Captain Wallace W. McCune, grain buyer and stock dealer, Rockville, third son of Alexander McCune, was born at Mecca Mills, in Parke county, March 17, 1839. Mr McCune received a good English education, beginning with the common schools, and taking a preparatory course at the academy at Waveland, and ending his studies with two years in Wabash College.
He assisted in recruiting Co. G, 71st Indiana Volunteers, a regiment of nine months' men, and was commissioned captain. The regiment was organized August 18, 1862, and proceeded to the seat of the war in Kentucky, when it was captured by the rebel forces under General Kirby Smith at Richmond, on the 30th. General Nelson commanded the Union troops. In this unequal and stubborn engagement, which lasted a whole day, Capt. McCune's company sustained the heavy loss of six killed and fifteen wounded. The men were paroled and sent back to Terre Haute. On December 2, 1862, he resigned his commission and returned home.
He was married June 18, 1863, to Miss Sophronia I. Steele, daughter of General George K. Steele. She was born February 5, 1844 and died July 7, 1880. The following are their children : Mary Rosilla, Sallie E, Katie, Ross, George, Charlie and Isabel. Capt. McCune belongs to the republican party and to the following orders : Mason, Working Men, and Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of the Presbyterian church in Rockville. His wife was also a communicant in the same church.
Source : History of Vigo and Parke Counties, by H. W. Beckwith, 1880 (page 123)
He assisted in recruiting Co. G, 71st Indiana Volunteers, a regiment of nine months' men, and was commissioned captain. The regiment was organized August 18, 1862, and proceeded to the seat of the war in Kentucky, when it was captured by the rebel forces under General Kirby Smith at Richmond, on the 30th. General Nelson commanded the Union troops. In this unequal and stubborn engagement, which lasted a whole day, Capt. McCune's company sustained the heavy loss of six killed and fifteen wounded. The men were paroled and sent back to Terre Haute. On December 2, 1862, he resigned his commission and returned home.
He was married June 18, 1863, to Miss Sophronia I. Steele, daughter of General George K. Steele. She was born February 5, 1844 and died July 7, 1880. The following are their children : Mary Rosilla, Sallie E, Katie, Ross, George, Charlie and Isabel. Capt. McCune belongs to the republican party and to the following orders : Mason, Working Men, and Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of the Presbyterian church in Rockville. His wife was also a communicant in the same church.
Source : History of Vigo and Parke Counties, by H. W. Beckwith, 1880 (page 123)
Captain Wallace W. McCune, grain buyer and stock dealer, Rockville, third son of Alexander McCune, was born at Mecca Mills, in Parke county, March 17, 1839. Mr McCune received a good English education, beginning with the common schools, and taking a preparatory course at the academy at Waveland, and ending his studies with two years in Wabash College.
He assisted in recruiting Co. G, 71st Indiana Volunteers, a regiment of nine months' men, and was commissioned captain. The regiment was organized August 18, 1862, and proceeded to the seat of the war in Kentucky, when it was captured by the rebel forces under General Kirby Smith at Richmond, on the 30th. General Nelson commanded the Union troops. In this unequal and stubborn engagement, which lasted a whole day, Capt. McCune's company sustained the heavy loss of six killed and fifteen wounded. The men were paroled and sent back to Terre Haute. On December 2, 1862, he resigned his commission and returned home.
He was married June 18, 1863, to Miss Sophronia I. Steele, daughter of General George K. Steele. She was born February 5, 1844 and died July 7, 1880. The following are their children : Mary Rosilla, Sallie E, Katie, Ross, George, Charlie and Isabel. Capt. McCune belongs to the republican party and to the following orders : Mason, Working Men, and Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of the Presbyterian church in Rockville. His wife was also a communicant in the same church.
Source : History of Vigo and Parke Counties, by H. W. Beckwith, 1880 (page 123)
He assisted in recruiting Co. G, 71st Indiana Volunteers, a regiment of nine months' men, and was commissioned captain. The regiment was organized August 18, 1862, and proceeded to the seat of the war in Kentucky, when it was captured by the rebel forces under General Kirby Smith at Richmond, on the 30th. General Nelson commanded the Union troops. In this unequal and stubborn engagement, which lasted a whole day, Capt. McCune's company sustained the heavy loss of six killed and fifteen wounded. The men were paroled and sent back to Terre Haute. On December 2, 1862, he resigned his commission and returned home.
He was married June 18, 1863, to Miss Sophronia I. Steele, daughter of General George K. Steele. She was born February 5, 1844 and died July 7, 1880. The following are their children : Mary Rosilla, Sallie E, Katie, Ross, George, Charlie and Isabel. Capt. McCune belongs to the republican party and to the following orders : Mason, Working Men, and Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of the Presbyterian church in Rockville. His wife was also a communicant in the same church.
Source : History of Vigo and Parke Counties, by H. W. Beckwith, 1880 (page 123)
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