The 18th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery, also known as Lilly's Hoosier Battery and Lilly's Battery, was a civil war artillery battery formed in Indiana during the American Civil War. The
Colonel Eli Lilly in 1885
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Eli Lilly was an American Union Army officer, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War and recruited a com
18th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery
…Battery, was a civil war artillery battery formed in Indiana during the American Civil War. The battery was formed at the end of 1860 by 22-year-old Eli Lilly, an Indianapolis pharmacist. He had recruitment posters placed around the city and recruited primarily among his friends and classmates. The unit were…
A photo of Lilly's first laboratory building in 1876 with Lilly and his son Josiah K. Lilly Sr. on the right side of the doorway
An 1886 drawing of Lilly's plant on McCarty Street
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Indianapolis, the largest outdoor memorial in Indiana