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to 42nd War HistoriesSource: History of Warrick, Spencer, Perry Counties, Indiana.
Goodspeed Bros. & Co. Publishers, 1885.
pp 100-101.
In the fall of 1861 the fourth company in Warrick County was organized for
actual service in the field. This was Company K, Forty-second Regiment. It was
composed mostly of men from the vicinity of Boonville and the northern part of
the county. The organization was effected on the 12th of September with the
following officers: Daniel G. Thompson, Captain; James H. Masters and
Thomas S. Denny, Lieutenants; Edward N. Knowles, Hays White, Lemuel W. French,
Johnson Ewing, John Carnahan, Sergeants; Elias Ashley, William H. H. Shelby,
Alexander Stookey, Frank Bilderback, Robert Sinclair, Oliver Buzingham, Thomas W.
Lacer and Willis Brown, Corporals ; Daniel Hudson and West H. Camp, Musicians;
John Swaney, Wagoner. The original number of men in this company was
ninety-two, and from first to last was recruited with ninety-nine. At the final
discharge of the company in July, 1865, nineteen of the original men of the
company were mustered out. Other commissioned officers of the company were
Captain, James H. Masters, December 2, 1862; Tillotson M. Neves, May 23, 1865;
First Lieutenant, E. M. Knowles, December 2, 1862; Ephraim Y. Perigo, May 23,
1865; Second Lieutenant, E. M. Knowles, March 15, 1862; Emery Johnson, November
9, 1862; John D. Linxwiler, May 1, 1865; this company rendezvoused at Camp
Vanderburg, where it was mustered into the service October 11, 1861. The first
Colonel of the Forty-second Regiment was James T.(G.) Jones, of Evansville;
Samuel L. Tyner, of Lynnville, was Assistant Surgeon. It was transferred to
Nashville, Tenn., and from there it followed the division of
Gen. Mitchell to Huntsville, Ala. On this march a portion of Company K were
engaged at Wartrace, and Sergts. White and Carnahan, Christopher C. Broshears
and George W. Floyd were wounded. The last three were disabled for the balance
of the war.
After
lying at Huntsville until August, 1862, the regiment retreated with Buell to
Louisville. From there it pursued Bragg and on October 8, 1862, was engaged in
the battle of Perryville in which Oliver Buzingham was killed and others
mortally wounded. Others wounded in this battle were James Humphrey, George L.
Masters and James Reed. In the battle of Stone River which began December 81,
1862, the company lost in-killed Rinaldo Edwards and Warrick H. Clifford, and in
wounded Elias Ashley, John W. Coleman, John Ross and Joseph Martin. At
Chickamauga Miles Matthews and Lieut. Edmund M. Knowles were taken prisoners.
The former died in Andersonville Prison and the latter was killed while a
prisoner of war. In January, 1864, the company re-enlisted and out of the
original enrollment twenty-seven were still able for service and they all
veteranized. During the year 1864 the regiment took part in the campaign against
Atlanta, in the pursuit of Hood, and in Sherman's inarch to the sea. It then
went up through the Carolinas to Washington and from thereto Louisville, where
it was discharged, July 21, 1865. On the 11th of April, 1864, Ephraim Broshears,
of Company K, was wounded and made a cripple for life, and on the 14th,
following, George L. Masters was wounded in the right lung and through the right
shoulder. Capt. James H. Master was crippled for life by a wound in the right
shoulder on the 22d of July, 1864, and Lieut. Emory Johnsonn was instantly
killed. A few days later William Stuckey and Pleasant Shepherd were also killed.
Those who died of diseases contracted while in the service were Reason Barrett,
Absalom B. Hendson, Charles H. Lewis, Joseph D. Lemasters, Wesley Spilman and C.
M. Williams. In Company D of the Forty-Second Regiment Warrick County furnished
several men and they were mustered in October 10, 1861. At that time Henderson
McAdams, of Newburgh, was First Sergeant, and on the 1st of May, 1864, he was
commissioned Second Lieutenant, but died of wounds before mustered in as such.