352 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

Tenth Regiment. and those of the Forty-third Regiment. elsewhere enum-
erated, there were Clay county men in twenty-nine other regiments as
here named: Ninth Regiment, two: Eleventh, nine: Twelfth, two; Thir-
teenth, sixteen; Sixteenth, nine; Twentieth, three; Twenty-first, one
hundred and twenty-nine; Twenty-sixth, one: Twenty-ninth, eight;
Thirty-first, sixty-five; Thirty-fifth, six : Thirty-eighth, four: Forty-
first, forty ; Forty-second, four ; Forty-seventh, one : Fifty-first, four
Fifty-second, two; Fifty-seventh, nineteen; Fifty-ninth, thirty; Seventy-
first, one hundred and forty; Eighty-fifth, one hundred and twenty-two;
Eighty-seventh, one : Ninety-seventh, forty-four : One Hundred and
Twenty-fourth. fifty-seven: One Hundred and Twenty-eighth, one: One
Hundred and Fortieth, one: One Hundred and Forty-ninth, one hundred
and twenty-nine ; One hundred and Fifty-sixth, thirteen.
    The Thirty-first Indiana was known as the "Iron Regiment,” from
its reputation as one of the best disciplined regiments in the army of the
West, most hard)’ and enduring, unswerving in devotion to duty and ever
ready for any of the vicissitudes of war. There were sixty-five Clay
countians in this regiment. The first Clay county man who lost his life
in this regiment was James Taylor, killed at Fort Donelson, where Elijah
Ferguson, well known throughout the county after his return from army
service, lost his arm.
    An incident of significance and worthy of special mention in the
services and history of the Forty-third Regiment was that of July 4th,
1863, at the battle of Helena, Arkansas, where it was distinguished by
supporting,.alone, a battery that was three times charged by the enemy,
repulsing each attack, and, finally, capturing a full rebel regiment larger
in point of numbers than its own strength.
    But on the 30th of April following, the brigade to which this regi-
ment was attached was furiously attacked by about six thousand of
Marmadukes cavalry, on the way from Camden to Pine Bluff, in which
engagement it lost nearly two hundred in killed and missing. One
hundred and sixty-four men were captured and taken to the rebel prison
at Tyler, Texas. There were ninety-eight Clay county men in the Forty-
third Regiment.

                Reverses of the Seventy-first Regiment.
    The Seventy-first Indiana Regiment, which was enlisted and orga-
nized in the summer of 1862, and mustered into service at Indianapolis
on the 18th day of August, was sent immediately to the field in Ken-
tucky, to aid in repelling the invasion being made by Kirby Smith, and
met the enemy in an engagement at Richmond on the 30th of the month
and was signally routed with heavy losses, two hundred and fifteen
officers and privates having been killed and wounded, and three hundred
and forty-seven taken prisoners, only two hundred and twenty-five escap-
ing capture, less than thirty per cent of the total number. Company
D of this regiment was enlisted at Bowling Green, composed of one
hundred and one men, almost wholly Clay countians. Among the
wounded and missing of this company were Samuel N. Rule, John
Inman, Gottlieb C. Hang, Henry Market, Benjamin Tribble, the first
named having died the same day. Among those who escaped capture
were Capt. D. A. Conover, Sergt. Joseph Boothe, Corporal Philip A.
Elkin, W. M. Merwin, Hiram Anderson, Peter Heath, John Doyle,
William H. Zenor, William West, Jacob Penrod, James Clemens, James
Francis, Morgan Donham, Harvey L. Donham, James Bohannon. Three