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COMPANY D
Source: NMHS Newsletter, May 1987,
as excerpted from The Whistles of Our Forefathers by William
E. Billings, 1950.
It was about midnight, Monday, April
25, 1898, that the Water Works whistle sent out a call that
touched more homes than had ever been reached by a fire
call. That was
when Company D of the Indiana National Guard was called into
service for the Spanish-American War.
The call had been expected for several days, and
arrangements were made that a long blast on the whistle
should announce its arrival.
A little before midnight the call came, and John
Colclesser, engineer, pulled the
cord that set the signal going, bringing dread and sadness
into several hundred homes about North Manchester.
Marked activity followed and early in the forenoon
the company, under command of Captain B. F. Clemens, headed
by the North Manchester band, marched to the Big Four
station, there to take the train for Indianapolis.
On the following Thursday, The Journal said
“fully eight thousand people were at the station to extend
good wished and bid “fair”well
to the war going soldiers.
The Saturday evening before
there had been a public meeting at the opera house to pledge
unqualified support to the cause and to the Company.
Charles A. Sala called
this meeting, but no speakers had been secured, so brief
talks were made by John W. Winesburg,
D. W. Krisher and Jerome
Wellman. On
Sunday members of Company D acted as escort to the Grand
Army of the Republic to the Lutheran Church.
Monday evening the ladies of the Woman’s Relief Corps
served a grand supper, the appetites of the young soldiers
having been whetted by a strenuous drill on Main Street.
Fortune favored Company D,
for fully loyal though its members were, they were not
called to leave the United States.
In camp for some time as Company D of the 157th
Indiana at St. Petersburg, Florida, the men were used to
guard the water supply, a matter of considerable importance
at that time.
Then one day the call came to “Board Ship,” but about the
time the men were all aboard the Captain’s horse fell off
the boat and the company was ordered to disembark.
Before the horse could be dried and another call
issued, peace had been declared and the war was over.
Source: RECORD OF INDIANA VOLUNTEERS IN THE
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898-1899 (Indianapolis, 1900)
COMPANY D was organized at North
Manchester, Wabash County, on July 28, 1897, and was
assigned as Company D, 3d Infantry, Indiana National Guard.
This listing for COMPANY D shows Name and Rank, Residence,
Date of Enrollment 1898, Date of Mustering Out.
Extracted and compiled by John Knarr.
Clemans, Benjamin F., Captain. N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Dunbar, John T., First Lieutenant N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Spurgeon, Chs. O., Second Lieutenant N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Steele, Roscoe, First Sergeant Liberty
Mills Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Olinger, Charles H., Qtrmaster Sgt. N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Holderman, Clement M., Sergeant N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Clemans, Louis L., Sergeant N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Abbott, Dayton F., Sergeant N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Kester, Fern E., Sergeant N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Townsend, Harry E., Corporal N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Snideman, Clora J., Corporal N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Bell, Oliver C., Corporal N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Hite, Charles C., Corporal N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Hidy, George E., Corporal N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Johnson, Charles J., Corporal N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Sandoz, Fred H., Musician N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Oren, Eli, Musician N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Frazee, Ulysses G., Artificer N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Crill, Gussie L., Wagoner N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
--Mustered out as Private
Abbott, Albert A., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Baer, William E., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Biege, Winnie W., Private Rolling
Prairie Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Blickenstaff, Leonard E. Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Buckingham, Levi D., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Butterbaugh, James M., Private Roann Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Butterbaugh, Samuel H., Private Roann Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Calhoun, Zerah A., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Coble, George W., Private Servia Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Coblentz, Herbert W., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Cogan, Charles D., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Cook, Marshall A., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Cook, Floyd W., Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Clark, Wade, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Doll, Charles F., Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Dunbar, Charles F., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Enyeart, Abb, Private Liberty
Mills Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Enyeart, Charles W., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Ellwood, Clyde, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Evans, William M., Private
Muncie Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Fager, Oliver P., Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Fisher, William H., Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Flook, Edward, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Forst, Charles F., Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Grossnickle, Melvin, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Halderman, Charles J., Private
Indianapolis Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Hammon, Henry F., Private
Bluffton Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Haupert, Christian P., Private
Urbana Apr 26-Died Aug 27,
1898
Hayes, Orville S., Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Hevel, Charley, Private Servia Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Hesse, Frederick H., Private Roann Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Hidy, Levi B., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Hoff, John E., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Hower, Esta D., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Johnson, Charley, Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Keller, Samuel M., Private Disko
Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Kerr, Ora O., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
King, Dory A., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Kissenger, John R., Private Liberty
Mills Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Koontz, Herbert L., Private Kinzie Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Koontz, Lester A., Private Kinzie Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Laven, Charles T., Private
Muncie Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Marshall, Eugene A., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Middleton, Arthur H., Private Servia
Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Noftzger, Fred C., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Ogden, Allen W., Private Laketon
Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Overly, Macy, Private
Wabash Apr 26-Died July 29,
1898
Ray, Harvey M., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Rantz, Otto M., Private Roann
Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Ramey, Thomas J., Private
Urbana Apr 26-
--Transferred to Co. I, June 29, 1898
Reelhorn, Elmer E., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Riegle, Rolla R., Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Roush, Frank R., Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Sheller, Ernest L., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Singer, Ernest J., Private
Liberty Mills Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Smith, Howard F., Private Roann
Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Spacy, Orlan, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
--Mustered Out as Wagoner
Spurgeon, Albert, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Steele, Lee C., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Taylor, Berdell, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Toomire, Charles L., Private S.
Whitley Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Ulrey, Lamoin, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Ulrey, Charles, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Warvel, Frank B., Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
West, Edwin, Private N.
Manchester Apr 26-Nov 1, 1898
Andereck, William, Recruit N.
Manchester June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Aughenbaugh, Edd O., Recruit N.
Manchester June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Argerbright, Harry, Recruit N.
Manchester June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Baker, William Edward, Recruit Roann June 29-Nov 1, 1898
Brown, William J., Recruit Roann June 27-Nov 1, 1898
Bell, Frank E., Recruit
N. Manchester June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Criswell, Harry, Recruit
Liberty Mills June 28-Nov 1, 1898
Coblentz, Clarence L., Recruit Liberty
Mills June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Coble, William, Jr., Recruit
Servia June 22-Nov 1,
1898
Clevenger, Joseph C., Recruit N.
Manchester June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Darnell, James D., Recruit N.
Manchester June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Finkenbiner, John S., Recruit N.
Manchester June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Grossnickle, Jacob L., Recruit N.
Manchester June 27-Nov 1, 1898
Halderman, Verne, Recruit Roann
June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Hippensteel, Jacob, Recruit Servia
June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Hippensteel, James W., Recruit Servia
June 25-Nov 1, 1898
Howe, William H., Recruit N.
Manchester June 29-Nov 1, 1898
Isleye, Grant, Recruit
Liberty Mills June 23-Nov 1, 1898
Jones, Neil L., Recruit
Roann June 23-Nov 1, 1898
Lockridge, Bruce, Recruit Roann
June 27-Nov 1, 1898
Marshall, Lew, Recruit
Laketon June
28-Nov 1, 1898
Sexton, Tral G., Recruit N.
Manchester June 27-Nov 1, 1898
Sprinkle, Melvin D., Recruit
Makin June 25-Nov 1, 1898
Shock, Barnett, Recruit N.
Manchester June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Toomire, Phillip E., Recruit N.
Manchester June 22-Nov 1, 1898
Source: North Manchester Journal,
November 3, 1898
AT HOME TO STAY.
Company D, 157th Regiment, Mustered Out of the Service and
Become Private Citizens.
At last after many annoying delays Col. Studebaker's
regiment has been mustered out of the service. Seven
companies were paid off at Indianapolis Tuesday and the men
at once began to scatter for their homes. The other
companies were to be paid off yesterday and today. Among
those turned loose Tuesday was Company D, of this city, and
the boys lost no time in getting out of the city. The first
detachment arrived here about midnight on a special train on
the Big Four and others have been coming in on almost every
train since.
The boys seem real glad that they are out of the service
inasmuch as there is no prospect of their ever having any
fighting to do. They were in camp at Indianapolis three
weeks instead of a few days as was expected when they went
back on Oct. 10. This was caused by numerous delays in
making out the discharge papers and settling up the
regimental and company accounts. Capt. Clemans and
Lieutenants Dunbar and Spurgeon were not discharged, being
held a few days to close up all the business. They will be
at home the latter part of the week. Col. Studebaker was not
in camp with the regiment being confined to his home in
South Bend with typhoid fever, from which he is now just
recovering.
Last Sunday being the last Sabbath in camp the religious
services by Chaplain Medbury were very impressive. Lieut.
Col. May also made a farewell address to the regiment which
was very touching and full of the best of advice. We regret
very much that lack of space forbids its publication. Before
leaving camp Colonel Studebaker sent to each soldier a
button with the name of the regiment upon it and a tiger
head to represent the nickname, "Studebaker's Tigers." Upon
the button is a figure with four points for the "Fourth"
Army Corps, there is a white portion for the official color
of the Second Division, and a blue field for the Third
Brigade. Colonel Studebaker also presented to every man a
cabinet photograph.
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