Editing Indianapolis (section)

===American Civil War===
{{Main|Indianapolis in the American Civil War}}
[[File:Prisoners at Camp Morton, c. 1863.jpg|thumb|[[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] [[Prisoners of war|POWs]] at [[Camp Morton]] in 1864]]
During the [[American Civil War]], Indianapolis was mostly loyal to the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] cause. [[Governor of Indiana|Governor]] [[Oliver P. Morton]], a major supporter of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]], quickly made Indianapolis a rallying place for [[Union Army|Union army]] troops. On February 11, 1861, [[President-elect of the United States|President-elect]] Lincoln arrived in the city, en route to [[Washington, D.C.]] for his [[First inauguration of Abraham Lincoln|presidential inauguration]], marking the first visit from a president-elect in the city's history.<ref>Holliday, p. 24; Dunn, ''Greater Indianapolis'', v. I, p. 217; and Leary, pp. 94–98.</ref> On April 16, 1861, the first orders were issued to form Indiana's first regiments and establish Indianapolis as a headquarters for the state's volunteer soldiers.<ref>{{cite journal|author=John D. Barnhart|title=The Impact of the Civil War on Indiana|journal=Indiana Magazine of History|volume=57|issue=3|page=186|publisher=Indiana University|location=Bloomington|date=September 1961|url= http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/8814/11342|access-date=October 15, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| author=Joseph A. Parsons Jr. |title=Indiana and the Call for Volunteers, April, 1861|journal=Indiana Magazine of History|volume=54|issue=1|pages=5–7|publisher=Indiana University|location=Bloomington|date=March 1958|url=http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/8576/10865|access-date=October 20, 2015}}</ref> Within a week, more than 12,000 recruits signed up to fight for the Union.<ref>{{cite book|title=Indiana in the Civil War Era, 1850–1880|author=Emma Lou Thornbrough|series=History of Indiana|volume=III|page=124|isbn=0-87195-050-2|publisher=Indiana Historical Society|year=1995|location=Indianapolis}}</ref>

Indianapolis became a major logistics hub during the war, establishing the city as a crucial military base.<ref>Leary, p. 99.</ref><ref name=Bod443>Bodenhamer and Barrows, eds., p. 443.</ref> Between 1860 and 1870, the city's population more than doubled.<ref name="Britannica"/> An estimated 4,000 men from Indianapolis served in 39 regiments, and an estimated 700 died during the war.<ref>Leary, pp. 99, 113–14, and Bodenhamer and Barrows, eds., pp. 441, 443.</ref> On May 20, 1863, Union soldiers attempted to disrupt a statewide Democratic convention at Indianapolis, forcing an adjournment of the proceedings, sarcastically referred to as the [[Battle of Pogue's Run]].<ref>Thornbrough, p. 202; Bodenhamer and Barrows, eds., p. 1121; and {{cite book|author=Kenneth M. Stampp|title=Indiana Politics During the Civil War|publisher=Indiana Historical Bureau|series=Indiana Historical Collections|volume=31|year=1949|location=Indianapolis|pages=199–201|oclc=952264}}</ref> Fear turned to panic in July 1863, during [[Morgan's Raid]] into southern Indiana, but Confederate forces turned east toward [[Ohio]], never reaching Indianapolis.<ref>Barnhart, pp. 212–13, and {{cite book|title=Indianapolis and the Civil War|author=John Holliday|publisher=E. J. Hecker|year=1911|pages=58–59}}</ref> On April 30, 1865, Lincoln's funeral train made a stop at Indianapolis, where an estimated crowd of more than 100,000 people passed the assassinated president's [[bier]] at the [[Indiana Statehouse]].<ref name=Bod443/><ref name=Dunn237>Dunn, v. I, p. 237.</ref>