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The American Civil War was the first "modern war" in terms of technology and lethality of weapons. [50] "It was a conflict that prefigured our own time in its unanticipated scale and scope, in its incorporation of rapidly advancing technologies of firepower, transportation, and communication."
Rowell, John W. Yankee Artillerymen: Through the Civil War with Eli Lilly's Indiana Battery. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1975. Scott, Reuben A. The History of the 67th Regiment, Indiana Infantry Volunteers. Bedford Indiana: Herald Book and Job Print, 1892. Weaver, T.C.
Indiana's state seal during the war. Indiana was the first of the country's western states to mobilize for the Civil War. [1] When news reached Indiana of the attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, many Indiana residents were surprised, but their response was immediate.
Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War Museum, Indianapolis, closed; collection acquired by Indiana War Memorial Museum; Corvette Classics Museum, Fort Wayne [41] [42] Dream Car Museum, Evansville; Forest Discovery Center, Starlight, closed in 2009 [43] Hannah Lindahl Children's Museum, Mishawaka, closed in 2020; Hoosier Air Museum, Auburn, closed in 2019
In 1876 Colonel Eli Lilly opened a new pharmaceutical laboratory on Indianapolis's Pearl Street, founding what later became Eli Lilly and Company. [79] The Union Railroad Transfer and Stock Yards Company, another major employer, opened in 1877. [80] After the war, Indianapolis continued to develop into a transportation hub.
The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18–20, 1863, between the United States Army and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a U.S. Army offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.
Colonel Eli Lilly, founder of Eli Lilly and Company, [61] and several of his descendants, including Josiah K. Lilly Sr., Josiah K. Lilly Jr., Eli Lilly, and Ruth Lilly. [92] Daniel Marmon, Early Indianapolis-based automotive manufacturers and a principal of Nordyke Marmon and Company; Thomas A. Morris, Indiana railroad executive and civil engineer
Wilder Tower, early 20th century postcard. The Lightning Brigade, also known as Wilder's Brigade or the Hatchet Brigade was a mounted infantry brigade from the American Civil War in the Union Army of the Cumberland from March 8, 1863, through November 1863.