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wired him : “The lives of 900 men depend on getting back to 
civilization. For God’s sake have them ordered to Lexing- 
ton.”^® There is no more typical instance of the efforts of 
the state administration of Indiana to aid its soldiers than 
this, and it furnished some justification for General Buell’s 
unpopularity with Governor Morton later. Buell stated that 
the “Governors [of Indiana and Ohio] evidently look upon the 
troops they furnish the United States as their own.”^^ 
Dr. D. A. Webster, surgeon at Nashville, Tenn., reported 
1,050 invalid soldiers there and asked that orders be sent for 
them to go to Indianapolis. After finding whether they were 
Indianians, Morton secured the consent of Secretary Stanton 
for their removal, directed that they be sent to Indiana, named 
the hospitals in southern Indiana to which they should be sent, 
and asked that he be notified when they would arrive so that 
he could be ready to have them cared for. Morton authorized 
Webster to contract for transportation on the best terms he 
could secure, notifying Morton of the particulars by tele- 
graph.^^ 
When the Seventh Indiana suffered severe losses at Port 
Republic in June, 1862, Colonel James Gavin asked Morton 
if fifty or sixty of the wounded able to return home could be 
furnished with transportation by the state.'® Morton author- 
ized Gavin to contract for their transportation at the best 
terms he could, and asked that the bills be sent to him. He 
had also sent an agent to assist in making the arrangements,^® 
when word was received that Surgeon-General W. R. Ham- 
mond had blocked the plan.®^ 
On August 30, 1862, in the battle at Richmond, Ky., 206 
men were killed and 844 wounded ; six Indiana regiments were 
engaged. Morton, with several surgeons, left Indianapolis 
on the next day to take care of the wounded. He telegraphed 
all along the road for surgical help and went to Lexington, 
Ky.®^ He commissioned Dr. Theophilus Parvin and Dr. Tal- 
bot Bullard to go to Richmond and assist in caring for the 
General Telegi'ams, III, 304. 
Official Records, Series I, VIII, 443. 
Ill, 200, 206. 
’^lUd., IV, 21. 
^^Ihid., IV, 20, 22. 
81 Ibid., IV, 33. 
^^Indianapolis Daily Journal, September 1, 1862. The regiments yv^re the Twelfth, 
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