
MORGAN COUNTY INDIANA
RETURN OF THE MORGAN COUNTY BOYS
During
the summer months of 1865, the soldiers returned from the war and were
welcomed with throbbing hearts by loved ones and friends.
They were usually received with formal ceremony by crowds of grateful
people. The flag they had carried through so many bloody campaigns was
returned to
the citizens who had presented it to the brave boys before they went
away so proud and valiant four years before. Fine swords or other
elegant memorials were
given to those who had done some specially distinguished service. Many
a boy who had gone away so bright and brave, followed by a mother's
love and blessing,
was left in a patriot's grave far down in the Sunny South. Others came
home with empty sleeves and frightful scars, or shattered minds and
broken constitutions.
The sacred dust of some was brought home and buried by loving friends.
The county cemeteries contain all that is mortal of the heroes.
The silent mounds of sod are lovingly decked with sweet blossoms, and
the summer mantle of green velvet is patiently watched by faithful
hearts.
Sprigs of holly and evergreen, bright clusters of rich flowers and
eloquent tributes in eulogy of the noble dead, are the offerings of a
grateful people on Decoration Day.
The loyal dead must not be forgotten.
CALLS OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR VOLUNTEERS.
April
15, 1861, 75,000 men for three months.
May 3, 1861, 82,748 men for three
years.
July 22 and 25, 1861, 500,000 men for
three years.
May and June, 1862, about 18,000 men
for three months.
July 2, 1862, 300,000 men for three
years.
August 4. 1862, 300,000 men for nine
months.
June 15, 1863, 100,000 men for six
months.
October 17, 1863, 300,000 men for two
years.
February 1, 1864, 200,000 men for two
years.
March 14, 1864, 200,000 men for three
years.
April 23, 1864, 85,000 men for 100
days.
July 18, 1864, 500,000 men for one,
two and three years.
December 19, 1864, 300,000 men for
one, two and three years.
MORGAN COUNTY ROLL OF HONOR.
Seventh Regiment,
three months' service.
John McDaniel, died at Phillippi, Va., June, 1861
Eleventh Regiment,
three years' service.
James Olleman, killed at Champion
Hills May, 1863
Twelfth
Regiment,
three years' service.
Eli Bray, Jr., died at Grand
Junction, Tenn., February, 1863 ;
Asa G. Ballard, killed at Richmond,
Ky., August, 1862;
A. H. Ballard, died at Snyder's
Bluff, Miss., June, 1863;
Henry H. Bailiff, killed at Atlanta,
Ga., August, 1864 ;
Richard Berge, died of wounds
September, 1862;
Harmon B. Cox, killed at Richmond,
Ky., August, 1862 ;
William Curnutt, died near Atlanta,
Ga., August, 1864;
Thomas F. Carter, died of wounds at
Chattanooga May, 1863 ;
John Curnutt, died at Nashville,
Tenn., July, 1864;
Elisha Deering, died of wounds at.
Chattanooga December, 1863;
Evan Day, died at Iuka, Miss.,
October, 1863 ;
Wiley Estis, died at Holly Springs,
Miss., January, 1863;
William H. Ely, killed at Kenesaw,
Ga., June, 1864 ;
Harvey Evans, died in Libby Prison
April, 1864;
Jacob Gruson, died at Memphis April,
1863 ;
William Hutchinson, killed at
Richmond, Ky., August, 1862;
David Hadley, died at Memphis June,
1863 ;
James A. Hudson, died in Libby Prison
November, 1863 ;
James Johnson, died in Indiana Octob
er, 1862;
Reuben Marshall, died at Snyder's
Bluff, Miss., July, 1863 ;
Gustavus McCrary, died at Scottsboro,
Ala., March, 1864;
James E. McNabb, died at Camp
Sherman, Miss., September, 1863;
Milton Y. Pettitt, killed at
Richmond, Ky., August, 1862;
Peter Patram, died at Memphis
October, 1863 ;
Joseph Pointer, killed at Richmond,
Ky., August, 1862 ;
Hiram Patram, died at Camp Loomis,
Tenn., April, 1863;
Thomas Parker, died in Libby Prison
December, 1863;
Jefferson Rains, died at Chattanooga
October, 1864;
Robert Stafford, died at Camp
Sherman, Miss., September, 1863 ;
Daniel Thompson, died at Camp Loomis,
Tenn., April, 1863;
John Thompson, died at Grand Junction
February, 1863 ;
John C. Thornburg, died at
Mooresville, Ind., October, 1862;
Hiram Wood, died at Anderson Station,
Tenn., November, 1863 ;
John D. Williams, killed at Richmond,
Ky., August, 1862 ;
William Weare, died at Grand
Junction, Tenn., May, 1863.
Twenty-first
Regiment.
First Lieut. Thomas Grimstead, died
at New Orleans of wounds received at Baton Rouge;
William Fishback, died at Baton Rouge
June, 1862 ;
William H. Ruth, died at Baton Rouge
June, 1864;
Euos Bailey, died at Mobile June,
1865 ;
David Bailey, died at New Orleans
March, 1865 ;
John Bryant, died at Baton Rouge
July, 1862;
Zachariah Hall, died at New Orleans
July, 1864 ;
John R. Hastings, died at Baton Rouge
August, 1862;
Isaac Kiphart, died in August, 1862,
of wounds received at Baton Rouge;
George W. Fry, died of wounds
received at Baton Rouge in 1862;
A. H. Vanvalkenburgh, died at Ship
Island April, 1862;
William Pitcher, killed at Baton
Rouge August, 1862;
John W. Blackburn, died at New
Orleans March, 1864;
Daniel Colvin, died at New Orleans
May, 1864;
Caleb S. Collier, died at New Orleans
December, 1864;
James Gooch, died at Indianapolis
October, 1864;
F. M. Gooch, died at New Orleans
March, 1864;
James O. Gamble, died at. New Orleans
March, 1864 ;
William C. Hobbs, died at New Orleans
April, 1864 ;
George R. Northern, died at New
Orleans March, 1864;
William A. Rooker, died at Baton
Rouge May, 1864;
Andrew Stines, died at New Orleans
April, 1864.
Twenty-sixth
Regiment.
John Boyd, died on steamer " J. J.
Roe " August, 1863;
Thomas A. Bunch, died at Springfield,
Mo., September, 1862;
William Cassady, died January, 1863,
of wounds received at Prairie Grove;
Peter Coble, died December, 1862, of
wounds received at Prairie Grove;
Isaac Corder, killed in a skirmish
near Glasgow, Mo., September, 1861;
Hiram Hand, died at Camp Hunter, Mo.,
November, 1861;
Philip Harrold, died at New Orleans
July, 1864;
William M. Harrold, died May, 1864,
while prisoner at Shreveport, La.;
William Mackey, died at Camp Hunter,
Mo., November, 1861;
David W. Pool, died at St. Louis,
Mo., October, 1861;
Sergt. Jeremiah W. Shepler, died at
Tipton, Mo., January, 1862;
Isaac W. Tacket, died at Otterville,
Mo., February, 1862;
Richmond Boaz, died at New Orleans
September, 1863;
Isaac Carder, died March, 1864 ;
Jacob B. Duke, died at Carrollton,
La., October, 1863;
Elijah T. Harriman, killed at Prairie
Grove . December, 1862.
Twenty-seventh
Regiment.
The list of dead in this regiment
cannot be given.
Thirty-third
Regiment.
Thomas M. Rhea, killed at Altoona
May, 1864;
Francis Dane, killed at Peach Tree
Creek July, 1864;
Daniel Page, died at Chattanooga
August, 1864, of wounds received at Kenesaw;
Jesse T. Shipley, died of disease in
Tennessee;
Alexander C. Boyd, died of disease in
Kentucky;
James M. Carpenter, died July, 1864,
of wounds received at Peach Tree Creek;
Enos C. Hadley, died in Tennessee ;
Noah Hadley, died in Libby Prison,
1863;
Talburt G. Hale, died in Kentucky ;
Simon H. Lasley, died at Crab
Orchard, Ky.;
Henry H. Mathews, died near Crab
Orchard;
Alfred Mathews, died of wounds at
Nashville;
Henry H. Major, died at Crab Orchard;
David N. Marshall, died in Georgia;
Martin V. McKinley, died in Kentucky;
James A. Medaris, died at Nashville
August, 1864, of wounds;
Isaac N. Park, died of wounds while a
prisoner at Pulaski, Tenn.;
John Turner, died in the service;
George W. Whetstine, committed
suicide while insane at Raleigh, N. C, April, 1865;
Wiley B. Baker, missing in action in
Tennessee ;
Dillian Asher, died in the service;
John R. Burkhart, killed at Resaca
May, 1864;
Samuel P. Knight, killed in battle
February, 1865;
James H. Brewer, killed at Peach Tree
Creek July, 1864;
Caleb Fletcher, killed in battle
February, 1865;
Prettyman H. Long, killed in battle
February, 1865.
Fifty-ninth
Regiment.
Maryfield Walters, killed in action
at Vicksburg May, 1863 ;
William T. Baldwin, died at Gosport,
Ind., January, 1862 ;
Warren Baldwin, died before muster;
Peter Demott, died at Huntsville,
Ala., April, 1864;
James R. Mannon, died at Gosport
February, 1862;
William Ogles, died at Paducah, Ky.,
January, 1863;
Levi Watson, died at Jacinto, Miss.,
August, 1862.
Seventieth Regiment. Calvin Johnson,
died at Gallatin, Tenn., March, 1863;
Benjamin F. Ballard, died at Gallatin
March, 1863;
Samuel Ballentine, died at Nashville,
Tenn., June, 1864;
Henry W. Costin, died at Gallatin
February, 1863;
Jacob Farmer, died at Nashville of
wounds June, 1864;
David Fugate, died at Resaca of
wounds May, 1864;
Alonzo B. Greeson, died at Resaca of
wounds May, 1864;
Alfred Greeson, died at home July,
1864;
Andrew Jordan, died at Gallatin
March, 1863;
Daniel Lockwood, died at
Jeffersonville, Ind., June,
1864;
Peter White, died at Bowling Green,
Ky., January, 1863;
Calvin Ward; died of wounds at Resara
May, 1864;
John H. Poe, died at Chattanooga
August, 1864, of accidental wounds;
George W. Flake, died of wounds at
Nashville June, 1864;
William H. Gibbs, killed at Resaca
May, 1864;
William Olds, killed at Kenesaw June,
1864;
Abraham G. Butterfield, died at
Bowling Green November, 1862;
William W. Weaver, killed at Resaca
May, 1864;
Henley Albertson, died at Bowling
Green October, 1862;
Milton Boyd, killed at Dallas, Ga.,
May, 1864;
Marshall Dane, died at Scottsville,
Ky., February, 1863;
James E. De Coursey, died at
Scottsville, Ky., December, 1862;
Elias L. Ray, died May, 1864, of
wounds received at Resaca;
Charles W. Roberts, died at Gallatin
May, 1863;
Jacob Reedy, died at Washington, D.
C, May, 1865;
James Singleton, killed at Peach Tree
Creek July, 1864;
James W. Tout, died at Gallatin May,
1863;
Hiram Voyles, died of wounds at
Resaca May, 1874;
Mason Warner, died August, 1864, of
wounds received near Atlanta;
Joseph Whitson, died at Nashville,
Feb ruary, 1864;
Isaac Benge, died at Lookout Valley
May, 1864;
James Hatley, died at Lookout
Mountain August, 1864;
Joshua Hammond, died at Atlanta
October, 1864;
Alexander Long, died at Chattanooga
August, 1864.
Fifth
Cavalry (Nineteenth Regiment).
James F. Roberts, died in prison at
Florence, S. C, February, 1865;
David R. Badgley, supposed to have
died in Andersonville Prison;
Dutton Loveall, died of wounds at
Knoxville, Tenn., January, 1864;
John Underwood, died at Covington,
Ky., September, 1863.
One
Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment.
William B. Harryman, died at Camp
Nelson, Ky., January, 1864;
William H. H. Little, died at
Knoxville, Tenn., November, 1863;
Joseph H. McGinnis, died at Knoxville
November, 1863 ;
Stephen Ogden, died at Knoxville
November, 1863;
Paris Pearce, died at Tazewell,
Tenn., January, 1864;
George W. Toutt, died at Knoxville
November, 1863;
Isaac Wilcox, died at Cumberland Gap
October, 1863.
One
Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment.
Isaac Kennedy, died at home in March,
1865;
Francis J. Perry, died at home in
March, 1865 ;
David Griffin, died at Nashville in
April ,1865 ;
James S. Teague, died at Pulaski in
January, 1865.
Second
Battery Light Artillery.
William H. Gurley, killed by
guerrillas in May, 1864.
Twenty-eighth
Regiment United States Colored Troops.
Andrew Evans, died at Alexandria, Va.
,in October, 1864;
Edward Findley, died of wounds in the
field in Virginia in September, 1864;
James Goss, died at Alexandria, Va.,
in January, 1865;
Zachariah T. Langford, died at
Alexandria, Va., in October, 1864;
Dempsey Porter, died at Indianapolis
in March, 1864;
Thomas Riley, died of wounds in the
field in Virginia in August, 1864 ;
George W. Richey, died at
Indianapolis in February, 1864.
Fifteenth
Regiment.
Robert B. Gilbert, killed in the
charge on Mission Ridge.
Twenty-ninth
Regiment.
James B. Russell, died of disease in
February, 1865.