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LeRoy Fitch
LeRoy Fitch (born 1 October 1835 in Logansport, Indiana), was a member of the United States Naval Academy class of 1856, and served with great distinction in the American Civil War and afterward. Commanding "Moose" in the Mississippi Squadron, in 1863 he pursued General John Hunt Morgan, CSA, the famed raider, for 500 miles up the Ohio River, frustrating Morgan's attempts to cross the river and retire to Confederate territory. Commander Fitch died in Logansport, Ind., 13 April 1875
, patriarch of the Bush political family, worked here as a railroad mechanic
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- LeRoy Fitch, United States Naval officer during the Civil War; half-brother of Graham