Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Kutch, John 1841 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   DR. JOHN KUTCH, Solsberry, was born in Richland Township, Greene County,
Ind., November 15, 1841, and is a son of A. L. Kutch. He was raised on the home
farm until seventeen years old, when he was apprenticed to learn blacksmithing
at Bloomington. He served at this until he enlisted in the Ninth Indiana Light
Artillery, and was mustered into the service on his twentieth birthday. His
battery was ordered to Fort Donelson, but the battle terminating before their
arrival, they went into camp at Cairo. He was an active participant in the
battle of Corinth, in which his battery was warmly engaged. In 1863, they joined
Grant's expedition against Vicksburg, but here the Ninth Artillery were sent to
Fort Hindman, Tenn. From here they went to Vicksburg the fall of 1863, and later
to Meridian, en route participating in a severe engagement at Queen's Hill. They
then returned to Vicksburg, and from thence joined Banks' command on the
Atchafalaya Bayou, and from here captured Fort Drusa on Red River. They then
went to Alexandria, and there were engaged in a battle on Gov. Moore's farm.
Re-embarking on Red River, they participated in a number of engagements along
its shore, and after being engaged in the battle of Pleasant Hill returned to
Memphis for recruits. After the battle of Guntown, they were ordered to check
Kirby Smith, who was threatening St. Louis, and while here followed up the
retreating rebels and engaged their force on Blue River. They were next in the
battle of Nashville; then followed Hood's retreating army to Pulaski; then went
to Westport, having then served six months over the time for which they had
enlisted. They here embarked on the steamer "Eclipse," and while near
Johnsonville during a fog on the night of February 27, 1865, the steamer blew
up, and thirty-two of the sixty-eight men of the Ninth Artillery were killed
outright, and, with the exception of six, the remainder were wounded. Among the
latter was Dr. Kutch, who was scalded over the face and head, and struck in the
back with a brick from the boiler. Owing to this injury, Dr. Kutch was unfitted
for his trade, and consequently began the study of medicine the winter of 1874,
and in 1878—79 graduated from the Medical College of Indiana at Butler
University. For a short time, he practiced his profession at Bloomfield; then
located in Solsberry, where he has acquired a lucrative practice. He is a
Republican, and was married on his twenty-fourth birthday to Mary E. Danely, by
whom he is the father of three children—Ollie, Maggie and Alford. Dr. Kutch was
in thirteen battles and engagements while out in the late war, and was honorably
discharged in March. 1865.

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Beech Creek Township Biographies

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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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