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expeditions to places needing them and at state expense. Mr. 
Merritt, a state agent in April, 1862, took to Savannah, Tenn., 
by way of Louisville a large amount of hospital supplies for 
the sick and wounded left in the region of Shiloh.^"® A spe- 
cial agent accompanied supplies and munitions to New Madrid 
in April, 1862.^^^ Colonel W. E. Hollingsworth was sent in 
charge of expeditions to Shiloh in May, 1862. Morton hired 
a special train to carry himself and suite from Indianapolis 
to Evansville on May 10, 1862,^“ on his way to Pittsburg 
Landing. He ordered a special train to carry sanitary stores 
and a relief party to the Ohio River for an expedition south on 
May 4, 1862 .^^^ Indiana’s relief extended not only to the sick 
demanding attention in the hospitals, but to carrying good 
cheer to the convalescent and able. Agent W. T. Dennis gave 
a Christmas dinner for Indiana patients in hospitals in Wash- 
ington in 1862, Governor Morton being drawn upon for 
funds.^^^ 
In case it seemed that the men in the hospitals could not 
be restored to the service in a short time, the whole organiza- 
tion of the military agencies was thrown on the side of their 
being sent home for treatment. In May, 1862, Governor Mor- 
ton sent General K. F. Mansfield to Sherman’s army to do 
what he could to have the sick and wounded sent to Indiana.^^^ 
G. 0. Jobes, military agent at Memphis, in September, 1863, 
assisted seventy furloughed men to reach their homes.^^^ In 
March, 1863, W. R. Holloway obtained 148 furloughs for sick 
soldiers at St. Louis, had thirty-two discharged from the serv- 
ice, and provided passes for them all.^^® In September, 1862, 
G. K. Steele and Governor Morton were in Louisville trying 
to secure discharges for sick Indiana soldiers there. At the 
same time Asahel Stone, commissary-general for Indiana, 
was traveling all over the war region for the same purpose.^^^ 
In case these men could not be sent to Indiana, Morton tried 
at least to get them together in a place in which they could 
receive better care. Agents were instructed to this effect."^^^ 
General Telegrams, III, 122, 
110 /bid., Ill, 184. 
Ill /bid.. Ill, 228, 230, 231. 
112 /bid.. Ill, 216. 
113 General Despatches, IX, 240, 249, 254, 284, 285, 292, 294. 
Ill Madi&on Courier, April 4, 1862 ; Terrell, Repon't, I, 347. 
'^''^Documentary Journal, 1865, Part II, 173. 
110 Indianapolis Daily Journal, March 7, 1862. 
111 Terrell, Repoo't, I, 455 ; General Telegrams, III, 149. 
Indianapolis Daily Journal, August 12, 1862. 
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