History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . FIRST BATTALION K, IVI, J^, E. 232 HISTORY OF THE VICTOR M. BACKUS. Lieutenant-Colonel Victor M, Backus is a born sol-dier. His grandfather was an officer on Napoleons staff,his father was a soldier and Colonel Backus himself a hard. Victor M. Backus. Union fighter in the war of Rebellion. He thereforebrought with him into the recent service a large experienceof army life and this with his peculiar genius and character- ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST INDIANA. 233 istic earnestness made him an invaluable officer of t
History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . FIRST BATTALION K, IVI, J^, E. 232 HISTORY OF THE VICTOR M. BACKUS. Lieutenant-Colonel Victor M, Backus is a born sol-dier. His grandfather was an officer on Napoleons staff,his father was a soldier and Colonel Backus himself a hard. Victor M. Backus. Union fighter in the war of Rebellion. He thereforebrought with him into the recent service a large experienceof army life and this with his peculiar genius and character- ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST INDIANA. 233 istic earnestness made him an invaluable officer of theregiment in which he served. He was born at Williamsburg, New York, the 27th?day of March, 1850. When six years of age his parentscame to Franklin, Indiana, and six years later moved toIndianapolis. His school education was meagre, beinginterrupted by the war, where he felt, young as he was,that he was needed and therefore belonged. He was onlyeleven years old, he waited two years and then succeededin gaining enlistment in the Seventeenth Indiana Regiment,then a part of the Army of the Cumberland. GeneralWilder commanded the brigade and General Gerrard, thedivision. He was a brave and daring soldier and althoughbut a boy, bore well the part of the strongest man. Hefought at Dalton, Resaca, Rome, Big Sh
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