Rush County, Indiana
Wars
The Civil War
A contemporary account says that
"nothing in Rush county has ever
exceeded the excitement that followed the bombardment of Ft. Sumter.
For nearly a week people in every walk of life abandoned their callings
and congregated in groups about the towns and villages to learn the
latest reports from the scene of conflict. The first news reached
Rushville on Sunday morning, April 15, 1861. Those who were wending
their way to their respective places of worship either turned aside to
inquire further details or pursued their course with little thought of
their religion. Perhaps a short prayer was breathed for the
preservation of their common country and the maintenance of the right."
Upon receipt of news of Lincoln's
call for 75,000 men the disturbed
people took new heart and on Wednesday evening a meeting was held at
the court house, Col. Joseph Nichols presiding. Among the patriots who
made stirring speeches at this meeting were Joel Wolfe and P. A.
Hackleman, and resolutions were adopted pledging the county's support
to the National Government. A number of volunteers responded to the
call for service at this meeting. On the following Saturday another
meeting was addressed by Joseph J. Amos, William A. Cullen. William
Cassady. P. A. Hackleman, Joel Wolfe and the Rev. James Havens and
pledges were made that the families of men who enlisted would be taken
care of. Upon the call for volunteers ninety-three men enlisted, and a
company was organized with the following officers: Captain, Joel Wolfe;
first lieutenant, Paul J. Beachbard; second lieutenant, Robert J.
Price; third lieutenant, John Fairley. This company proceeded to
Indianapolis and was there encamped at the state fair ground when on
Sunday, April 28, Miss India Hackleman, in behalf of the women of
Rushville, presented the command with a silk flag. When accepted for
service the company was reorganized, and went to the front as E Company
of the Sixteenth Indiana regiment with the following officers: Captain,
Paul J. Beachbard; lieutenants, John S. Grove and Silas D. Byram.
P. A. Hackleman was commissioned colonel of the regiment and Joel Wolfe
major, the former being promoted in time brigadier-general and the
latter lieutenant-colonel.
On one of the panels of the beautiful
soldiers' monument in East Hill
cemetery, Rushville, Rush county's service in the Civil war is briefly
told in letters of stone, thus: '' Rush county furnished for the war
for the Union 2,385 soldiers. Complete companies—Infantry. Company F,
Sixteenth Indiana, one year; Companies C, Or and H, Sixteenth Indiana,
three years; Company K, Thirty-seventh Indiana, three years; Company
Gr, Fifty-second Indiana, three years; Company H, Fifty-fourth Indiana,
one year; Company D, Sixty-eighth Indiana, three years; Company E, One
Hundred and Twenty-third Indiana, three years. Cavalry: Company M,
Ninth Indiana, three years. Artillery: Twenty-second Indiana
battery, three years. The remainder enrolled in other companies and
regiments."
The beautiful stone in East Hill
cemetery commemorative of the
deeds of the men from Rush county who took part in the war for the
Union is the only soldiers' monument in Indiana erected by a Grand
Army post. On May 2, 1884, the comrades of Joel Wolfe post, Gr. A. R.,
held a campfire at Melodeon hall in Rushville to raise money to aid in
the erection of a soldiers' monument at the state capital, this having
been before the state provided for the erection of the present
monument there. The sum of $300 was raised at this meeting and was
forwarded to Indianapolis, but when this volunteer movement
on the part of the old soldiers of the state fell through, the money
was returned, and in March, 1885, the post appointed three trustees who
kept the money at eight per cent, interest for fifteen years, at the
end of which time it had earned $754.06, making the fund amount to
$1,054.06. With this sum in hand the post contracted with Schrichte
& Sons, of Rushville, who erected in East Hill a monument which has
since been the pride of the whole county. The cost of this monument,
including the soldier figure on top, was $1,350, and the balance
required to take care of the cost was taken from the general fund of
the post. This monument was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies
on October 16, 1900,. in the presence of a large crowd.
The Spanish-American War
Thirty-three years after the close of
the Civil war, the United States
declared war on Spain. It is needless to enumerate the causes leading
up to war except to say that the loss of 266 men of the battleship
Maine in the harbor of Havana on February 15, 1898, was the spark
that fired the magazine of American indignation, and on April 26, 1898,
war was officially declared. The President called for 125,000 men, and
later, May 25, 1898, for 75,000 more.
The President's calls for volunteers
met with instantaneous
response from the state of Indiana. The First, Second, Third and Fourth
regiments, Indiana National Guard, were recruited to full strength and
renumbered the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh, One Hundred and
Fifty-eighth, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth and One Hundred and Sixtieth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry regiments, to follow consecutively the
numbers designating the regiments engaged in the Civil war. These four
regiments were
followed by the One Hundred and Sixty-first under the second call, and
in addition to these five regiments, all of which were volunteer,
there were two companies of colored troops, two batteries of
artillery, and one company of engineers from the state. The One
Hundred and Fifty-seventh, under Colonel Studebaker, was sent to
Tampa to join General Shafter's expedition, but after being loaded and
unloaded on transports, failed to get across to Cuba. The One Hundred
and Fifty-eighth, under Colonel Smith, was sent to Chickamauga, where a
scourge of typhoid fever decimated its ranks. The One Hundred and
Fifty-ninth, under Colonel Barnett, was at Camp Meade until ordered
home, and, together with the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh and One
Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiments, was mustered out at
Indianapolis in November, 1898. The One Hundred and Sixtieth,
under Colonel Gunder, was sent across to Mantanzas, Cuba, where they
saw much hard service. The One Hundred and Sixty-first, under
Colonel Durbin, was camped at the Indiana state fair grounds until
August, 1898, when it was sent to Camp Cuba Libre, near Jacksonville,
Fla., and was assigned to the Third brigade, Third division, Seventh
army corps, under Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Thence it was sent to Camp Onward,
near Savannah, Ga., and thence to Camp Columbia, near Havana, Cuba.
Returning to Savannah on April 1,1899, the regiment was there
mustered out of the service on April 30, 1899. In Rush, as in every
county in the state and in every community of the country, the
sentiment was for war, and there was keen disappointment on the part of
many men of military age in the county, who offered their services, but
were refused because of quotas in their state being already filled. It
was in the One Hundred and Sixty-first regiment that Company H of
Rush county served under Captain Gwinn and Lieutenants Joyce,
Patton and Caldwell (deceased). The regiment lost
seventy-two men by disease, one of whom was a Company H man. Rush
county furnished. 102 privates for this company and thirty-four for
service in the Philippines and for hospital service.
Few people comprehend the results of
the Spanish-American war, because
of its absence of slaughter, nor stop to reflect how near was the World
war at that time. Germany's action at Manila and the attitude of the
great powers was such that one unconsidered step might have started
what came sixteen years later. The protocol was signed in August, 1898,
and the treaty of peace in December following.
Roster of Company
H, One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment (Spanish
American War)
Captain,
James M. Gwinn;
Lieutenants,
John F. Joyce,
George H. Caldwell, Henry B. Patton;
Quartermaster
Sergeant,
Joseph J.
Caldwell;
Sergeants,
Charles E. Comstoek, Charles E.
Wolfe, Geston P.
Hunt, Edgar Stiers; corporals, Jacob D. Felts, Win. T. Mitehell, Leven
E. Wallace, Biley Johnson,
Fred Gross, Chas. A. Newbro, Wm. H. Robertson, John W. Innis, Harrison
E. Wertz, Chas. F. Lindsay, Greely
Perkins, Jesse F. Perkins;
Musicians,
Edward Huffman, Basil Middleton;
Artificer,
Jesse K. Jamison;
Wagoner,
Charles W. Miller;
Privates,
Heber H. Allen, James F. Adams, Jesse
W. Ailes, Fred Alexander, Ira
Allenthorp, J. H. Armstrong, J. A. Armstrong, Frank C. Baylor, Arthur
Baker, William H. Ball, Orville Bartlett, Fred Beale, E. G. Caldwell,
Eue Cassady, A. B. Cauley, Thomas A. Dill, H. W. Davis, Bert L.
Devers, H. E. Emmons, Bert Fox, Fred C. Francis, Clyde Gable, William
E. Gardner,
Ira E. Geiger, James Gilson, John Glass, Will Glisson, Fred
Graves, Earl Greenlee, Jesse W. Guiie, Harry Hall, C. E. Hambroek, Vern
Harry, J. W. Hatfield, Clarenee Heaton,
0. E. Hilligoss, C. S.
Hoffner, George Holder, C. F. Jester, Geo. B. Jones, E. H. Kenner, Wm.
Klingsworth, W. Lohrman, Harry C. Levi, Clint McCain, Michael P. McCoy,
Fred McCrory, Buford Marvin, C. M. Matthews, Clint M. Miller, Thomas
C. Moore, Fred Mootz, Irvin Morford, Will Myers, W. G. Newman, Frank
Norris, James O'Day,
C. W. Owsley, Ira H. Palmes, Ralph C. Parker,
Chase Pearsey, Joe Phillips, G. A. Plummer, Edward Pollett, E. L.
Eagan, H. V. Eueker, Jacob J. Eunk, Henry Seibel,
Robt. H. Shields, C.
E. Smith, Lewis Smith, Wm. M. Stiers, L. M. Stratton, Charies Vest,
Dudley Wells, Wm. T. Whalen, H. E. Wilson, Monroe Young.
Philippine Service
The following Bush county men served
in the
Philippines :
Forty-Fifth Volunteer Infantry, Company A
Voorhees
Cavitt, Harry Emmons, Eiehard O'Neil, James O'Day, John Ernest,
Greely Perkins, Harry Eidenbaugh, Will Mansfield, Thomas Fair, Carl
Buckner, Lon Sexton, Edward Pollett, Harry Levi, Fred Linton, Ambrose
Culbertson, James W. Sweetman.
Attached to Other Companies and Regiments
Lieutenant,
George Caldwell;
Anthony Cauley, William Hendricks, Charles Hurst, E. M. Jones, Geo. B.
Jones, Stanley Kemp, Charles Lindsey, Harry Levi,
Frank Moor, Commodore
Moorlock, Fred MeCrory, Guy Neuman, Jesse Perkins, Ed Perkins, Jacob J.
Eunk.
Served in Company H, and later in the
Philippines.
The following Rush county men served
in the Hospital Corps:
Charles J.
Brooks and William Leming.
The World War
War had been raging with
unprecedented intensity and barbarous cruelty
for nearly three years, and the
United States had suffered insults and criminal wrongs innumerable
when, on April 6, 1917, Congress declared war on Germany. All Europe
was ablaze, every nation of importance was an armed camp. Immediately
after the declaration of war, this country forgot everything but how
soonest to drive the Hun from bleeding France and Belgium. Soon
millions of men were in camp. Thou¬sands already were in the field,
having joined the Canadian, English or French forces. Transportation
was the great problem, for the ocean was alive with submarines and the
seas scoured by German raiders. But this prob¬lem, like all others,
was solved, and two million soldiers under the Stars and Stripes were
soon in Europe, and among them hundreds from Rush county. Only two
units were organized in this county, but the miscellaneous enlistment
was large. Company B, Fourth regiment, Indiana National Guard,
under Capt. John H. Kiplinger and Lieutenants Blacklidge, Kreber and
Gartin, with 132 enlisted men left on August 19, 1917, for Camp Shelby,
near Hattiesburg, Miss. Here, as everywhere, state troops lost their
identity and became United States troops, so that tracing Rush county
men is made most difficult. This company from Rush county, with few
exceptions, reached France, many of them seeing hard fighting.
Boster of Company B
Captain, John H. Kiplinger;
First lieutenant, Allan
H. Blacklidge;
Second lieutenant, William A. Kreber; Aaron O. Adams,
Garret J. Alford, Harold J. Alford, Anthony G. Amrheim, Corporal H. T.
Armstrong, Cook Harry Barrett, Vannie Beard, Corporal Henry H. Ball,
Howard Bankert, Milton F. Barnard, Walter G. Beeraft, Eoy Beeler, Paul
Bennington, Harry L. Beaver, Ed. L. Black, Sergeant Wm. B. Brann,
Sergeant Jesse 0. Bridge, K. E. Braekenridge, Henry E. Brown, Lewis
Brown, James E. Buehannon, Willard Buell, H. L. Burdoefer, Kalph W.
Clark, Corporal Lawrence Cameron, Glen H. Calpha, Wm. L. Christopher,
Thorn. F. Christopher, Charles Clevenger, Wilbur H. Clevenger, Jesse M.
Cline, Kobert E. Conway, Corporal Lester Coons, John D. Colter, Charles
J. Cortelyou, Floyd Cox, Jesse W. Cummins, Patrick J. Devaney, Carl E.
Dudgeon, Clarence E. Pougoud, Corporal Glen F. Edwards, Corporal Cleo
Emsweller, Cook Walter D. English, Frank Farley, Sam H. Feeback,
Lawrence A. Fisher, Harry E. Fritter, Ira A. Fultz, Leland C. Gardner,
Sam Gardner, Edward E. Green, John W. Green, Glen Grosse, Gilbert P.
Hamilton, Elmer E. Hendricks, Raymond F. Higgins, Charles Hokey, Hollis
G. Holmes, Ernest Johnson, Lovel Keith, Herbert Kingery, Corporal Paul
C. Koons, Earl M. Krause, Bay C. Land, Jesse M. Lanning, Robert G.
Lanning, Irvin A. Lloyd, Sergeant Telles LaLonde, Herbert L. Maple,
Paul B. Manning, John C. McNally, Sergeant Fred McCarty, Sergeant Mich. P. McCoy, Chester A Meal,
Howard Miller, Raymond Miner,
Roy Lee Montgomery, Donald Dean. Moore, Frank W. Morgan, Prank Motts,
Sergeant Geo. W. Myers, William C. Myers, Vergil Myers, Julius Myers,
Frank Nicholson, Herbert Nash, Oren E. P. Newland, Corporal Donald
Newman, Sergeant Guy Newman, (Promoted to lieutenant), Merrill M.
Northam, Roy J. Oakley, Corporal Charley Pea, Corporal Ralph Pea,
Corporal Howard Pea, Omer Pea, Donald E. Pease, Fred H. Perkins, Louis
Perkins, Corporal Carl Peters, Henry Peters, William A. F. Peters,
Charles R. Phenis, Charles R. Pindell, Lecher Allen Pope, Thomas V.
Priee, John W. Rawlins, Clifford T. Reese, Clarenee E. Riley, Lytle
Roberts, Willie L. Robeson, Erwin C. Rogers, George M. Ruble, Jesse
Ruble, Corporal Hartford Sallee, Joseph Saunders, James L. Scott,
Wallace S. Seott, Fred Smith, Edward A. Snider, Walter M. Snyder, Earl
D. Spillman, Sergeant Philip B. Stapp, Raymond E. Stiers, George W.
Stites, Carl Switzer, Elmer E. Taylor, Jess J. Taylor, Jacob W.
Theobold, Charles J. Theobold, Elmer E. Thorpe, Edgar Troxell, Gordon
Vannata, Alva H. Vansiekle, Ralph Wagoner, Kenneth 0. Walker, Grover W.
Wallaee, Charles R. Weed, Edward B. West, Grover I. Wheeldon,
Howard C. Whiteman, Frank P. Whitton, Colonel J. Wiley, John W.
Wilkinson, Fay H. Wylie, John Wrigley.
Rush County Hospital Unit—
The second military organization formed in
Rush county after the declaration of war, was a sanitary corps, which
was recruited by Dr. Lowell M. Green, of Rushville, in July, 1917. The
unit, consisting of thirty-three men, thirty-one of whom were residents
of this county, was mustered into the Federal service on August 5, as
the Infirmary of the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Field Artillery.
After a month's training at Camp Wolfe, in Rushville, the company was
ordered to Fort Benjamin Harrison, at Indianapolis, and on September
28, was transferred to Camp Shelby, Hat-tiesburg, Miss. Prior to their
departure from Rushville, a mess fund, raised by popular subscription,
and aggregating $725, was presented to the officers and members of
the company as a patriotic offering of the citizens of the county.
Following
is the roster of the Infirmary of the One Hundred and
Thirty-ninth Field Artillery:
Major, N. A. Carey; captain, Donald
C. MeClelland; first lieutenant,
Lowell M. Green; second lieutenant, Samuel Murphy; Raymond Benning,
Sergt. Robert Craig, Edward M. Cooning, Clements J. Conrad, Seott
Conde, Jr., Berlin T. Caldwell, Clayton B. Dagler, Marion T. Finney,
Osro Farthing, Thomas S. Foster, Harry K. Green, William E. Glover,
Samuel W. Gathman, Sergt. C. W. Gottman, J. F. Hermansdorfer, George
T. Hogsett, Lon A. Havens, Jr., Forrest E. Joyce, Russell H. King, Leo
H. King, William T. Kellar, Ernest M. Mitchell, Sergt. J. S. MeBride,
Robert F. McNeely, Fred Osborne, Wilbur R. Spivey, Errol J. Stoops,
Alfred Sharp, Jr., Charles A. Schrichte, Jerry Sullivan, Jamea F.
Walker, William M. Worth.
Rush County's ''Gold Star" Roster
During the time of America's
participation in the World war 3,318 men
and fourteen nurses from Indiana paid the supreme sacrifice. This
number includes all those who were killed in action, who died from
wounds, of disease, and those who died from accidents or other causes.
Of this number seventeen were from Rush county, as follows, the name of
the deceased soldier, with next of kin and postoffice address being
given: John Frederick Beale, Mrs. Hattie J. Beale (mother), Rushville,
Ind.; Raymond T. Boring, Mrs. Mary Boring (mother), R. F.'D. NO. 3,
Rushville, Ind.; Elbert H. Cox. Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Cox (parents),
Rushville, Ind.; John W. Deerin, Mr. and Mrs. George Deerin (parents),
R. F. D. No. 6, Rushville, Ind.; Charles E. Garrison, Mrs Flora Pea
(sister), Rushville, Ind.; Walter Gartin, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Gartin
(parents), Rushville, Ind., (R. R.) now living at Whittier, Calif.;
Oval Harlan Green, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Green (parents), Milroy, Ind.;
Raymond Hamilton, Mrs. Edith Hamilton McKee (mother), Rushville, Ind.;
Marshall Ney Innis, Mr. and Mrs. Wade H. Innis (parents), Milroy, Ind.;
William C. Jackson, Mrs. Flora Jackson (mother), Rushville, Ind.; Ross
V. Kennedy, Mrs. Katherine V. Kennedy (mother), Carthage, Ind.;
Frederick Kessler, Fred Kessler (father), R. F. D., No. 2, Manilla,
Ind.; Lewis M. Kirk-patrick, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick
(parents), R. F. D. No. 9, Rushville, Ind.; Cyrus E. Patterson, Mrs.
Myrtle Hittle (sister), Manilla, Ind.; George Lewis Posey, Mrs. Alta
Posey (widow), Rushville, Ind.; Raymond B. Rardin, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank M. Rardin (parents), Milroy, Ind., and James Joseph Shanahan.
James Shannahan (father), R. F. D. No. 8, Rushville, Ind.
General Roster Of
World War Service Men
When the general records of the local
draft board were sent to
Washington in response to the demand of the War Department for all data
covering the draft board's operations,
following the close of the World war, a definite and authoritative list
of the men who went into service from Rush county was lost to local
record. However, a general list, covering those from this county
(nearly eight hundred in number) who, in addition to the units above
given, served either as volunteers or under the selective service
system has been compiled under the auspices of the local Red Cross, the
local post of the American Legion and such other local service units as
became interested in the matter following the forwarding of the
draft board's records, and this roster is here submitted in the
belief of all concerned that it is practically complete. There probably
are some few omissions. It would be remarkable, under the
circumstances, if there were not; but the agencies that have acted in
this behalf have exercised the best possible care to insure the
accuracy of the roster so far as could be insured from the files
at hand, and it is here set out as Rush county's honor roll,
supplementing the roster of B Company and the medical unit already
given, a grand total of more than nine hundred.
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Ansberry, Michael C. Allen, H. D.
Addison, Myron Abels, Robert
Alexander, Hubert B. Abernathy, G. J. Arnold, Frank Aikins, Clarence
Arbuekle, Joseph H. Amos, Edward Thomas Alter, Clarence Lowell
Alter, Wayne Alsman, James A. Archey, William Anderson,
Lawrence L. Alsman, John M, Addison, Sherman Arbuckle, Cyril
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Baird, James Calvin
Beale, John Frederick Brock, Guy
Barlow, Fred Bailey, Jesse C. Baker, George Boden, Chas. Dallas Brooks,
Ralph Waldo Beckner, Thomas Andrew Berry, Edward P. Barnett, John F.
Brooks, Chase S. Berry, Charles E. Bever, Chase Beeler,
Elsa Ivan Brann, Donald W. Brooks, Eoy Benning, Eaymond
Breekenridge, Eobert E. Breeheisen, John Howard Bundy, Loren
Clayton Ball, Henry Harrison Brann, William Ballard Beeler, Eoy John
Borem, Clyde Cloe Buell, Scott Blacklidge, Allan H.
Bates, Edgar Eichard Bever, Eoy Burrows, Vernal Bailey, William T.
Brown, Halbert Banta, Eoy L. Bennett, Ehuel Benner, Donald W. Brown,
Paul T. Becraft, James Bailey, Oscar C. Boring,
Eaymond T. Ball, Thomas Fletcher Bogue, Nolan Brown, Boss
V. Borem, Clarence James Burton, William Fleming Bell, Vern
W. Byard, Edward Bartlett, Charles Barry, Edmund Barlow, Leonard
Bennett, George Bundy, Ora Brooks, DwightBramel, Vaughn. A.
Bramel, Gilbert Baker, George Benner, George Beeraft, Kobert L. Bebout,
Verl A. Boyer, Eeko Bingiman, Walter Barlow, Jess E. Burton, Bertha
Blank, Ralph Bennett, Gordon. Beaver, Harold C. Beeraft, Harley
Beam, Earl Beam, Paul Brown, James Edward Burt,
Leslie Bennett, Hazel Fern Blessinger, John T. Burrell, James J.
Beaver, Ivan Brown,
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Halbert Cregar, Arthur Cloud, Lowell
Colvin, John W. Carter, William M.
Combs, Edward Sherman Cecil, Charles Walter Cripe, Harry Orval
Crull, Edgar Earl Coon, Omer Clarence Cox, Elbert H. Cram,
Stanton V. Craig, Wernie Colestock, Arie Deloriee Cook,
Gifford Carroll, Martin F. Camerin, Frank Casey, William C.
Cooning, Thomas Chappell, David Colter, William Watson
Clark, Judson Anderson Cox, Leslie Earl Carr, Ermston Balph Cregar,
James Cameron, Lawrence E. Chadwell, Leonard S. Cooning, Edward
Cramm, Rexford Martin Christopher, Thomas F. Caldwell,
Berlin T.Carson, William Cary
Clifford, Gale
T. Clevenger, Charles Conrod,
Clements Joseph Christopher, William L. Coon, William Jenning Clark,
Lawrence L. Colcman, Dr. W. S. Chadwiek, Dr. P. H. Carfield, Russell F.
Cassady, Frank J. Cox, Benjamin B. Craig, Eobert Cox, Wilbur Campbell,
Edward Cauley, Lawrence J. Coyne, Ivan F. Connelly, James Carr, Frank
H. Caron, Jerome A. Cowing, Byron S. Caron, Lester C. Cox, Albert Creek,
Charles E. Clarkson, Ralph Chew,
Alfred I., Jr. Crawford, Nettie Crum, Verney Gray Cale, Howard L.
Clifton, Eugene Cottrill, B. H. Chance, George Coppick, Orville Crull,
Levi Irvin Carney, James D. Crawford, W. H. Cullipher, E. J. Coffin,
Orfus Conover, L. G. Carr, Eobert B. Colestock, Eay Lee Culbertson, Eoy
Clark, Lind. H.
Clingman, Lester V. Coyne, Francis
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Dearinger, Eussell J. Deerin, John W.
Dillon, Euth E. Downey, O. F.
Duskey, John Loman DeMumbram, Charles M. Darnell, Elmer Duskey,
Charles Edward Dagler, Clayton D. Denning, Posey B. Dragoo, Dr. D. D.
Davis, Lucius Dearinger, Chester D. DeHart, O. H. Downs, Thurman
Dearinger, Chester V. "
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Edwards, Albert Elder, Roy Lavon
English, Frank E. English, Walter B.
Emsweller, Cleo Edwards, Glen T. Evans, Eoy Ewing, Eue Estell,
Herman
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French, Floyd Farlow, Mert. A.
Fischer, Jesse C. Fitzgerald, William
Friend, Eoydon Faull, Eussell Florea, Olin Feaster, George L. Frazier,
Harley Fox, Ralph N. Fleener, George D. Feebaek, Samuel H.
Farthing, Ozro Lewis Foster, Herman A. Foster, Thomas S. Finney, Marion
Teeumsea Finlaw, Dr. Fred H. French, Orval W. Foster, Donald H.
Frazee, John P., Jr. Fleehart, John
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Gartin, Walter E.
Garrison, Charles E. Gilson, Clifford
Glendenning, Eussell Galimore, Harry Gardner, Thomas F., Jr. Gurley,
Fred Orvall Gwinnup, Dora Gowdy, Lewis J. Gordon, Ralph Eiley Goode,
John E. Glass, James William Gordon, Paul Grigsby,
Benjamin Hill Gates, John V. Gare, Hugh V. Gardner, Leland
Gottman, Clifford Garrison, Walter Gregory, Franklin Earl Green, Oval
H. Green, Harry K. Green, Dr. Frank H. Gosnell, Paul D. Green, Dr. L. M.
Garrison, Oliver M. George, Bex A.
Gray, Eussel A. George, Orpha M. Grigsby, Arthur Gray, Ora M.
Guffin, Chase Goode, John E. Gallimore, Fred Glover, Lennie B. Goodwin,
John F. Goodwin, Win. Daily Gebhart, Louis Curtis Grigsby,
Benj. H. Grigsby, Jesse Griffin, Frank C. Gebhart, John Alfred Greely,
Irvia H.
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Hardin, William H. Hughes, Dan Kinney
Heblerj John D. Hardwick,
Clifford A. Hall, Wilmer S. Hogsett, Herbert H. Humes, Eobert P.
Havens, Denning Hardwiek, Dallas Hall, Ernest B. Hyatt, James L.
Havens, Lon A., Jr. Howell, Morris Howell, Harry C. Hobbs, James C.
Henley, Lowell H. Henley, W. J. Hogsett, George Yates Hermensdorfer,
John F. Hamilton, Gilbert P. Hendrieks, Elmer E. Higgins, Raymond
F. Hokey, Charles Holmes, Hollis G. Harrigan, Roy J. Hendricks, Harry
Harris, Raymond Jr. Hurst, Albert H. Hite, Lawrenee Harton, Russell
Hinshaw, Eobert Havens, Clay Hall, Carl Honley, Daniel M. Hood, Nolan
G. Hinkle, Staecy C. Horr, Frank Hamilton, Raymond Heckman,
John Higgs, Fred C. Hageney, Frank J. Harrison, Claude
C. Haekleman, W. C. Hackleman, Balph Haehl, Clifford Hilligoss,
William M. Halterman, Earl Hutchinson, Boss Hitt, Joe Hendy, Earl P.
Helm, Eugene J. Higgs, Carlos E. Harbert, Roy C. Henderson, Harry Hoff,
Talma A. Hungerf ord, Paul Harper, Nelson Hobbs, James A. Hoff, Earl
Huntsinger, Ray Headlee, Harry Herbert Hill, Fred William Hall, Wallace
Helman, Kenneth G. Hurst, Virgil H. Hendrieks, Henry L. Hill, Earl 0.
Hilligoss, Clifford Herbert, William Holbrook, Virgil
Harbert, Jesse F. Hester, Everett W. Hardwick, William
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Israel, Otto Innis, Marshall Ney
Inlow, Donald L. Inlow, Deprez
Irvin, Eied Irvine, Joseph F. Imlay, Paul S. Irvin, Eiea Inlow, William
D.
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Johnson, James E. Johnson, Harold D.
Johnson, Ernest Johnson, Arley Lee
Johnson, Bruce Joyee, Austin Jackson, William Carl
Jarrett, George W. Jolley, Ora C. Joyce, John F. Joyee, Forrest E. Jones,
George B. Jordon, James J. J or don, Tazel Jones, Charlie H.
Jones, Horace Jones, William E. Jackson, Coleman Ward Jordon, Bruee
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Karr, Harry .
Katsoras, Michael Keller, William King,
Leo King, Eussell Keith, Lowell Kingery, Herbert Koons, Paul C.
Krause, Earl M. Kinney, Eli Allen Kirkpatriek,
Eussell B. Kemper, Herbert Kennedy, John W. Kennedy, Carl A.
Kennedy, Eoss V. Kommer, Eugene S. Kinnett, David H. Kiplinger, John H.
Kessler, Mike Kline, John Edwin Kessler, Fred, Jr. Kirkham, Orval R.
Kidwell, Jesse Oral King, Lawrenee King, Forrest King, Ermston
Kirkpatriek, LewiB M. Kamper, Hubert E.
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Land, Eay C. Lanning, Jesse M.
Lanning, Eobert G. Lloyd, Irvin A.
LaLonde, Telles Lee, Eoy E. Lee, Everett E. Linville, Claude Linscott,
Weldon Linseott, Wayne Linscott, Eoy Long, Guy Long, Owen Long, Rex Lewis, William David Larrison, Bert
Leonard, M. B. Long, Henry, Jr.
Legg, Carlton Lyons, Clarence
Land, Roy C.
Land, Albert Smith Lamb, Paul J.
Lechner, Charles M. Laughlin, John R. Loyd, Clarence O. Lindale, James
Wesley Ludington, Koy Lewark, Van R. Lower, Laverre H. Logan, Henry V.
Lytle, Lewis Lewis, John W. Laughlin, Charles
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Malott, Orus Maple, Herbert L.
Manning, Paul B. Meal, Chester A.
Miller, Howard Miller, Earl Miller, Carl Miner, Raymond
Montgomery, Roy Lee Moore, Donald Dean Moore, James D. Moore,
Ralph Morgan, Frank W. Motts, Frank Myers, George W. Myers,
William M. Myers, Virgil Myers, Julius Mitchell, Ernest Marshall, Lee
Motts, Frank Metzker, Robert Marshall, Commodore R. Moreland, Walter
Mullins, Leo Marlow, Fred Moore, James Muire, Frank B. Monjar, Chase
Morris, Horatio Marlatt, Earl B. Marlatt, Ernest F. Marsh, Guy D.
Miles, John R. Morris, Clyde Robert Murdoek, James W. May, Walter
Maffett, Virgil Morris, Roland L. Morris, William H. Musiek, Don C.
Muire, Frank B. Meyers, Clarence E. Metcalf, Henry C. Merriwether,
Edward S. Munden, Roy Moore, Otto
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McClelland, D. C. McBride, James
Stanton McBride, Guy McNealy, Robert F.
McNally, John C. McCarty, Fred McCoy, Michael P. MeGuire, William
C. McClanahan, Richard
Harold McFarland, Ralph S. McDaniel, William
McDaniel, Charles McDaniel, Paul
C. McKee, Carlos McDonald, Glen Mclntosh, Horace Paul McCorkle,
Ralph Earl MacKinney, Carmel B. McKee, James C. McHenry, Everett Lee
McFall Earl D. McPherson, Layton McBride, Marion McDaniel, Roscoe
McCullough, Samuel
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Newsom, William E. Nicholson,
Frank Nash, Herbert Newland, Oren
E. P. Newman, Donald Newman, Guy Northam, Chester D. Northam,
Merrill M. Newhouse, Harry Newhouse, Charles Ernest Neary, Ross Noble,
Gordon Paul Neinstedt, Walter F. Nesbit, Raymond W. Newsom, Howard A.
Nordloh, John Frederick Naden, Charles Nelson, Thomas B. Niehol, Donald
Noble, Merrill J. Newhouse, Byron Newhouse, Paul Nelson, Davis
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Oakley, Roy J. Osborn, Fred
Oneal, Perry E. Oneal, Henry Oneal, Thomas Edwin Osborn,
Clyde E. Owen, Andrew A. Owen,
Frank Oldham, Clarence E. Osborne, Herman J. Osterling, Benjamin
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Pearee, Harold W. Payne,
William Wallace Petry, Harry R. Peters,
Herschel H. Peck, Chester Perkins, Greeley Pea, Ralph Pea,
Charlie Pea, Howard Pea, Omer Peace, Donald E. Perkins, Fred H.
Perkins, Lewis Peters, Carl Peters, Henry Peters, William A. F. Phenis,
Charles R.' Pindell, Charles R. Pope, Lecher Price, Thomas V. Pea,
Albert Pulliam, Arthur Perrin, Chester Pearsey, Hale H. Prather,
Charles R. Palmer, Millard Passmore, John Passmore, Oren Prill,
Thomas J. Price, Orlie M. Phillips, William R. Porter, Raymond D.
Pierce, Paul Parrish, Forrest Petro, James Donald Perry, Clayton
Phillips, Alfred Power, Richard L. Pitts, Jesse W. Patterson, Cyrus E.
Perkins, Harold Posey, George Lewis Price, Stewart
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Rardin, Raymond B. Rawlings, John W.
Reese, Clifford T. Eiley, Clarence
T. Robert, Lytle Robeson,
Willie L. Rogers, Irvin C.
Euble, George M. Kuble, Jesse
Robb, Sidney R. Reed, Duane F. Roam, Arehey S. Renaeu,
William Logan Robbins, Alva Riehter, William A. Ray, Robert
Oliver Rosencranee, John L. Reese, Clifford T. Rieketts, Forrest Roam,
Robert L. Rogers, Clyde E. Ruf enaeht, Jesse Lea Rider, Earl Ruby,
Clarence L. Reber, Charles E. Rawls, Forrest Jesse Rotan, Owen Reed,
Norman J. Reddick, C. R. Remington, Charles M. Root, Lawrence M. Root,
Paul Roberts, Homer Readle, Rex R. Ryam, Elmer Ridenbaugh, Benjamin
Readle, John Risk, Richard Reese, Walter H. Ratcliff, Russell M. Rice,
Fred Razzell, Harry Reeves, Harold
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Saunders, Joseph
Saunders, Thomas B. Seott, James L. Scott,
Wallaee S. Smith, Fred Snider, Edward A. Snyder, Walter M.
Spillman, Earl B. Stapp, Philip B. Stier, Raymond E. Stites, George W.
Switzer, Carl Sullivan, Jerry Spivey, Wilbur Sharp, Alfred, Jr.
Schriehte, Charles A. Stoops, Errol Swartz, Marion Smelser, Glen
Sexton, William L.Snodgrass, Wilbur C. Sinister, Israel
Shultz, Joseph. D. Shinn, Paul W.
Summerville, Jerry 0. Stuttle, Dora D. Smiley, Clifford Stiffler,
Charles B. Sample, Clarenee Stewart, Price Shanahan,
James J. Skipton, Russell Spencer, Ernest Sherwood, Harley
Spacy, Fred O. Swisher, Harry Summerman, Virgil E. Shatz, Harry N.
Stiers, William H. Salle, Hartford Smith, Henry Shelton, Fred C.
Simpson, Clarenee Stevens, William S. Smith, John Schultz, Paul
Stewart, Joseph Seright, Paul O. Seott, Samuel Sexton, M. Cullen
Stuttle, Don B. Stoten, Marion Smith, Samuel Simpson, Hilton N.
Sagesar, Albert L. Stewart, Homer Sage, James R. Shockley, Walter
Schriehte, John J. Smiley, Clarenee E. Smiley, Dale Sharp, Laverae
Smith, Leonee H. Sehmall, William H. Stewart, Paul Sehetgen, Anthony
Leo Sehaeffer, Frank J. Sampson, Oakley Sehultz, Joseph D. Sherman,
Charles B. Sweet, Albert J. Smith, Cassius C. Sehultz, Carl Sampson, J.
Herman Sehaeffer, Charles 0rp
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Tankuner, Samuel Tarplee, Frank Taylor, Elmer E.
Taylor, Jesse J. Theobold, Jacob W. Theobold, Charles
J. Thorp, Elmer E. Troxell, Edgar
Tarplee, Arnold G. Taylor, Theo K Taylor, Chase Tuerff, Joseph L., Jr.
Trobaugh, Leslie E. Tueker, Carroll J. Thomas, Howard
Trennepohl, Clarenee Trobaugh, William W. Tamsett, William
Theobold, Walter E. Tilley, Harry Todd, George Trabue, Samuel L. Thorp,
Paul E. Tutle, Harlan
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Vannatta, Gordon Vansiekle,
Alva Vansiekle, Aubrey C.
Vaughn, Seigle R. Vandament, Walter Vansiekle, Dora C.
Vredenburg, Robert F. Vannatta, Carl VanOsdol, Dwight
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Wagoner, Ralph Walker, Kenneth
O. Wallaee, Grover W. Weed,
Charles R. West, Edward D. Wheeldon, Grover I. Whiteman, Howard Conde
Whitton, Frank P. Wyley, Colonel J. Wilkinson, John W. Wylie, Fay
H. Wrigley, John Walker, James Worth, William Wallaee, Maxwell E.
Wolcott, Harold Watson, James E., Jr. Wagoner, Everett
Roscoe Winslow, William Wright, James White, Lawrence H. Woolen, Wilbur
Van Willie, John A. Winslow, Edwin Vay Watson,
Edwin Gowdy White, Henry
Walker, Nolan
White, Henry Worth,
Cecil Walker, Emil
Weaver, Russell Wills,
Roy Williams,
Augustus
N. Warriek,
Jesse Walker, Emil
Weidner, John William Wills,
Nathan Wiley, William C.
Wysong, George
Walker, James F. White, Clyde Warrick, Orbie
Nathan West, Edward
Bert Wevie, Jack
Wright, William
Walter Wendling, Russell Wilkinson, William L. Walker, Herbert B. Willis, John
A. Wervce, Howard J.
Wood, Clarenee C. Whittset, Vincent
P. Wills, Clayton Woods,
William
Herbert Wagner,
Grover Winslow, Charles D.
Walker, Leslie
Willey, Harry Earl Walker,
Irvin Wright, Warren C.
Farewell
to Company B
Soon after the
formation of the company, which
was mustered into the service as Company B of the One Hundred and
Thirty-ninth regiment. United States Volunteer Infantry, movements
were started which had for their purpose the supplying of the men with
various articles for their comfort and convenience. The interest
manifested in plans for looking after the welfare of the soldiers was
one of the many proofs of the patriotic pride the people felt in the
local military unit.
One of the happiest movements
to
honor the new company, was the raising
of funds for the purchase of a company flag. The first contribution was
made by Arthur B. Irvin, who conceived the idea, and the requisite sum
was soon obtained.
The formal presentation of the
flag
was made the occasion for the
largest, the most inspiring, local demonstration of the year's war
period. The ceremony, which took place in the Coliseum, in Rushville,
on Sunday afternoon, July 29, was attended by 3,000 people
representing every part of the county. The program consisted of musical
numbers, including the "Marseillaise," sung in French by Paul Lagrange,
the presentation address by Rev. C. M. Yocimi and the acceptance by
Capt. John H. Kiplinger, on behalf of the company. Another
contribution to Company B was a mess fund of $1,000 raised by
popular subscription, for the purpose of providing the officers and
members of the company with some comforts and luxuries not
ordinarily included in the camp fare.
On Sunday, August 19, Company
B
received telegraphic orders to proceed
to Camp Shelby, at Hattiesburg. Miss., on the following day. When it
became known that the military unit was to start for the training camp,
a mass meeting was called in Rushville, and arrangements hurriedly
made for a community dinner to be served in the Knights of Pythias hall
at noon on the day of the company's departure. Delegations were sent
into every town and community to solicit contributions, and to invite
the people to participate in the farewell demonstration in honor
of the men who were the first in the county to answer the call to the
colors. The result was a popular outpouring, and the soldiers were
served with a typical home dinner. Speeches were made and the
occasion was an appropriate and impressive expression of the
prevailing spirit of patriotism.
After the dinner the company
marched
to the court house grounds, where
farewell addresses were delivered by Judge Will M. Sparks and Rev. M.
W. Lyons. The officers and members were each presented with a comfort
kit made by the ladies of the Rush County Chapter of the Red Cross.
Later the company entrained and a great crowd witnessed its departure.
After long delay and much hard training the organization finally landed
in France, but was deprived of participation in active front area
service by the signing of the armistice. It was returned to the
United States and mustered out in January 1919.
The Rush county fair grounds
at
Rushville were used as a military camp
by the soldiers recruited from the county during the Civil war, the
Spanish-American war and during the World war. In 1898, it was
designated as Camp Hackleman, in honor of Gen. Pleasant A. Hackleman,
a citizen of Rush county, and the only Indiana general killed in
battle during the Civil war. When occupied by Company B, in 1917, the
name was changed to Camp Wolfe, in honor of Col. E, H. Wolfe, a
resident of Rush
county, who also rendered
distinguished service for the Union during
the Civil war.
American Legion
An immediate
outgrowth of the war was the organization
of the American Legion, which is similar in its characteristics and
purposes to the Grand Army of the Republic. Its membership, which now
numbers upward of 1,000,000, is open to any person who saw service
in the armed forces of the United States during the war, and while the
organization is yet young, much work of a constructive nature has
already been accomplished. Among its many objects are the safeguarding
of the interests of ex-service men, the perpetuation of the heroic
sacrifices and deeds of the war, the protection of national interests,
and the stimulation of patriotism. Rush Post AO. 150, State of Indiana,
American Legion, was organized in the spring of 1919, with Perry O'Neal
commander; Robert T. Humes, vice-commander; Clifford Gottman,
adjutant; Thomas Saunders, treasurer, and an executive committee of
five; Dr. Lowell M. Green, chairman; Frank Owens, Michael McCoy, Dr. P.
H. Chadwick, and Carl Kennedy.. The executive and financial year ends
on the last day of the year, and beginning with January 1, 1921, the
following officers and executive committee were elected: Joseph E.
Cannon, commander ; Frank Owens, vice-commander; John Kennedy,
second vice-commander; Paul Thorpe, adjutant; Albert J. Sweet,
treasurer; Hubert Alexander, service officer; Robert Conaway,
employment officer; Wilbur Gray, chaplain; Clifford Gottman, historian;
Harry Petry, athletic officer, and George H. Hogsett,
sergeant-at-arms. The executive committee is: Dr. Lowell M. Green,
chair-man; Carl Kennedy, Clarence Meyers, Jerome Caron, and Dr. D. D.
Dragoo.
The membership of the post
numbers
238, and an active interest in both
legion and public affairs is being taken by the organization.
There also are vigorous posts of the
American Legion at Carthage and
Milroy, in Rush county.