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| | INDIANA CIVIL WAR VETERANS, BLACKFORD COUNTY, 1861-1865 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | In Blackford County, Indiana, it was a time of bitterness and conflict among neighbors as southern and northern sympathizers turned against one another. |
 | | Despite political differences -- Blackford County, especially the Trenton area, was a haven for Copperheads -- and a riot that resulted in the destruction of enrollment lists and the draft box but was contained with the arrival of 300 infantry, over 350 soldiers were enrolled, nearly all volunteers, in the draft. |
 | | At the time of publication, Orville Uggen, Jr., a resident of Hartford City, Indiana, was President of the Blackford County Civil War Reenactment Club, Inc. and Lucile Henley, a resident of Montpelier, Indiana, was affiliated with the Rebecca Otis Tent #54, Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865. |
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