Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1919 — “I. U.” COMPILING WAR RECORDS OF ALUMNI [ARTICLE]

“I. U.” COMPILING WAR RECORDS OF ALUMNI

Register Will Include Veterans of Civil War, Many of Whom Are Still \ Living.

One of the interesting things in connection with the world war service register ot Indiana University alumni and former students, which is being compiled by the office ot H. M. Barbour, the alumni secretary, is the record of the Civil War veterans who are still living. Alva Johnson, of Evansville, Ind., graduated from the university with the class of 1849. He reached 94 years of age Nov. 15 and is* still hale and hearty'. He was, of course, past thirty at the time of the Civil War. He was appointed provost marshal by President Lincoln in the last year qf the war. Samuel H. Weed, •of Monmouth, 111., served as a .private in Company K, the 133rd Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He graduated from the university with the class of 1864. He was on duty at Bridgeport, Ala., guarding warehouses, steam boat landings, and the bridge across the Tennessee river. His brother, James A. Weed, who attended the university with him, was in the battle of Mill Springs and died in the hospital at Lebanon, Ky., in February, 1862. John David Alexander, of Springville, Ind., graduated with the class of 1861. He was wounded in the right hip by a musket bullet in the assault on Kenesaw Mt., Ga., June 27, 1864. He went with Sherman’s army to the sea and was commissioned as captain of Company D., 97th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Savannah, Ga. He was appointed acting assistant inspector general of the second brigate, first division, fifteenth army corps, by Gen. John A. Logan, and served as such on the staff of Gen. Robert F. Patterson until mustered out of service in 1865, after having served in the battles of Jackson and Vicksburg, Miss., Missionary Ridge, Tenn., Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mt., Atlanta, Savanah, Ga., Columbia, S. C., and Bentonville, N. C. Ranson E. Hawley, Terre Haute, Ind., who graduated from the university in 1866, served as a private in the 78th, 115th, 133rd Indiana Infantry. He was wounded Sept. 1, 1862, at Uniontown, Ky. Although a private he acted as adjutant of the 111th Indiana Infantry during the Morgan Raid. Winfield S. Hunter, Jasper, Ind., who graduated from the university In 1875, entered the army as a private at the age of 15 with Company L, 18th Indiana Cavalry. He was in the army of the Cumberland and fought in the battle of Nashville, Tenn., the seige of Mobile, Ala., and the storming of Fort Spanish and Fort Blakely, Ala. He was with Gen. Greirson on his great raid—sixty-eight days in the saddle without going into camp. In the war Germany, Mr. Hunter served as the U. S. Appeal Agent for his county. Nelson J. Bogarth, Valpariaso, Ind., who took the L. L. B. degree from the university in 1872, entered the army at the age of 14. He was wounded twice; once in the left arm and once in the left leg. . Dr. Wm. H. Lemon, Lawrence, Kansas, of the class of 1864, served as the surgeon of two* Indiana regiments —the 54th and 82nd. He was a prisoner of war in the old Libby prison for three months. Joshua Howe Watts, of San Pedro Cal., of the class was a major and brevett lieutenant colonel. He served seven years in the army without a single day s leave of absence. Argus D. Vanars.dal, of the class of 1871, now living in Madison, Ind:, enlisted as a private in Company A, of the 3rd Indiana Cavalry, July 4th 1861. He was promoted to captain Jstex, difighnrg,ed. for ity. be re-entered the army in'lß6s as a first lieutenant, and served until the end of the war. Col. Nathan Ward Fitzgerald, Los Angeles, Cal.,' although . 74 years of age w&en the war with Germany be gan. was active enough to raise a company of 150 volunteers with whom he offered his He was turned down on account Of his age. although he 6'ffered to stand a physical examination and test to prove that he was as sound and able to do military service as he was when he volunteered as a soldier in. 18 33. • The foregoing is presented as art incomplete list of surviving members of the alumni who form a gdod part of Indiana University’s military record. The university s record in the world war is now being compiled for permanent preservation and the two lists go to show that Indiana’s great school for the teaching of lib eral arts is also considerable of an instructor in good old-fashioned American patriotism.