• Full Citation: Hiram H. Martin, "Service Afield and Afloat: A Reminiscence of the Civil War," ed. Guy R. Everson, Indiana Magazine of History 89, no. 1 (March 1993): 35-56.
• Home: LaPorte County (LaPorte)
• Year: 1861-1864
• Regiment: 29th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Co. G
• Abstract: Martin (1843-1919) wrote a memoir of his Civil War experience in June 1896, now housed in a family collection. This article contains excerpts of the 114 page manuscript. Martin was involved in a small skirmish near Mumfordsville (Woodsonvillle/Rowlett's Station) on December 17, 1861, but caught pneumonia and was released on a medical discharge. Martin re-enlisted on a gunboat fleet in the "Mississippi Squadron" and was involved in the abortive Red River Expedition. There are images of Martin in old age, a gunboat crew, the Ouachita, and a map of his boat travels.
• Sample Text:
  1. "As we passed through Louisville in our new uniforms and bright guns with old glory waving at our front the animosity of the secession women was seen by their slurring remarks, about our being Lincoln's hirelings. It so angered Lt. Stebbins that the answer he gave one of them sent her flying into the house." (p. 38)
  2. "Nothing of importance on this trip, except, I remember the burial of some one from the boat on a little Island near the middle of the night, and it was a solemn & weird procession with lanterns and torches burning." (p. 54)
• LC Subject Headings:
  1. United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 29th (1861-1865)
  2. Rowlett's Station, Battle of, Ky., 1861
  3. Red River Expedition, 1864

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