Wayne-Henry County IN Archives Biographies.....Lamar, Nathan September 1, 1843 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Dalton Township
p. 450 & 451

Nathan Lamar resides near Dalton, Wayne Co., Ind. His parents, Samuel and 
Judith (Baldwin) Lamar, were married Nov. 23, 1842, in Wayne County, Ind., and 
settled soon after in Henry County, Ind., on a farm, on which they lived until 
death. His mother died June 7, 1852, at the age of thirty-three. His father, 
who was a teacher in the public schools, during several of the winter terms, 
within the last twelve or thirteen years of his life, took special pains to 
educate his children and to train them during his short stay with them to live 
a religious life. He deceased May 10, 1860, at the age of forty-one years. 
Nathan Lamar was born in Henry County, Ind., Sept. 1, 1843. His early life was 
spent on the farm of his father. His schooling was derived chiefly from the 
district schools and the assistance of his father. Farming has been his 
special profession, although he has been engaged in teaching in the fall and 
winter terms of school for the past seventeen years. At the age of twenty he 
enlisted in Company B, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, to serve as a soldier in the war 
of the Rebellion, for three years or during the war, and was actively engaged 
in the principal engagements of the Atlanta campaign, and was with General 
Stoneman at the time he made his raid around Atlanta to Macon, Ga.; was taken 
prisoner at the time of Stoneman's defeat and surrender near Macon, Ga., July 
31, 1864, Stoneman and his principal officers being taken at the same time. He 
was confined as a prisoner of war nine months, most of the time at 
Andersonville, being one of the last squad of prisoners that ever passed out 
through the prison gates of Andersonville, and one of but few of his comrades 
who lived through the horrors and cruelties of Andersonville Prison. He was 
released with about 2,000 others, at Baldwin Station, Fla., by the prison 
commander Wirz, without being exchanged, the war being about over, April 30, 
1865. It was sixteen miles to the nearest Union post at Jacksonville, Fla., 
and a great number died on the road between Baldwin Station and Jacksonville. 
He got to the Union lines at Jacksonville May 1, 1865. The horrors of the 
rebel prison are familiar to all. He was honorably discharged June 16, 1865, 
at Camp Chase, Ohio. He was married Aug. 21, 1867, to Alice Billheimer, of 
Dublin, Ind. He has served as the Assessor of Dalton Township since 1873, with 
the exception of one year, 1875. His present term of office will expire April, 
1886. His children are---Willie (who died in infancy), Frank S., Effie L., 
Mary F., Nellie M. and Frederick C.

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