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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Indiana Historical Trivia Request
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 00:52:11 EDT
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Sorry for the broad distribution, but there is no group for net.history,
and the sort of person who would know the answer (or a source for the
answer) probably reads one of the groups above.

I am editing a diary of a Civil War solider.  There is a reference
to a "Colonel Fitch, who it will be recalled was one of the so-called
Bogus Senators from Indiana."  I suspect that the reference is to a
dispute over an election in the the ten to fifteen years immediately
before the Civil War.  Does anyone know anything more about this
subject, or can they suggest an historian with an special interest
in Indiana state history.

Maybe we do need a net.history group.