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2017 Vol 74-2-Summer LOYAL LEGION HISTORICAL J O U R N A L The Publication of The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States VOL. 74 No. 2 Summer 2017 Joseph Lewis Irwin (1818 – 1879) (“Fanny”) Farr (1818 - 1863). This union resulted in the birth of nine children including two sons, Chaplain, 33rd Indiana Infantry Benjamin H. and Joseph Lewis, Jr., about whom more will be mentioned. Apparently, within a few Joseph Lewis Irwin was born 15 December 1818 years of the marriage, the couple moved to in Nelson County Kentucky. He was the second of Wisconsin where the 1850 census indicates that five sons of Joseph (1783 - 1858) and Sarah Joseph’s occupation was farming. Eight of the nine Thompson Irwin (1788 – 1862). References children were born in Wisconsin; their birth years hereafter to Joseph will be to the subject of this spanning 1841 through about 1854. article, Joseph Lewis, unless stated otherwise. By April 1855, Joseph had received the calling to During the American Revolution, Joseph’s be a minister of the gospel as he appears listed as grandfather John Irwin (1736 - 1826) was a Patriot the pastor of the Maria Creek Baptist Church in in the Virginia Line of the Continental Army. It is Knox County, Indiana. He was pastor of this church believed that John’s father (Joseph’s great until August 1860 at which time he moved his family grandfather) immigrated to the American colonies to Franklin, Indiana in Johnson County. The from the province of Ulster, Ireland outbreak of hostilities in the (often referred to as Northern American Civil War occurred a few Ireland) within the first two decades months after the family’s move to of the 18th century. This family was Franklin. Joseph volunteered his of Scots-Irish descent (the original services as chaplain for the 33rd homeland of the Scots-Irish ethnic Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment group was the “border area” of on 16 September 1861. Joseph was lowlands Scotland from whence the nearly 43 years of age at the time of group settled in Ulster, Ireland his enlistment and his military during the 17th century). records indicate that the term of his When Joseph was about 6 years of enlistment was 3 years (although age, his parents moved the family officers could resign their from Kentucky to Putnam County, commissions if they no longer wished Indiana. His father was engaged in to serve). farming and Joseph also pursued that As it happened, Joseph did resign means of livelihood, at least in his his commission on 20 February 1863 early adulthood. In 1837, in Indiana, after approximately 17 months of Joseph was united in the bonds of service as the chaplain of the 33rd. matrimony to Mary Frances (Continued on page 10) THE LOYAL LEGION HISTORICAL JOURNAL is published by the MEMORIAL FUND of the Military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, which was founded April 15, 1865. Pertinent materials will be welcomed from Companions and others. Information should be submitted to the Editor, Robert Rock, [email protected] or mailed to 68 West Marion Street, Doylestown. OH 44230. Information should be typed and photographs may be black and white or in color. If submitted electronically please use .doc or .rtf for text and .jpg for photos. Contributions may be made to the Memorial Fund through the National Headquarters. Loyal Legion Historical Journal 2 Commander-in-Chief’s Message National Officers 2015-2017 Commander-in-Chief: Companions, Capt. James Alan Simmons 4304 Woodlake Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76135 We enjoyed a perfect [email protected] Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief: weather day on April Col Eric Armando Rojo (DC) 4430 Tindall Street, NW Washington, DC 20016-2718 15th, at the Abraham [email protected] Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief: Lincoln Tomb Joseph Thomas Coleman, Ed.D. (PA) 85 Beddington Lane Strasburg, PA 17579-1451 Observance, [email protected] Registrar-in-Chief: in Springfield, Illinois. Michael Timothy Bates (DC) 8 Boice Ln Belle Mead, NJ 08502-4334 A special thanks to [email protected] PCiC Douglas Chancellor-in-Chief: Adam Polhemus Flint Niermeyer, who gave 396 Colebrookdale Rd. Boyertown, PA 19512 484-415-9227 [email protected] me a great tour of New Salem, where Lincoln Judge Advocate-in-Chief: Gerald Fitzgerald Fisher, Esq, (NY), Chair became a man. I will represent MOLLUS at 77 Seventh Avenue, Apt 16E New York, NY 10011 [email protected] Arlington Cemetery, on May 30th, the traditional Recorder-in-Chief: Capt. John Kent Kane, II USCGA Decoration/Memorial Day. Lansing, Michigan is 101 Sleepy Hollow Lane, Yorktown, VA 23692 757-898-6953 [email protected] this year's site of the National SUVCW Treasurer-in-Chief: Lee Allan Tryon Encampment, August 10-13. Last year we had 4 Raven Circle, Avon, CT 06001-3317 about 30 Companions at the Encampment, who are 860-676-9060 [email protected] Surgeon-in-Chief: also Sons. Please join me in Lansing to congratulate Dr. Daniel Henry Heller (IN) 201 East Desert Park Ln Phoenix, AZ 85020-4075 the incoming SUVCW CiC, Mark Day, a retired Chaplain-in-Chief: Rev Robert G. Carroon, PCinC (CT) Navy Master Chief Petty Officer, who is also a 24 Park Place #22A Hartford, CT 06106 [email protected] Hereditary MOLLUS Companion. We have a great Editor-in-Chief: Robert E. Rock, Elizabeth Rock Ass’t program scheduled for the October 27-28 Congress 68 W. Marion Street, Doylestown, OH 44230 330-212-9969 [email protected] in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Our guest speaker for National Webmaster William Forbes the formal banquet Saturday evening is Dr. Allen C. 104 Beacon Square, Wayne, PA 19087 Guelzo , a Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil [email protected] Membership List Coordinator: War Era, Gettysburg College. We will also have Keith Graham Harrison, PCinC (MI) 4209 Santa Clara Drive Holt, Michigan 48842-1868 special tours of the Battlefield, as well as a behind 517-694-9394 [email protected] National Historian: the scenes look at the MOLLUS collection at the Adam Gaines (MI) 293 Lakeside Drive Harrow, Ontario Canada N0R 1G0 Gettysburg Museum. [email protected] Quartermaster: It has been my distinct honor to serve as your Joseph T. Coleman, Ed.D. 85 Beddington Lane Commander-in-Chief the past year and a half. Strasburg, PA 17579 National Membership Contact Laurence Alan Converse (TX) Captain James Alan Simmons 17105 Northavens Cove Pflugerville, TX 78660 [email protected] 61st Commander-in-Chief Printed by: Davis Printing MOLLUS Barberton, Ohio Loyal Legion Historical Journal 3 WELCOME NEW COMPANIONS LOYAL LEGION HISTORICAL JOURNAL The following Companions have joined the Military The Publication of the military Order of Order of the Loyal Legion since the Winter 2016 the Loyal Legion of the United States issue of the Journal. Commander-in-Chief James Simmons extends congratulations and a warm welcome to each one. Vol. 74, No. 2 Summer 2017 Insignia Companion Commandery Joseph Irwin 1 Hereditary: 22700 William Henry Lilly IN 22701 Tench Coxe Forbes PA Commanders Message 2 22702 William Pack Holmes PA 22703 Sumner Gary Hunnewell PA 22704 Glenn David Reasoner CA James M Williams 4 Associate: A302 Kevin Lee Waldroup IN Too Far To Travel? 7 A303 David Joseph Certo IN A304 Stanley Charles Hurt IN 132nd Congress 8-9 Hereditary Member Recruitment New membership represents the future of our Order. In recognition of that fact, the Commandery-in- Commandery News 11 Chief honors those Companions who recruit three or more hereditary Companions during a Where our Money Goes 14 membership year (October 1-September 30) with the Lincoln Medal Award. Companions who qualify for the Medal may receive the award at either the William Bond 15 Annual Congress, the Mid-Winter meeting in Washington, or the Lincoln Tomb Ceremony in Springfield. Please contact the Commander-in- MOLLUS WEBSITE Chief, or Membership Committee Chairman Col. Loyal Legion Historical Journal is now online! Eric Armando Rojo, for more details. http://www.mollus.org Remembering “MOLLUS” In Your Will After you provide for your family and other matters, would you consider including a memorial gift in you will to our hallowed Order? Your gift to the Loyal Legion Memorial Fund, which is tax deductible, would be used to support the preservation of battlefields, monuments and programs that serve to memorialize the Civil War. In this way you would be perpetuating the memory of your Civil War ancestors and fellow companions. Loyal Legion Historical Journal 4 Brevet Brigadier path, studying law in Janesville. 700 Confederates (probably General James Monroe Having passed the bar in 1856, somewhat less), commanded by Williams saw opportunity for Colonel Vard Cockrell. After Williams, 1833-1907 excitement in Kansas, which was reconnaissance and skirmishes, embroiled in the crisis over the main part of the engagement whether or not it would become took place on 29 October, when a slave or free state. He became the opposing forces closed with a Jayhawker, recruited others, each other on a rolling open led raids into Missouri, and prairie set aflame by the participated in excursions in Confederates. Initial “Lane’s Brigade.” With the maneuvering and fire fights advent of the Civil War, his team evolved into hand-to-hand of Jayhawkers became Company combat. Ultimately, the 1st F, 5th Kansas Cavalry, with him Kansas prevailed, and the as commander. Confederates presented a white Williams’ time as a cavalry flag asking to recover their dead. company commander in 1861-62 The 1st Kansas lost eight men was successful in a number of killed, and eleven wounded. The engagements. He resigned in Confederates did not report, but May of 1862, and at the urging the bodies filled several wagons.
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