Ashtabula County, Ohio - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 17 of those read), 1878 (part 1 of 2)

Chapter with an unread heading (no. 17 of those read)

Coleman saw the Indian dodge behind a tree. He drew up his gun to fire, but the Indian was out of sight, and in the haste of the moment he dropped his gun

The first demand upon her patriotism was in the alarm following the surrender of General Hull at Detroit, August 16, 1812. Of the part taken by the citizens of Ashtabula County in the defense of the frontier but little will be found in to the ground, where the water was so deep as to wet the priming. Having only a pistol left, it was thought best to retreat. Captain Burnham cut open the mail-bag, took out the report of their situation at Fort Stephenson, which was then regarded as critical, and placed it in his bosom, threw away the balance of the mail, and, leaving their horses, they started towards Fort Meigs. After passing through ham ami Dr. Coleman reached Fort Stephenson, having been four days without anythiug to eat, and under extreme fatigue and excitement. Hayes had encountered the Indians, who were numerous in the vicinity of Fort Meigs. Shifting his course, he came across another company, which he avoided, and deeming it a hopeless effort again to meet his companions, struck for Fort Stephenson, which he reached in two days. After their return dispatches were received showing the cause of this danger. The British general, Proctor, with two thousand men, had commenced bombarding Fort Meigs, and the Indians had been let loose upon the surrounding country, to aid, by means of plunder, burning, and massacre, in subduing the fort and prosecuting the war.

" I have been with the army since the 22d of August last ; have been home in March, on furlough ; expect a discharge soon. My health has been good since I have been with the army. Ere this reaches you, you will no doubt have an official account of the siege of Fort Meigs, situate at the rapids of the Miami of the lake. This affair has cost the British more than the surrender of General Hull's army and our western posts have benefitted them. The Indians are disheartened, and call them cowards. Our loss in killed at the fort and at the different sallies is about eighty men ; the number of wounded I do not know, but probably is very considerable. Major Stoddard, of the artillery, has died of his wounds. I have been in company with a captain of the Ohio troops, who was sent by General Harrison as a guide to the Kentuckians to storm the batteries opposite our fort, on the opposite side of the river. From him I have the particulars of that engagement. Our loss, notwithstanding they succeeded in carrying the batteries and spiking the cannon, is very great ; but few got safe into our fort. This disaster is imputed to disobedience of General Harrison's orders and the want of discipline in the troops. About four hundred and fifty of the unfortunate captives lately landed at Huron. Both officers and soldiers had been stripped of their clothing and were in a most destitute situation ; many of them without shirts, and scarcely a hat or a shoe among them. The captain above mentioned was severely wounded and taken prisoner, but escaped the gauntlet of the savages by the friendly treatment of the British regulars. The savages killed - says my informant - ninety-nine of our men after they surrendered. Two British soldiers were killed and several wounded in attempting to stop the inhuman butchery. Since the battle of Tippecanoe, in 1811, the number of our savage foes has increased nearly tenfold. It will now require a formidable army to contend with them, but it is to be hoped that the communication between the British and their savage allies will soon be cut off, which will of course stop the progress of these ferocious creatures.

Our thanks are due E. A. Wright, Esq., of Rock Creek, for roll of Captain James Stone's company, and for the following incidents of the War of 1812 :

At the battle of River Raisin, General Winchester entered into the engagement contrary to General Harrison's orders, not waiting for reinforcements ; consequently, there was great slaughter. General Harrison called for volunteers to go and get permission from the British to bury the dead. Robert Lamont, of this county, stepping from the ranks, said he would carry the flag of truce if necessary. The flag was put over the door of the cabin where he was to remain during the night. The Indians broke open the door, and shot him.

Guy Humphrey, of this county, was on guard at the mouth of Cuyahoga river, when in the dim light he saw, as he supposed, a canoe, containing an Indian approaching. Watching it closely, he thought it prudent to hail him. " Who comes there ? was shouted to the supposed enemy. No response being given he fired his musket, but that producing no effect, he reloaded and fired again. By this time all was commotion in camp, and preparations were made for an attack. Colonel King sent out a squad of men to reconnoitre, who found the cause of alarm to be a large black log ^hat was washed ashore by the dead swell of the lake. Humphrey was duly commended for his prompt discharge of duty and for his courage as a soldier.

David \\ right, first sergeant under Captain James Stone, was at a barn-raising, when a messenger rode up, inquiring if the captain of the militia company was present. The reply was, " No, but the lieutenant is." The messenger said, " I am General Wadsworth's aid, and have orders to call out the militia en masse, General Hull having surrendered to General Brock, who has threatened with his twenty-five hundred regulars and a horde of Indians to sweep the shore of Lake Erie from Detroit to Buffalo. I give you orders to call out the Second Company, Second Battalion, 1 bird Regiment, Fourth Brigade, to report at Cleveland forthwith, to repel the enemy." Lieutenant Atkins, turning to Sergeant Wright, said, " You are commanded to notify our company to meet at your home at ten o'clock to-morrow morning, armed and equipped for active service." Leaving for home immediately, he mounted his horse and notified every' man before he slept, it being nearly sundown when he started, having to go over the townships of Morgan and Rome to execute his orders. The next morning, which was that of Sunday, the old men were early at work making cartridges with bullets, - something that many of the men had never before seen. A barrel of powder, with lead, had previously been obtained from Pittsburgh. At about noon the boots were mended, the old flint-lock muskets were put in order, the farewells were spoken, and the line of march was taken for the seat of action. The first night the men encamped under the broad heavens, for they were without tents, without cooking utensils, with food only that each man carried in his pocket from home. At Austinburg they were joined by another company. The second night they encamped at Painesville, and on the next night marched into Cleveland to the sound of fife and drum.

In the war for the Union during the great Rebellion, Ashtabula was prompt, patriotic, and decisive. Her citizens were in the first fire upon the Confederates at Philippi, and at the surrender at Appomattox. They were with Fremont in Missouri, with Banks in the Shenandoah valley, and with Rosecrans in Western Virginia. They fought with Hooker at Lookout Mountain, with Grant at Vicksburg, and marched with Sherman through Georgia and the Carolinas. Their blood stained the way from the Potomac to the James, from the Ohio to the Tennessee, from the Missouri to the Arkansas. At Kernstown, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Antietam ; at Resaca, Kenesaw, and Chickamauga; before Atlanta; Stone River, Shiloh, Perryville; Pea Ridge, Murfreesboro', and Malvern Hill ; Cloyd Mountain, Cedar Creek, and Five Forks ; Spottsylvania, North Anna, and Petersburg, - wherever a glorious record was made, there Ashtabula had brave men, who bore aloft her colors through the gloom of defeat as well as in the flush of victory. They trailed not in disgrace, but were borne forward by earnest and determined men. Northway, Luce, Kee, Stanhope, Spaulding, Manchester, Paulis, and Grant paid the penalty demanded of gallant officers who lead where brave men dare to follow. Ashtabula's dead lie in almost every battle-field strewn with the sons of the Republic, who died that it might live and be indeed the " land of the free." They suffered in the trench and in the hospital ; they starved in the prison-pen at Andersonville, at Libby, Belle Isle, and Salisbury ; they fell in the skirmish, on the picket-line, and in the charge, amid the roar of cannon and the rattle of musketry. Whatever sacrifice was demanded by the bloody Moloch of war, Ashtabula had a victim who was offered to the insatiable monster. Many are sleeping in unknown graves, where no family devotion can find them out, and where the Almighty only can cover them year by year with his grasses, and plant above them in the spring-time His beautiful flowers. They are

About the time the Geneva Artillery was ordered to the frontier of the State the " wave of excitement" broke upon this county. The President's proclamation calling for seventy-five thousand men was made public in this county on Monday evening, April 15, 1861. The people at once responded by a general movement for raising men. Captain Darius Cadwell, then holding a commission as brigadier-general in the old militia organization, repaired to Columbus to ascertain the best method of proceeding, when he found the quota of the State probably filled ; yet he received assurance of the acceptance of some companies into regiments then organizing. At a meeting at the court-house in Jefferson, April 20, General Cadwell and Hon. Abel Krum, then a representative in the general assembly of Ohio from this county, made statements of the condition of affairs, there being the plainest indication that more men would be wanted as rapidly as they could be enlisted. This was the first meeting worthy of note in the county called for the purpose of procuring three-months' volunteers for the war. It was presided over by Judge N. L. Chaffee, Rev. T. G. Lamb and Gillett Fowler acting as vice-presidents, and J. D. Ensign as secretary. At the close of the meeting a call was made for voluuteers, when sixty names were enrolled, Hon. B. F. Wade heading the list. This company organized and made choice of the following officers: Captain. Henry L. Ilervey; First Lieutenant, D. S. Wade; Second Lieutenant, E. E. Ward. After attending the meeting previously mentioned, Hon. Abel Krum visited Cherry Valley, Wayne, and Andover, announcing at the churches on Sunday the demand of the country for men, and calling for volunteers. The result of this labor was the enlistment of a large number of men in that section of the county, and shortly after a company was formed at West Andover, composed of ninety-four men, with E. D. Chapman, of Andover, as captain, John B. Rice, of Andover, first lieutenant, and Rollin L. Jones, of Wayne, as second lieutenant. A company was also organized at Kingsville, April 27, 1861, seventy-seven names being enrolled, and officered as follows: Samuel Hayward captain, W. Stevens first lieutenant, and L. G. Bannister second lieutenant. Five full companies of good men were ready to march from this county (not including the Geneva Artillery, already in the field) at the earliest hour that they could be received and equipped, amounting in the aggregate to four hundred and thirty-three men. Of these companies but two could be accepted, as the quota of the State had been filled. The companies accepted were organized at Ashtabula and Rock Creek, and served in the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, while the remainder disbanded.

It would be ungallant to pass by the heroic women of Ashtabula without paying them a tribute of praise and gratitude for their labors of love and mercy during the terrible years of 1861-65. Aid societies sprang up all over the county, wherein noble and self-sacrificing women banded together and prepared comforts for the well, dainties for the sick, and necessaries for the wounded. Fair hands were busy throughout the whole dreadful struggle. Early and late, in season and out of season, these angels of mercy toiled and gathered and forwarded to the soldiers at the front every comfort in their power to bestow. Too much praise cannot be given to the women of the north for their efforts to cheer and sustain the armies of the nation. It was the remark of gallant General Joseph Hooker that, during the Crimean war, England furnished but one Florence Nightingale, while here one was to be found in every northern household. On the same roll containing the name of the English heroine we are pleased to place the names of Misses Elizabeth A. Tuttle, Rebecca P. Dean, Laretta H. Cutler, and Ellen Udell, who shared in the dangers of war as nurses in army hospitals in the south.

The following history of the regiments and batteries in which one organized company or more was incorporated we have compiled from Whitelaw Reid's " Ohio in the War." We are also under great obligations to the editors of the Ashtabula Sentinel for the use of valuable files of their paper, containing extensive correspondence from soldiers in the field and their " Soldiers' Record of Ashtabula County." Also to Major H. J. Covell, Captain L. C. Reeve, and A. W. Stiles, of Rome, Captain M. B. Gray, of Cleveland, Herbert H. Tourgee, of Ida, Iowa, and others of the soldiers of Ashtabula.

This regiment numbered about one thousand men, and was mustered into the service at Camp Jackson, Columbus, the last week in May, 1861. Companies D and I were from Ashtabula County, the former under command of Captain R. W. Crane, and the latter of Captain W. B. Hoyt. These companies were ordered to rendezvous at Ashtabula, and await further orders. They remained at Ashtabula about three weeks, when they were removed to Camp Taylor, at Cleveland, and moved to the field via Columbus and Zanesville. After the organization of the regiment they went into the West Virginia campaign under General McClellan. The Confederate army, under General Robert S. Garnett, was concentrating in northwest Virginia, with a view to a junction with General H. A. Wise on the Kanawha. After the skirmish at Philippi, General Garnett took a position at Laurel Hill, where he fortified. General McClellan planned a flank movement that was successful in getting Garnett into a proper shape for an attack to be made by General Roseerans' brigade, composed of the Eighth, Tenth, and Thirteenth Indiana, and Nineteenth Ohio Regiments. At Rich Mountain General Garnett had posted Colonel Pegram with a strong force. It was decided to attack this position first, and Colonel Roseerans was sent to make a detour of eight or nine miles through the mountains to gain the turnpike in Pegram's rear. This much was successfully accomplished, but dispatches sent from McClellan to Roseerans were captured, and the plan discovered. The Confederates were prepared for the attack, made on the 11th of July, and fought with great obstinacy. The position of the Nineteenth in this battle was a most trying one, but the men stood their first fire like veterans.

The following is from the report of General Roseerans : " The Nineteenth Ohio distinguished itself for the cool and handsome manner in which it held its post against a flank attack, and for the manner in which it came into line and delivered its fire near the close of the action." The Nineteenth was not mustered out of the service until September, 1861, on account of delays at the War Department.

Twenty-Third Ohio Infantry

At the commencement of the war, Grotius R. Giddings, son of Hon. J. R. Giddings, was acting as vice-consul at Quebec, but as soon as the call for volunteers was made he resigned his post, returned home, and recruited a company, with a view of joining the infantry service as riflemen. The company was accepted, and received marching orders on the 1st of June, 1861, and on the 4th arrived at Camp Chase, and united with this regiment. Before leaving Jefferson it was presented with a splendid silk banner, in front of the court-house, by Miss Adeliza Hawley, who addressed the company on behalf of the ladies who had prepared it. On the arrival of the company at Camp Chase, it was organized as Company B into the Twenty-third Regiment, which was officered as follows : colonel, William S. Roseerans ; lieutenant-colonel, Stanley Matthews ; major, Rutherford B. Hayes.

The position of these officers has been quite different since those days, - in fact, too well known to need repetition. Under command of Colonel E. P. Scammon, the Twenty-third went into active service in West Virginia, meeting with the new and exciting events common to inexperienced soldiers, which were almost forgotten amid the sterner and sad realities of active warfare.

The regiment participated in the battles of Carnifax Ferry, Virginia, September 10, 1861 ; Giles Court-House, May 10, 1862 ; and had the honor of opening the battle of South Mountain, September 14, 1862, where it lost thirty-three men killed and eighty wounded, among the latter being Rutherford B. Hayes, now President of the United States. As an incident of this battle it is said that the Twelfth and Twenty-third Ohio and Twelfth and Twenty-third North Carolina - Companies B on each side - were directly engaged with each other. The Twenty-third, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hayes, was in the advance on that day. It was ordered at an early hour to advance up the mountain and attack the enemy. From behind stone walls the enemy poured a destructive fire into the Federal ranks at very short range. The command of the Twentythird fell upon Major Comley after Lieutenant-Colonel Hayes was wounded, the latter again making his appearance on the field, with his wound half-dressed, and fought, against the remonstrances of the whole command, until carried off. Near the close of the day at Antietam a charge was made by the division to which the Twenty-third belonged, and was exposed to a large force of the enemy posted in a corn-field in rear of the left. Its colors were shot down, and at the same time a feint was made in its front. The colors were planted on a new line at right angles with its former front, and the regiment formed a line in the new direction, and opened fire upon the enemy, who retired. The division withdrew, but no order reached the Twenty-third, and it remained on the field until the division commander returned and ordered it to the rear. The Twenty-third assisted in heading off Morgan's command at Buffington's Island, and then returned to Charlestown, West Virginia, and afterwards joined General Crook's forces for a raid on the Virginia and Tennessee railroad. May 9, 1864, the Twenty-third fought at Cloyd Mountain. The enemy occupied the first crest of the mountain, defended by artillery and rudely-constructed breastworks. The hill was steep, thickly wooded, and difficult of ascent, and skirted by a stream of water two or three feet deep. At the word of command the regiment advanced across the stream to the foot of the mountain, under a heavy fire of musketry and artillery, without returning the fire of the enemy. A furious assault was made upon the enemy's works, carrying them, with two pieces of artillery. The struggle at the guns was of the fiercest description. The Confederate artillerymen attempted to reload their pieces when the Federal line was not more than ten paces distant. The Twenty-third was with Hunter in the attack on Lynchburg, and in numerous skirmishes and battles in the Shenandoah valley. At Winchester, July 24, 1864, it lost one hundred and fifty-three men. At the battle of Opequan, September 19, Hayes' brigade had the extreme right of the infantry. Moving forward under fire, the brigade came upon a deep slough, forty or fifty yards wide, and nearly waist-deep, with soft mud at the bottom, overgrown with a thick bed of moss. It seemed impossible to get through it, and the whole line was staggered for a moment. Just then Colonel Hayes plunged in with his horse, and under a shower of bullets and shells he rode, waded, and dragged his way through, - the first man over. The Twenty-third was ordered by the right flank over the slough. At the same place men were suffocated and drowned ; still the regiment plunged through, reformed, charged forward again, driving the enemy. The division commander was wounded, leaving Colonel Hayes in command. He was everywhere, exposing himself as usual ; men were falling all around him, but he rode through it all as though he had a charmed life. No reinforcements as promised ; something must be done to stop the fire that is cutting the force so terribly. Selecting some Saxony rifles in the Twenty-third, pieces of seventy-one calibre, with a range of twelve hundred yards, Lieutenant McBride was ordered forward with them to kill the enemy's artillery horses, in plain sight. At the first shot a horse drops, immediately another is killed, and a panic seems to seize the artillerymen, and they commence limbering up. The infantry take the alarm, and a few commence running from the intrenchments, and the cavalry, which had been hovering upon the flanks, swept down upon the enemy, capturing them by regiments, and the battle was at an end. The Twenty-third fought at North Mountain, September liO, 1864, and at Cedar Creek, October 19,- - a day that is a household word over a whole nation. The Twenty-third was mustered out on the 26th day of July, 1S63, at Cumberland. Maryland, and was paid and disbanded at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio.

Twenty-Ninth Ohio Infantry

Soon after the disaster at Bull Run. a little knot of citizens were gathered together in front of the post-office at Jefferson, waiting for details of the battle, when the Hon. J. R. Giddings, who was then at home from Canada, came up and entered iuto the subject of conversation, which of course was the late battle, its effect, and the prospect before us. He said, " We must raise a regiment in this county, and I am ready to do anything and all in my power to promote it. We can raise the men beyond doubt, and they ought to be ready for the field in sixty days. This reverse is necessary to excite us to action, and now is the time for us to move." He immediately procured an order from the War Department for the enlistment and organization of a regiment from the northeast part of the State. The orders provided for this regiment designated it as the Twenty-ninth, and Jefferson as the place of rendezvous, the camp to be known as Camp Giddings. This camp was located on the grounds of the County Agricultural society. The first company of the Twenty-ninth was organized on the 11th of August, 1861, and went into camp on Monday, August 19. By the 1st of December the regiment was fully organized, with Lewis P. Buckley, colonel ; Thomas Clark, lieutenant-colonel ; and John S. Clemmer, major. While in camp a splendid stand of colors was presented to the Twenty-ninth by the ladies of this and adjoining counties, on which occasion Hon. J. R. Giddings addressed the members of the regiment as follows:

-- Officers and soldiers : The ladies have prepared a splendid national and regimental stand of colors, and have imposed on me the pleasant duty of presenting them to the regiment. In all past ages civilized nations have gone forth to war under their own banner, on which was inscribed some device, figure, or emblem peculiar to such nation. Thus each tribe among the Israelites had their particular banner. The early Christians fought under the cross ; the Romans under the golden eagle ; the Mohammedans under the crescent. The founders of our government selected for their colors a groundwork of blue, representing immutable justice and unlimited power, on which the stars represented light, twinkling in the vaulted heavens, while in mid ether the bird of Jove is floating, a fitting representation of the ease and power with which liberty and civilization are gliding over the earth, while the stars, with the stripes of red and white, represent the vital principles and purity of our institutions." (Addressing Colonel Buckley.) -- To you, sir, as commanding. I present these beautiful standards, for the use and benefit of the regiment. On behalf of the fair donors I confide these national and regimental standards to the care of yourself, your gallant officers, and men. Wherever you go, let them be borne aloft and respected as the emblem of universal freedom to all who seek your protection. Preserve them unstained. Bear in mind that you go forth to fight the battles of the human race for all coming time. Remember the cause in which you are engaged. Your own heroic deeds shall be enshrined in our memories, recorded in our history, admired by coming generations, and approved by a holy and just God !"

Colonel Buckley replied, "I receive this stand of colors in behalf of the Twenty-ninth Regiment. I return, through you, to the noble and patriotic ladies of Ashtabula and Summit counties, our grateful thanks, and whenever and wherever it is unfurled to the breeze, and we look upon its stars and stripes, may we then remember the generous donors and the vow we this day make! This flag, the flag of our country, which has been our pride and our boast, and which is respected by all civilized nations, - this flag, thank God, shall yet wave triumphantly wherever it has been struck down ! Companions, when we look upon this beautiful flag, may it inspire us to redouble our energies to do our duty to our beloved country; and if God, in his providence, permits us to return to home and kindred, may this flag come back with us to bear witness that the Twentyninth Ohio Volunteers were in the thickest of the fight !"

On Christmas morning, December, 1861, the Twenty-ninth left Camp Giddiugs, via Ashtabula, for Camp Chase, remaining at the latter camp until January 17. 1862, when it was ordered to Virginia, in consequence of the Confederate advance, under Jackson, upon Romney. At Patterson's creek, Virginia, the regiment was assigned to the division of General Landor. and to the brigade of Colonel E. B. Tyler, of the Seventh Ohio. After the death of General Landor, General James Shields assumed command of the division, and the march commenced towards Winchester. The enemy were met on the 23d of March, at Kernstown. Here the Twenty-ninth fought its first battle, losing three killed and ten wounded, and afterwards following in the pursuit of Jackson as far as Strasburg. It marched with its division to Falmouth, where General McDowell's army was reviewed by President Lincoln. After a long march, the Twentyninth again met the enemy at Port Republic, June 9, 1862, where a severe battle was fought, in which it lost fourteen killed and thirty-six wounded, with over one hundred missing. Captain Horatio Luce fell in this battle. August 9, 1862, the Twenty-ninth fought at Cedar Mountain, Virginia, losing six men killed and fifty-two wounded. The Twenty-ninth next met the enemy at Chancellorsville, May 1, 1863, fighting through the three terrible days following, and was posted near the Chancellor House, in the rear of a line of rude earthworks, where solid shot plowed the ground near its position. The enemy had gained a part of the works to the right, where an assault was made upon them, in which the Twenty-ninth was closely engaged. At this battle the Twenty-ninth lost seventytwo killed and wounded. At Gettysburg, July 1, 2, and 3, the Twenty-ninth was next engaged, losing thirty-seven killed and wounded. It was ordered to relieve the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh New York Infantry in the works, which had nearly expended its ammunition. In passing over a slight elevation, swept by the musketry of the enemy, the principal loss was sustained. From Gettysburg the Twenty-ninth marched with the army southward, and early on the morning of the 31st of July crossed the Rappahannock river at Kelly's ford, in the face of the enemy. August 16 the Twenty-ninth, with the Ohio regiments of its brigade, started for New York city, to aid in enforcing order during the draft. Returning to Virginia, it was soon sent with Hooker's army to Tennessee, and engaged in the battle of Lookout Mountain, November 24, 1863. December 22 it was re-mustered into the service as a veteran organization, and furloughed for thirty days. Returning to the field, it fought at Dug Gap, Georgia, May 8, 1S64, losing over one hundred men in killed and wounded. This was a strong pass in the Chatooga range ; its sides are steep, covered with forests and rocks, rising eight hundred feet above Mill creek. Along the top, facing westward, rise palisades, impossible to scale. In addition to the natural strength of the position were breastworks, occupied by the enemy. The Twenty-ninth came within range of a destructive fire from the enemy in this stronghold. Sixty rounds of ammunition were soon exhausted, but by emptying the cartridge-boxes of the dead a desultory fire was kept up until near dark, when the command was given to retire. At this battle Colonel Fitch, Lieutenant-Colonel Hayes, and Adjutant Stover were wounded, and Lieutenant Grant killed. In this terrible assault twenty-one were killed and eighty-four wounded. May 15, at Resaca, the Twenty-ninth had three men wounded. At New Hope Church, Georgia. May 25, the regiment fought at night until darkness ended the contest. Here it was under fire until June 1. June 15, at Pine Hill, the Twenty-ninth was engaged in an assault upon the enemy's earthworks, and its loss was severe. The next morning it could stack but seventy muskets. It fought at Peach-Tree Creek and engaged in the siege of Atlanta, marched with Sherman down to the sea, participated in the siege and capture of Savannah, and in the marches through the Carolinas. The Twenty-ninth participated in the great review at Washington, May 24, and soon afterwards was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where it was mustered out July 13, 1865. July 22 it was disbanded at Cleveland, Ohio. The rolls of the Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry bear the names of fifteen hundred and thirty -two men, of whom five hundred and forty were killed, wounded, or missing.

Fiftieth Ohio Infantry

This regiment was recruited from the State at large, Captain Oscar C. Pratt's company being principally from Ashtabula County. The Fiftieth was early sent to the front, and first met the enemy at Perry ville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862, where it lost three officers and one hundred and sixty-two men killed and wounded.

From February, 1S63, until September. 1S63, the regiment was engaged in building fortifications and in constructing trestles on various rivers in Kentucky, and in December of the same year was ordered to Knoxville, Tenuessee. In the severe winter weather the men dragged the artillery and wagons over the mountains by hand, slept on the frozen ground, in rain and snow, without shelter, and partially subsisted on parched corn. In the Atlanta campaign of 1864 the Fiftieth was in the Third Brigade, Second Division. Twenty-third Corps, and was in line of battle almost constantly. It participated in the actions at Pumpkinvine Creek, Dallas. New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, Pine Mountain. Kenesaw Mountain, Culp House, Nicojack Creek, Chattahoochie River. Howard House. Atlanta, and Jonesboro'. The Fiftieth was in the pursuit of Hood's army, and marched to the Coosa river, in Alabama. At Spring Hill. Tennessee, the enemy had formed a line across the road near that place. The Fiftieth on the left and the remainder of the brigade upon the right drove the Confederates from their position, and formed a junction with the Fourth Corps, which had held Spring Hill against the attack of Cheatham's Corps. At the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864, the Fiftieth was placed upon the right of the Columbia pike. In this it received and repelled eleven successive charges. It went into battle with two hundred and twenty-five men, and came out with one hundred and twelve. It fell back with the army to Nashville, and participated in the battles at that place, December 15 and 16, 1864, and followed the defeated enemy to Columbia, Tennessee. The Fiftieth was consolidated with the Ninety-ninth Ohio Infantry. The consolidated regiment constituted the Fiftieth. At the time of the consolidation the Fiftieth numbered only about one hundred men. In August, 1862, it contained an aggregate of nine hundred and sixty-four men. The Fiftieth moved to Clifton, Tennessee, and thence via Cincinnati and Washington to Fort Fisher, North Carolina. June 26, 1865, it was mustered out at Salisbury, North Carolina, and July 17, 1865, it was paid and disbanded at Camp Dennison, Ohio.

Sixtieth Ohio Infantry

Early in the year 1864 about twenty -five young men of Austinburg and vicinity enlisted with Lieutenant Charles E. Austin, and were attached to the Sixtieth Ohio Infantry, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel J. N. McElroy. Upon the completion of six companies it was sent to the field, reporting to General Burnside, at Alexandria, Virginia, and was assigned to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Army Corps. The Sixtieth joined the Army of the Potomac on the Rapidan, and took part in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomy, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg, and in the actions about Richmond. On the 9th of May, 1864, the battalion led the advance of a column of two divisions of the Ninth Army Corps in the attack at Mary's Bridge, Ny river, and was specially distinguished in orders by the general commanding for the gallantry with which it crossed the stream and carried the positions of the enemy. The muster-rolls in the office of the adjutant-general of Ohio show the casualties in this battalion to be five hundred and five, with but seventeen missing. Two-thirds of those who enlisted with Lieutenant Austin were killed, died of hardship and disease, or were wounded. The entire loss from disease and on the battle-field in Company C was forty men, showing the most terrible mortality of any Ohio company in the service during the same short period of time. The Sixtieth was mustered out of the service July 25, 1865.

One Hundred And Fifth Ohio Infantry

This regiment composed of citizens of Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga, Trumbull, and Mahoning counties. Companies G and K and a part of Company I were from Ashtabula County. The regiment was mustered into service on the 20th and 21st of August, 1862, at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, Ohio. The last company was mustered in at ten o'clock on the morning of August 21, and in one hour the regiment, one thousand and thirteen strong, was on the march, being the first regiment to leave the State under the President's call for troops of August 4, 1862. Having been armed and equipped, the regiment left for Lexington, Kentucky, where it was assigned to the brigade commanded by Colonel Charles Anderson. General Kirby Smith, in command of the Confederate army, was advancing from Cumberland Gap, and the regiment had every prospect of an immediate engagement. On the 30th of August the regiment advanced towards Richmond, Kentucky, for the purpose of reinforcing General Nelson, but the battle had been fought and lost, and hasty preparations were made for departure to Louisville. Colonel Hall, of the One Hundred and Fifth, was in command of the rear-guard. The weather was intensely warm, and there had been a drought in the country marched over. The column was pushed forward in great haste, and many fell from sunstroke, apparently dead. The regiment faithfully performed its duty as rear-guard, and acted as a support to a section of artillery totally unprovided with ammunition. At Louisville, the regiment was assigned to Brigadier-General Terrill's brigade, of Brigadier-General Jackson's division. Leaving Louisville, the regiment marched to Perryville, where it was engaged in the battle of October 8, 1862. On the afternoon of that day the battle commenced at the point where the One Hundred and Fifth was stationed. The regiment moved rapidly forward and formed at the base of a ridge, where it awaited orders. The One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois Regiment and Parsons' Battery had been assigned a position to the front and left, where they became engaged, and the One Hundred and Fifth was ordered to their support. The regiment passed to the rear of the battery, for the purpose of forming on its left. Before reaching its position it received a volley from a Confederate regiment, and at once halted and opened fire. Another Confederate regiment rose out of the tall grass that completely concealed it and fired another volley. Parsons' Battery had been posted without any support near it, and within fifty yards of the concealed line of Confederate infantry. Most of the guns had been silenced, many of its men killed and wounded, and half of its horses shot down. At the first volley from the One Hundred and Fifth the Confederate lines, three or four deep, moved forward, firing as they advanced, and swept the ridge where the regiment and battery stood. The Confederate batteries were posted in rear of their infantry, which did terrible execution. General ierrill ordered Major Perkins, of the One Hundred and Fifth, to have the men fix bayonets and try to save the battery. Fresh troops of the enemy sprang up and the line faltered, wavered, and fell back to its former position. The enemy succeeded in taking the battery, and the contending lines were almost within pistol-shot of each other. The guns of the battery were turned upon the Federal lines, but the men were unwilling to retreat. At length General Terrill, seeing that further resistance was hopeless, gave the order to fall back. They reformed in the rear of a battery, supporting it until night closed the contest. The regiment went into battle eight hundred strong, losing forty-two men killed and two hundred and twelve wounded. On the 20th of March, 1863, the One Hundred and Fifth was engaged with General John Morgan's command at Milton, Tennessee, where the chieftain received a severe chastisement. It participated in the Tullahoma campaign, and followed in pursuit of Bragg's army southward, crossing the Tennessee river and Lookout mountain, and next engaged the enemy at Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863. On Sunday, September 20, a gap was made in the lines, caused by the withdrawal of General Wood's division, which the enemy took advantage of. General Brannan's troops were outflanked, and fell back in confusion. General Reynolds, seeing that his flank would be exposed, ordered Major Perkins to change front with his regiment, and charge the Confederates as they advanced. At a word the regiment started forward, with deafening cheers, upon the enemy. The first line of the enemy was thrown back upon the second, upon reaching which, the regiment opened upon it in gallant style. Major Perkins soon saw that his left flank was exposed, and he was obliged to withdraw. The onset of the enemy was checked, and time given General Reynolds to secure his flanks and prevent disaster to the army. At this battle the One Hundred and Fifth lost seventy-five men in killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. At Chattanooga the One Hundred and Fifth was assigned to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps. It participated in the battle of Mission Ridge, Tennessee, November 25, 1863, in the Atlanta campaign, in the pursuit of Hood to Gaylesville, Alabama, and in the march down to the sea, and in the marches through the Carolinas. The regiment was mustered out at Washington, June 3, 1865, and disbanded at Cleveland, Ohio. Of the one thousand and thirteen men who left Cleveland in 1862 only four hundred and twenty-seven were mustered out in 1865.

One Hundred And Twenty-Fifth Ohio Infantry

This regiment was mustered into service October 6, 1862, with eight full companies, and was mainly recruited from the Reserve. Companies B and K were partially recruited in Ashtabula County. The regiment went to the front immediately after its organization, and entered upon a campaign of as hard service as fell to the lot of any regiment in the army. The One Hundred and Twenty-fifth was in the advance at the occupation of Franklin, Tennessee, and aided in defeating the enemy in the second and third contests for the possession of the place. The One Hundred and Twenty-fifth fought with distinguished gallantry at Chickamauga, September 20, and at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. It soon joined in a march to Knoxville, to aid in the relief of General Burnside's forces. December 17, 1863, it fought at Dandridge with a heavy force of the enemy's cavalry. In an assault upon Rocky Face Ridge the loss of the regiment was heavy in killed and wounded. May 14, 1864, it fought at Resaca. At Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth was engaged in a terrific assault upon the Confederate works, when it lost heavily. It had advanced to the abatis, and a few of the men had penetrated it, when the column in support wavered. General Harker, the division commander, fell mortally wounded ; the column gave way, and fell back steadily. After the fall of Atlanta the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth was one of the regiments sent back against Hood. In the battle of Franklin it won high honor. It was one of the first to reach the works at the onset. The Federal line had been broken in the centre, and two batteries of four guns each had been captured. At this moment Colonel Opdykc, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth, commanding the remaining brigade of Wagner's division, which had been held in reserve inside the works, led his men on, recovered the lost batteries, and captured four hundred prisoners. The gap was closed, but the enemy was not disheartened : four distinct attacks were made, and each time was hurled back with heavy loss. It is sufficient to say that after the battle was over General Thomas rode up and said, " Colonel Opdyke, your brigade saved the day at Franklin, and saved Nashville." The One Hundred and Twenty-fifth was on the skirmish line at the battle of Nashville, and advanced with the line upon the enemy's works. It joined in the pursuit of Hood's army to Huntsville, Alabama. In June, 1865, it moved to New Orleans, and thence to Texas, and was there mustered out of service on the 25th of September. October 17, 1865, it was disbanded at Camp Chase, Ohio.

One Hundred And Seventy-Seventh Ohio Infantry

This regiment was organized at Cleveland, Ohio, during the month of October, 1864, for one year's service. Two companies of this regiment were from Ashtabula County. It proceeded to Nashville, Tennessee, under orders to report to Gen- oral Thomas. The day after its arrival at Nashville it was ordered to Tullahoiua, and constituted a part of its garrison, under command of General Milroy. It occupied the town until the Confederate army under General Hood advanced northward, when the garrison at Tullahoma was ordered to Murfreesboro', where the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh arrived after a severe march of three days. December 5 the Confederates appeared betbre Murfreesboro', and skirmishing occurred almost every day until Hood's defeat at Nashville. December 7 a portion of Milroy's command, including the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh, made a rcconnoissance for the purpose of learning the strength of the enemy, who were found in considerable force, strongly posted behind a hastily-constructed work of logs and dirt. Milroy's command assaulted the works, drove the enemy back, and captured two pieces of artillery and over two hundred prisoners. A few days later, while on a foraging expedition, the One Hundred and Seventyseventh was in a skirmish, in which it lost eleven men wounded, two of them mortally. After Hood was driven from Tennessee, the One Hundred and Seventyseventh was ordered to Clifton, and joined the Twenty-third Army Corps. In January, 1865, the Twenty-third Corps was ordered to North Carolina, via the Tennessee and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati, where it took the cars for Washington. The One Hundred and Seventy-seventh embarked at Annapolis, and, after a stormy passage, arrived at Fort Fisher, February 7. The regiment was engaged in two attacks upon the enemy's works, from Cape Fear river to the coast, and afterwards crossed the river and participated in the flank movement which compelled the enemy to evacuate Fort Andersou. The One Hundred and Seventy - seveuth was next engaged at Twin Creek, where it took one stand of colors and many prisoners. It remained at Wilmington for a short time, and then joined General Cox at Kinston, and proceeded to Goldsboro', where it joined Sherman's army. After the surrender of Johnson's army, the One Hundred and Seventyseventh was sent to Greensboro'. Its muster-out rolls were prepared, and it proceeded to Cleveland, Ohio, where it was paid and discharged July 7, 1865.

First Regiment Ohio Light Artillery

I nder the Ohio militia law of 1860, an organization was formed called the First Regiment of Light Artillery, and consisted of six companies, having one gun to each company, under command of Colonel James Barnett. This organization was ready, if necessary, to take the field. Five days after the fall of Sumter the following telegram was received :

" Report your six pieces, caissons and full battery, including the Geneva company, at Columbus, forthwith. Monday, if possible. You can hire horses for the guns here, or at your point of service. Bring harness and everything else. Twenty men to each gun. You retain colonel's rank. By order.

The command reported at Columbus on Monday night, April 22, and was immediately sent forward to Marietta, and the guns placed in position to cover the place from an anticipated attack from the opposite shore of Virginia. In July, 1861, this regiment was ordered to Columbus, Ohio, where it was paid and disbanded.

Under orders from the War Department this regiment, with twelve light batteries, was mustered into the service of the United States for three years, to date from Sept. 3, 1861, and, as each battery was filled and equipped, it was sent to the field. The record of the long and faithful service of the First Ohio Light Artillery occupies many pages in Ohio's history, and nothing surpasses the fame of Cotter's, Standart's, Kenny's, Edgerton's, Huntingdon's, Hyman's, and Heckman's batteries.

Company F ( three months). - The first men sent to the field from Ashtabula County were those who composed the Geneva Artillery, under command of Captain Dennis Kenney, Jr. This company had been organized two years before the war began, as a part of the militia of Ohio. They had drilled regularly, were well equipped, and furnished with one of the brass pieces that were then the admiration of the whole State.

Being militia, they were regarded as State troops, and in that capacity, in April, 1861, they were ordered to report to Marietta, to protect the frontier at that point. This company was organized into the command of Colonel James Barnett. While the company was at Marietta, an order was received late at night from General McClellan directing two companies of artillery to proceed to Parkersburg, Virginia, and join the column of Colonel Steedman. Precedence was given by seniority of companies, and two companies from another part of the State were ordered to prepare for active service. Company meetings were held, and it was decided that the organizations were for the defense of the State, and the companies ordered into danger declined to entertain the propositions, and returned the order with objections to Colonel Barnett. General McClellan telegraphed again more urgently for the prompt movement of the artillery against the Confederates then concentrating near Grafton and Philippi. Colonel Barnett concluded to try "special order" again upon a company with "rural" antecedents iu connection with one of the most splendid " make up" from the city, and in twelve hours after receiving the order Companies I) and F were fifteen miles away. The company left Camp Putnam May 30, by steamboat, for Parkersburg, and the next morning took the train for Grafton, moving slowly for fear of accidents. Arriving at Clarksburg, the companies were ordered to clear their pieces for action. The guns were on a flat car in front of the engine, shotted, and ready to repel any attack that might be made. From Webster the command, uniting with the Fourteenth Ohio and Seventh Indiana Regiments, were ordered to march across the country and capture a Confederate camp at Philippi. The march commenced at eleven o'clock at night, continuing for twelve miles in a drenching rain, through an enemy's country, and at daybreak on the morning of the 3d of June, 1861, the attack was commenced upon the enemy, which was returned by them for a few moments, when they turned and fled. Thus was opened the campaign in Western Virginia. This artillery company remained in the service for three months, and on the 28th day of July, 1861, at Columbus, it was mustered into the service of the United States, and on the same day mustered out and disbanded. The attack upon the Confederate camp at Philippi was made by this company, and the first shotted gun, after the attack at Fort Sumter, fired in the war was the old brass piece from Geneva, Ashtabula County.

j Battery C was organized by Captain Dennis Kenney, Jr. It was mustered into the three years' service at Camp Dennison, Ohio, September 9, 1861, with one hundred and sixty men. The battery was with the very first troops that crossed into Kentucky, where it was organized into a division, composed of Ohio. Kentucky, and Indiana troops, under command of General George H. Thomas, at Camp Dick Robinson. It joined an expedition under General Albin Schoepf, for the purpose of relieving East Tennessee, and performed effective service at the battle of Mill Spring, Kentucky. It came up with Thomas' division too late to engage in the battle of Shiloh, but performed hard service in the advance on Corinth. October 13, 1863, Battery C was placed in the Fourteenth Corps. At Rolling Fork, Kentucky, December 31, 1862, in an engagement with Morgan's men, it lost Lieutenant Henry W. Paulus. At Chiekamauga it fought all day Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20, under the immediate direction of General Thomas. On at least two occasions of that most memorable and important battle the battery received verbal compliments from that officer. With Thomas it was in the last struggle of Sunday evening, which resulted in sending the enemy back into that terrible valley of death, where lay not less than thirty thousand dead and wounded American soldiers. In this action it lost thirteen men killed and wounded, thirty horses, and one gun, dismounted. After the battle of Mission Ridge the battery re-enlisted, and was furloughed for thirty days. At the organization of the army for the Atlanta campaign the battery was assigned to General Hooker's Twentieth Corps. Captain Gary was assigned to duty as chief of artillery of General Butterfield's Third Division. The command of the battery then devolved upon Lieutenant Stevens, a fine artillery officer from Geneva. The battery participated in the battles of Resaca, Cassville, New Hope Church, Peach-Tree Creek, aud Siege of Atlanta. In the summer's campaign the battery lost twenty men iu killed and wounded, and in the campaigns through the Carolinas it fought at Averysville and Bentonville. It was the fortune of this battery to have lost but one gun, - seldom ever to have been engaged in a retreat. It was always with the active troops in the field, aud had the honor of being the only Ohio battery that completed the entire march from the Ohio river to the Potomac. It marched through Richmond to Washington, participated in the great review, and was disbanded June 15, 1865, at Cleveland, Ohio.

Second Ohio Independent Battery

This battery was organized by Captain Thomas J. Carlin, of Couneaut, and was mustered into the service at Camp Chase, Ohio, on the 6th of August, 1S61, and left that camp on the 15th of the same month, under orders to report to Major- General Fremout, at St. Louis, Missouri. On the 8th it was dispatched by rail for the relief of Colonel Mulligan, at Lexington, Missouri, but disembarked at Jefferson City. Colonel Mulligan having surrendered, it received orders to march to Springfield, but halted at Tipton, where it was reviewed with General Fremont's forces by Secretary of War Cameron and Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas. Springfield was reached on the 1st of November, but Price's army had fled, and the campaign ended for the winter. The batter}' remained at Rolla until the 24th of February, 1862, when it marched against Price's Confederate army, and was engaged in the battle of Pea Ridge, on the 6th and 7th of March, where it was closely eugaged, and lost one man killed and twelve wounded. The battery lost one caisson, but in turn captured one from the enemy, and though closely pressed drew from off the field all of its pieces in safety. The battery marched with General Curtis' command through Arkansas to Helena, on the Mississippi river, where it lay until January 23, 1863, when it accompanied an expedition to Duvall's Bluff. The battery was taken by transports to the mouth of the Yazoo river, where it joined Grant's army in the rear of Vicksburg. It took part in the battles of Black River Bridge, Raymond, and Champion Hills, and was on duty until the surrender of Vicksburg, when it was ordered to report to General Banks at New Orleans, and accompanied the disastrous expedition up Red river. February 23, 1864, the battery re-enlisted, and was reorganized. It was then ordered to Ship Island, Mississippi, to guard Confederate prisoners, and remained there on that duty until July, 1865, when it was ordered to Columbus, Ohio. In the ranks of the Second Battery were two hundred and nineteen men, of whom forty-two were killed in battle or died from disease. It was mustered out July 21, 1865, after near four years' service.

Fourteenth Ohio Independent Battery

This battery was mustered into the service at Cleveland, Ohio, September 20, 1861, by Lieutenant J. W. P. Neil, Eighteenth United States Infantry. It was mainly recruited in the counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull, Lake, and Geauga, under authority from the Secretary of War, empowering Hon. B. F. Wade and Hon. John Hutchins to raise a regiment of cavalry and a battery of artillery. In its ranks were two hundred and forty-nine men and ten commissioned officers. The battery reported for service at Camp Dennison, on the 1st of January, 1862, and on the 5th of February left that camp, destined for Kansas. It was ordered by General Halleck to remain in St. Louis for orders, and on the 13th of February left for the theatre of war in Tennessee. At Paducah it was attached to the command of General Hurlbut. On the 7th of March it embarked with the army up the Tennessee river, and disembarked at Pittsburg Landing, and was transferred to General McClernand's division. On the 9th of April, 1862, the battery participated in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, losing four men killed and twentysix wounded, also fifty horses killed and wounded, and all their guns were left on the field, but were recovered on the following day without damage. The battery participated in the advance on Corinth, and also performed garrison duty at Jackson, Tennessee, until June 2, 1863, and afterwards remained in camp at Lynnville, Tennessee, until March, 1864. The battery participated in the battle of Resaca, Georgia, where it expended three hundred and forty-two rounds of ammunition, without casualties on its side. At Dallas, Georgia, it was engaged in shelling the enemy's works from the 28th until the 30th day of May, and took an active part in repelling the attack of the enemy upon the Federal lines on the evening of the 28th. On the evening of the 19 th of May the battery took a position before Kenesaw mountain, and was constantly under fire from that date to the 2d of July, losing two men wounded. On the 3d of July it participated in the engagement of Ruff's Mills. A section of the battery was detached with General Stoneman's Cavalry, where it performed good service, silencing the enemy's batteries on two occasions at river crossings. At the siege of Atlanta the battery was located within thirteen hundred yards of the enemy's heavy guns, behind casemated works. Eight men of the battery were wounded, two horses killed, and four wounded during these twenty-eight days of almost continuous firing. The battery marched northward with the army in pursuit of the Confederate General Hood, and reached Gaylesville, Alabama, on the 21st of October, where orders were received to report at Nashville, Tennessee, where it was assigned to the Seventh Cavalry Division. A new supply of horses and harness was drawn, and the battery was constituted horse artillery. It participated in the battle of Nashville, December 15, 1864, and in the pursuit of Hood's demoralized army. From Eastport, Mississippi, the battery was sent to New Orleans, and from thence to Mobile, Alabama, landing near Spanish Fort, and occupying a position upon the left of the Federal line. The battery was assigned to the Second Brigade of the Cavalry Division of Mississippi, and marched to Greenville and Montgomery, Alabama. The battery remained at Columbus, Mississippi, until the 27th of July, when it was ordered to Cairo, Illinois, to be mustered out, and from thence it was sent to Camp Dennison, where it was discharged August 17, 1865.

Second Regiment Ohio Heavy Artillery

In 1863 it became necessary to recruit a class of troops whose duty it should be to fortify, garrison, and hold many important forts and strongholds that had been captured from the enemy. For this purpose the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, consisting of twenty-four hundred men, rank and file, was then authorized.

Company M, commanded by Captain William II. H. Crowell, and other companies of the regiment were largely recruited from Ashtabula County. Company M was mustered into service September 9, 1863, at Covington Barracks, aud on the 18th of the same month it moved to Fort Willich, Mumfordsville, Kentucky. January 10, 1864, it was transferred to Fort Taylor, at Camp Nelson, Kentucky, where it remained on duty until May 26, 1864. From Camp Sedgwick, at Cleveland, Tennessee, it participated with the rest of the regiment in various expeditions, and was engaged in a skirmish at Strawberry Plains, where the Union forces were in a critical position. February 1, 1865, it was at Athens, Tennessee. It was there mustered out of the service, August 23, 1865, and on the 29th of the same month was paid and disbanded at Camp Chase, Ohio.

Second Ohio Cavalry

This regiment was recruited and organized in the summer and autumn of 1861, at Camp Wade, near Cleveland, Ohio. It was the first cavalry regiment raised in the northern part of the State, drew into its ranks men of intelligence, culture, and capacity, and represented every trade and profession. In January, 1862, the Second Cavalry proceeded by rail to Platte City, Missouri, reported to General David Hunter, and was quartered in the town. In February, the Second marched through the border counties of Missouri to Fort Scott, Kansas. On the 22d of February a scouting-party of one hundred and twenty men of the Second Cavalry were attacked in the streets of Independence, Missouri, by an equal force of the enemy under the command of the famous Quantrill. As the results of the Second's first fight, Quantrill was routed in fifteen minutes, losing fourteen men. The Second lost one man killed and three wounded. The Second Cavalry moved with the army into the Indian Territory in June. At Baxter Springs three regiments of loyal Indians, mounted on ponies and armed with squirrel rifles, joined the command. During the summer one hundred and fifty men were detailed from the Second Cavalry to man, temporarily, a light battery, and six months later the detail was made a transfer by order of the War Department, and constituted the Twenty-fifth Ohio Battery. In September, the Second, with the battery mentioned, marched with the army of General Blunt into Missouri and Arkansas, sharing in the campaign which ended in the victory of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, December 2, 1862. In the autumn campaign the Second fought at Carthage and Newtonia, Missouri, camped on the battle-field of Pea Ridge, and fought at Cow Hill, Wolf Creek, and White River. Captain August V. Kautz, Sixth United States Cavalry, was appointed colonel of the Second, and soon after it was transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, to remount and refit for the field. In February, 1863, the original twelve companies were consolidated into eight, and a battalion of four companies of the Eighth Ohio Cavalry was added to the Second. In April the Second moved into Kentucky. In May and June the Second fought twice at Steubenville, twice at Monticello, and once at Columbia, Kentucky. The Second joined in the pursuit of John Morgan, following the great raider twelve hundred miles, through three States, and shared in the capture at Buffington's Island.

The work of the Second in East Tennessee was active and honorable, where skirmishes occurred too numerous to record. During the siege of Knoxville, the Second operated on the enemy's flank, and joined in the pursuit of Longstreet's army. On the 2d of December, 1862, it fought Longstreet's cavalry, at Morristown, and on the 4th of the same month the Second lost forty men killed and wounded at Russellville. On the 6th it was at the front five hours at the battle of Beam Station. The Second re-enlisted in January, 1864, and was furloughed for thirty days. It was ordered to Annapolis, Maryland, and moved out of camp May 1, eight hundred strong, crossing the Long Bridge into Virginia. The Second was transferred from the Ninth Army Corps to Sheridan's Cavalry Corps. Its duties following were arduous, and its losses severe. From the Army of the Potomac the Second marched to the Shenandoah Valley. Several companies of the Second, acting as a rear-guard, fought an hour in dense darkness in the streets of Winchester. The Second Ohio Cavalry, with the aid of the Third New Jersey Cavalry, captured an entire regiment of Confederate infantry near Winchester, special mention being made by the Secretary of War of the gallantry of these two regiments.

On the 19th of October the Second fought at Cedar Creek, being in the saddle from daybreak until nine o'clock p.m. It occupied the centre on the Valley pike, while the infantry formed in the rear of the cavalry, was present on the pike when Sheridan came to the front on his immortal ride, assisted to raise the shout of welcome, and joined in the charges that decided the victory. On the 27th of February, 1865, the Second started with Sheridan on the last raid of the war, sharing in the capture of Early's army at Waynesboro', March 2. In this action the Second captured five pieces of artillery with caissons. For this it received the thanks of General Custer upon the field. The Second joined the Army of the Potomac with Sheridan's cavalry, at Petersburg, entering the campaign that closed the war. From the 27th of March to the surrender of Lee the Second captured and turned over to the provost-marshal eighteen pieces of artillery. Soon after the grand review at Washington, the Second was ordered to St. Louis, Missouri, and from thence to Springfield. The order for muster-out was soon received, when the Second proceeded to Camp Chase, Ohio, and on the 11th of September, 1865, was paid and disbanded.

" The Second fought under the following general officers : Buell, Wright, Hunter, Denver, Sturgis, Blunt, Salomon, Curtis, Schofield, Burnside, Carter, Sheridan, Gillmore, Shackelford, Foster, Kautz, Sedgwick, Wilson, McIntosh, Torbert, Custer, Meade, and Grant. Its horses have drank from, and its troopers have bathed in, the waters of the Arkansas, Kaw, Osage, Cygnes, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Scioto, Miami, Cumberland, Tennessee, Holston, Potomac, Shenandoah, Rappahannock, Rapidan, Bull Run, Mattapony, Pamunky, Chickahominy, James, Appomattox, Blackwater, Nottaway, and Chesapeake. It has campaigned through thirteen States and the Indian Territory. It has traveled, as a regiment, on foot, horseback, by railroad and steamboat, on land, river, bay, and ocean. It has marched an aggregate distance of twenty-seven thousand miles ; has fought in ninety-seven (97) battles and engagements. It has served in five different armies, - the Army of the Frontiers, of the Missouri, of the Potomac, of the Ohio, and of the Shenandoah, - forming a continuous line of armies from the headwaters of the Arkansas to the mouth of the James, and its dead, sleeping where they fell, form a vidette-line half across the continent, a chain of prostrate sentinels two thousand miles long. Even in their graves, may not their patriot dead still guard the glory and the integrity of the Republic for which they fell ?"

Sixth Ohio Cavalry

In September, 1861, Amander Bingham, of Orwell, received orders to raise a company of cavalry. The company was organized with the purpose of joining the Third Ohio Cavalry, then forming at Monroeville, Ohio. Another regiment of cavalry was ordered to be recruited on the Reserve about this time, and the company decided to go into the Sixth Regiment, to be organized at Warren, Trumbull county. In January, 1862, the Sixth Regiment moved from Camp Hutchins to Camp Dennison, and from thence to Camp Chase, to assist in guarding Confederate prisoners. On the 13th of May, 1862, it was sent to Wheeling, Virginia, where it was equipped for the field, and ordered to join General Fremont at Franklin, but instead joined him at Strasburg, in his pursuit of Jackson down the Shenandoah valley. At Strasburg the Sixth had its first fight, when seven men were wounded. It skirmished with the Second and Sixth Virginia Cavalry, forming the Confederate rear-guard, under General Turner Ashby. June 7, 1862, the Sixth was engaged, losing a number in killed and wounded. The Sixth was under fire fourteen days in contesting the passage of the Rapidan river, and in doing' good service at the second battle of Bull Run. In March, 1863, it fought at Kelley's Ford, where fifteen men were killed and wounded. At the battle of Aldie, Virginia, June 17, General Kilpatrick ordered Colonel Steadman to charge, with one squadron, a Confederate column. Captain Northway, of Company A, was ordered to make the charge, which he did, only seven men returning unharmed out of thirty engaged, nearly every one being wounded in a hand-to-hand conflict. At the battles of Middleburg, Upperville, and Gettysburg the Sixth Cavalry acted well its part. September 1, Major Cryer, with a patrol of fifty men, were ambushed by about two hundred dismounted Confederate cavalry, and, after sharp fighting, only seven men reached camp unharmed. At the battle of Bristoe Station, Captain Leeman, with one squadron, was ordered to charge through the enemy's lines, and report to the rear-guard that the enemy had obtained possession of the road, a feat which he successfully accomplished. He returned the next day, having reached the command by taking another road. The Sixth spent the winter of 1863 - 64 at Warrenton, Virginia, in picketing the right and rear of the Federal army, and in protecting it from raids from the notorious Mosby. Hardly a day passed without an encounter of some kind, and many were the midnight marches made to surprise Mosby in his camp. The Sixth reenlisted in January, 1864, and was recruited in the spring nearly again to its maximum number. The Sixth accompanied Sheridan in his attempt on Richmond. It was rear-guard the first day out, and as such received several charges from Stuart's chosen regiments, all of which were repulsed. It fought, May 11, at Yellow Tavern, where General Stuart fell, and May 12 it fought a severe battle inside the defenses of Richmond. May 28 it fought at Owen Church, where Captain Northway and thirteen men were killed and thirty-five wounded. At Cold_ Harbor and Trevilian Station the Sixth lost heavily, and as Gregg's division was driven from the field at Trevilian, it was ordered to form the rearguard. in which duty it performed excellent service. Crossing the James river with Grant's army, the Sixth pushed around to the left of the Federal line to Reams' Station, for the purpose of reinforcing General Wilson, who was being defeated. The Sixth was in the cavalry battle of Malvern Hill ; at Hatcher's Run, October 27, 1864, and again, February 3, 1865; and at Cold Harbor, May 31, 1864 ; at Dinwiddie Court-house, Five Forks, Weldon Railroad, Sailor's Creek, and Farmville. At the battle of Appomattox Court-House the Sixth had the honor of opening the engagement, having marched during the night to a position across the only road left for the retreat of the Confederate army. Soon after daylight on that memorable morning an attack was made upon the Federal line, which had been fortified by a rail breastwork, and after a spirited resistance the regiment fell back, only to show to the pursuing army our strong lines of infantry who had come up during the early morning. The attack ended, a white flag was flying in the Confederate front, and the work was accomplished. The next day the Sixth was detailed to escort General Grant from Appomattox to Burkesville. When Johnson's surrender was announced the Sixth was sent to Petersburg, and soon after sent in detachments to different counties comprising the " Sub-District of the Appomattox." In August, the Sixth was ordered to Cleveland, Ohio, where it was mustered out of service.

Seventh Kan8A8 Cavalry

In August, 1861, John Brown, Jr., of this county, obtained authority to recruit and transport a company of riflemen to Kansas. The men of his company were recruited chiefly among the hunters of western Pennsylvania, from Ashtabula County, and from northwestern Michigan. November 12, 1861, at Leavenworth, Kansas, they were mustered into service as Company K, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Jennison. Their first services were fighting bushwhackers in western Missouri, along the borders of Kansas, and the Indian Territory. In May, 1862, the Seventh was ordered south, and commenced the summer's campaign after the battle of Corinth. While stationed at Rienzi, Mississippi, the men suffered severely from the effects of the climate, and many died in hospitals. The Seventh campaigned in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee until September, 1864, when it was sent to Missouri, and engaged in the memorable " Price's raid," following the enemy nearly twice across that State. The Seventh performed effective service fighting guerrillas in Missouri and Arkansas, and in August, 1865, was ordered to the plains to fight Indians. At Fort Kearney the Seventh was ordered to Fort Leavenworth for muster-out, and was disbanded September 29, 1865. The Seventh fought at Iuka, Mississippi, in August, 1862 ; second battle of Corinth, Mississippi, October, 1862 : Water Valley and Coffeeville, in December, 1862; Grenada and Tupelo, Mississippi; Buzzard Roost and Tuscumbia, Alabama ; and many cavalry skirmishes.

Eleventh New York Independent Battery

On the 17th of September, 1861, Robert C. Warmington, of Ashtabula, received a commission from an old friend, General G. A. Scroggs, of Buffalo, New York, authorizing him to recruit a battery of artillery, and nine days later he left Ashtabula with a company of about eighty men. At Albany, January 6, 1862, the command of Captain Warmington was consolidated with Captain Von Puttkammer's command, with the designation of Eleventh New York Independent Battery. It garrisoned Fort Ellsworth, at Alexandria, Virginia, until August 24, 1862, when it marched to Manassas Junction, by order of General McClellan. While encamped at the Junction, four guns of this battery, without proper support, were attacked at about eleven o'clock at night by Jackson's forces. Five rounds each per gun of grape and canister were fired from the guns engaged. Twenty-nine men and the four guns were captured. The following morning the balance of the battery, with two guns, with the assistance of a New York regiment, held Jackson's forces in check long enough to enable the trains to escape to Alexandria. The battery was engaged in the actions at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862; Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 2 and 3, 1863; Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863; Mine Run, Virginia, November 26, 1863; North Anna River, Virginia, May 23 to 26, 1864 ; Tolopotomy Creek, Virginia, May 28 to 31, 1864; Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 3 to 12, 1864; Petersburg, Virginia, June 16 to 19, 1864; Jerusalem Plank-Road, Virginia, June 23 and 24, 1S64 ; and second battle at Deep Bottom, Virginia, August 14, 1864. Nine Ashtabula County soldiers who enlisted in this battery were killed in action or died in the service.

The Squirrel Hunters

During the autumn of 1862, the Confederate General Kirby Smith advanced upon Cincinnati with a large army. Governor Tod issued a proclamation calling upon all who would furnish themselves with rations and arms to turn out, organize under their own officers, and rendezvous at Cincinnati, transportation over the railroads to be provided by the government. Three hundred and sixty-six citizens of Ashtabula County responded to the call of the governor. These men, of course, saw no fighting, but their work was cheerfully performed because they thought their services were needed. Governor Tod caused lithograph discharges to be forwarded to those whose names could be obtained. These discharges may be found in many homes in the county, where they are properly prized.

To G. F. Lewis, Esq., of Cleveland, Ohio, we are indebted for rolls of the companies of Captains Joshua Fobes, Jedediah Burnham, John R. Reed, John and Jacob Bartholomew, War of 1812. The roster of Ashtabula's soldiers during the War of the Rebellion was compiled from the muster-rolls in the office of Adjutant-General Meilly, at Columbus, and from files of the Ashtabula Sentinel.

Service

Sergeant, Lorrin Cowles, enlisted in Geneva; moved to Baraboo, Sauk county, Wisconsin, in 1844, and died there in 1846; was probate judge of Sauk county at the time of his death.

Adna Cowles, enlisted in Harpersfield, and died in that town in 1837 ; he would accept no compensation for his services, not even the value of one of his horses, which was pressed into the service, and valued at fifty dollars.

Alpheus Cowles, enlisted in Geneva, removed west and settled in Sauk county, Wisconsin, and is still living at a very advanced age at this writing - April, 1878.

Levi Gaylord, enlisted in Geneva, and died at his home in that town in 1876. He was a son of Major Levi Gaylord, a soldier of the Revolution, and one of the earliest settlers in Geneva.

Barzilla N. Spencer, enlisted in Geneva; removed to Minnesota, where he died about the year 1871, near Shackopee, in that State ; was an elder brother of the late P. R. Spencer, of Geneva.

Enoch Barnum, enlisted in Geneva, and died in Oberlin, Ohio, about 1874. This soldier was wounded by the accidental discharge of his own gun, in Madison, while the company were halting on their way to Cleveland. He lost one arm and a part of his nose by the discharge.

King

WHO VOLUNTEERED, AUGUST 24, 1812, TO MEET THE BRITISH AND INDIANS AT THE WEST. MUSTER-ROLL, SECOND COMPANY, SECOND BATTALION, THIRD REGIMENT, FOURTH BRIGADE, OHIO MILITIA, COLONEL NATHAN KING.

All of the above were out fourteen days, and then mustered home for draft. Noue of them are living at this time (1878) but David Wright, of Morgan.

Colonel Rayen, January, February, And March, 1813

Adam All, Luman Beach (drafted from Captain James Stone's company; was in the skirmish with the Indians on the Sandusky peninsula; died in Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio), Peter Bartholomew, John Bartholomew, Joseph Bartholomew, Robert Lamont (killed by the Indians while under a flag of truce), Janies Brooks, Samuel Brown, William Baldwin, James G. Curtis, Calvin Crosby (served the time for which he was drafted, went back to his labors on the farm, and was drowned while bathing in Grand river), David Coon, Jacob Coon, Asahel Cleveland, Thomas Dunbar, Sullivan Griffin, John Gordon, John Gould, John R. Gage, Thomas Gordon, Benjamin Hawks, Joseph D. Hall (served under Captain James Stone, first company of volunteers, as cook ; was afterwards drafted, and served three months in Captain Reed's company ; died in Rome, Ohio), Rufus Houghton (enlisted in Harpersfield ; company wagoner; died in Andover, Feb. 23, 1834), Eldad Harrington, Ezra Heally, David Hitchcock, John G. Joslin, Datus Kent, Elisha Kent, Amos Larabeijton, Abishai Lawton, John H. Montgomery, Jabez D. Maranville, James G. McElroy, James Morgan, Andrews Parker, Orrin F. Paine (still living, 1878, in Morgan), Jonas Proctor, Thomas Silverthorn, Jabez Strong, John Spooner, Philip Swift, Edward P. Spencer (was on the staff of General Harrison, and was executed by the British at Malden, Canada, as a spy, having been captured by them near the Detroit river, with a map of the fortifications in his possession), Merrit Stone, Ambrose Stewart, Abraham Tappan, Samuel Strong, Jasper Yidito, Collins Wetmore, William Whitmore, Servis Sweet, John Wood, Nathan Strong, John Wright, Joshua White, Solomon Wright, William Watrous.

November, 1812

Nathaniel Coleman (appointed quartermaster of the regiment ; died in Wayne, July 22, 1868), Noah Coleman (died in Greene, Trumbull county, Ohio, November 11, 1868), Jesse Drake, David Doughton, Samuel Foster, Noah Folsom, David Fobes, Elias Fobes (still living in Williamsfield, 1878, aged eighty-five years), Titus Hayes (appointed wagon-master ; died in Wayne, February 8, 1832), Nathaniel Hubbard, Daniel W. Inman, Samuel Phillips (six days), Philip Waldorf (discharged at Lower Sandusky, Ohio, in January, 1S13), Moses Folsom.

Joshua R. Giddings (died at Montreal, Canada, May 27, 1864), Samuel Tuttle (died in Williamsfield, April 23, 1865, aged eighty-two years), Samuel Clark, Robert King, Henry Mapes, Albigence Woodworth (died in Wayne, May 30, 1874), Diodate Woodworth (still living, 1878), Jacob Ford, Silas Babcock (died in Wayne, August 10, 1843, aged seventy-three years), John L. Cook (died in Kinsman, Ohio, September 1, 1834), Chester Allen (substitute for Jonathan Tuttle), Samuel Randall.

Company

Gains S. Harvey, re-enlisted in 125th 0. V. I., killed at Chattanooga, Tenn. James 0. Lattimer, re-enlisted in 29th 0. V. L, and wounded in front of Atlanta, Ga.

1st lieut. John P. Manning, discharged at expiration of term of service. 2d lieut. M. II. Haskell, discharged at expiration of term of service. John J. Wiley, discharged at expiration of term of service.

Henry C. Simonds, killed in action at Cloyd 3Iountain, Ya., 3Iay 9, 1864. Alfred West, killed in action at Cloyd 3Iountain, Va., 3Iay 9, 1864.

Alonzo Decker, killed in action at Lynchburg, Ya., June 18, 1864. Captain Grotius R. Giddings, promoted major 14th U. S. Infantry, July 23, 1861.

Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Colonel William T. Fitch, discharged October 13, 1864, on account of wounds received in action at Dug Gap, Ga., May 8, 1864. Lieut.-Colonel Everson J. Hulburt, wounded in actions of Port Republic, Ya., June 9, 1862, Cedar Mountain, Ya., August 9, 1862, and Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863 ; discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865; died at his home in August, 1865.

Band

Sergt. J. Burney Dalrymple, wounded ; discharged July 13, 1S65. Corporal Ammi B. Benjamin, wounded in front of Atlanta; discharged July 13, 1865.

Corporal Henry C. Rood, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Corporal Lorin 31. Coon, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Corporal Albert H. Frayer, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Corporal John A. Exccen, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Almond Dalrymple, died at Winchester, Va., May 2, 1862.

A. Mortimer Knowlton, killed in action at Dug Gap, Ga., 31ay 8, 1864. Wallace B. noyt, died while a prisoner of war at Andersonville, Ga., in 1864.

Robert E. Woodbury, discharged June 25, 1865, at Camp Dennison, 0. James E. March, discharged Feb. 4, 1863, on account of wounds received in action.

Oscar J. Parkill, wounded; discharged April 10, 1865, at Cleveland, 0. Franklin B. Morey, wounded ; discharged at Louisville, Ky., Julyl3, 1865. Chauncy H. Coon, discharged by order, from hospital, at Alexandria, Ya. Isaac E. Haggitt, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865.

Daniel B. Alderman, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Charles Covert, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, Aug. 14, 1863. William A. Thompson, discharged at Frederick City, Md., Oct. 9, 1862. Silas R. Thompson, discharged for disability, at Dumfries, Va., April 5, 1863.

Corporal Albert H. Benham, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Albert Bishop, killed in action at Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862. Edward Phillips, died April 1, 1862.

Alonzo Kinney, killed in action at Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862. William Potter, died July 26, 1864, from wounds received in action at Dug Gap, Ga., May 8, 1864.

Corporal John Warren, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Corporal Joseph Wimby, wounded in action at Port Republic, Va. ; discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865.

Sylvester G. Strickland, discharged for disability, February 18, 1863. William Yokes, discharged on account of wounds received in action at Dug Gap, Ga., May 8, 1864.

Russell W. Cross, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, Aug. 1, 1863. Thomas J. Merrills, wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863;

1st lieut. Marcus F. Roberts, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13,1865. Capt. Horatio Luce, killed in action at Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862.

Sergeant William E. Sterling, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Sergeant Charles Howard, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Sergeant William G. Buss, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Corporal Steadman J. Rockwell, discharged at Fort Delaware, Nov. 10, 1862.

Corporal Hiram Dalrymple, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Corporal Herman Dewey, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Corporal Hiram Thornton, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Corporal Lewis Harper, discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1865. Thomas Shultz, died from wounds May 12, 1863.

Charles P. Rhodes, transferred to Co. B, 1st Regt. V. R. C., Aug. 12, 1863. Benjamin F. Holton, discharged December 8, 1864, on account of wounds. Henry Warren, discharged July 13, 1865.

Sergeant Almon A. Woodruff, discharged July 13, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. Sergeant Newton B. Adams, wounded ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps January 23, 1865.

Sergt. Michael F. Alderman, discharged July 13, 1S65, at Louisville, Ky. Sergt. Ansil 0. Benjamin, discharged March 3, 1863, at Columbus, Ohio. Sergt. C. C. Johnson, wounded at the battle's of Port Republic and Cedar Mountain, Va. ; discharged March 3, 1863.

Corp. Frederick A. Rounds, discharged July 13, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. Corp. Lafayette N. Johnson, discharged at expiration of term of service. Philander M. Griggs, died at Alexandria, Va., October 3, 1872.

Victorian D. Lattimer, discharged at expiration of term of service. Augustus M. Barker, discharged at expiration of term of service. COMPANY C.

Sergeant Benjamin Thomas Cushing, wounded iu action at Chickamauga, Tenn. ; discharged June 28, 1804 ; died November 4, 1872, at Chatfield, Minn.

Edwin R. Leavitt, killed in action at Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862. Franklin Felch, died from wounds received at Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 27, 1863.

Eliphalet P. Merritt, dis. by gen. order of War Departm't, April 22,1863. John C. Spencer, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, March p, 1864.

David B. Montgomery, killed in action at Perryville, Ky., October 8,1862. Albert G. Rowe, died June 16, 1864, from wounds received near Lost ( Mountain, Georgia.

Sergt. Elverton J. Clapp, discharged at Washington, D. C., June 3, 1865. Sergeant Geo. L. Mason, discharged June 3, 1865, at Washington, D. C. Corporal Howard S. Stevens, died at Atlanta, Ga., October 5, 1864.

Corp. Albert H. Kenney, discharged June 3, 1865, at Washington, D. C. Corp. Albertis M. Parker, discharged at expiration of term of service. John Fuller, killed before Atlanta, Ga., August 9, 1864.

William I). Holden, died at Murfreesboro', Tenn., November 29, 1862. Frederick S. Getty, killed in action at Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862. Lewis Price, died June 12, 1863.

Henry Harrison Fobes, killed in action at Perryville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862. Alexander Smith, killed in action at Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862. David Hutchinson, died at Windsor, Ohio, February 16, 1863.

James E. Roberts, discharged at Washington, D. C., June 3, 1865. William E. Bigalow, discharged at Washington, D. C., June 3, 1865. Cassius M. Alderman, discharged at Washington, D. C., June 3, 1865. Ellsworth A. Alderman, discharged at Washington, D. C., June 3, 1865. Clency E. Hill, discharged for disability December 13, 1863.

John Mann, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps August 3, 1863. Marcus W. Humphrey, discharged for disability March 25, 1863. Edmund S. Amadon, discharged for disability Jauuary 17, 1863.

John W. Jones, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps September 30, 1863. Franklin J. Fobes, wounded in action; discharged at Dandridge, Tennessee, September, 1865.

Corporal Montgomery St. Johu, discharged by order of Maj.-Gen. Wright. Corporal Nathaniel K. Amadou, discharged by order of Maj-Gen. Wright. Corporal Chauncey W. Amadon, discharged by order of Maj.-Gen. Wright. William J. Jones, died at home, February 22, 1864.

George It. Beckwith, killed iu action at Dandridge, Tenn., Jan. 17, 1864. Brookings H. Brittain, died at Audersonville, Ga., August 4, 1864. Charles Williams, missing in action at Keuesaw Mouutain, Ga., June 5, 1864.

Sergeant Silas R. Reeve, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. Sergeant Emory J. Adams, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. Sergeant James E. Stevens, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865 Sergeant Ezra A. Hoskins, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. Sergeant Ed* in C. French, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. Corporal George A. Winslow, discharged at the close of the war.

Corporal Albert H. lirainard, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. Corporal Amos E. Peck, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. Corporal Joseph 3IcInto*h, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. Corporal Milton Black, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. Corporal Alexander J. Leslie, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, May 30, 1865. Corporal Edwin C. Piper, died at Louisville, Ky_, Feb. 16, 1865.

Erast u- J. Way, died at his home in New Lyme, Ohio, February 12, 1865. Reuben W. Alderman, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. States Andrews, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865.

Curtis Burlingh&m, discharged at Greensboro', N. Cn June 24, 1865. Eloazer Rider, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, at the close of the war. Harrison Turner, discharged at Greensboro', N. C., June 24, 1865.

Benjamin Gaskill, died at Greensboro', North Carolina, May 22, 1865. Albert C. Smith, discharged at Greensboro', North Carolina, June 24,1865. Martin G. Faux, discharged July 29, 1865.

1st lieut. Theodore B. Wire, discharged at Geveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. 2d lieut. Silas H. Kent, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 7, 1865. Corporal Edward H. Jones, discharged June 24, 1865.

George G. Rood, discharged at Greensboro', N. C., June 24, 1865. Franklin Garrison, discharged at Greensboro', N. C_, June 24, 1865. Azariah Grant.

One Hundred And Ninety-Sixth Ohio Infantry

Captain Francis 31. Baker, wounded while with 6th Ohio Cavalry on Sheridan's raid to Richmond ; discharged at Baltimore, McL, September 16, 1865.

David Bulfincb, discharged at Cumberland, Md., June 3, 1865. Wellington Bacon, discharged at Cumberland, Md_, Sept. 12, 1865. Charles E. Cook, discharged by order at Cumberland, 3Id.

Freeman Thorp, dis. at expiration of term of three years' service. Homer II. Throop, transferred to 7th 0. Y. Cavalry, January 10, 1864. Joseph I. Brown, died in the Indian Territory in July, 1862.

Sergeant Norman E. Sprague, discharged at the close of the war. Sergeant Alanson D. Seamons, discharged at the close of the war. Sergeant Homer J. Kinney, discharged at the close of the war.

Corporal Warren Cook, discharged at expiration of term of service. George E. Sammis, died June 1, 1864, from wounds received in action at Hanover, Va., May 31, 1864.

Organized at Jefferson, Ohio, August 20, 1861. Mustered into the U. S. service September 9,1861, at Cleveland, Ohio. Mustered out of service September 11, 1865, at Columbus, Ohio.

John Alexander (discharged November, 1862), Reuben Brown. Harvey Burns (discharged in 1863), 31. C. Bulfincli (died August 13, 1862, at Fort Scott, Kansas), Wm. H. Bridenbaugh (died October 9, 1862, at Fort Scott, Kansas), Ira Baker (discharged October 27, 1862, at Fort Scott, Kansas), A. C. Campbell, Warren Cook, Adam Cook,

A. J. Corey, W. D. Crosby, II. H. Couse (captured in 1864; discharged from hospital), Shepard Clark (discharged July, 1862), L. 31. Davenport (died October 1, 1862, at Fort Scott, Kansas), It. W. Davis (discharged August, 1862), C. II. Farley (transferred to 25th Battery), F. C. Fassett (discharged in 1863), Adelbert Fowler. Joseph Gascli, Harrison Gilbreath, C. J. Green (discharged October, 1862), Wm. II. Iiofer, F. J. Hart transferred to 25th Battery), N. G. Hardy (discharged in 1864), C. B. Hart (discharged in 1862), C. Q. King, Wallace Lossee, Lewis Lane (died August 13, 1862), W.

C. Lockwood (died October 10, 1862), Dr. K. McKinnie, M. 31. 3Iorley, J.T. 3IcDaniels (discharged in June, 1862), J. T. Parker (discharged in 1863), James Porch (transferred to 5th Regular Cavalry), W. Phflicker, S. 31. Rood (transferred to 25th Battery),

A. I>. Seamens, Geo. Shepard, G. E. Sammis (killed June 1, IS64, at Ashland), James Stevenson, Oren Smith (discharged in 1864), N. E. Sprague, D. L. Skidmore (discharged in 1864), G. S. Singletary, Ira Stimpson, N. A. Shipman (discharged in 31 ay, 1862), Ira Smith (discharged in October, 1862), F. P. Shipman (discharged in October, 1862), A. B. Van Wormer (killed June 2, 1864, at Ashland, Virginia), Wm. Van Amee (discharged in October, 1862), Jacob Van Slyke (discharged in January, 1863), C. C. West, II. E. Williams (discharged in 1863), I'. C. Wiggins, Julius Weinays, Herman Witzman, C. 31. Woodworth (transferred to 5th Regular Cavalry), J. P. Woodworth, John Wooley (discharged in 1863), D. J. Wyman,

Third Ohio Cavalry

Sergeant George Taylor, discharged at Petersburg, Va., October 7, 1865. Sergeant Chas. W. Babcock, discharged at Petersburg, Va., June 27, 1865. Sergeant Truman Reeves, lost an arm in the service.

Corp. Zachary Ilerrenden, discharged at Petersburg, Va., June 27, 1865. Fayette Babcock, died at Warrington, Va George O. Bigelow, killed June 27, 1864.

Simon V. Chaffee, discharged at Washington, D. C., November 7, 1862. Henry Iloldridge, wounded; discharged at Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1864 William R. Mowrey, discharged July 18, 1862.

Francis 31. Joiner, discharged at Petersburg, Va., August 7, 1865. Pennington I. Northway, discharged at Stafford Court-House, Va., December 22, 1863.

Sergt. Alonzo D. Squires, discharged at Petersburg, Va., June 27, 1SG5. Corporal Henry Clark, died February 22, 1865, while a prisoner of war. Corporal Alfred J. Day, discharged June 5, 1865.

Newell Blackford, discharged at Petersburg, Va., June 27, 1865. Benjamin F. Howe, discharged at Petersburg, Va., June 27, 1865. William A. Canfield, died at Washington, D. C., August 23, 1863.

Captain Wallace H. Bullard, discharged at the close of the war. Sergeant John Brown, discharged for disability September 8, 1864. Sergeant Horace Cole, missing in action at Deep Bottom, Virginia.

Sergeant Kml hi G. Hawley, dis* barged at Petersburg, Va., June 27, 1865. Iftnvid W. Andrea*, killed in action at St. Mary a Chun h, Ya , June 24, 1864.

Battery

Sergt. II. C. II- -It, discharged Dec. 17, 1862. by order of General Wright. Sergt. Alwlino E. Graham, discliarged at Cleveland, Ohio, June 15, 1865. Sergt. Freeman W. Barr, died July 13, 1864.

Sergt. E-lwin O. Hastings, died at Nashville, Tenn., November 8, 1863. Sergt. Bernhard Reichert, discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, June 15, 1865. Sergt Theodore \V. Stoughton, dis. to re-enlist a-* veteran Jan. 4, 1864. Corp- Salem R. Cole, discharged at the cluse of the war.

C-orp. Christopher C. Belding, di*. at Cleveland, Ohio, June 15, 1S65. Ooq-. Sherman Hendrick, wounded in action at Chickamauga ; discharged June 15, 1865.

R f-rt W lkin-on. killed in action at ChicknnMuga, Sept. 20, 1863. Cjrus Cleveland, tlied in Libby prison, Richmond, Va., March 1, 1864. Clement E. Woodbury, died November 19, 1862.

Capt. Dennis Kenney, Jrn discharged at Columbus, Ohio, July 27, 1861. l^t lieut. Henry S. Munger, discharged at Columbus, Ohio, July 27, 1861.

2d lieut. Romanzo Spring, discharged at Columbus, Ohio, July 27, 1861. Corporal James II. Caller, discharged at Columbus, Ohio, July 27, 1861. Corporal Charles D. Lane, discharged at Columbus, Ohio, July 27, 1861. Albert B. Smith, discharged at Columbus, Ohio, July 27, 1861.

Capt. Newton J. Smith, d scharg-d at Conneaut. Ohio, August 28, 1861. Capt. Augustus Beach, discharged at Columbus, Ohio, August 10, 1865. l*t lieut. Conrad Gausevoort, resigned June 19, 1862.

CorpMrul Lee C. Raymond, discharged for disability September 13, 1862. Corporal F. Adelbert Loomis, discharged for disability in December, 1862. Corporal Loren Benton, discharged August 15, lr*64.

Walter Harrington, died in the service at Carrollton, La , in 1MB. Richard Phillips, killed in action at Pea Ridge, Aik., 31arch 7, 1862. Alexander Dorn, died at Natchez, Min, August 6, 1863.

Harley Fairbrother, discharged at Columbns, Ohio, August 10,1865. George Woodworth, discliarge-1 at expiration of term of service, Aogu-t 19, 1864.

Benjamin C. Anderson, dis barged at Memphi*. Tennessee, in Novemf*er, 1862; re-enlisted, and promoted sergeant in Minnesota Heavy Artillery.

Giles Cleveland, discharged for disability at Helena, Arkansas, in 1862. Chauncey L. Andrews, discharged at New Orleans, La., at expiration of term of service.

Amon B. Woodruff, discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio, August 9, 1865. Albert H. Lockwood, discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio, August 9, 1865. Wilbur H. Gaylord, transferred to Battery B, 1st Alabama Artillery, November 2, 1863.

Henry F. Bowers, transferred to United States Navy, September 24, 1864. Theron Weed, discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio, August 9, 1865. Thomas Rodgers, discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio, August 9, 1865. Richard M. Johnson, discharged for disability November 21, 1862.

Twenty-Fifth Ohio Independent Battery

Asher G. Huntley, discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, December 12, 1865. Charles 0. Dreher, discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, December 12, 1865. Edgar J. Marshall, discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, December 12, 1865. Oscar B. Waite, discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, December 12, 1865. James F. Brown, discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, December 12, 1865. George Hall, discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, December 12, 1865. Addison Lockwood, discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, December 12,1865. Hiram E. Williams, discharged at expiration of term of service, Sept. 8, 1864.

Sergeant Samuel W. Vincent, promoted to 2d lieut. June 9, 1865. Sergeant J. E. Hewitt, promoted to sergeant-major June 25, 1865. Sergeant J. M. Loomis.

Sergeant J. Hump Se Cheverell, transferred and assigned to duty at Chicago, 111., as hospital steward United States Volunteers. Sergeant Loren Culver.

Sergeant Seymour S. Slater, discharged ; re-eoltsted in Eighty-fourth Illinol* Infantry ; died January 31, 1863, from wounds received in action at Stone River, Teun.

Charles H. Phelps, musician, aged fourteen years, taken prisoner in action at Auburn Hill, Ya.. October 14,1863; discharged at Braddock's Field, May 31, 1865.

C&pt. Robert C. Warmington's command consolidated with this battery; mustered as 1st lieut ; wounded in action at 3Ianassas Junction, Ya., August 26, 1862; dis. at Falmouth, Ya , December 9, 1662.

Sergt. Orlando H. Cheney, wounded ; dis. at the close of the war. Corporal John Fowler, died at his home in Ashtabula, March 4, 1863. Corporal John L. Castle, discharged June 13, 1965.

John H. Metcalf, killed in action at Deep Bottom, Va., August 14, 1864. Cyrus W. A ndrews, died at Washington, D. C., November 28, 1863. Marcus L. Murray, died while a prisoner of war at Anderson ville, Ga, August 20, 1864.