Browsing by Subject "Morton, Oliver P. (Oliver Perry), 1823-1877"

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    Burnside's Police State
    (2013-04-05) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-
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    Civil War: Governor Morton Telegraph Books and Slips Lesson Plans
    (Center for Digital Scholarship, IUPUI University Library., 2019) West, LeAnn; Pollock, CMJ
    This lesson plan utilizes and complements the Civil War: Governor Morton Telegraph Books and Slips Digital Collection to develop information and digital literacies to History/Social Studies 11th grade students in Indiana.
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    Emancipation in Indiana
    (2012-09-27) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-
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    Fear and Loathing in Indiana
    (2013-02-22) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-
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    Morton versus Cameron
    (2011-11-03) Coy, Gary
    Governor Morton had much going on, and couldn’t just work within his own borders without the help and the guidance of the Federal Government. He needed aid, and that aid was sometimes slow in coming. Thus, the Secretary of Defense, Simon Cameron, was always the man to go to. However, as can be seen in these dispatches, they weren’t always pleasant.
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    Senator Oliver P. Morton and Historical Memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Indiana
    (2016-02) Rainesalo, Timothy C.; Morgan, Anita J.; Fuller, A. James; Towne, Stephen
    After governing Indiana during the Civil War, Oliver P. Morton acquired great national influence as a Senator from 1867 to 1877 during Reconstruction. He advocated for African American suffrage and proper remembrance of the Union cause. When he died in 1877, political colleagues, family members, and many Union veterans recalled Morton’s messages and used the occasion to reflect on the nation’s memories of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This thesis examines Indiana’s Governor and Senator Oliver P. Morton, using his postwar speeches, public commentary during and after his life, and the public testimonials and monuments erected in his memory to analyze his role in defining Indiana’s historical memories of the Civil War and Reconstruction from 1865 to 1907. The eulogies and monument commemoration ceremonies reveal the important reciprocal relationship between Morton and Union veterans, especially Indiana members of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). As the GAR’s influence increased during the nineteenth century, Indiana members used Morton’s legacy and image to promote messages of patriotism, national unity, and Union pride. The monuments erected in Indianapolis and Washington, D. C., reflect Indiana funders’ desire to remember Morton as a Civil War Governor and to use his image to reinforce viewers’ awareness of the sacrifices and results of the war. This thesis explores how Morton’s friends, family, political colleagues, and influential members of the GAR emphasized Morton’s governorship to use his legacy as a rallying point for curating and promoting partisan memories of the Civil War and, to a lesser extent, Reconstruction, in Indiana.
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    Socratic Seminar: Governor vs. President “Who has the most Responsibility?”
    (2011-11-03) Coy, Tommy
    The Civil War throughout the history books has shown the power and the prestige of President Abraham Lincoln, and what all he had to do to prepare for war. However, not much is talked about in terms of the responsibilities of the states involved. That gives a look at the governor of each state, and in particular the governor of our own state of Indiana. After looking through the first pages of dispatches sent and received from Governor Oliver P. Morton, he had a tremendous amount of items and requests he had to take care of. Therefore, the argument could be made that Governor Morton had just as many responsibilities in getting his state on a war footing as did the President. But, the debate could be, who had more?