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The Civil War generation, as the registers carry it
Eleven named Civil War men with Liberty ties stand in the two registers — ten in service, one killed in action — and no officer above company grade. Rev. Orlando R. Beebe: Marine Artillery (August 1862), then the 3rd New York Artillery, then the 138th Indiana, then the 151st Indiana, to the close of the war. Elijah T. Lee: Company E, 4th Indiana Cavalry, enlisted 9 August 1862, Mt. Washington and Atlanta, serving at Gen. Wilson's headquarters at his trade. Jacob D. Row: drafted September 1864, four months in the Cumberland hospital, about a year served (conflict C57 carries the second telling). Geo. W. Williams: 21st Indiana Battery, enlisted 15 August 1862, Chickamauga and Hoover's Gap. Joseph Kane: killed at the battle of Bentonville, North Carolina — the set's only named killed-in-action Liberty man in the records read. John Gushwa: Company B, 29th Indiana Infantry, the full war. Levi Mangus: Company K, 151st Indiana Volunteers, illness at Indianapolis, honourable discharge. John J. Rupel, youngest son of James Rupel: "killed in battle in Tennessee," in Chapman's narrative; his identity with any biography entry is not stated and is not asserted. At pointer only: Horace P. Woodward, a La Porte County soldier, and Noah, Abraham, and Jonas Early, Ohio and Virginia men by their entry's own geography — Abraham seven months in Libby Prison.
The earlier wars stand in the biographies as ancestry claims, printed as claims: a Revolutionary grandfather for Ort Cook; Daniel Hawblitzel, War of 1812 under Gen. Harrison and wounded, his father a Revolutionary soldier; the Lichfield line's Revolutionary soldier; Capt. Samuel Williams of the War of 1812; and Frederick Farugott Ferdinand Sheneman, a Revolutionary War teamster. The wars legs of this build carry service at record strength; this register assembles only what the biographies themselves state.