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EVEN Civil War Veteran, Private, Union Army Co. "A" 59th Reg, Indiana Infantry
Andrew J. TIpton served under the Union Army. He was enrolled 10 October, 1861 at Spencer, IN; was mustered into service 11 February, 1862 , at Gosport, IN as a private, Captain McNaught's Company, 59th Regiment Indiana Infantry, which later became Company A, 59th Regiment, Indiana Infantry. Honorably discharged 4 April, 1865 at Wlimington, North Carolina.
Statement by Col. John Bryant Tipton, Of Colorado Springs, Colorado, son of John Need Tipton: "In the Civil War, "Jack" Tipton (Andrew Jackson Tipton) and my father, John Need Tipton, Independantly of each other, enlisted in the 59th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Both wereof the small-wirey-medium-height type, blond and blue-eyed; they resembled each other physically, and became close friends, although Dad was 13 years younger. When I was a small boy, Jack Tipton and twp grandsons, Harold Victor and Otis Tipton occasionally visted inmy home in Sullivan County, Indiana . At Old Soldier's Reunions at my home town of Hymera, Jack and his two grandsons put on a stirring re-enactment of 'The Spirit of 76': with fife and drum. The mere memory of it thrills me still."
Andrew Jackson Tipton wasa wood carver. He carved all the woodwork on the pulpit in the Christian Church in Coal City. He was well know in the community. He was a good cook and made the best biscuits his niece, Nettie ever eat. Nettie say says that Hettie (Hester), wife of Andrew Jackson Tipton was cripple and that Jackson took care of her---pushing her to church in her whell chair every Sunday morning.
George died the year his father move to Indiana.