9th Indiana Cavalry

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The following accounts are from local newspapers and diaries and regimental histories, and also from the “Directory & Soldier’s Registry of Wayne County, Indiana,” published in 1865.

• Davis E. Castle from Washington [Greens Fork] enlisted in the Iron Brigade and subsequently fought at “Gettysburg, Antietam, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness and Petersburg; was promoted to a captaincy while in service, after having three horses shot out from under him.”

• William E. Clark of Franklin Township “volunteered in the 57th Indiana Regiment in November 1861. ... He came home on furlough for three months. While home he and Hannah Jane were married; he then returned to serve his three years enlistment. ... He participated in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged up to the battle of Stone River, when he was taken prisoner and remained in the hands of rebels, and confined to Libby Prison for 28 days. He was wounded in the hand and again in the ear, almost removing it. He remained there until September following, when he was exchanged and returned, being taken to City Pant [sic] Virginia, where his rags were exchanged for clothes.”

• William H. Clemens, a black man from Richmond, enlisted in the 28th U.S. Calvary after the Emancipation Proclamation allowed him to; “was mortally wounded in Chickahominy swamps, June 24, 1864, by minnie-ball in left shoulder; after having six inches of bone removed, he lingered on till July 4, 1864, whence death released him from suffering.” [NOTE: At the start of the war, blacks who rushed into service were refused because of a federal law dating back from 1792 that barred African-Americans from bearing arms in the U.S. Army. The law was unjust, given that black men had served with distinction in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. After Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, former slaves could finally bear arms and did so, in great numbers. They also died in great numbers to keep intact the fabric of a nation that had brought their ancestors over in slave ships. Roughly 198,000 African-Americans served in the Union army and navy; nearly 40,000 of them died.]

• Edwin Cole from Economy enlisted in the 69th Indiana Regiment; “was in the infamous battle of Richmond, Kentucky, and afterwards captured by Morgan’s notorious raiders, while bathing in the Ohio River, which occasioned from him extraneous blasphemy.

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COL. GEORGE W. VEALE was born May 20, 1833, in Davies County, Ind., and is the youngest child of James C. and Eleanor Aikman Veale, who were among the earliest settlers of Indiana. George W. spent his early years on a farm, working summers and attending the pioneer schools in the vicinity in the winter. He made the most of his advantages, however, and while yet a youth was able to enter Wabash College, Ind., where he remained two years. The first year of his active business life was spent on the lower Mississippi, where he had charge of a store boat loaded with goods for planters and farmers, and as a clerk of an Ohio and Mississippi River steamer. In 1854 he engaged as clerk with a wholesale dry goods house in Evansville, Ind., and subsequently became traveling and collecting agent for the firm. In 1856 he emigrated to Kansas and started a dry goods business in Leavenworth County which he continued until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, when he raised a cavalry company and was mustered into the United States service as Captain of Company E, Fourth Kansas Volunteers. In June, 1861, he was commissioned Major in the Sixth Kansas Cavalry in March, 1862, and served in that position until October 10, 1863; in July, 1864, he was commissioned Colonel of Kansas State Militia, and in the following October participated with his regiment, the Second, in the battles on the border during the Price raid; both commander and men being especially distinguished for bravery and persistent determination in the hard fought engagements at the Mockaby Farm and on the Blue. The spring of 1866 he was commissioned by the Governor of Kansas Commissioner for the sale of State lands; he served as State Senator in 1867-68, and ’69; as Representative in 1871-73-75-76, and was again elected Representative in the fall of 1882, and served during the winter of 1883. Mr. Veale was one of the incorporators and was prominently connected with the building of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., and now has charge of the taxes and other interests of the Kansas and Colorado property of the Union Pacific Railroad Company; his time being mainly devoted to the interests of that road. He was married January 20, 1857, to Miss Nannie Johnson, of Evansville, Ind.; their family consists of two sons, G. W. Veale, Jr. and Walter I. Veale.

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