The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23

ticipated, and requesting that reinforce
ments should be sent TO General Boyle A
few days afterwards Boyle himself am
nounced an invasion of the State, and asked
assistance. His appeal was of the most
urgent character. He said: i hope the pa
triotic soldiers of Indiana will not wait for
bounties. Our State will be overrun If they
do, and your own borders desolated. Nor
ton had gone to Knightstown to spend Sun
dianapolis. The telegraph Office at knights
town was closed and he could not be
reached, but his secretaries dispatched or
ders to the commanders of the troops col
lected in different parts of the State to pro-
coed at once to Indianapolis, and Colonel
Holloway, procured an engine and started
Tor knightStoWn Morton returned imme-
diately to Indianapolis, and the forwarding
of troops began
''The mastering officer. Colonel simonson.
but exceedingly slow Morton asked the
War Department for change A new mus
tering officer was sent in the person of
Colonel Darlington He was brought imme-
diately to the Governor and said: Tell me
where the troops are and let me go to work.
Indiana shall have its quota first in the
field. if the men are forthcoming. He was
at once taken to Camp Morton, and at IL
o'clock on the same night he notified Nor
ton that a regiment was ready for the field.
The organization of troops went on with
speed never before known Great numbers
OF men were sworn in at night by the light
of torches, and before daylight were off for
Kentucky. The Senate chamber was turned
into a schoolroom, where officers were in
structed by Darlington in the method Of
followed each other with great rapid
lty. The strain upon the railroads
Ior transportation was immense. The
night and day. making 10000 rounds of am
munition every twenty-four hours
UNPRECEDENTED RECORD.
The following are some of Mortons tele-
grams announcing the departures of the
troops:
Aug. Ill send 1000 men tonight. 1000
Tomorrow and Tuesday,
Aug. FL sent another regiment last
night; battery will go tomorrow. The
Slxty-ninth has started. The Seventy-ffth
leaves at 6 p. m. and the Seventy-fourth at
p. m. to-day for Louisville
Aug. 23-Will have at least seventeen
addltlonal regiments ready for arms this
Aug. 26-The Seventy-ninth leaves Tues
day; Will hurry others Indiana has put a.
4S9 men in Kentucky UP to Friday last; this
will make 1t 1896 by Thursday this week
This includes two batteries
Aug. 27-Another regiment can leave to-
morrow; one leaves this evening"
Aug. 3O-The Eighty-ninth leaves this
AFTERNOON. The Eighty-first and Eighty
second will be armed to-day. Two regi-
ments will start tomorrow and five more
Will be ready next week.
Aug. H-The Eighty-eighth is at the
depot. The Eighty-seventh will be in Louis
vile tomorrow % w, morning: Two regiments
"A serious difficulty in forwarding these
troops was found in the absence of money
for bounties and advance pay. Many of the
men had left their homes suddenly without
providing for their families, expecting to
remit their bounties before going into the
field.
FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS.
''Mortons action in this emergency was
characteristic. He borrowed the money
himself. He was a man of little property,
but his credit at such time and for such
purpose was unlimited One morning he
telegraphed to M. Z. Reeves, a merchant in
Cincinnati, asking that 100000 should be
sent on that evening to pay the troops. The
amount was borrowed within few hours
upon the personal responsibility of Mr.
Reeves and that evening q messenger was
on the way to Indiana with the money. One
day Morton went to one of the banks of In
dianapolis and asked for $4,000 What have
you got to carry it imp inquired the pres
ldent and, finding market basket near
bv he placed the rolls of greenbacks in
this and Morton walked out with the
basket and it's unusual contents. The money
to repay these loans was slow in coming,
and Morton te.egraphed to Stanton L have
borrowed of various bankers for a few days
regiments Of the new sevy 70 Kentucky and
hope to get five off To-day. hope, my
dear sir that you will see that the bounty
money. by which this may be replaced may
be sent forward promptly, that my credit
may not suffer- Stanton replied The
most peremptory orders have been given to
will dismiss the officer whose neglect occa-
sions the delay, no matter what his rank
On the morning of the 10Th it is said that
Morton had thus borrowed 100000. When
the repayment was made the banks would
accept no interest.
''The Indianapolis Journal of Aug. II
voiced the exultation of the State at the
result Of it's splendid efforts in q leader en-
titled What Indiana Has Done Four
teen thousand men,' it said, have been or
gained, equipped and sent to the field in
four days. We do not believe this prompt
ness has been equaled in any emergency by
any State in the Union. The news of the
invasion of Kentucky reached Governor
Morton on Sunday. The necessity for a
lines of the rebel advance was obvious.
Ohio could not be ready for a week. Men
must be sent to arrest the advance or. the
war would be transferred TO our own bor-
der. Governor Morton determined that the
men should be sent. Enough of our regi-
ments were full, but they were scattered all
over the State, unorganzed, undiscip,ined
and unarmed. They had to be collected,
uniformed, equipped armed differed, paid
and transported Everything had to
be done that was necessary to change men
just out of their shops and farms into sol
derS. 1t was a task for a giant. but hap
PLY there were gigantic energies at the
head Of the government to undertake it.
Since Monday morning this really formula
BILE army, as large as that with which Cen
eral Scott marched upon Mexico. has been
collected, organized, paid, prepared and
sent into the field. "