on the Underground Railroad. On April 20, 1860, an Adams Express packaged (shipped from Nashville, Tennessee and addressed to "Hannah Johnson [care of] Levi Coffin") burst open at Seymour while enroute to Cincinnati, Ohio. (Levi Coffin was a leading Hoosier abolitionist and the unofficial leader of the Underground Railroad.) The package contained a person fleeing slavery and looking for freedom in the north. A similar incident occurred earlier in Kentucky. The true identity of "Hannah Johnson" remains a mystery. Although Indiana was a "free state," Article XIII of the state constitution of 1851 made it illegal for African Americans to settle in Indiana and the Fugitive Slave Act permitted bounty hunters to capture and return people to slavery. The fugitive, later identified as Alexander McClure, was arrested and returned to Louisville and then to his owner in Nasville, TN. It took a civil war and the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 to ensure each African American the right of citizenship. The Civil War During the American Civil War, despite southern Indiana's strong Copperheads political sentiment, the city of Seymour and surrounding area raised three separate infantry regiments for service in the Union Army. Volunteers from Seymour were organized at Camp Heffron in Seymour. The entirety of the 50th Indiana Infantry Regiment commanded by former Indiana Secretary of State, Colonel Cyrus L. Dunham, portions of the 6th Indiana Infantry Regiment and 10th Indiana Cavalry Regiment. Captain Meedy Shields trained local minutemen militia units in response to Morgan's Raid in 1863 while several regiments of infantry were sent from Indianapolis. The 50th Indiana Infantry Regiment lost during their service 3 officers and 54 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 158 enlisted men by disease for a total of 218 casualties during the war. Colonel Dunham, a democrat, was accused of harboring confederate sympathies and mustered out of the regiment in 1863 under a cloud of suspicion. Lt. Colonel Heffron, who was poorly regarded by the men of the regiment, was also dismissed from the army and replace by Major Samuel T Wells, a Valonia, Indiana native, a Mexican-American war veteran, and former Jackson County Sheriff. Wells would go on to command the regiment after Durham's resignation until the 50th was dissolved and all men transferred to the 52nd Indiana Infantry Regiment who were also stationed in occupation garrison in Mobile, Alabama. Due to its strategic