Sandusky County, Ohio - Chapter 20: Military History, 1909

Chapter 20: Military History

Soldiers in War of the Revolution - The War of 1812 - Mexican W ar - Sandusky County in the Civil War - The Spanish-American War - Graves of Departed Heroes.

As related in previous chapters, Lower Sandusky is associated, in military history, with the French and Indian War, the war of the Revolution, the Indian Border War, and the War of 1812; and was the scene of many thrilling events, finally culminating in the brilliant defense of Fort Stephenson, August 2, 1813; so that, although as a county organization, it did not exist until 1820, its military history dates from pre-revolutionary times.

Soldiers Of The Revolution

John Waggoner enlisted at or near Reading, Pa; Von Heer, captain; rank, private, and in General Washington's Life Guard; served ti) the close of the war. Applied for a pension, September 9, 1828. Claim was allowed. He married at Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, Sarah Minnie. At that date he is referred to as John Waggoner, Sr. His wife was allowed a pension on application executed September 13, 1853, while a resident of Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. John Waggoner died December 15, 1842, aged 75 years. Buried in the Bowlus Cemetery, and later his remains were removed to Four-mile House Cemetery. In a newspaper published in Lower Sandusky of the date of June 3, 1841, is the following paragraph:

"Tt is with no little pleasure that on Friday morning last, between 5 and 6 o'clock we met our venerated friend John Waggoner, of Washington Township, in this county. He had come to town as he is wont to do for the purpose of delivering a periodical supply of butter to his customers. Mr. Waggoner is the last, or the last but one, of the surviving Life Guards of General Washington; he is now. about 80 years old."

David Dalyrymple enlisted at Petersham, ; Mass., June, 1780, served till November 1, 1780, as private; Captain, Taylor; Colonel, Michael Jackson; was re-enlisted March 1781, served till November, 1783, private; Captain, Willson; Colonel, Jackson. Applied for pen-- sion October 1, 1832. His claim allowed. Applied at Walworth, Wayne County, New York; 67 years of age at the time of application for pension; buried in York Township.

Phineas Stevens enlisted May, 1775, served eight months as private; Captain, Samuel Patch; Colonel, Jas. Prescott; re-enlisted March, 1776, served eleven months; private, Captain Asabel Wheeler; Colonel, Reed; engaged in the battles of Bunker Hill, Lexington, Lake Champlain. Applied. for a pension May 8, 1818, Ontario County, New York, at the age of 64 years. Claim allowed. Died August 8, 1840 in Sandusky County, Ohio; buried in Townsend Township.

Daniel Bates enlisted in Morris County, New York, January, 1782, served one year as private; Captain, Jonas Ward; Colonel, Seeley, New York. Applied for a pension in Sandusky County, Ohio, October 2, 1832. Claim allowed. Born in Morris County, New York, March 27, 1763. Buried in Green- Creek Township, in Dana Cemetery.

George Armstrong enlisted at Juniata, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1776; served two months, fifteen days; sergeant; Captain, James Gibson; reenlisted 1778, served two months as private; Captain, Robert Matier; Colonel, Smith; reenlisted 1780, served two months as private; Captain Robert Matier; Colonel, Smith; reenlisted 1780, served two months, private; Captain, Hurl; applied at the age of 71 years for a pension at Benton Yates County, New York, September 28, 1832. Claim allowed; buried in York Township.

Allen Watrous enlisted at East Hadden, Connecticut, June 1, 1780; served eight months, private; Captain, Benton; Colonel, Sherman; reenlisted ; served one month, private; Captain, Jonathan Kilbourne; Colonel, Joe Worthington, Connecticut; born in Lyme, Connecticut, 1758. Applied for pension, Ridgefield, Huron County, Ohio, July 27, 1832. His claim allowed; buried in Green Creek Township.

Joab Wright enlisted at Saybrook, Connecticut, 1780; served eight months as private; Captain, Caleb Baldwin; Colonel, Swift, Connecticut. Engaged in battle at Saybrook, Connecticut. Applied for pension at the age of 67 years at Thompson Township, Seneca County, Ol:io, July «:., 1822. Claim allowed. Died August 16, 1844; buried in Green Creek Township.

came to America about 1753 or 1754. John Burkhart enlisted in Von Herr's Light Dragoons or Troop Marchausse, in 1778. Later he re-enlisted at Reading, Pennsylvania, and was a member of Washington's Life Guards through the war. His family lived at Reading, Pennsylvania, until about 1795; from there they moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later to Perry County, Ohio. John Burkett (now spelled) moved to Sandusky County, Ohio. Died 1849, aged 93 years. Buried in Hessville Cemetery, Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. Archives of the State of Pennsylvania, Second Series, Vol. II, page 175, edition 1891; he was in the battle of Yorktown and after the surrender of Cornwallis returned home at Reading, Pennsylvania, and was married.

Nathan Goodale - In the year 1793 a Revolutionary soldier by the name of Nathan Goodale with the title of Major, a native of Brookfield, Massachusetts, while living near Belpre, and working on his farm there, was captured by Indians, who started with him for Detroit, for ransom, by the way of Lower Sandusky. Here he was taken so ill that they could proceed no farther with him and took him to the house of James Whittaker down the river, and there left him. Here he died and was doubtless buried near the Whittaker home.

Harrington - Judge Israel Harrington in 1840 writes: "My father was a soldier of the war, preceding the War of the Revolution, and commonly called the "Old French War," which closed when the immortal Wolfe fell at Quebec. When the Revolution began he was one of those who fought at Bunker Hill, where the lamented patriot Warren fell. He was a soldier throughout the Revolution. He died at my house, where I now reside, in 1826."

Among the settlers of Lower Sandusky before the organization of the county, the following are known to have served in the War of 1812: Jeremiah Everett, Thomas L. Hawkins, Charles B. Fitch, David Gallagher, Jonathan H. Jerome, Israel Harrington, Josiah Rumery and James Justice. Other soldiers of this war settled later, in different parts of the county, but it has been impossible to ascertain the names of more than a few as follows: Samuel Thompson, wounded at Lundy's Lane, was a captain in the Mexican War. Ephriam K. Townsend, William Fink, Nathaniel B. Tucker, Noah Huss, Alanson Carpenter, Chaplin Rathbun, Thomas G. Amsden, John West, Gurdon Woodward, John Heter, Sr., Merritt Scott, Uriah Craig, Henry Roller, Daniel Greene, W. D. Sherwood, Daniel R. Ellsworth, John Bush,

And Representative Citizens The Mexican War

In the spring of 1847 Capt. Samuel Thompson of Lower Sandusky, a veteran of the War of 1812, who was wounded at the battle of Lundy's Lane, raised a company of volunteers for the Mexican War, known as Company C, the commissioned and non-commissioned officers of which were as follows:

There were seventy-six privates in this company. The company being ordered to report at Cincinnati, traveled by wagon from Lower Sandusky to Perrysburgh and thence by the Miami Canal in canal boats to Cincinnati. In June, 1847, they were mustered into service as Company C, in the Fourth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, then forming in that city, officered as follows:

Besides the men enlisted by Captain Thompson, there were eighteen, recruited by Captains Amos C. Bradly and J. A. Jones, in the year previous, among whom were Andrew Kline and his brother Lewis Kline and John Foltz, members of Company F, of the First Regiment O. V. I., making in all, who volunteered from Sandusky County, about one hundred and ten men.

Grande and was transported thence to Vera Cruz, where it became part of the brigade of Major General Joseph Lane. From there Captain Thompson, owing to disability, was compelled to return home, and from that time the command of the company devolved upon Lieutenant Knapp, through the entire service.

General Lane's brigade left Vera Cruz September 10, 1847, and arrived at National Bridge about the 23d of the month, and passing through the city of Jalapa September the 30th, reached Pueblo on the 12th day of October; Pueblo was garrisoned by the Americans, commanded by Colonel Childs, and was in a state of siege, by a large force under command of General Santa Anna. When Lane arrived, an engagement took place there, in the streets, in which Company C of the Sandusky County boys participated. The Mexicans were defeated and the garrison relieved.

The Fourth Regiment remained at Pueblo until after the treaty of peace was ratified, and on June 2, 1848, left for home, arriving at Cincinnati the latter part of July, where the soldiers were finally discharged; the Sandusky County soldiers, homeward bound, reached Tiffin by railroad, going thence to Lower Sandusky by wagon.

There were but few sound men in the ranks when they reached home, and a number died from disease contracted in the service; many others were enfeebled during the remainder of life. Of the men who enlisted from Sandusky County only four are now known to be living, Andrew Kline and Jacob Faller of Fremont; Lewis Kline, of Michigan, and John Foltz, now of Henry County, and in the Soldiers' Home at Sandusky. Andrew Kline served in Company H, Seventy-second . Regiment O. V. I., in the Civil War, and was promoted to first lieutenant. Jacob Faller is the only surviver of Captain Thompson's Company. At the ninety-third anniversary of the defense of Fort Stephenson on August 2, 1906, when the remains of Major George Croghan were there reinterred, five veterans of the Mexican War were honorary pall bearers, viz: Andrew Kline, Lewis Kline, Jacob Faller, Grant Forgerson and Martin Ziegler, of whom the two last mentioned have since died.

The Civil War, 1861-1865

In the preparation of the account of the part taken by Sandusky County in this great struggle for the maintenance of the Union, the History of Sandusky County, by Homer Everett (1882), and the address of John M. Lemmon at the unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument in Fort Stephenson Park, August 1, 1885, have been, in the main, followed as local authorities. Space at command will not permit as full an account, as the editor would be glad to give. Only brief outlines can be here stated. In rosters of companies, commissioned officers only are named.

The population of Sandusky County in 1861, when the war broke out, was about twenty-two thousand souls. It had between the ages of 18 and 45 about four thousand three hundred men, a considerable percentage of whom, of course, would be subject to disability. Not counting the re-enlistments, in 1862, the county sent 827 men; in 1863, in all about one thousand six hundred fifty; in 1864, in all about two thousand sixty, and in 1865, in all about two thousand three hundred, exclusive of those designated as 100-day men of whom the county furnished from 700 to goo in 1864. Thus it appears that about seventy per cent of the male population of the county, of military age, went into the service. The number from townships, excluding 100-day men, was, according to Mr. Lemmon, as follows:

And in the following infantry regiments of the National Guards, viz: 139th, 145th, 164th and 169th. They were also in the 2d, 3d, 6th, 8th, 9th, 1oth and 12th Regiments of Cavalry Volunteers; and in the 1st and 2d Regiments of Light Artillery, and in the roth, 12th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22d Batteries. The county was also represented in Company 7 of Sharp Shooters and in Hoffman's Battalion. Besides these ninety-two Ohio organizations, Sandusky County had representatives in twenty-eight organizations outside of Ohio, viz: 2d Colored Troops, 44th Colored Troops, gth, 16th and 29th Indiana Infantry Volunteers, Ist and 18th Michigan Infantry Volunteers, 54th and 65th New York Infantry Volunteers, 169th and 198th Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers, 10th and 18th U. S. Infantry, ist U. S. Chasseurs, 2d Colorado Cavalry, 6th Illinois Cavalry, 1st Michigan Cavalry, Ist and 6th U. S. Cavalry, 1st Illinois Battery, 5th Michigan Battery, roth U. S. Battery, 1st Michigan Mechanics and Engineers U. S. Telegraph Corps, President's Body Guard and Virginia Cavalry. There were also several representatives in the naval and gunboat service. It is

County were represented in 120 different organizations. The largest number in one command was in the 72d Infantry, next in the 169th O. N. G., and then there were two companies in the gallant old 8th Infantry, and about one company each in the 21st, 25th, 49th, 55th, tooth, 111th and 186th Volunteer Infantry. There was also a company in the 3d Cavalry. In the other named organization the number varied from nearly a company to a small squad. They fought in the great battles of the war. Some were at Bull Run, and some at Donelson and New Madrid; at Shiloh, Stone River, Corinth, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, Cross Keyes and Port Republic; in the Seven Days' Retreat at Groveton and Gainesville; Second Bull Run, Antietam, Iuka, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Chancellorsville; in the Vicksburg Campaign, at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge; in the Atlanta Campaign; the Wilderness and at Spottsylvania ; in the Siege of Rich- mond, at Franklin and Nashville; in the grand and glorious March to the Sea, and in other marches, sieges, advances and retreats, the brave Sandusky soldiers had their full share. (Lemmon. )

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This regiment was first organized as a three months' regiment at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio, and sent to Camp Denison for equipment and drill April 28, 1861; it was subsequently reorganized for three years and left camp for West Virginia, July 8, 1861. Companies F and G were organized in Sandusky County. Commissioned officers of Company F were: Captain, George M. Tillotson, died March 4, 1863, at Fremont, Ohio; First Lieutenant, Charles M. Fouke, resigned; Second Lieutenant Edward W. Cook, resigned; Sergeant, Henry A. Farnum, promoted to first Lieutenant and Captain, wounded at Gettysburg, July 3d, 1863; Sergeant, Thomas H. Thornburg, promoted to Second Lieutenant, wounded at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, and at Mine Run, December 4,- 1863.

Second lieutenant, Creighton Thompson; wounded at Antietam and resigned. The regiment, after having been engaged in forty-eight battles and skirmishes, was mustered out at Cleveland, July 13, 1864, its term of service having expired. General Buckland in his address August I, 1885, at the unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument, speaking of this regiment, said: "At the great battle of Gettysburg, under the command of its gallant colonel, Frank Sawyer, it achieved immortal renown by charging and driving superior numbers of the enemy from an important position in front of the Union lines, and holding it for nearly two days and until the victorious close of the battle, against the repeated assaults of the enemy. In this affair the regiment lost in killed and wounded nearly one-half its number engaged.

localities of the state and nearly one full company was from Sandusky County. It was Company F, Captain, Moses H. Crowell, resigned; Captain, Michael Murray; First Lieutenant, Hezekiah Thomas, and Second Lieutenant, George W. Iden. The regiment was organized at Camp Chase in June, 1861. On July 29, 1861, it went into service in West Virginia, and was stationed along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Oakland to the Ohio River. It went through long and arduous service, and was in the battles of Cheat Mountain, Greenbrier, Camp Baldwin, Monterey; the engagements and marches in the Shenandoah Valley; along the Rappahannock, the second at Bull Run and at Gettysburg, and others in all twenty battles, in which eighteen colorbearers had been killed or wounded. With its re-enlistment it had served over five years.

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Captain, Joseph R. Bartlett; about the middle of November, 1862, was appointed Inspector General of the Second Division of the Army of the Cumberland, and assigned to the staff, at first, of General Sill, and afterwards on that of General R. W. Johnson, and acted as chief of Staff and Adjutant General in addition to the duties of Inspector General; promoted to Major, December 5, 1864; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, March 29, 1865; commissioned Colonel, June 26, 1865.

obtained about forty recruits, it seemed improbable that he could obtain a full company. In the meantime Timothy H. Wilcox had enlisted about the same number for a company of Home Guards. It was agreed that if Mr. Wilcox, with his men, would join Company F with Captain Bartlett, that Wilcox should be First Lieutenant of the company. This arrangement was effected, and the company was soon filled by the combined efforts of Captain Bartlett and Mr. Wilcox, the latter being elected First Lieutenant. The company went with the regiment into camp at Camp Noble, Tiffin, Ohio, for equipment and drill. From there the regiment was at once sent into camp at Muldraugh's Hill, near Elizabethtown, where it remained until October 10, when it moved to Nolan Creek and went into Camp Nevin. It finally moved to Pittsburgh Landing, April 6, 1862. Here, its Colonel, W. H. Gibson, was assigned to a brigade and the 49th was placed in command of Lieut. Col. A. M. Blackman. The regiment was conspicuous for its valor in the battles here. It was in the battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge. After the engagement at the latter place, the regiment was re-enlisted and granted thirty days' veteran furlough. service, under the re-enlistment, the regiment was in the engagements at Dalton, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattaheechie River, Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville, suffering severely in killed and wounded in all these battles. On its return from the Nashville expedition, the regiment was taken, June 16, 1864, by transports, to Texas, reaching Texas in July; the regiment landed at Victoria and moved to the interior as far as San Antonio. After suffering great hardships in the service there, for four months, the regiment returned to Victoria, where it was mustered out, November 30, 1865. ;

During its service eight officers were killed in battle and twenty wounded, six of them mortally; of the privates 137 were killed in battle, seventy-one were mortally wounded, 165 died from hardship or disease and seven perished in prisons at Andersonville and Danville. Six hundred and sixteen were discharged on account of wounds or other disability. The men of the regiment received 942 gun-shot wounds.

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This regiment was raised chiefly by Col. John C, Lee and went into camp at Norwalk, Ohio, October 17, 1861. Colonel Lee resigned May 8, 1863, and the command of the regiment devolved upon Lieut. Col. Charles Gambee of Bellevue, until he was killed at the battle of Resaca, May 15, 1864. Three hundred and nineteen had re-enlisted and returned to Norwalk, January 20, 1864. From here it again moved to the front, and marched through Atlanta with the Twentieth Army Corps, toward the sea and on December 21 camped near Savannah. After much hard service and suffering it reached Richmond, May 11, 1865. On the 24th it went into camp near Washington. On July 11, 1865, it was mustered out of the service and paid off at Cleveland, July 19, 1865. A number of men of this regiment were recruited from Sandusky County in the vicinity of Bellevue. During the service there were enlisted in this regiment 1,350 men, and of these about seven hundred and fifty were either killed or wounded. =

Sandusky~County furnished a number of men for different companies of this regiment. When first organized the regimental officers were: Colonel, William Mungen; Lieutenant Colonel, William Mungen; Major, Silas B. Walker, and Surgeon, John P. Haggett.

This regiment experienced hard service and suffered much sickness, and though starting out, in February, 1862, with over nine hundred men by the 6th of April, 1862, at Shiloh, it could only muster 450 men for duty. And in the three days' fighting in and around Shiloh it lost twenty-seven killed and 150 wounded, sixteen mortally. At Memphis it was strengthened by the addition of 118 volunteers and 205 drafted men, making its force there 650 men. It marched thence to Chickasaw Bayou, where in an engagement with the enemy it lost thirtyseven killed and wounded, and at Fort Henderson suffered about the same loss. It was at the siege of Vicksburg in service in the trenches or picket duty. In January, 1864, it re-enlisted, with the addition of 207 recruits. May Ist it moved with the corps in the Atlanta Campaign, and participated in the battles at Resaca, Dallas and Kenesaw, losing heavily in these engagements. It reached Richmond by way of Petersburg, and thence to Washington, and was in the Grand Review there, May 24, 1865. On June 24, 1865, the regiment was mustered out of service. SEVENTY-SECOND 0. V. I.

Col. Ralph P. Buckland, on October 11, 1861, issued a call to the people of Sandusky County for volunteers to fill a regiment. He was authorized by the governor of Ohio to raise, to be known as the Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This call was so cheerfully responded to, that by the middle of January following, the regiment was sufficiently full for organization, which was accordingly effected, January 17, 1864; but owing to vicissitudes of the service, thereafter, many changes in this regard became necessary and were made, as will appear in the roster of commissioned officers of the regiment.

Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, H and I were formed almost entirely of citizens of Sandusky County; Company G, with a small portion of Companies H and A, were recruited in Erie County, and Company K was mostly recruited in Medina County, while a few men in Companies C and E were of Wood County, Ohio. Company K was disbanded and distributed among the other companies and its officers discharged in order to make full companies, and a company which had originally been recruited for the Fifty-second O. V. I. was assigned to the Seventy-second at Camp Chase and denominated Company K, and thus the regiment was complete in numbers -

Regimental and Staff Officers - Colonel, Ralph P. Buckland; appointed Brigadier General, November 29, 1862. Lieutenant Colonel, Herman Canfield; died April 7, 1862, from wounds received at Shiloh. Major, Leroy Crockett ; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel April 6, 1862; died of disease December 10, 1863. Adjutant, Eugene A. Rawson; promoted to Major, July 23, 1863; died of wounds received at battle of Tupelo, Mississippi, July 15, 1864. Alonzo C. Johnson, Adjutant, July 23, 1863; resignation accepted August 1, 1864. Quartermaster, Daniel M. Harkness; resigned January 16, 1863. Surgeon, John B. Rice; detailed Surgeon in Chief of Memphis District, April 28, 1864. Chaplain, Abraham B. Poe; resigned January 15, 1863. Assistant Surgeon, William M. Kaull; resigned June 4, 1863. Assistant Surgeon, John W. Goodson; dismissed the service of the United States March 30, 1863. Steward, William Caldwell; appointed Assistant Surgeon April 27, 1863; resigned' on account of disability, January 7, 1865. Principal Musician, Nicholas B. Caldwell; died of disease, June 5, 1862, at hospital, Keokuk, Iowa.

Company A - Captain, Charles G. Eaton; promoted as follows: To Major, June 20, 1862; to Lieutenant Colonel, December 24, 1863; at close of the war was breveted Brigadier General.

First Lieutenant, H. W. Gifford; promoted to Captain, June 20, 1862; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 27, 1862, of wounds received at battle of Shiloh.

Second Lieutenant, Spencer Russell; promoted to First Lieutenant, June 20, 1862; promoted to Captain, May 17, 1862; resignation accepted, August 21, 1863.

Morris Rees; mustered Second Lieutenant, March 1, 1863; taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads; promoted to First Lieutenant, April 6, 1864, and afterwards promoted to Captain.

Lorenzo Dick, appointed Second Lieutenant, April 6, 1862; mustered as First Lieutenant, March 1, 1863; taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads.

Joseph Seaford; appointed Second Lieutenant, February 26, 1863; mustered as First Lieutenant, January 3, 1865; mustered as Captain, May 25, 1865.

Charles L. Hudson; mustered as Second Lieutenant November 22, 1864; wounded at Tupelo ;. mustered as First Lieutenant and Adjutant April 11, 1865; appointed Captain September 4, 1865, but never mustered into service. .

Charles H. McCleary; mustered as Second Lieutenant, April 29, 1864; mustered as First Lieutenant, November 20, 1864; mustered as Captain, June 14, 1865.

Rollin A. Edgerton; mustered as Quartermaster-Sergeant, November 14, 1861; mustered as Second Lieutenant, April 24, 1863; resigned on account of disability September 28, 1864.

Edward McMahon; mustered as Second Lieutenant, May 14, 1864; mustered as First Lieutenant, April 11, 1865 ; later taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads.

First Lieutenant, Henry W. Buckland; promoted to Captain, June 20, 1862. Second Lieutenant, William T. Fisher; promoted to First Lieutenant, June 20, 1862; resignation accepted July 27, 1863.

Second Lieutenant, Daniel W. Hoffman; promoted to First Lieutenant, March 1, 1864; left a prisoner of war and severely wounded at Tupelo, Mississippi, July 13, 1864.

Company D - Captain, Andrew Nuhfer; wounded severely at Shiloh, April 6, 1862; taken prisoner at the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi, July 11, 1864.

Company F - Captain, Leroy Moore; taken prisoner June 11, 1864, at Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi; service expired March 12, 1865.

Second Lieutenant, John B. Gilmore; mustered in as First Lieutenant, April 24, 1864; taken prisoner at, Battle of Brice's Cross Roads June 11, 1864; died in prison October 9, 1864, at Charleston, South Carolina.

Second Lieutenant, Andrew Kline, promoted to First Lieutenant; discharged for disability, September 11, 1862. He served in the Mexican War in 1846-7.

To do justice to the brave commanders and officers, and to recount the many deeds of valor of the men, of this regiment, would require a volume, and we shall have to be content with the brief mention here made. This regiment reported to General Sherman at Paducah and was assigned to a brigade composed of the Forty-Eighth, Seventieth and Seventy-second Ohio Regiments with Colonel Buckland in command. At Shiloh, Vicksburg, Corinth, Jackson, Nashville, Tupelo and wherever engaged, the officers and men of the Seventy-second proved equal, in heroism, to all expectations of them, as true soldiers. It was at Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi, June 11, 1864, where it suffered its greatest reverse. losing in that engagement eleven officers, and 237 men, killed, wounded and captured. The greater portion were captured. But here, these men were conspicuous for bravery amid the disaster which had overtaken them, through no fault of theirs, nor of the officers of the regiment, but, according to the accepted belief, owing to the blunder of General Sturgis, there commanding. The regiment was mustered out at Vicksburg, September 11, 1865. ONE-HUNDREDTH 0. V. I.

This regiment was organized at Toledo, Ohio, in July and August, 1862, and moved to the defense of Cincinnati September 8, and thence to the front in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and farther south. It participated in the defense of Knoxville; and in the spring of 1864 in the Twenty-third Army. Corps joined General Sherman, and was present at almost every battle from Rocky Face Ridge to Atlanta. In the assault on the Confederate works in front of Atlanta this regiment lost 103 men out of 300 taken into the fight. It participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. During its term of service it suffered as follows: Sixty-five killed in battle; 142 wounded, of whom twenty-seven died of their wounds; 108 died of disease; 325 were captured by the enemy, and eighty-five died in Confederate prisons. It was mustered out of service at Cleveland, Ohio, July 1, 1865.

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_ant, George Carver; promoted to First Lieutenant and then Captain. Sergeants: Lewis D. ' Booth, George W. Hollenbeck, James L. Clapp, ' Shelby A. Gish, Styles Rich. Hollenbeck was promoted to First Lieutenant. Eugene O. Mit- "chell became First Lieutenant. Corporals: Nathan Tefft, Jonathan L. Smith, Charles N.

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the pursuit of Morgan in his raid into Indiana + Haynes; Lieutenant Colonel, J. H. Carr; Adand Ohio, after which it returned to Kentucky, ~ jutant, John L. Green, Jr.;

Quartermaster, H. ~J, Kauffman; Surgeon, Peter Beaugrand; Asments and minor engagements it finally reached \ sistant Surgeon, S. B. Taylor; Sergeant Major,

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Red Clay, Georgia, May 6th. On May 12th it marched to the front of Resaca and took part in the battle there, the second day. It took part in the entire campaign against Atlanta ; was actively engaged in the Siege of Kenesaw, the battles of Pine Mountain, Lost Mountain, Dallas, Chattahoochee, Decatur, Peach Tree Creek, and in the Siege of Atlanta. In the At-. lanta Campaign this regiment lost in killed | and wounded 212 out of 380 men. Finally, on December 1, 1864, it was back at Nashville, and was engaged in that battle and there captured three Confederate battle flags and a large number of prisoners. This regiment also took part in the pursuit of Hood. At the battle of Franklin this regiment was highly complimented for holding the right of the turnpike, while other regiments gave way. If space allowed, much more of the splendid service of this regiment could be related. When finally mustered out there were only 4o1 soldiers left of 1,050 that entered the service in the regiment. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH 0. V. I.

The regiment was mustered into the service May 15th and 16th and the organization completed the 17th at Cleveland. On the roth it left Cleveland for Washington City, where it arrived May 2ist, at mid-night. From there the regiment moved to Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia, reaching the fort Sunday night the 22d of May, which was to be the home of the men for their term of service. The splendid fellows composing this regiment did not have opportunity to show, in battle, their courage, but were not lacking in their guard duties, to prevent any sudden attack on the Capitol, which was probable at any moment. The men suffered greatly from sickness, and forty-three died during the service; sickness and death, toward the close, seemed to lurk in every part of the fort and barracks. Some days scarcely a real well man could be found in the regiment. When it started homeward August 22d, there were at least 500 of the men on the sick list, over 300 _of whom had been taken from the hospital, for home. The regiment was mustered out at Clevveland September 4, 1864, having been in the service 125 days.

One Hundred And Eighty-Sixth O. V. I.

This regiment was raised under the last call, to serve for one year, and was composed of men from different parts of Ohio. Of these, Sandusky County furnished about seventy-five soldiers, most of whom had seen service before. The regiment was mustered in at Camp Chase March 2, 1865, and placed under Col. Thomas F. Wildes, from thence it moved to Nashville. On the &th it left there for Murfreesboro, arriving the 10th of March. The day and night previous, the regiment marched through rain and snow, the weather at night turning intensely cold. There was not a tent to be had in the command that could be legally drawn, as there was no regimental quartermaster yet mustered in to furnish them, if any there were. The destination was Cleveland, Tennessee, where the regiment went into camp, and soon erected comfortable quarters. May 2, 1865, it moved to Dalton, and thence to Chattanooga, at the request of Wildes, who had _ been breveted Brigadier General, to join his brigade there to which he had been assigned. On July 20th it was ordered to Nashville. On September 13th orders were received to prepare muster rolls for the muster out of the regiment. On September 25th the regiment was mustered out at Nashville.

The Commissioned Officers of Company E were: Captain, John L. Green; First Lieutenant, Edward Cook, promoted to Captain, September 10, 1865; Second Lieutenant, James Daugherty, promoted to First Lieutenant, Company A, June 22, 1865.

The Third Ohio Cavalry

The Third Ohio Cavalry was organized at Monroeville, Ohio, in September, 1861. Capt. William B. Amsden recruited a company designated Company D, in Sandusky County. The First Lieutenant was Richard B. Wood, and the Second Lieutenant was George F. Williams, promoted to First Lieutenant, June 20, 1862, promoted to Captain of Company F, April 17, 1863. During the first year of its service it was attached to Gen. T. J. Wood's division, and for its gallant acts reference is made to the history of Wood's division. It subsequently fought many hard battles to the details of which space here cannot be given. It finished its long career of arduous and brave service at Macon, Georgia, and was mustered out August 14, 1865, at Camp Chase, Ohio, having served four years lacking twenty days.

Ninth Ohio Cavalry Tenth Ohio Cavalry

This regiment was organized at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, in October, 1862; left for the field in Tennessee in February, 1863; served the year out in Tennessee and Alabama, part of the Army of the Cumberland; in 1864 served under Sherman in the great campaigns of Atlanta and to the Sea.

It served with Sherman in 1865 in the campaigns of the Carolinas. It was in the battle at Chicamauga, Cosby Creek, Tunnel Hill, Siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Sweet Water, Bear Creek Station, Waynesboro, Georgia; Aiken, South Carolina; Monroe Cross Roads, North Carolina and Averysboro, North Carolina. William E. Haynes was Lieutenant Colonel of this regiment from November 10, 1862, to April 12, 1865. James H. Hafford, Jehial Halliday, Francis Howell, Uriah Mitchell and Andrew Powers of San- dusky County were also in this regiment - Hafford was Second Lieutenant of Company G; promoted to First Lieutenant, January 10, 1863, and to Captain, November 22, 1863. The regiment was mustered out at Lexington, North Carolina, July 24, 1865. MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS.

In addition to the soldiers before named, Sandusky County men served in other organizations in the Civil War. The names of such as can be ascertained are as follows:

In Company H, 139th O. V. I., were Captain, L. W: Davis: First: Lieutenant;)L.. B. Shaffer and Second Lieutenant, George A. Hall. In Company I were Captain, Thomas J. Davis; First Lieutenant, Samuel H. Eckelburg, and Second Lieutenant, Abraham Balyeat. William J. Raymond and M. C. Beymer, in 164th O. N. G.; Edwin Snyder, in Seventeenth Battery; Andrew J. Culp, W. H. Deal, J. W. Knapp, Charles Niff, A. J. Paden, D. M. Shively, Clarence Williams, T. M. Hill, Joseph C. Knapp, in the Twenty-second Battery; Denton Deyo and Andrew Hush, in the Seventh Ohio Sharp Shooters; Jacob C. Hoover, Byron Holly, Albert E. Ingham, Jacob O. Smith and Nelson R. Forrester, in the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery; Lysander C. Ball, Charles E. Everett and Peter Parker, in Naval Service, Mississipp1 Squadron.

Spanish-American War Company K, Sixth 0. V. L.

The regiment left Columbus for Chickamauga May 17th and arrived at Camp Thomas, its allotted place,on the 19th. Here orders were received to recruit more men and Company K added the following recruits: E. A. Andrews, P. A. Andrews, L. F. Beck, Clarence G. Binkley, Fred Bower, E. E. Bowman, William Burkett, A. M. Campbell, R. J. Campbell, Wesley Cloud, Charles Cook, Daniel Crane, Garfield Dollison, J. C. Dryer, Ed. Everett, Arthur Foust, W. L. Feightner, Wesley Ferenberg, J. B. Forgerson, Willard Forgerson, Edgerton Garvin, Charles Gleason, George Grob, B. C. Hauser, John Heltzel, Frank Heriff, Truman House, Samuel Jackman, J. E. Myers, Frank Newman, W. C. Parrish, Irvin Rich, C. C. Swank, J. W. Tuckerman, John Walsh, Horace Waring, Charles Zimmerman, R. B. - From this place the regiment moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, August 28th, where it remained until December 27th; it embarked on the transport Minnewaska at Charleston, South Carolina, December 28th for Cuba, reaching Cienfuegos January 3, 1899, and was there assigned to guard-duty to keep order and try to establish government, and protect plantations. It remained in Cuba about four months, and left on the transport Sedgwick for Savannah, Georgia,

April 24, 1899, but was sent to Augusta, where it was mustered out May 24, 1899, and returned home May 26th. While at Knoxville, Captain Fouke's resignation having been accepted, the command of the company was turned over to Lieutenant Cox, who was promoted to Captain, and Frank L. Mathews, Second Lieutenant of Company H, was appointed First Lieutenant of Company K. The following is the roster of the non-commissioned officers at the time of the muster out:

Company I, Sixth O. V. I.

Captain, William E. Gillette; First Lieutenant, Jesse A. Douglas; Second Lieutenant, Edward Welsh; Sergeants, Elvin J. Robinson, Charles Raymond and Le Roy Lemmon; Corporals, Mack Robinson, Mack A. Dennis, William E. Sellinger, Fred Weeks and Louis Becker.

Other Spanish-American Soldiers From

Major Webb C. Hayes, in Boosie regiment of Rough Riders; Yeoman Rudolph Walker, on board Dewey's Flag Shap, Olym- Chance, in the Fifth U. S. Infantry; Granville pia, at taking of Manila; Major Jesse C. Buckland, in the Sixth U. S. Infantry; Privates Benjamin F. Hall and John Nahm, in the Nineteenth U. S. Infantry; Frank M. Schmidt, in the U. S. Cavalry; Charles Hitishu, in the Seventeenth U. S. Infantry; ~ 'arshall Greene and Willard Door, in the |.. S. Signal Corps, stationed at Manila; E.ward Schwartz in the U. S. Hospital Corps, at Camp Wyckoff, Montauk Point; Lieutenant Harry E. Smith, in the U. S. Navy; Major Webb C-. Hayes and Corporal A. E. Slessman, in the First Ohio Cavalry. Also Privates Charles R. Heffner, First Illinois Infantry ; W. C. Schoedler and Francis Ake, in the Tenth O. V. L; John Rosanski, Harry Price and Fred Steller, in the Regular Army; Harry Ernst, in the First California Infantry; Edward Webber, in the Eighth Kansas Regiment; Fred Springer, in Company K, Ambulance Corps; Georgs Rollins and Georgs Barto, in Washington Regiment near Passig, Philippine Islands, and Rutherford B. Dillinschneider, in Company B, U. S. Infantry, also doing service in the Philip-

The father of George Burton Meek received from the Charge d'Affaires at Washington, D. C., of the Republic of Cuba a letter which reads as follows:

"Dear Sir: Some months ago a Cuban gentleman, who signs himself Cambreis, from the City of Mexico, sent General Tomas Estrado Palma, of New York, an order for $100.00 to be given to the wife, children or parents of the first American-born sailor who should die in the war to free Cuba. I have just now been informed that your son, George B. Meek, fireman of the first class on board the torpedo boat Winslow, was the first hero to shed his blood for the independence of our unfortunate and downtrodden people.

"T beg to enclose you the check, entrusted to my care, this a proof of the gratitude of the Cubans for their friends and allies, the Americans. Please acknowledge receipt of the same in duplicate.

The check read as follows:- "No. 4,445 New York, May 17th, 1808. "The Bank of America pay to the order of Mr. Tomas Estrada Palma, one hundred dollars. "Maitland Cappel & Co." On the reverse side is endorsed: "Pay to the order of Gonzalo de Quesado, "Tomas Estrado Palma."

Among the many departed heroes of these wars, whose honored graves are found in Sandusky County, may be mentioned without disparagement or thought of invidious distinction, Harrington and Stevens, who fought at Bunker Hill; Waggoner and Burkett, members of General Washington's Life Guard, the latter in the battle at Yorktown; Croghan, the defender of Fort Stephenson; Thompson, wounded at Lundy's Lane, and Captain in the Mexican War; McPherson, killed in battle at Atlanta, the highest Union officer, in rank, killed in the Civil War; Buckland, the hero of Shiloh; Hayes, Major General and President of the United States, and George Burton Meek, the first American-born sailor to give his life to make Cuba free. "How sleep the brave who sink to. rest By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.

By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There, Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair,