Washington County, Ohio - Chapter 27, 1902 (part 6 of 6)

Capt. Theodore Edgerton Greenwood, -only son of George Greenwood, Esq., and Elizabeth Edgerton Greenwood, was born at Newport, Washington County, Ohio, February 7, 1838. He entered the Preparatory Department of the Marietta College at the age of 16, and entered the freshman class in September, 1855. During his college course he united with the Congregational Church at Marietta, and always remained a consistent member. He graduated in the summer of 1859, and at the head of his class. At the death of Tutor Washburne, he was made tutor and filled that position acceptably for the remainder of the year. He spent part of the following year in the study of the law, but subsequently decided to undertake a business career. Rut the breaking out of the Rebellion spoiled his plans, as it spoiled those of so many ardent young men in 186 1. As early as the autumn of 1 860, he began to study Scott's "Tactics," and in a confidential talk with a college friend, said : "Any observant man can see that we are on the eve of a terrible war between the North and the South, and the man of military knowledge will be the man of power, who can help his country in her hour of need." At the beginning of hostilities, young Greenwood did not see his way clear for leaving his parents for the field. He however accepted the position of post quartermaster at Marietta, and in the autumn of the same year was called to a more important position of the same kind at Wheeling, West Virginia.

field. Accordingly, having at length satisfied the claims of filial duty which had before detained him, he resigned his position, and, in June, 1862, having enlisted in the military service, was appointed on the staff of General Rosecrans, who had become acquainted with him in West Virginia, but was now in command of a portion of the Army of the Tennessee. Greenwood started immediately for the field, full of ardor, gratified to be at length where he would have an opportunity to do his part in the great struggle. His letters of that date are full of the spirit of his station. But his service was short; a single summer in the climate of Mississippi cut him down. Weakened by disease, he concealed his condition as much as possible from his general, and in the battle of luka, September 19th, he was placed in a position of much danger and responsibility. The line was broken, and Greenwood, by his courage and skill, succeeded in stopping a detachment that was flying before the enemy, and restored order to that part of the line. General Rosecrans testifies that "Captain Greenwood's conduct was admirable." But the exertion and excitement were too great for his strength. On the second day after the battle he was completely prostrated, and was taken in an ambulance to Jacinto, Mississippi, where he rapidly sank, and a week later, on the 27th of September, 1862, passed away.

Capt. John J. Jumper was born in Manchester township, Morgan County. Ohio, September 6, 18,30, son of George and Elizabeth Jumper, who afterward removed to Washington County. John was married, September 13, 1 85 1, at Reinersville, Morgan County, Ohio.

In August, 1861, Captain Jumper raised a company for the three years' service, and after remaining at Camp Putnam, Marietta, until his company was full, he joined the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Camp Wool, Athens, Ohio, and his company became "F," of that regiment.

Lieut. Levi J. Fouraker was born in Morgan Co., Ohio, September 8, 1838, where he livetl until rVugust, 1852, when he came to Washington County with his parents, and remained with them until April, 1861. He enlisted a few days after the breaking out of the war, in Captain John Henderson's company, K, Eighteenth Ohio three-months" regiment, and at the expiration of his term of service volunteered in Company H. Seventy-seventh Ohio, Colonel Hildebrand commanding. Upon organizing the company he was elected second lieutenant, and Richard Fouraker, his father, captain of the company. After the regiment landed at Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee, Lieutenant Fouraker served faithfully on scouting and other duty, until the Seventyseventh was ordered intO' camp at Shiloh Church, when Lieutenant Fouraker was placed in command of the first picket guard sent out from that point, which guard was stationed near the place afterwards known as the battlefield of Fallen Timbers.

Lieutenant Fouraker fought with his command through the battle of Shiloh, April 6th and 7th, and was taken prisoner with many others, on the 8th, at the battle of Fallen Timbers, and when a prisoner of war was basely shot by the Rebel cavalry and subsequently brought into camp, nearly dead. He stayed in the field hospital a few days, when he was sent to the Cincinnati hospital, and from there to his father's house, where he died of his wounds March 5, 1875, aged 36 years.

Lieutenant Fouraker was always jovial, agreeable, and a good companion. He was brave to a fault, and had no enemies. His comrades had learned to love and respect him as a true soldier, when he fell at his post of duty.

Adjut.\nt George Butler Turner was a son of Samuel R. Turner, Esq., and Hannah B. Turner, of Marietta, Ohio, and was born at New London, Connecticut, November 13, 1840.

From the age of eight years his home was at Marietta. He graduated at the high school, then finished his preparation for college under a private tutor, entered the freshman class in the fall of 1858, and passed through his course with the highest credit, graduating with the class of 1862. His parents were at the time in the East, and he informed them by letter that he felt it his duty to engage in the great struggle to save the Union, and soon thereafter was enrolled in Company F, Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which W. Beale Whittlesey was a lieutenant. He was made orderly sergeant of the company, and filled the position very satisfactorily.

Although of seemingly frail constitution and one likely to succumb to the hardships and trials of a soldier's life, yet he seemed to stand it well, so far as I can now remember, being usually in good health, and always bright and cheerful. An earnest Christian, he was at all times consistent, yet by no means obtrusive in asserting his faith. His everyday life commended his belief to all those associating with him. In battle he was cool and self-possessed. At Chickamauga, at a critical time, Colonel Fearing and his adjutant were both wounded, and word was brought to the writer, on the right wing, to assume command ; Turner, then acting as sergeant major, notified me of it, kindly urging me to keep cool, and all would be well. At this battle the adjutant, D. E. Putnam, was so badly wounded as to render his discharge a necessity, and Turner, who had been promoted, was made adjutant of the regiment as soon as it could be done; in which capacity he acted after the date of that battle, September 18, 1863.

On the afternoon of November 25, 1863, the Ninety-second regiment, with less than 400 fighting men, formed a part of the column that assaulted and captured Missionary Ridge. Turner lived to reach the summit unharmed. The commanding ofiicer of the regiment had been wounded, Whittlesey and other officers killed, and others wounded in the assault, which was a very difficult one, the hill being steep and rough. Tlie summit once reached and the enemy driven over, he assumed command of the shattered line, now three times decimated, in about half an hour, and with drawn sword rallied the men about him and led them to aid in repelling a brigade of the enemy who were coming to the assistance of their comrades in our front. He here received his mortal wound, a large minie ball striking him just behind the ear; no doubt he was facing the men, urging them forward at the time.

Everything was done that could be, but his wound was mortal. He was evidently expecting death, and while he talked but little, seemed to draw comfort from his pocket Testament, opened at the 14th and i.^th chapters of St. John. General Turchin, who commai'ded the brigade, called, and in speaking of Turner's bravery and ability, oi?ered him a position on his staff, asking him if he would like it. The reply came at once - "I am willing to go and do that in which I can be the most useful." He gradually sank, became delirious, and when it was thought best to remove him to the officers' hospital, gave the writer his hand, saying, "Good bye, colonel, good bye; we will both go home together." He went home that night, living but a few hours afterwards. He died December i, 1863. Just before going into this last battle he wrote a letter home, to be mailed in case he should be killed, which closed with these words - "If I return not with the victors, think not the sacrifice too great for the interests at stake."

Timothy L. Condit was born at Cleveland, Ohio, in December, 1837. I" 1852 he entered the office of the Marietta Intelligencer as an apprentice. He devoted three years to the mastery of his trade as a printer. During this time spare moments were occupied in diligent preparation for college. He so far succeeded in fitting himself, that, after one year more spent partly in the preparatory department, and partly in working at his trade, he entered college the 'most thoroughly prepared of any member of his class. Tliis leadership he maintained throughout the course, graduating in i860, as the valedictorian of that year. Principally by his own labor as a printer, he secured the money to pav his way through college. The perseverance and force to achieve such marked success against such obstacles, of themselves stamp Condit as a young man of devoted purpose, great industry, and no ordinary ability.

In 1856 he united with the Congregational Church at Marietta, and felt called tO' prepare for the ministry, but before the fall term of the theological seminary began he felt a stronger call to enter the service of his country, and decided to volunteer. In pursuance of this decision, he entered Company L, of the First Ohio Cavalry, as a private soldier, for three years' service. An educated gentleman, with influential friends, in places of authority, he could have had a commission for the asking. Deeming himself unprepared for the responsibility of command, he refused to ask one. Through the camps and campaigns of his regiment, a gallant body of soldiers, Condit faithfully performed his arduous duties, adorning his humble position by maintaining amid all trials, temptations, and sufferings, his Christian profession and gentlemanly bearing. On the 29th of May, 1862, he was promoted to be second lieutenant in his company.

On the 31st of December, 1862, on the battlefield of Murfreesborough, in the thickest of the fight, and at the head of his squadron, Condit was shot dead.

Two companies of his regiment, on duty guarding a wagon train, were suddenly overwhelmed in the fierce onset of the attack by the Confederate Army. Said a private soldier who rode with Condit on that day, "\Vhen the lieutenant was killed, they were all around us ; we could not see any way out. The lieutenant said the only way was to charge and then retreat. He rode forward to lead and was killed." To make way for his men to get out Condit died. Arnold von Winkelried, when he gathered to his breast the spears of the Austrian phalanx, died not a more heroic death.

His body was recovered from the battlefield, and now lies buried in the Mound Cemetery at Marietta. As a token of appreciation of the character and service of this noble Chris- tian patriot and martyr, the society of the akimni, and his fellow-soldiers of the First Ohio Cavalry, placed a monument over his resting-place.

Lieut. Charles Beman Gates.* - Looking back to the dark years when so many homes were made desolate that the whole country seemed to sit in one common bereavement, there yet stand in the memory spots where the shadows rested with unwonted heaviness; where the time and manner in which death came, and the relations of the dead to the living, gave elements of peculiar and overwhelming sadness to the sorrowful stroke.

Lieutenant Gates was the only son of Beman Gates, Esq., and Betsy Shipman Gates, of Marietta. He was born October 30, 1844, and entered Marietta College in 1861.

Already in these early days of the war, his heart and soul were enlisted in his country's cause, and he entered college rather than the army, only because of his extreme youth. In the recruiting camp which was established at Marietta, the officers were drilled regularly by an army officer, and at his request his father obtained permission for him to join in the drill. He joined the force which was organized in Marietta for defense and guard duty, and was present at Buffington when John Morgan attempted to cross the Ohio at that point. In this kind of duty he became proficient in the manual of arms, and satisfied in part his desire to help his country in her need, while at the same time he continued his studies.

Meantime the war raged on. Victories and defeats alike added to the nation's dead, and the voice of the mourning filled the land. Regiments which went away with full ranks, had come back piecemeal, on crutches, on cots, and in coffins. The day when man enlisted under the inspiration of fife and drum had passed away. The dark days of the spring of 1864 had come, and the government was laboring desperately to recruit the armies which were melted away in the terrible battles of recent campaigns.

Young Gates felt that the time had come when he must give himself wholly to his country's service. Friends tried to dissuade him, feeling that to break away in the midst of his education was a sacrifice that was not called' for. But he remained firm in his conviction that it was his duty to go, and his parents yielded their consent, feeling that to withhold it would be to crush all manliness in him. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, which was formed in response to the call of Governor Brough, was chosen first lieutenant of his company, and w-as duly commissioned.

On the 23rd of May, at 2 o'clock P. M., he left with his regiment for the front by rail, via Parkersburg, to Harper's Ferry. When about five miles below Marietta the train was thrown from the track down an embankment ; two of his fellow-students were killed, and he received severe internal injuries. Unwilling to turn back, he proceeded with his regiment; but his injuries, aggravated by exposure to rain, marching and camping without tents, resulted in his death at Harper's Ferry, May 31, 1864.

Thus he was cut down at the very threshold of the service which he had longed for. He had followed Greenwood and Condit and Whittlesev and Turner to their last resting place, and he entered this service with a full realization of the dangers involved, expressing his readiness to give up his life for his country. The sacrifice was required of him, while the experiences which are dear to the soldier were denied him.

In his college course he developed business rather than professional qualities. He was especially devoted to the more practical branches of study. He was greatly attached to his literary society, and took an active part in the frequent debates upon the questions which were then absorbing the public mind. He read more for information than amusement, and his essays which were often upon some political subject showed quick perception, penetration and sound judgment. With his fellow students he was universally popular. He was thoroughly unselfish, generous, often to his own detriment, as he frequently permitted his own record to suffer through a desire to serve others. Through all his intercourse with his fellows, there ran a thoughtful regard for the feelings of others, and a fine delicate sense of honor which won for him the warm affection and esteem of a large -circle of friends, both in his own and the other college classes.

There were few residents of Marietta, old -or young, to whom his bright intelligent face was not familiar: and his pleasant, resjiectful ways and frank, hearty friendliness had en- "deared him to all. He was devoid of all affectation, and slow to manifest the deeper feelings of his heart, yet no one who was intimate with him could fail to see that a deep reverence and affection for his parents were the strongest sentiment of his nature ; so strong that it held him firmly from the temptations to which his sociable, funloving disposition rendered him peculiarly liable, and became a constant incentive to honorable effort.

His death came with a weight of swift sorrow which words cannot measure or express. A telegram brought to his parents the tidings of his critical condition, and they hastened to Harper's Ferry by the first train, but reached there only to find that he was already dead, and they returned, bringing with them the lifeless form of him who had left them a short week before in the strength and beauty of his early manhood.

In all the sad experiences of the war, perhaps nothing shows more strongly the fearful at which the country was saved than cases like this, when an only and tenderly loved son was taken, leaving a sharp sense of bereavement and irreparable loss which the passing years do not lessen, and which even religion -can only soften, but can not take away.

Lieut. Richard D. Mason, the subject of this sketch, was born in Adams township, Washington County, son of Adolphus and Betsey B. Mason. He received a commonschool education.

He was elected second lieutenant of Company B, Ninth Ohio Cavalry, which rendezvoused at Camp Marietta, and was mustered in at Zanesville, January 17, 1863. From Zanesville the company moved to Camp Dennison, where they were armed and equipped. They then proceeded to Kentucky. Lieutenant Mason was with his company during its term of service up to the time of his death, acquitting himself with credit. After the siege of Knoxville, Lieutenant Mason was promoted to first lieutenant, and soon after obtained leave of absence to return home. While at home he was married to Elizabeth Shepard. Returning to his company at Pulaski, Tennessee, he was taken with chronic diarrhoea and died on June 24, 1S64. "Thus perished as gallant a young patriot as ever drew sword in defense of his country."

Lieut. Richard B. Cheatham, Sixtythird Ohio Volunteer Infantry, volunteered with J. \N. Fonts, and Avas mustered in at the organization of the company, October 9, 1861, as first sergeant of the company, served in that capacity with his company up to the 26th of May, 1862, when he was promoted to first lieutenant of his company (D), served in that capacity up to the time of his death. He died in camp at Memphis, July 18, 1863, after a two days' illness. Lieutenant Cheatham was a good soldier and an efficient officer, always ready for duty and seldom absent from his company, who deeply regretted his loss.

Lieut. Edgar P. Pearce was born in London, England, November 27, 1840. Two years later his father removed with his family to this countr}-. taking up his residence at Cleveland, Ohio : afterwards, in 1848, at Marietta. Here the subject of this sketch grew to manhood, passing through the public schools of the city. Having learned the printer's trade, he worked several years in the office of the Marietta Intelligencer. He then filled a clerical office at the the bank of Marietta for some years. In his 2 1 St year he enlisted as a private in the Seventyseventh Regiment, and soon after was appointed quartermaster sergeant of the regiment.

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to first lieutenant and assistant qiiartermastei". He was next detached from the regiment and made brigade quartermaster: and when General Steele was organizing his expedition to join General Banks, Lieutenant Pearce was appointed chief quartermaster of the expedition, which position he filled with distinguished ability. He was always a favorite with his commanding officers, owing to his genial disposition and peculiar talents and ability in the quartermasters' department. When the Sevent3'-seventh Regiment was reduced to a battalion, on account of its thinned ranks, a reduction of regimental officers took place, and Lieutenant Pearce was honorably discharged, together with others.

He was married on January 26, 1865, to INIary D. Ewart, eldest daughter of Hon. Thomas \V. Ewart, of Marietta. As a partner in the firm of Pearce & Triem, he pursued the business of druggist for some years, in Marietta. He was the popular cashier of the Caldwell National bank, at Caldwell, Ohio, for se\-- eral years. In the fall of 1872 he returned to Marietta in failing health, and died of consumption July 7, 1873, aged 32 years and seven months, much loved and lamented by a large circle of friends.

P.\RD0N CooKE, Jr., was born January 10, 1823, at Parkersburg (West) Virginia, son of Rev. Pardon and Mary Cook. The family removed to Ohio in September, 1832. In March, 1852, he graduated at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio.

He Avas married in November, 1852, to Mary Ellen Hunter, eldest daughter of Hon. William Forrest Hunter, of Woodsfield, Ohio, soon after which he settled in Marietta and began the practice of his profession.

He was commissioned as assistant surgeon of Ohio volunteers October 29, t86i, and assigned to duty in General Cox's division, in the Kanawha \'alley. In February, 1862, he was assigned to duty as assistant surgeon of the Seventy-se\-enth Regiment, and remained at his post until the time of his death, which occurred October 31, 1863, on a steamer, on

Luther Hathaway. - In looking over thechapter of a life, especially after it is closed, we can readily see the leading characterictics. ambitions and desires that prompted tiie course of that life: and in the study of Ijiography the chief benefit is derived from these salient points. We can gather from the field of exery life, many flowers, many examples that may stimulate others to noble endeavor. Let us gather only these. Thus far will the general reader be interested and no farther. More than that is for local consumption of friends and relatives. The life before us presents many such points, of which we mention but a few.

First - Devotion to the cause of the country. For a }'ear before the war Mr. Hathaway was in Kentucky, where every business interest would have prompted him either to oppose the Union or remain indifferent, but his letters of that period show that he stood by the Union as it was without equivocation ; and upon his return in 1861 he at once enlisted as a private in the United States service. He placed his life in the scale. No higher duty can be discharged, or greater sacrifice made by a citizen than that.

Second - We would mention a pure life. Having been converted in early life he united with the Baptist Church, and ever after remained a consistent member thereof.

Third - .\ high appreciation of etlucation as a means of <level()pment and as the right road to advancement. In one of his last letters; to his wife, he tells her that no sacrifice they might make in educating their children would be too great for the end to be attained. His constant effort and solicitude was to bring up and educate his children properly.

Luther Hathaway was born at Savoy, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, December 31, 181 7. He was the youngest son of Nathaniel Gilbert and Vashti (Seymour) Hathaway, and counted among his ancestors, on the paternal side. Governor William Bradford and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the navigator and dis-

From Berkshire his father removed to Macedon, Wayne county, New York, where Luther and his brothers and sisters received such education as was customary in New England famihes of those days. He was married August 29, 1842, to Clarissa Louise Ripley, daughter of John and Betsey (Elliot) Ripley, at Alacedon, New York. The children of this marriage were Seymour Judson, and John Gilbert Hathaway.

Mr. Hathaway with his family removed to Marietta in the spring of 1853. where he resided until the breaking out of the war, when, upon his return from Danville, Kentucky, he enlisted in Company B. Thirty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, July 22, 1861. Upon arriving at Camp Colerain, near Cincinnati, he was appointed hospital steward of the regiment. Soon afterward the Thirty-ninth left for Missouri, and he accompanied the regiment on all its hard and extended line of march over that State during the winter of 1861-62; having for a messmate and friend the Rev. B. W. Chidlaw, chaplain of the regiment.

After the fall of Island No. 10, a general hospital was organized at New Madrid, Missouri, and Mr. Hathaway was designated to take charge of the same, being detached from the regiment. He so remained detached up to the time of his death.

During the winter of 1862-63 preparations were made for an advance on Vicksburg, the next Rebel stronghold below Island No. 10, and he assisted and superintended the fitting up, at Columbus, Kentucky, of the large Mississippi steamer "Nashville" for a floating hospital. \\nien completed he was placed in charge. General Grant soon began to concentrate his forces for an advance on Vicksburg, and when the army and flotilla arrived in front of that city, the "Nashville" was anchored in the river ready to receive the sick and wounded soldiers.

he stood to his post. While at New Madrid he had been detailed as physician and surgeon to accompany various cavalry expeditions into the enemy's country. This was a position he had an ambition to fill, and he was fast becoming competent to fill it successfully by the study of medicine during his spare hours, and by his varied experience in camp and field. In these expeditions the active life on horseback preserved his usual health and vigor, but when he started south on the "Nashville," the confinement and care of the hospital, and the heat and malaria of the southern rivers began to tell upon his health. Upon arriving at Vicksburg he was in reality unfit for duty, but he still remained at his post. He died April ist. His remains were embalmed and sent to Marietta. He was buried with Masonic honors in Mound Cemetery, April 14, 1863, being a member of American Union Lodge, No. i, F. &A. M.

His son, S. J. Hathaway, having begun preparation for college at Marietta in the winter of 1863, remained and graduated at Marietta College in 1869.

His son, J. G. Hathaway, after attending the Macedon Centre Academy, in Macedon, New York, for several years, returned to Marietta in the spring of 1869, and engaged on the engineer corps then surveying the Cleveland & Marietta Railroad until its completion, when he learned the photographer's business with J. D. Cadwallader, Esq., at Marietta. He was married in 1875, to Miss Annetta Morse, and removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, the same year.

Of Luther Hathaway I have many pleasant memories, and shall ever hold him in high esteem. * * * He was a true friend, a sincere Christian, and a man of noble purposes. His death at the post of duty all his ofificers and comrades greatly deplored and sincerely mourned.

Marietta, Ohio. Here he attended school and was graduated from the high school in 1859. He engaged in teaching until the breaking out of the Rebellion. In November, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, then encainped in Marietta, and was appointed second sergeant of his company. In January, 1862, the regiment was ordered to Cincinnati, and soon after was sent up the Tennessee to Pittsburgh Landing, there to take part in the great battle of Shiloh. Porterfield survived the first two days' heavy fighting, taking a gallajit part therein, to be slain on the third day, April 8th, in the memorable charge of the Texan cavalry. He was almost instantly killed by a shot in tiie neck. His remains were brought to Marietta and interred in Mound Cemetery. Thus perished, in his first battle, this young soldier, at the age of 23.

usually spent in teaching, until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion. In August, 1861, lie enlisted in the company then being recruited in Salem by his brother, Jewett, for the Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry. On the organization of the company he was appointed first sergeant. He entered the field with his regiment, and bore his full share of its hard campaigning and battles. He was promoted to second lieutenant March 20, 1862, and to j first lieutenant on the first of September following. Owing to the faikire of his health, he resigned his commission on January 18, 1863, and returned home. He died on the 23rd of the following March, from the effects of exposure in the service. His high character as a Christian and patriot is well known. As a citizen and neighbor he was full of kindly impulses and quiet, good deeds. The organization and prosperous growth of the First Universalist Church of Salem, this county, and of Palmer Lodge, of Odd Fellows, of the same place, are very largely due to his influence and earnest, energetic labors.