Addison Lee Ewing, 63rd Indiana Infantry

Addison Lee Ewing was from Haubstat, Indiana, and enlisted on 5/1/62, mustering in to Company C of the 63rd Indiana Infantry with the rank of 1st Sergeant. He resigned on 4/6/65 due to disability.

Haubstadt originally sent 98 men to fight for the Union. Nine would die due to disease or from being killed. 59 mustered out.

During his service he saw three promotions:
 * 2nd Lt on 10/2/86


 * 1st Lt on 6/24/64


 * Captain on 10/1/64 (As of Co. I).


 * He transferred from Company C to I on 11/6/64.

On November 30th, 1889 – on the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Franklin – Ewing notates the anniversary in his 1889 diary for that day. This would seemingly be uninteresting except for this fact. He does not refer to any other battle or engagement he was involved with in the Civil War except Franklin twenty-five years after the battle.

The experience at Franklin (30 November 1864) must have been a seminal experience in the mind of Ewing. In his diary for 1888-1889 he did not mention any of the other battle-anniversaries he could have like: Resaca, Lost Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta or even Nashville.