Jasper County Democrat, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — GLORIOUS RECORD OF THE STATE OF INDIANA IN THE WARS OF THE NATION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLORIOUS RECORD OF THE STATE OF INDIANA IN THE WARS OF THE NATION

How the Sens of This Great State Have Carried the Flag i to Many Splendid and Historic Victories. Numerous Battles in Which Men ofc Indiana Have Won Glory —Heavy Price in Blood and Gold Indiana does Itself great honor in ho» \ oring her pioneers, which Is done in many t counties of the state by reunions of "old settlers’’— sturdy, patriotic men, who laid deep end strong the foundations of tho state. At these reunions tho old men and the old women take great delight in reciting recollections and traditions of the early jwriod in the history of the state and In exhibiting some relic of bygone years, the period of the log cabin, the loom and the spinning wheel. Not less has Indiana right to feel an honest I pride in her statesmen, her orators and writers, her educators, her pulpit, bench and bar, her merchants, manufacturers, railroad builders and business men in all lines of endeavor, her farmers and her multiplied thousands of tollers on farms, in factories and shops, without whose aid her fields would be a wilderness and her cities and towns as silent as Pompeii. Milton wrote that "Peace hath her victories , No less renowned than war." \ Indiana’s Real Heroes. But It so happens that tho victories serured by war flame more luminously on the historic page than those which are placed to the credit of peace, and they of the sword, epaulette and plume are accredited victors, while the men behind the guns who win all the victories <re designated "the army," and as such take their place In history. And this is as true of Indiana as it is of ancient Greece and Rome, or of any other land or nation. But whatever else may be said ot Indiana, end little can be said that is not complimentary, the state has won eminent distinction by the heroism of her Midlers In war. In this regard she stands second to no state In the union, and to no nation, ancient or modern. Tippecanoe. In the early history of Indiana, before it attained statehood, a battle was within JtfafrrtrtfT, 1 , stltutes an jCtone,” after a creek by its history. .IT Clark couiity, where It la pecanoe. whl> A than elsewhere, and where Tippecanoe c* the Industry Is located, wm,am larger areas In Clark ebun- , . m tall fan A the hydraulic limestone counties has never . *!*;>*• JT This hydraulic cement la sand men 4) government construction . . \__rt , canals. The annual out* six hundred. At«^ population of aboß o,ooo bar ™»- jjXd cement manufacturing . C .°T more recent introduction more than one sf Tet< when the plantß now the territory,, for the manufacture canoe the Indlar c(Jßen t are producing the persed. but thou fct once exceed the bydraulio tlon the savage.g re are now two large plants' wounded 151 of § county, at MUltown and possible that the are crushing the purs who fought and ts there. Another p\ant on been preserved, llmtstone belt is now under their nemes am near Mitchell, which will are s. »ply remeetty of 1.000 barrels per day. battle of Tippece clltlo limestone belt in va* 4 but especially in Lawrence, 4 Harrison and Crawford, If It Is sssunrSxtenslve deposits of almost represented In. «l«Hy X , mn u? by the Mitchell and Ms--ISI2-J5, the n f t janiel) -which only await the soldiers to manufacture Portico. 1846-48. In tj it has been suggested that regiments, or tljlltic rock from the Bedford In that army coTjjld be utilized In the manuTaylor, who w*|hls cement, but the drawVista In which point Is the want of the advanced posit® to mix with the carbonate retreat, responjpanufacture the product. mander of the] KER RESOURCES. the flight of htsj fought In the rail al j whetstone quarryuntil the states la confined to Is the only Arkansas, near the fadlana regimer.tJ rtn gs, and to Orange county, 4 wt!n» l circ the well-known eulpho-sa-French Lick. The da* 3 s ® A* l * grained silicious rock* *?7me Be Orange county, but for Indiana reriirf 1 * Investment of large capital fully maintain e l now on a * mal } state for h*rolif ud » way. A fine quality of lco Indiana bad P the same formation Is also In battle and * forked In a small way In now, after for d Jtartln counties. ... vivors linger o>«f molding sand deposits are' In the glory -o-artouk parts of the state. Glass part In security* forSplass manufacturing Is territory, or "Blackford, White, Laos which has chuntles. In Madison California, Neva® the gikss and deposits are square miles ofocal glassworks. In Parke miles of New MB sand and <WI veins occur In of Colorado anijrion. Wyoming. Thisj llmlnite (bo%on>, hemltite. government, as#pyrites <occur IdLGreene, M&rthe war, *16,000,(1 and Perry counties and In the the credit of Ifegtons In St. Lake and took part in tantiee. Before the star some Immense domafcaces were kept up making pig pay all the uithe best deposits near the coal for the next war only one kraact therefore, went out of existence dlers of the ores of Indiana ark too common an excess of ®Nca the glory of with the La\.e ument was . _. ■ Spall pockety, ■ t**’ :jgbor this ore In the late Indlgprft,' l suannlshed 7,040 voi®E®W and If deeds did not runown of the state It la becauiPmpportuntties were not offered to enableplhem to increase its military luster. The Civil War. Dismissing statistics and comments upon all minor wars in which Indiana soldiers have been engaged, we come to the great civil war, the struggle to pre- , ’ . serve the union, a war compared with which all other wars on the continent dwindle to insignificance, and, for that mettyr, all other wars known to history. This is demonstrated by a glance at the figures showing the number of soldiers mustered Into the service In all the wars In which the country has been engaged from 1775 to 190 L Including the Spanish war, excepting th? rebellion.

alons number ' 2.772,406, or 2p more than were engaged In all tba other ware of the ctwntry _ It was In this great string's for the Wsrvatlon of the union mat Indiana Are not edleus nor tlLfimel if made to Tarlfy histerioal facta Ihdlar.a, with a population In 1861 of 1, 356,42* furnished to tte union armies >06,16? volunteers, while New York, the “Empire state,” with a population of 1*0,7*. furnished 467.047. When to havs equaled India: > she should ha vs furnished 7*1,096. To extend such comparisons wauld serve gtlll further to demonstrate that Indiana, considering populatlan, stood In ths rank of par asnt. of soldiers tp population sent to the front, exceeding In per cent, all the New England states, as also New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio. If Indiana Is boastful, as she has a right to be,

syrup, lTß9M64pounds?^Pß»ra|2Sg?*WsS 133,666 gallons of milk. 21.966 T **B|®^w**» Of butter, 1,083,403 pounds of oh Hyffilyßjt TC3 dozens of poultry, 35.0uA76 OUl |iffi|2Kx? *Cf« and 4,631,477 pounds of W d.'tlon to theae Items there farms and their products to b«f V f3*h3*Ssfi!S of which there are no stall?* K , v able but deserving a plac>Ml ccir a totals of production oUj*i all going to dem nstr® cultural Interest of Indßßß* AND SAIL^ other enterprises and n% , u •- WT the ascendency. 'V’y*" c ' r< 1 * “Then what of the fanaa ths to „ ave Uona InquireT . that har patriotAnd what's the respoaßuce of the great from the fields, M also of New Where the eun and the i%j which admit of conspire v ke her place forTo make the earth prot that ahe yields? j The voice of the wheat, rouna ’ of the corn, t Indiana are InMellifluous as the song* e, n of their state *■" *>««“ heard la ®« t-They know that dlluvUui storm, a _ Saying: Seed time and*’ * nd froln eaat ‘ come with the y«a*tß® one vaßt Willie Ood's covenant mowground; that the clouds adorn. ‘everywhere • uaWhlle the rivers shall t* W y wind that yto the sea, drums The song of the wheat an __ the corn. » <»lUng *non to Rehearsing Jehovah's etc*® 3 that enlUtShall hush Into silenca B— Infantry, 173.alarms artillery, 10,986 By extolling ths blessing® ? or l ermß °? and farms." hr three years, . . 1,842; for nine Manufacturers. 4.032: for iw During recent years rapid strides In manuf* t^lrty * ia3r3 ’ prises, and U becoming ishs d men , but In a manufacturing state, tkblch challenges sense that the product tythe way of bouneqnals the product of lta f may be said that the f®rm ueeselessly „ ow _ tory mutually aid the stat«nt were not for•f progress and prosperity., women, “Uod factory and the farm in clt go round forpromotes the welfare of tt* the men who and achieves the largest mes all their gifts oees attainable. Manufactut population, and, therefore demand for food product* L farms supply. J Growth of In I*lo ninety years e v-- wSsk'

and services to the soldiers could bo known and recorded, it would be a contribution to history which would attract the attention of angels. Gifts and Services. Ths total of Indiana's contributions, as recorded by William Henry Smith, In his "History of Indiana” amounted to *26,885,712, as follows: Paid by counties, townships, cities and towns for the relief of soldiers' families .... > 4,366,36* 00 Paid for bounties 15,492,876 00 Paid for miscellaneous military purposes 136,966 00 Stats appropriations for relief of families 1,646,809 00 Contributed to sanitary commission 606,670 00 Paid by the etate and charged to the United States 4.373,593 00 Total 226.555.712 00 There stands Indiana, look at her, contemplate her grandeur! She was inclined to achieve greatness from her infancy. She grew stately and strong like the "brave old oak” until, In 1865, she was the moat stately tree that embellished the national landscape from the Pine Tree state to the Golden Gate, or to change the figure, the most luminous star that flamed upon the blue field of our national flag, a subject for an epic, such as Homer did not have when he marshaled the gods of Greece to destroy Troy—a state the deeds of whose sens are to live In story when a thousand years are gone—deeds-that are written as “with an Iron pen and lead In the rock forever,” as Imperishable as the etsrnal hills.

The State s Part. But It Is eminently proper in thli connection to permit a distinguished soldier of Indiana to recite the part Indiana played In the civil war. "On the 4th of July, 1868,” says William H. Smith, "the flags of Indiana's soldiers were presented to Governor Morton to be deposited In the state house at Indianapolis. The presentation address was made by Gen. Lew Wallace, who, among other things said: "Three of our regiments took part In the first battle of the war, while another. In view of the Rio Orande. fought Its last battle. The Twenty-first regiment was the first to ‘ land In New Orleans. The Thirteenth first waved the stripes and stars over Ft. Fisher. The Seventy-ninth first showed the flag at Mission Ridge. Two Indiana regiments helped storm Ft. McAllister near Savannah. Another was among the first in the assaulting line at Ft. Fisher. Another Indiana regiment, converted into engineers, built all of Sherman’s bridges from Cattanooga to Atlanta and from Atlanta to the sea and from the sea northward. Indiana regiments were In the battle of Pea Ridge, Mo. Three regiments were with McClellan. five were engaged in the salvation of Washington, five were with Burnside at Fredericksburg, five were at Chancellorsville and six were almost annihilated at Gettysburg. One regiment of infantry marched nearly 10,000 miles, fighting as It went. Four regiments were with Sheridan when he swept the Shenandoah valley, and five regiments wfre under Grant in the Wilderness, at Laurel Hill, at Spotsylvania, at Po river, at North Ann river, at Bethesda church, at Cold Harbor, In front of Petersburg, at Clover Hill and down to Appomattox, where Lee surrendered. At Shiloh.

" ‘At Shiloh Indiana had thirteen regiments; at Vicksburg, twenty-four; at Stone River, twenty-five; at Chickamaugi, twenty-seven. From Chattanooga to Atlanta Indiana had fifty regiments. Twenty-five of these went with Gherman to the sea and twenty-five were with Thomas in the battle of Nash-

vlUs, when Hood's army was annihilated. Of ths 206.367 soldiers contributed to the civil war by Indiana, 6,817 wore killed In battle and died of wounds and 19,392 died of disease, a total of >4.406 who responded to the call of their country and gave up their lives on a hundred fields of cam ago to save the union.' ’* Pension*. Patriots of an early period In the history of the republic sang: "Let independence be your boast. Ever mindful what It cost." What it Cost In blood. In sacrifices and suffering, from Lexington, along all the track of gloom and glory, to Eutnw Springs and back to Torktown. cannot be known nor conceived. And now the song should be: "Let the union be our boast. Ever mindful what It cost." No statistician will ever give the cost of the union In the blood that was shed, in the lives that were offered up. In the sacrifices that were made and In the suffering that was endured during the four years of war, from Bull Run to Appomatox, nor will It be known till the seals are broken and the books of the final Judgment reveal their secrets —a war In which 61,362 were killed In battle and 34,727 died of their wounds, while 159.287 died of disease, a total of 279,376. But the cost of the union In money may be approximated. The expenditures by the general government exceeded >2,000,000.000 and the amount expended by the loyal .states la bounties amounted to 2285,941.066. In addition to such sum total the government. In Its vast expenditures for pensions. Is still paying the cost of the union, which from 1866 to 1900 for the army and navy amounted to 22.528.273,044, which, together with fees and salaries, swells the sum total to 22.615,366.785, and the cost of the union Is still mounting up at the rate of more than 2150,000,000 a year.

How Stand* Indiana? In this connection the question Is forced—How stands Indiana? And the answer Is, that as a pension state, according to population, she stands at ths head of all the states of the nnlon. It has been stated that Indiana furnished 208,367 soldiers for ths civil war, and 183.881 survived Its perils. Death has been busy thinning the ranks of these survivors at the rate of about 2,13 per cent, for twenty-five years, leaving 61.921 still marching, to ths muffled drum beats of their hearts, to their final discharge. But It Is shown at the pension office that there are 65,938 Indiana pensioners on the rolls. Of these 6,767 are widows, leaving 59,161 veterans the wards of the government, who fought to save the union. These Indiana pensioners cost the government In 1691 210.164.648. and the amount represents approximately the averago yearly payments since 1865, twenty-six years. Therefore, up to date, Indiana veterans have received as their share of the cost of the union >264.332,518. The question arises, how long will the government be required to pay pensions

to Indiana soldiers, veterans of the civil war? The question cannot be answered. Of the pensioners of the revolution, after the lapse of 123 years, five widows and seven daughters were on the pension roils. Of the war of ISI2 there wore three veterans and 2,407 widows receiving pensions eighty-three years after the close of the war. And It Is safe to say that long before the nation celebrates the centennial of Lee's surrender at Appomattox the pension account of Indiana's civil war veterans will have been finally closed, and the cost of the union will be known to the world.

Collins’s Tribute*

And here with eminent propriety may be Introduced the universal epitaph written by William Collina for all soldiers who offer up their lives in the cause of liberty: "Now Sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When spring, with dewy fingers cold. Returns to deck their hallowed mould. She then will dress a sweeter sod Than fancy’s feet have ever trod. "By fairy hands their ltnell is run*. By forms unseen their dirge is sung; Then honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. And freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there.” The Soldiers' Monument - Borne men. and they are not few, would like to live forever. As this is not the order of nature, they resort to all sorts of devices to perpetuate their names and their deeds and many of them have succeeded much better than great warriors qr great monarchs. There are exceptions, but the rule Is still In force. During the civil war Indiana produced warriors of renown. Their names and deeds are preserved in history. But what of the "rank and file"--the common soldiers —the men who carried the musket, did the fighting, won the victories and saved the union? Their names are on the muster rolls. They are k'iown to fame only In the aggregate—“the army.” This fact was appreciated by Indiana. She built them a monument. Boundlessly generous and as patriotic aa liberal, she resolved that. If she could not rescue the names of her soldiers from oblivion, she could and would perpetuate their deeds. She put her mighty hands into her Rapacious pockets and brought forth sßod--000. and, as if in response to the commands of some tutelary deity, the monument rose 263 feet high, the grandest memorial of the heroism of the rank and file of armies the wirld has ever seen. It is appropriately built of Indiana stone, and will stand, unless overthrown by seismic convulsions, for a thousand years. Bhakspeart' says there are “sermons in stones”— something more than a fancy, for the Indiana soldiers’ monument will preach sermons on patriotic themes to rising generations until the nations "beat their swords into ploughshares And their spears into pruning hooks," and "learn war no morn”

JONATHAN JENNINGS, First Governor of Indiana.

Indiana's First State House at Corydon.

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