Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley, Vol. 2: Personal and Genealogical; With Portraits (Classic Reprint)

Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley, Vol. 2: Personal and Genealogical; With Portraits (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
1333640900
ISBN-13
9781333640903
Category
Reference
Pages
420
Language
English
Published
2016-09-17
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Federal Publishing Company

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley, Vol. 2: Personal and Genealogical; With Portraits A. Douglas when a split occurred in the Democratic party. When the Civil war broke out he at once began the organization of a company, which became a part of the First regiment of the Indiana legion, of which he was commissioned colonel. When the Twenty fourth Indiana infantry was mustered in he was given the command of the regiment and joined Fremont's army in Missouri. For gallant conduct at Shiloh he won the rank and insignia of a brig adier - general. At Champion Hills he again distinguished himself and won the rank of major-general. General Grant in his Memoirs makes special mention of General Hovey's conduct in this engage ment. In 1864 he was appointed to raise ten thousand new tr00ps and it was ordered that none of them should be men of families. The result was that a large number of boys enlisted under the call and they became known as Hovey's Babies. But when they were fully initiated they proved to be good soldiers and on the great March to the sea rendered a good account of themselves. Late in 1864 General Hovey was appointed military commander for Indiana and while serving in that capacity played an important part in the prosecution and conviction of the leaders of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a treasonable organization. After the war was over General Hovey was appointed minister to Peru by Presi dent Andrew Johnson and served in that position from 1865 to 1870, when he returned to Mount Vernon and resumed the practice of law. Two years later he declined the nomination for governor, declaring his intentions at that time to never re-enter politics. He did remain in private life until 1886, when his party unanimously tendered him the nomination for congressman from the First dis trict. He accepted and although the district was nearly fifteen hun dred Democratic in 1884 he was elected by a majority of over thir teen hundred. In 1888 the Indiana Republican state convention nominated him without opposition for the office of governor and at the election in November he was victorious, defeating Col. C. C. Matson by a plurality of twenty-two hundred. The same year he was elected president of the service pension association of the United States, at the national Grand Army encampment at St. Louis, which was a' fitting recognition of his labors in Congress in behalf of his old comrades' in arms. In January, 1891, he received the support of the Republican members of the general assembly for the office of United States senator, but was defeated by Daniel Voorhees, the legislature being Democratic. Such, in brief, is a report of the stewardship of one of Indiana's most illustrious citizens. As a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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