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Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and NEWTON, Indiana
Historical and Biographical
F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1883

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        C. E. TRIPLETT joined the Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteers as
     Assistant Surgeon.  Was afterward promoted to Surgeon of that regi-
     ment.  JOHN BRODRICK and B. F. EVANS were also members of the Eighty-
     seventh.
        J. STATON, T. STATON, S. PIERCE and two or three other Newton
     County boys - whose names we cannot ascertain - enlisted in an
     Illinois regiment.
        Newton boys in Fifth Indiana Cavalry - C. LEAMING, S. CARROLL, J.
     HOWENSTINE, A. A. HARRINGTON.
        J. A. HATCH joined the Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry as Assistant
     Surgeon.  Was afterward promoted to Surgeon of that regiment.
        JOSEPH ADE enlisted in the Sixth Ohio Infantry.
        CHARLES E. ROSS enlisted in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and was
     with that regiment all through its campaigns in the East.
        Newton County boys in the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry, Company K -
     DANIEL M. GRAVES, Captain; HENRY E. ASH, MAHLON FELL, WILLIAM FLEMING,
     ALBERT S. GRAVES, THOMAS STATEN, ELIJAH M. STANDRIDGE, JOHN STROHN,
     Company L.
        Newton also sent a full company in defense of the State against the
     raid of JOHN MORGAN.  They were recruited and on their way to the
     front within twenty-four hours after receiving news of the invasion.
     HORACE K. WARREN, Captain; JOHN ADE, First Lieutenant; JOHN B. CHESE-
     BROUGH, Second Lieutenant.
        In the Mexican war, the State had five regiments, and to avoid his-
     torical confusion, the regiments raised for the war of the rebellion
     were designated by numbers beginning with six.

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