The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
REVISED HISTORY OF THE WAR,

OONefHOF IleIlOrIckS yesterday uoLleu tue
assertion that prevailed during the campaign
that he was a copperhead during the war
Two-thrds of the army Of the North was made
up of Democrats, and yet it is a great moral
idea that every Democrat was copperhead
throughout the unpleasantness New York
Graphic.
The Graphic io right in the main, but errs
as to the proportion of Democrats in the
| Union army. 1t has been demonstrated, since
the war, that not less than nine-t enths of the
federal army were Democrats. In all cases
where States allowed their soldiers in the field
to vote, nine out of ten voted the Democratic
ticket, and it was this fact, more than any
other, that gave John Brough home major
| ity of 81 81: 0 in Ohio in 1868, and a majority
of 80, 1T9 in the field, making total majority
of l01, 099 The same fact is apparent in the
elections of Indiana In 1860 Lincoln re-
ceived q majority of %, 524 over the Demo
cratic candidate, Mr.. Douglas. Two years
later so many Democrats had gone to the war
for the preservation of the Union that James
S. Athon was given majority of 8, 543 over
Peelle, Republican. In 1860 Lincoln carried
Pennsylvania by majority of SO, l59. In
1862 so many Democrats had gone to the war
that this was wiped out, and Senller Dem
was elected Secretary of State by 8, 524. Lin
coin carried New York by so, 1885, but the war
had taken so many Democrats to the front in
1862 that Seymour Dem was elected by TO-
1852. In 1860 Illinois gave Lin
coin :. majority Of i1,946; two years
later, notwithstanding the immense drain
on the Democratic party to furnish Union vol
unteers, the State went Democratic by 16,
SAG. In 1860 Michigan went Republican by
%, 423; in 1862, by 6,614.
But perhaps it will suffice to quote the SOL
der vote distinct, to show conclusively that it
was all but solidly Democratic In 1862 por-
ton of the troops of Pennsylvania, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Wisconsin and Colorado were allowed to
vote, the total showing 39, III Republican and
9604 Democratic The same significant facts
were apparent in 1864. In 1860 Pennsylvania
gave Lincoln majority of SO, $50; in 1864 so
many Democrats had persisted in the war that
the Republican majority was but 5, 712 on the
home vote, and a. 1868 on the army vote-a
total of but 20, 075. OF Ohio's soldiers in 1864,
50 903 voted of whom Al, l43 voted for Lin
I coin The vote of 1860, in which all the
States participated, shows in way that can
| moi hn hat ha hty,,
means ''solidly" Democratic. In the fifteen
slave-holding States, in voting population of
| 1876, 100, the Republican candidate received
| &c, 430 votes, a fraction over two in hundred
| Had the rebel army participated in the cleo
ton, there is little doubt that it would have
been shown that not less than nine tenths of it
were rampant Abolitionists,
The crusade that is being waged against Mr..
! Hendricks has assumed the malignancy of
persecution. 1t is disgrace upon Indiana
that this heroic, patriotic man has been so
shamefully, so mercilessly traduced. tt
cannot be forgotten how. at the very outset
Of the war, certainly not many days after
| Fort Sumter fired upon, Thomas A. Hen
bricks modestly but firmly pledged himself
his possessions and his sacred honor to the
prompt and effectual prosecution of the war
for the Union. With the instinct of a pa
tiiot, he stripped himself Of personal ambition
and conseclated his all on the altar of liberty
and Union Had he been other than he was, he
could have won his way in politics. but scorn-
ing the ease and profit of public life
at Washington, he revealed his patriotic ma
ture by shouldering musket and enrolling
as private The writer does not remember
the regiment in which he was mustered, but
unteered. Once at the front, he rose rapidly,
from private to corporal, from corporal to
sergeant, and so Up through the grades of
lieutenant, captain, major and colonel
until, at last, on the ever-memorable
field of Stone River, he fell
well-nigh MORALLY wounded while CALAMITY
leading his regiment. For this he was bre-
vetted brigader on the spot. Meanwhile Dan
iel W Voorhees, had won his epauets at the
defense of Nashville, having displayed an in
trepidity that was the marvel of the Army of
the Tennessee. 1t will be remembered how,
in the month of November, 1863 when these
two mon met at Chattanooga few days pre-
viOus to the storminS of Lookout, and Hen