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IDENTIFIED 30th INDIANA OFFICER’S POCKET DICTIONARY: ACTIVE SERVICE 1861-1865

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An abridged Webster’s pocket dictionary bearing an 1863 New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati publication date. Embossed leather covers partially detached and showing wear. Title page is there, etc., and pages run up to page 248, but there are certainly some missing pages. This certainly shows signs of being carried in the field and well used, as might be expected of an officer whose chances of promotion rested not only on seniority and military ability, but literacy and general education as well. The front of the book is boldly inscribed in brown ink: “Thomas Hogarth / Co. E 30^th Reg Ind / Volenters / 1864” and the back is similarly inscribed, “Lieut. Thomas Hogarth / Co. E 30^th Reg. / Ind Vol / 1864.” Needless to say, if “volenters” was not just a chance slip of the pen, he needed this dictionary if he hoped for further advancement.

This fits with his military record. He mustered into the army April 24, 1861, as a private in Co. E of the 9^th Indiana and served until mustered out July 29 at Indianapolis. He signed up again a short time later, mustering into Company E of the 30^th Indiana as a Sergeant on September 24, 1861. He made 2^nd Lieutenant June 13, 1863, and his efforts at self-improvement paid off in a promotion to Captain, of Company F, on December 19, 1864. CWData has him mustered out at Atlanta in September 1864, but this must be his muster out as lieutenant in preparation for muster back in as a veteran and as captain: the volunteer rosters show his commission as Captain dating Feb. 10, 1865, and that he was mustered out with the regiment Nov. 25, 1865.

The 9^th Indiana was a three-month regiment that saw service in western Virginia, seeing action at Phillipi, Laurel Hill, and Carrick’s Ford. The 30^th served initially in Kentucky, and then saw action at Shiloh on the second day, where it suffered considerable loss. It took part in the Siege of Corinth and at the end of 1862 and beginning of 1863 fought at Stones River, again with serious casualties (208 killed, wounded and missing out of 487 officer and men engaged,) as it did yet again at Chickamauga in September. The regiment took part in the Atlanta Campaign in Spring 1864 under Thomas, and after the capture of Atlanta was consolidate into a battalion of seven companies of reenlisted veterans and new recruits. As part of the 4^th Corps, it fought Hood at Nashville in December, taking part in the pursuit into Alabama and then marching into east Tennessee, before returning to Nashville  , where it remained until transferring to Texas, where it was posted on occupation duty until mustered out Nov. 25, 1865. Hogarth was born in New York in 1843, but orphaned at a young age and in 1860 was living with the Humphrey family in Allen County, Indiana. He returned to Indiana after he mustered out, married in 1866, and seems to have been a railroad engineer. The 1890 veteran census picks him up still in Indiana, as does the 1900 census, but he seems afterward to have moved to Florida, where he died in 1906.  [sr] [ph:L]

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