Bartholomew-Jackson County IN Archives Biographies.....Durland, Charles E. 1840 - 
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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

CHARLES E. DURLAND.

   Among the honored veterans of the Civil war who fought for the preservation
of the Union and are now valued residents of Elizabethtown is Charles E.
Durland. He was born in Jackson county, Indiana, April 19, 1840, and is a son of
Phineas Y. and Eliza N. (Dennison) Durland. The father was a native of New York
and traced his ancestry back to Holland, whence representatives of the name came
to the new world at an early epoch in the colonization of America. Mr. Durland
was born in the year 1806 and continued his residence in the Empire state until
1820, when he removed with his father to Indiana. He wedded Miss Dennison, who
was of Irish extraction and who was born in Ohio in 1817. They were married in
Indiana and settled in Jackson county, but the father was not long permitted to
enjoy his home in this state, being killed by the cars in Madison Hill on the
28th of March, 1844, his death being occasioned by a railroad wreck. His widow
afterward became the wife of John McGannon and they subsequently removed to
Illinois, where both spent their remaining days. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Durland were
born three children: Marietta V., who became the wife of Pinkney Brown, but both
are now deceased; Charles E., of this review, and Otto C., who lives in Oklahoma
City. There were also two children by the second marriage, but one died in
infancy and the other died in 1900, leaving two sons.

   Charles E. Durland was born near Brownstown, in Jackson county, near the old
farm, and was only four years of age when his father died. He was then reared by
his mother and step-father and remained with them until he was eighteen years of
age. The educational privileges which he enjoyed were those afforded by the
common schools. He accompanied his mother to Illinois and there remained until
after the inauguration of the Civil war, when the south attempted to overthrow
the Union and men from all stations in life flocked to the standard of their
country. They came from the workshops, from the offices, from the counting rooms
and the fields, all imbued with the same patriotic spirit to preserve the Union
intact. Prompted by a love of country, Mr. Durland offered his services to the
government on the 4th of August, 1862, and donning the blue uniform of the
nation he joined Company A, of the Ninety-eighth Illinois Infantry. This
regiment was assigned to the western army and he was in the battles of Hoover's
Gap, Resaca, Stone River, Marietta, Atlanta, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Rome,
Macon and Selma. Altogether he was in twenty-seven engagements, besides
coninuous skirmishing almost every day for six months or more in Tennessee,
Alabama and Georgia. He belonged to General Wilder's famous fighting brigade and
bore active and helpful part in the Civil war, never faltering in his allegiance
to the starry banner of the nation and the cause it represented. For about three
years he was with the army, faithfully performing his duty, whether it called
him to the firing line or stationed him upon the lonely picket line. On the 27th
of June, 1865, he received an honorable discharge, and because of injuries
sustained by his military service he now receives a pension of twenty-four
dollars per month.

   Returning to Illinois Mr. Durland engaged in business there as proprietor of
a meat market and in 1873, disposing of his interests in that state, he again
came to Bartholomew county, Indiana. Here he lived for twenty years upon a farm
and in 1893 Put aside the more arduous duties of agricultural life and settled
in Elizabeth-town, where he is now living, merely giving his supervision to his
farming interests.

   In this county Mr. Durland was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Wilson in the
year 1866. They have one son, Phineas W., who was born in 1870 and is now the
assessor of Columbus township. The parents hold membership in the Presbyterian
church and Mr. Durland is a faithful member of the Masonic fraternity, with
which he has been identified since 1871. The Republican party receives his
political indorsement and he has always given his support to its men and
measures, since attaining his majority. While residing in Elizabethtown he
served as alderman, but he has never been an active politician in the sense of
office seeking. He maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades
through his membership in James Moffet Post, No. 243, Grand Army of the
Republic, of which he has served as chaplain. In matters of citizenship he is as
true and loyal to the old flag and to his country as when he followed the stars
and stripes on southern battlefields. In his business career he has ever been
straightforward and in fact his entire life has been that of an upright man, his
history deserving prominent mention on the pages of his adopted county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER


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