Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1905 — WHEN THEY WENT TO WAR [ARTICLE]

WHEN THEY WENT TO WAR

How time flies! . It was 45 years ago the 17th day of this present April when Indiana’s first oompany for the civil war, left Renseelaer. It was the company organized by Robert H, Milroy, and who was its first oaptain and which beoame Company G cf the 9lh Indiana regiment. They formed in the morning, in front of what was then the business center of Rensselaer, on Washington street, with the head of the company about in front of the old and soon to be torn down, wooden bnilding now oooupied [by Ed Parnells’ barber shop, and then 1 by Jasper oonnty's only bank, thett of Thompson & MoOoy. The proprietors, Alfred Thompson and Alfred MoCoy both oame out on the street, and eaob presented half a dollar to every man in the company.

The company went to Mocon, then known as Bradford, by teams, and from there, by a devious route, reached Indianapolis by cars. The nse of the teams was donated by the citizens, including the livery stable men. The original officers of the company were, R. H. Milroy, oaptain, afterwards oolonel of the 9 h [regiment and later a Major General, Gideon O. Moody, Ist lieutenant, afterwards captain, then oolonel, and after the war a U. 8, Senator from South Dakota. 2nd Lieutenant Edwin P. Hammond, afterwards Lieutenant Oolonel, [and whose career since, the war is well known to all oar citizens. Albert J. Guthridpe, afterwards captain, snoceeded Mr, Hammond as Lieutenant on the latter’s first promotion, Of these four officers, 001, Hammond is the only survivor.

The other members of the company are no donbt mostly deed, though no one now living here seems to have much definite knowledge of how many are living at d where they are. So far as yet definitely learned, the following are the only survivors: Wm. Daniels, Larkin Potts and Albert S. Hammond, of Rensselaer; Robert S. Dwiggins, of Ontario, Oalif,, Lewis L. Daugheity, of Hammond, Solomon Niohols of Kansas and Thomas S, Peacock of The known dead, are as follows: Joshua Healey afterwards colonel lieutenant Wm. H. Rhoades Isaac N. S. Alter, Chae. Rhoades, David Barnhill, Jas. B. Bowen, Capt. Mordecai F. Ohiloote, Samuel Moore, Joseph C, Henkle, Joseph Pillars, James H. Loughridge, Robert W. Williams, Robt. W. Leoklider, Sol, MeOurtam and W T, Girard, tbe latter the first union soldier killed u battle in the whole war.