Indiana Spirit Quest #290: Redmen's Rebel Traditional Cache

The Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just a year and a half, the quest has grown to over two hundred seventy caches hidden in twenty-seven Indiana counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown to ten cacher teams, nine of which of which are comprised of Dogs and their Humans. Over 570 cacher teams have logged over 6,500 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).

(Photos by LEAD DOG)

Welcome to the Warren IORM Cemetery located in Salamonie Township, Huntington County. The Improved Order Of Redmen is one of the oldest Congressionally chartered Fraternal Groups in America. It traces its roots to the Sons of Liberty, the guys who dressed up as Indians and held the Tea Party in Boston Harbor. Founding Fathers and Presidents are among its initiates. It's main themes are related to patriotism and Love of America and it's members have donated over a million dollars to Altzheimers Research.

There is a confederate soldier buried here:

17th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 7th Volunteers, was assembled at Plymouth, North Carolina, in June, 1861. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Pasquotank, Edgecombe, Hertford, Bertie, Currituck, and Beaufort. Attached to the Department of North Carolina, eight companies were captured at Fort Hatteras and three at Roanoke Island. After being exchanged, it was reorganized with ten companies and for a time served in North Carolina. Later it was placed in General J.G. Martin's and Kirckland's Brigade. The regiment saw action on the Bermuda Hundred front, at Cold Harbor, and in the Petersburg trenches south and north of the James River. In December, 1864, it returned 48 casualties on the Bermuda Hundred front and 14 at Sugar Loaf. On April 26, 1865, it surrendered with the Army of Tennessee. The field officers were Colonel William F. Martin' Lieutenant Colonels George W. Johnston, John C. Lamb, and Thomas H. Sharp; and Majors Henry A. Gilliam, George H. Hill, and Lucius J. Johnson

The cache container is a plastic lemonade mix jar which will be quite waterproof if the lid is screwed on properly, which even a child can do... BYOP. .The cache is not located near a grave... If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache in, trash out. XXXXX

None genuine without this official SixDogTeam seal. Digital photographs taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2005 by RikSu Outfitters unless otherwise noted.

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