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REPORT

OF

COLONEL KENNEDY BROWN,

COMMANDING NINTH REGIMENT, (NUMBERED IMPROPERLY) THIRD BRIGADE, INDIANA LEGION.

INDIANA LEGION,

VERNON, IND., December 19, 1862.

General MANSFIELD:

SIR: I herewith present a report of the operations and condition of the Ninth Regiment, Indiana Legion, since July 13, 1862. At that time I was Major of the Regiment, but was shortly after promoted to Colonel. At that time it was called upon to go to Indianapolis to guard prisoners, then in Camp Morton. On or about the 15th or 16th, I took to Indianapolis six hundred and fifty rank and file. My command was called upon for one month, but owing to the emergency of the times, was kept six weeks, giving, I think, full satisfaction by the services rendered.

We were mustered out of the United States service on the 31st of August. Since that time nothing of importance has been done, excepting drills, unless it was on one occasion, when I was ordered to hold my command in readiness to march at a moment's warning. In less than eighteen hours after I received the order, my command was massed at Vernon, ready to go wherever called or needed.

Some six or seven companies now have arms, all of which are in good order.

The Ninth Regiment now numbers over seven hundred men and officers.

One company of the regiment offered their services to the Government to go down the Mississippi river with the exchanged prisoners. They were gone some four weeks, lost but few men, and those by sickness, except one, who, it was thought, was shoved overboard by some of the prisoners.

Hoping that this very imperfect report may be satisfactorily received, as it is, under the circumstances, as correct as I can possibly make it.

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REPORT

OF

LIEUT.-COLONEL JESSE J. STEPLETON,

COMMANDING TENTH REGIMENT, THIRD BRIGADE, INDIANA LEGION.

INDIANA LEGION,

VEVAY, IND., December 12, 1862.

Major-General Love, Indiana Legion:

the

SIR: The Tenth Regiment, Indiana Legion, was organized in

year 1861, and has drilled according to orders since that time. It was called upon to do duty at Indianapolis to guard rebel prisoners, to which it responded to, and has always been ready since its organization, when called upon by the Governor of the State, to do duty.

At the time of invasion in Kentucky by the rebel generals, Bragg and Kirby Smith, it was called upon by Governor Morton to hold itself in readiness to go to Louisville, Kentucky, which call it also responded to. We had a force of eight hundred men belonging to the Tenth Regiment, Indiana Legion, ready to go, commanded by the Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment (J. J. Stepleton), the Colonel being absent at that time on military duty at Covington, Kentucky.

The Tenth Regiment, Indiana Legion, was called on at one time to go to Warsaw, Ky., for the protection of that place, and our border counties, which it did, and did good service in keeping back a large force of rebel guerrillas in 1861.

We have eight companies belonging regularly to the Tenth Regiment Indiana Legion. There have been quite a number, since its organization, gone into the three years' service. The three companies. in the county belonging to Craig township, have done, I think, more service than any other companies in the regiment; especially at the time of the rebel raid in Kentucky. Captains Samuel Pavey, John Lancaster, and Lemuel Liepenthall, deserve credit for the promptness which they and their companies, manifested at the time of the late troubles in Kentucky. They laid upon the banks of the Ohio river every night for three weeks, and I can truly say that those times demanded that such a watch should be kept; it was so kept until Bragg's army retreated some distance through Kentucky. Therefore, we would most sincerely ask the Legislature to see that the Tenth Regiment, Indiana Legion, be paid for the services they have rendered to the Government and the State of Indiana, on its borders.

The regiment is still under very good organization, but we ask that there be some change in the law governing the Indiana Legion, so that it will give us power to act with more promptness.

And we ask, "Why we are not entitled to pay for our services rendered as aforesaid?" As we think, that if any Legion Regiment has done its portion of duty, the Tenth has done its share, if not more.

JESSE J. STEPLETON,

Lieut.-Col. Com'd. Tenth Regiment, Indiana Legion.

REPORT

OF

BRIGADIER-GENERAL A. C.
A. C. DOWNEY,

BRIGADIER-GENERAL FOURTH BRIGADE,
INDIANA LEGION.

INDIANA LEGION,

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH BRIGADE,
Rising Sun, December 15, 1862.

Major-General JOHN LOVE,

Commanding Indiana Legion.

Agreeably to your order, I submit the following report of the operations of the Legion under my command. I received a commission from the Governor, dated the 1st day of November, 1861, was sworn into office and assumed command, my Brigade embracing, as I was informed, the counties of Ohio, Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley, Decatur and Shelby. Though I have recommended it, I believe there have never been any field officers appointed in any counties except Ohio and Dearborn, and there is now only a Colonel in each of them. Nor have the few companies in the other counties rendered any service, with the exception of the company of Captain Hill, of Milan, in Ripley county, which was in service for a short time at Aurora.

At first there was no Colonel in Dearborn county, the gentle

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