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Title: History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Biederwolf, William E. (William Edward), 1867-1939
Subjects: Indiana infantry. 161st regiment, 1898-1899 Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories United States
Publisher: Logansport, Ind., Wilson, Humphreys
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r must fall when heproves himself worthy of his position. A regiment is gen-erally and to a great degree always what its commandingofficer makes it and the fact that the regiment whose supe-rior offtcer was Winfield T. Durbin stood so high in theestimation of the highest army officials, that it was worthyof such recognition as that given by the honorable secre-tary of war, when he declared concerning the cleanlinessand condition of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indianacamp that it was a revelation, a marvel, and in a pub-lic manner declared on the reviewing field and twice after-ward that the regiment was the finest he had ever seen,—this fact certainly does reflect the greatest honor on theman who controlled its movements and accordingly madeits name a reminder of all that a body of thirteen hundredsoldiers ought to become. Colonel Durbin did not seek the position; the posi-tion was seeking for the man, and it found him puzzledover some needed repairs amid the noise and rattle of
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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST INDIANA. 2 1/ machinery in the works of the Diamond Paper Companyat Anderson. The call came quick and unexpected. Hiswife and son were on the Continent; without the possibilityof consulting them or apprising them of his intention, hedecided; he did not leave his plow standing in the field,but he did leave the old smashed up engine lying in thefactory and started for the capital city of his state whencehe had been called. The call was his marching orders.Colonel Durbin was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, May4, 1847, when he was but three years old his parentsmoved to New Philadelphia, and there he spent hisearly days,securing such educational advantages as were offered b) thevillage schools of his boyhood home. He was fourteenyears of age when the Civil war began; one by one he sawhis five older brothers enlist to fight for the Union, and hisyoung heart stirred him to offer himself. Accordingly in1862 he endeavored to enlist in the Sixteenth Indiana, butowing

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