“INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST”
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 three hundred caches hidden in twenty-seven Indiana
counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown to
eleven cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of
Dogs and their Humans. Over 590 cacher
teams have logged over 6,500 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ
caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
(Photos by Shadow)
INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #302
"LIGHT
ARTILLERY"
Welcome to Bethlehem
Cemetery, Swan Twp., Noble County, Indiana. Following is a
description of it by the Mysterious Shadow, who thoughtfully hid a
micro geocache here recently:
This
cemetery is small and quite rural. Very little traffic passed by
the afternoon I spent here. Inactive now, (so I
thought).
It's
been maintained well, with most markers upright where possible. I
found four flagged stones for veterans here, three legible and two
with unit information. All apparently of the Civil War, as there
had been no recent burials.
There
is a graveled loop drive that misses the cemetery. Sort of. Not
realizing it until I was leaving, there has been a new addition
added that is “L” shaped and increasing the area by about four
times. The expansion is to the east and south. There has been one
new interment at the far southeast corner of this area already.
--THE SHADOW
UNION INDIANA
VOLUNTEERS
5th Battery, Indiana Light
Artillery
5th INDEPENDENT BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY
(SIMONSON'S).
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and
mustered in November 22, 1861. Left state for Louisville, Ky.,
November 27
SERVICE.-Duty at Camp Gilbert, Louisville, Ky., till December
20, 1861, and at Bacon Creek, Ky., till February, 1862. Advance on
Bowling Green, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., February 10-25. Occupation of
Bowling Green, Ky., February 15, and of Nashville February 25.
Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn., March 18. Reconnoissance to
Shelbyville, Tullahoma and McMinnville March 25-28. Advance on
Fayettesville and Huntsville, Ala., April 7-11. Capture of
Huntsville April 11. Advance on and capture of Decatur April 11-14.
Duty at Bridgeport, Ala. (Detachment), and along Nashville &
Chattanooga R. R. till August. Moved to Stevenson, Ala., August 24.
Moved to Nashville, Tenn.; thence to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of
Bragg, August 31-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky
October 1-15. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to
Nashville, Tenn., October 20-November 9, and duty there till
December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 26-30. Battle
of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty
at Murfreesboro till June. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign
June 22-July 7. Liberty Gap June 22-24. Occupation of Middle
Tennessee till August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and
Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September
22. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga,
Tenn., September 24-October 26. Reopening Tennessee River October
26-29. Outpost duty at Shellmound till February, 1864.
Demonstrations on Dalton February 22-27. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's
Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. Stone Church, near
Catoosa Platform, February 27. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to
September 8. Tunnel Hill May 6-7. Demonstration on Rocky Faced
Ridge Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Near Dalton May
13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Kingston May 18-19. Near
Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22-25. Operations on line
of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and
Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and
against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost
Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station
July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro
August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy
Station September 2-6. Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 20.
Veterans and Recruits transferred to 7th Indiana Battery. Mustered
out November 26, 1864.
Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 11 Enlisted men killed
and mortally wounded and 24 Enlisted men by disease. Total 36.
AMOS
FIND
LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED
WITHOUT NOTICE!
The cache container
was a camo'd match holder; now it's a small loc n loc.
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.XXXX!
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