Indianapolis Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Civil War and Gilded Age=== {{Main|Indianapolis in the American Civil War}} [[File:Prisoners at Camp Morton, c. 1863.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Confederate States of America|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> Following the Civil War—and in the wake of the [[Second Industrial Revolution]]—Indianapolis experienced tremendous growth and prosperity. In 1880, Indianapolis was the world's third-largest pork packing city, after [[Chicago]] and [[Cincinnati]], and the second-largest railroad center in the U.S. by 1888.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor1-last=Bodenhamer|editor1-first=David|editor2-last=Barrows|editor2-first=Robert|title=The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis|year=1994|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington & Indianapolis|page=1483}}</ref><ref name="Built Environment">{{cite encyclopedia|editor1-last=Bodenhamer|editor1-first=David|editor2-last=Barrows|editor2-first=Robert|title=The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis|year=1994|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington & Indianapolis|page=23}}</ref> By 1890, the city's population surpassed 100,000.<ref name="Britannica"/> Some of the city's most notable businesses were founded during this period of growth and innovation, including [[L. S. Ayres]] (1872), [[Eli Lilly and Company]] (1876), [[Madam C. J. 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