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is now visible, and she is evidently standing picket away out of range of our guns.THE CAPTURE OF NEW MADRID.The Indiana troops have been unjustly dealt with, or at least overlooked, in all the published accounts that I have seen of this important event. Five regiments from our State were with General Pope in his advance, and were certainly not in the rear during the operations. In fact, they were in front. They supported the batteries, were in every reconnaissance and scout (portions of them) during the siege, and Colonel Slack's brigade, the 47tl» and 34th Indiana, were the first troops to enter Fort Thompson, and it was Hoo.sier hands that tore down the rebel rag and Hung out the sturs and stripes in its stead, and that rebel rag is now at Indianapolis, sent home os a trophy by Captain John A. McLaughlin, of the 47th. And again, while still weary with watching and toil—while the breakfast, untasted, of the running rebels was still smoking in the tents nnd quarters of the retreating rebels, it was the Hoosier boys who hauled the big guns through the mud, removed the spikes and placed them in position so as to repel with their own shot and shell any attempt of the enemy's gunboats to retake the place. It was the Indiana brigade under General Palmer that erected the batteries lower down the river, and it is that brigade that now holds the enemy's fleet at bay, inspiring them with a wholesome fear of Ruddle’s Point. The regiments from our State were the 47th, Colonel Slack; 34th, Colonel Ryan; 46th, Colonel Fitch; 43d, Colonel McLeae; and 5!)th, Colonel Alexander.THE UOOSIEK’s NEST.Some place near Ruddle's Point—exactly where, I need not say; but in a level com field.
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Indianapolis Indiana State Sentinel
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Mon, Apr 14, 1862
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