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The state also issued passes to enable disabled men in the |: 
field to reach Indiana. They were being issued to military li 
agents by William Hannaman in March, 1862.^^^ At that time f 
W. R. Holloway visited Cincinnati hospitals and gave passes j 
home to fifty sick men.^-" It was one of the duties of the state I 
commissary-general to assist in procuring transportation for | 
the sick and wounded in proper cases; and it was one of the ; 
duties of the general military agents to look after this phase j 
of the work. Hence the passes were issued as Indiana military 
passes. Generally they were given to convalescent soldiers, to 
those who had received no pay and were furloughed or dis- 
charged without means for getting home, to female relatives 
or friends seeking a friend or relative but who had no money 
for traveling expenses,^-^ and to those who for some reason 
were unable to get passes from the federal government. 
Funds were furnished by the state or by the Sanitary Com- 
mission, the various railroads charging the regular military 
rates for those traveling on pass.^-- They were evidently not 
necessarily intended to be paid for ultimately by the recipi- 
ents. George 0. Jobes, writing from Memphis on September 
5, 1863, said: 
At first I gave it as a gift and merely took receipt for it, but the 
demand got to be so great that I had to get a statement from the person 
receiving the pass . . . that he would refund the money as soon as 
he should receive payment for his services in the army. 
And he added, 
I shall collect these as long as I can without harshness.^-^ 
Indiana agents were not only instrumental in securing 
passes for Indianians, but they also played the good Samari- 
tan for hundreds of citizens of other states. Colonel Jason 
Ham, military agent at Louisville from 1863 to 1865, said that 
“Had the agency not been able to get passes for citizens of 
the state, hundreds of men and women would have been de- 
tained for days and even then would have had to return with- 
119 Documentary Journal, 1865, II, 174 ; ibid., March 17, 1862, 
Indianapolis Daily Journal, March 17, 1862. 
1-1 Terrell, Report, I, 291. Passes into southern territory of course had to be 
countersigned by the commanding generals there. Frequently Morton’s statements were 
not accepted by those generals, i.e., Boyle, Garfield, and Rcsecrans, as is seen in 
Private Despatches, XVI, 48, 49, 50, 90, 91, 108, 109, 194, 195. Morton wished to 
have this expense assumed by the federal government and was flatly refused. Ibid., XVI, 
147, 153. 
122 Terrell, Report, I, 346, and Appendix, 291. 
129 Documentary Journal, 1865, Part II, 172. 
