Welcome to the Posey Circuit Court
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Welcome to the Posey Circuit Court
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Has Anyone Here Seen My Ol' Friend, Abraham?Gavel GamutToday's Date -- June 7, 2005 Mt. Vernon Indiana Abraham Lincoln and Posey County. Who’d a thunk it? Well, me for one. As the great man himself once said, “Study and prepare and when opportunity comes you’ll be ready.” That’s just what several of our Posey County ancestors did and it paid off for them and our country. When President Lincoln needed advice on the Emancipation Proclamation he got it from New Harmony’s own Robert Dale Owen. When he needed a Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he looked to Civil War General, Thomas Gamble Pitcher, the son of his old friend and mentor in the law, Posey County Common Pleas Judge, John Pitcher. The Pitchers lived near the Lincolns in Spencer County before moving to Mt. Vernon. When he needed other fighting commanders in the Civil War he remembered William Harrow who practiced law with Lincoln in Illinois before moving to Mt. Vernon in 1850. General Harrow had a command facing Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. And Alvin Peterson Hovey emulated the young Abraham Lincoln by studying law under Judge Pitcher in Posey County before becoming a hero of the siege of Vicksburg. Major General Hovey served directly under Ulysses S. Grant and won praise from both the current and future presidents for his victory at Champion’s Hill during the long siege. Now, are these cases of, “It’s not what you know but whom you know?” Absolutely not! Robert Dale Owen and the Emancipation, three Civil War generals, Pitcher, Harrow and Hovey, and a Superintendent of West Point; not bad for little ol’ Posey County.
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