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STATE SENATOR SHELBYILLE CIVIL WAR 6th INDIANA CAVALRY WILSON LETTER SIGNED !

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    LEE F. WILSON
    (1850-1916)
    19
    th
    CENTURY INDIANA STATE and LOCAL POLITICIAN,
    DEMOCRATIC PARTY MEMBER OF THE INDIANA STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM SHELBY COUNTY IN 1888,
    ELECTED CITY ATTORNEY OF NASHVILLE, BROWN COUNTY, INDIANA 1879-1880,
    COUNTY PROSECUTOR FOR BROWN and BARTHOLOMEW COUNTIES,
    EDITOR OF "
    THE HENDRICKS COUNTY GAZETTE,
    " THE DEMOCRATIC ORGAN OF HENDRICKS COUNTY, OPERATING OUT OF DANVILLE 1880-1884
    &
    PROMINENT LAWYER IN SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA (1879-1889) and OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (1889-1916).
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    HERE’S AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY WILSON, 1p., DATED AT SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA, APRIL 7, 1887 TO FORMER CIVIL WAR LIEUTENANT, WILLIAM D. PIPER (d.1917) OF THE 6
    th
    INDIANA CAVALRY. PIPER LIVED IN TERRE HAUTE, IN AND ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE ON AUG. 18, 1862 IN “
    B
    ” Co., 71
    st
    INDIANA INFANTRY.
    WHEN THE DESIGNATION OF THE REGIMENT WAS CHANGED TO THE 6
    th
    INDIANA CAVALRY ON FEB. 23, 1863 HE TRANSFERRED TO “
    B
    ” Co., 6
    th
    INDIANA CAVLARY and WAS PROMOTED BY GOVERNOR OLIVER P. MORTON TO 2
    nd
    LT. ON JUNE 22, 1864, SERVING TILL HE WAS HONORABLY MUSTERED OUT ON JUNE 27, 1865.
    THE LETTER CONCERNS PIPER’S SERVICE RECORD AND A “
    GOOD SUM OF MONEY
    ” DUE HIM (VIA A CIVIL WAR PENSION).
    WILSON ADDS IN A POSTSCRIPT:
    “…WIDOWS WHO HAVE REMARRIED AND HEIRS OF SOLDIERS ARE ENTITLED TO THE BENEFITS OF THE NEW LAW…”
    The document measures 6” x 7” and has been trimmed, otherwise it is VF condition.
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    BIOGRAPHY OF LEE F. WILSON
    Lee F. Wilson
    , attorney at law and prominent member of the Shelby County Bar, is a native of Jackson County, Ind., and son of
    William T. and  Sarah (Hosea) Wilson
    ,  the father born in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1829, and the mother at Jonesboro, Tennessee about the year 1831.  The subject is the oldest of a family of six children, and was born in the town of Seymour, February 8, 1850.   At the early age of nine years he began learning the shoemaker's trade, from which time until 1869, he continued the same, attending school at intervals during that period.  In the latter year he entered the Hartsville University, Hartsville, Indiana, where he pursued his literary studies for one year, providing himself with books and defraying his necessary expenses in the meantime by working at his trade.
    In 1870, he began teaching in the public schools, and in connection with the duties of that calling took up the study of law, continuing both until 1879, at which time he abandoned the former and entered upon the active practice of the legal profession.
    He was elected City Attorney of Nashville, Brown County, in 1879, and one year later went to Danville, where for four years he was editor of "The Hendricks County Gazette", the Democratic organ of Hendricks County.  Abandoning the field of journalism in 1884, he went to Indianapolis, and the following year came to Shelbyville, where he has since resided in the active practice of his profession, having at this time an extensive business in the courts of Shelby and adjoining counties.
    Mr. Wilson's legal career presents a series of continued successes, and since locating in this county, has been an important factor in the Shelbyville Bar, standing deservedly high in the profession.
    Wilson was married in 1883 to
    Miss Fannie Tucker
    , daughter of
    Judge N.W. Tucker
    , of Parkersburg, West Virginia, by whom he is the father of one child, viz.:
    Harold T
    .
    Mr. Wilson is a Methodist in his religious belief, belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In his political affiliations he is a Democrat, being one of his party leaders in this county.  Mrs. Wilson is a member of the Episcopal Church.
    History of Shelby County, Indiana
    ,  "Shelbyville Sketches,"  Chicago:  Brant & Fuller, 1887, page 548.
    <>
    Lee F. Wilson
    Birth
    8 Feb 1850
    Death
    25 Jan 1916 (aged 65)
    Burial
    Fairlawn Cemetery
    , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK
    THE OKLAHOMAN (Oklahoma City, OK)
    JAN. 26, 1916 OBITUARY (Wednesday)
    Lee F. Wilson, aged 66, 808 W. Grand avenue, died at St. Anthony's hospital Tuesday morning as the result of injuries sustained from a fall down a stairway at 308 ½ W. Grand avenue, a week ago.
    Mr. Wilson had been engaged in the practice of law for many years being one of the oldest members of the Oklahoma City bar. He came to Oklahoma in 1889.
    Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Jennie G. Wilson, and a brother, E.G. Wilson of Tulsa.
    Funeral services will be conducted at the Marshall & Harper chapel Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. H.E. Van Horn officiating.
    Members of the bar association are requesting to be present for the obsequies. The pallbearers will be from the legal fraternity. Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery.
    1/27/1916 Public record – deaths; Lee F. Wilson, 66, local hospital.
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    Seventy-first Regiment (6th Cavalry) INDIANA
    (3-YEARS)
    Seventy-first Regiment (6th Cavalry). -- Cols., James Biddle,
    Courtland C. Matson, Lieut.-Cols. Melville D. Topping,
    Courtland C. Matson; Majs., William Conklin, William W.
    Carter, Daniel A. Conover, Orlando J. Smith, Jacob S.
    Stephens, Chauncey H. Thompson, Edward H. Thompson, Russell P.
    Finney.
    This regiment the 71st of the line, was organize] as infantry,
    mustered in Aug. 18, 1862, and sent immediately to Kentucky to
    assist in repelling Kirby Smith's invasion.
    It was engaged in
    the battle of Richmond, where it lost 215 in killed and
    wounded and 347 prisoners, Lieut.-Col. Topping and Maj.
    Conkling being among the killed, and only 225 escaped capture.
    The captured were paroled, returned to Terre Haute, and were
    exchanged late in the fall.
    It returned to the field on Dec.
    27, when 400 of the regiment were sent to Muldraugh's Hill to
    guard trestle work and the following day they were surrounded
    by 4,000 of Morgan's cavalry and captured.
    The regiment returned to Indianapolis where it remained until
    Aug. 26, 1863.
    It was changed into a cavalry organization,
    Feb. 23, 1863, and two additional companies were organized and
    added during the year.
    It was engaged in the siege of Knoxville; in the operations
    against Longstreet on the Holston and Clinch Rivers, losing
    heavily, in killed and wounded; was ordered to Mt. Sterling,
    Ky., in the spring of 1864, to be remounted; and was stationed
    at Nicholasville, Ky., until April, when it moved to join
    Sherman's army at Dalton.
    It arrived there May 11, was assigned to the 2nd cavalry
    brigade Army of the Ohio, and participated in the battles of
    Resaca, Cassvilie, Kennesaw Mountain, and other engagements of
    the movement upon Atlanta.
    It aided in the capture of
    Allatoona Pass and was the first to raise a flag upon Lost
    Mountain.
    It took part in Stoneman's raid to Macon, GA, losing 166 in
    killed, wounded and captured, and returned to Nashville on
    Aug. 28, where it was remounted and sent in pursuit of
    Wheeler's cavalry.
    It took part in repelling Forrest's
    invasion of Middle Tennessee being engaged with his forces at
    Pulaski, and pursuing him to Waterloo, Ala.
    On Nov. 1 it moved to Dalton, GA, and on the 26th returned to
    Nashville.
    The regiment was engaged in the battle of
    Nashville and joined in the pursuit of Hood after the battle.
    It remained at Nashville until Apr. 1865, when it moved to
    Pulaski with the 2nd brigade, 6th division, cavalry corps,
    Military Division of the Mississippi.
    The original members of
    the regiment to the number of 425 were mustered out at
    Pulaski, Tenn., June 17, 1865, and the recruits whose terms
    did not expire before Oct. 1, were consolidated with the
    recruits of the 5th cavalry, the new organization being
    designated as the 6th Ind. cavalry.
    It remained in Middle Tennessee until Sept. 15, 1865, when it
    was mustered out at Murfreesboro.
    The original strength of the regiment was 1,200; gain by
    recruits, 548; total, 1,748.
    Loss by death, 260; desertion,
    105; unaccounted for, 72.
    Source:
    Union Army, vol. 3, p. 155
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