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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 20: commencement of civil War. (search)
nder his charge, and, in conjunction with those under Colonel Kelley and others in Virginia, drive out the Confederate forces there, and advance on Harper's Ferry. He visited Indianapolis on the 24th of May, and reviewed the brigade of Indianians who were at Camp Morton, under Brigadier-General T. A. Morris. In a brief speech at the Bates House, he assured the assembled thousands that Indiana troops would be called upon to follow him and win distinction. Indiana's Roll of honor: by David Stevenson, Librarian of Indiana, page 89. two days afterward, May 26, 1861. he issued an address to the Union George B. McClellan. citizens of Western Virginia, in which he praised their courage and patriotism, and warned them that the few factious rebels in their midst, who had lately attempted to deprive them of their rights at the polls, were seeking to inaugurate a reign of terror, and thus force them to yield to the schemes and submit to the yoke of the treacherous conspiracy dignified b
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 22: the War on the Potomac and in Western Virginia. (search)
ry under Captain Campbell, to take post on the frontier of Maryland, but not to step over the line unless the Indianians should be attacked. The Pennsylvanians were restive under the restraints of this portion of the order. Campbell, says Dr. Stevenson, ascertained exactly where the line of division ran, and camping his men close by, with cutting practical sarcasm, planted his guns so that the wheels were in Pennsylvania and the muzzles in Maryland. --Indiana's Roll of Honor, page 100. The er wounded, and many who were made prisoners. They also lost their cannon, many wagons, and forty loads of provisions. The body of their fallen General fell into the hands of the victors, and was tenderly cared for and sent to his friends. Stevenson (page 59) cites the following description of Garnett, who was a graduate of West Point, of the class of 1841:--In form he was about five feet eight inches, rather slenderly built, with a fine, high, arching forehead, and regular and handsome fe