Townships.	Single Enlistments	1860 Population.	Percentage
Bath Beavercreek Caesarscreek Cedarville Jefferson Miami New Jasper Ross Silvercreek Spring Valley Sugarcreek Xenia	356 329 121 308 140 87 487 83 215 215 204 1,082	2,713 2,230 1,183 2,257 1,280 893 893 1,212 1,676 1,403 1,635 6,977	13.9 14.7 10.2 13.5 10.9 9.7 9.7 6.0 13.3 15.3 12.4 15.5
Totals	3,554	26,290	13.5

This total of 3,554 enlistments does not include those who enlisted more than once, but represents that number of men who went to the front. The federal census of 1860 gave the county a population of 26,290, and this means GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 651 that the county sent 13.5 per cent. of its total population to the front. Basing the percentage of enlistments on the population of the various townships in 1860, it will be seen that Miami township furnished more soldiers for the war than any other. Its percentage of 16 per cent. is slightly more than that of Xenia. Upon this basis the townships rank as follows : Miami, Xenia, Spring Valley, Beavercreek, Bath, Cedarville, Silvercreek, Sugarcreek, Jefferson, Caesarscreek, New Jasper and Ross. The grand average for the county is exceeded by four of the townships. There seems to have been a dispute in the county for a number of years in regard to which township in the county is entitled to the credit for furnishing the most volunteers. As a matter of fact it is practically impossible to determine such a question, for the reason that many volunteers enlisted from a township and were not credited to it. Spring Valley claims to this day that some of its men enlisted. at Xenia and were credited to that township, when as a matter of justice they should have been credited to Spring Valley township. This brings up the long-standing question as to the' history of the famous flag, which might very pr0perly be called a service flag, that was given to the county years ago. The history of this flag is shrouded in mystery, and the most searching investigation has failed to reveal its origin. There are certain undisputed facts connected with it, facts which may briefly be stated. It was given by someone, and not the war department or the United States government in any capacity, to the state which furnished the largest number of troops in the Civil War, and then the state in turn gave the flag to the county which had furnished the most troops in proportion t0 its military populati0n. The flag came to Ohio and someone in authority at Columbus turned it over to Greene county. For years it has been in the, home of the late H. H. Eavey, who, as a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, acted as custodian of the flag. This much is undisputed. But who originated the idea of giving the flag, when it was given, or the motive back of the gift are some things concerning which there seems to be no definite information. Summing up the vest evidence obtainable, it appears that the flag was the idea of the Republican party, or some group of Republicans ; that this group of men conceived the idea of giving such a flag in the campaign of 1868 in order to arouse enthusiasm in behalf of the candidacy of Grant for the presidency. If it was not in 1868, it was certainly not later than the 1872 campaign. Upon coming to Greene county the flag was kept in the court house for a number of years, and then the Lewis Post of Xenia passed a resolution which made it the property of that post, a resolution which has never been changed. It might be said that the flag disappeared for a number of years, but finally turned up again in Xenia. The flag is made of silk, long since faced with cloth to keep it intact, and 652 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO is about fifteen feet in length. It consists of bars of red, white and blue, without the blue field and stars. It has a gilt inscription on it to the effect that it is given to the state and county furnishing the most troops in the Civil War. OPENING OF THE CIVIL WAR. The first official notice that the people of Greene county had of the opening of hostilities in the Civil War was given in the issue of the Xenia Torchlight, April 17, 1861. When the people of the county picked up this particular issue they were confronted with these ominous words : THE CRISIS IS UPON US ! TO THE RESCUE! Let Loyal Men and True Patriots Rally to the Call of Their Country. Following this startling heading the editor of. the paper enters into a patriotic discussion of the causes leading up to the war and sets forth in burning language the duty of every able-bodied citizen. Let some of his words be quoted in this connection that the present generation, now in the midst of the greatest war the world has ever seen, may see the spirit which prevailed in the '60s. The Armed Traitors of the South have triumphed for a time ; the Flag of the Union, the Stars and Stripes—the Flag of Beauty and of Glory—has been Dishonored, and the detestable emblem of Treachery and Disunion now floats in its stead from the walls of Sumter ! Let all good men and true gather at the call of their Country—determined to aid the Government in the vindication of the insulted majority of the people. Let all who are for the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws, without distinction of Party, Rally this evening at the Court House steps, to Consult and Resolve. And thus the patriotic editor stirred the people of Greene county to action. He made frequent use of capital letters in order to make himself more emphatic; he indulged in all the exclamation marks, pungent adjectives and other indications of emphasis of the man who wants to make his remarks convincing. His words did not fall on stony ears. Before nightfall of the day the paper came from the press a subscription paper was started to solicit money for equipping volunteers, and John B. Allen headed the list with a donation of one thousand dollars. The venerable William Ellsberry, a lawyer of the town, presented, on behalf of the local bar, a handsome flag to be raised in front of the court house. The Torchlight appeared on Wednesday afternoon with its stirring appeal to the people of the county, and by Saturday, April 20, the whole county was in a frenzy of excitement. The Wednesday night meeting passed a resolution calling a monster mass meeting for the following Saturday afternoon, and the Torchlight in its issue of April 24 pronounced it the most enthusiastic meeting the county had ever seen. To quote from the paper again : GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 653 A rope was stretched across Main street on which an immense National banner—the Stars and Stripes—was elevated amid the music of the drum and fife and the enthusiastic shouts of the multitude. The Stars and Stripes were also floating from many stores and dwelling houses all over the town. Many persons were called out and addressed the assembled crowd, calling forth great applause. At noon the crowd dispersed for dinner, and a company of newly enlisted volunteers marched through the streets to the music of the fife and drum. At about half past one, the citizens again assembled in still, larger numbers in front of the court house and organized by electing William Ellsberry as chairman. After a brief and patriotic address by the chairman, explanatory of the object of the meeting and setting forth the present alarming state of the country, a committee consisting of W. M. Stark, R. F. Howard and E. H. Munger reported two resolutions, deprecating all political differences, urging united and harmonious action for the putting down of the Rebellion, and pledging the hearty support of Greene county for the defense of the flag. The afternoon meeting was prolonged until late in the afternoon. The town had not known as exciting a time since the fall of 1812 when the news was received that Hull had surrendered at Detroit. The local militia company was drilling on the square and this but added to the intensity of the afternoon. The sharp commands of the officers echoed up and •down the streets and seemed to fill the heart of everyone with a fervor that was indescribable. At least, the editor of the Torchlight was unable to find enough adjectives to do the day justice. While it is not possible in this discussion of the Civil War to give the names of all who went out from the county, yet it seems fitting that the names of the members of the first company should be given here in this connection. On Thursday and Friday, April 18 and 19, John W. Lowe, a local lawyer and a veteran of the Mexican War, was busy enrolling a company, and by Saturday morning had one hundred and ninety-three men who were anxious to get into his company. He picked out the best men for Company A, but immediately another company, known as Company B, was organized. Company A went to Columbus on Monday, April 22, under charge of Captain Lowe, while Company B had to be content to remain at home to await the call of the state. The Torchlight in its issue of April 24, 1861, attempts to describe the scene on Monday when the local company left for Columbus, and in view of similar scenes in 1917 and 1918 it is interesting to note what the editor has to say : This gallant company was' escorted to the cars by an immense crowd of their fellow citizens ; all, old and young, of both sexes, joining in wishing the members God speed. Of the scenes which occurred at the cars it is unnecessary to speak. If tears would flow, if lips would tremble and cheeks blanch, it was not because their relatives would call them back from the noble service in which they have embarked, but because even in the line of duty feeling can not be deadened. As the cars moved off, cheer after cheer followed the brave fellows. May God protect them—give them victory over the enemies of the Government, and finally send them back to their friends in safety. 654 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO GREENE COUNTY'S FIRST VOLUNTEERS. The names of the company are given in the Torchlight in this same issue of April 24, 1861. The officers were as follow : Captain, John W. Lowe; first lieutenant, Robert Lytle; second lieutenant, Moses W. Trader ; sergeants, William B. Smith, James McCune, George K. Farrington and John Booth; corporals, E. A. Kloosterman, John Scott, Fred B. Snively and Edward E. Ebright. The privates were Robert Batcheldor, Albert T. Beall, John E. Brown, John Bailey, James Bailey, William F. Brown, Henry Baunzer, Thomas W. Beacham, Cyrus Bailey, William Bair, Abraham H. Baker, J. S. Clokey, John W. Cline, J. C. Chalmers, Robert Cross, Andrew C. Cruzen, Hiram D. Cline, Lemuel Cline, W. A. Dingess, James H. Davidson, John Donnell; Lewis, H. Dean, David Ellis, Silas R. Ewing, George W. Ebright, George Good, John S. Harper, John A. Harper, Coleman Heaton, Henry Huffine, W. H. Iliff, Thomas W. Jenkins, Daniel P. Jeffries, Abraham King, F. A. Kempt, Ferdinand Kratchner, John W. Kirkwood, D. M. Loy, John Lewis, Peter Leslie, William C. Maxwell, Leigh McClung, Samuel McMillen, Lyman H. McBride, Charles McCarty, William Meshwort, Christopher Mangan, Charles F. Milburn, Joseph McCrary, George W. Manor, Oscar W. Marshall, Thomas McGaughey, John W. McMillan, John McNellidge, William B. Nesbitt, John Norwood, William L. Pegan, Caleb Price, Charles C. Robinson, W. Redding, Alfred Richardson, David M. Reeves, George Sollers, Charles Stevenson, James B. Steen, J. M. Steen, W. H. Sutton, Robert M. Smart, John A. Snyder, David Steele, Joseph S. Stoop, James Thirkield, Warren T. Timberlake, Ludwig Turner, William P. Taylor, Joseph V. Van Eaton, David Wilson, Beard Williams, Jesse Williams, Samuel Walton and S. J. L. Whiteman.. This makes eleven commissioned and non-commissioned officers and eighty-two privates—a total of ninety-three men. SECOND COMPANY LEAVES XENIA FOR COLUMBUS. Following the departure of Company A on Monday, April 22, 1861, there were companies of Home Guards organized in each of the four wards of the city of Xenia. As has been stated there was a sufficient number of men enrolled to make two companies, but only one company was taken at first. However, on the following week, on Tuesday, April 30, Company B was called and went on the same day to Columbus to be mustered into the service. The commissioned and non-commissioned officers of Company B were as follows : Captain, Albert J. Galloway ; first lieutenant, Andrew J. Thorpe; second lieutenant, William H. Hivling; sergeants, William H. Harry, W. V. Lawrence, W. L. Taylor, J. S. Morgan ; corporals, D. A. Ullery, F. M. Curl, Barney Baker, James Mitchell ; privates, John R. Morgan, John W. Lecroy, Henry W. Ford, Peter Curren, Jacob Shirk, J. S. Johnson, Tilman Lloyd, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 655 Silas Goolsbury, Isaac Wolf, Florance Sullivan, James H. Iliff, Henry F. Shuey, Leonard B. Sage, George Lighthiser, M. Gesner, William Shope, Martin McClellan, Jacob W. Ford, Lewis Rahke, J. C. Lovett, Thophilus Anderson, John A. Young, William R. McLaughlin, Charles W. Minser, John B. Jones, John H. Cochran, Morse Moore, C. H. Thompson, George W. Butterfield, Ferdinand Moser, Henry Mentell, George Hollingsburg, J. E. Barrett, W. H. Phillips, Clinton Barnes, Cornelius Cotrell, John W. Brown, John W. Fenner, John Cordingly, Michael Donnelly, Samuel F. Brady, John F. Harris, Hugh McKinney, Thomas Ginn, Joseph M. McCann, Robert E. Hodge, G. W. Barrett, Amos Beason, William H. Harvey, George W. Beard, John Davis, Patrick Doyle, Thomas S. Paris, Fritz Cundert, James Mitchell, Samuel Thompson, Addison Jay, John H. McClellan, Hiram Heaton, Robert McKnight, Benjamin Seavers, William A. Borton, C. Lawrence, William A. Butler, Isaac T. Collier, William Bayliss, James Elam, Alfred Dean, D. Bush, Thomas Bush, William Norris, Samuel N. Cook, W. Yeo, A. T. Lloyd, J. M. Ellmore, J. M. Ford. Of this large number of Greene county men but few are now living. When they were taken to Columbus they were mustered in as Company E of the Twelfth Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, Company A from Xenia being mustered in as Company D of the same regiment. The first death among the Greene county volunteers was that of William C. Maxwell, who took sick during the first week at Columbus, was brought home to Xenia and died on April 29, just a week from the time Company A left the town. On May 2, 1861, Captain Lowe, of Company A, was elected colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, and at the same time Robert Lytle was made captain of Company A, and Private Leigh McClung was elected first lieutenant. Dr. John G. Kyle of Xenia was appointed regimental surgeon of the Twelfth Regiment. The regiment was eventually sent into West Virginia and in that state, at the battle of Carnifix Ferry on September 18, 1861, Colonel Lowe was shot through the forehead, with a rifle ball and instantly killed, while leading a charge of his regiment through the woods. He was the first field officer of Ohio to be killed in the war. John Williamson Lowe was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 15, 1809, and when eleven years of age was apprenticed to a printer in New York City. When only fourteen years of age he joined a cadet company in that city, and from that time until his death he was interested in military matters. In 1833 he located at Batavia, Ohio, where he worked in a printing office and at the same time studied law under Judge Fishback. He was soon admitted to the bar, and having courted the judge's daughter while studying in her father's office, married her about the time he was admitted to the bar. It might be mentioned that his widow became the first woman in Xenia to be appointed post- 656 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO master of the city, being appointed by President Grant for two terms. When the Mexican War opened, Colonel Lowe was importuned to raise a company from Batavia. He finally consented, although his wife and friends tried to dissuade him from doing it, and became its captain, serving throughout the war at the front. He returned to Batavia in 1848 and practiced law there until 1854. He then located in Dayton, but a year later settled in Xenia, where he lived until he went to the front in the Civil War. He raised the first company in Greene county, was elected its captain, and on April 19, 1861, reported to Columbus with his company. He was shortly afterward commissioned colonel of the Twelfth Ohio Volunteers and went with his regiment to West Virginia. At the expiration of their three-months service, he reorganized the regiment for the three-years service. His regiment saw heavy fighting during the summer and fall of 1861 in West Virginia, and in that state he gave his life for his country. OTHER ENLISTMENTS FROM THE COUNTY. It is not profitable to enter into an extended discussion of. the part the county played in the Civil War. The volunteers from the county found their way into about seventy-five different regiments of Ohio and other states, the 3,554 enlisted men being so widely scattered that it would be impossible to follow the history of their several respective regiments. Furthermore, the summary of Robinson in his "After Thirty Years" gives all the enlistments of the county, and this volume can be referred to by those seeking definite data concerning any of the men going from the county. There was only one regiment organized in the county, the Severity-fourth being mobilized at Xenia in October, T861. Nearly seven complete companies of this regiment were recruited in Greene county, this being the largest number of men the county had in any one regiment. The Seventy-fourth remained in Xenia until February 24, 1862, when it was ordered to Camp Chase at Columbus. The regiment served throughout the war, being mustered out on July 18, 1865. Col. Granville Moody, a preacher of Greene county after the war, was in command of this regiment. Two other regiments with heavy enlistments from Greene county were the. Ninety-fourth and the One Hundred and Tenth. The former was. organized at Piqua in July, 1862, and taken from there to Kentucky for actual service at the front on August 28, 1862. It was mustered out at Washington, D. C., on June 6, 1865. The One Hundred and Tenth regiment was also organized at Piqua, its mobilization occurring in October, 1862. It participated in twenty-one engagements 'before its final mustering out on June 25, 1865. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 657 GREENE COUNTY COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 1N THE CIVIL WAR. The following summary presents the commissioned officers of each township as compiled by Robinson in his volume, "After Thirty Years." The name, rank, company, regiment and branch of service is indicated in the tabulation.

Cook, Charles W. Emmick, John C. Hawk, Peter A. Hebble, Joseph K. Kershner, Hezekiah Kuhn, Jacob K. Miller, John E. Rockafield, Anthony C. Retter, Edward E. Spangler, Aaron Shaffer, Henry C. Stutesman, John M. Taylor, Lewis Wilson, Uriah Miller, Joseph D	1st Lieut., Co. H 1st Lieut., Co. K 1st Lieut., Co., H Surgeon 1st Lieut., Co. A Captain Co. C 1st Lieut., Co. F 1st Lieut., Co. M 2d Lieut., Co. H Lieut.-Col. Captain, Co. H 1st Lieut., Co. G Captain, Co. E Captain, Co. K 2d Lieut., Co. A	44th Infantry 154th Infantry 8th Cavalry 55th Infantry 94th Infantry 1st Cavalry 10th Infantry 8th Cavalry 44th Infantry 110th Infantry 44th Infantry 24th Infantry 45th Infantry 154th Infantry 44th Infantry
BEAVERCREEK TOWNSHIP
Bouck, Joseph F. Barney, Benjamin H. Darst, Benjamin F. Fisher, Joseph Glotfelter, William Guthrie, Henry B. Herring, Henry H. Herring, John J. Hanes, John M. Kingery, John Nogle, William H. Snyder, William M. Steele, David Tobias, John W.	Captain, Co. E 1st Lieut., Co. E 2d Lieut., Co. B Major 1st Lieut., Co. H Captain, Co. B Captain, Co. E 1st Lieut., Co. A 1st Lieut., Co. E 1st Lieut., Co. E 1st Lieut., Co., K 1st Lieut., Co. E. Captain, Co. E 2d Lieut., Co. E	154th Infantry 154th Infantry 154th Infantry 74th Infantry 12th Infantry 154th Infantry 74th Infantry 154th Infantry 74th Infantry 94th Infantry 20th Infantry 74th Infantry 94th Infantry 154th Infantry
CAESARSCREEK TOWNSHIP
Ary, Joel   Smith, Lucian Thomas, James	Captain, Co. H.. 1st Lieut., Co. H 2d Lieut., Co. H.	154th Infantry 154th Infantry 154th Infantry
CEDARVILLE.
Crain, John R. Collett, Daniel Frazer, Andrew S. Frazer, James K. Galbreth, Samuel A.	Captain 1st Lieut., Co. B 1st Lieut., Co. H. 1st Lieut. 2d Lieut.	10th Battery 40th Infantry 34th Infantry 185th Infantry 10th Battery
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Gilmore, James Howell, Samuel Kyle, Thomas B	1st Lieut.   1st Lieut., Co. D Captain, Co. C	10th Battery 44th Infantry 60th Infantry
JEFFERSON
Lyda, Samuel Pollock, Samuel F	1st Lieut., Co. H 2d Lieut., Co. C	1st Va. Cavalry 31st Infantry
MIAMI.
Burkholder, Thomas B. Badger, Joseph Badger, Nichols Badger, Nichols Hirst, Thomas C. Peters, Matthew Read, Newton M. Read, Jasper W. Ransom, William S. Rice, Charles S. Rice, Edward Shaw, William L. Swope, James W. Scammon, E. Parker Tulley, Lysander W. Tedford, Frank J. Wilson, Joseph E. Wade William H.	1st Lieut., Co. D Captain, Co. C Major Captain, Co. C 1st Lieut., Co. D Major 1st Lieut., Co. C 2d Lieut., Co. A General Captain 2d Lieut., Co. D 1st Lieut., Co. F Captain, Co. G Brigadier General Lieut.-Col. Captain, Co. B Lieut.-Col. Captain, Co. K	8th Cavalry 8th Cavalry 8th Cavalry 44th Infantry 180th Infantry 74th Infantry 5th Cavalry 154th Infantry Infantry 17th Battery 44th Infantry 110th Infantry 75th Infantry Infantry 8th Cavalry 74th Infantry 154th Infantry 31st Infantry
NEW JASPER
Moore. Daniel D	1st Lieut. Co. D	110th Infantry
ROSS.
Bolen, John C Ballard, Joseph H	1st Lieut., Co. C Captain, Co. H	60th Infantry 74th Infantry
SILVERCREEK
Adams, Thos. H. Baker, S. E. W. Bell, Thomas C. Ballard, Alexander S. Dodson, Charles C. Hauser, Jerry. McGinnis, William. McMillan, John Sutton, William H.	1st Lieut., Co. A 1st Lieut., Co. B Major, Co. A Major 1st Lieut., Co. F Captain, Co. D Captain, Co. A Captain, Co. A Captain, Co. I	74th Infantry 186th Infantry 74th Infantry 74th Infantry 74th Infantry 186th Infantry 74th Infantry 74th Infantry 31st Infantry
SPRING VALLEY
Barnett, Edward R. Clark, Thomas S. Colvin, G. M. Daugherty, John F. Good, George W. Seiss, John A.	1st Lieut., Co. K. 1st Lieut., Co. D. 1st Lieut., Co. K. 2d Lieut., Co. G 1st Lieut., Co. D. Captain, Co. I	74th Infantry 110th Infantry 149th Infantry 154th Infantry 12th Infantry 154th Infantry
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Schnebley, Frederick Smith. John W. Walton, Samuel Williamson, David W	2d Lieut., Co. D. 2d Lieut., Co. H. 2d Lieut., Co. E 1st Lieut., Co. G.	12th Infantry 2d Heavy Artillery 94th Infantry 154th Infantry
SUGARCREEK
Austin, Francis A Clark, Henry Finley, Robert C. Holmes, Joseph Kirby, Thomas Marshall, Jesse	2d Lieut., Co. G 2d Lieut., Co. D 1st Lieut., Co. E 1st Lieut., Co. F Captain, Co. E 2d Lieut., Co. F	34th Infantry 110th Infantry 74th Infantry 93d Infantry 74th Infantry 154th Infantry
XENIA
Armstrong, Wm. G. Armstrong, John F. Barnes, George A. Beachem, Wm. H. Beall, George W. Bell, John A. Binkley, Otha H. Baldwin, John W. Barrows, John I. Canfield, George C. Cosley, George W. Corry, James B. Davidson, David T. Drake, E. P. DeHaven, Frank Ewing, Silas Feurle, J. G. Galloway, Albert Galloway, Wm. C. Galloway, Samuel Gifft, Thomas Guthrie, Henry C. Gowan, Andrew Gage, Joseph B. Hivling, John A. Hivling, William H. Hypes, Fletcher Hamill, Joseph Jones, William A. Kyle, James Kyle, John G. King, Richard King, Richard King, Abraham Kealhofer, George Lytle, Robert Lewis, John Lewis, John McCann, James McCroskey, Joseph	Captain, Co. C 1st Lieut., Co. C Captain, Co. B 1st Lieut., Co. I 2d Lieut., Co. K 1st Lieut., Co. E Lieut.-Col. 1st Lieut., Co. C 2d Lieut., Co. C 1st Lieut., Co. D 2d Lieut., Co. F Captain, Co. A Captain, Co. H Captain, Co. E 2d Lieut., Co. F 1st Lieut., Co. E. 2d Lieut., Co. H Captain, Co. E 1st Lieut., Co. C Captain, Co. F 2d Lieut., Co. B Captain, Co. D Captain, Co. H 1st Lieut. 1st Lieut., Co. H 1st Lieut., Co. B 1st Lieut., Co. I. Captain, Co. C 2d Lieut., Co. D Captain, Co. H Surgeon Captain, Co. F 2d Lieut., Co. B 1st Lieut., Co. D 1st Lieut., Co. D Captain, Co. D Captain, Co. K Captain, Co. E. 1st Lieut., Co. B 2d Lieut., Co. K	74th Infantry 1st Heavy Artillery 1st Arkansas Infantry 31st Infantry 154th Infantry 94th Infantry 110th Infantry 74th Infantry 74th Infantry 154th Infantry 54th Infantry 154th Infantry 94th Infantry 11th Cavalry 110th Infantry 1st Infantry 74th Infantry 12th Infantry 74th Infantry 16th U. S. C. I 159th Infantry 154th Infantry 94th Infantry 10th Battery 94th Infantry 12th Infantry 39th Infantry 74th Infantry 110th Infantry 94th Infantry 17th and 65th Infantry 154th Infantry 74th Infantry 12th Infantry 186th Infantry 12th Infantry 128th Infantry 12th Infantry 74th Infantry 128th Infantry
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McDowell, Austin McDowell, Austin McMillen, Daniel McMillen, Samuel McElwain, Stewart McClung, Leigh W.. McCreary, Joseph McClung, John N. Marshall, George Miller, Andrew C. Miller, Andrew Morris, Alfred Matthews, James H. Mitchell, James Myers, James Nesbit, Albert Nesbit, Albert Newcomb, William Oldham, Joseph F. Owens, Samuel T. Poland, Samuel M. Pool, Oscar Stevenson, Robert Scott, John Smith, William B. Snively, David S. Seaman, Francis Torrence, Herny Tremble, Alexander Trader, Moses W. Trader, Alfred L . Terry, Henry Terry, Henry Thorp, Andrew J. VanEaton, Joseph B. Watt, George M. Worden, James M. Weaver. Perry A.	Captain, Co. L Captain, Co. D 1st Lieut., Co. F. 2d Lieut., Co. D Major 1st Lieut., Co. D 1st Lieut., Co. K 1st Lieut., Co. D 1st Lieut., Co. G Captain, Co. B 2d Lieut., Co. B 1st Lieut., Co. G 1st Lieut., Co. B 1st Lieut., Co. E Captain Captain, Co. A 1st Lieut., Co. F. 1st Lieut. 2d Lieut., Co. K Captain, Co. C 1st Lieut., Co. D 2d Lieut., Co. B 2d Lieut., Co. C 1st Lieut., Co. B Captain, Co. B Surgeon Captain Captain, Co. D Captain, Co. D 2d Lieut., Co. D 1st Lieut., Co. H Major Captain, Co. G. 1st Lieut., Co. E. Captain, Co. B .. Surgeon 2d Lieut., Co. G Captain, Co. B	128th Infantry 74th Infantry 154th Infantry 186th Infantry 10thInfantry 12th Infantry 184th Infantry 74th Infantry 54th Infantry 154th Infantry 12th Infantry 54th Infantry 154th Infantry 94th Infantry Indiana Battery Infantry 34th Infantry 10th Battery 193d Infantry 74th Infantry 74th Infantry 154th Infantry 74th Infantry 74th Infantry 12th Infantry U. S. 10th Battery 58th Indiana 10th Infantry 12th Infantry 94th Infantry 24th Infantry 24th Infantry 12th Infantry 110th Infantry 154th Infantry 74th Infantry 74th Infantry

THE FLAG OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH.

After the flag of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, had been through forty-one battles and had had nine color-bearers shot under it, it was captured at Beverley, West Virginia, with the regiment on January 11, 1865. When Richmond was entered by the federal troops on April 3, 1865, Colonel DePeyster, who raised the flag of the Seventy-fourth New York on the dome of the capitol in that city, discovered the flag of the Thirty-fourth in a boot as he was descending from the dome. For many years it hung in the trophy room of the Seventy-fourth New York, but was finally restored to the survivors of the regiment. Numbered among the members of the Thirty-fourth Ohio were several Greene county men, among whom were S. W. Weakley, Charles Hamilton, John Hopping, T. B. Jobe,

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Mart Howe, George W. Ebright and H. H. Hale. While this regiment, with the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, was stationed at Beverley, West Virginia, it was surprised and captured, January 11, 1865, and marched off to Richmond, where the men were confined in Libby prison until their exchange on February 14, 1865.

THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

The Spanish-American War of 1898 again found Greene county' to the front, but this time it was a company of colored men who represented the county. They did not see any active service on the field of battle, but they were ready to do their duty and if they had been given the opportunity to show what they could do they would undoubtedly have acquitted themselves with credit to themselves and honor to the county which sent them. There was no white company from the county in the war.

Most of the colored men from Greene county were members of Company C, Ninth Battalion, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, although there were a few who were members of one of the other three companies of this battalion. The county furnished the major of this battalion, Charles Young, a graduate of West Point, and at the time detailed to Wilberforce as military instructor. He was a first lieutenant in the Ninth Cavalry, United States Army, at the opening of the war, but was granted leave of absence on May 14, 1898, to become major of the Ninth Battalion, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Wilson Ballard, also of Wilberforce, was a second lieutenant, but served as adjutant to Major Young, later, August 19, 1898, becoming battalion adjutant.

The movements of the Ninth Battalion during the progress of the war may be briefly summarized as follows : On receipt of orders from the governor, dated April 25, 1898, Companies A, B and C assembled at their home stations on April 26 and on the same day left for Columbus. They were mustered into the United States service on May 14 and remained at Columbus drilling until the 19th of the month. They were then taken to Camp Alger, Falls Church, Virginia, where they continued training until August 16. Their .next change of location found them at Camp Meade, Middletown, Pennsylvania; where they remained from August 17 to November 14. While here Frank Burton deserted from Company C on November 12. While the battalion was being taken from Camp Meade to Camp Marion, Summerville, South Carolina, Alexander Richard, another member of Company C, deserted, November 15. These were the only two desertions on the official records of Greene county volunteers. The battalion was stationed at Camp Marion from November 17, 1898, until it was mustered out of the service on January 28, 1899. Two men of Company C died at Camp Marion : Harmer H. Ellison, November 23, 1898; Charles L. Ladd, November

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27, 1898. It should be mentioned that Company D, which contained only one enlistment from the county, was not mustered in until July 8, 1898, and joined the battalion on the following day at Camp Alger.

Company A was recruited at Springfield, Company B at Columbus, Company C at Xenia and Company D at Cleveland. Company A had one volunteer from Greene county, Woodson P. Welch, who was mustered out as second lieutenant. Company B had three recruits from the county : Arthur A. Brown and Charles F. Mitchell, corporals ; Charles Howard, private. C0mpany D contained one Greene county volunteer, Frank Porter, a private.

Company C was recruited at Xenia and contained seventy-one men from Greene county, practically all being enrolled from Xenia. Wilberforce and Cedarville furnished a few. The officers, commissioned and non-commissioned, included twenty-two, the privates numbering forty-nine. The officers were as follows : Captain, Harry H. Robinson ; first lieutenant, James W. Smith ; second lieutenant, James Braselton ; first sergeant, William Lindsay ; sergeants, Frank Washington, William G. Johnson, Henry Bowen and Wilson Hudson ; corporals, John L. Broadice, William McElroy, James Smith, Edward C. Oglesby, LaVolta Phelps, James E. Maxwell, George E. Cowels, Harvey Underwood and Louis Smith ; cook, Calvin Pearson ; musicians, Arthur Allen and James S. Haggard ; artificer, Hugh Travis ; wagoner, George McClure. The privates of Company C were Peter Alexander, Leon Allen, Lee Anderson, Wesley Anderson, William H. Anderson, Will-. iam Archer, William Battles, Charles Bush, John Byrd, Charles W. Carter, William Coles, Curtis Hampton, James Daunton, James F. Davis, Tumes Femules, John W. Franklin, Tecumseh Goings, Effron Greenway, Orgon A. Guy, Fred A. Harris, Clayton Howard, Fred R. Howard, John P. Hudson, Edward Jackson, Thomas Jenkins, William Matthews, James E. McFarland, Ellis McMillen, George A. Reed, Charles Robinson, James Robinson, Sidney Rodgers, Prattis Shorter, William A. Smith; William Steele, Paschal Tolbert, William A. Warrick, James H. Watson, Horace H. Wells and Grant Winslow.

All of the above named privates were mustered out at the close of the war. The following privates were discharged for physical disability during the progress of the war : Henry Bush, Bert Jamison, John Jenkins, Walter S. Logan and Hayes Valentine. Harmer H. Ellison and Charles L. Ladd died during their enlistment. There were twelve of the men from Wilberforce in the war : Emanuel D. Bass, now a practicing physician in Mexico, and captain of the Forty-ninth United States Volunteers in the Philippines, who became the first adjutant of the Ninth Battalion in the Spanish-American War; Wilson Ballard, who succeeded Bass as sergeant major of the

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Ninth Battalion, and later became a first lieutenant in the Forty-eighth United States Volunteers in the Philippines ; Charles Jackson, who succeeded Ballard as sergeant major of the Ninth Battalion ; sergeants, Bert Taylor, E. P. Fifer and Charles Burroughs; Arthur A. Brown, corporal and in the band; privates, Woodson P. Welch, Charles Mitchell, Prattis Shorter, William Hamilton and Charles Howard.

After the close of the war the colored company maintained its organization for a number of years. The company had been in existence for a number of years before the Spanish-American War, being known as the Martin Guards for several years, the name being given the company in honor of John P. Martin, a well-known citizen of Xenia. For various reasons the company was disbanded some time before 1898, but was later reorganized under the name of the Schmidt Guards, the new name being in honor of Edward H. Schmidt, a grocer of Xenia. It was known by this name locally when it was finally mustered out of the service on April 5, 19o8. After the close of the Spanish-American War the company, as before stated, continued its organization, Edward C. Oglesby becoming captain. It seems that the reason for the disbanding of the company in 1908 arose from the fact that the captain had not made a proper accounting of the money which he had received from the state. It was charged, and subsequent investigation substantiated the charge, that he had received the money from the adjutant-general of the state to pay the members of his company for their drill service, but had failed to turn it over to the men. Upon this charge being proved he, was called upon to make good the money advanced by the state, which he promptly did, and, with this action on his part the company was mustered out of the service of the state on April 5, 1908. Company C is now a Dayton colored company.

COMPANY I ON THE MEXICAN BORDER.

In the summer of 1916 the United States seemed on the verge of war with Mexico, and so threatening was the situation that National Guard units from all over the country were ordered to Texas to be ready for action in case war should be declared. Ohio was called upon to mobilize its local militia companies, the order for the mobilization for Company of Xenia being received on June 19. The company remained at Xenia until July 3 when it was ordered to Camp Willis at Columbus. It was there undergoing training until September 7, when it left for the Mexican border. It was stationed in Texas until March 21, 1917, when it was ordered to entrain for Ft. Riley, Kansas, to be mustered out, but before reaching there orders were received to proceed direct to Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. Arriving at the latter place on March 26, it remained there only two days, being

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ordered to Kings Mills, Warren county, Ohio, for guard duty at the powder mills at that place.

On April 6, 1917, Congress declared war on Germany and on the following day Company I was divided into five detachments and sent to as many different points. One detachment in charge of Captain Younkin was sent to Richmond, Indiana, where it performed guard duty. While here Captain' Younkin devoted all of his time to securing enlistments for all branches of the military service, and it was the heavy work he did there in getting more than one hundred enlistments which undermined his health to the extent that he was later forced to leave the service. Another detachment left Kings Mills, Ohio, on April 7 for Lawrenceburg, Indiana ; another went to Milan, Indiana; another went to Osgood, Indiana ; while the fifth detachment was ordered back to Xenia to open up recruiting quarters for the company. An officer and two privates were sent to Xenia. The detachments in Indiana all performed- guard duty, most of their attention being given to railroad property.

The entire regiment of which Company I was a part was ordered to assemble at Cincinnati on August 1, 1917, and on August 5 they were taken to Camp Sherman at Chillicothe to guard the barracks then in process of construction at Chillicothe. On October to they were sent to Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama, where they were still stationed in March, 1918.

As has been stated, the company was in Texas from September No, 1916, to March 21, 1917. During this time, it was engaged in drilling with the other companies of the regiment, and performing such guard duties as fell to its lot. None of the men set foot on the soil of Mexico, and not one fired his gun at the enemy across the Rio Grande. None of the boys from Greene county died, although William Fitzwater was shot through the head on the rifle range. Beyond suffering from a headache for a few days, he experienced no inconvenience from the wound.

The career of the company since August, 1917, has been uneventful. During the summer of 1917 strenuous efforts were made to raise it to the full war strength, but as near as can now be ascertained, only sixty-three men from Greene county are with the old organization. It has lost its identity as Company I, Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and is now known as Company I, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, National Guard. Captain Younkin was in poor health during the summer and fall of 1917, but kept hoping all the time that he could regain his health and rejoin his company. While he was absent from his company, it was in charge of First Lieutenant Spahr. By the first of December, it was seen that the condition of Captain Younkin was not going to permit his return to

 

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his company within the near future., He was called before the medical board at Columbus for a physical examination, and received his discharge for physical disability on December 5, 1917. Captain Bunge, of Cincinnati, was transferred from another company and placed in charge of Company I.

The local draft board has no records concerning this company, but from other sources a list of the Greene county boys with the company has been compiled. This list follows : Homer C. Spahr, Russell Johns, Nathan S. Clark, Ralph Gordon, William T. Little, John R. Poland, Carl Jeffryes, William F. Shoemaker, William Fitzwater, Walter Nickerson, Howard W. Bishop, Jesse E. Hill, Jesse W. Jones, Charles Miller, Cam Merritt, Orville Merritt, Clarence T. Smedley, James Nick, Cecil Baxter, Ray C. Blangy, Jentry Cain, Raymond Carnine, Glenn Davis, Millard 0. Frame, Logan Holloway, Samuel Hardy, Adam Hartman, Earl Hess, Nye Justice, Ray Leach, Carl McBride, Albert Millburn, John Moon, Edward Mullinix, Floyd W. Nolan, Elmer Pemberton, Niche Piete, Teddy A. Shanks, Charles Sullender, Homer Toner, Clyde Thompson, Jay H. Whitt, Glenn Wilson, Alvie Woods, Louis E. Young, John Townsley, Jordon Milburn and J. E. Pemberton.

Company I had been organized in 1900 by Charles L. Buell, and he had remained in charge as captain until June, 1904, at which time Harry C. Armstrong was commissioned captain. Captain Armstrong resigned in May, 1912, and on July 29, of the same year, Daniel G. Younkin was commissioned captain. When Company I left Xenia for Columbus, on July 3, 1916, it numbered ninety-two men, but a large number of these failed to pass the required physical examination at Camp Willis, and were sent back home. As a matter of fact, none of the National Guard unit of Ohio were able to secure enough volunteers to bring their organization up to war strength. Company I not only lost a large number of the original ninety-two by reason of physicial disqualification, but they also had to share the few members they had left with other companies of the Third Regiment.

The official roster of Company I, as it was organized for duty in Texas in 1916-1917, shows that it had only 35 men in all, 13 officers and 22 privates. Of this number 5 were not from Greene county. The roster of the company is as follow : Captain, Daniel G. Younkin ;.first lieutenant, Homer C. Spahr ; first sergeant, Floyd V. Miller ; quartermaster sergeant, Clark A. Beatty sergeant, Nathan S. Clark; corporals, Ralph Maulfair, William T. Little, Carl Jeffryes ; musician, Clarence T. Smedley ; cooks, Orville Merritt, Cam Merritt; privates, Herbert Beal, Ray Blangy, Forest W. Dunkle, David Eagle, William Fitzwater, Ralph Gordon, John Gross, Samuel Hardy, Jesse Hill, Frank Hiserman, Napoleon Jillson, Jesse W. Jones, James justice, Ray Leach, Eli McKinney, Charles Miller, James Nick, Walter Nickerson and Elmer Pemberton.

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GREENE COUNTY IN THE GREAT WORLD WAR.

At the time this volume goes to the press the United States is in the midst of the greatest war the world has ever kn0wn, a war which began between two European nations in 1914 and has since drawn more than twenty nations into its vortex. The immensity of this struggle baffles our comprehension, but it is in our very midst in the spring of 1918—it is taking boys from Greene county every week. Naturally, the anxious inquirer may well ask for an account of the incidents which brought all this woe into the world.

On June 28, 1914, Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, heir to the throne, was assassinated by someone, and it was alleged that the deed was committed by a Serbian. The killing was immediately followed by the Austrian government calling upon Serbia for reparation and the granting of certain demands which were drawn up in such a manner as to be extremely humiliating to that little country. Serbia gave every assurance that she would, grant all that Austria asked, but even had Serbia offered herself as a gift to Austria it is doubtful if the war could have been averted. There is no question now that Germany was behind the whole scheme, and that nothing that Serbia could have done would have affected the future actions of Germany and Austria. And thus the war precipitated, the killing of this libertine was simply the excuse for the opening of hostilities, but the underlying causes of the war are to be found elsewhere.

It is not the purpose of this discussion to enter into an explanation as to how and why the United States was drawn into this world-wide struggle. The story has been told and retold over and over again. It is sufficient to say that our country kept out of the war as long as it could consistent with national honor, but that when the time came when we must act, we were ready to accept the challenge. Nation after nation was brought into the struggle against Austria, Germany, Turkey and Bulgaria; beginning with Servia, they entered the war in the following order : Belgium, France, England, Russia, Italy, San Marino, Roumania, Montenegro, Japan, United States, Brazil, Siam, Portugal, Panama, Arabia, Monaco, Greece, Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua.

The unrestricted submarine warfare campaign inaugurated by Germany in the spring of 1917 will undoubtedly be set down in world history as the thing which finally led the United States to take up arms. President Wilson read his famous message to Congress on April 2, 1917, and four days later Congress declared war on Germany. As soon as this was done Congress began making preparations to take an active part in the struggle. Act after act was passed by Congress in an effort to put the country in a position to become a prominent factor in bringing the war to a close as quickly as possible. A loan was authorized, very appropriately called the Liberty Loan,.

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and within a very short time the two-billion dollar loan was heavily oversubscribed. In the meantime, in order to provide for an army of at least a million men, Congress passed a conscription act which provided for the registration of all men of the United States between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one, inclusive. June 5, 1917, was designated as the- day on which this registration was to take place and on that day nearly ten million men were registered. The number of registrants in Greene c0unty was 2,244.

Another important act was the provision made for a series of camps for the training of officers, and two such instruction periods of three months each were held in the summer and fall of 1917. In January, 1918, a third officers training camp was opened, the candidates for commissions being largely those drafted men who had shown capacity for leadership. Greene county had a number of men in both the first and second camps of 1917, most of the men taking the training at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, while others were at Ft. Sheridan, Chicago, and Fortress Monroe, Virginia. As near as can be determined the following represents the Greene county men who received commissions at one or the other of the training camps in 1917: Charles L. Darlington, captain, infantry, U. S. National Army ; Thomas L. Fess, first lieutenant, infantry, U. S. National Army ; Wilson W. Galloway, first lieutenant, Ordnance Department ; Allen J. Carpe, first lieutenant, U. S. National Army; George F. Stutsman, second lieutenant, U. S. Cavalry ; Orris R. Jones, second lieutenant, infantry, U. S. National Army ; Forest Dunkle, second lieutenant, infantry, U. S. National Army; Burdette Early, second lieutenant, infantry, U. S. National Army.

The Medical Reserve Corps has enlisted a number of officers from Greene county, the following list being furnished by Dr. W. A. Galloway, of the draft board : Captain, Lawrence Shields; first lieutenants, Benjamin R. McClellan, Harold Messenger, Frank Bailey, Harry 0. Whitaker and Winfield Scott Ritenour, the latter being with the United States Sanitary Department. Clarence North Routzong and Eber Reynolds are first lieutenants in the Dental Reserve Corps. There is a provision whereby those students now in medical schools are listed separately, the idea of the government being that they should remain in college and finish their courses, or at least attain such proficiency in their studies that they would be qualified for actual service. Those from Greene county. coming under this- class are the following: Halford Conwell, University of Cincinnati; W. M. Ankeney, Cleveland; Robert L. Crawford, University of Iowa; Herman L. Hunter, colored, University of Nashville; L. W. Turner, colored, Howard University; Charles Edwin Galloway, University of Chicago; Waldo H. Zeller. Edwin F. Gowdy is in a dental college.

A colored officers training camp was located at Des Moines, Iowa, and

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twelve men from Wilberforce received commissions from this camp in 1917. All of these men were students of Wilberforce University or had been students in former years, and while few of them came originally from Greene county yet they should be mentioned in this connection. Arthur Brown is a resident of Xenia. The complete list follows : Captain, D. K. Cherry and Abram L. Simpson ; first lieutenants, Lawrence Simpson, Charles Reed, Arthur Brown, Samuel A. Hull and Francis Gow ; second lieutenants, Charles S. Bough, Samuel Hutchinson, James 0. Jones, James Scott and Charles Robinson.

The third officers training camp at Funston, Kansas, resulted in nineteen more men of Wilberforce receiving commissions : George Lee Gaines, William H. York, James. Johnson, Morris Carter, Edwin Anderson, Coit C. Ford, Treadway Streets, Russell Smith, Harry W. Sheppard, Julius P. Matthews, Clay Hunter, Loregezo Burford, grant A. Williams, George Clark, George Anderson, Theodore Davis, Ottoway Morris, Lawrence Underwood and William Broughton.

SELECTIVE DRAFT IN GREENE COUNTY.

The number of men in Greene county who registered on June 5, 1917, was 2,244. From this number the county was asked to furnish 246 as its first quota toward the 687,000 men which the War Department originally contemplated inducting into some branch of the military service. No other nation in all the world's history has attempted to raise an army on the plan adopted by the United States in the summer of 1917. An army had to be raised—and raised on short notice. The experience of the past in this country had shown that it was impossible to raise a volunteer army of any size within a short time, and it, was imperative that the country have an army of a million men training within as short a time as possible. After carefully considering the matter from every viewpoint Congress finally decided upon what is known as the selective draft. Following the registration of all men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one as before stated, it was planned to draw all these names by lot, thereby insuring that no favors could be shown in the conscription.

Friday, July 13, 1917, was such a day as the United States had never before known. It was on this day that ten million men were to have their numbers drawn at Washington, and when No. 258 was first pulled out of the box by Secretary of War Baker this meant that every man in the United States having that number was to be the first in his district to be called for service. It is probable that newspapers issued more extras on this day than they ever had before in their history. And when the drawing was finally completed every registered man in the United States knew the order in which he was to be called for service.

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The first call of the President was for 687,000 men, and this total was divided among the states in proportion to their population, the states in turn to raise their quota by apportioning the number they had to furnish among their several counties. For this new army, most appropriately known now as the National Army, Greene county was called upon to furnish 246 men as its quota under this first call. And as this is being written the county has already more than filled its quota. This does not include a large number of volunteer enlistments in all branches of the military service, neither does no include the local militia company. But the local draft board has official recognition only of the men that come under the selective draft, and keeps no records of the scores of other enlistments.

GREENE COUNTY'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE GREAT WORLD WAR.

The first call for the selective draft came to Greene county on September 6, 1917, twelve men being the county's quota. These men in the order of their draft number were as follow : A. Burdsall Creswell, Jaul B. Turnbull, Cameron M. Ross, Arthur Hover, Morris Sharp, Bernard Stire, Delbert Eugene Allen, Morey Whalen, Lawrence Swabb, Eber Jones Reynolds, J. H. Randall and Ray Lucas. The men were sent to Camp Sherman at Chillicothe, Ohio, on the afternoon of September 6, 1917.

The second call was made on September 19, 1917, and at this time ninety-eight were sent to Camp Sherman. Their names follow : David F. Shroades, Nobel Caraway, George A. Geiger, James Haley, Oscar E. Bailey, John Wallace Collins, John Lewis Cyphers, Paul Boni face Evers, Alvie Potts, George Mees, Denzil M. Earley, Homer Earl Short, Charles William Blakely, Ray W. Littler, Ralph Cline, Charles E. Lowry, Joseph Lawson Fealey, Harley Scammahorn, George A. Dignam, .Harry Roach, Clyde John Kussmaul, Ray M. Smith, Edward Gaffin, Raymond G. Stutsman, William L. Rockfield, Edward Fox, Fred Belden, Jacob S. Levalley, Paul Hull, Ralph Harrison Jenks, Clay Cassius Mauch, John A. Fake, Lester M. Hurley, Albert Ray Littler, Forest G. Hurley, Jess J. Strimple, William Marshall Hurless, Wilton Earley, David Collins Brad fute, Cecil F. Tavenner,. Arthur Leroy Heaton,, John Howard Young, Oliver William Littler, Ralph Francis Feirstine, Walter F. Lunn, Chauncy W. Webster, Weldon Clayton Hatfield, Everett William Harvey, James Jacob Curlett, John Gilphen Hays, Ruby Russell Carter, Thomas Gilroy, John William Miller, Homer David Shaw, Elmer J. Taylor (rejected for physical disability after reaching camp), Malcolm S. Grinnell, Altie Cartwright, James George Blackburn, Michael B. Leahey, Robert Lee Ferguson, Charles Chance, James R. Cyphers, Harry S. Swigart, Lewis E. Durnbaugh, Clarence Sparrow, George W. Steward, Andrew R. Deger, Clarence 0. Barnett, Ervin E. Thompson, Herman Walter Semler, Lester Guy McCoy, Patrick Finn, John Lewis Hawes, Shirley

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Potts, Silas Chester Printz, Alva Toner, Edgar Howard Reeves, Herbert Hite, Emmett Potts, Harry Andrew Lewis, Harry Pritchard; Artwood B. Custis, John L. Jenkins, John Wilber Corry, Roscoe Lee McCoy, Warren S. Keiter, Earl Bisher, Harry Lee Hillard, Lawrence V. Kearney, Clifton Baxter Fair, Elvis Glen Johnson, George L. Lewis, Robert I. Douglass, Emory Brown Kyle, Thomas L. Jones, Russell S. Haines, Jesse W. Carey, William E. Kennon.

The third call was made on October 3, 1917, and on that day the local draft board sent forty-seven additional men of the county's quota to Chillicothe. Their names follow : Raymond Alexander T. Day, Oscar Lawrence Clemmer, Charles Clay Grove, John Lawrence Manor, Lucion Earl Richards, Joseph Jasper Greer, Floyd Ary, Beverly Mite Wiget, Orie F. Demmer, John Berryhill, William Emmet Burba, Ernest Homer Huston, George Joseph Koch, George Moudy Barnett, Harry T. McCormick, John McHatton Anderson, Charles Newton Jenkins, Charles Kenneth Devoe, Harley Mann Holton, John O'Conner, Jr., Ed Rice, Edward 0. Feirstine, Grover Edingfield, Ralph C. Ault, Carl Emsly Smith, James Natale Ferro, William Dwight Engle, Johm Henry Meyers, Ralph Leroy Mitman, Joe Raymond Harner, Frank Elmer Gorham, George C. Fackler, George Dewine, Arthur Sears, Lloyd H. Douglas, Lewis Drake, Harold D. Humphrey, Vergo Mitchner, Claude Cecil Glass, George McClellan, William Perry Harner, Alonzo Jeffry, Oscar Ralph McKee, Harold H. Weeks, Julius Shakfsky, Charles F. Riley, Herman John Quirk.

The first contingent of colored men was called for on October 28, 1917, and on the following day sixty-one were sent by the local board to Chillicothe. Their names follow : Joseph. Washington, James M. Wallace, Alonzo Ware, Forest Cook, John W. Woodards, Newton Dolphin, John T. Flack, Enoch L. Mitchell, George Brown, William M. Fowler, Wilfred O'Neal Williams, Charles F. Points, George Walter Nooks, John Buckner, William L. Campbell, Asa Bushnell Jones, James Thomas Howard, William Roan, William Fisher, Oscar Wendell Price, David G. Rountree, Elmer Jones, Joseph L. Booth, James Wilson, Laurence Logan, John C. Roan, Walter J. Mason, George D. Phillips, Wade Allen, Ralph Grevous, Henry Lee Walker, Lester Lewis, Cassella W. T. Ayres; Ollie Lucas, Eugene Scott, Homer T. Taylor, John H. Newsome, 011ie Wallace, John Batt, Joseph Oscar Moore, Leroy McFarland, Charles Williamson, Eugene Haines, Luther Kidd, Clifford H. Johnson, Lloyd Carter, John Thomas, Ralph Scull, Henry Clay Scott, Stanley Rose, Carl Scott, Wilber Taylor, William Lloyd Garrison, Joseph Duplessis, Henry Haygood, Gartrell Jerome Gaines, Welton Blanton Doby, William Henry Richardson, Richard A. Sterling, Leardon Monroe Young, Calvin Thompson.

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Since the draft call of October 29, 1917, there have been two calls for a considerable number of men, and there have, been repeated calls for from two to a dozen for specially trained men. On February 25, 1918, two men were sent, Robert Fred Bird and William Charles Zink. Two days' later fourteen men were asked to be sent to Vancouver to join a company of spruce cutters, and the following were .sent at once : Elmer Edwards, Loring W. Shephard, Ora Free, Clarence Pope, Harry W. Lampert, Frederick D. Haller, Gardner W. Gearhart, Fred G. Randall, Jacob 0. Parks, Thomas J. Corrigan, Charles C. Young, John. Mangan, William H. Owens and Wilbur Hardy. Of this group one has already been lost by death, Ora Free dying about a month after he was sent.

Between February 27 and March 3o there were no fewer than eleven different calls for small numbers of men, the dates and names of men who were sent being as follow : February 28—Jacob Colp; March 2—Julian B. Boyd (colored) ; March 5—Sidney Gabel, Floyd Mathews, Fay Earley, Lawrence E. Michner and Robert Corron ; March 6—Jesse L. Sheets and Howard Littler ; March 7—Vasso W. Parsons (colored) William H. Wakley and Emmons B. Crawford; March 8—Stephen Gabriel Phillips ; March 12—Harry C. Derrick ; March 13—Rall Leroy Kauffman and William Joseph Schneider ; March 18—Alpheus H. Ring, and Jesse W. Sanders; March 20—Ernest Everets Fries, Joseph James Ray, Howard C. Trumbull and William Vernon Dunning ; March 23—Horace C. Treharne. Four other selectives of this period were Moselle Thompson, Joseph Finlaw, Ora Littler and Fred M. Townsley.

On March 30 a contingent of thirty men was sent to Chillicothe : Joseph A. Bratton, Rea Cecil Burns, Marrick F. Dakin, Charles Frank Davis, John Robert Dodds, Harry William Eibeck, Leo H. Evers, Paul E. Ferguson, Joseph Robert Gillen, Otto Hockett, Robert Hosier, William Edward Humes, Fred W. Kershner, John Wesley Koogler; Scott Moore, Henry W. Palmer, Earl C. Scammahorn, Harold S. Smith, William Jacob Smith, Earl R. Spahr, John Erskine Townsley, Lochie Turner, Anastasis Tymbanas, Frank Veri, Alfred L. Walls, Albert William Watts, Ralph Weaver, Herbert L. Williams, Dewey Wisecup and Gilbert Henry Young.

On April 2 seven .colored selectives from the student body at Wilberforce were individually inducted into the service as stenographers, being sent to Camp Jackson, South Carolina : Ray L. Williams, George M. Winbun, Matthew F. Griggs, Martin Luther Fail, Henry C. Arnold, Elverson Smith and Howard S. McNorton. Williams and Griggs are the only two of this list credited to Greene county, both men coming from Wilberforce.

This carries the selective drafted men who have gone through the local draft board from September 6, 1917, up to and including April 2, 1918, at

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which time this. chapter was closed by the historian. Every effort has been made to make this list accurate, but there may be some errors. It is true that a number of men have been sent to camp who have later been rejected for physical disabilities, but in all cases these men have been included in the preceding lists.

ENLISTED MEN OF THE COUNTY.

While it is possible to list. all the selectives of the county, it is exceedingly difficult to compile a list of those who have volunteered in some branch of the service. The local draft board keeps the record only of those who pass through its hands, in many cases not finding out that a man is in the service in some capacity until after his name is called for the draft. In compiling a list of the enlisted men, the historian was compelled to ask through the columns of the Evening Gazette and Morning Republican for the names of the men who had gone from the various townships of the county. The newspapers printed the lists as they were compiled and in this way it seems that most of the enlisted, men of the county' would have been reported. There were some of , the townships that never reported any men, either selective or enlisted men, although it is certain that they had representatives in one or the other group.

All of the Greene county boys in Company I, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, National Guard, are enlisted men and their names have already been given. In the following paragraphs are listed all the men 0f the several townships who are now in the service, no distinction being made between the selectives and volunteers. It is certain that the lists are not complete, but they are as complete as they could be made. The newspapers of Xenia and other towns in the county gladly co-operated in an effort to secure a complete list of the men in the service, but despite all these efforts undoubtedly some will be found to have been omitted.

Xenia Township (WHITE)—Robert N. Adair, Joseph Adams, Fred Anderson, Floyd Ary, Frank Bailey, J. Louis Baldner, John W. Baldner, Clarence 0. Barnett, Moudy F. Barrett, John Barwise, Cecil M. Baxter, Earl Bennington, Joseph G. Beyke, Earl Bisher, James G. Blackburn, Fred Blair, Allen J. Carpe, Ralph S. Carpenter, Charles Chance, Orie F. Clemmer, Oscar L. Clemmer, Ernest E. Clevenger, Ralph Cline, Eugene Collins. Robert Collins, Jacob Colp, Alfred Conwell, Thomas J. Corrigan, William C. Craig, James J. Curlett, Ortwood B. Custis, John L. Cyphers, Merrick F. Dakin, Charles L. Darlington, William V. Denning, Harold Dice, George Dignam, John Robert Dodds, Frank B. Dubois, Forest Dunkle, Harry William Eibeck, Leo H. Evers, Paul B. Evers, George C. Fackler, Joseph Farrell, Joseph Fealey, James N. Ferro, William Finlay, Jr., Edward Fox, Ora Free (Died in March, 1918), Ernest E. Fries, Sidney Gabel, Charles E. Galloway, William L. Galloway, Wilson W. Galloway, Harry Gardner, Guy R. Garman, Gardner W. Gearhart, Alfred F. Geyer, Curtis R. Geyer. George A. Geiger, Joseph Robert Gillen, Thomas Gilroy, William H.' Gowdy, Thomas I.. Graham, Lester. Grice, Frederick D. Haller, William Hallisy, Adam Hartman, Albert Hauck, Arthur L. Heaton, Harry L. Hilliard, Otto Hockett, Arthur Hover, Robert Hosier, William Hupman, William M. Hurless, Forest G. Hurley, Roy B.

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Ireland, George F. Isbell, Clinton Ivans, Walter Jack, Russell John, Leroy Johns, Leland Johnson, William Jordan, Joseph F. Kearney, Lawrence V. Kearney, John P. Kieley, John Kiernan, Leo Killeen, Arthur Kramer, Clyde J. Kussmaul, Wilbur A. , Lebron, Harry W. Lampert, Ray Leach, Francis Leahey, Michael B. Leahey, William Leahey, Harry A. Lewis, Albert R. Littler, Howard Littler, Oliver W. Littler, Ray W. Littler, Charles Lowery, Walter F. Lunn, Edward McCalmont, Benjamin F. McClellan, Claude C. McClellan, Harry T. McCormick, George McCoy, Lester Guy McCoy, Warren McKinney, George S. Macaulay, Samuel R. Maddux, Ernest Mangan, John Mangan, Alfred Marshall, William Martin, Harold C. Messenger, Albert J. Milburn, Everett Miller, Fred Mitchell, Keith R. Moon, Thomas Neville, James Nick, John O'Connor, Jr., William Orbison, William H. Owens, Henry W. Palmer, Jacob 0. Parks, Stephen G. Phillips, Charles A. Pond, John Poland, Lawrence Poland, Clarence Pope, Harry Pritchard, Herman J. Quirk, Fred G. Randall, Joseph J. Ray, Fred Rearick, Edgar H. Reeves, Eber J. Reynolds, William Rickles, Charles F. Riley, Winfield S. Ritenour, Jesse Saunders, William J. Schneider, J. William Shadrach, Julius Shakfky, Samuel W. Shaner, Jesse L. Sheets, Loring V. Shephard, Dymond Lee Shumaker, Lawrence Shields, William F. Shoemaker, Homer Earl Short, Charles Earl Smith, Harold S. Smith, Harry Smith, Ray M. Smith, William Jacob Smith, Homer C. Spahr, Earl R. Spahr, Warren A. Stephens, Bernard Stire, Hivling Stokes, Lawrence Swabb, Harry S. Swigart, Ohmer Tate, Edward A. Thomas, Clyde Thompson, James Thornton, Alva Toner, Homer Toner, Alfred F. Turrell, Charles Vance, Harry VanCleaf, Frank Veri, Edward A. Voorhees, Ralph Weaver, Chauncey W. Webster, Morey Whalen, Dewey Wisecup, Owen White, Jay H. Whitt, Charles C. Young.—Total, 187.

Xenia Township (COLORED)—Wade Allen, Cassella Ayres, Lee Baugos (Dead), Joseph L. Booth, John Batt, John Buckner, Arthur A. Brown, William L. Campbell, Earl W. Carroll, Lloyd Carter, Forest Cook, Welton B. Doby, Newton Dolphin, Joseph Duplessis, John T. Flack, William Fisher Gartrell, J. Gaines, William Gales, William M. Fowler, Ralph Grevous, Eugene Haines, James T. Howard, Luther Kidd, Lester Lewis, Laurence Logan, 011ie Lucas, Leroy McFarland, Walter J. Mason, Enoch L. Mitchell, Joseph C. Moore, John H. Newsome, George W. Nooks, George D. Phillips, Charles F. Points, Oscar W. Price, John C. Roan, William Roan, Stanley Ross, David G. Rountree, Carl Scott, Eugene Scott, Ralph Scull, Henry C. Scott, Homer T. Taylor, John Thomas, Henry L. Walker, James M. Wallace, Alonzo Ware, Joseph Washington, Charles Williamson, James Wilson, John W. Woodards, Leardon M. Young.— Total, 53.

Cedarville Township —Delbert Allen, John MacHatton Anderson, Robert Andrews, Oscar Bailey, Robert Fred Bird, David Bradfute, Joseph A. Bratton, Sylvester Broadice, John Buckner, Austin M. Bull, Elmer C. Burba, Rea Cecil Burns, John W. Collins, A. Burdsall Creswell, Paul H. Creswell, Clarence Deck, Lawrence Dennehey, Roy Dodds, Sherman Dudley, William Fisher. Millard Frame, Ralph Gordon, Alonzo Jeffries, Orval Jeffries, Delmer C. Jobe, Asa Jones, James Justice, Nigh Justice, William E. Kennon, Ray Littler, Charles Lowry, Fred F. Marshall, Scott Moore, Elmer E. Pemberton, John Herman Randall, Bush Robinson, Isaac Robinson, Cameron Ross, Homer Shephard, Frank Schoades, Walter Smith, Clarence Sparrow, Earl Stine, Herman Stormont, Cecil Strowbridge, Arthur Taylor, Lee Taylor, Fred Townsley, John Erskine Townsley, John N. Townsley, Hugh Turnbull, Paul B. Turnbull, Alfred L. Walls, Isaac Webster, John C. Wright.—Total, 53.

Silvercreek Township —Ivan Adams, Charles Blakely, G. Russel Bradds, Russell Carter, Theodore Connor, Dallas Cooper, Forest Cooper, Kenneth Devoe, Alfred Doster, Robert Douglas, John Gardner, Russell Garringer, Claud C. Glass, Ralph Glass, John G. Hays, Joseph W. Hayslip, Jacob Hickman, Charles S. Hough, Sherman Hough, Frank Johnson, Clay Mauck, Russell Mauck, Frank McLaughlin, Bruce Parker, Carl A. Paullin, John W. Paullin, Lawrence Paullin, Emmett Potts, Shirley Potts, Stanley Rose, Arthur Sears, Morris Sharp, Ohmer Shaw, John Howard Snapp, Ross Stoner, Homer Taylor, Wilbur Thomas, Eugene Thorpe, DeWitt Tobin, Clarence Walker, Cecil Washington, Floyd Wilkinson. - Total, 42.

Miami Township —Joseph Corwin Adams, Cassius Bell, Jesse W. Cary, John W. Corry,

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Raymond A. T. Day, George Dewine, Alton Dunevant, Ernest Dunevant, Edward 0. Feirstine, Robert L. Ferguson, Charles Sumner Fess, Thomas Lowell Fess, Patrick Finn, Jay P. Garlough, John Lawrence Garlough, William Torrence Garlough, Malcolm Grinnell, John Hackett, Howard Hamilton, Herman Hanler, Herbert Hite, Ernest H. Huston, Clifford H. Johnson, Fred W. Kershner, A. G. MacLennan, Lewis Reinwald, Smith Simpson, Gerald Tate, Edward Van Kirk, Isaiah Williams, Howard Young.—Total, 31. Alice Carr, of Yellow Springs, a graduate of John Hopkins University, is a nurse in France.

Bath Township —Herschell Christ, David Clingman, Ralph Dickman, George Dignam, Andrew Deger, Ralph Fierstine, Julius B. Finnell, Ralph Geis, Joseph Harner, Lloyd Howet, William Edward Hume, Herman L. Hunter, Clay E. Hunter, Rall L. Kauffman, John Wesley Koogler, Emory Kyle, John Lipp, Ralph Mitman, Roy Nelson, Fay W. Parsons, Paul Rice, William L. Rockfield, Albert Semler (Died in service, March 15, 1918), Herman W. Semler, Ernest Shearer, Edwin Toms, Albert Watts, Gilbert Young, Waldo Zeller.—Total, 29.

Jefferson Township —Earl Bennington, Noble Caraway, Charles Casey, Denzil Earley, Fay Earley, Guy Burdette Early (has been in France, but discharged on account of physical disability), Wilton Earley, Orson B. Foster, Albert Gerard, Elmer Gorham, Walter Gray, Russell Haines, Weldon Hatfield, Frank Hopkins, Ralph Jenks, Frank Linton, Ray Lucas, Alva Sheley, Rudolph S. Wolf.—Total, 19.

Spring Valley Township —William Cline, William Engle, Leroy Haines, Hugh Harper, Lewis Hawes, Lester Hurley, Ralph McKee, Lawrence Michener, Vergo Michener, Leon Murphy, Frank Reeves, Earl C. Scammahorn, Harold Scammahorn, Carl E. Smith, William Wakeley, Dr. H. O. Whitaker.—Total, 16.

Beavercreek Township —Chester Cyphers, Ray Day, Alonzo Durnbaugh, Herman Elliott, Jasper Greer, Howard Hare, Oscar Hare, George Haverstick, James Licklitter, Peter Snyder, Thomas Tobias, Horace Treharne, Merle Younce.—Total, 13.

Sugarcreek Township —William D. Engle,      Morris, George F. Stutsman. Raymond Stutsman.—Total, 4.

Caesarscreek Township —Paul Hull, Warren S. Keiter.—Total, 2.

Other Townships —The ten townships above given show a total of 449 men in the service, this including, as before stated, both selectives and volunteers. The historian was unable to get any list of men from Ross and New Jasper townships, but each township has undoubtedly furnished a few men. The only name sent in from one of these two townships was that of Ruby R. Carter, of New Jasper township. Summing up the men in the service from the entire county, it seems safe to .say that about five hundred were in some branch of the service on April 1, 1918.

COUNTY DRAFT BOARD.

The Conscription Act provided for a draft hoard in each county in the United States, and a board of three members for each county was appointed in June, 1917. The Greene county board is composed of the following members : R. D. Williamson, chairman; George Galloway, secretary ; Dr. W. A. Galloway, medical examiner. The actual work connected with the induction of the men in the service has devolved on George Galloway, who gives his entire time and attention to the work.