlieslo fill the city's quots, and the Council responiled hy giring, first, the unexpended balance of n preceding appropriation, $2,300, atil next >0,DOM. This didn't nmonat In intel, amdl'in January, 1866, the Muyor urged farther npproprintions and drufting hy wards. The Council ordered $150,000 io he paid in Slab bounties, with $10 premium for recruits. Three ilnys after, Thuy raised the bonnly lo $200, and xenl nu ugent lo Washington to obluin an order for drafting by wards, This order n às minde, and in February The Council appropriated $100 lo every man who should hie ilrafted, if he lind purchaseil'n $10 city ordler. Pelitions were presented, February 230, 1804, from 1, MID citizens, asking thal $ 100,000 hr raised by city houils, to pay bounties nul fill the quolo, .in ordinance 10 this effect Was persard, and The bomls prepared nail sent In Nyu Vork, bul none irere soll. On the 6th of Mnich, $100,00D) ins borrowedl of fire bunks, in $10,14KI divisions, on our bonds, nl 12 per cent., und this nos uppropriotel In $HIHI bonntirs. The inoin uns n Inal benrly filleit, irbien il iras uscer- Iiord ilnl n Mundering blackhead of the War Department had nisde a hig misinke in assigning the city's credits for volunteers, and thul the quola wus full, oith lonvireds to spare. Drer n fourth of the loan iras Thus arved. the uar expenses frun any, 1864, 10 Mny, 1865, which included The hulk uf bounty approprishans, amounted to $718, 171, The entire nar expendi. İure was nboul $1, 1%KI, IKHI.""

Reference lu some of the phases of The irnr during n portion of I>62-5 are made in the following language hy Col. W. It. Hallouny, in his History of Imhunpolis .

" The imtilary zeal which, ut The ogftgenk of the wur, mnwle recruiting led only easy hul Troublesotyely nhundant, shekened as the progress of the wur developed clearly what military aprrice minul, Volunteers lunt lo be Funghi, ut lust, ut prices corresponding to the sseritires requireil. l'itriotin hajqied out of the calculation, and entering the army beenine a business ull'air, in which noges und bonnties were srl against the cost of maintaining Cumlies, tho beeg of Inne and the postihlies of lentile. But other influences combined with this nuinral femileney uf n protrurted war, lo minke military service o busmess invested of realmurulal nihilintes, First ninong these ning politienl upposition. When the first fury of indignation nl The aggression of The Rebels lind expendeil ilself in wer nudl wards, this opposition hegan la shor itself, ranfionaly ut finn, hul holly a little Inter. The Imtional Inx nu dennuneed, und organizations formell lo resist il und uny allempl al ceu. brripllon. Mul'lellan's failure before Rirhaindl; brightening Thy prospects of The lehellion, strengthened il. The war ing legislstel against hy erery poraille means during the usuter of 1872-1. Naturally necompanying or Inlloning this political rffurt were morements lo ilisrourage enlistmentis, 10 encourage desertion, and organizations to prufeet ileserlers and resist their unir, So ellerluul urre theme that iluving the single month of Deermber. 1802, une less than 1,300 lwlmun ilesriers were lured home, lo Their own disgree utel the infinito injury of the service, Letters from relatives piditi- billy aile vrse la the wrap, urging ilesviliou nud promising protection, nere whe of the wirst ponerful of these dishernl appliances. The papers uf thal Wwe published hundreits of theun, rerenled by the sobliers themselves. in Wurdequale conception of the obligation They hnd incurred facilitated Thuse Innsoualile efforts. To Thein nu eugugeweul lo serve in the army uns like a lungniu to do any other job. If they didn't like it they could leure il ley merely forfriting uupil unges. Deseilers, of course, brought home lerribhr Noirs af destitution nil sullering, aud hoglile newspapers made the mo.1 und nord of overy rererse util viery discouraging circumstance. Thus re. erntling was diminishing while desertion uns increasing. The withdrawul of Tens of Thousands of the west industrious nud productire of our popula- Itout from Their inrioos industries created n greal detanud for labor. Wages rose, wud, with Ihr depreciation uf currener, everything else rose, 100 Thu

weeruil, with the cortuinly of employment muuil good wages al home, was not lo he obliuned for The turnger fur of n sollier If he had a family, it hul In he provided for, mit if hy hulu'l, no iliscriminalion could be winle ngaiust him, mul he was paidl ns if he lind. Thus came bountira and henry but theus, far beyond the expensey which appeared in The settlemeals of the Naliount Tiensury, or the uggregne of the ualiunal debl. As the wur mule hemtier drufs upin Inbor, unges wiliwuerd further, und with thew bounties nd- Laed in, unth national, county und rily bounties, nuil udcauce pay, the recruits wuler the Inst cull of Bou, 000 men, Decenihier 14, 1864, were paul uetrly $1,000 each, before they had gone iulo camp."

Volunteering, during the early part of the wur, was almost al a thiseauut. The urgeuey,"says Mi, Siereusou, "lo join the army was such thul, al The insinuce of the fiureruar, in wlrauce of the luly coll for 560,000 troops, The Secretary of War allowed Imiliana lo semud into The fell, by under of June 11, 1801, six regimienly; by order of June 19, four regiments, Each of these evulnined 1,file mon. Due regimeul of curuley (the First Indiaun) wny included. Thus, Iho uxress beyond the rall wns ten thouauud foar huu- ured aut arty (ou."

emul Horeruinent, fur Troops, in 1861, mmeunted 10 118,842. Mr. Steveusou conlinnes. "Ju reply, she svul, up to the oth of Iunuurs, 1801, forty-eight regiunis of' iufnulri , Ihre regiments ot enralry uuil sereuteou batteries- in nl1, 621,18h mnou, heing in excess of the call, 14,403 men. lu The mouths ol July muil Angust, 18de, the l'resident rolled for 60,000 additional wen ; und hulionu's quola wrus hxeil al 13,600. By September 201h, lutinun's quedo, quiler all these walls, hund brou filled hy yolunivers, with the exception of 0,000. A ileft wus orileredd ; but before it Took effect, on October 6, the number deficient had brou reduced 10 8,009, for which number a draft 1 av ulr. The thanteil ment urer to surie nine mouths, Of these, however, all but four companies roluutested lu serva three years "

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Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 43

Author: Publication date: 1876 Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co. Number of Pages: 472

Author:
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
Number of Pages: 472