Gallantry at Missionary Ridge
By Evan Phifer At Missionary Ridge on November 25, 1863, Maj. Ruel M. Johnson assumed command of the 100th Indiana Infantry after its commander, Lt. Col. Albert Heath, received a
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Feeding the Western Troops
It is easy to imagine soldiers of the advancing Union armies in the Western Theater, cooking rations around campfires after a long day’s march. Wartime photographs of these men, posed
Hoosiers: Indiana Faces of the Civil War
Whether posed in a studio at Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, or in the field, the Hoosier soldiers who look out from these portraits represent the citizens who left farms,
Long Sol: Indiana’s Fighting Quaker
By Lance J. Herdegen During a military review in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln said with a sly smile that Solomon Meredith of Indiana was “the only Quaker general I have
Dynamite Man: The life and times of Hoosier soldier, sailor, and inventor James Weir Graydon
By Ronald S. Coddington The heavens came alive for visitors to the nation’s Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., on a crisp, clear winter’s night in 1877. A party of ladies