Hanover Township (part 11 of 29)

Twenty-five families of those who had volunteered for the country's defense were being supported by the citizens of Hamilton and the surrounding country. The store house was directly opposite the court house, and contributions were received by D. I). Conover, chairman.

There were then in the camp three companies from Hamilton, one from Middle town, and two companies from Eaton. Captain Hilt's company from Middletown had left. While there a presentation of a flag was made to the Butler Pioneers, and also to the company' of Captain Humbach.

The Butler Pioneers, after spending a week in the hotels of Hamilton, and being drilled in the streets, removed to Camp Hamilton, or the Fair Grounds, on the 2 od of April. They were the first troops there. The ladies of Hamilton had presented them with a splendid Hag, accompanied with an eloquent aud patriotic speech from Mrs. Ryan. Captain .1. W. C. Smith made an appropriate response.

colii for that season of the year. They had but little straw for bedding, and but few of the soldiers were so fortunate as to have blankets of their own. The unfortunate shared with the fortunate, and it was laughable to see a half dozen trying to sleep under one blanket. Tiie consequence was a great deal of shivering, only a little sleep, and a great deal of catching cold. They were not forgotten by the ladies of Hamilton, lending blankets and supplying a shirt to each, and the farmers brought in immense quantities of straw. The halls and cattle stalls of the Fair Grounds were suitably fitted up for sleeping apartments, and after this the volunteers rested well. The eating department was conducted by Straub, Reutti & Co., for thirty-five cents per day, and tables were put up so that four hundred could eat at a time.

This was a three-months' company, and as the complement had been filled it did not go out to the war. Many of the men afterwards served in the three-year regiments.

"Sentinels will pass out no soldier without a written pass from the commandant, and such pass will not be given except upon the statement of the captain that the absence is necessary.

"Citizens will be permitted to pass out at any time by sentinels, if known to be such; otherwise not permitted to pass without the orders of some commissioned officer in the camp.

"Before 12 M. citizens will not be permitted to pass into the camp without a written pass from the commandant, but may be admitted during the afternoon upon the order of any commissioned officer in the camp.

The following officers were detailed for duty: Captain Thomas Morton, of the Eaton National Guards, to act in the absence of the commandant; Samuel L'Hommedieu, Hamilton Rifles, Adjutant; X. T. Peatman, Butler Pioneers, Sergeant; Major John Sutherland, Butler Pioneers, Quartermaster; J. W. Sater, Eaton National Guards, Assistant Quartermaster; James McClelland, i Middletown Veterans, Surgeon; W. Palmer Dunn, University Rifles, Secretary of Commandant.

In an order of Colonel H. B. Carrington, Adjutantgeneral of the State, organizing the militia, he assigns fifteen companies as the necessary quota from Butler.

The Eleventh Regiment and the right wing of the Third Regiment wore ordered to Camp Dennison on Monday, the 29th of April. The train had thirty-three cars, and was cheered in every village or hamlet it passed through. Flags and handkerchiefs were' waved from every farm-house along ttie road, showing the sentiment °f the people.

Third Regiment, the train stopped in the midst of a level tract, surrounded by high hills. This they were told was Camp Dennison. There was no tent or hut, and not even a board of which to make a shelter - nothing but com fields and wheat fields. There were no shade trees, not as much as a hickory sprout in a fence corner. Reluctantly leaving the cars, they formed and marched through the plowed field. Soon after a lumber train arrived, and the soldiers were told to take oft' their coats and carry boards across a twenty-acre field, there to build their quarters. The crowd reached the cars, and tliere was a struggle for a place. The more modest were disposed to le>ld back, until they thought of the night soon to come. One young theological student, who understood human nature, mounted the cars, took plank after plank, crying the name of his company at the top of his voice. Numbers of them were soon by his side, and before long all were sufficiently provided. The men were tired and hungry; they had had nothing to eat since morning, and the commissariat broke down, as it always does in new organizations.

It began raining before sleep* reached them, but the next day all was fair. ' On Friday it rained all ciliy long. Over four hundred buildings were put up in all - seven to one of the companies from Butler County. The fare was not exactly the kind to please epicures. Bread, rice, beans, salt pork, and coflee constituted the table. As one grim humorist remarked, three-fourths of the pork was {Hire fat, the remainder all fat. Still the soldiers enjoyed themselves. They laughed and cracked jokes, and met the situation with good humor. Their friends at j Hamilton did not neglect them, and sent forward bounti- | ful supplies of provision and clothing.

Monroe was not behind the other towns in its patriotic acts. It sent a large number of young men iu the Middletown company - nineteen on the first call - and supplied them with blankets, shirts, pocket money, and so on. They requested the commissioners to lew a tax for the aid of the families of olunteers, and raised by subscription over a thousand dollars to meet pressing necessities. The home guard there numbered over one hundred men, who drilled from four to six nights jk.t week.

City Council

" Whereas, The attention of this council has been called to the fact that considerable suffering now exists among the families of our soldiers in the service of their count 17 from this city, and still more sutiorhig is apprehended from the rigors of the approaching Winter; and

" Resolved . That we hereby tender to said county com- j missioners, to meet the want above indicated, a loan of ; the sum of two thousand dollars, from the funds now in the city treasury, for such time as may be required, not to exceed fourteen months, and upon payment of six per cent interest for the use of the same.

"Resolved, That the city clerk furnish to said commissioners a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions at his earliest convenience. Also, a- resolution granting to Messrs. Long, Black & Allstatter the pump of the old fire-engine Water Witch, to be fixed up at their manufactory for fire purposes.'' ^

The young men of Hamilton and vicinity, between the ages of fifteen and nineteen years, formed a company to be known as 'the Young Guard, and were drilled by Lewis D. Campbell, ex-member of Congress, and formerly captain of the Butler Guards.

Wm. H. H. Russell and others formed a military company, drilling at Jacob's Hall. Gov. Dennison had, on or before the 20th of May, accepted Captain J. W.

At Camp Hamilton the Pioneers had some amusement in hanging Jeff. Davis in effigy. The ceremonies were imposing. Jeff, was appropriately represented as a , negro, and was upborne by four men at the head of a j squad of about fifty, ably commanded by Benjamin Frank- i lin Stevens, as captain, and Thomas Benton Hart, as lieutenant. The procession moved from camp at 2 P. M. for Hamilton, marching through the principal streets.

It halted at Squire Wiles's, who pronounced the sentence of the law upon Jeff. He was not worthy of a soldier's death by being shot, hut must be hung by the neck until dead. The procession then returned to camp and proceeded to put the sentence of the court in execution. An Adams officiated as hangman. The drop soon fell, and Jeff, was suspended between heaven and earth, dying without a struggle. Shouts went up from the multitude, groans wer^ given for -all traitors, and cheers for . the Union.

A large portion of the early drilling of recruits was done here by Captain John McCleary, son of Andrew McCleary, of West Hamilton. He had been admitted into the regular army, and was at home on a leave of absence when the civil war broke out. He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, at West Point, in the class of 1854, and was appointed a second lieutenant in 1855. lie was promoted to first lieutenant in 1860, and captain ou the 17th of May, 1861. He was breveted as major for gallant and meritorious services at j the battle of Gettysburg, and afterwards was creditably ' employed as an officer in command of a post in South ! Carolina during the reconstruction period. He was a | participant in the battles of Antietam, Septemlier 16 and 1

17, 1862; crossing of the Potomac at Shepherdstown, August 18, 1862 ; Skinner's, at or near Leetown, Virginia, September 20, 1862 ; Snicker's Gap, November 3, 1862; Fredericksburg, 13th and 14th of December; Chanceliorsville, May 1, 1863; Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.

Major McCleary died on the 25th of February, 1868. He had been complaining a little for a day or two, and kept in his room. On the morning of his death, he wrote an order which he gave to his servant for his breakfast, hut when the boy returned with it he found McCleary insensible and bathed in blood. The doctor reached him immediately, and tried to rally him, but it was of no. avail, and he went off unconscious and without pain. The cause of his death was the bursting of an aneurism of the aorta, opening into the oesophagus. His remains were carefully embalmed and sent home, under the charge of au officer. The ladies of the army decorated the coffin most beautifully with flowers. Major James P. Roy, commanding the military, post of .Charleston, South Carolina, issued a general order announcing Major MeCleary's death. The deceased had, he said, been continuously in the service of bis country for fourteen years. " In the performance of his duty during this period, a large share of which has been checkered by events memorable in history, he has borne his part with a fidelity only equaled by that modesty of deportment which distinguished his personal character. Ou the frontier, in warfare with the savages, in marches across the continent, in the arduous and hard fought campaigns of the army of the Potomac in the late stupendous war, .no ^superior has found him deficient in courage and capacity, and no comrade has known him hut to respect him. His record has been uniformly that of a duty officer, a conscientious soldier. Of irreproachable morals and unsullied honor, his private character has been that of a retiring and estimable gentleman. Iu him the army loses a valuable officer and his associates a trustworthy friend."

The commandant of the ot icr detachment of his rejriment, then stationed at Fort Gibson, iu the Cherokee nation. Brevet-major M. Bryant, also issued a feeling order in respect to the decease of Major McCleary. He said :

Major McCleary entered the service iu 1854, having graduated that year from the United States Military Academy. He served several years on the western frontier and in California, where lie performed arduous and gallant services iu campaigns against hostile Indians, and in the late war, participating in every battle in which his regiment was engaged, from Yorktowu to Gettysburg, receiving the brevet of major for gallant and meritorious services in the latter battle.

" A high-toned and estimable gentleman, a gallant and true-hearted soldier, has gone to his rest, leaving behind him a bright example of soldierly hearing, and of a conscientious and upright performance of duty, worthy the emulation of the comrades who now mourn j his loss. As a token of respect for the memory of the j deceased, the officers of the regiment will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days."

The Butler Grays, organized at Princeton, under command of Captain Murphy, was one of the best in the county. A splendid flag was presented to it by the ladies of Princeton and vicinity, through Miss Moliie Urmston.

The Reeder Cadets, who were young fellows from the ages of fifteen to seventeen, organized under the super- | vision of Captain N. Reeder. Their officers were Charles Potter, Captain ; Thomas Shafer, First Lieutenant ; F. A. Lighter, Second Lieutenant; and Joseph Wyman, Orderly Sergeant. They received many gifts from the citizens of Hamilton.

The Butler Pioneers suffered much from shortness of tobacco. As their money had given out they could get no more. But the establishment of a sutler afterwards enabled them to get as much as they wanted, and have the value deducted from their monthly pay.

B. I). Miller and F. W. Keil be gan recruiting for a new' company, and a roll was also left at Heppards's store, in Collinsville, and with AV. S. Lewis, New London.

The University Rifles returned from their campaign in Western Virginia on the 8th of August. They were welcomed home by the military companies of the city and a large crowd of citizens, who greeted them with a salute of artillery and musketry, and the cheers of assembled thousands.

A fine company, under the style of Union Rifles, composed mainly of citizens of Union Township, left Oxford, on the 8th of August, for Camp Dennison.

Captain Stone's company of three years volunteers, the Anderson Grays, went into camp at the Hamilton Fair Grounds on the 10th of August. Captain Thoms, of Seven-Mile, had a company partly ready.

On the 15th of August, 1861, there wert at Camp Hamilton three companies, the Anderson Grays, the Butler Blues, and Captain Reeder's. The last two were not full, hut were being rapidly filled up.

Captain Stone's aud Captain J. S. Earhart's companies were sworn into the service of the United States on Tuesday, the 20th of August. Captain Fred. Ileser left Hamilton for Camp Dennison on the 22d, with seventy or eighty good fighting men, to join the Porschner regiment, which was to join Fremont's column immediately.

plication, as follows: Those living in the townships of | Morgan, Reily, Oxford, Milford, Hanover, and Ross up- \ ply to J. J. Owens; in Wayne, Madison, Lemon, Lib- j

The location of Camp Hamilton was changed in August from the Fair Ground to the common at the head o t Third Street, on the old cricket ground. This was done principally to secure a good parade ground, where there would be no obstruction to drill.

Charles Murray was also getting up a company of cavalry. The company, when completed, would be commanded by Captain White, a graduate of West Point, and for twelve years a captain in the regular armv. The company was to be attached to Colonel Taylor's regiment, which was to be ordered to St. Louis.

W. H. Wade was engaged in recruiting for a cavalry company. It was nearly full, and only a few men more were wanted. It w'as to he under the command of Caotain Hunt, late of Burdsall's dragoons, well known for their effective service in AVestern Virginia.

One of the earliest companies raised was by William Clement Rossman. It was attached to the Third Ohio Infantry, its colonel being Isaac Marrow, of Columbus; its lieutenant-colonel , John Beatty, of Morrow Countv; and its major, J. Warren Keifer, of Clarke Couuty. The regiment was at first at Camp Jackson, but afterwards at Camp Dennison. The three months' service had expired before they were called upon to take the field, and a great' portion of the regiment re-enlisted. On the 20th of January they were supplied with arms and ammunition, and ordered to Grafton, A irgiuia, being the first three years' regiment to leave the State. At Rich .Mountain, although present, the regiment was not engaged, as the fighting was in the rear of the fortifications. It joined in the pursuit of the enemy, and afterwards assisted in fortifying the passes of the Alleghenies.

The rebels, under General Robert E. Lee, attacked their position at Elkwater Junction, on the 11th of September, driving in the pickets as they advanced. Colonel John A. AVashington, of Mount Vernon, Virginia, was killed in this contest. It returned to Cincinnati on the 28th of November, re-embarked for Louisville, and thence marched to Camp Jenkins, four miles distant, where the army of the Ohio was organized. It was placed in the Third Division, General Ormsby AT. Mitehel commanding. It .went into AVinter-quarters at Bacon Creek. Colonel Marrow here resigned, and promotions followed throughout the entire regiment.

From this camp, w hich it left on the 22d of February, 1802, it went to Bowling Green, entering that place just, as the rebels left it, and then going to Nashville. It took anVictive part ;n all the events of that stirring and brilliant campaign, including the capture of Murfreesboro, and the occupation of Shelbyville and Fayetteville. In the battle of Bridgeport the Third acted its part. In the latter part of August General Bragg-, with the rebel army, made a bold push towards Louisville, Kentucky, and Buell concentrated his forces in that direction. The march northward was extremely fatiguing. The roads were very dry, and there was scarcely any water, but they reached Louisville on the 25th of September. ~

Shortly after, in marching out, it was a part of the forces that engaged with the rebels at Perryville. It fought bravely and valiantly, nearly one-third of its number being brought to the ground. Color-sergeant William V, McCoubrie was shot down while carrying the flag a little in advance of the guard, and five others subsequently shared the same fate. The last hero who held the standard aloft was a beardless boy of seventeen, David C. Walker, who successfully carried it through the action, and was made color-sergeant on the field by Colonel Beatty. General Rousseau, after the dose of the action, rode up to the regiment and thanked it for its gallant conduct. Its loss in the action was two hundred and fifteen killed and wounded.

In the battle of Stone River it took a noble part, being commanded by Lieutenant-colonel Lawson. It engaged very early, maintaining its line until, upon the edge of a cotton field, the whole tide of battle seemed to roll down from the right and launch itself upon the center, where the Third was. It then began to give ground, stubbornly, delivering its fire steadily and eflectively, though receiving two volumes for one. It was long exposed to a galling fire, and lost heavily. The second day it was occupied in guarding a ford, but on the last day it was again under fire. This was the end of the battle, and the rebels then retreated to Shelby ville.

In April, I860, the Third was detached from the army proper, and in company with the Fifty-first and Seventythird Indiana, Eightieth Illinois, and two companies of the First Alabama cavalry, was dispatched to destroy the Rome Iron Works, and 'the foundries and arsenals also situated there. On the 30th of April the command was attacked by General Roddy, with a large cavalry force. After a fierce contest the enemy were soon routed, but General Forrest was near by, and soon after made a fresh attack. After a severe engagement he was compelled to retreat.

Shortly after, the rebels again engaged, the Union troops losing a large number of men. The horses and men were both worn out, and it was determined to scud forward two hundred and fifty of the best mounted men to destroy the iron works and Rome. Ferry-boats could not be found at the Catoosa River, the troops going up the road four miles to a ford, which wet their ammunition. Forrest came up again, and demanded their surrender, which they were compelled to yield.

They were immediat'eh sent to Belle Isle, and from there to Lihbv Prison, the officers being retained there until a late period in the war. The meu were paroled, and afterwards exchanged. They were stationed at various places until the conclusion of their term of service, many of the officers and men then re-enlisting in other regiments.

Henry Smith, of Captain Rossman's company, Third Ohio Volunteers, died at Annapolis, Maryland, February 21, 1863, from wounds received at the battle of Stone River. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Murfreesboro, and removed from there to Richmond, Virginia, where he was exchanged. His remains were brought to this city.

I country as a soldier soon after the breaking out of the Rebellion, and was a faithful member of Company F, i Sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, until the failure of his j health. He took part in several of the severest battles i fought during the war, among which was that at Pittsburg Landing. He was then taken sick, patiently suffering during bis protracted illness. He died September 7, 1863, in the thirty-ninth year of his age.

The First Cavalry was organized in the Summer of 1861. A large number of men desired to join this regiment, and the officers were consequently enabled to use discrimination in the selection of recruits. It was mustered

| into the service on the 5th of October, at Camp Chase, and ; three of the companies were soon after assigned cn detached ! service in West Virginia. Several lost their lives, and j among them was Seeley Mensch. He was an earnest worker in the organization of the company, riding regu- I larly to drill from Seven-Mile after his day's work, and | shrinking from no labor or trouble in getting in men and i horses. He left for his father's home in Michigan, where | he intended to leave his infant child, on the express cou- | dition that he should be telegraphed if any thing oc- I eurred, and on being notified that they were about to ] depart he immediately joined them in camp. During the J short time spent in Carthage in the laborious drilling incij dent to the. preparing of men and horses for immediate 1 service, Mensch was most efficient and industrious, rcj spending with ready acquiescence to the entirely unexpected order to leave for Virginia.

During the four weeks' campaign, immediately following the departure from Clarksburg, in which, it is safe to say, no dragoons ever saw harder or more exacting I service, Mensch was always the ready, cheerful, and brave soldier. In the midst of perplexing irregularities cf the company in the arrangement of messes, the distribution of the equipments, and the incidental dissatisfaction and chafing of the men against each other, while learning camp duty and camp life, he did much by his conciliation and kindness to settle all into regularity and content. When by the severe picket aud guard duty to which the company was exposed, as the only cavalrv in the brigade, the men were so worn out as to be really 1 unfit for further service, Mensch was always willing and ready to volunteer in the place of some weaker, though I not so severely tasked comrade. If there was any scout- ic? promising danger, or any midnight expedition looking towards a skirmish, Mensch asked to go. He was one of their best couriers, riding fearlessly, but with discretion. He was present in the arduous march around the flank of the enemy entrenched at Rich Mountain, and was in the fight afterwards. He was under the fire of the enemy for nearly an hour without flinching, although not permitted to fight, only regretting that the logs, rocks, and trees prevented his being at the cannons mouth. He was in that section of his company that rode next morning first of all the army into the camp of the rebels. He was patient in difficulty, cheerful under hardship, tearless in assault, cool in danger, forbearing with his comrades, respectful and obedient to officers, and perfectly brave. His was an intelligent and active bravery too. He understood perfectly well what he joined the army for - what he wanted to accomplish, and why he wanted it. He fought on principle, recognizing the magnitude of the issues at strike and the duty which presented itself to him as a citizen ana a man. There were no hostile soldiers near the camp, and no dangers anticipated. He was fired upon by murderous citizens skulking in the bushes.

On the 9th of December the regiment went to Louisville, where it arrived on the 11th, being the first regiment of cavalry to enter that department. It remained in Louisville and Lebanon until the 28th of February, when it moved to Nashville. In the meantime Colonel O. P. Ransom and Lieutenant-colonel T. C. H. Smith had resigned, and the command devolved upon a new colonel, Minor Millikiu, a native of Butler County. On the 14th of March, the First Cavalry took the advance of the column moving towards Columbia, encountering and putting to flight the rear guard of the enemy. The regiment marched through Tennessee with General Thomas's division, arriving at Pittsburg Landing just after the battle of that name had been fought. It participated in the advance upon Corinth, having frequent skirn ishes with the enemy, and afterwards joined in the pursuit of Beauregard's army. During this pursuit* it had four sharp engagements with the enemy, with, however, but little loss. During June the regiment was constantly employed in scouting and reconnoitering, and a detachment from Tuscumbia, under command of Colonel Emery, had a severe engagement about the 1st of July with Roddy's rebel corn maud. Although successful, the detachmeut suffered severely, losing among others Captain Emery, mortally wounded.

On the 15th of July Captain Writer, with a squad, was attacked by a superior force of re lie! cavalry uuder General Andersou. Two of the men were captured and four injured, and the captain was severely wounded. On 'lie 25th of July companies E aud Iv, commanded by Captain Eggleston, with two companies of the Tenth Kentucky Infantry, were attacked by a large body of rel>el cavalry under General Audersou. They held out for a considerable time, but were finally compelled to retire, the enemy having captured the infantry, Captain Eggleston, and twenty -one of the cavalry. On the 1st of August the regiment moved for Deeherd, Tennessee, arriving there on the 5th. Colonel Millikiu, with six companies, moved to McMinnville soon after, while four companies, under Captain Paftten, went on a scout to Fayetteville, where ou the 19th Lieutenant Rhea, of Company I, and six men were captured. Considerable skirmishing was done, and in October the regiment, or portions of it, participated in an engagement near Siiepherdstown, and in the advance ou Perryville. On the day after the last battle the regiment was reunited, and remained so until its final discharge, a period of three years.

General Morgan and his band of guerrillas becoming troublesome, the First Ohio and the First Kentucky cavalry were seut in pursuit of him, following him many miles through the center of the State. With other troops with whom they were brigaded they met Morgan's command of twenty-five hundred men at Gallatin, routing it, and capturing twenty-five prisoners. In the advance on Murfreesboro it moved out on the Franklin Pike, reach- J ing that town in the afternoon, and routing the rebel . force stationed there. Ou the 29th it encountered aud [ defeated Wharton's brigade of rebel cavalry. On the evening of the same day the brigade and regiment ti ok position upon the extreme right of the army, and held it throughout the struggle. On the 31st the brigade ! covered the retreat of our infantry, falling back slowly. Colonel Millikin had received no orders from his brigade commander applicable to such a case, and took tlie responsibility of sending orderlies to the various regimental commanders of the brigade, requesting them to support him in a saber charge upon the advancing foe. The occasion was pressing, and Colonel Millikiu, without waiting for a response, wheeled his men iuto line, and threw it upon the enemy, driving them a quarter of a mile. The rebels gathered and closed in ou his rear, making his situation one of extreme difficulty. Perceiving his danger, he turned his men about, and they fought their way through, but anioug those who lay dead on the field was the gallant young commander, Minor Millikin. Besides him, Major D. A. B. Moore and Lieutenant Coudit I were killed, and Adjutant Scott and Lieutenant Fordyce | wounded, together with many non-commissioned officers I and privates. The command of the regiment devolved j upon Major Laughlin, under whom it continued to fight until the battle of Stone River was complete.

In June it did much skirmishing and reconnoitering, and captured large quantities of rebel stores. This it ; continued in July, aud iu August several hundred horses I and mules were captured. On the 2d of September it went iu the direction of Rome, Georgia, meeting the j enemy, and driving them from their position after a ! contest of an hour. The lo>s was ten killed and wounded.

Ou the 19th the First arrived on the Chickamauga bat- j tie-field, and after being engaged the whole morning, were ordered, under Lieutenant-colonel. Cupp, to charge the enemy's line. The mistake of issuing such an order was quickly perceived, aud was immediately countermanded, but not before the two hundred and fifty men had started under a deadly fire. One moment more and scarcely one could have been saved. Lieutenant-colonel Cupp was killed, and one-fifth of the rank and file were among the killed and wounded. He was universally beloved, and was brave to a fault. The command now devolved upon Major T. J. Fatten, under whom the regiment fell back to Chattanooga-

On the 26th of September General Crook's division, of which the First Cavalry was a part, was dispatched to guard a line on the Tennessee River of fifty miles in length. On the 1st the rebel General Wheeler, with eight thousand cavalry, broke through this weak defense. His advance was met by a battalion of the First, under Major James Scott, and a severe engagement followed, in which Captain Conn, of Company B, was wounded and twenty-five meu of the battalion were wounded and captured. The rebels compelled them to retire, but Geueral Crooks soon took up the pursuit and drove them - for a long distance. On the 10th the rebels succeeded, with a remnant of the overwhelming force that had crossed the Tennessee in triumph eight days before, in recrossing that stream. They were weakened, demoralized, and disheartened; they had lost their artillery and more than a thousand prisoners, and had been five times routed by a force of less than half their numbers.

On the 18th of November, with, five hundred men in its ranks, the First Cavalry moved towards Chattanooga, arriving there on the morning of the 22d of November. On the evening of the some day Geueral Sherman, having already moved his forces across the river above the town, the First Ohio and five other cavalry regiments, under Colonel Long, crossed over under cover of the infantry, and made a raid in the rear of Bragg's position, which for its brilliant success and happy termination is unsurpassed in the annals of the cavalry. The results were the de- | struction of twenty miles of railroad and the largest per- ! cussion cap and torpedo manufactory in the Confederacy ; j two hundred wagons burned, six hundred horses and mules, aud five hundred prisoners captured. Ouiy twenty men were lost. On this raid the First had a severe engagement with the enemy at Cleveland, losing fifteen men, but inflicting on the enemy a loss of at least fifty.

On the 27th of October Colonel Long's division marched towards Knoxville, having several severe skirmishes by the way, and capturing many prisoners. Then j it weut ou a raid into North Carolina, bringing back j only one hundred and twenty effective men, instead of the five hundred it had had a month before.

hundred men, attacked a wagon train lying upon the opposite side of the Tennessee River, guarded by infantry alone. Perceiving their danger, Colonel Long, with sixty-five men of the First Cavalry, immediately crossed over, and charging the enemy, in connection with the infantry, completely routed the rebels. Leaving the infantry, the little band of cavalry pushed forward four miles, scattering the rebels, aud inflicting upon them a loss of twenty-five killed and eighty wounded, and capturing one hundred and thirty-one prisoners. This brilliant affair cost the cavalry but one man killed and three wounded. Taking into account the disparity of numbers, it is almost impossible to find a parallel in the history of modern warfare.

About this time Colonel B. B. Eggleston returned from recruiting service in Ohio, and assumed command of the regiment. In January and February the men nearly all re-enlisted, and came up North on a month's furlough. Those who did not re-enlist continued with Long's brigade the whole Winter.

On the 1st of Ap ril, 1804, the First was again reunited at Nashville, Tennessee, recruited to full ranks. On the 22d of May it joined Sherman on his celebrated march. It was in a severe engagement at Moulton, resulting in . the complete defeat of General Roddy, who, with a force of six regiments and a battery of artillery, had attacked Long's brigade. The First lost in this about twenty killed and wounded. In front of Kenesaw the regiment had frequent and severe skirmishing, in which it lost about thirty men. The regiment accompanied General Kilpatrick iu his raid around Atlanta. When surrounded by the enemy at Lovejoy's Station the First Cavalry particularly distinguished itself by holding in check for some time a force from Cleburne's rebel infantry division, with a loss of fifty men. Among the killed was Captain W, H. Scott. The brigade commander, Colonel Eli Long, was severely wounded in this affair, which devolved the command of the brigade upon Colonel B. B. Eggleston, aud the regiment upon Lieutenant-colonel Thomas J. Patten, its old and tried chief. When General Hood attempted to cut Sherman's communications the First Cavalry followed in pursuit.

On the 13th of October it carried the advance of Garrard's division in the fight near Rome, Georgia, resuiting iu the complete discomfiture of Geueral Armstrong's division of rebel cavalry. The regiment, with others, was then sent to Louisville, Kentucky, to be entirely refitted for the field, arriving there ou the 17th of November. On the 22d of March the cavalry, which had been at Chickasaw Landing, ou the south side of the Tennessee, moved out, and on the 26th Company A. of the First, struck a body of rebels at Jasper, and muted them. On the 27ih they forded the Black Warrior River; 29th burned a largo iron furnace, and drove Patterson's cavalry across the Catawba River; 31st, about noon, the pickets were attacked at Moutovallo, but were charged ami routed by the Fifth Iowa. They proved to j be a part of Lyon's brigade of Forrest's cavalry, which ' were here found in strong position defending the road and ford. Lyon was dislodged, and again put upon the retreat.

On the morning of the 1st of April the regiment again took the advance, and Forrest's pickets were driven out of Randolph, and considerable skirmishing continued all day, until at last the head of the columu struck Forrest's Command in position near Ebenezer Church. The First Ohio was on the right, and the enemy's battery, of ; three guns, was on a wooded hill by the church, directly in front. After a severe struggle all along the line the First took the battery of artillery, and Forrest's farfamed horsemen were routed in twenty minutes from the main attack. Here fell the gallant Frank P. Allen, the quartermaster's sergeant of the regiment. On the 2d of April Selma was taken; the 9th the command began crossing the Alabama; 12th and 13th it rested in Montgomery; 14th, took up -its march towards Columbus, Georgia; loth, Buford's division was driven ahead of us, and on the 1.6th the advance met the enemy near Crawford, Georgia, and charged them nine miles across the Ogeechee Iliver. About a mile and a half from Columbus the first battaliou of the First Ohio encountered the enemy, drew sabers, and charged down the hill into the town of Girard, under the fire of twenty-five guns that had been worked until then. The regiment was also engaged in the night attack upon Columbus, the capture of the works, and the saving of the two bridges which opened up Columbus, its arsenals and factories, and gave, as the result of one of the most desperate night assaults ever made, twelve hundred prisoners and ninety-six cannon. Ou the 22d Macon was entered, when the troops heard of the surrender of Lee. The regiment then garrisoned Georgia and South Carolina until the 13th of September, when it was mustered out, paid off, and discharged at Columbus, Ohio, on the 28th day of September, 1865.

Colonel Minor Millikin, whose death we have noticed above, was the son of John M. Millikin and Mary G. Hough. He was born on the 9th of July, 1834. An account of his early training is given on a preceding page. Wo can not describe his character better than in the following words of Professor David Swing, the great preacher of Chicago, who was intimately acquainted i with him :

"The battle of Murfreesboro has brought to this region some realizatiou of the sadness of war. The desolation of which we have read so much, we are at last compelled to see face to face. The tears of the widow tall before our own eye, and the home once so happy incomes the asylum of almost broken hearts.

"The dispatch which announced the death of Colonel Millikiu announced the fall of a gifted man, a brave soldier, an ardent patriot. The soul of Minor was of the intense school. What he was, he was thoroughly; whom he loved, he loved deeply; whom he disliked, he disliked cordially; and this intensity of feeling led him early to grasp, his sword in defense of the government and country he loved, and against the Confederacy he despised. The character of Colonel Millikin can not be pictured at a stroke. His mind was many sided. To the taste for literature he added a love of the practical in ordinary life. He was philosophic and romantic, ready to lecture upon reform or to weave together such ! thoughts as might win for one the title of a poet. He loved that progress .which comes by a better education, and he loved also that progress of ideas which comes through the sword. He was ready to teach kindly a little child or to meet his foe with terrible force upon the battle-field. Talented, original, independent, brave, lie was also affectionate and religious. He had some faults, but far more virtues, and the deformity of the former fades from our sight, while we look unon the beauty of the latter, just as the spots upon the sun are not remembered while we stand in the fields of June. But his heart, so strong and yet so kind, so patriotic, so chivalrous and mindful of duty, has grown quiet. Amid the clash of swords and the awful diu of the - battle-field of Murfreesboro, Minor Millikin fell, and for his country yielded up bis young life."

"I know nothing of his parentage, but if the blood of the Puritans did not run in his veins (which I think probable) their spirit at least animated his soul. That sterling love of truth and justice, that nice regard for right in business transactions, that prompt and thorough doing of what ought to he done, that constant outlooking for the path of duty (which clearly seen, men's opinions to the contrary, were as chaff before the wind), that ever present recognition of God's law and special providence, that unswerving obedience to the almighty ought, so that if he saw he ought to do, to speak or not to speak, that ought was his Shekinah, and finally, that plain steady piety, which made his tent a 'house of prayer,' are manifest characteristics of the man I mourn.

"Quick to perceive and relieve sorrow ; free, but humble in the social circle; liberal, but exact in business; economical in bis living' ; strictly temperate iu his anpel tites and habits; free from vulgarity; affable and polite; these were qualities that made him au agreeable associate, while the others would make him a strict disciplinarian, a rigid commander, a fearless warrior, and, if the path of duty led to a dozen batteries, to them would he go without a quiver of hesitation. The scarcity of such men iu our army makes ins lu<s doubly severe." first campaign of Western Virginia he saw severe service, and acquired a reputation for bravery and fidelity. At the expiration of this term an unsolicited appointment as major of the First Cavalry was conferred upon him. Scarcely had the regiment been set to active service before he was promoted to the colonelcy, just then vacated. The title to this position, which, was not reached without opposition, he had since made good - fairly and fully winning it by diligence, zeal, and the exhibition of more than ordinary capacity. The great esteem in which he was heal by his superior officers is acknowledged by all who know their opinions, and these opinions were not concealed. More than once was it intimated that yet higher promotion would soon be conferred. The high place which he held in the affections of the officers and men of his regiment was the result of the uniform courtesy aud real kindness which accompanied the most rigid discipline, combined with a consistent and high toned morality: and both commended to the true soldier by daring and skill. In all the expeditions of greater or less importance with which he was intrusted, the men of the First Ohio Cavalry followed their colonel with confidence, and were rewarded by success. But all the previous instances of this were eclipsed by the history of the 31st of December. At early morning the regiment was called to arms. Its position was on the advance of our right wing, under General McCook. While the second major had just given the command to fall in, the regiment lost his valuable services, and he was deprived of life by the explosion of the first shell fired by the enemy. Left thus, without the assistance of a single field officer, Colonel Millikiu led his regiment through the enemy, by whom they were quickly surrounded. During the whole day he maneuvered the regiment with the greatest coolness, gallantry, and skill, and beyond this there was, on that day, a peculiar tenderness in his care for the regiment, and a peculiar gentleness in the tone of his orders, which more than once brought tears to the eyes of his brave ?nen. Their battle-field was but two ir.les and a half in width, and was fought over from four o'clock A. M. to three P. M. Forced "back by superior numbers, every inch was stubbornly contested. Three separate and successful charges were led by the colonel in person. Alas! the third was only too successful. The regiment formed the center of the charging column, aud pierced the center of the enemy, hut tho right and left supporting regiments failing to drive the foe, the gallant First was speedily flanked. It was at this point, while occupying an exposed position, that a squad of the enemy made a bold dash, distinctly to capture him. They reached and surrounded him. The demand for his surrender was made, hut though one of his own men cried out, '0, colonel, do give up; they'll kill you,1 it was answered only by the heavy swinging of the colonel's saber. With a cut to the rear, one assailant was cloven down, and with a stroke to the front another; hut just as valor seemed ready to be crowned by success the fatal shot was fired. The ball, supposed to be from a carbine, entered the neck and severed the jugular vein. Unconsciousness must have immediately ensued. The body was recovered within thirty minutes, stripped of overcoat, saber, and valuables while in tho throes of death, and life ended with one gasp as it was committed to the ambulance. Thus was death braved and met by as lofty courage as ever inspired a soldier, whether the records of this war or others he searched.

" Colonel MLllikin had entered the army from principle at the first, and at the same high behest he continued in it to the end. His cup of earthly happiness was filled by a circle of warmer friends than most men know, by ample means, by literary plans and pursuits, aud by an affectionate family. The persuasion of being in the line of duty was his constant solace, and he sought to make it such to those whom he loved as his own life. In his private character the same qualities which made Colonel Millikin liked as a good officer were even more conspicuous. Here there was firmness, but no rudeness; there was lofty purpose unaccompanied by petty ambition; there was the tendency to the exaction of all duties from others characteristic of a strong mind, but it never became tyranny. Indeed, it wTas not the least remarkable of his traits that he combined the most gentle and delicate feelings with the greatest strength of character. A more thoroughly honest man than Colonel Millikin did not breathe. He hated dishonesty of every kind and of every shade with a perfect hatred.

"It was within the circle of warm friendship that his peculiar power and influence were felt. He universally secured respect, even from opponents. It is thus that one writes who was once a chaplain to the regiment: ' Brave,, strong, noble, full of life and hope and love, happy himself, and making others happy, filling so nobly and well his part in the world, who that knew Minor Millikin, though only to respect him while living, will not mourn that he is dead? For us who knew him better and loved him there will be more than transient regret.'

"Colonel Millikin's mental powers were rapidlv maturing into a gratifying fulfillment of earlier promise. None were able more fully to transfuse the soul into whatever was to be written. The productions of his pen were children of his heart always, aud bore witness to their parentage. Lectures or letters, addresses or editorials. every tiling was terse, vigorous, and strong, yet smooth.

"Colonel Millikin possessed that true courage which distinctly apprehends danger, but in the strength of high principle defies it. This appeared every way, but in none more clearly than iu the habitual preparation for death which he sought to maintain. In camp, near Nashville, on the 9th of December, he thus prefaced his will: 'Death is always the condition of living, hut, to the goldier, its imminencv and certainty seems also the condition of his usefulness, and glory. It has been my habit to keep a will, but as my last is uselessly long, and, as to my human gaze, life seems less than likely to stay long with me, I write now another.'

"The remains were brought home. It was his high, wish, expressed in his will, that he should be buried without pomp; that a slab of native stone, plainly engraved, might mark his resting place; that over it wild vines might grow unrestrained; 'and then,' it was added, 'let it be forgotten that I am there.'"

The first entire regiment that went out from Butler County and vicinity was the Thirty-fifth. Nearly all of its members came from this county; it suffered more severely than any other, aud many of its men are now residents of this vicinity. On the field of Chickamauga the dead of Butler County lie thickly. Companies A and F were recruited in Warieu County, H in Montgomery, E, and part of G, in Preble, and the others in Butler County.

It was organized at Hamilton during the months of August and September, 1861, although some of the companies had been begun earlier. On the 26th of September the regiment broke camp at Hamilton and moved to Covington, Kentucky, and, on the same night, under orders from General 0. INI. Mitchel, took a train on the Kentucky Central Kail road, and placing parties at all the bridges along the road through Harrison and Bourbon Counties made the headquarters of the regiriient at Cynthiana. It was at this time apprehended that the rebels would buru these bridges before troops could reach them ; but by seizing the telegraph offices at every point on the way the movement was a complete surprise, and entirely unsuspected until guards had possession of every bridge.

Afterwards the regiment was removed to Paris, where it remained until the first days of November, when it inarched to Somerset, and reported to Brigadier-general SchoepfF.

At the battle of Mill Springs they were not actively engaged, having been ordered by General Thomas to remain at Somerset. Here they were brigaded with the Eighteenth Regulars, Ninth Ohio, and Second Minnesota, under the command of Brigadier-general Robert L. Mc- Cook, remaining with the last two regiments during their I entire term of service. This was one of the brigades long composing General George H. Thomas's division. After the battle of Mill Springs the regiment marched fo Louisville, and thence took steamer to Nashville. Khju after, Buell having organized the Army of the Ohio, they marched to Pittsburg Landing. Thomas's division, King the rear guard, did not get up iu time for the right at Pittsburg Landing.

1 he Thirty-fifth participated in some of the skirmishes during the siege of Corinth, ami was among the first to enter the works at that place. Afterwards they marched to t useumbia, Alabama, and about the last of July,

Shortly after began that memorable race between Buell and Bragg, the goal being Louisville. From Nashville northward the regiment made about twenty-eight miles per day. In the movement on Bragg, the fight at Perry ville, and the pursuit to Crab Orchard, they have au honorable part. After Buell had been superseded by Rosecrans the division, then commanded by General Speed S. Fry, marched to Bowling Green, and thence to a camp near Gallatin, Tennessee. In February, 1863, Colonel Van Derveer was assigned to the command of the brigade, and Lieutenant-colonel Long assumed command of the regiment. All through the campaign, which began at Murfreesboro aud ended at Chattanooga, the Thirty-fifth was in the front of the marching and fighting. Ju July of that year Lieutenant-colonel Long and Major Boynton was promoted to the vacancy, Captain Budd receiving the majority. From this time until it left the service the regiment was under Colonel Boynton's command when he was able to do duty, but for much of the time was under the command of Major Budd and Captain L'Hommedieu.

Captain John S. Farhart died at the headquarters of General Brannan, at Winchester, Tennessee, August 10th, at eleven o'clock. His. remains reached Hamilton Friday morning the 14th, and were buried from the Presbyterian Church at four o'clock P. M. of that day, with military escorts and honors.

On the first day of the fight at Chickamauga, says Reid in his "Ohio in the War," the Thirty-fifth and the other regiments composing Colonel Van Derveer's brigade were stationed on the extreme left of our line, where they engaged, and, after several hours of a fair, stand-up fight, repulsed and beat back three several attacks of Hood's division of Longstreet's corps, the pick of the rebel army. On the next day September 20th, they were again brought early into a tion, aud with the rest of the brigade made a charge upon Breckinridge's division, which at that time had passed entirely around the left of our fortified line. The conflict, like that of the previous day, was severe and desperate in the open field, and without any protection. Here was presented the uncommon spectacle of two armies charging each other at the same instant. That of the enemy was disorderly, and with but little attention to discipline, while our men moved as if on drill, and under complete control. The j brigade had been moving through the woods in two liues, i the first composed of the Second Minnesota and Eightyj seventh Indiana, the second of the Thirty-fifth and Ninth I Ohio. Suddenly, emerging from au open field, they j fouud themselves exposed to a murderous fire from artillery aud musketry, under which they changed front, aud, iu pursuance of orders, laid fiat on the ground. The enemy were then about one hundred and fifty yards dis- tant, and charging on a run. When the distance was decreased to seventy -five yards, the first line rose and delivered their fire. Immediately the order was given: "Thirty -fifth and Ninth, pass lines to the front! Brigade, charge!" The order was executed promptly, and the rebel line hurled back for almost half a mile at a double-quick, finally making a stand in the woods, where they were effectually protected by their reserves. For more than an hour an obstinate contest was kept up, most effectually ending the attempt to flank the federal line upon the left. When the order was given to return to the position occupied by the brigade previous to the charge it was done in order, by passing lines to the rear, each regiment delivering its fire as it retired.

At half-past two on that day the brigade was reported for duty to General Thomas, who was then holding a ridge to the retir and right of the line of the morning. Here the Thirty-fifth was placed in the front line, where it built a slight work of wood and stone, less than a foot in height. Behind this it remained until the last enemy had retired, repelling repeated charges of the most formidable and desperate character. Line after line of fresh troops of rebels were sent to the attack, always meeting the same reception, always beaten and crushed. Late in the day anxious inquiry was made for ammunition, but the wagons had been ordered to Chattanooga. Then men and officers could be seen searching the cartridge-boxes of the dead and wounded, and finally, when the brigade commander ordered them to hold their places with the bayonet, these heroes laughed, and promised to stay there.

When night came the Thirty-fifth was formed on and facing the left of the line, and when it was too dark to recognize friend from fire a force of the enemy appeared before them. Those who had ammunition fired, and the enemy precipitately retreated. Those were the last shots fired on the battle-field of Chickamauga by either side. Not a single musket was heard afterwards ; and the whole army having marched on the road towards Rossville, Van Ler veer's brigade, the last to leave the field, under orders from General Thomas, followed.

In the two days' fight at Chickamauga the Thirtyfifth Ohio lost just fifty per cent of those engaged. Colonel Boynton was conspicuous during the whole fight for' his gallantry and the skill with which he managed his men, and the regiment was highly commended in the reports of that action.

Lucius B. Potter sent home a letter descriptive of the battle, in which he says the brigade, after marching all night on the 18th, and going without breakfast the next morning, was engaged over six hours on the 19th, and then bivouacked uu the battle-field without blankets or fires, although a white frost covered the ground. On the 20th they were engaged from ten A. M. until seven P. M. In no case did t he Third Brigade, or any part of it, retreat until ordered so to do. although the entire right wing was crushed and driven back. At one time, on the 19th, the brigade repulsed an entire rebel division twice within an hour and a half. On the 20th the brigade charged and drove back a. greatly superior number for a third of a mile at the point of the bayonet- Even when the ammunition gave out the old Third stood its ground, and maintained its position until relieved and ordered back. The musketry was terrific, and was pronounced more severe than in any other engagement during this war. Men who were at Stone River said that battle was a skirmish by the side of this. The loss of the regiment was as follows: Killed, 21; wounded, 146; missing, 27; total, 194. Most of the missing were known to be captured. Both of the surgeons were in the hands of the enemy, having remained to care for the wounded. The regiment took into the fight 394 officers and men. Of this number 194 were lost. From this it can be judged whether the regiment fought or not. The loss of the brigade was 843, and of the division 2,353.

During the two days' fighting they wore never driven back, never gave an inch until ordered, and repeatedly repulsed and drove back four times their number. The Ninth Ohio retook a battery which had been captured from the regular brigade. The brigade captured a good many rebels, the exact number not being ascertained. Colonel Boynton in his report said: "To have belonged to the Third Brigade will be the crowning glory of your old age." And not a soldier's heart but swells with pride at the thought of the deeds dene by Colonel Van Derveer's command during those two bloody days. Colonel Van Dcrveer, said Mr. Potter, would undoubtedly, get his "star." No braver or cooler man was ever seen in action. The manner in which he handled bis brigade wron the admiration of bis superior officers.

Colonel Boynton did nobly, and had doubly endeared himself to his men. Not an officer in the regiment flinched. Mr. Potter's horse was killed in the first fight, being shot through tl e belly with a minie, and a bullet grazed Potter's hat band.

* Dr. A. H. Landis, in the Hamilton ' Telegraph, furnishes a list of men confined in Libby Prison at the end of November, 1863. He was captured at Chickamauga, and was in prison forty-four days:

"On Saturday, September 19th, soon after the commencement of the battle of Chickamauga, 1 was ordered by the medical director of my division to the divisiou hospital. It was on Cloud's thrm, and at that time nearly two miles north of the left wing of our army. Early on Sabbath morning, in consequence of repeated flank movements on our left by the rebels, our hospital became exposed to a fire of shell and solid shot. The most of these deadly missiles passed over us, but some fell in our midst.

About eleven o'clock a line of rebel skirmishers were seen to emerge from a wood about four hundred yards distant, followed by a large force of Forres tis cavalry. All the ambulances we had were loaded with wounded and sent to Chattanooga, and many of the slightly wounded were sent on foot. The enemy continued to advance until they ascertained it was a hospital, when a squad of them rode up, and for the first time we were in the hands of the rebels.

"Soon afterward Granger's forces approaching from toward Chattanooga, the rebels fell back, and we saw no more of them until the following morning, when they took us into custody, and from that time on we were prisoners. Generals Forrest, Cheatham, and Armstrong honored us with their presence. General Forrest told us to go ahead and attend to our wounded, and we should not be molested. He also told us that our wounded yet on the field should be removed to the hospitals apd receive precisely the same treatment that their grounded received ; also that parties had been detailed to bury the dead on both sides. In a conversation I had with Dr. Flueilan, medical director of Bragg's army, the following day at Cheatham's division hospital, be made the same promises. These promises may have been in good faith, but from observation I know - and every other medical officer who fell into their hands knows - they were not realized.

I was over a portion of the battle-field three days after the battle, and the rebel dead were buried and ours unburied, and nearly all of them were stripped of their pants and shoes. Their appearance was most revolting, having been exposed three days to a September sun; they were so swollen and changed in appearance that recognition was impossible. I found also at least three hundred of our wounded, all suffering from the gnawings of hunger. Every last wounded rebel had been removed. Some cf our meu were in cabins, some had been gathered in groups and laid on the ground, and some were still in the fields and woods, where they were wounded, in the immediate vicinity of the dead bodies of their comrades. To the credit of the rebels, they did furnish them some rations the following day. Some of these poor fellows remained in this condition for eight days.

"The question might be asked, Why did we not have them removed to our hospital? We had uo ambulance, no wagon, no vehicle of any kind, and the rebels refused to furnish us any ; in addition, we had a contract already at one hospital of such magnitude that our energies were taxed to their utmost. Our provisions ran out at our hospital two days after our capture, and then starvation stared us iu the face. Finally, after two days' entreaties, we were furnished with fresh beef, hard bread, bacon, and corn meal. The bacon and hard bread were good iu quality, hut very deficient in quantity. The beef was of Pharaoh's lean kine, but we were glad to get it. Some of the corn meal was musty and scarcely fit for the swill barrel.

"Monday, September 28th, General Rosccrnns sent us rations, and from that time, as long as we remained at Chickamauga, Uncle Sam was our commissary, and we fared sumptuously.

"Friday, October 2d, our wounded having been paroled and sent through the lines, we were taken, eighty in number, seven of whom were surgeons and the remainder enlisted men, to Chickamauga Station, seven miles distant, where we took the cars for Atlanta. We reached Atlanta the following evening, -and were lodged in the prisoners' barracks. These barracks consist of about two acres of ground, inclosed by a board fence twelve feet high. The few blankets the privates and non-commissioned officers had were taken from them on entering that filthy hcle, and those poor fellows, while they remained there, were without blankets or overcoats, and spent the cold frosty nights w'ith the earth for a bed and the sky for a blanket.

"There were two board shanties in these barracks, in which were about forty of our wounded, all of whom were lying on the floor with but a single blanket, and all of them suffered terribly from cold during the night. I)r. Ashman, one of our surgeons, repeatedly asked the surgeon in charge for straw, and in response received some glorious promises, but the straw never came. Ma- | jor Merely, of Tennessee, was in those barracks, and had a fifty pound ball and chain for his bed-fellow. lie was at the time, dangerously ill with typhoid fever, and finally died. Surgeon Young, of the Seventy-ninth Illinois, who remained several weeks at Atlanta with our wounded, told me that the n rjor had to wear the ball and chain until within twenty-four hours of his death. Two days after our arrival at Atlanta forty surgeons, captured at Chickamauga, and several hundred other prisoners arrived.

"October 6th, all the surgeons hut those who remained with our wounded and enlisted men, numbering 1 in all three hundred, were put aboard the cars for Richmond. We passed through Augusta, Georgia; Hamburg, Branchville, and Columbia, South Carolina; and Salisbury, Raleigh, and Weldon, North Carolina, and' reached Richmond, Sabbath, October 11th, and all the surgeons' were lodged in Libby Prison.

"I-ibby is a substantial brick building, oue hundred and fifty feet long, and one hundred and ten feet wide, and three stories high besides the basement. The upper two stories are each divided into three rooms, and iu these sLx rooms, before our release, were over cue tboui

Libby A Son

"Each room has a sink, immediately contiguous to it, and the stench coming therefrom is almost unendurable. The windows were all unglazed when we arrived, and at times we suffered terribly from cold. The most of them were still open when we left, and as the mercury may fall to zero any day in Richmond during the Winter, no one knows what tortures the inmates of Libby may have to endure the coming Winter. Three days before our release the officers in charge of Libby were so obliging as to furnish two stoves for each room, but strange to say, we suffered with cold just as we did without them, for the simple reason that we were not furnished with a single stick of wood, and such will probably be the case through the Winter, as thev sometimes refused to furnish us a single stick of wood to cook with for nearly a whole day at a time.

"At one time some of our soldiers, who had been wounded at Chickamauga, were quartered in one of the lower rooms of Libby, immediately under one of the rooms occupied by us. Through a small opening in the floor they told us they had been without food for twentyfour hours, and implored us for something to eat. We had little to spare, but what we had we divided with them. Captain Turner, officer in charge of the prison, heard of it, and arrested three officers and reprimanded them severely, and ordered that the men should go forty-eight hours longer without food for the crime of talking to the officers. Whether this Order was enforced or not we never could learn, as the boys were removed to other quarters. Some of our soldiers came to one of the lower rooms of Libby daily after rations. Some men were barefooted, some bareheaded, and I once noticed one poor fellow barefooted, bareheaded, and without a shirt. We never were allowed to ask them any questions in reference to their treatment, but the mere appearance of their faces told us starvation and exposure were closing the work of death. November 20th, I saw twenty of our boys at work on the street, cleaning one of the gutters, and nine of them were barefooted.

"I will here mention an act of brutality that occurred at Augusta, Georgia. When we reached Augusta we had with us a wounded man, who had become so ill that his surgeon, Dr. McGavrin, of the Twenty-sixth Ohio, proposed to Lieutenant Bass, officer in charge of us, to leave him in the hospital. Lieutenant Bass presented the case to Captain Ruins, commandant of the post. The captain refused to receive him into the hospital, hut told Lieutenant Bass to knock him in the head.

and relate some of the horrors of Belle Island, the terrible mortality among our men at Richmond, the manner in which we were tortured by the bee in Libby, also the quality and quantity of our rations. But this is unnecessary, as those facts are all embraced in a report, adopted unanimously, and published by the surgeons released from Libby Prison. ' Sparta knew the names of the men lost in her cause at the pass of Thermopylae, ' but America will never, know how many of her noble sons perished in the dens of Richmond.

"The manner in which most of us were swindled out of our money at Richmond makes theft and highway robbery honorable. There is no state-prison in North America that can belch forth a more infamous pack of liars and thieves than the officers in- charge of Libby Prison. When we entered the prison we were told by Captain Turner that we must hand over our greenbacks and gold and silver, if we had any, and should we need money while in prison we should have Confederate money at the rate of seven dollars for one, and when released or exchanged our money should be refunded in kind; and if we refused to baud it over, we would be searcher!, and if money was found it would be confiscated. This proposition was so fair that about nine-tenths of us deposited our cash in the Libby Bank. When we left, November 24th, they commenced paying us off in Confederate money. A few who had small sums deposited received greenbacks, but a large majority had either to take Confederate money or nothing.

"Of the cleared laud we saw traveling from Chickamauga to Richmond, a distance of nine hundred miles, I do not think more fhau one acre in twenty was tilled this year. What little was tilled was in corn, except a few cotton fields. I do not think the corn would have yielded over five bushels to the acre."

During the Fall of 1863 the Thirty-fifth lay with the rest of the army at Chattanooga, and frequently engaged in skirmishes before that place. They were on the front line at Mission Ridge, and w> re among the first to reach the enemy's works on the crest, from which they drove the rebel force and captured three pieces of artillery. Early in the fight Colonel Boynton was severely wounded while leading his men up the height, when the command devolved upon Major Budd. Next morning the enemy was pursued to Ringgold, Georgia.

The Thirty-fifth took an active part in the stormiug of Mis sion Ridge, capturing three twelve pounders and two flags. Lieutenant-colonel Bovntou received a flesh wound in the thigh, which disabled him for several weeks.

" Well, here we arc, snug in camp again, after a flying trip to Ringgold, Georgia, and back, which we completed on the evening of the 2!)th of November, and to tell the truth, after writing on the 25th of November, about four o'clock P. M., I thought it was somewhat doubtful whether I would ever get back to camp or not.

" Colouel Van Derveer was ordered to take his brigade aud move to the left, which he did immediately, and, after some maneuvering, we "were thrown into line, and marched toward Missionary Ridge. After gaining good ground, within five or six hundred yards of their first line of works, at the extreme foot of the Iiidge, wre were halted, and laid down, not thinking for a moment that they would attempt to charge the Ridge. The brigade now was in two lines, with the Second Minnesota as skirmishers. The signal to advance, which was six guns, was soon heard, the sound of which had not died away before I saw the Second Minnesota take the first line of the enemy's works, and the graybaeks dying toward the top of the Ridge. By this time we had advanced into an open field, where the rebels began to try their batteries upon us. We were ordered forward on the doublequick, and I thought the rebels were loading and firing double-quick the way the shells flew around and among us. I saw one burst in the very midst of Company E, and saw several men stagger, but strange as it is, not a man was hurt from it, and I believe all reached the first line in safety. After resting, for we were all out of breath, we were again ordered forward uuder a most desperate fire. Shot, shell, grape, canister, old musket barrels, ram-rods, and everything else flew around thickly. Lieutenant-colonel II. V. N. Boynton, commanding the Thirty-fifth, was wounded shortly after leaving the first line of works, but I am happy to say not mortally. He thinks he will soon be able to lead us again. As soon as we gained the top the rebels fell back on our left, where they concentrated, and a desperate fight was the result. But darkness comiug on enabled them to escape next morning.

"After burying the. dead and taking care of the wounded, we started in pursuit, and came up to the enemy just in time to see them driven from Ringgold, Georgia, and out of Taylor's Gap. Here the Seventh Ohio lost heavily; all their officers but one were killed or wounded as they attempted to charge Tavlor's Ridge. This was on the 27th. On the 20th we marched back to camp, aud now all appears quiet. The loss of the Thirty-fifth was five killed and twentv-eight wounded."

At the storming of Missionary Ridge, near Chattanooga, November 25th, Sergeant William C. Stokes, of Company C, son of James M. Stokes, was killed. He was in his twenty-first year. At the same place and time, Simon Kumler, private in Company C, son of Jacob Kumler, was killed. He was in his twenty-second year. The former was shot through the head and lived "ut three hours, the latter shot through the abdomen and living twenty-four hours. They were young men

In February, 1804, the regiment was engaged in the first battles at Buzzard's Roost, near Dalton, after which they were stationed at Ringgold until the beginning of the Atlanta campaign. They were with Sherman from ' the initiation of this movement until the expiration of their term of service, which occurred while lying before Atlanta. They were engaged at Dalton, Resaca, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw, Peachtree Creek, and several. other of the fights of that bloody contest.

Adjutants. - George P*. Wright, resigned September IS, 1863, on account, of disability. John Van Derveer, promoted to captain of Company C, March 19, 1864. James II. Bone, September 24, 1863; promoted to captain Company D, March 17, 1864. James E. Harris, April 10, 1S64.

Assistant Surgeons. - Francis D. Morris, resigned August S, 1862, on account of disability. Charles O. Wright, resigned June 18, 1864. Abram H. Landis, mustered out Sejffember 27, 1864.

Sergeant-majors. - Benjamin Clark, reduced to the ranks May 1, 1862, for continued absence. John Adams, May 1, 1862; promoted to second lieutenant October 4, 1S62; wounded' at Chickamauga. Lucius B. Potter, October

Commissary Sergeants. - George W. Leitch, discharged for disability June 30, 1862. Joseph S. Claypoole, promoted from sergeant Company C, July 1, 1862; second lieutenant September, 1862. Lorenzo Brown, October 1, 1862.

Captains. - Joseph L. Budd, promoted to major July 9, I860. Lewis F. Daugherty, promoted from first lieutenant August 0, 1863; killed in action at Peachtree Creek, Georgia, July 20, 1864.

First Lieutenants. - James 11. Bone, promoted from second lieutenant August 9,1863; promoted to captain March 30, I 1864, and assigned to Company D. James Sabin, promoted

First Sergeants. - Selby Wiley, promoted from ranks September 21, 1863; died from wounds received in action at Pine Ridge, Georgia, June 16, 1864. George W. Keever, killed at battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1803.

Sergeants. - Thomas Starry, promoted from corporal September 3, 1803. Albert S. Mercer, promoted from the ranks July 1, 18G2. Samuel A. Spurgeon. A rebel us I). Strickler, from corporal, August 20, 1862. John Linber, discharged August 9, 1862, for disability. Oliver H. Parshall, promoted to captain, and transferred to Company F, September. 1861. Perry Gregg, promoted to first lieutenant, and transferred to the Mississippi marine service.

Captains. - Thomas Stone, resigned June 6, 1862. Ransford Smith, from first lieutenant June 6, 1862; resigned February 28, 1S63. Jonathan Henninger, first lieutenant February 24, 1863; captain, May 12, 1S63.

First Lieutenant. - Samuel L. Houser, corporal, October 16, 1861 ; sergeant, October 16, 1862 ; second lieutenant, February 24, 1863; firot lieutenant, May 12, 1863.

Second Lieutenants. - William II. Eacott, resigned January 30, 1863; Robert B. Davidson, promoted from corporal to sergeant October 2, 1861 ; first sergeant, February 24, 1863 ; second lieutenant, May 12, 1863; first lieutenant, Company I, April 1, 1864.

Sergeants. - George. W. Kimble, from corporal, February 24, 1863. George W. Leiteh, commissary sergeant, August 20, 1861. Robert C. Nicholas, assigned to Company K; promoted to lieutenant September 2, 1861. Robert J. Livingston, corporal, October 2, 1861; promoted February 24, 1S63; assigned to Company K. James D. Ratcliff, corporal, November 12, 1861; sergeant, March 12, 1863; assigned to Company K.

Corporals. - John West, January 20, 1362 David W. Brady, reduced to ranks from sergeant; made corporal February 28, 1S63; wounded' at Cliickamauga. Enos Wilson, September 24, 1S62; wounded at Cliickamauga. George Baur, May 12, 1863. Jacob W. liouser, July 16, 1S63. William G. Mass, February 28, 1864. Solomon W. Smith, died in hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, November 14, 1863. Abraham S. Bell, discharged for disability September 16, 1861. James W. Coppage, discharged for disability April 5, 1863, at Nashville, Tennessee. George N. Lewis, transferred to invalid corps March 15, 1864; wquuded at Cliickamauga. Alonzo Runyan, transferred to invalid corps April 30, 1864; wounded at Cliickamauga.

Mustered into service August 20, 1861, and entered Kentucky September 26, 1861. This company entered the field 102 strong - commissioned and non-commissioned officers and privates - and received four reefuits during term of service. The losses were 16 discharged for disabilities; 2 discharged to accept promotions; 13 died of diseases; 2 died of wounds received in action ; 6 killed in action. Sixty- §cven commissioned and non-commissioned officers and privates were mustered out at expiration. oi service at Chattanooga, Tennessee. 1864. It was at the battles of NIi 11 Spring, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Perrvviilc, Chapel Hill, Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma, Cliickamauga, Mission Ridge, Buzzards' Roost, Tunnel Ilill, Rcsaca, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, and Siege of Atlanta.

Captains. - John S. Earhart, detached as topographical engineer on General Steadman's staff ; died at Dechart, Tennessee, August, 1863. John Van Derveer, never with the company; detailed as quartermaster of regiment. Fred. W. Keil, first lieutenant; promoted to he captain June, 1864.

5. Claypooi, sergeant; promoted to be second lieutenant. Jas. E. Hains, sergeant; promoted to be first lieutenant and adjutant of regiment. Jas. A. Huginin, sergeant, discharged. Sami. M. Hippard, sergeant; promoted to first sergeant. Mark B. Price, color sergeant.

Regimental Appointments. - Lucius B. Potter, promoted to sergeant-major. Frank A. Lighter, regimental postmaster Jno. M. Bradstreet, commissary sergeant.

Died of Wounds received in Action. - Jos. H. '"annatta, in field hospital, Chickamauga. Cassius C. Brown, Nashville, Tenn., wounded at Chickamauga.

Captains. - Nathaniel Reeder, dismissed the service by general court-martial, August 24, 1803; for absence without leave; afterwards reinstated. .James H. Bone, first lieutenant Company A, July 19, 18(33; adjutant, September 24, 1803; captain, March 19, 1S64, and assigned to Company J>, April 12, 18(34.

First Lieutenants. - William C. Dine, resigned February, 1883. Julian H. Fitch, September 4, 1S63. J. Adams, second lieutenant, October 16, 18G2; first lieutenant, March 19, 1864. J. F. Saunders, second lieutenant, November 19, 1862; first lieutenant, March 19, 1864.

Sergeants. - Albert S. Morgan, discharged for disability, March 28, 1862. Tipton W. Clary, discharged for disability, December, 1803. Clark S. Thompson, discharged, September 23, 186-1, on expiration term of service. John S. Shedd, died March 14, 1864, at Hamilton. Joseph W. Myers, promoted to first sergeant. Hiram Shedd, April 1, 1S63.

Corporals. - William Walters, deserted. David S. Fegan, seriously wounded at Chickamauga. Hezekiak Campbell, discharged for disability, March 28, 1862. William B. Long. Charley S. Wilson. John Spencer, seriously wounded at Chickamauga, September 20, 1883. Samuel Russell.

Captains'. - William H. C. Steele, mustered as captain of Company E, May 16, 1SG4; in command Company G, from May 16, 1864. David M. Guns, died at Eaton, Ohio, November 25, 1863. '

. Sergeants. - Moses Thompson. Benjamin F. Kemp. William J8. Ware. John W. Dunklns, died of wounds received at Chickamauga, October 10, 1SG3.

Corporals. - Andrew I. Stakbake, wounded at Mission Ridge. Phiiip Bladner. Charles C. Gavin. William Wiisou, captured September 17, 1S63. John W. Cottingh, killed at Chickamauga. William H. Bowles, died of wounds received at Chickamauga, October 24, 1863. Charles II. Thompson, died at Chattanooga, September 27, 1863, of wound received a.t battle of Chattanooga. Joseph Larrison.

Sergeants . - James Jackson, June 19, 1863, wounded at Chickamauga. James H. Frost. Joseph Harris, wounded at Chickamauga. Morris Gratz, reduced; wounded at Cliickimiauga. Samuel 13). Denny, February 3, 1862; discharged November 9, 1862. John D. Vinson.

Corporals. - Thomas W. Rose, wounded and taken prisoner ll'- Chickamauga. Benjamin F. Boatman, died October 30, from wounds received at Chickamauga. Sock Harlan. William Hamilton, promoted to sergeant. November 1, 1 S62. John D. Cornelius. Jesse K. Randall, died in hospital, December 3, 1861. Henry Eichster, deserted from hospital. John W. Kemp. Wesley Randall. Franklin. Drake. Andrew J. Griffin.

Second Lieutenants - George T. Earhart, resigned October 17, 1862, by reason of disability. John Adams, promoted from sergeant-major, September 26, 1861.

Corpora's. - Lester Shaw, September 25, 1861, wounded at Chickamauga. Calvin Levingood, October, 1S61 ; taken prisoner at Chickamauga. Thomas Conklin, June 9, 1864.

Killed. - Peter A. Byers, corporal, killed at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. William Newsoek, corporal, killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1*63.

Died. - Ephraim A. Day, sergeant, at Chattanooga, September 26, 1861. "William O. Paine, corporal, at Louisville, Ky., January -5, 1864. James M. Wyric-k, sergeant, at Nashville, Tenn., November SO, 1863.

Discharged. - Nelson Thompson, corporal, for disability, March 19, 1862. Lorenzo Brown, transferred. George W. Cover, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.

Captains. - Michael S. Guuckel, resigned on account of disability, October 24, 1862 ; afterwards paymaster. Samuel Martindale, October 24, -.18(53 ; dismissed by general courtmartial. August 21, 1863. Theodore D. Mather, first lieutenant, October 24, 1864; captain, March 19, 1864.

Sergeants, - William B. Campbell, killed at Chickamauga. Charles Hamilton, reduced to ranks. Henry A Bradford, reduced to ranks; killed by a shell at Bridgeport, Ala., September 30, 1863. John A. Ladd, February 9, 1863. Edward S. Weakley, July 1, 1862. Richard Miller, October 12, 1862. Andrew Ball, November 1, 1863.

Captains. - Henry Mallory, resigned February 17, 1862. Andrew J. Lewis, promoted from first lieutenant to captain February 17, 1802; resigned, January 2, 1S64, on account of disability; wounded at Chickamauga. Phil. Rathenbush, promoted from first sergeant to first lieutenant February 17, 1862; captain, March 30, 1864; wounded at Chickamauga.

First Lieutenant. - -Robert B. Davidson, promoted from first sergeant Company B to second lieutenant Company B, May 12. 1863; first lieutenant, March 30, 1864, assigned to Company I.

Isaac L. Fisher, November 6, 1862; transferred to invalid corps, August 25, 1868. William K. Van Horn, August 25, 1863; wounded November 25, 1863, at Mission Ridge, Tennessee.

Sergeant «. - John A. Whitaker, reduced to ranks August 9, 1SG2; transferred to invalid corps, December 1, 1863. George Jenkins, reduced to ranks November 6, 1862; deserted November 6, 1S62, at Bowling Green, Ky. John S. Giffen, August 9, 1S62; died, November 6, 1862, at Hamilton, Ohio. John M. Fenton, May 25, 1S63, taken prisoner at Chickamauga, September 20th, dying in prison. Aaron Moore, May 25, 1863. Louis D. Herman, May 25, 1S63. Daniel Castator, May 25, 1S63. George Bourrell, November 6, 1662.

Corporate. - William Elurson, transferred to invalid corps November 1, 1863. Moses J. Wetzel. John Hull, died at Nashville, Term., March 20, 1S62. John P. Brooks, wounded, captured at Chickamauga. Robert Blair. Joins Seits. John Miller. Charles Bitner. Jeremiah Boatman.

John M. Fenton, captured at Chickamauga. John Lapp, at Chickamauga. Arehcy McLeod, captured at Chickamauga. Alexander Sterret, at Chickamauga. Richard Herman, at Chickamauga, William McLaughlin, at Chickamauga. Michael I>. Carver, at Kenesaw Mountain. John P. Brooks, corporal, taken prisoner at Ghiekamauga, September 19, 1863. John Brooks, private, taken prisoner at Chickamauga, September 19, 1863. Daniel Castator, at Chickamauga, September 19, 1863. Charles Daugherty, at Chickamauga, Septem- j her 19, 1863. Robert Dine, taken prisoner at Chickamauga, j September 20, 1863. Stephen IT. Likins, taken prisoner at j Chickamauga, September 20, 1S63. Emanuel Gratz, died at Stevenson, Ala., October 19, 1863, of wounds received at Chickamauga. Frank W. Hillman, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., October 11, 1863, of wounds received at Chickamauga. Thompson Legget, killed at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. John Oliver, taken prisoner at Chickamauga. John Smith, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., October 5, 1863, of wound received at Chickamauga. Henry Willis, at Chickamauga. John Miller, taken prisoner at Chickamauga. David Richardson, taken prisoner at Chickamauga; died at Belle Island. Ah rail am Martindale, taken prisoner at Chickamauga; died : t Belle Island.

Deaths. - Tohn Hull, March 20, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. James K F. Garver, July 15, 1862, at Hamilton, Ohio. Isaac Shellhouse, January 39. 1863, at Gallatin, Tenn. Jackson Harlmack, February 8, 1862, at Somerset, Ky. Sanford P. Stitz.eil, June 30, 1863, at Gallatin, Tenn. James H. Strode, January 2, 1863, at Hamilton, Ohio. W. H. II. Kimble, February 20, 1864, at Hamilton, Ohio.

Deserted. - Thomas H. Price, November 4, 1862; sentenced by court-martial to be shot to death : the President mitigated his sentence to imprisonment during the war at Dry Tortugns, Florida. Willisou Curnons, September 20, 1862; sentenced by court-martial to he confined at Jefferson, Ind., penitentiary during the war. Patrick Doil, Cynthiana, Ky., September 29, 1861 George W. Jenkins, Bowling Green, Ky.' November 6. 1862. Win. Lewcllcu, Bowling Green, Ky., November 4, 1862. Solomon Mamlelbaum, Bowling Green, Ky., November 6, 1862. Wakefield Martiudill. Bowling Green, .Ky., November 6, 1862. Charles Scjieid. Bowling Green, Ky., November 6, 1862. Jacob Houser, absent without leave, April 20 1S62.

Sergeants. - Thomas C. Pearson, wounded at Chickamauga j died in hospital of small-pox at Nashville, December 11 | 1863. James M. Denny. Jacob Leibes, reduced to rank- | May 28, 1S62, at his own request; discharged for disability I June 18,.1S62. James Blair, taken prisoner at Somerset ! Kv., December 8. 1861 ; returned to duty February 22, 1862 Miles 51. Hale, January 10, 1862; deserted, August 31, 1863 Harvey Elliott, May 24, 1S62 ; killed at Chickamauga. Henry B. Steller, 51ay 28, 1862r '

Corporals. - George W. Gillmore, killed at Chickamauga. Charles R. Howard, discharged for disability 5fay 18, 1862. William C. Muilinix, died in hospital at Corinth, June 22, 1862.

During the Summer of 1SG1 a number of other organizations were begun, but no other regiment than the Thirty-fifth went out from this county that season. Captain Peter Murphy organized a company of some sixty rani; and file for State service in Liberty Township. They were all provided with uniforms and performed their tactical operations with skill and accuracy.

On the 16th of May the Butler Pioneers reached ninety men, who had enlisted for three years. They j left on the seventeenth for Columbus, going to Camp Jackson. There proved to be a misunderstanding about . the orders to move, and they returned to Camp Hamilton at midnight. On the 1st of .Tuue, Second Lieutenant F. 51. Lellar was the recipient of a sword, given him by his friends in Plamiltob. The presentation speech was made by Robert Christy. Mr. Lefiar responded briefly as follows :

"Sir, this valuable present indicates a feeling of respect and a Section for me of which I feel altogether unworthy. It creates within me a feeling of pleasure and gratitude which I am unable properly to express. Be assured that it will inspire me with renewed courage. In the defense of our country I shall endeavor to use this sword in a manner that will be no disgrace to its liberal and patriotic donors."

Company F, Second Regiment, were quartered on the 24th of June at Grafton, Virginia. On the way they were treated with great kindness. At oue village the people turned out in crowds, and bountifully supplied the soldiers with bread and Latter, cakes, pics, ami other delicacies. On their way they met a company from Oxford. In West Virginia they had their first experience in a march of any length. They found the accouterments were heavy. It was pretty hard work to carry a knapsack as full as it would hold, and forty rounds of ammunition, with a belt for bayonet and caps, a haversack with two clays' rations, a plate, knife, fork, cup, and spoon, and gun weighing ten pounds; this formed a good load for a strong man.

A company called Anderson Grays was organized and uniformed in Hamilton as a reserve company of Ohio Volunteers. It was under the command of Captain Stone, of the First Ward, and exhibited remarkable pro j ficieucy. On the 8th of August, 1861, the Butler j Pioneers, or Company A, Twenty-sixth Ohio, were at Summersville, West Virginia. They had seen some service. The company had volunteered to break up a nest of rebels, some twenty miles from the regimental camp. They were gone three days, returning successfully and bringing back with them two prisoners of Wise's army, one a lieutenant. General Garrison was getting up a battalion of infantry. His camp was established on the grounds of William Beckett, south of the depot. The first company was nearly full. As fast as the companies were filled up they were to be sent to Camp Fremont, at j St. Louis.

September 12th C. II. Murray had over fifty recruits j for Captain White's Cavalry Company, Second Regiment Ohio Cavalry. Wilkeson Beatty and J. A. Zeller had begun recruiting a company for the Fiftieth Regiment. Robert Cullen bad received authority to raise a companv for the Fiftieth. A. J. Lewis had also received the same authority.

Captain Margedant, of the Engineering Corps, won the most favorable mention from the press for his enthusiasm, personal exposure, and admirable services in recon- i noitering, at constant personal risk, the enemy's lines, j Forty men were in the Ninth Regiment which left under Captain Margedant, and about twenty-five mm, under Lieutenant William H. Miller, attached to the Twelfth.

Charles Murray's company went to Camp Dick Corvine on the 26th of September with nearly a full company of cavalry. This was the fourteenth company from the county.

1 lie company of cavalry which left Hamilton for Gimp Corwine held an election on the 28th of September f>r officers, with the following result: Clement Murphy,

From Hamilton several families sent more than one member to the army. Among them were four sons of j James Whittaker; three sons of Mrs. Castator; W. H.

Colonel; AVilliain II. Martin, of the Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, Lieutenant Colonel; and Robert Reily, of Cincinnati, Major. W. T. Tibbitts w as the authorized recruiting agent.

afterwards enlisted for the three years' service. He Served in a number of skirmishes and displayed a gallantry and coolness wonderful in cue so young. He was probably the youngest of the victims from this county in the civil

Robert Cullen, captain, was engaged in Hamilton iu recruiting men for Meagher's Zouaves, Fiftieth Regiment, to be composed exclusively of Irishmen.

John Fitch, a member of Company D, Thirty-ninth Regiment, died in the hospital at Camp Foster, near Macon, Missouri, on the 29th of November, 1861, aged twenty-four. He was from Butler County. He was buried with honors. Colonel Groesbeck led the regiment to the graveyard, three volleys were fired over his grave, and the chaplain, Rev. B. A\r. Chiulaw, made an eloquent address and offered up a fen ent prayer.

The civil war had many opponents in this county, and the first year had not passed without vigorous protests from them. The first burst of enthusiasm had silenced every voice, hut in the course of two or three mouths objectors could again he heard in every part of the county. The Democratic party was divided into two camps, but the peace faction obtained the preponderating influence in the convention, which was duly held on the 2d of August, and they used their power. M. N. Maj giuni® was the loading spirit. He introduced a set of J resolutions denouncing the war and reaffirming the prinj ciples of the resolutions of 1798, of the most ultra kind.

sober sense of the party asserted itself afterwards, and the convention reassembled on the 21st, at which the previous resolutions were disavowed, and a more moderate series were passed. Many of those who had not been present previously were on hand, and the yeomanry were also in attendance, and it is safe to say that the latter meeting more thoroughly reflected the feelings of the Democracy than the former one did. There were then two newspapers published in 'Hamilton which were nom- | inally Democratic, but they really differing as far as the poles. In the one controlled by Dr. McElwee the most undisguised denunciations of the war, its leaders and the abolitionists, were to be found. To be a friend of tire -Union, as it was likely to be reconstructed,' was Tad enough; but to have a sympathy for a man with a colored skin was enough to cause a citizen's name to be written down among the most infamous of the human race. The Union Party, as the Republicans entitled themselves for this campaign, appealed to every patriotic sentiment of the country, and canvassed each township with great spirit, and came very near carrying the election. Two of the ticket were elected, the rest being defeated.

The Sixty-ninth Regiment was not wholly from this county. Besides Butler, it counts upon its lists the names of Darke, Montgomery, Preble, Harrison, and Fairfield. The first call for recruits was as follows :

Campbell S Regiment

The governor of Ohio has authorized the undersigned to recruit the Sixty-ninth Regiment of Infantry for service for three years or the war, and has established the rendezvous at Hamilton. It is important that this duty should be promptly executed, and I therefore invoke the active aid of all patriotic people. The vile traitors who have sacrilegiously defied the Constitution of our country, trampled the stars and stripes in the dust, and attempted to dissever the Union purchased by the blood of our fathers, are now rapic.iv approaching the borders of our State in batrle array. These infamous miscreants bring in their train desolation and woe, and we can no longer hope for peace to our country or safety to our homes and firesides except by living speedily to arms. Already our sister State, Kentucky, whose gallant sons came to our relief when we were weak, and watered the soil of Ohio with their best blood in the war of 1812, supplicates us for aid. Let us not prove ungrateful to them in this their hour of peril, or forget our high duties to ourselves and to posterity. Let the alarm cry be sounded and -

The fair-grounds and buildings of the Agricultural Sooieiv will be immediately occupied as an encampment, where companies, squads, or single volunteers will be received and I provided for. Lewis D. Campbell.