Greene-Lawrence County IN Archives Biographies.....Cavins, Aden G. 1827 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   COL. ADEN G. CAVINS was born in Lawrence County, Ind., October 24, 1827, and
is a son of Samuel R. Cavins. He received in youth only such schooling as was
obtainable at that early day, and his literary education was completed with
three years' instruction at Asbury University. He afterward read law, and
graduated from the Law Department of the State University in 1849. He then
practiced his profession in Bloomfield until 1858, when he removed to Nebraska
City, Neb., remaining there two years, and representing his locality in the
Lower House of the Legislature. In 1861, he returned to Greene County, the same
year recruiting a company for the Fifty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and
was commissioned Captain of Company E in November of the same year. Capt. Cavins
was with Pope on his expedition to New Madrid in the spring of 1862, and after
the evacuation of Island No. 10 went with his regiment to Pittsburg Landing, and
was present at the siege of Corinth. For distinguished services, Gov. Morton in
1862 commissioned him Major of the Ninety-seventh Indiana Volunteers, and while
at Holly Springs in December of the same year, he was promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel of his regiment. After participating in the siege of Vicksburg, he was
in the engagement at Jackson, Miss., where his horse was killed by a cannon ball
from the enemy. Col. Cavins was actively engaged at Mission Ridge, from whence
his command moved to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville, which was one of the
hardest campaigns of the rebellion. Succeeding this, he was an active
participant in the battles of Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, and June 15,
1864, his command captured 700 of the enemy, including a large part of the
Thirty-first Alabama Regiment, with field and staff officers. He led his
regiment at Kenesaw Mountain, and at Atlanta his command again gained renown by
capturing the Fifth Confederate Tennessee Regiment, which killed the gallant
McPherson. Col. Cavins was also in the engagements at Ezra Chapel, on the right
of Atlanta and Jonesboro. He remained in command of the Ninety-seventh from
Goldsboro until its arrival at Washington City, where he was mustered out as
Colonel. Since that time, he has been actively engaged in the practice of law at
Bloomfield, standing second to none at the bar of Greene County. He is a stanch
Republican, and in 1880 was Presidential Elector for the Second Congressional
District. In 1851, he was married to Julia Taylor, who died in 1854, leaving two
sons, only one (Edward) yet living. To his second marriage, with Matilda
Livingston, eight children have been born—William L., Hugh L., Josephine, Lelia,
Aden L., Francis L., Margaret, and Lee (deceased). Mrs. Cavins is a daughter of
Hugh L. Livingston, a pioneer lawyer of Indiana, who was descended from an old
and honored family.

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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