The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-04
MAJOR DOXEY.
What the indianapolis Sentinel Thought of
Him Four Months Ago.

Daily Sentinel, Aug. IS, 1882
The standing in Anderson, among his own
neighbors, of Captain Doxey as a man of
large means, great enterprise and mutual
liberality-the founder and fosterer of indus
tries that have made small TO tunes for
some, and afforded hundreds livelihood
what has inclined the writer to make this
personal and passing mention. Mr.. Doxey
was born IN humble circumstanc in Tippe-
canoe county Ind, in 1871. Lack of oppor-
unity and means prevented him from &C
quiring, previous to his sixteenth year, more
than the commonest rudiments of an educa-
ton. 1t was when thus advanced to almost
young manhood that he got trusted for a
spellingbook and a third reader engaged
board for $3.50 per week-with no prospects
OF paying except by working Saturdays,
and before and after school hours, doing
Jobs by contract-that he then an overgrown
youth weighing $50 pounds, began away
down with the mlnlms to try and learn
something. He was sneered at of course,
and was made the butt of the whole school;
he being so big and knowing apparently so
little. This was the trial of his life, the
nerve testing ordeal, the turning point that
was to decide the fate of the future man.
He, however persevered and improved; he
trampled upon his feelings, assumed the
mastery over personal pride, and having
humbled his spirit before the divine inhu-
ence of knowledge, it was not long until his
school companions were compelled to look UP
and after him, rather than back and down
upon him. In 1861 he was still a student
making good progress, when his country
called him to do battle for its preservation,
lie enlisted as private in the Nineteenth
Indiana infantry, and after serving
some time resigned and raised a com
pany for the Sixteenth Indiana On March
%, 1864, when in command of the regiment,
he surprised and captured a camp of rebels,
comprising the Second Louisiana, with four
pieces of artillery and the Fourth Mississippi
Battery This was one of the neatest exploits
of the war, and was so termed by New Or
leans paper shortly afterward. He was
wounded twice at the battle OF Pleasant Hills,
La, in 1864. He was leading the Sixteenth
Indiana in the pursuit of the fleeing Nine
teenth Texas when an ounce ball hit him in
the cheek, coming out on the opposite side OF
his face, little in front of the ear. The ball
tore away his palate and even to-day he has
to wear a rubber substitute therefor. He was
four times commissioned before he was TWEEN
ty-one years of age, and the war having
closed, he returned and took up his perma-
nent abode in Anderson, in the development
OF which city he has since evinced lively
interest.
Hon. C. I. Doxey is as approachable as is
democratic by nature although Republican
in politics; and, by the way, he served his
constituency in the State Senate in 1876, in
that Democratic county, by making change
of 1,025 votes. On general principles he is
fit to represent any people, he is capable in
tellectualy, and though not sectarian, he
is a Christian, moral man.
He is noted for decision of character and
his high type of honest manhood. He is de-
voted to his friends and whatever cause he
believes to be right, and on the broad plain
of creation, in the daylight or in the dark
ness, he stands forth untrammeled by sect or
party impelled by pure motives only, and
big-hearted in lending helping hand to
brother in need. His politics excepted, the
Sentinel places high estimate upon the
character of Mr.. DoXey