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Metadata
Title |
1979 newspaper article about murder of Captain Eli McCarty |
Object Name |
Newspaper |
Catalog Number |
2019.FIC.0708 |
People |
Allison, Harold W. Hedrick, Washington Jackson, William Macaboy, John Madden, Hillory McCarty, Eli Nash, James Scott, Yockum Slicer, Samuel Whitesides, William |
Date |
1979 |
Scope & Content |
May 16, 1979 newspaper article written by Harold Allision about the murder of Captain Eli McCarty on October 3, 1864 in Reeve Township of Daviess County, Indiana. Captain McCarty was a draft officer with the Union Army during the Civil War and was killed by members of the Knights of the Golden Circle, an organization of Northerners sympathetic to the Southern cause and opposed to the draft, when he was attempting to notify men to report for military duty. |
Search Terms |
Knights of the Golden Circle |