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Excerpt from History of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Every day, for weeks, meetings were held and speeches made. Dinner was brought in the baskets of patriotic women, and after dinner one man took the ?ag, another a fife, another a drum, and marched up and down in front of the crowd, beating up for volunteers. The favorite tunes played were, Yankee Doodle, Jay Bird, Greene County Hang On and The Girl I Left Behind Me. The ten companies composing the regiment were made up in the following counties in the district: Companies A, C, E and G, in Greene county; Company B in Clay county; Company D, in Putnam county Company I, in Sullivan county Company H, in Owen county Company K, in Vermillion county, and Company F, in Greene and Owen counties. About August 25, 1862, all these companies found a rendezvous at Camp Dick Thompson, near Terre Haute. Here the regiment was or ganized and mustered into service September 20, 1862, by Capt. James Biddle. The officers of the companies were then as fol lows: Company A, Captain, Andrew J. Axtell; lst Lieutenant.
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