Baker, Alonzo Barnes, Wash. Batdorf, Jeremiah Borton, Silas Carter, Andrew Church, Philander Campbell, George Canfield, Henry T. Close, Lemuel Coniga, Fred Darling, Fayette Dennis, Isaac Ely, Levi Ely, Joe Fullerton, Wm. Farley, Abe G. Farley, Joe Grosseross, A. Grime, Ferdinand Harrison, James Hindee, William

Ives, C. Jerome Jewell, Enos Kutzli, Bernath Meeker, Lewis Meeker, Ben. Mudge, Elijah Meister, Jacob Miller, Herman Northerin, John Null, William Pontious, John Patent, Joseph Pike, V. Pike, Justin Price, William Phillips, Fred Rendols, Hass Randall, Ezra Raker, Jacob Raker, Robert Raker, Richard

Rine, Charley Rice, Seymore Rhodes, Daniel Sndalley, Tracey F. Siegel, John Stonestreet, Everett Strong, J. L. Strong, T. E. Struble, Alfred Sellinger, Benjamin Tabor, Loren Thomas, Joseph Whitehead, Randolph Welch, Dan Whaley, Franklin Warren, Nathaniel Warren, William Warner, Irvin Vanderlin, Dan Van Nortwick, John

It may be considered that such a contribution out of a population of only about 14,043 (1860 census) would represent practically the whole of the adult male strength. As a matter of fact, Fulton County did give to the nation, for service in the Union military or naval forces, practically the whole of its able-bodied young and middle-aged manpower, a glorious record; and it may be easily realized that home conditions during the years of war were arduous and trying. In addition to heart-pangs for loved ones, who passed their days in almost constant danger, there was the strain of "carrying-on" the home until the return of the men of the family. From many homes went two, three, four, or five strong-minded and whole-hearted patriots, some never to return

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and in their absence the women-folk, the young and the feeble, had to live through the period as best they could. There was of course not much development work done during those years ; only necessary building was attempted. And the principal citizens sought to direct the attention of the more fortunately circumstanced to matters of relief of those in need of relief and sympathetic help. There was much privation, but the good-hearted people gathered around those in need, and so the trying winters passed.

Joel Brigham, one of the commissioners of the county in 1861, had very active part in the relief work, and in the duties entrusted to county officials by the state over the eventful period. Governor Tod appointed him a member of the military commitee of the ninth district, which corresponds approximately to the present Congressional district. Mr. Brigham was also treasurer of the Fulton County Military Relief Committee, and among the many inventories of articles sent to the men in the field by that committee are some interesting entries. Among the records are the following entries, in 1861: Capt. M. R. Brailey, Capt. R. A. Franks, and their comrades of the 38th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 200 pairs socks, 57 undershirts, 350 pounds dried fruit, etc.; Capt. E. L. Hayes, 175 pounds dried fruit, 225 pairs socks, 37 quilts, blankets, etc. Each township had its military committee, and an invoice of articles bought and sent November 11, 1861, totals to $900.75. A lettei from Richard Mott, of Toledo, to Mr. Joel Brigham, dated October 16, 1861, asks him to hold up Fulton County donations until further orders, and closes with a tribute to Mr. Brigham for his services, stating: "The account of your trip to the 38th Regiment in Kentucky .. .is truly interesting. The handsome return of money from the men in the field brought home by you is encouraging, and it is highly creditable to the character and thrift of our volunteers." Mr. Brigham on that trip was entrusted by the soldiers with $5,000, which they wished their families at home to have. The women of Fulton County were particularly active; they formed a Soldiers Aid Society, in Wauseon, in October, 1861. The members met weekly, unless there was an urgent call, in which case they would meet oftener. They labored throughout the county, and the work done embraced the preparation of lint and bandages, the making of shirts and drawers, sheets, pillows, pads for the wounded, and much knitting of socks, mittens; also the drying of fruit and the making of pickles, jellies, and such-like eatables. Many boxes, containing some of the most of the articles above-mentioned were sent into the field, the ladies in one instance meeting specially, and at short notice, to prepare a box, which Col. E. L. Hayes would be able to distribute to Union soldiers .at Libby ,prison. In this connection one of the prisoners later wrote a Fulton County friend:

"The angels of mercy generally hover over the needy, oppressed, and unfortunate. They came near us, through the Soldiers Ladies Aid Society, of 'Wauseon, who had made up a small box of underclothing, and sent it to the prisoners from Wauseon at Libby Prison, through Major Hayes. It was the only parcel sent to Union prisoners the ever reached its destination. Major Hayes was permitted, under a guard, to deliver it to us."

During 1862, and 1863 there were many subscription lists opened, and in May, of 1863, a very lengthy list of subscriptions to the Bounty

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Fund was published in the Northwestern Republican. And the work of caring for the soldiers in the field, and of the needy families at home, continued until the end.

On December 5, 1864, the Fulton County Relief Committee, Naaman Merrill, Octavius Waters, Joel Brigham, Oliver B. Verity, and D. W. H. Howard. issued an appeal "to the Benevolent and Patriotic Citizens of Fulton County." to make a special effort, stating that:

"The cold chilling winds of winter are again upon us ; our brave soldiers are in the field defending our hearthstones, and all that is dear; now is the time to show our love of country by deeds, not by words. The families of our soldiers need supplies for winter—everything you have to spare, such as wood, meat, potatoes, turnips, cabbage, flour, meal, clothing, fruit, money, etc., will be thankfully received. . . . Remember our brave sons. Many are in their graves, others in hospitals, others crippled and wounded, and at home their families are all well worthy of your contributions and 'acceptance, not as charity but as your bounden duty . . . . Now is the hour to redeem our oft tendered pledge, that the families of our soldiers should be provided for

"The following named persons have been appointed as committees in the several townships to attend to said business, and make necessary arrangements, to wit: Amboy, David Duncan, ch'm, S. Johnson, S. Naughton, N. Welch, W. D. McCann, John Clendening; Royalton, H. C. Jordan, S. Carpenter, G. B. Brown, B. F. Philips; Chesterfield, A. C. Hough, G. Bates, G. W. Thorp, D. C. Gillis, J. P. Ross, J. W. Bates; Gorham, Chas. Allen, ch'm, J. Gambier, H. A. Canfield, J. P. Ritter, W. E. Gay, Geo. Gambier, Lucius Ford; Franklin, J. Ely, ch'm, E. Masters, J. McLaughlin, N. Palmer, J. S. Riddle; Dover, M. D. Hibbard, ch'm, J. Shadle, M. Handy, M. Markley, J. Miller, W. H. Stevens; Pike, W. P. Cowan, ch'm, W. Waffle, B. Dunbar, J. Shaffer, E. Sindel, J. N. Herrick ; Fulton, O. Merrill, ch'm, J. H. Miller, T. Watkins, J. Luke, E. Werrick, E. Wilson, H. Witt, and J. Watkins; Swan Creek, A. J. Allman, ch'm, P. R. Lewis, N. Brailey, (S. H. Cately, O. W. Parish, J. Hoag; York, S. Zimmerman, ch'm, .B. Skeels, A. B. Gunn, J. McQuilling, T. Kelley, R. Fowler; Clinton, J. Cornell, ch'm, A. Fal- conner, D. A . Gorsuch, W. H. Buckmaster, J. Newcomer, T. Lingle, L. Eckhart; German, J. W. Roseborough, ch'm, J. F. Rogers, T. H. Brown, a. B. Allen, A. Markley, G. Betts."

he records of some of the townships show that considerable sums were received by the Relief Committees during the winter of 1864. For instance, Swan Creek Township Fund, 1864-65 records subscriptions of $200 each by John McLaughlin, Jonathan Hoag, and Jacob Koos, and a very lengthy list of substantial subscriptions ranging down to $25.

There was, of course, much political strife during the years of war. The Democrats who were for compromise with the Confederates were designated "Copperheads" and "traitors ;" and Democrats thought quite as hardly of Union men. An 1863 issue of the "Northwestern Republican" had an editorial beginning: "Copperheads say our soldiers have all turned abolitionists, and this is because they refuse to vote for those in the North who are in sympathy with the rebels. .I admit our soldiers are abolitionists; that they are in favor of abolishing treason. Is it any wonder that our bbys in the army are down on the convicted traitor, Vallandigham? Is it any wonder that they declare that Jeff

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Davis is more deserving of their vote than Vallandigham? Jeff Davit is a brave traitor.. . . A soldier voting for Vallandigham, who boasts that he never voted them a man or a dollar, would be like a Christian voting for the Devil. Our soldiers._ . intend to abolish treason and traitors, wherever found. That's why it is that copperheads are down on our soldiers."

The election of October 13, 1863, in Fulton County, gave Brough 1778 votes for governor, against 824 cast for Vallandigham. The Union paper, the "Northwestern Republican," recc-rded the voting 'thus: 'Glorious Fulton! The Cops Skinned Alive!! Dead `Snaiks' at a Discount!!! As usual we have met the enemy and they are ours. Never before did the Democracy meet with so withering a rebuke as was dealt out to them by the Loyal sons of our gallant Little Fulton on Tuesday last." German Township, which cast 125 votes for the "Canadian, and only 115 for Brough, was eventually "redeemed" by the vote of the soldiers.

In the following spring came the staggering news, of the assassination of President Lincoln. It affected the whole-souled pioneers of Fulton County as keenly as it did the people of other parts of the country. J. W. Roseborough wrote to the Wauseon "Republican" from Burlington, 0., on April 17, 1865:

"Abraham Lincoln is no more. The greatest hero, the noblest patriot, and the best statesman of the age has fallen.. ..No truer patriot, or more sagacious statesman ever lived in America... . than Abraham Lincoln . .This will be the verdict of posterity. Abraham Lincoln, the man whom, above all others, his countrymen trusted and loved, is dead As fell our blessed Saviour, so hest thou, great man, fallen, by the hands of murderers Sleep in peace, the greatest of freedom's living or dead champions—thy name and thy fame are immortal."

And Mrs. Julia Carter Aldrich ("Petrasia Peters"), of near Wauseon, wrote:

"Assassinated. Lincoln dead. O, crushing blow

A seething chaos then before the vision whirled;

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The Nation's joy was paralyzed in this brief time—

The Union, stabbed, in deepest mourning was arrayed.

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In mart and port torn battle-flags half-masted hung.

Near fields with victory's gore yet red upon the sod;

Such agony could form no prayer for human tongue—

The spirit cried `Nast thou forgotten us, Oh, God'."

And when at last the war was at an end, and party feelings were less keen, the general spirit throughout• the home county was one of fervent relief, and of joyous anticipation of the final return home of the "boys," of the war-hardened veterans, and of those stalwarts who had rallied to the Union during the decisive later years of war. The spirit is well shown in a poem, composed by Carrie Hibbard, of Spring Hill, Dover Township, on July 2, 1865, "in honor of the boys in blue." Her interests were centered in the Sixty 'Seventh Regiment; but she penned the sentiments of all loyal and expectant hearts in the county at that moment; and the poem is here reproduced to honor all the

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patriots of Fulton County who gave themselves to the nation in its supreme need, during the years 1861-65. The poem reads:

They are coming from the Southland, to the tread of martial drum;

They are marching from their campfires,—loyal, brave, and true they come;

And our hearts go out to give them gladsome welcome as they come.

They are coming nearer, nearer; we can hear their gallant tread;

We can see their floating banner, with its bars of white and red,

And its silver constellation, sheding glory o'er each head.

They have proudly born that standard where the fiery shot and shell

In a lava tide from Wagner, and vanquished Sumter fell ;

Let its glory gild each forehead; it befits them 'passing well.

O gallant Sixty-Seventh ! When was sent upon the wire,

The tidings daily, hourly, of the sacrificial fire

How our heart-strings drew about you, husbands, brothers, sons and sires.

For those whom God commissioned, we have little need of tears

Their footprints shall be stardust, through a thousand thousand years

And the banners o'er those battlements are never drenched with tears.

And to you, O brave, returning to your North, tried, gallant, true,

Every breeze shall bear the greeting the united waft to you ;

And our grateful tears of welcome. fall as the evening dew.

We have suffered, when your noble ranks were thinned upon the plain ;

Have exulted when your banner rode the victor breeze again ;

And gloried that its triple folds have never caught one stain.

Our glad exultant shout shall rise, to greet you as you come;

'Twill die away against the skies, above the clash of drum;

God bless the Sixty-Seventh A thousand welcomes home.

The comradeship and loyalty one to another, while in bodily danger in the field has happily been sustained and strengthened since through the medium of the organizations of the Grand Ariny of the Republic. The first post organized by former soldiers, in Fulton County was known as Post No. 106, 10th Ohio District, Grand Army of the Republic. It was formed on March 18, 1867, and in September of that year its name was changed to Camp Skeels, No. 106. Some irregularity, however, in its organization brought about its disbandment in 1869, and no other post was organized in Wauseon for more than ten years, Losure Post, No. 35, coming into being on June 16, 1880. The service records of members of that post showed that M. T. Palmer had served sixty months in the army in war time. Others of long service were: Charles Cornell, 48 months ; Elias Wiley, 48 months ;. Albert Bloomer, 43 months; Harrison Highshew 37 months; Geo. Guilford, 36 months; L. D. Bayes, 35 months; and A. R. Hill, 26 months. Charles Cornell was one of those most active effecting the organization of the first post, that of 1867 ; and the charter members of the second, the Losure Post, No. 35, were: A. S. Bloomer, W. C. Kelley, M. T. Palmer, A. R. Hill, A. B. Smith, E. S. Callendar, H.

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H. Williams, E. T. Wilcox, H. E. Randall, W. C. Scott, Campbell Bayes, James C. King, Wm. McClaren, R. B. McLaren, Festus Funk, Andrew J. Gorsuch, Judson Jones, Enoch Neville, George Cage, Elliott Bayes, Elias Willey, E. I. Root, Henry J. Harrington, James Gray, I. H. Matthews, Marion Losure, C. B. Lyon, A. B. Clark and John Close. At fullest strength, the Losure Post had three hundred members. Today, its surviving comrades number fifty-two, the strongest post of five in Fulton County. There were originally eleven Grand Army of the Republic posts in Fulton County, but the sweep of time brought an inexorable weakening of posts, by death, until one after another merged with stronger organizations, leaving five in existence at present. The surviving comrades of Losure Post (Wauseon), No. 35, Grand Army of the Republic, on Decoration Day of 1920, were: H. T. Brigham, F. C. Bogart,. L: Buxton, P. H. Bayes, Daniel Brown, M. Buehrer, A. M. Clark, C. W. Cornell, Daniel Clingaman, M. L. Eldridge, Joe Forest, Samuel Foncannon, Jacob Gaiman, Aaron Gingery, John Hoffmire, J. F. Hoffman, Levi Hoy, A. Hogeboom, J. H. Hunter, M. Hill, J. C. King, C. B. Lyon, L. Lyon, J. McConkey, R. B. McClaren, Stillman Mikesell, A. J. Marks, D. J. Miller, A. W. Miller, X. Mikesell, John Miller, Homer Overmire, Simon Pontious, H. R. Palmer, Enoch Porter, J. Richards, John Reeds, Joe Gallabank, E. T. Shaw, Allen Shadle, A. Sams, J. Shambarger, R. Shadel, John Winzelar' Ed. Williams, Wm. Wier, S. Walter, Isaac Whipple, Martin Worley, T. D. Foster, Fred Phillipar, G. D. Newcomer. 

hose of Stout Post Grand Army of the Republic, of Fayette on that date were: C. L. Allen, J. W. Binns, Samuel Bear, Frank Bilding, Henry Coleman, Joseph Harrison, Lorenzo Gamber, S. A. Jones, Aaron Kuney, Theo. Sebring, Jacob Reynolds, H. M. Rice, Peter Landis, Eli Thompson, John D. Vine, William Wright, Wm. Westfall, and Frank Woolace. 

Those surviving comrades of Quiggle Post, No. 289 (Swanton), of Grand Army of the Republic on Decoration Day, 1920, were: William Palmer, Abram Huftile, D. M. Alton, L. G. Marsh, Geo. Conklin, 

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Wm. Maberry, William Hill, Jerry Walters, Lewis Aton, James Hallet, Silas Munsel, Geo. Harrington, Jno. Snellbaker, J. Whidden, C. Merrill, Gil. Smith, Wm. Sheffer, T. Little, J. Kirschner, W. S. Barnes, P. C. Houser.

Those of Baxer Post, No. 238 (Lyons), which was organized in 1882 with eighteen charter members, were, on Decoration Day, 1920: Fred A. Slater, Augustus Noble, A. C. Daniel, original charter members and Wayne Carpenter, Chas. Blaine, Wm. Thornton, L. B. Champlain, Mel Hinkle, James Kellogg, and F. A. Moses, ten in all.

Lastly, the surviving comrades of McQuillan Post (Delta) on the same day were: Quimby Batdorff, Frank Briggs, Horatio Berkey, Henry Cottrell, Wm. E. Hopkins, Jacob Hiser, W. E. Hill, C. L. Hatfield, C. S. Griffin, Samuel Frybarger, S. B. Finney, Nelson Falor, B. F. Miley, Samuel Murray, Jacob Anderson, John J. Zelner, John A. Williams, E. L. Waltz, F. S. Wolcott, A. H. Stine, Sylvester Soles, Hosea Shadle, H. H. Quiggle, E. C. Moor, D. T. Miller, J. M. Longnecker, Daniel M. Tremaine, E. S. Kennedy, and Geo. D. Havens.

May they have still many more years of comfortable life, honored and respected by their fellow-townsmen, and by the people of the county in general, and saved from all care or financial worries by the provident hand of "Uncle Sam," who in the recently increased pension has again declared the nation's indebtedness to the soldiers of 1861-65, and its determination that some of the debt shall be repaid. All cannot be, 'but those stalwart patriots seek not the luxuries and artificialities of modern life. As a matter of fact, most of them have done independently-well in civil life, and have been useful productive citizens.

The Civil War section of this chapter ought rightly to contain some information regarding the work of the Woman's Relief Corps. Auxiliary organizations of the Grand Army of the Republic were established at most of the county posts, and contributed much to the usefulness of the posts. The first organization was formed in Denver, Colorado, in 1883, and the first to be established in Fulton County was the Woman's Relief Corps, No. 20, of Wauseon. That came into existence in February, 1884, with a charter membership of thirty-two, but with a strength soon afterwards, and for many years, of more than one hundred. During the first seven years, they received and expended in Fulton County and other parts of the state, $962. The relief work, outside of money, cannot well be estimated, as in the early years it consisted of a call and gathering of the Corps for a day's work for a destitute family, or a needy sister; of clothing gathered and remodeled; of visits to the sick; and in many other ways doing such work as one would expect of an earnest band of Christian women, devoted to the interests of the Grand Army, to humanity, and to the nation. All the Relief Corps units of the county were imbued with like spirit, and were equally effective. The first president of the Wauseon body was Mrs. Mary C. Eager.

THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

Fulton County's good record of service, and of fitness to serve, during the Spanish-American War, grew out of the functioning, of a semi-military town guard, the Wauseon Columbian Guards, which organization was mustered into the state service on January 21, 1893, becoming Company G, of the Sixteenth Ohio National Guards, which

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regiment underwent strenuous training during the next few years; and months before the outbreak of war, a sifting process had been pursued, the authorities generally feeling that war was more than possible. Companies were not only steadily recruited, but saw many eliminations as well. Men of family, to whom war service would entail hardships either upon themselves, or their dependents, were given an opportunity honorably to separate themselves from the service. The ranks were searched for men who might have difficulty in qualifying under U. S. Army standards, and recruits were given much more searching examination than at any time since the regiment had been formed. Therefore, long before the declaration of war with Spain, the Sixteenth was filled with selected men, who could be counted upon to give a good account of themselves, whatever might be demanded of their organization. With the blowing up of the U. S. S. Maine, on the night of February 14, 1898, while lying peaceably in Havana Harbor, war became inevitable. In April came the call to the Ohio National Guard, and on the 25th, the Sixth Ohio National Guard under which designation the former Sixteenth Regiment then was, organized at Toledo, amid scenes of great excitement. Regarding Fulton County's part, the local paper of April 29, 1898, stated:

"Captain Weir, of Co. G, received orders from Colonel McMaken, of the 16th Regiment, Sunday morning, to get his company together, and be ready to leave at an hour's notice. The Losure Post Drum oorps was called out and messages sent into the country to inform the members of the Company to report at the Armory and by eleven o'clock the Armory presented a very busy appearance. This gave impetus to enlisting, and before Sunday evening fully forty new men were taken into the company, and made soldiers of Uncle Sam. Although the company was ready to leave Sunday afternoon, no orders came until Tuesday morning, the boys in the meantime remaining about the Armory ....When the order came early Tuesday morning, the greatest enthusiasm prevailed among the men, and they were escorted • to the depot by hundreds of people, with the music of fife and drum. The feminine portion of the crowd shed tears . . . . while the men all had an encouraging word for those who were going forth in defence of the country's flag."

Another Wauseon paper stated:

"Wauseon had not witnessed such an excited scene since the Civil War as that which attended the departure of Company G for the war. Amid cheers, and cries of farewell, and tears and waving of handkerchiefs and laughter, and cries of advice, the train that bore the militiamen rolled away from the Lake Shore Depot, on Tuesday morning, taking with it the blessings and 'God-speed' of the whole town. It seemed that everyone was there. The crowd packed the platform from end to end, and overflowed onto the lawn, and even covered the freight car roofs on the siding. It was a bright day of clear sky and sun, and if there were many tears shed, there was no gloom but unbounded enthusiasm, and hope.... An hour before train time, the fire bell was rung to, let everyone know that the company was to assemble.. . . Friends had already begun to assemble at the armory, and at the depot... . The crowds increased and then the veterans of Losure Post came marching up the street, carrying Old Glory and stepping to fife and drum, as they did so many years ago.. . ..Every man of prominence was at the Armory. . . . The mothers, and wives and sweet-

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hearts and every friend of every man in blue were there. It was a time when the women, and even the men were not ashamed of tears, and many were seen choking back the sobs, as they shook hands, or kissed their loved ones good bye.. . . Captain Weir ordered the march across to the depot. . .Slowly the train started and the crowd surged around and behind it, and cheered and cheered again. Handkerchiefs were waved, last shoutings of farewell were mingled with the scattering reports of a salute, fired by the boys from the rear platform of the last car, as it rolled on, faster and faster, to the east, carrying with it seventy-five of the best youth of Fulton county."

On the following Friday, the regiment, which came to be known as the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, left for Columbus, going into Camp Bushnell, the hastily prepared rendezvous for Ohio's troops, at that place. The accommodation was very crude, and much hardship had'to be endured by the men during those early days. On the 16th of May, the Sixth Regiment was mustered into the United States service and on the 17th left Columbus for Chattanooga, which place was reached by noon of the next day. Toward evening, the regiment moved to Rossville, Ga., and early the following morning, in heavy marching order hiked to Camp Geo. H. Thomas, at Chickamauga Park. From its entrance into Chickamauga, the Sixth was brigaded with the 158th Indiana, and the 1st West Virginia, the three regiments constituting the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, the brigade commander being Brigadier General Wm. J. McKee. On August 27, 1898, the regiment left Chickamauga, en route for Knoxville, Tenn., and became a part of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps. The regiment was destined to remain at Camp Poland, Knoxville, Tenn., until Decem= ber, and when eventually on December 29, 1898, it reached Charleston, S. C., and embarked on the U. S. A. T. "Minnewaska," " bound for Cien- fuegos, Cuba, it was an organization much changed from that which left Toledo, in the previous April. The regiment had been depleted much by sickness, typhoid, dysentery, measles, and other scourges, but those who sailed were fit and strong and well drilled and disciplined soldiers, capable of doing well in any emergency. Cienfuegos Harbour was entered on the afternoon of January 4, 1899, ands on the following morning, the Sixth Regiment debarked. The regiment remained in Cuba until April 22, 1899, doing garrison duty, and on that date sailed for Savannah, and after an irksome period of detention in camp near that city and some feting at Augusta, the Ohio regiment left for home, having been mustered out of the service on May 24th, at Camp McKenzie, near Augusta, Georgia. As to the casualties while in. Federal service, many men were discharged because of sickness, but Company G was fortunate in, having to record only four deaths : Frank C. Ritenhous, of Tedrow, who died on November 26, 1898 ; Ellis Terry Kunkle, who died on December 30, 1898 ; Samuel Williams, of Delta, who died on May 24, 1898; and W. B. Whitehorn, of Archbold, who died on September 7, 1898. The commissioned Fulton County men who were members of Company G. were : John A. Weir; Frank Outcalt, Melvin W. McConkey, and George W. Cunningham, first lieutenants. Frank Outcalt and Melvin G. McConkey both resigned, while the regiment was still in training camp. Still, they did valuable and appreciated work in the early organization of the company.

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he Fulton County men who were members of Company G. Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, when mustered into the federal service, at Columbus, in May, 1898, were: