Pleasant Adam Hackleman
Hackleman, Pleasant A., brigadier-general, was born in Franklin county, Ind., Nov. 15, 1814, son of Maj. John Hackleman, an officer in the War of 1812. He was admitted to the bar in 1837 and soon won distinction in the practice of his profession in Rushville, was judge of probate court of Rush county, 1837-41; clerk of the state house of representatives and clerk of Rush county, 1841-47, and in 1848 and again in 1858 was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1860 and to the peace conference at Washington in 1861. He entered the national service in May, 1861, as colonel of the 16th Ind. regiment, served in the first battle of Bull Run and later on the staff of Gen. Banks in Virginia, and on April 28, 1862, was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. In June he was ordered to report to Gen. Grant in the southwest. He participated actively in the battles of Luka and Corinth, and was killed in the latter battle, near Corinth, Miss., Oct. 4, 1862. Buried in East Hill Cemetery, Rushville, IN
Source: The Union Army, vol. 8 & Research by Mark Davis
Source: The Union Army, vol. 8 & Research by Mark Davis
Nathan Kimball
Kimball, Nathan, brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in Fredericksburg, Ind., Nov. 22, 1822. He raised and became captain of a company of volunteers which served in the Mexican war, and at the beginning of the Civil war he became colonel of the 14th Ind. infantry. He took part in the battles of Cheat mountain and Greenbrier in the fall of 1861, commanded a brigade at the battle of Winchester, and was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, April 15, 1862, for a victory over Stonewall Jackson at Kernstown, Va., on March 23. At Antietam his brigade held its ground with desperate courage, losing nearly 600 men, and at Fredericksburg Gen. Kimball was severely wounded. Subsequently he served in the west, commanding a provisional division at Vicksburg, in June and July, 1863. He was afterwards present at the battles of Dallas, New Hope Church, Kennesaw mountain and Peachtree creek, where his gallantry won him promotion to command of a division, and he served in all the battles around Atlanta until the capture of that city, Sept. 2, 1864. He was then detached to aid in quelling the disturbance arising concerning the "Knights of the Golden Circle" in Indiana and afterward took part in the battles of Franklin and Nashville in the latter part of 1864. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, Feb. 1, 1865, and was mustered out Aug. 24, 1865. He was state treasurer of Indiana, 1870-71, served one term as representative in the state legislature, and in 1873 was appointed by President Grant surveyor-general of Utah territory and moved to Salt Lake city. He died Jan. 21, 1898.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
Both medals were borrowed and scanned from the personal collection of Ben Neilson.
This is a picture of Civil War Veterans taken on Memorial Day, between 1892-1897. It was taken at a Walnut Grove Church in Richland Township in Green County, Indiana. Walnut Grove Church is located 26 miles west of Bloomington, Indiana. The man that is sitting in the center of the front row, with his hat in his lap and a white beard, is Henry Roach. Henry Roach is the great, great, great, grandfather of one of the PACE students, Lauren Guetig. He was a Lt. in the 43rd Regiment Company C.
This list of names was found inside the frame of the Civil War Veterans picture. It shows all of the veteran's names from the picture.
This page from an April 1865 addition of the New York Herald was left in an old vault, and later found by Lauren Guetig's great grandmother in Bicknell, Indiana. The article describes General Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia .