. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. for meritorious service,Milroy was made brigadier-general, and again assigned to duty inWest Virginia. It was in the Cheat Mountain country that, mountedon Jasper, he won the title of the Gray Eagle of the Army. Thenit was that owing to his severe but efficacious orders in suppressingthe mountain rangers, or guerrillas, the Confederate Congress offereda reward of $100,000 for him, dead or alive. In November, 1862.
. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. for meritorious service,Milroy was made brigadier-general, and again assigned to duty inWest Virginia. It was in the Cheat Mountain country that, mountedon Jasper, he won the title of the Gray Eagle of the Army. Thenit was that owing to his severe but efficacious orders in suppressingthe mountain rangers, or guerrillas, the Confederate Congress offereda reward of $100,000 for him, dead or alive. In November, 1862. Milroy was made major-general of volun- JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES 119 teers, and was in command at Winchester, in 1863, when Leesmassed forces started to invade Pennsylvania. Ordered to evacuatethe place, he replied that he was able to hold it against any forcethe enemy could send against it. He did defend it for three days,or until both ammunition and food were virtually exhausted,when he cut his way out at night with heavy loss, thus materiallyretarding the progress of Lees army as a whole toward 1864 he won a merited consolation for the Winchester disaster,. General Robert H. MilroyThe Gray Eagle of the Army in a sally from Murfreesboro, in which he decisively defeatedBates infantry. His conduct at the former point was made thesubject of military investigation, but, although exonerated, heresigned from the army in 1865. After the war General Milroy served in many positions of trustand responsibility, being a trustee of the Wabash & Erie Canal,superintendent of Indian affairs and Indian agent, with headquartersat Olympia, Washington. It was while in office at that point thathe died, March 29, 1890, and was buried with the military honorsand civic ceremonies befitting his record and his fame. 120 JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES Although surmounted by an imposing statue of that grandfigure in life, known as the Gray Eagle, the memorial is also a tributeto the valor an
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