Cuyahoga County, Ohio - Aaiv Tenth and Twelfth Cavalry, 1870

Aaiv Tenth and Twelfth Cavalry

Organization and Equipment of the Tenta - Around Murfreesboro - At Chickamauga - Defeating Indians and Capturing Vance - The Atlanta Campaign - Opening the Battle of Resaca - Service under Kilpatrick - On the March to the Sea--Scattering Wheeler's Horsemen - Capturing Cannon with the Saber - All Wheeler's Cavalry Defeated - Through the Carolinas - Mustered Out - The Cuyahoga Members - Brilllant Service of the Twelfth Cavalry - A Vivid Record - Guarding Prisoners - In Kentucky - Starting for Saltville - Backto Meet Morgan - A Rattling Ride - Charging into Camp - aA Desperate Fight - The Rebels Defeated - The Final Rout at Cynthiana - Herrick's Fifteen Scatter Four Hundred - Morgan's Power destroyed - Another Saltville Expedition - A Terrific Night - Men and Horses falling down Precipices - Reaching Saltville - Early's Infantry - The Unionists defeated - Loss of the Regiment - To East Tennessee - The Third Saltville Expedition - Co. F. leads a Charge - Gillem meets Vaughn - Charge after Charge - A Whirlwind on Horseback - Thirty-three Miles in Six Hours - Eight Cannon captured - Wytheville taken in an Instant - Back toward Saltville - Meeting Breckenridge - His Flight - Destruction of the Salt Works - The Twelfth as Constant Rear-guard - The Last Great Raid - Six Thousand Horsemen - Tearing up Railroads - Defeating Four Thousand Infantry - Capturing Thirteen Hundred Prisoner's and Fourteen Cannon - Sixty-seven Days in the Saddle - Service after the War - Mustered Out in November - Cuyahoga in the Twelfth,

Tenth Cavalry

ALTHOUGH organized at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, in October, 1862, this regiment was not equipped so as to be ready for the field until the spring of 1863. It had thirty-eight men from Cuyahoga county; about half of them in Company I, and the rest in Companies E, F and H. It proceeded to Nashville and thence to Murfreesboro; remaining at and near the latter place on active scout and picket duty until the latter part of June, 1863, when it advanced with Rosecrans' army in the Chattanooga campaign. At Chickamauga it guarded the communicationsin the rear. Afterwardsa part of it remained in the Sequatchie valley, fighting guerrillas, while the rest went to East Tennessee, where it was engaged for three months in almost daily conflict with the outlying troops of Longstreet's force. At one time the command defeated three hundred Indians and two hundred North Carolinaians under-General (now Senator) Vance, of that State; capturing that officer, his wagon-train and a hundred of his men.

After the re-union of the regiment it was mounted, and in the spring of 1864 moved forward with Sherman on the Atlanta campaign. The Tenth led the charge which opened the battle of Resaca, suffering heavy loss, and thereafter it was actively engaged under the fiery Kilpatrick throughout the campaign. Under this renowned leader it was engaged in numerous conflicts with the enemy's cavalry, which was thus prevented from annoying the main army. The Union horsemen were also of the utmost use in obtaining information of the enemy.

During the "March to the Sea" in the autumn of 1864 the cavalry did whatever fighting was done, and, as the Tenth Ohio was especially accustomed to the use of the saber, it was frequently called on to lead a charge against the enemy which hovered on the flanks. At Lovejoy's Station nine regiments of Union cavalry, of which the Tenth Ohio was one, made a charge which scattered Wheeler's rebel horse almost in an instant. The Tenth also attacked gallantly and with great effect at Bear Creek Station. At Macon it charged the enemy's breastworks with drawn sabers, under the fire of thirteen pieces of artillery; driving the enemy out and capturing two of the guns.

At Waynesboro, Georgia, on the 1st of December, the second division led the attack against all Wheeler's cavalry, then numbering nearly ten thousand men, while Kilpatrick had but about five thousand. While a part of the command advanced dismounted, the Tenth Ohio charged with the saber on the flank and aided in gaining a complete victory over the enemy, who was driven eight miles.

During the campaign through the Carolinas the Tenth was also actively engaged on the flanks; invariably driving back the enemy's cavalry, and sometimes scattering the demoralized infantry which had been picked up to make a show of resistance against the veteran columns of Sherman. The regiment was mustered out on the Ist of September, 1865.

Company

Although the' regiment had but sixty-eight members from Cuyahoga county (scattered through all its companies, from fourteen in Company F, down to one in Company A,) yet its brilliant and interesting record is well worthy the attention of our readers. Many other cavalry regiments doubtless had the will, but few had the fortune to meet with such stirring adventures, and these have been so vividly set forth in Captain Mason's narrative that we can only regret that the many interests with which we have to deal compel us to condense it to such meager proportions.

A, CG, D, F, I and L, under Major Herrick, with infantry arms, were sent to guard the rebel prisoners on Johnson's island; there being then much excitement regarding their threatened rescue. After arduous service there for three months, they joined the other companies at Camp Dennison; the latter having been drilling in the meantime at Camp Chase. At Camp Dennison full equipments were issued, including seven-shooting Spencer carbines, together with an extremely fine outfit of horses.

On the 7th of April the regiment reached Lexington, Kentucky. After various marches to and fro it set out from Mt. Sterling in May with other mounted regiments, all under General Burnside, to cross the mountains two hundred and fifty miles into Virginia, and destroy the Confederate salt-works and stores at Saltville, in that State. After going to the valley of the Big Sandy and waiting there two weeks for supplies, the command again advanced, but had scarcely made a day's march when the general heard from his scouts that the celebrated John Morgan had passed through another gap with a large force, and was making straight for the most fertile portions of Kentucky. The column immediately reversed its course, and

"Condensed from Captain F. H. Mason's history of the regiment. Captain Mason is also the author of an interesting history of the Fortysecond Infantry, to which accident prevented our giving the proper credit.

Near nightfall on the 8th of June, thirty-seven miles from Mt. Sterling, it was learned that Morgan had taken the camp left there by the Unionists, with all the sick and convalescents, and all the stores not taken on the expedition. He was then occupying the captured camp. The distance must be spanned befure dawn or he would be gone. 'The already weary horses were urged to new exertions, and all night the column pushed forward at a rapid trot. Toward morning it broke into a gallop.. Six miles from Mt. Sterling Morgan's careless pickets, who supposed the whole Union force to be in Virginia, were captured in an instant by the headlong column, without a shot being fired. A short halt was made to wait for the first dawn of light, and again the column went forward at a gallop; the Twelfth Ohio being in the van, except a small detachment of Kentucky mounted infantry, the men of which acted as guides.

The inner pickets fired, but the assailants, urging their horses to a harder gallop, dashed over and past them without a moment's pause, and whirled straight at Morgan's mounted infantry, who lay in camp on the road the Unionists were following. Roused by the firing, they sprang up, and though completely surprised made a sharp fight. The first battalion of the Twelfth drove them back into their camp, and then galloped on to attack Morgan's cavalry on the other side of town.

The other two battalions were detained by a dismounted cannon. Sixty pushed forward under Major Moderwell. Moderwell and Colonel Brent, the Confederate commander, met and severely wounded each other. The sixty were almost overpowered, when the rest of the forces came up. After a short but terrific fight the rebels fled at their utmost speed.

Meanwhile the first battalion, two hundred strong, had passed through town and attacked the six hundred cavalry on the north side. One company of the Twelfth charged them on the flank - the other three in front; and, not knowing what force they were fighting in the uncertain dawn, the six hundred also fled toward Lexington. Hot pursuit was made and many prisoners taken, but the rebels were largely Kentuckians and knew the country better than the Unionists; so that the greater part escaped. :

Morgan was absent with a detachment-at the time of this combat, but soon returned and gathered his men. On the afternoon of the 9th he made a desperate effort to recover Mt. Sterling, but the Twelfth Ohio lay behind a rail fence and cut his lines in pieces with a terrific fire; then charged and utterly routed him. In both contests the regiment had a hundred and thirty-seven men killed, wounded and missing. .

Morgan then retreated to Cynthiana; his thinned ranks being partly filled by rebel Kentuckians. There Burbridge's command again attacked him, at dawn on the 12th of June. The Twelfth Ohio and Eleventh Michigan again charged with drawn sabers in the front line, and again the rebels fled in utter confu- in line, the squad instantly charged and the rebels fled, though doubtless they were influenced by the operations of larger detachments who were likely to cut off their retreat. Morgan's force was utterly broken up, and at once fied through the mountains; and in fact the celebrated partisan never did anything of much consequence afterward.

During most of the summer the Twelfth was stationed at Richmond, Kentucky, protecting the Unionists from guerrillas. On the 20th of September it again set out for Saltville, with a force of nearly five thousand cavalrv and mounted infantry, still under the command of General Burbridge. ast of the Big Sandy the roads were even worse than before, and one night's march is described as probably the most fearful one ever made on the continent when no enemy was present. For miles the road wound along enormous cliffs which towered on one side, while terrific gorges yawned on the other. The rain fell in torrents and Egyptian darkness shrouded the path, save when the blinding lightning half revealed the perils which threatened the devoted soldiery. No less than eight men with their horses fell down those awful precipices and were killed, while many others who fell in less dangerous places, thongh badly bruised, were drawn up by the lariats of their comrades.

The column at length reached the vicinity of Saltville, and was making good headway against the forces with which Gen. Breckenridge was defending that place, when it was suddenly confronted by a ~ large force, estimated at five thousand, of Harly's infantry, which had come throughfrom the Shenandoah valley to defend the threatened point. The Unionists were completely defeated, and considered themselves fortunate in being able to escape through the mountains to Kentucky. The Twelfth Ohio had

' In November, 1864, the regiment went to Kast Tennessee, and on the 12th of Decembér set out on the third expedition against Saltville, which the Union generals seemed as determined to take as were the old crusaders to capture Jerusalem. This time the Twelfth was a part of six thousand cavalry under Gen. Stoneman, which was joined in Virginia by a smaller force under Gen. Burbridge.

After defeating Basil Duke and capturing Bristol, with immense supplies, the column approached Abingdon, Va., in the night. A Kentucky regiment was ordered to charge into town. The colonel demonstrated on account of the darkness, etc., when Lieut. Holt asked leave to lead the charge with Company F of the Twelfth Ohio. Leave was granted, the company dashed forward at the gallop, and in twenty minutes Abingdon was captured, though the gallant heutenant was badly wounded.

was sent to Marion, where it met Vaughn's command of rebel cavalry with eight pieces of artillery. Gillem's men instantly charged, shattered the rebel force and sent it flying on the road to Wytheville, thirtythree miles distant. Then ensued one of the most remarkable rides known in the histury of war. At every opportunity the Confederates placed one or two guns in position and endeavored to stop the Union advance. In every instance but a single shot was fired ere the men of the Twelfth, with their comrades, charged with the sabe? before the artillerists could reload, and cut them down at their pieces or compelled them to flee for their lives. In this way the whole eight pieces were taken and three hundred prisoners; besides which, half as many more were killed and wounded.

Thirty-three miles were made in six hours without hardly a shot being fired by the Unionists. When the column reached the hill nearest Wytheville, the town was in the wildest confusion. Vaughn's demoralized men were mingled with the garrison and with the citizens fleeing from their homes, and no one knew what to do to escape from the terrible Yankees. Gen. Gillem sent a flag to demand a surrender. It was refused, and scarcely had the bearer turned back when Gillem thundered the order to charge, and the brigade went forward like a whirlwind. The Confederates attempted a feeble resistance but were scattered in an instant, and Wytheville with all its immense stores was in the hands of the Unionists.

After destroying the great railroad bridge over New © river, the brigade rejoined Stoneman and returned toward Saltville, which had been passed. Gen. Breckenridge left his imtrenchments there, and came to see who was tearing Virginia to pieces in this remarkable manner. A regiment in advance of the Twelfth met the enemy's cavalry, and began to dismount in order to fight on foot. Major Herrick immediately rode ahead with two hundred sabers, charged and drove the enemy's horse, back in confusion on his main body. Breckenridge had a large force, but after maneuvering a while he began to fear he should be cut in pieces, and fled to North Carolina. The command then destroyed the great salt-works at Saltville, thus striking another terrible blow at the Confederacy, and started back across the mountains.

The hardships of the return were very great, the Twelfth Ohio being constantly required to act as rear guard, because, as the commanding general said, he wanted ''no skedaddling from the rear."

After six weeks in Kentucky the regiment again went to East Tennessee, and engaged in its last great expedition. It started on the 20th of March; the Whole force comprising six or seven thousand horsemen under Gen. Stoneman. The column took an extremely circuitous route, but finally struck the Lynchburg and East Tennessee railroad at Christiansburg, Virginia, tearing up fifteen miles of track and preventing the retreat of Lee in that direction. Then it rode eastward to the Richmond and Danville road, where it performed a similar service. Approaching Salisbury, North Carolina, a part of the force, including the Twelfth Ohio, defeated four thousand Confederate infantry with a single charge; capturing fourteen cannon and thirteen hundred prisoners. It then released what Union prisoners were left at Salisbury, and moved southward. It had no more serious fighting to do, but by its movements aided in the capture of Jefferson Davis, passed on through Georgia and Alabama, and, after being sixty-seven days in the saddle, reached the Union lines at Bridgeport in the latter State on the 26th of May.

After serving in East Tennessee three months and in Middle Tennessee two months more, it was mustered out at Nashville on the 14th of November, 1865, and was disbanded at Columbns, Ohio, on the 23d of the same month.

First Light Artillery, Etc

The Old Militia Regiment - The Offer of Service - To the Front on Two Days Notice - In West Virginia - - The Fight at Philippi - Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford - Mustered out of the Three Months' Service - Re-organized for Three Years - The Batteries serve separately - Number of Cuyahoga Men - Batteries mustered successively - Battery Ain Kentucky - At Corinth - Back to Kentucky, and then to Tennessee - Four Guns lost at Stone River - Stubborn Fighting - The Advance - Hotly engaged at Chickamauga - In East Tennessee - Reenllsted - The Atlanta Campaign - -Pulaski and Columbia - Subsequent Services - Mustered out - Battery B under Thomas - Wild Cat Camp - Mill Springs - To and fro - Hard Fighting at Stone River - Chickamauga- - The Re-enlistment - Long Sojourn at Bridgeport - Mustered out - Battery C at Mill Springs - The Advance on Corinth - Northward with Buell - In Reserve at Perryville - A Fight with Morgan - Its Conduct at Chickamauga - The Re-enlistment - Through the Atlanta Campaign - Down to the Sea, and through the Carolinas - Out of Service - Battery D at Ivy Mountain - Captured at Mumfordsville - Re-organized - Taking Cumberland Gap - Defending Knoxville - The Atlanta Campaign, etc - Mustered out - Battery E on the Same Old Ground - An Artillery Duel - Suecess and Disaster at Stone River - Its Subsequent Battles - Home again - Battery G at Pittsburg Landing - Long Marches - Stone River - Constant Services - Two Months under Fire - Re-enlistment - After Wheeler - Resisting Hood - Nashville - At Huntsville for the Winter - Into North Carolina - At New Orleans--Citizens Once More- - Battery Kk in Virginia - McDowell, Port Repbblic and Cedar Mountain - Lairy's Ford and Bull Run - Hard Fighting at Gettysburg - With Hooker to Chickamauga - The Fight at Night - Its Last Battles - End of Servlee - Roster of Cuyahoga Soldiers in the Whole Regiment - Men of the Second Heavy Artillery from this County.

THe First Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery had its origin in a militia regiment, called the First Ohio Light Artillery, which was organized in 1860. It consisted of six companies; four, (A, B, D and E) of Cleveland: one of Brooklyn and one of Geneva, in Ashtabula county. It was officered by Col. James Barnett, Lieut. Col. E. B. Sturgis, Major Gates and Quartermaster Amos Townsend. Each company had but one gun; so that practically the strength of the was only that of a six-gun battery. It took part in the Perry celebration-of 1860, and in the succeeding winter the officers and men adopted a reso- Jution tendering their services to the State government in case of necessity. When the storm burst in the spring of 1861, they were called on to redeem their .pledge, and did so with the greatest promptness.

The telegraphic order to take the field, with twenty nien per gun, came on Saturday, the 20th of April, and in the evening of the following Monday, the command reached Columbus, whence it was sent to Marietta. On the 28th of May it entered West Virginia. Col. Barnett, with four guns, was stationed for a whileat Grafton. Lieut. Col. Sturgis, with two guns, took part in the fight at Philippi, and it is stated that these were the first cannon fired by the National forces after the fall of Sumter. About the last of June the detachment rejoined the regiment, which then advanced with Gen. Morris' command to Laurel Hill, and assisted in driving the rebels from that place. They were pursued to Carrick's Ford, where they were finally and completely routed, and their commander, Gen. Garnett, was killed. The regiment was then ordered back to Columbus, where it was

Immediately afterwards Gov. Dennison, under authority of the War Department, ordered the regiment to be re-organized for three years as the First Volunteer Light Artillery, with twelve batteries, of a hundred and fifty men each. It was mustered in on the 3d of September, 1861, and was provided with a colonel, lieutenant-colonel and three majors; yet from the nature of artillery service each battery acted separately. The field officers were detached on various staff: positions, and rarely had any thing to do with the batteries which were nominally under their command. It will therefore be necessary to give a slight sketch of the services of each battery which had any considcrable representation from Cuyahoga county. Of these there were no less than seven; Battery A having thirty-eight Cuyahoga men during the war; Battery B, ninety-nine; C, thirty-nine; D, sixtynine; E, sixty-two; G,a hundred and sixty-four, and K, forty-eight. Besides these, Batteries H and K hae three Cuyahogians each; I, four, and M, one; making a total of four hundred and ninety-two men, besides the field and staff.

Things were done in a somewhat slip-shod way in those early days, andat the time at which the musterin of the regiment was dated few of the battcries were full, As these were completed, they were mustered in at Camp Dennison, and sent thence to the field. Following, we give an outline (necessarily brief to the extreme of meagerness) of their respective services. The roster attached has reference only to the three-years men.

Battery

Battery A was mustered into the service September 25, 1861, and proceeded at once to Louisville, being the first Ohio battery to report in that department. Remaining in Kentucky during the winter, it moved in the spring of 1862 to Pittsburg Landing, via Nashville, reaching the former place at the close of the memorable battle fought there. It was in the advance on Corinth ; marched with General McCook through Tennessee, and with Buell through Kentucky. During these movements a portion of the battery, being detached for the defense of Mumfordsville, was captured by Bragg. Marching southward from Louisville in Sill's division, it participated in numerous skirmishes en route, and did not reach Perryville until three days after the battle at that point.

In the Army of the Cumberland, under Rosecrans, , it operated in MeCook's division. When the disaster occurred on the right at Stone River, Battery A lost four guns, but with the remaining two fought stubbornly at every possible poitt; the officers and men continuing the contest until the last gun was disabled, and then aiding to work the guns of other batteries.

It was reorganized and equipped at Murfreesboro and assigned to the seeond division of the Army of the Cumberland. It participated in the movement on Tullahoma and fought gallantly at Chickamauga, where by the utmost exertion it saved its guns amid the general disaster, though with a loss of seventeen men killed and wounded. It entered Chattanooga with the army and aided in the subsequent defense of that town. While marching through East Tennessee in December, 1863, and January, 1864, it fought frequently with the enemy's cavalry, and in variably drove them back. On the 30th of January it re enlisted, and soon returned to Ohio on veteran furlough. It subsequently joined the second division of the Fourth army corps, and took part in the entire Atlanta campaign. Returning to Tennessee with the Fourth corps, it was warmly engaged with the rebels, under Hood, at Pulaski and Columbia. It passed on without further active service to Nashville; arriving just after the battle before that city. Later it was sent to New Orleans, but after a short stay was brought home and mustered out on the 31st of July, 1865. BATTERY B.

This battery was mustered into the service on the Sth of October, 1861, with one hundred and fortyseven men, of whom ninety-nine were from Cuyahoga county. It reported to Gen. Thomas in Kentucky, and saw its first field service at Wildcat Camp, where it silenced a rebel gun. On the 5th of November it joined the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry at Fishing Creek, and during the ensuing month was busily engaged in skirmishing and scouting. Moving on the 17th of January, 1862, to join Gen. Thomas at Mill Springs, it was in the thickest of the fight at that place, after which it proceeded to Nashville, where on the 4th of March it went into camp.

On the 29th it joined Buell's army, and, until the 10th of July, was employed in looking after the rebel cavalry then infesting Middle Tennessee. During July, August and September it was almost constantly on the march in Eastern and Middle Tennessee and Kentucky. It occupied a place on the right wing of Buell's army at the battle of Perrysville, but took no part in the action. The battery encountered no stirring adventure until its participation in the battle of Stone river, in which it fought with great gallantry; losing seventeen men killed, wounded and missing. Its next important service was at the battle of Chickamauga. On the second day of that combat it was charged by a large body of the enemy, but at first drove them back with heavy loss. Another charge was made, and, as the infantry support had given way, the battery was obliged to retreat with the loss of two of its guns.

It shared the hardships of the siege of Chattanooga; remaining near there until after the battle of Mission Ridge. It then returned to Nashville, and, on the 4th of January, 1864, sixty-five of the original members of the command re-enlisted as veterans. After they had enjoyed their thirty days furlough, the battery reported to Gen, Thomas at Bridgeport, Ala. ; remaining stationed at that point until July, 1866.

This organization was mustered into the service on the 9th of September, 1861, and on the 1st of October left Camp Dennison and reported to Gen. Thomas in Kentucky. Directly thereafter it joined an expedition intended to relieve East Tennessee, and achieved signal honors at the important victory of Mill Springs. It joined Buell's army at Nashville, but did not reach Pittsburg Landing in time to take part in the battle.. In the advance upon Corinth Battery C was busily engaged, and was afterwards active in the pursuit of the rebel army, formed a part of the rear-guard of Buell's army on the march to Kentucky, and at Louisville was assigned to the Fourteenth army corps. At Perryville Battery C was held in reserve near Buell's headquarters.

and was engaged with that celebrated rebel in a sharp conflict at Rolling Fork, Ky. It fought stubbornly in the battle of Chickamauga, under the dauntless Thomas, having thirteen men and thirty horses killed and wotinded, and one gun dismounted, and being warmly complimented by the distinguished general just mentioned.

Mission Ridge saw the battery again in action. After the achievement of that great victory it re-enlisted and was sent to Ohio on veteran furlough. Returning to Chattanooga in March, 1864, it left there in May to share in the Atlanta campaign. It bore a heroic part in the battles of Resaca, Cassville, New Hope Church, Peachtree Creek and the seige of Atlanta; losing twenty men in killed and wounded during the campaign.

and Bentonville. Thenceforth it saw no more active service, and, after appearing in the grand review at Washington, it was mustered out at Cleveland on the 15th of June, 1865.

Battery D was mustered into the service in September, 1861, with one hundred and fifty men, of whom sixty-nine were from Cuyahoga county. On the Ist of November it left Camp Dennison and reported to General Nelson in Kentucky, and was engaged shortly afterwards in a sharp skirmish at Joy mountain, Ky. After marching through Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky without being in action, it fought at Mumfordsville in September, 1862, when all its men and guns were captured. 'The men were paroled and returned to Camp Chase, and, upon being exchanged in January, 1863, proceeded as a reorganized and well equipped battery to Kentucky. It was represented by an important detachment in a successful raid through East Tennessee: participated, in July, 1863, in the capture of Cumberland Gap, and took an active and gallant part in the celebrated defense of Knoxville. After this the battery re-enlisted. It marched with Sherman upon Atlanta ; did excellent service at the battles of Franklin and Nashville, and was eventually mustered out at Cleveland on the 15th of July, 1865. BATTERY F.

This organization was mustered in August 23, 1861, and in December joined the old Third division in Kentucky. Subsequently it followed General O. M. Mitchell through Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama, and was in General Sill's division during the pursuit of Bragg. On the 16th of November, 1862, it fought a brisk artillery duel with the First Louisiana Battery at Lavergne, Tennessee, in which it was completely victorious, and on the 27th of December assisted in driving the rebels beyond Triune. It distinguished itself at Stone River; silencing a Texas battery and repulsing repeated charges of infantry and cavalry on the 30th of December. The next day, however, it was completely overwhelmed, and all its guns and twenty-five of its men were captured, besides twenty-three men killed and wounded. Being refurnished with guns, it took part in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Nashville; being especially distinguished for its gallantry in the great victory last mentioned. It was mustered out on the 10th of July, 1865.

Battery G was emphatically a Cuyahoga-county institution, having, including recruits, no less than a hundred and sixty-four men from that county in its ranks. It was mustered in at Camp Dennison in December, 1861. On the 10th of February, 1862, it marched to Jeffersonville, Indiana, and on the 11th of Mareh was ordered to join the Fifth division. On the 7th of April it entered the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and was engaged the entire day; being the only volunteer battery of Buell's army in that action. It also served with Crittenden's division throughout the siege of Corinth. After many long marches through Alabama and Tennessee, during the summer and autumn of 1862, it took part in the battle of Stone River at the end of the year, but was not in the hottest part of the fight. It was actively employed in skirmishing at Murfreesboro and on the march to Tullahoma, covered the rear in the retirement from Dug Gap, and was almost continuously under fire from the battle of Chickamauga until after the fight at Mission Ridge.

On the 2d of December, 1863, it set ont for Nashville, where seventy-six out of ninety-six men reenlisted; being mustered as a veteran battery on the 4th of January, 1861.

sharp fights in August, while pursuing Wheeler's cavalry, which was driven across the Tennessee river. The battery also checked Hood's advance into Franklin on the 30th of November; losing on that occasion twenty-three men in killed and wounded. From December 2d to December 14th it was daily engaged with the enemy at Nashville; taking an active part on the latter day in the general engagement between Generals Thomas and Hood. It also fought at Rutherford creek during Hood's retreat. During the winter.it was stationed at Huntsville, Alabama.

In March, 1865, it moved with the Fourth corps into Tennessee and North Carolina; returning to Nashville in April. In June it accompanied the same corps to New Orleans; returning in August, 1865, to Ohio, and being mustered out at Camp Chase on the 1st of September, 1865.

Battery K left Camp Dennison in February, 1862, jomed Gen. Schenck in Maryland and moved with him into Virginia; fighting its first battle at Me- Dowell and its second at Port Republic. It afterwards moved through the Shenandoah valley with Fremont, and fought under Pope at Cedar Mountain and in other less important conflicts. It took part in a sharp engagement at Lairy's Ford; having sixteen men killed and wounded, and thirty horses killed. It was also engaged under Pope in the second battle of Bull Run.

The next year Battery K woa much honor at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; losing on the latter field thirty-two men in killed and wounded. In October following, the battery accompanied the Twentieth corps under Gen. Hooker to Chattanooga, and was engaged in the night fight in Wauhatchie valley, near that place. It closed its fighting career at Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. It was afterwards stationed in Northern Alabama until July, 1865, when it was sent north, and on the 17th of that month was mustered out at Camp Dennison.

Chap Prr Xk Vi

General Remarks - The Sixth Battery a part of John Sherman's Brigade - It opens the Battle of Mill Springs - The Advance on Corinth - Silencing a Rebel Battery at Stone River - Guns lost and retaken - Inflicting a Crushing Defeat - Its Part at Chickamauga~The Atlanta Cinpaaign - In the Thick of the Fight at Franklin - The End of Service - Members from Cuyahoga County - The Ninth Battery raised for the Forty-first Infantry - A Small Beginning - Gallantry at Mill Springs - Cumberland Gap - Skirmishes in 1863 - Re-enlistment - The Atlanta Campaign, etc - Mustered out - The Cuyahogians - The Fifteenth Battery - Off to the Front - Grand Junction and Coldwater Creek - Vicksburg and Jackson - The Raid through Mississippi - To Northeru Georgia - Its Numerous Services in the Atlanta Campaign - Through the Carolinas - Citizens Again - The Cuyahoga List - The Nineteenth a Cuyahoga Battery - Its Intelligence and Standing - Enthusiasm on their Departure - Service 'in Kentucky - A Grateful People - A Section at McConnellsville - A Frenzied Village - The First Skirmish of the Nineteenth - The Enemy runs away - His Capture resulting - With Burnside to East Tennessee - Capture of Cumberland Gap - The Defense of Knoxville - A Section in Fort Saunders - The Terrible Defeat of the Rebels - Setting forth for Atlanta - Opening Fire on the Works at Auanta - The Battle of Nashville - Off to North Carolina - Its Services there - In Service no longer - The Residents of Cuyahoga - Another Battery from this County - Trouble among the Officers - Engaged at Chickamauga - The Atlanta Campaign - Guarding Sherman's Flanks - Defeating Wheeler at Dalton - A Section surrendered - The Other Two with Thomas - Franklin and Nashville - Stationed at Chattanooga - Mustered out - The Cuyahoga Men - The Twenty-first Battery guards Vallandigham - Watching Morgan - Fight at Walker's Ford, Tennessee - Services in Tennessee and Alabama - Return and Muster out - Twenty-fifth Battery - Gen. Llunt's Detail - The Victories of Newtonia and Prairie Grove - Made the Twenty-fffth Ohio Battery - Service in Missouri and Arkansas - Fighting North of Little Rock - Mustered out in August, 1865 - Cuyahoga Members - Fifth United States Colored Infantry - Begun as the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Ohio - Slow Recruiting - Changed to the Fifth Colored Infantry - artillery raised in Ohio during the war; each having a hundred and fifty officers and men, including a captain, two first lieutenants and two second lieutenants. Six of these contained delegations from Cuyahoga county, and of these we give a slight account in the succeeding pages.

Sixth Battery

This originally formed a part of a brigade recruited under the supervision, and largely through the exertions, of Senator (now Secretary) Sherman, which was consequently known as John Sherman's brigade. It was organized near Mansfield in November, 1861, and contained during the war eighteen members from Cuyahoga county. It served in various parts of Kentucky during the following winter, and its presence on the Cumberland brought on the battle of Mill Springs. It reached Pittsburg Landing soon after the battle, and took part in the advance on Corinth. From the 29th of April to the end of its service it was always in the brigade or division of Gen. Wood. The battery participated in the pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky, and was present at Perryville though not engaged.

At Stone River the Sixth silenced a rebel battery on the first day; the next, while detached from its regular position to check the overwhelming advance of the rebels against MeCook's corps, it was temporarily outflanked and two guns were captured, which, however, were retaken a quarter of an hour later. The third day it was a part of the massed artillery which inflicted a crushing defeat on the advancing foe. On the fourth day (January 2d) the Sixth withdrew at one time on account of a rear fire from another Union battery, but soon took part in the final conflict which decided the victory in favor of the National forces. The next autumn, at Chickamauga, the battery was warmly engaged; having eight officers and men killed and wounded.

Having re-enlisted in December, the Sixth took part in the Atlanta campaign the next spring; being engaged almost every day from Dalton to Atlanta. Returning with the Fourth corps, the battery was in the very hottest part of the battle of Franklin, and aided materially in gaining that decisive victory. It went through much arduous but not dangerous service after this, and was mustered, out in September, 1865.

Thomas Goyette, enl. Feb. 4, 1864, Mustered out with the Battery Sept wlahe Tewk! enl. March 24, 1864, Mustered out with the Battery. Daniel McGruvy, enl. Jan. 12, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Patrick O'Hearn, enl. Feb. 11, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. John Scott, enl. Feb. 10, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery.

Joseph Timmens, enl. Feb. 26, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Stephen Welch, enl. Feb. 4, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Thomas Burnett, enl. Aug. 27, 1864. Disch. June 12, 1865.

Ninth Independent Battery

This command, originally intended to form a portion of the Forty-first Infantry, was organized October 11, 1861, for three years service, with three commissioned officers, eighty men and four guns, but afterwards became a full battery. During the war it had thirty-two members from Cuyahoga county. It left Cleveland for Kentucky on the 7th of December, and, after remaining in camp upwards of a month, participated in the battle of Mill Springs; receiving from Gen. Thomas, on account of its gallant services on that occasion, two bronze guns captured from the enemy. Subsequently the Ninth fought at Cumberland Gap, where it was under a seven hours continuous fire, and shared in the numerous movements which resulted in the capture of that stronghold in June, 1862, as well as in the hardships of the retreat which was subsequently found to be necessary.

After being increased to a six gun battery 1t served with the army of the Cumberland:until the next spring; was smartly engaged with the enemy at Franklin and Triune, Tenn., and during June and July, 1863, had several skirmishes near Triune and Murfreesboro. Exciting but not important experiences attended the battery until February 22, 1864, when forty men of the original organization re-enlisted as veterans and returned to Cleveland. On the Sth of April, 1864, it appeared for duty at Tullahoma, Tenn., whence in May it departed with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, and took an-aetive part in the many battles of that arduous but glorious struggle. It also attended him in his '*' March to the Sea,"' performing good service whenever called upon, and was eventually mustered out at Cleveland on the 25th of July, 1865.

Edwin Cowles, enr. as Sergt. Oct. 11, 1841. 12, 1862. Resigned April 20, 1864. Albert Eves, enl. Feb, 28, 1864. Promoted to Corp. May 18, 1865. tered out with the Battery. Selby Ashcraft, enl. March 7, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Charles Buchanan, enl. Feb. 29, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. John Blodgett, enl. March 15, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Ransom Brown, enl. March 10, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. John H. Bullock, enl. March 9, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Adrian Brown, enl. Feb. 25, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Peter Bennett, enl. Jan. 4, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Walter W. Clough, enl. Feb. 13, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Frank Dufresul, enl. Jan. 2, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Frank E. Eggivston, enl. Dec. 23, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. John K. Enswurth, enl. Feb. 14, 1864. Mustered out withthe Battery. Lucius Fowler, enl. Feb. 16, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Charles T, Hansard, enl. March 15, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Alonzo P. Jacques, enl. March 11, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Seth Knowles, enl. March 25, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. David A. Kelso, enl. March 16, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Charles Light, enl. Jan. 2, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. John Mehan, enl. Feb. 25, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. - Eugene A. Pendleton, enl. March 10, 1864. Mustered out with Battery. Charles A. Robinson, enl. Dec. 31, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. William H. Schoffer, enl. Jan. 5, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Ransom L. Smith, enl. Dec. 26, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery.

Josiah M. Smith, enl. Dec. 17, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. Delmar Stevens, enl. Feb. 25, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Clare Thompson, enl. March 15, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. John Vandervert, enl. Aug. 30, 1864. Disch, June 16, 1865,

Fifteenth Battery

Recruited' in the counties of Trumbull, Ashtabula, Cuyahoga and Lorain, the Fifteenth battery was mustered in for three years, February 1, 1862, reported

It did some brilliant work in a skirmish near Grand Junction, Tenn., in September, 1862; fought in the battle of Metamora on the 5th of October; and w:s in the thick of the fight at Cold Water Creek, on the 19th of April, 1863. The battery went down the Mississippi with Gen. Grant; was on the front line during the siege of Vicksburg, and was engaged in July at Jackson, Mississippi. After operating on the Mississippi and' lying in camp at Vicksburg until February, 1864, it marched eastward with Sherman against the enemy at Meridian, Enterprise and Quitman, Mississippi, and then returned to Vicksburg, where thirty-six of its men re-enlisted.

After recruiting, the battery joined Sherman in Northern Georgia, fought in the battles at Kenesaw mountain, was oceupied in severe skirmishes and engagements on the Nicojack and Chattahoochie rivers, and was present at the capture of the Augusta railroad near Decatur, Ga. It did very important work in the bloody fight of July 22d, when Gen. McPherson was killed; and on the 28th of the same month it was the only battery engaged on the National side when Hood vainly hurled two corps against the forces commanded by Logan. The Fifteenth was also in Sherman's flank movement upon the rear of Atlanta, and was warmly engaged at the battles of Jonesborough and Lovejoy's Station.

It went down to the sea with Sherman, took part in the siege of Savannah, marched through the Carolinas, and was present at Gen. Jchnston's surrender. After having fought in thirty battles and skirmishes, and traveled more than five thousand miles, the Fifteenth was mustered out at Columbus on the 20th of June, 1865.

The Independent Batteries, Etc

It is something less than a skeleton - only a few disjointed bones - that we can pick out from the very interesting production mentioned in the foot-note, and place before our readers.

The Nineteenth was raised at Cleveland by Capt. Joseph C. Shields, (being commonly called. Shields' Battery,) in July, August and September, 1862: and its members, according to the records, were, with two or three exceptions citizens of Cuyahoga county. They were almost all men of good standing, and the historian of the battery boldly claims that it was the best educated and most intelligent body of men that served during the war.

After having a good time in camp until the 5th of October, the men, not yet provided with guns, set out for Kentucky, marching through the city to the depot escorted by the militia organizations, and cheered by tens of thousands of admiring friends - for all were then the soldiers' friends. Having received their armament, they served through the winter, and the spring of 1863, at Lexington, Frankfort, Richmond and Danville, undisturbed by the enemy, and always managing to extract all the pleassure possible from among the "lights and shadows of army life."

About the 1st of June the battery was attached to the Twenty-third army corps, under Gen. Hartsuff, and moved southward. Ere long, however, it was ordered to return, and on the 12th of July it reached Cincinnati, then ina state of intense alarm on account of the operations of the celebrated und ubiquitous John Morgan. The citizens collected by thousands, and every soldier was a hero who it was hoped would rescue the city from the dreaded gang of plunderers. At Hamilton, whither the battery immediately went, the generosity of the frightened citizens knew no bounds, and it was currently reported that one energetic artillerist accepted four invitations and ate four breakfasts before ten o'clock, a.m.

The battery soon returned to Cincinnati, and moved eastward to guard the Ohio and prevent Morgan from escaping. On the 20th of July Lieut. Dustin, with two guns, went up the Muskingum on a steamer, accompanied by four hundred hastily-levied '' squirrel hunters." Within two miles of McConnelsvyille, the county seat of Morgan county, a courier dashed up with information that Morgan was marching rapidly on that town. All were immediately landed, and the section galloped forward (followed by the '' squirrel hunters ''), into the little town, which was probably in a state of greater excitement than it has ever been at any other. time, before or since; half the people running about the streets with valuables, uncertain what to do to save themselves from the great raider.

Seven miles up the river the little command met Morgan's advance, and promptly opened fire. The rebels were so surprised that they immediately turned and fled, followed by a copious discharge of shot and shell from the two guns. Thus it happened that the first shot fired at the enemy from any of the guns of the Nineteenth Battery were discharged in the State of Ohio; a result quite unlooked for by those who had set out for southern battlefields near ten months before. On the section returning to McConnellsyille, all previous expressions of enthusiasm were completely thrown in the shade by the gratitude of the rescued citizens. The littleskirmish had quite important consequences, as it deranged Morgan's plans and delayed his escape so long that he was soon captured.

After returning to Kentucky the Nineteenth moved with Gen. Burnside to Knoxville, in East Tennessee, thence turning northward and aiding in the capture of the great stronghold of Cumberland Gap. Returning to Knoxville, the battery engaged in its first serious conflict with the enemy during the siege of were actively engaged, and one section was in Fort Saunders, the central point of the Union lines, when it was attacked by the rebels on the morning of the 29th of November, and the grape and canister of the Nineteenth aided in inflicting one of the most crushing defeats of the war; nearly two thousand rebels being killed and wounded in forty minutes, while the killed and wounded of the Union side only numbered thirty. Soon after, Longstreet abandoned the siege.

After arduous service in East Tennessee during the winter and early spring, the battery moved, in May, 1864, onthe Atlanta campaign. It was engaged at Resaca, Cassville, Pampkin Vine, Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, New Hope Church ete., and was the first to open fire on the rebel fortifications at Atlanta. After the fall of that place it returned to Nashville, and took part in the great battle in front of that city, which finally crushed the hopes of the ambitious Hood.

The next move was a long one, made in February, 1865, to North Carolina. There, however, there was little left to do, and after taking part in the closing movements of the war it returned to Cleveland in June, and on the 29th of that month was mustered out of the service.

Mustered out with the Battery. Jeremiah W. Nash,enl. Aug. 6, 1862, Died at Knoxville, Tenn., May 10, 1864. Joseph M. Odell, enl. Aug. 5, 1862. Promoted to Corp. Mustered out with the Battery. Artemus T. Proctor, enl. July 31, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. George M. Patterson, enl. Aug. 4, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. John C. Quinlan, en]. Aug. 11, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Stephen G. Remington, enl. Aug. 9, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery:

The Independent Batteries, Eto

Harrison H. Remington, enl. Aug. 6, 1862. Mustered out with Battery. James L. Reed, enl. Aug. 4, 1862. Died at Stanford, Ky., July 2, 1863. Edwin C. Root, enl. Aug. 4, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. John Reese, enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. George H. Root, en]. Aug. 11, 1862. Disch, Feb. 29, 1864. John Risley, enl, Aug. 12, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Henry B. Smith, enl. Aug. 4, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Elbert B. Simons, enl. Aug. 5, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Solon C. Storm, enl, Aug. 6, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Jacob K. Stucker, enl. Aug. 13, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Joseph Strine, enl. Aug. 13, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Samuel Sunderland, enl. Aug. 1, 1862. Disch. for disability July 8, 1864, William J. Spafford, enl. Aug. 6, 1862, Mustered out with the Battery. Smith Riley, enl. Dec. 30, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. Alexander B. Stevens, enl. Aug. 9, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. James H. Stanford, enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. William K. Scott, enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Disch. June 19, 1863. Benjamin L. Sampson, enl. Aug. 13, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Robert Thompson, enl. Aug. 13, 1862 Mustered out with the Battery. Theodore C. W. Tracie, enl. Aug. 7, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Ellis D. Torrey, enl. Aug. 8, 1862. Disch. for disability March 4, 1863, Charles H. Viall, enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. John Watkins, enl. Aug. 9, 1862. Prom. to Corp. Mustered out with the Battery. = Victor R. Williams, enl. Aug. 13, 1862, Disch. Jan. 24, 1864. Andrew Wolf, enl. Aug. 1, 1862, Mustered out with the Battery. George Williams, enl. Aug. 4, 1862. Transf. to the Navy June 27, 1864. Erastus R. Waite, enl. Aug. 6, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Orrin L. Waite, enl. Aug. 6, 1862. Killed in action June 29, 1864, Richard H. Williams, enl. Aug. 7, 1862. Disch. Harvey S. Welch, enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Disch. for disability April 4, 1863. John Wolcott, enl. Aug. 11, 1862. Disch. for disability March 3, 1863, Christian Waltz, enl. Aug. 12, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Edward C. Fairchild, enl. July 30, 1862. Promoted to Corp. Mustered out with the Battery. John N. Barnum, enl. Aug. 20, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Eldon GQ. Dixon, enl. Feb. 23, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Erastus H. Fox, enl. March 23, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Allen Monroe, enl, March 23, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery.

Twentieth Battery

This was another purely Cuyahoga-county institution; having originally a hundred and fifty-six men, under Capt. Louis Smithnight, but being filled up with recruits from time to time it had no less than a hundred and ninety-six men on itsroll. It left Camp Taylor on the 31st of December, 1862, and on the 8th of February, 1863, joined Rosccrans at Murfreesboro, Tenn. After the resignation of Capt. Smithnight, much trouble was caused by the appointment of an outsider and all the other commissioned officers left the service; their places being filled by men from the ranks.

haying three men wounded and two taken prisoners, The battery was stationed at Chattanooga during the succeeding winter, and in May, 1863, it moved on the Atlanta campaign. It was constantly called on to perform the difficult task of repelling the cavalry of Forest and Wheeler in their numerous assaults on the flanks of Sherman's army, and also to maintain communications with the base of supplies in the rear. On the 15th of August, 1864, General Steadman with a division of infantry and the Twentieth battery attacked Wheeler's corps of cavalry, said to be six thousand strong, at Dalton, and after several hours fighting drove them from the place.

Early in September a seetion of the battery which had remained at Dalton was surrendered, together with a regiment of colored troops, by the commander of the latter, at the demand of General Hood, who was on his way northward. The other two sections accompanied General Thomas, in the Fourth army corps, on his march to circumvent Hood. The reduced battery was gallantly engaged in the battle of Franklin, having fourteen officers and men killed and wounded. It was also engaged, though less severely, at the battle of Nashville. It was soon afterwards stationed at Chattanooga, where it remained until July; being mustered out at Cleveland on the 19th of that month.

Adam Hausman, enl. Aug. 28, 1862. Promoted to Sergt. Mustered out with the Battery. Peter Dietrich, enl. Nov. 15, 1862. Promotedto Corporal. Mustered out with the Battery. Edwin Adams, enl. Jan. 5, 1864, Mustered out with the Battery. John Brier, enl. Jan. 5, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. William Blair, enl. Jan. 14, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. George Berthold, enl. Jan. 14, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Horace Bronson, enl. Jan. 27, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. John D, Chapman, enl. Jan. 27, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Edwin Camp, enl. Oct. 5, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Edward Davis, enl. Jan. 5, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Philip Droz, enl. Jan. 27, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. James Hardman, enl. Dec. 31, 1863. Mustered out with the | attery. Charles Higgins, enl. Dec. 22, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. Robert Hawkins, enl. Dec. 30, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. Albert Jones, enl. Jan. 5, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Henry Killmer, enl. Dec. 24, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. William Kelley, enl. Jan. 8, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Herbert Le Claire, en]. Jan. 22, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Thomas Munger, enl. Oct. 5, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. David Munger, enl. Oct. 5, 1864, Mustered out with the Battery. Thomas Munson, enl. Oct. 14, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Melvin Malone, enl. Jan. 5, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Nelson Malone, en]. Jan 5, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Frank Perkins, enl. Jan. 4, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. James Perrine, enl. Jan. 4, 1864. Mustered out with the Pattery. Anthony Paulis, enl. Jan, 5, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Peter Pope, enl. Jan. 7, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Othello Park, enl! Feb. 15, 1864, Mustered out with the Battery. Henrv Richards, enl. Dec. 29, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. Christian Stiller, enl. Jan. 2, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. ' John Stodtle, enl. Jan. 6, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Arthur Stacy, enl. Dec, 19, 1868. Mustered out with the Battery. Charles Smith, enl. Jan. 4, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Christian Schnitzer, enl. Dec. 30, 1863, Mustered out with the Battery. Peter C. Smith, enl. Jan. 11, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Henry Sheridan. enl. Jan. 25, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Frederick Wetzel, enl. Oct. 4, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Charles Webster, enl. Feb. 25, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Francis Wright, enl. Jan. 15, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. August Walter, enl. Dec. 24, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. George Young, enl. Jan. 12, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Joseph Fitzgerald, enl. Jan. 5, 1864. Disch. for disability Dec. 4, 1864. > Hugo Koehn, enl. Dec. 30, 1863. Disch. for disability May 10, 1865, Verdine Truesdale, enl. Aug. 29, 1864. Mustered out June 7, 1865. Sherman Oviatt, enl. Aug. 29, 1864. Mustered out June 7, 1865. Charles Humphrey, enl. Aug. 29, 1854. Mustered out June 7, 1865, Alexander Sorter, enl. Aug. 29, 1864. Mustered out June 7, 1865. Harris Billson, enl. Sept. 30, 1864. Mustered out June 7, 1865. Henry Elder, enl. Sept. 7, 1864. Mustered out June 7, 1865. Albert Case, enl. Aug. 29, 1864. Mustered out June 7, 1865. Peter O'Keesler, enl. Aug. 29, 1864. Mustered out June 7, 1865.

Twenty-First Battery

The Twenty-first battery was mustered into the service for three years at Camp Dennison, on the 9th of April, 1863, and in May was sent'down the Ohio from Cincinnati to Louisville as guard over Vallandigham, then on his way into exile. When Morgan crossed the Ohio, four of the guns of the Twenty-first were used on the steamers patrolling the river to prevent his escape. In September the battery procecded to Tennessee, in which State it did considerable service, especially in a fight at Walker's Ford, on the 2d of December, 1863, where it was remarkably effective. Its ficld of operations until the close of the war was confined to Tennessee and Alabama, where its chief employment was the guarding of important fords and railway lines. When the long struggle was ended the battery returned to Cleveland, and on the 21st of July, 1865, it was mustered out of the service.

William H. H. Smith, enr. as 2nd Lieut. Noy. 19, 1862. Promoted to 1st Lieut. March 1, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery July 21, 1865. Ezra Homes, enr. as Q. M. Sergt. Oct. 10, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Darius Baldwin, enr. as Corp. Oct. 21, 1862. Disch. July 15, 1863. Horace Wolcott, enr. as Corp. Oct. 17, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Charles J. Beebe, enl. Dec. 16, 1862, Mustered out with the Battery. Samuel Allen, enl. Oct, 11, 1862. Drowned at Cincinnati May 25, 1863. Thomas R. Allen, enl, Oct. 31, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Cleanthus Burnett, enl. Feb, 23, 1863. Promoted to Corp. May 17, 1865. Mustered out with the Battery. William J. Laldwin, enl. Oct. 13, 1862. Disch. for disability Aug. 10, 1863. Charles J. Colson, enl. Oct. 23, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. John HH. Evarts, enl. Nov. 30, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. George F. Gould, enl. Oct. 14, 1862. Disech. June 19, 1865. James Hervey, enl. Oct, 16, 1862. Disch. for disability Oct. 28, 1863. Lyman 8. Hodges, enl. Dec. 8, 1862. Disch. for disability June 20, 1863. Jonas Heckert, enl. Nov. 27, 1862. Disch. from Hosp. June 16, 1865. James Lindeman, enl. Oct. 22, 1862. Promoted to Corp. Died in Hosp. at Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 2, 1863. William Long, enl. Dec. 8, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. George Manchester, enl. Oct. 8, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Daniel McSwan, enl. Oct. 25, 1862. Disch. from Hosp. June 16, 1865. Milton McFarland, enl. Oct. 25, 1862. Promoted to Sergt. May 30, 1863, and to ist Sergt. Feb. 18, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. John Mahony, enl. Oct. 21, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Josiah Ogle, enl, Oct. 18, 1862. Disch. for disability Nov. 20, 1863. James Parker, enl. Oct. 17, 1862. Disch. from Hosp. June 15, 1865. Wesley Summers, enl. Oct. 21, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. William Sinclair, enl. Oct. 30, 1862. Disch. from Hosp. May 29, 1865. Nathan W. Tomlinson, enl. Oct. 10, 1862. Promoted to - in the U. S. Col. Heavy Art, Aug. 17, 1864. John G. Washburn, enl. Oct. 16, 1862. Mustered out with the Battery. Elhanan Winchester, enl. Jan. 24, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. Charles Collister, enl. Sept. 19, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. George W. Brookins, enl. Aug. 16, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Loren Call, enl. Aug. 16, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery, Benjamin M. Curtis, enl. Aug. 13, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Elijah W. Curtis, enl. Aug. 15, 1863. Mustered out with the Battery. Samuel B. Champlin, enl, Aug. 15, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. P. N. Curtis, enl. Aug 12, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Warren W. Ely, enl. Aug. 15, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Thomas W. Fowler, enl, Aug. 15, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Trumbull Granger, enl..Aug. 12, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Thomas Mackey, enl, Aug. 12, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Ezekiel Nichols, enl, Aug. 13, 1864, Mustered out with the Battery. Abraham J. Phelps, enl. Aug. 26, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Spencer Phelps, enl. Aug. 19, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery, John H. Collister, enl. Sept. 2, 1864. Disch. from Hosp. May 18, 1865.

Twenty-Fifth Battery

This originated in a detail made by Gen. Blunt in August, 1862, from the Second Ohio Cavalry, for temporary artillery service in Kansas and the Indian

Territory, and called by him the Third Kansas Battery. It had a sharp fight with Texans and Indians at Newtonia, Mo., on the 30th of September, and another on the 4th of October, in which the enemy was completely defeated. In November and December following, it took an active part in the battles of Kane Hill, Prairie Grove and Van Buren. In returning to Missouri it crossed White river by means of shooting an empty case-shot across the roaring stream, with a line attached, by which an improvised ferryboat could be worked over.

During the spring and forepart of the summer it served in Missouri; moving into Arkansas in July, and having several severe conflicts in August and September before arriving at Little Rock.

In January, 1864, one hundred and twelve men out of a hundred and twenty-nine re-enlisted. After their veteran furlough they returned to duty in Arkansas, where they remained until the autumn of 1865. The battery was discharged at Columbus on the 12th of December, in that year.

A. F. Flint, enl. Feb, 23, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Addison Lockwood, enl. April 13, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. Robert Scanlon, enl. Feb. 18, 1864. Mustered out with the Battery. William C. Farrell, enl. Feb. 29, 1864, Disch, for disability Oct. 25, 1864. Edward H. Pritchard, enl. March 28, 1864. Mustered out June 6, 1865.

The following were transferred from the Fifth Cavalry in January, 1863, with which regiment their records may be found: Francis A. Thayer, David V. Bell, Walter D. Barker, Henry W. Gage, Edwin Kinnicutt, Luzerne W. Kelley, Henry Mead, Webster K. Nye, William Van Orman, Thomas Scott, George W. Pollock, Gilbert J. Doolittle, Zina J. Buck, Elmer Breurr, William Christie, George Davis, Thomas Dodd, Patrick Dunn, George B, Hammond, John Olds, Nathan E. Penfield, Alex. C. Ruple, Henry Stuyesan, Wm. Fesshaupt.

Fifth United States Colored Infantry

Although this regiment was raised under the direct authority of the United States, yet it was entirely recruited in Ohio; and as it had a representation of fifteen members from Cuyahoga, it.should receive mention in our work, though, from its being the only United States regiment noticed, it is somewhat difficult to locate it. It was begun in the summer of 1863 as the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Ohio Infantry. Recruiting was slow, however, till the new organization received the sanction of the national authorities, and was transformed into the Fifth United States Colored Infantry.

In November, 1863, it went to Virginia with nine companies; the tenth joining during the winter. The next month it was engaged in an important raid into North Carolina, and behaved well in its first fight.

it went up the James river with Gen. Butler. On the 15th of June the Fifth, with the colored division, stormed the hights before Petersburg; eliciting the applause of Gen. W. F. (' Baldy") Smith, an old regular officer, certainly not prejudiced in their favor. On the 29th of September the Fifth, with two other colored regiments, stormed and carried the rebel works on New Market Hights under extremely adverse circumstances. During the day's fighting the regiment suffered the terrific loss of three hundred and forty-two killed and wounded, out of five hundred and fifty-nine.

It subsequently took part in the capture of Fort Fisher and Fort Anderson, North Carolina, and remained in service in that State until September, 1865; being discharged at Columbus on the 5th of October following.