Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII MILITARY HISTORY Old Town Battle--Battle Of Tippecanoe--Black Hawk War--Irish Riots--Indian Disturbances--Mexican War--Local Militia-- War Of The Rebellion--Public Sentiment--First Enlistment-- List Of Volunteers--Roll Of Honor--Incidents--G. A. R. The citizens of Cass county and country in general are a lawabiding and peace-loving people. Their greatness is shown by their obedience to civil law and their engaging in industrial pursuits, yet their inborn disposition to defend the right and chastise the wrong has always predominated, inciting them to take up arms in the support of the one and to oppose the other. Cass county has ever been ready and willing to do her full duty in times of war, rebellion, insurrections or where the civil law has been set at naught by any foe of civil liberty. There have been seventeen American wars: Dutch, 1673; King Philip's, 1675; King William's, 1689; Queen Ann's, 1744; French and Indian, 1753; American Revolution, 1775; Indians, 1790; Barbary, 1803; Tecumseh, 1811; War of 1812; Algerine Pirate, 1815; First Seminole, 1817; Black Hawk, 1832; Second Seminole, 1845; Mexican, 1846; Southern Rebellion, 1861; Spanish American, 1898. Of these wars Cass county has participated actively in only the three latter, besides furnishing militia for various infractions of the civil law in .the county and state. Long before Indiana was carved out of the Northwest territory and made into a state and many years before Cass county was settled by whites, the red men built a town, composed of rude huts or wigwams on the north bank of Eel river extending from the east side of Twelve Mile creek in Adams township, thence west across that creek and Mud branch about two and a half miles westward to a bluff just east...
