In early March 1863, an officer in Terre Haute, Ind., ordered two veteran Army sergeants to cross into Clark County in nearby eastern Illinois to carry out a peculiar, though increasingly common, order: arrest a group of Union Army deserters. It wasn’t an easy assignment: the men found swarms of deserters, but also met armed [...]
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Civil War re-enactors invite governor, lawmakers to April region exhibit
March 12th, 2013 
javal One of the last times the 20th Indiana Infantry visited Indianapolis, near-riots ensued when then-Gov. Oliver Morton failed to deliver on promises of new rifled muskets and blue Union Army uniforms. That was 1861. On Monday, more than 150 years later, Lake County re-enactors portraying the same volunteer regiment were in a more inviting mood [...]
New Albany Bicentennial: The Civil War, part 1
March 6th, 2013 javal Between 1861 and 1864, bitter battles raged across America that turned brother against brother and friend against friend. Indiana was not immune to the horrors of the Civil War. At the end of the bloody conflict, 24,416 Hoosiers had died while serving the Union cause and more than 50,000 others had been wounded Read Entire [...]
Black soldier’s letter offers rare view of Civil War
March 5th, 2013 javal John Carter, a prosperous African-American grocery store owner in Madison, Ind.,before and after the Civil War, was active on the Underground Railroad, secretly ferrying slaves from the South to freedom in the North. For more than a century, a letter written Dec. 3, 1864, by his son, Morgan W. Carter, detailing a bloody Civil War [...]
Civil War Days opens Friday
September 7th, 2012 javal The fifth annual Civil War Days encampment opens in Princeton Friday, featuring battles, period presentations and more at Lafayette Park through the weekend. Commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Stone’s River and 58th Indiana Infantry is planned as well. Kraig McNutt will offer information about that unit from Gibson County. Read More>>
Lee Spirit Award Narrative for nominee Marc Chase, Times of Northwest Indiana
August 29th, 2012 javal What began in fall 2010 as an in-depth reporting effort to tell the stories of Northwest Indiana’s contributions and sacrifices during the Civil War has become a major ongoing historical preservation and tourism initiative spearheaded by Times Investigative Editor Marc Chase. And while it began as an “on-the-clock” project to commemorate the 150th anniversary of [...]
VIDEO: Spirit Of Freedom Honors Black Civil War Soldiers
June 8th, 2012 javal For the last 16 years, dedicated historians have kept alive the stories of African-Americans who fought slavery, both on the Civil War battlefields and underground. The Spirit of Freedom at Crown Hill Cemetery features many of the same players year in and year out. But they never get tired of doing it. “It’s not my [...]
Rare Civil War note back in Valparaiso after 150 years
June 7th, 2012 javal A historical bit of American currency will be one of the items on display at a reception Sunday at the Porter County Museum in Valparaiso. The reception is being held exactly 150 years after the 25-cent scrip was issued by Molbay Carr, who operated a stagecoach line between Valparaiso and what became Chesterton. The substitute [...]