Indiana in the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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Indiana in the American Civil War


00:02:54 1 Indiana's contributions
00:04:12 1.1 Military service
00:07:50 2 Notable leaders from Indiana
00:08:18 2.1 Training and support
00:11:09 2.2 Prison camps
00:11:31 2.3 Military cemeteries
00:12:11 3 Conflicts
00:13:02 3.1 Raids
00:15:55 3.2 Indiana regiments
00:20:36 4 Politics
00:22:05 4.1 Southern influence
00:24:37 4.2 Political conflict
00:30:17 4.3 Southern sympathizers
00:30:51 4.4 Republican legislative majority
00:31:30 5 Aftermath
00:32:12 5.1 Economic
00:35:02 5.2 Political
00:36:31 5.3 Social
00:37:37 5.4 Memorials
00:38:05 6 See also
00:38:20 7 Notes
00:38:28 8 Further reading
00:42:57 8.1 Local and regional studies
00:44:42 8.2 Military units and personnel
00:48:41 8.3 Biographical
00:50:06 8.4 Historiography and memory
00:51:56 8.5 Primary sources



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Indiana, a state in the Midwest, played an important role in supporting the Union during the American Civil War. Despite anti-war activity within the state, and southern Indiana's ancestral ties to the South, Indiana was a strong supporter of the Union. Indiana contributed approximately 210,000 Union soldiers, sailors, and marines. Indiana's soldiers served in 308 military engagements during the war; the majority of them in the western theater, between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. Indiana's war-related deaths reached 25,028 (7,243 from battle and 17,785 from disease). Its state government provided funds to purchase equipment, food, and supplies for troops in the field. Indiana, an agriculturally rich state containing the fifth-highest population in the Union, was critical to the North's success due to its geographical location, large population, and agricultural production. Indiana residents, also known as Hoosiers, supplied the Union with manpower for the war effort, a railroad network and access to the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, and agricultural products such as grain and livestock. The state experienced two minor raids by Confederate forces, and one major raid in 1863, which caused a brief panic in southern portions of the state and its capital city, Indianapolis.
Indiana experienced significant political strife during the war, especially after Governor Oliver P. Morton suppressed the Democratic-controlled state legislature, which had an anti-war (Copperhead) element. Major debates related to the issues of slavery and emancipation, military service for African Americans, and the draft, ensued. These led to violence. In 1863, after the state legislature failed to pass a budget and
left the state without the authority to collect taxes, Governor Morton acted outside his state's constitutional authority to secure funding through federal and private loans to operate the state government and avert a financial crisis.
The American Civil War altered Indiana's society, politics, and economy, beginning a population shift to central and northern Indiana, and contributed to a relative decline in the southern part of the state. Increased wartime manufacturing and industrial growth in Hoosier cities and towns ushered in a new era of economic prosperity. By the end of the war, Indiana had become a less rural state than it previously had been. Indiana's votes were closely split between the parties for several decades after the war, making it one of a few key swing states that often decided national elections. Between 1868 and 1916, five Indiana politicians were vice-presidential nominees on the major party tickets. In 1888 Benjamin Harrison, one of the state's former Civil War generals, was elected president of the United States.