HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                          353

days later the prisoners were released, who found their way back home
as best they could. Though practically disbanded, the regiment was
reorganized later in the season and ordered to Muldraugh's Hill, Ken-
tucky, to guard a railroad bridge under Lieut.-Col. C.C.Matson and
Major W.W. Carter, and while in that position the whole command was
captured by John Morgan. They were then paroled and sent back to
Indianapolis, where they spent the winter in the barracks and the next
summer in guarding prisoners at Camp Morton. There was a total of
one hundred and fourty Clay county men in the Seventy-first Regiment.
    A report published in the columns of the local press in the month
of August, 1862, showed the number of enlistments in Clay county up
to the first of that month to be one thousand two hundred and eleven,
accredited to commissioned company officers and assigned to regiments
as follows:

Captains.                   No.of men           Reg.
Campbell......................101               21st
Major.........................101               43d
Ellington.....................101               41st
Leabo.........................101               41st
Moss..........................101               43d
Hunt..........................101               16th
Olds..........................101               10th
Conover.......................101               71st
Mewhinney......................50               31st
Beatty.........................13               31st
Stewart........................20               41st
Allen...........................9               71st
Lieutenant Brown...............60               59th
Lieutenant Elkin...............29               21st
Scattering.....................90               31st
Scattering.....................40               14th
Scattering.....................20               19th
Scattering.....................25               11th
Scattering.....................24               15th
Scattering.....................23               16th
                              ____
   Total......................1,211

 List of Commissioned Officers from Clay County as Enumerated in the
            Adjutant General's Report

    Ezra Olds, Captain 10th Regiment (3 months), commissioned May 3,
 1861, mustered out term expired; re-entered service as captain 133d Regi-
 ment.
    Demetrius Parsley, 1st lieut. 10th Regiment, commissioned May 3,
 1861, mustered out term expired; re-entered service as 1st lieut. 2d Cav-
 alry.
    Isaac W. Sanders, 2d lieut.10 Regiment, mustered out term ex-
 pired; re-entered service as captain 78th Regiment.
    James T. Duffield, asst. surgeon 7th Regiment (three years), com-
missioned Aug.20, 1862, mustered out Sept.20 1864 , term expired.
    Richard Campbell, captain 21st Regiment, commissioned July 29,
1861, transferred to 1st Heavy Artillery;died of disease April 26 ,1865.