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toes, but most of all it seemed best to send them on furlough 
to Lexington.®^ 
Conditions grew worse. Early in June but 229 out of 900 
officers and men could report for duty. Their camp was in an 
unhealthful locality and supplies were meager and not fit for 
sick men. They had neither straw nor hay with which to fill 
bed-ticks; even the sick were compelled to lie on the ground. 
General Buell was urged to order the regiment to Lexington 
or to some other point where the men could get supplies and be 
properly cared for.®^ The state sent a good lot of supplies and 
two additional surgeons,^® and Colonel Ray was promised by 
Holloway that “you must and shall be removed. Your men 
will not be allowed to die there without an effort on our 
part.”^^ It was not until after two days that Buell sent word 
that an investigation of the case was being made and that 
action would be taken as soon as practicable.'^^ 
In the meantime Holloway telegraphed Indiana’s delegation 
in Congress to induce the President to interfere in behalf of 
the regiment. General Buell would not agree that it be sent 
to Lexington, even tho Generals Carter and Morgan favored 
it and Holloway insisted that this was the only way to save 
the men.'^® Holloway sent President Lincoln a bundle of Colo- 
nel Ray’s letters relating the condition of the regiment and 
appealed to him by telegraph to order its removal to Lexing- 
ton. He stated that but two-ninths of the 900 men were fit 
for duty, with a sick list increasing from eleven to fifteen 
daily ; that the regiment had over 300 men lying on the ground 
without the necessities of life, and that there was no food 
within eighty miles. He promised that Governor Morton 
would call on President Lincoln in a few days.^^ 
The Indiana delegation visited Lincoln and Secretary 
Stanton,^® and asked that they interfere on behalf of the regi- 
ment. The President asked Stanton to order it away, but he 
flatly refused. Holloway then put the matter in Morton’s 
hands. The Governor was in New York when his secretary 
Ill, 222, 223, 245. 
69 Ibid., Ill, 185, 296 ; Official Records, Series I, Voi. X, 630, 631. 
■^9 W. R. Holloway to Colonel John W. Ray, April 25, 1862, ibid.. Ill, 184, 245, 308. 
W. R. Holloway to Colonel John W. Ray, June 4, 1862, General Despatches, III, 298, 
General Buell to O. P. Morton, June 6, 1862, General Telegrams, III, 297. 
^Ubid., Ill, 300. 
W. R. Holloway to President Lincoln, June 7, 1862, General Telegrams, III, 306. 
W. R. Holloway to O. P. Morton, June 6, 1862, General Telegrams, III, 304; ibid., 
IV, 6. 
