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out visiting their friends, as many had to do from other 
states’", and continuing said that “Thousands of citizens from 
other states had passes procured for them by Indiana 
agencies. At Louisville it was the practice of the com- 
mandant to send all persons having no sufficient indorsement 
for a pass to the Indiana agency to have their passes made 
correct. Citizens of Kentucky, Illinois, and Michigan often 
came to the Indiana agency at Louisville for aid.^^^ Some 
4,542 passes had been issued to the end of 1864. Of these 
3,053 were issued to soldiers, 509 to soldiers’ wives, 222 to 
nurses, 106 to special surgeons, 154 to military agents, and 
109 to refugees on their way north. The average cost was 
about $2 for each pass.^-® Late in the war when permanent 
hospitals had greatly improved, the number of such passes was 
reduced.127 
In the middle of April, 1862, W. R. Holloway made a tour 
of the hospitals in southern Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and 
the region of Pittsburg Landing to locate Indiana men, in- 
vestigate their needs, and get as many as possible of those dis- 
abled sent to hospitals in Indiana.^^® The state paid the most 
of the cost of transportation.^^® He also visited Indiana regi- 
ments under General Pope^^® to report health conditions, the 
condition of military equipment, and the men in the hospitals 
that should be sent home.^®^ In June and August he visited 
Indiana regiments in the East and reported the conditions pre- 
vailing there.^^“ Governor Morton sent Judge W. S. Holman 
as special agent to Missouri and Arkansas in March, 1862, to 
report conditions existing among the Indiana troops there.^^^ 
He instructed W. R. Holloway at Pittsburg Landing to have 
Colonel Gerber’s remains sent home.^^^ The body of Colonel 
Bass was sent to Fort Wayne evidently thru the same inter- 
vention.^^^ 
Morton also obtained additional hospital service. In March, 
121 Terrell, Reqxrrt, I, 345. 
125 DocumeTitary Journal, 1865, II, 167. 
126 Terrell, Report, I, 346. 
Ibid., I, 347. 
128 General Telegrams, III, 147, 152, 157. 
Ibid., Ill, 138. 
^^^Ibid., Ill, 166, 167. 
^■^Ibid., Ill, 171, 177. 
112 Ibid., IV, 37 : Department Despatches, XV, 80. 
^^Ubid., Ill, 94, 95, 97, 104. 
General Telegrams, III, 152, 153, 225. 
i^Ubid., Ill, 159, 
