CHAPTER VI.

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THE publication of this volume affords the first opportunity for presenting the record of Lucas County, in connection with the great struggle between Treason and Loyalty Slavery and Freedom-Nationality and Anarchy-which bathed the United States in blood for the four years beginning April 12, 1861. Hence, it has been deemed fitting that such opportunity be improved, so far as may be found practicable. To that end, much of time and patient labor have been employed in gathering and embodying material, which it is hoped, may be found acceptable at this time, and serviceable in years to come. As may be supposed, the work has been one of selection, largely, since, with the facilities at hand, there has been no trouble on the score of quantity. Volumes might be filled with available material.

In the use of the material selected, it has been deemed best to divide it under two heads "HOME WORK " and " FIELD WORK "-the former showing, to some extent, what was done by loyal men and women at Home, for the support of the Government, in the various modes open to them; and the latter briefly showing by whom and how Lucas County was represented in the Field. In the preparation of the Home department of this history, it was thought to be only simple justice, that those contributing to the support of the operations at the front of the war, and to the maintenance of a loyal sentiment at home, should be recognized, so far as that should be found practicable, This view is based upon the assumption, that the two departments of action were equally essential to success that the Soldiers were as dependent upon the effective co-operation of the friends of the Union at home, as were the latter upon the action of the former in the field. The two classes were indispensable to success, and equally entitled to recognition of their faithful support of the Government. This fact was even more fully appreciated by those at the front, than by those at home, since they were constantly impressed with a sense of the indispensable need of supplies and recruits, which could be secured only through the prevalence of a sound, popular sentiment, whence such support must come. As every Union Soldier can testify, the Army was no less sensitive to reports of disloyal manifestations in the rear, than to those of hostile action in the front. When Putnam entered the den in search of the bear, he was quite as anxious to feel the assuring hold on the outer end of the rope attached to his ankle, as he was to find the animal before him. It was only by such patriotic and trustful cooperation of a loyal people, that the glorious success of Union arms was attained.

The long-threatened blow of rebellion was struck in the commencement of cannonading upon Fort Sumpter by the Confederate guns at Fort Moultrie, on the morning of April 12, 1861. The news of such action was published in the Toledo Blade of Saturday, April 13th, with the following editorial comment:

"The blow is struck ! The time when the friends of Constitutional Government and Civil Liberty must take their position for or against the Government, has arrived ! The enemies of the Union and of Freedom have at last reached the point where they feel warranted in opening hostilities upon the Government they are bound by every consideration of loyalty and patriotism to support. * * All that forbearance and moderation on the part of the friends of order could do, has been done to avert this shocking calamity. * * The history of the world furnishes no parallel to either the madness of the offenders, or the forbearance of the Government. In any other country on the Globe it would have been impossible for deliberate, protracted and extended armament against the Government to be carried forward openly and undisguisedly for months, as was the case in this instance.

"The practical question now for every citizen, is What is duty? What responsibilities devolve upon you, in this emergency? We make no partisan appeal. We speak not to Republicans or to Democrats -native or foreign born-but to American citizens, of all classes and divisions. * * There can be but one answer from an American heart, and that will be a prompt and patriotic pledge of support to the measures which the Government, or the chosen representatives of the Nation, shall devise for the vindication of its authority and the preservation of our 4]

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liberties. The man who takes this position, will be of the Party of Patriots-no matter what his past designation or association; and he who refuses to do so, should be known as a Tory and a Traitor to his Country and his duty. * * *

"We are rejoiced to believe that the masses of all parties are true to their duty, and are guided by the impulses of loyalty and patriotism. In our own section we look for a unity of sentiment and action, which will nerve the hearts and sustain the hands of those in charge of the Government, and leave no doubt as to the position of Northwestern Ohio in this crisis. And here let us suggest that immediate steps be taken by our citizens, without distinction of party, to give expression to public sentiment on this great question. We believe such a movement would do much toward concentrating popular feeling, and encouraging our State and National authorities in the measures demanded by the exigencies of the times."

In the issue of that paper of Monday, the 15th, appeared the following call for a public meeting: *

PATRIOTS ATTEND ! RALLY TO-NIGHT!

The time has come when all who love their country are called upon to stand by the Flag. Treason has raised its head within the pale of our glorious country. Traitorous bands have struck down the National Flag, and the Government calls on all true patriots to assist in vindicating its authority. In order that an expression of feeling may be made on this important subject, a meeting is hereby called for consultation. Let party ties and party feeling be forgotten in this hour of our country's peril, and let the people assemble to-night at the Union depot. Toledo, April 15, 1861.

Signed by James Deveau, Alonzo Godard, E. R. Skinner, Robert H. Bell, H. S. Commager, Valentine Braun, S. B. Moe, Wm. H. Whitaker, Wm. Kraus, Salter Cleveland, Benj. F. Mallett, Joel W. Kelsey, Wm. Baker, T. C. Stewart, F. J. King, Geo. A. Carpenter, Ebenezer Walbridge, Matthew Brown, Samuel S. Read, Henry D. Walbridge, Almon Hopkins, John B. Carson, Daniel Segur, M. D. Carrington, Theo. B. Casey, James R. Strong, A. J. Hand, Pat. Murray, Lyman Wheeler, John T. Maher, Matthias Boos, Louis Wachenheimer, F. J. Cole, S. A. Raymond,

*Of this call, the Blade said : "The call in this paper for a public meeting at the Depot this evening, to one familiar with the names it bears, will testify to the universality of the Union feeling here. Men prominent in every walk of life, and more or less active in each of the political parties, have cheerfully and promptly pledged themselves to stand by the right. All semblance of partyism has disappeared, and everybody is ready to express confidence in, and sympathy with the Administration. Already do we hear of volunteers seeking opportunity for enlistment, and should a call be made, we doubt not large numbers could readily be obtained."

Peter Lenk, Uriah Gregory, E. Bivens, Wm. C. Cheney, D. C. Dewey, P. H. O. Willibrand, C. B. Eells, Wm. C. Earl, James B. Steedman, Andrew Young, H. T. Smith, N. T. Nash, H. D. Kingsbury, Alex. Henderson, Gustavus Goldsmith, Jos. Thomas, C. D. Woodruff, Christ. Woehler, Leman Kraus, Jacob Kraus, H. P. Platt, Jos. K. Secor, David Ketcham, Leander Burdick, Chas. A. Moore, Lewis C. Hunt, Geo. F. Denison, H. Stebbins, H. W. Bigelow, Aug. Thomas, John Sinclair, H. S. Walbridge, Horace Thacher, Geo. Spencer, Jacob Landman, Chas. O'Hara, J. H. Kohn, Clark Waggoner, Geo. True, E. M. Brown, Wm. H. Atwill, Patrick H. Galloway, Chas. T. Wales, M. H. Porter, H. C. Nicholas, E. T. Mortimer, Henry Bennett, M. R. Waite, Jas. A. Boyd, Paul Edwards, J. Brown, J. H. Huyck, G. R. Peckman, W. A. Titus, R. W. Titus, Jas. H. Maples, John Brownlee, F. H. King, John P. Freeman, Dennis Coghlin, Louis H. Pike, Edward C. Smith, T. H. Hoag, Geo. Wilder, Matthew Shoemaker, H. Espy, A. V. Stebbins, John E. Hunt, Thos. Card, John E. Hunt, jr., Chas. I. Scott, F. J. Klauser, Jos. H. Joyce, H. D. Pugh, John Cummings, Geo. W. Hart, I. N. Hathaway, R. V. Boice, Robert Cummings, Chas. B. Roff, Wm. Roff, Robert W. Smith, Gilbert Rogers, jr., Wm. T. Hall, Jos. Coghlin, Thos. Dunlap, J. D. Crennan, M. C. Byrne, Chas. Kent, Hez. L. Hosmer, James C. Hall, W. W. Jones, Fred. A. Jones, John G. Fulton, C. H. Swain, A. G. Dooley, Wm. H. Harris, E. A. Thomas, John Kauffman, R. C. Daniels, G. P. Crosby, Thos. Howlett, Jas. Love, Lyman Parcher, Samuel Wagner, N. W. Eddy, A. H. Hathaway, Jos. E. Marx, G. D. Claflin, D. E. Gardner, C. M. Yeager, Frank J. Scott, T. Tuey, John Frank Wallace, Jos. Fitzpatrick, Alex. Reed, Chas. Pratt, W. G. Powers, J. B. Trembley, John M. Blodgett, David Anderson, John W. Fuller, Paul Jones, E. D. Nye, and hundreds of others.

In pursuance of this call, an immense assemblage of citizens gathered at the Union Depot, where Judge James Myers was chosen President; William C. Earl, Andrew Young and Henry S. Commager were made Vice Presidents; and N. T. Nash, Secretary. As a Committee on Resolutions, General Steedman, General C. W. Hill, H. S. Commager, Daniel Segur and J. W. Brown. Speeches were made by General Steedman, M. R. Waite, M. T. Brown, H. L. Hosmer, S. A. Raymond, D. S. Price, H. S. Commager and E. P. Bassett. The Committee on Resolutions reported the following, which was unanimously adopted :

WHEREAS, The Flag of our Country has been fired upon and struck down by rebels and traitors, who avow their purpose to march upon and capture the Capital and overturn the Government, therefore,

Resolved, That, as citizens, we pledge ourselves to ignore all past party distinctions, and give our united aid and support to our Government ; to protect the

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Capital; maintain the Government; punish the insult offered our Flag; and restore peace and tranquility to the Country.

Resolved, That, in our opinion, the Legislature of Ohio ought to make an appropriation of $5,000,000, and provide for raising a force of 50,000 troops, to aid in sustaining the National Government.

Philharmonic Hall-Summit Street-was at once engaged for "Patriotic Headquarters."

The Blade of the 17th of April, said : " Many of our citizens are awaiting instructions from General Carrington, Adjutant-General of Ohio, as to the mode of raising troops. Persons requiring information, may call on General C. B. Phillips, General J. B. Steedman or George P. Este." The same paper of the 18th, said " The work of enlistment is progressing here actively, and the enthusiasm is more general and deeper than at any former time." The recruited men were already drilling at Philharmonic Hall (the armory).

The following call appeared April 18, to wit:

YOUNG AMERICA TO THE RESCUE !

In all crises in the World's history, certain responsibility has attached to Young Men. To ascertain the state of feeling existing among America's Youth in this City, in this hour of sadness, we propose a meeting to be held at Stickney Hall (248 and 250 Summit Street), this evening at 7:00 o'clock. Let all who glory in the title of " Young America," turn out.

Signed by John L. Johnston, Hartwell Osborn, Theodore Sawyer, Eli M. Ashley, Orin S. Anderson, Henry S. Waite, R. B. Pratt, Charles Scott, James A. Eaton, Samuel R. Adams, George E. Welles, George C. Pepper, Charles J. Swift, T. H. Ellison, William Crowell, William H. H. Smith, E. P. Hopkins, George F. Hazlett, A. M. Blake, B. F. Card, Charles C. Starr, Fred. W. Haines, L. Goldsmith, William Bodley, William Markscheffel, John H. Doyle, Henry J. Chase, J. W. White, Carlos Colton, J. Kent Hamilton, John Henry, H. W. Dodd, James W. Clark, Foster W. Wilder, Charles R. Messenger, George E. Farley, C. F. Meyer, William P. Garret, J. O. Frisbee, Robert D. Whittlesey, Theodore J. Brown, Orin G. Olmstead, Ralph H. Waggoner, Edwin Avery, John E. Eldridge, H. J. Crane, William Corlett, William Burwick, A. Steele, Richard Bodley, William H. Perigo, Thomas Rowsey.

In pursuance of this call, a large and enthusiastic meeting was held, of which J. L. Johnston was Chairman, and Theodore Sawyer, Secretary. Remarks were made by Messrs. Johnston, Sawyer, Blake, and others, and resolutions adopted strongly endorsing the Government.

The first Company of Volunteers for the Union Army from Lucas County, was sworn in on the 17th. Sheriff Henry D. Kingsbury, George P. Este, E. P. Bassett and John A. Chase, each was raising a Company. It was expected that these would be filled in Toledo, and a Regiment within the Military District in a week from that time.

At the regular meeting of the Toledo Board of Trade, April 20th, it was " resolved, that the United States flag be raised over our building," and Charles A. King and Samuel S. Read were instructed to see that it was done. It was done.

April 19th, Robt. H. Bell, Joel W. Kelsey and Augustus Thomas, committee, gave notice that they had obtained from the citizens, contributions sufficient to defray the immediate necessary contingent expenses of the Companies organizing at Toledo. It was then expected by Governor Dennison, that three Companies from Toledo would be in Cleveland April 24th.

The Blade of April 20th, had at the head of its editorial columns, in large letters, the following:

GOD bless our Native Land

Firm may she ever stand,

Through storm and night!

When the wild tempests rave,

RULER of Wind and Wave,

Do Thou our Country Save,

By THY great might !

For her our prayers shall rise

To GOD above the skies

On HIM we wait.

LORD, hear our Nation's cry ;

Be THOU forever nigh

May Freedom never die

GOD save the State !

April 23d, three Companies enrolled at Toledo, were organized as follows:

COMPANY A (Anderson Guards).-Henry D. Kingsbury, Captain ; S. B. Moe, First Lieutenant ; Francis N. Marion, Ensign ; Sergeants-N. J. Doolittle, James H. Boggis, J. W. White, Robert Just; Corporals-Geo. W. Reynolds, Jr., B. F. Card, M. S. B. Truax, H. C. Roemer; Drummer-S. H. Anderson; Fifer-A. L. Callard. Privates-S. R. Adams, R. H. Bliven, H. W. Blodgett, H. P. Blake, Jacob Brand, I. G. Butterfield, Jacob Beach, Peter Bellman, Edward Becker, David Brett, Wm. Church, John E. Cobb, Henry S. Commager, Frank Y. Commager, Luther H. Cook, Wm. Dustin, Samuel H. Decker, P. W. Disbrow, Isaac D'Isay, Marshal Davis, Evans, Archibald J. Eyster, Jas. F. Elliott, Ed. J. Fifield, Geo. Duncan Forsyth, Allen W. Frary, Geo. W. Freatenborough, Geo. Farley, Geo. Griswold,

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John Gates, Frank H. Gill, Geo. W. Gore, August Graft, Geo. W. Hames, John H. Hicks, John C. Hanson, Edward Hartman, Geo. F. Hazlett, Samuel W. Johnson, June, Patrick Kelley, Calvin S. Kimball, Fred. Kerbell. Ed. P. Lacy, Patrick Mitchell, Jas. Menhennick, Daniel Mills, Samuel Mills, Benj. F. McCord, Peter McCurdell, C. D. Meyer, Jas. McFadden, Walter McCarron, Samuel E. Norton, Henry G. Neubert, John Niehouse, Daniel H. Nye, Horace Odell, Geo. H. Pfanner, Daniel S. Price, Edward Paine, Geo. W. Rodebaugh, Isaac D. Riker, Fred. Rougement, Alpheus R. Rogers, W. F. Stopford, Thos. Scott, Win. A. Snyder, Edward Stephan, Chas. H. Thompson, Philo B. Town, John C. Wuerfel, Edward Williams, Andrew J. Wales, Geo. J. Williston, Albert V. Wilder, Wm. H. Wood, Horace H. Warren, Alonzo H. Wood, and Geo. N. Young.

COMPANY B.-Louis von Blessingh, Captain; John A. Chase, First Lieutenant; Wm. Schulz, Ensign; Sergeants-Louis Koeppel, Henry Sengmier, Philip Breids, L. T. Smidt; Corporals-Solomon Haughton, Casper Peters, Arthur Kraft, Frank Fleck ; Drummer-G. Milverstedt; Fifer-Henry Hermance. Privates-John Raymer, John Brillman, Willard Kishael, Henry Archer, Jas. Ostrander, Edson Pratt, Fine Green, C. G. Tilebitsz, Thos. Hinds, Gilbert Ostrander, I. A. Ingersoll, Michael Bess, Aaron Applegate, Aaron Lawrence, John Coon, Henry Belknapp, John Wedman, Fred. Waiman, Henry Bredt, Reed Harrison, Wm. Dustin, Emil Rompant, Anton Weil, Conrad Weil, Louis Sebastian, Michael Keish, John Hosh, Ferd. Walz, Christian Luishardt, Carl Has, Fritz Hobe, N. L. Grow, Ludwig Koehler, Geo. Diefenseller, Jerold Kuebler, Louis Roeger, James L. Bullard, Matthew Culligan, James McBride, Cornelius O'Callagren, Matthew Tooney, Aaron Ladsoir, Chas. Maculen, Franklin Harwood, August Hickenburg, Wm. Bingel, Christ. Sohr, Malvern McMillan, Haman Johnson, Jarol Alery, Wm. Gradolph, Phil. Roll, Geo. Hehner, Jacob Kramer, John Linden, Wm. Neiss, Anton Holzmann, Alex. Witesgreter, Ali Zimmer, Chris. Dittman, Benedict Emch, John Doerig, John Schickler, Robert Hartman, Jacob Smith, Lewis Richley, Henry Killen, John H. Lieppel, John Ryant, Thos. Brown, John J. Clarke, Lewis Noler, Harrison C. Williams, Christ. Corson, Davis Kirk, Henry Cook, Nelson Bordo, Jas. Alicky, Jas. Rubar, Samuel McDonald, H. R. Carson, Benj. F. Duston, H. W. Case, Michael Kenney, Nasson Edson, John William Cooper, John Cartwright, Sampson Hellrick, Norris Heller, A. Freeman, Solomon Martz, John Van Orman, Anton Himmelsbach.

COMPANY K.-Geo. W. Kirk, Captain ; John F. Wallace, First Lieutenant; Samuel Sherman, Second Lieutenant; Sergeants-Wm. Griffen, F. T. Warner, Edward Dodd, Win. Martin; Corporals-A. Shaumeloffel, E. C. Tillotson, Julius Hanpel, L. Hebenthall; Drummer, Win. Bentel; Fifer, J. McD. Miller. Privates-Jared W. Arnold, Lewis Angell, George Allen, Chas. Backus, Andrew Barten, Jos. Blumberger, Samuel Bayless, Wm. J. Barkley, Albert Burroughs, Horace Benedict, Chas. E. Browne, Chas. B. Betters, Jas. Brown, Thos. Byrne, Christ. Baum, Chas. Beecher, Jas. Betts, Franklin Brumhoffer, Morris Culver, Chas. Cline, Sylvester Chesebrough, Geo. Crouse, Clement Cochrane, Robert Carney, Anthony Debry, Thos. Delvin, Henry Denick, Henry Drago, Mathias Daum, Fred. Ersam, Chas. French, Wm. Fonstihl, Fred. Fobes, Haskell Farrer, Wm. Ferguson, Andrew Fisher, Thos. Graham, Oscar Gibson, Cyrus Greeley, Henry Gounier, Seneca Green, Simon Hollandwort, Henry Hansen, Joseph Hustider, Abram Height, Geo. Holloway, John Hedsick, John Hamilton, Michael Heister, Jasper Hayden, Jas. Hyne, Chas. Huster, Fred. Huddlemier, Geo. W. Harding, Geo. Kommor, Wm. Kelley, Conrad Kale, Washington King, John Kline, Oliver Lafontaine, Fred Lewis, Alex. Marker, John W. Miller, John McCarty, Geo. Myers, Jas. Pulver, Simon Pemberton, Francis Perry, Lewis Pipenger, DeWitt C. Rogers, Franklin Rhoad, Eli Roherdo, Michael Russell, Jos. Sudborough, Wm. Souls, Benj. F. Sherman, Gustavus Seminier, Jacob Steel, Michael Schamboserger, John Sour, Conrad Silling, Samuel Seaman, Geo. Smith, Israel Timmer, Walter A. Titus, Allis Thomas, Jos. A. Nasner, Myron Weaver, Truman Wheeler, Josiah Walker, Thos. Wakely, Jas. Wadman, Jas. Wickham, Ruel Wetmore, Patrick Welch, John Wagner, John Welles, and Simon Waldman.

The Blade of April 22d, had a letter from "A. R.," a colored citizen, expressing his own desire and that of his race generally, to be permitted to contribute toward the defense of the Government. After citing a law of Congress, prohibiting the employment of a colored man in any military capacity whatever, he said " I for one, have offered my services to a few of the officers of the Companies being formed here, as I wish to make myself useful as cook, waiter or in any other way, so I may have a hand in putting down the enemies of the Government." The patriotic citizen making that noble offer, little thought at the time, that the Slave-holding power, in whose behalf his race were excluded from military service, would persist in its madness, until the Government, for sheer self-preservation, should be compelled to repeal its prohibitory law and appeal to his race to take their place as equals of the officers whose menial service was the most he expected to be permitted to do for the Government who had thus degraded him and his race. It is just cause for regret, that the name of this patriotic colored citizen cannot be given here.

April 24, 1861, Colonel J. B. Steedman, commanding, issued his order for the "Northwestern Ohio Regiment " to proceed the next

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morning for rendezvous at Cleveland, D. H. Nye being detailed as Quartermaster. At 7 A. M , the Companies were to form on Magnolia and Superior streets, as follows : 1. Toledo Guards, Captain Kingsbury, 97 men. 2. Toledo Company, Captain Este, 124 men. 3. Bryan Company, Captain Fisher, 115 men. 4. Defiance Company, Captain Sprague, 103 men. 5. Stryker Company, Captain E. D. Bradley, 123 men. 6. Napoleon Company, Captain Crawford, 125 men. 7. Antwerp Company, Captain Snook, 97 men. 8. Wauseon Company,. .Captain Barber, 116 men. 9. Waterville Company, Captain Dodd, 102 men. 10. Toledo Company, Captain Kirk, 114 men. Total, 1,116 men. General Chas. W. Hill acted as Adjutant pro tem., assisted by General C. B. Phillips and Lieutenant J. W. Fuller. The foregoing order was carried out. The Blade said of the occasion : " Never has our City experienced such a day as the present. At early dawn, the people from the country began to arrive in immense crowds, and the firing of cannon aroused our own citizens from their slumbers, and by 9 o'clock there must have been 10,000 people on the streets. At the Railroad depot the scene was truly grand. The crowd filled the entire space devoted to passenger trains; but after energetic effort by the police, a passage was made and the troops, in sections, marched to the cars. The Regiment numbered 1,058 men, all told, composed mainly of young men. At 8 A. M. religious services had been conducted on the parade ground by Rev. H. B, Walbridge, of Trinity Episcopal Church. Much disappointment was felt by the Waynesfield Guards, Lieutenant R. B. Mitchell, commanding, that the offer of that Company had not been accepted by the President." At Cleveland, Regimental officers were chosen, as follows : Colonel, J. B. Steedman; Lieutenant-Colonel, Geo. P. Este; Major, Paul Edwards. Geo. W. Kirk succeeded Captain Edwards, in command of his Company, as did Lieutenant von Blessingh Captain Este. Upon organization at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, the Northwestern Regiment became the " Fourteenth Ohio," It left Camp for Marietta, via Columbus, May 22d, where they arrived on the 24th.*

The German Rifles (Yeager's), Toledo; the Waynesfield Guards, Maumee; and one Com-

* The history of this Regiment is given more fully elsewhere.

pany each from Delta, Fulton County, Bryan and Defiance, were not accepted, for the reason that the Regiment was full.

April 29th, a neat flag, made by Scholars in the Toledo Public Schools, was raised on the flag-staff of the High School building, in the presence of 1,000 Scholars. On motion of Judge Potter, Judge James Myers was made Chairman, when prayer was offered by Rev. Wm. W. Williams. After singing, addresses were made by Moses T. Brown, Superintendent Public Schools, and Messrs. W. A. C. Converse, Fred. B. Dodge, E. W. Dickerson, and E. W. E. Koch, Teachers. An original ode*-" Live

* Mr. Hasty's production was as follows:

LIVE, LIBERTY!

To arms! to arms! For yonder come the foe!

To arms ! to arms ! the battle-trumpets blow.

The tramp of Rebel hosts is heard

On every Southern plain;

Old Massachusetts draws her sword

For Lexington, again.

Then rise, ye sons of noble sires;

Defend your altars and your fires,

And lay the traitors low.

Chorus-Live, Freedom, live!

Liberty forever!

Union shall with Freedom live, Despotism, never

No, no, No!

The die is cast. See Sumpter's battered wall.

To arms ! to arms ! Must our dear country fall?

Shall bloody brigands pitch their tents

Beside Mt. Vernon's grave?

Shall Rattlesnakes and Pelicans
Above our Cities wave?

Shall Liberty herself be slain?

Must we put on a Southern chain?
It never shall be so.

Chorus-Live, Freedom, live, etc.

True blood flowed where Anderson's brave men

Were starved and wasted in their fortress pen.

Around, ten thousand yelling fiends,

Their murderous cannon ply;

Within, Columbia's noblest sons,

Half-smothered, bleed and die.

But every purple drop that fell,

Shall fertilize its dusty cell,

And to an Army grow.

Chorus-Live, Freedom, live, etc.

Through every State, from Oregon to Maine,

The shriek of Liberty resounds again ;

And every party, creed and clan,

Dissolving into one,

Throw past dissensions to the winds,

And to the rescue run

For we will raise that Flag again

Crush out the Rebels-break their chain,

Or fall before the foe.

Chorus-Live, Freedom, live, etc.

SYLVANIA, OHIO, April 25, 1861.

The impressive reading of the above by Mr. Brown made some parts of it truly electrical with the vast audience.

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Liberty"- written by Emerson E. Hasty, a graduate of the Toledo High School, was read by Mr. M. T. Brown, when the exercises closed with singing " The Star Spangled Banner."

May 6th, J. W. Kelsey and J. T. Maher, Sub-Committee, gave notice, that they could be found every Saturday, from 9 till 12 M., at the Harks building, Cherry street, with supplies for Soldiers' families.

The first Company of Militia of Reserve or Home Guards, Toledo, was organized by the election of officers, as follows : Captain, Chas. W. Hill; First Lieutenant, John W. Fuller; Second Lieutenant, John C. Gavin ; Sergeants Richard Waite, Victor Keen, A. G. Dooley, W. A. Collins, Geo. True; Corporals-John B. Lounsbury, A. W. Gleason, Alex. Reed, E. W. E. Koch, D. R. Austin, Robert D. Whittlesoy, Carlos Colton, M. W. Day; with 80 privates. It took the name of Toledo Citizens' Corps.

April 27th, a Company arrived at Toledo from Perrysburg, of which Asher Cook was the Captain, Arnold McMahon, First Lieutenant, and L. B. Blinn, Second Lieutenant. The Worth Guards, of Gilead, Wood County, 109 strong, Captain O. C. Carr, First Lieutenant J. J. Vorhes, and Second Lieutenant J. E. McGowan, arrived same day. Over $1,000 was raised in two hours at Gilead, for the benefit of the Guards and their families.

The Toledo Zouave Cadets, with 65 members, organized May 27, 1861, as follows:

Captain, Hamilton C. Colton ; First Lieutenant, Chas. N. Stevens ; Second Lieutenant, Jno. A. Waite ; Third Lieutenant, Chas. B. Scott; Sergeants-Wm. B. Parmelee, Jr., W. Hurt Walbridge, J. Scott, Chas. L. Brooks, C. W. Breed ; Corporals-Chas. J. Swift, Ralph Osborn, F. B. Shoemaker, A. W. Hunker. Privates-E. D. Potter, Jr., Orlin S. Hayes, John J. Hunker, R. D. Barker, W. E. Lawton, Geo. C. Pepper, A. E. Scott, R. J. Wheeler, Wm. H. Boos, B. Woodworth, E. M. Hamilton, S. L. Frazer, Wm. P. Gardner, John M. McKee, Allen H. Forsyth, O. T. Williams, Theo. J. Curtis, Thos. Southard, Wm. Murphy, G. Baker, Geo. Lilliland, C. Fisk, W. Calvert, J. Thomas, W. J. Chase, Wm. Kief, W. Dodd, Wm. W. Backus, C. Thomas, H. Clark, H. Burr, J. Murphy, Geo. Haskell, F. T. Lane, Levi Lownsbury, John W. Fitch, Chas. Scott, F. Wilder, Wm. Crowell, Henry S. Waite, J. Hail, Chas. Bond, E. Willey, Fred Hamlin, Jos. Beeley, Geo. Hazlett, H. Gavin, A. Brown, W. Vorace, J: Allen, Burton Taylor, J. E. Eldridge.

The following officers composed the staff of Brig.-General Charles W. Hill, First Brigade, First Division of Ohio troops, in three-months' service, under act of May 8, 1861: Lieutenant-Colonel John W. Fuller, Assistant Adjutant General; Major Charles C. Walcutt, Brigade Inspector; Major John B. Frothingham, Aide to Commander-in-Chief, detailed as Brigade Engineer; Major William A. Collins, Judge Advocate; Captains Reuben E. Champion and A. W. Hull, Aides-de-Camp.

The Third Wisconsin Regiment passed through Toledo July 13, 1861. It was commanded by Colonel C. S. Hamilton. The men were supplied with refreshments by the ladies of the City, for which Governor Randall, of that State, telegraphed his thanks. Or the 15th, the Fourth Wisconsin Regiment, Colonel H. E. Paine, reached Toledo, and were met at the depot by 30 ladies, who, with baskets of wholesome food, passed along the lire and dealt out the same to the hungry troops. John D. Campbell, Superintendent of the Michigan Southern Railroad, supplied coffee from the island House for the Soldiers. The Fifth Wisconsin, Colonel Amasa Cobb, passed Toledo July 25th, when, as in the cases of the Third and Fourth Regiments, the men were provided by Toledo ladies with an ample supply of food.

The following rates were paid for rations by the State in July, 1861: At Cleveland, $13.70 per 100; at Wooster and Warren, $13.85; at Toledo, $13.90. Army daily rations were then as follows: 20 oz. fresh and salt beef, or 12 oz. pork; 18 oz. soft bread or flour, or 12 oz. hard bread; 2 1/2 oz. beans, or 1 3-5 oz. rice; 1 5-6 oz. sugar; 1 oz. ground coffee; 1/3 gill of vinegar; 1/4 oz. candles; 2/3 oz. soap; 1/2 oz. salt.

A meeting of citizens of Toledo was held Sept. 1, 1861, to devise ways and means for the relief of families of soldiers, of which Clark Waggoner was Chairman, and Warren Russell Secretary. The chair appointed Wm. Kraus, C. A. King and C. B. Phillips a committee to wait upon the City Council and ascertain what that body could do in the premises, and also appointed M. R. Waite, F. A. Jones and Charles Pratt a committee to confer on the same subject with the County authorities.

In October, 1861, Military Districts were established in Ohio corresponding to the Congressional Districts, with a Military Committee for each, whose duty it was to look after the work of recruiting and otherwise co-operate with the Governor. Such Committee for the 5th District was as follows: Francis Holler-

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beck, Wood Co.; A. Sanky Latty, Defiance ; Richard Mott, Lucas ; S. W. Norris, Williams ; Dr. R. K. Scott, Henry; John H. Palmer, Hancock; Joseph Cable, Paulding.

Special arrangements were made for caring for the savings of Ohio Soldiers when paid off in the field, which worked well. Capt. Jonathan Brown, Co. K, 25th Regiment, in October, 1861, brought $15,000 from that command, of which $1,800 came to Toledo. At the same time a Cincinnati Regiment sent $14,000.

The Military Committee for the 9th District, Oct. 11, 1861, appointed the following County Committees:

Ottawa-W. L. Cole, E. P. Reynolds, R. Devereaux, J. Lattimore, John Ryder. Sandusky-La Q. Rawson, James Justice, C. O. Tillotson, C. Doncyson, Isaac Knapp. Hardin-Henry G. Harris, Edward Stellings, Thos. Rough, Benjamin R. Bronson, Wm. Shrader. Wyandot-H. S. Hunt, John Berry, Jona. Maffett, Michael Moran, Alex. Brinkerhoff. Crawford-Josiah S. Plants, S. R. Harris, C. Elliott, Robert Lee, H. C. Carhart. Seneca-Leander Stem, John J. Steiner, J. M. Zahm, G. M. Ogden, Chas. Foster. Lucas R. C. Lemmon, Moses T. Brown, W. W. Howe, John T. Maher, and Guido Marx, of Toledo ; Foster R. Warren, of Sylvania ; Jas. M. Brigham, of Waterville ; Dr. W. A. Scott, of Swanton; and Geo. W. Reynolds, of Maumee.

October 26, 1861, the Toledo Bar gave Colonel J. A. Mulligan, the hero of Springfield, Mo., a public reception at White's Hall, and a supper at the Oliver House.

The Toledo Zouave Cadets elected the following officers, October 7, 1861, to wit:

Captain. Hamilton Colton; First Lieutenant, Wm. E. Parmelee, Jr.; Second Lieutenant, Chas. B. Scott; Third Lieutenant, Henry S. Waite ; Sergeants-Chas. N. Stevens, Theo. J. Curtis, Wm. W. Bolles, Win. H. Perigo, Fred. B. Shoemaker. Corporals-Charles Scott, Walter J. Chase, Chas. J. Swift, Wm. Keif, Geo. W. Haskell, Wm. Murphy, Wm. W. Backus, Andrew H. Hunker.

The Military Committee for the District met at Toledo, July 23, 1862, with the following members present:

Lucas County -F. R. Warren, W. A. Scott, John T. Maher, W. W. Howe, J. M. Brigham, A. L. Backus, Geo. W. Reynolds, H. C. Lemmon. Sandusky County La Q. Rawson, C. O. Tillotson, Jas. Justice. Wood County-Geo. Laskey, J. E. McGowan, B. W. Johnson, John Norris, H. H. Dodge. Williams County-James Beery, J. S. Cannan, I. R. Sherwood, B. H. Fisher, S. E. Blakeslee. Fulton County- Jos. H. Miller, D. W. H. Howard, N. Merrill, O. B. Verity, O. Waters.

Henry County- J. H. Tyler, Lorenzo Higby. Defiance County-Finlay Strong, J. P. Buffington. Ottawa County-W. L. Cole. Paulding County-S. R. Brown.

Among the proceedings of the Committee was the recommendation of officers for the 100th Ohio Regiment, as follows : Colonel, Wm. E. Haynes, of Fremont, then Captain in 8th Ohio; Lieutenant-Colonel, P. S. Slevin, of Perrysburg ; Major, E. L. Hayes, of Wauseon, then Captain 44th Illinois; Surgeon, Dr. W. A. Scott, Lucas County ; Assistant Surgeon, Dr, O. C. Pier, Napoleon ; Quartermaster, David R, Austin, Toledo; Chaplain, Rev. Mr. Griffin, Port Clinton.

The Lucas County Committee, August 9, 1861, recommended J. W. Smith for appointment as Captain ; Horace H, Warren and Patrick H. Dowling as First Lieutenants, and John H. Haverly as Second Lieutenant in the 100th Regiment. The last named, then a resident of Toledo, has since attained special prominence as manager and proprietor of leading Theatrical and Opera enterprises in different Cities. He was not appointed as Lieutenant.

The Governor appointed John C. Groom, of Columbus, Colonel of the 100th Regiment, which left Toledo, September 8th, The following were the non-commissioned staff: Sergeant-Major, Norman Waite ; QuartermasterSergeant, John W. Polk; Commissary-Sergeant, Henry W. Titus; Principal Musician, Jacob Marts; Hospital Steward, Jos. Orno.

During the rebellion, the Blade office was at No. 150 Summit Street. On the top of the building was a flag-staff, on which, as occasion suggested, the stars and stripes appeared. In times of special interest, and particularly when important war news was expected, that signal was looked for with deepest solicitude, since its appearance came to be accepted as indicating the receipt of " good news " (though not always the most reliable news, since misleading or partial reports sometimes came). On Monday, February 17, 1862, under the heading, "Our Flag is There," the Blade said: "Throughout the day, Saturday, and until 10 this A. M., the Blade's flag-staff was watched by eager and longing eyes for the stars and stripes, the unfurling of which, it was ardently hoped, would signal a triumph at Fort Donelson. Few persons in the neighborhood of the office stepped into the street without giving an anxious glance toward that center of general inter-

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est, and many a one often stepped to the nearest window, in hope to see the glorious old banner unfurled. About the hour named, longing eyes and anxious hearts were made glad by the appearance of the much sought banner; and then the tide set in strongly for the Blade office, to obtain 'the particulars.' Such a joyous crowd as soon gathered there, has not been seen in Toledo since the morning of the 22d of July last, when the first installment of the Bull Run news was received. (May the second installment of Donelson be different from that of Bull Run.) Joy now beams from every eye, and many a ' Thank the Lord!' has found utterance from grateful hearts. Immediately following the Blade's flag, the stars and stripes were flung to the breeze from the Custom House, the Board of Trade Rooms, the High School building, and other places in the City."

The 18th Michigan Regiment passed through Toledo, September 4, 1862, for Kentucky. It contained 1,010 men, raised principally in Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties. The following were the field officers: Colonel, Charles C. Doolittle; Lieutenant-Colonel, Geo. Spalding; Major, John W. Horner; Adjutant, A. J. Finch; Quartermaster, Jas. W. Pratt; Surgeon, Simeon P. Root; Asst. Surgeon, A. Woodward. Edwin W. Hulburd of Hudson, and subsequently of Toledo, where he died, was Captain of Company A in this Regiment. At the depot, Henry Waldron of Hillsdale, presented the command a fine flag. Colonel Doolittle, subsequently promoted, is now (1887) and for 14 years has been, Cashier of the Merchants National Bank of Toledo.

The following Surgeons, to superintend drafting, were appointed in August, 1862: Leman Galpin, Milan ; Wm. Ramsey, Fulton Co.; Wm. Crawford, Henry; W. W. Jones, Toledo; Jas. W. Wilson, Fremont; R. McD. Gibson, Seneca Co.; G. W. Finch, Williams; H. A. Hamilton, Perrysburg.

July 15, 1862, the Military Committee recommended officers of two Companies to be raised in Lucas County, as follows : FirstP. Hoffman, Captain; D. F. Waltz, First Lieutenant; J. E. Greiner, Second Lieutenant. Second-W. W. Hunt, Captain ; E. E. Stewart, First Lieutenant; A. J. Wales, Second Lieutenant. August 13th, the same Commit. tee agreed upon the following appointments For Captain-Martin O'Neil; First Lieutenant-J. J. Sullivan; Second LieutenantsThos. Ward, Louis Keiser, Paris H. Pray, Geo. W. Arnold, Martin Stryker, J G. Manor, W. J. Halloway, H. N. Cole, J. Kent Hamilton, Louis H. Pike, Henry T. Bissell, Fred. A. Jones, Thos. Cherry, Reuben Hall, Jacob Gelzer, John W. Kerr. Dr. W. W. Jones was recommended as Examining Surgeon of recruits; R. C. Lemmon as Military Commissioner; and W. A. Collins as Provost Marshal for the County.

Upon receipt of news of the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and of need of additional surgical service, several Toledo practitioners tendered their services to Governor Tod, who accepted the same, when Dr. Chas. Cochran, Oscar White, S. S. Thorn, L. A. Brewer, and J. G. Nolan left for Columbus, whence two (Drs. Cochran and Thorn), proceeded to Pittsburg Landing.

The Assessors of the several Townships in Lucas County, made returns in August, 1862, showing the following results : Number men in three-year service, 1,466 ; number in threemonth service, 84; number discharged, 54; "Skedaddlers," 13; deserters, 6; number then liable to draft, 4,266 ; total enrollment, 5,889. The Assessor for the Second Ward, Maumee City, found in it 62 persons liable to Military duty, of whom 31-just one-half-were already in the Union Army.

A public meeting was held in Toledo, July 14, 1862, for the promotion of enlistments in the Army, and especially to fill two Companies then assigned to Lucas County. M. R. Waite was made Chairman, and Josiah Riley, Secretary. R. C. Lemmon explained the object of the meeting, when Richard Mott, Wm. Baker, Wm. Kraus, M. R. Waite, and A. L. Backus, were appointed a Committee to raise funds for the object named. Alex. Reed was appointed to arrange for speakers for meetings to be held for the same purpose. The meeting was ad dressed by M. R. Waite, R. C. Lemmon, A. L. Backus, Wm. Kraus. Dr. W. W. Jones, S. A. Raymond, Chas. Pratt, Octavius Waters of Fulton County, A. M. Pratt of Williams County, and N. Reeve of Detroit.

A very large "War Meeting " was held in Clinton Park, Toledo, August 1, 1862. Most of the stores and shops in the City were closed. The officers were : President, M. R. Waite;

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Marshal, General Jos. W. Brown ; Assistant Marshals, Captain Geo. W. Merrill and Captain E. S. Platt; Committee in Charge, E. B. Bronson, R. C. Lemmon, W. W. Howe, John P. Freeman, J. W. Walterhouse. Addresses were delivered by F. T. Backus and H. B. Payne (mow United States Senator), of Cleveland. Fully 4,000 persons were present.

The young ladies of Toledo, in June, 1862, forwarded to Battery H, First Ohio Artillery, two flags-one for the Battery, and one for Division C of the same. The staff of one of them was of black walnut and was taken from a Georgia Regiment by the 14th Ohio, while in the three-months service.

September 10, 1862, Governor Tod called for volunteer Minute Men for the protection of the Southern border of the State, when an ample force at once was furnished, who proceeded to Cincinnati, whence many of them were ordered into Kentucky, serving the purpose sought in holding in check Rebel advances. So prompt was the response to this call, that only three days later (Sept. 13), the Governor telegraphed " No more troops are required at Cincinnati." Under call of the Military Committee, a meeting was held at Toledo, September 10, which was called to order by C. D. Woodruff, and presided over by Mayor Manor, with Henry Merrill as Secretary. As a result, two Companies of 50 men each were raised on the spot, and officers elected as follows : Co. A-Captain Worts; First Lieutenant, John Garner; Second Lieutenant, Ed. Avery. Co. B-Captain, E. B. Hall ; Lieutenant, R. C. Lemmon. The Toledo forces returned September 19th, when appeared a card of thanks of Co. A, First Regiment Ohio Rifles, Captain E. B. Hall, L. H. Pike, F. A. Jones and Frank J. Scott, Committee, for attentions shown them by the ladies of Covington and Dayton. These troops, from their peculiar, and especially their brief service, were known as "Squirrel Hunters."

In May, 1863, Adjutant-General C. W. Hill was in Toledo, and them presented to such volunteers as were present, the Governor's discharge. The diploma was neatly engraved. On the upper right-hand corner was a likeness of the Governor; on the opposite corner one of Major McDowell; on the right lower corner a Squirrel Hunter, gum in hand, and knapsack on his back; opposite, on the left, a broken tree, in which sat a squirrel, inspecting the interior of a nut; in the center, the seal of the United States; underneath, that of Ohio, am( in the center of all, the Governor's certificate.' The total number of " Squirrel Hunters " ii the State was 11,534.

In August, 1862, the following Army Surgeons were appointed : Geo. Cornell, Milan T. M. Cooke, Monroeville; Geo. A. Collamore Toledo; J. T. Woods, Hancock County; Dr. L. A. Brewer, Toledo. Assistant SurgeonsWalter Caswell, Castalia; F. C. Connelly Vermillion ; J W. Miner, Edgerton ; W. H Thacher, Defiance; John W. Goodson, Bellevue

The darkest period of the Union cause, in the progress of the War, was that commenting in the Summer of 1862 and extending to July, 1863. The serious disappointments o the campaign of 1862, had operated both to moderate the zeal of many loyal men at the North, and to strengthen and embolden those in sympathy with the Rebels. The effects to this state of things were clearly shown in the Fall elections of that year, when the opponent of the War policy of the Government mad unexpected gains in most of the Northern States, and greatly strengthened their force ii Congress. This was specially true of Ohio, where the Union majority of 55,203 on Governor in 1861, was changed to a minority of 4,870 in 1862. So general was this indication of a reverse in popular sentiment at the North, that the soldiers in the field came to be solicitons as to its extent, and sought to ascertain what was likely to be their reliance for support in recruits and other means. With such view the Ohio Soldiers in the Western Army, from "the Battlefield of Stone River," February 1 1863, issued an address to the loyal people o Ohio, setting forth the aim and hope which in spired the men at the front, and the correspondimg responsibility and duties of the men at home. No appeal made during the war

* THE SQUIRREL HUNTER'S DISCHARGE-Cincinnati was menaced by the enemies of our Union; David Tod, Governor of Ohio, called on the Minute Men of the State, and the "Squirrel Hunters" came by thousands to the rescue. You, --, was one of them, and this is your honorable discharge.

CHARLES W. HILL, Adjutant-General of Ohio.

MALCOM McDOWELL, Major and A. D. C.

Approved, DAVID TOD, Governor September, 1862.

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could have excelled this in patriotic sentiment; in recital of sufferings endured ; in statement of assistance needed; and in presentation of claim for prompt and adequate aid-physical, in men and means; and moral, in the manifestation of a sound loyalty and assurance of the sympathy of those at home. The character and spirit of the paper may be understood from the following extracts therefrom, to wit:

People of Ohio! But one alternative is left you. You must pronounce this a just Rebellion. You must say that it was right and justifiable to destroy this Republic; that a Republic is a weak, helpless Government, powerless to sustain itself, and to be destroyed whenever conspirators enough can be rallied for the purpose. Or, you must show to the World the power of self- preservation in the great example of Confederated Republics-that it has a quiet, dormant force, which, aroused, has gigantic strength and energy ; that it not only can protect its citizens in all of their rights and privileges, but can sustain itself, as well against foreign attack as internal treason.

We [the Army] are fighting for the Republic. To it, we have given our hearts, our arms and our lives. We intend to stand between you and the desolating hosts of the Rebels, whose most cherished hope and desire have been and are, to take possession of and ravage your own beautiful Ohio. Once, already, we have stood as a living wall between you and this fate, and we may have to do it again.

Men of Ohio! You know not what this Western Army has suffered. You know not now, the hardships and sufferings of your Soldiers in their chill tents-their shelterless bivouacs-their long, weary marches, and their battle-thinned ranks. If there be honesty and purity in human motives, they must be found among your long-enduring Soldiers.

Hear us ! And for your country's sake, if not for ours, stop your wild, shameless political strifes; unite for the common cause ; and never think or speak of Peace and Compromise, until the now empty terms mean The Republic as it was-peaceably, if that may be; forcibly, at all events.

The Army of the West is in terrible earnest - earnest, to conquer and destroy armed Rebelsearnest, to meet face to face-earnest, in its hearty detestation of cowardly Traitors at home- earnest, in will and power to overcome all who desire the Nation's ruin. Ohio's one hundred thousand Soldiers in the field, Citizens at home-potent in either capacity-ask their fathers, brethren and friends, by their firesides and in their peaceful homes, to hear and heed this appeal ; and to put an end to covert Treason at home, more dangerous now to our National existence, than the presence of the armed hosts of misguided Rebels in the field.

The authorship of this paper was attributed to Colonel J. M. McConnell, 17th Ohio Infantry. The address reached Ohio about the 20th of February, and was received with an enthusiasm equal to any that could have been expected. Public meetings were held in all parts of the State, from which went responses earnest and cheering to the Soldiers.

A preliminary meeting was held at Toledo, February 27th, which was called to order by Richard Mott, who nominated for President, Denison B. Smith. Darwin E. Gardner was chosen Secretary. Morrison R. Waite, D. B. Smith and D. E. Gardner, were appointed a Committee to prepare a suitable response from the people to the Appeal of the Soldiers for circulation and signature by the people. Addresses were made by S B. Scott, A. G. Clark, Andrew Stephan, and Wm. Kraus, in approval of such action. On motion of Alex. Reed : H. S. Walbridge, Wm. Kraus, F. J. King, T. H. Hoag, Denison Steele and R. H. Bell, were appointed as Committee of Arrangements for a Mass Meeting to be held at Toledo at such time as they might deem proper. The meeting adjourned till the 2d of March.

At the time named, a large gathering of citizens of Lucas and other Counties of Northwestern Ohio, was held at White's Hall, Toledo. The Appeal of Ohio Soldiers in the field was read by Rev. E. B. Raffensperger, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Toledo. The Committee charged with the preparation of an address (understood to have been written by M. R. Waite) in response to the Appeal of Ohio Soldiers, was read and approved. The Committee appointed February 27th,. had made arrangements for a Union Mass Meeting, at Toledo, March 18th, and made report of their action.

At the appointed time, notwithstanding the very unpropitious state of the weather, the attendance was very large, being estimated as high as 8,000, and from all portions of Northwestern Ohio. The procession formed soon after 10 A. M., and after marching on different Streets, returned to the Union Railway Depot, and was dismissed for dinner. The gathering in the afternoon was declared to be the largest ever seen in Toledo. The officers of the occasion, as previously selected, were as follows

PRESIDENT-Morrison R. Waite.

VICE PRESIDENTS-Lucas County: D. B. Smith, Chas. Kent, Lyman Wheeler, Dennis Coghlin, Mayor Brigham, Geo. A. Carpenter, Warren Colburn, T. H. Hoag, Chas. A. King, Jacob Landman, J. Bash, Ed.

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Connelly, S. L. Collins, Haskell D. Warren, Chas. A. Crane, Geo. W. Reynolds, Dr. John Smith, Capt. Thomas Watts, James C. Wales, James Taylor, Wm. Cole, Elijah Dodd, Patrick Quigley, Patrick Carey, Pliny Lathrop. Putnam County : Geo. Skinner, H. J. Boehmer, C. M. Godfrey. Fulton County : Nahum Merrill, M. D. Hibbard, A. C. Hough, Octavius Waters. Defiance County : Jonas Colby, Edwin Phelps, Judge Ensign, Samuel Roher. Henry County: A. J. Haley, Chas. H. Horning, Cyrus Howard. Williams County: A. M. Pratt, P. W. Norris, H. A. Ensign, James Bell, Peter Planson. Wood County: Gilbert Beach, Col. J. S. Norton, Dr. E. D. Peck, George Laskey. Paulding County : H. N. Curtis, B. B. Woodcock.

SECRETARIES-Clark Waggoner, James A. Boyd, Cyrus H. Coy, and Wm. C. Earl.

MARSHAL-Gen. John E. Hunt.

ASSISTANT MARSHALS--John D. Campbell, Geo. H. Burroughs, Albert L. White, Robert H. Bell, Col. Chas. B. Phillips, Matthew Shoemaker, Lieut.-Col. Paul Edwards, H. J. Hayes.

COMMITTEE OF RECEPTION-Mayor J. J. Manor, D. E. Gardner, Paul Jones, James C. Hall, Geo. W. Davis, Augustus Thomas, Wm. Baker, J. R. Osborn, Moses T. Brown, V. H. Ketcham, W. W. Griffith, P. H. Birckhead.

After music by the band of St. Francis de Sales Temperance Society, the President called the assemblage to order, and was about to proceed with the regular programme of the occasion, when his attention was called to a blackened, torn flag, borne toward the stand, and followed by an infirm gentleman, evidently advanced in age, who proved to be Rev. Geo. Taylor, Chaplain of 8th Michigan Infantry, on his way home, by request of his Regiment, with their tattered banner. On reaching the stand and being introduced, he held up the tattered flag and said

I am a poor, sick, and emaciated Chaplain of the Army. I have been trying to serve my country as a Soldier, and I thank God, that I have been there. I present to you the flag of the 8th Michigan Infantry. It has been to Port Royal, and wherever men have gone to fight. This is the banner which led the glorious 8th Michigan through all the battles they have been in. See the motto : " One Country-One Destiny." I want you to understand, that this is the spirit of the Michigan Soldiers. I could not go through here without saying that the Army at least that portion of it which comes from Michigan-wonders at the dissensions at home. You talk to them about Generals-one man in favor of McClellan, another for Joe Hooker, and another for somebody else; but, they are all in favor of going to the front. Oh, how glad I am to see a Union feeling waking up. Spur yourselves to the contest, and let the motto of our glorious flag-"One Country-One Destiny "be yours ! The victory shall be achieved, and our glorious country be the greatest that God ever made.

The effect of this episode was electrical, and it was received with cheers, and a vote of thanks. It could not have been more timely or more happy in its effect with the vast concourse who witnessed it.

Wm. Baker, on behalf of the Committee, read telegrams and letters received from Colonel Moses R. Brailey, Major I. R. Sherwood, and Henry T. Bissell, Committee of 111th Ohio Infantry, then at Bowling Green, Ky.; from Colonel J. C. Groom, 100th Ohio; Colonel E. H. Phelps, 68th Ohio; Colonel Geo. P. Este, commanding Post at Lavergne, Tenn.; J. Reynolds, President, and James F. Pray, Secretary 14th Ohio, endorsed by General Robert Mitchell ; General Egbert B. Brown ; James Myers, Representative, Columbus; D. S. Dickinson, Albany, N.. Y.; Governor David Tod, Ex-Governor Wm. Dennison, Samuel Galloway, Columbus; and Wm. S. Groesbeck, Cincinnati.

President Waite made report of a recent visit by him to several Ohio Regiments in the South, including the 14th, 38th and 21st. He then introduced Colonel Isaac R. Hawkins, from Tennessee, who addressed the meeting at some length and with special effect. Geo. C. Bates, of Chicago, followed, but deferred his speech until the evening. He told how he had himself been a Soldier, with spurs and shoulder straps in a great War; bow, at the time of the " Toledo War "-when Ohio stole Michigan's land-he won his promotion; how he camped out in Major Stickney's orchard, captured One Stickney and Two Stickney; how Indiana Stickney and Maryland Stickney visited the Wolverine camp, beseeching, with tears, for the release of their One, Two brothers:* He said he was a Toledo man, and knew more of its early history than did the great body of its present inhabitants, having come here when the first tide of emigration rolled Westward; and sat down on the banks of the Maumee, when Toledo was a hamlet of not more than half a dozen families.

While the main meeting was in progress, another was held at the North end of the Island House, which was addressed by Moses T.

* A peculiarity in Major Stickney's family, consisted the naming of his sons, One and Two, and his daughters after States of the Union.

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Brown, Superintendent Toledo Public Schools, and by James M. Ashley, then a Representative in Congress.

The evening meeting was an enthusiastic one, and was addressed by Mr. Bates, Col. Hawkins, and Mr. Ashley. Mr. Waite read resolutions adopted by the 14th Ohio, and Mr. Baker the address of Col. John W. Fuller's Regiment, (27th Ohio). Wm. C. Earl presented resolutions, such as had been adopted by a mammoth meeting of citizens of New York, at Cooper Institute, which were adopted, when the meeting adjourned.

The prepared response of citizens to the appeal of Ohio Soldiers was afterward sent to them, bearing the names of about 2,500 citizens of Northwestern Ohio, largely made up of those prominent in active life, and embracing men of both political parties. That paper, locally so prominent and influential in that crisis in the Nation's life, assumed historic value. It is reproduced here, with the names of citizens of Lucas County, whose signatures thereto attest their unswerving loyalty to their country's cause in the darkest hour of its existence, and their earnest sympathy with those of their neighbors who had patriotically undertaken the privations, toils and dangers of the camp and the field. It has seemed proper that side by side, should here appear, so fully as may be, the names of those who "went to the front " from Lucas County, and of those who as loyally stood faithfully on guard in the no less important sphere of civil co- operation and support at home. Without such joint devotion, nothing effective could have been accomplished by either branch of the great Union host. That such was the belief of the Soldiers in the field, is clearly shown by their impassioned appeal for the °' home support " which they recognized as indispensable to their success. That such appeal was not made in vain, is shown by the response here reproduced

Soldiers of Ohio, enrolled in the Army of the United States:

We thank you, for the long-continued and patient endurance of the toils, privations and dangers of a Soldier's life. We thank you for your deeds of noble daring on the field of battle, by which you have covered yourselves and your State with glory. And last, but not least, we thank you-from our hearts, we thank you-for the words of wise and patriotic counsel you send back to us from the battle fields of "the front," in this, the hour of our greatest peril! From the Headquarters of the Commander of the Army of the Cumberland, Ohio's sons whom she is proud to know she gave to the Army of the Union from the bloody field of Stone River-from every place where an Ohio Soldier can pen a message to " the loved ones at home," there come appeals which we will not-we cannot-disregard.

Yes, Soldiers, as you well have said: "This is a War for the Republic ; and he who is not for it, is against it." This is no time to divide upon measures. You know no law, but obedience to the will of your Commander. Your Commander-in-Chief is your President. His heart is full of love for his country, and he acts only as his judgment tells him the necessities of his country demand. What he commands, you carry into execution ; and so long as it is his duty to decide what shall be done, we will not, when that decision is made, weaken the blow which you are to give, by discussing at home, for party or political purposes, the merits of that decision. W e know no Government, but that which has our time honored Constitution for its foundation ; and while this great danger is upon us, that Government, in its efforts to restore the integrity of the Union, shall have our cordial and united support. When the danger shall be over, let those in power give account of their stewardship, and receive the reward or punishment which their conduct shall deserve.

You went into the field to fight for the Union, the whole Union, and nothing but the Union! When you left your homes on this errand of patriotism, we spoke to you from our hearts, the words of hope and encouragement, and we registered in Heaven an oath, never, by any fault of ours, should dishonor come upon you ! Nobly have you performed the part which you then took upon yourselves ! When the history of your campaign shall be written, it will cast into the shade that of all other Wars the world has seen. True, the work is not done ; but the time has not yet come, when you are to be told that the Union you went forth to maintain " cannot be restored by the armed hand." Some may tell you so, who see no way to their own elevation, but upon your disgrace ; but such men know not the great heart of the People, or of the brave Soldiers in the Army of the Union from our noble State, because it is held only by those who dare not risk their lives to defend the country's honor.

Soldiers ! the work before you is a noble one. It is nothing less than to make that "good old Flag," which was born in the battlefields of the Revolution and baptized in the blood of our Fathers, again respected on every foot of soil which has been honored by its protecting care. That, Soldiers, is the work of our age. And with you in front, standing shoulder to shoulder, with the brave men who come from our sister States, to vie with you for the Hero's crown, to strike-and with union at home and hearts in earnest as yours are in earnest to uphold and support you when the blow is given-there is no power on Earth that can, and none in Heaven that will, prevent our triumph.

In this great crisis we have each a part to perform.

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You have yourselves assigned them. You say you are "fighting for the Republic," and to it you have given "your hearts, your arms and your lives." We know you have. Your gallant bearing on many a well-fought field, tells what you have assumed to do. Of us, you ask that we shall " stay, support and uphold your hands." Soldiers, we will do it! And knowing "in union there is strength," and in disunion there is weakness, we will make the support of the Government our rallying-point; and as the traitors have forced upon us the alternative of conquering or being conquered, we accept the issue ; and in conducting this war, we pledge ourselves to you, to each other, to our Country, and to God, that we will devote our lives and our substance to the support of the Government, and maintain the Union of these States, " now and forever-one and inseparable."

This paper bore the signatures of the following citizens of Lucas County

TOLEDO.

Morrison R. Waite. W. C. Phillips.

Darwin E. Gardner. Daniel J. Mattocks, Jr.

Denison B. Smith. A. W. Barlow.

Richard Mott. D. V. Edsil.

William Kraus. H. J. Williams.

James M. Ashley. Joseph H. Williams.

Charles Kent. Charles A. King.

John E. Hunt. H. S. Walbridge.

Joseph W. Brown. Frank J. King.

Peter Lenk. Thomas C. Stewart.

Matthew Brown. John J. Manor.

Ebenezer Walbridge. Clark Waggoner.

Frank J. Scott. Denison Steele.

Truman H. Hoag. Fred. A. Jones.

W. S. Towle. Calvin Bronson.

Dan. A. Waterman. Mavor Brigham.

Wm. T. French. Alex. Reed.

G. F. Richardson. William O. Brown.

Carlos Colton, Jr. Henry W. Claflin.

John Stevens. R. E. Morey.

H. J. Haves. George Torber.

George W. Dart. John T. Maher.

Wm. H. Bellman. Samuel A. Raymond.

Gustave Wittstein. Charles T. Wales.

George Woodbury. Levi Snell. .

E. B. Hyde. P. Martel.

I. H. Wright. Joseph Tolman.

W. W. Griffith. James Tolman.

Harry Chase. Robert W. Smith.

Thomas Daniels. Alfred Braun.

Henry S. Waite. R. V. Bowes.

C. S. Sevin. Emery D. Potter, Sr.

Wm. J. Finlay. W. H. Clark.

J. H. Locke, Jr. Geo. H. Richardson.

Charles Scott. Theo. B. Casey.

W. W. Sherwood. Adam Burgert.

Wm. B. Welles. C. W. White.

George Bunde. Luther Whitney.

F. Bunde. John B. Lownsbury.

John G. Sullivan. Hudson B. Hall.

H. Blankmeyer. H. A. Boyd.

Frank C. Courte. Ralph W. Baker.

James Mallon. Samuel B. Scott.

John Pfisterer. B. H. Hitchcock.

C. H. Schmelzfennig. Madison Miller.

Henry M. Samsen. Benjamin Mallett.

Plympton Buck. T. B. Richardson.

John A. Conway. Geo. W. Hart.

Mark Knight. George Baker.

Henry Gross. R. O. Morse.

James Cunningham. Samuel M. Young,

James Cunningham, 2d. W. A. DeForest.

John Mulhenny. Charles Ballard.

Charles Gradolph. E. G. Crane.

Dan. A. Collins. Joseph Cooke.

J. M. Hall. S. G. Lane.

Thomas Carlisle. William Keyl.

W. S. Dustin. Edward Danforth.

James Snow. H. J. Totten.

James Draper. D. Morris.

Minot J. Wilcox. Wm. C. Huffman.

J. H. Park. J. A. Corbusier.

Benjamin Brower. Horace H. Butler.

J. P. Flynn. M. B. Butler.

Peter Graver. Timothy Sheldon.

Robert Cummings. William Roff.

John Cummings. Charles B. Roff.

P. M. Ainsley. Jerry Peck.

J. D. McKenley. O. A. Bostwick.

Wm. H. Dyer. C. F. W. Ahrendt.

A. C. Tubbs. Herman Neufaldt.

H. Birkenkemp. George Worts.

Conrad Rupple. Alva C. Johnson.

M. E. Fahnestock. Israel Roberts.

G. E. Coulson. W. C. Tisdel.

B. Allen. J. M. Hauser.

Fred. Schaal. James Birchall.

John Enderlin. Theo. Stahl.

S. Van Noorden, Jr. A. A. Fahnestock.

H. C. Hall. I. R. Nelson.

Henry Miller. John Bell.

John W. May. William A. Beach.

S. B. Hathaway. William Cutway.

George F. Dunning. Frank P. Isherwood.

S. A. Wheeler. Henry J. Chase.

Hugh Gavin. Joseph Miller.

Frank T. Lane. Theo. Lewis.

Fred. Hand. F. Bigelow.

Edward Yardley. John Sallis.

Albert G. Dooley. M. Hoffman.

Chas. S. Tarbox. Peter Phillips.

Geo. R. Haynes. Allen Kirk.

Maurice A. Scott. C. T. Hubbard.

T. N. Finney. C. S. Crossman.

J. Austin Scott. James Maloney.

John Kohn. John Autibus.

John Best. John Sinclair.

H. G. Weber. D. W. Kellogg.

J. T. Bickel. Chas. B. Benedict.

Chas. O. Brigham. Charles O'Hara.

W. Sceazan. David Miller.

M. D. Carrington. Leonard Wilcox.

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Geo. Gassaway. Andrew J. Hand.

Henry D. Walbridge. A. Rutherford.

James H. Maples. J. D. Cook.

Robert W. Titus. Wm. H. Osbon.

Henry T. Haskell. Thomas Hamilton.

Carlos Colton. Fred. Raitz.

Abram W. Colton. Allen Brown.

William Harlow. John Patton.

Jacob Bash. Thomas O'Neil.

D. G. Saltonstall. D. Innes.

D. N. Bash. M. O'Reily.

James D. Smith. Vincent Hamilton.

Milo Bashare. W. S. Newman.

E. A. Smith. John Fitch.

George Knight. John J. Adam.

James R. Strong. David Smith,

E. H. Van Hoesen. Charles F. Peck.

Wm. H. Clark. Perry B. Truax.

Samuel S. Read. Fred. O. Opitz.

W. Y. Swager. Charles West.

John B. Carson. Peter Faskin.

Frank Braisted. A. Sazenly.

L. A. Willard. Denis Weyburne.

A. B. Brownlee. F. W. Higby.

Alonzo Godard. Austin H. Bruen.

Wm. H. Whitaker. T. Radcliff.

Geo. R. Tourtellotte. Thos. B. Aldrich.

Frank T. Card. A. Border.

Curtis Ripley. James Berthholf.

Platt Card. Paul Kunkle.

Paul Jones. J. D. Pomeroy.

Samuel Smiley. Chas. N. Yeager.

E. T. Mortimer. W. S. Jackson.

Horatio S. Young. Toby Greer.

Charles H. Jones. John Boop.

B. M. Rigby. Thos. Bloomfield.

John H. Moulton. J. B. Webber.

Thos. Thorneloe. J. Fitts.

E. B. Bronson. Valentine Wall.

John Copland. W. H. Ruler.

J. W. Walterhouse. G. Wasser, Sr.

O. C. Smith. Boliver Meeker.

E. D. Peck. Boena Meeker.

Moreau Allen. Florello Meeker.

Chas. B. Phillips. L. J. Seek.

Joel M. Gloyd. Chas. Brinkerhoff.

Alex. H. Ewing. Charles H. Reed.

Henry Hall. Henry G. Burr.

Alex. H. Newcomb. J. H. Kennedy.

Chas. H. Fisk. R. West.

J. M. Lycan. Wm. H. Harris.

Y. L. Hopkins. John Gregg.

R. C. Thompson. Charles A. Chase.

A. F. Bissell. Ed. Fifield.

Calvin K. Bennett. J. A. Minnio.

John Pratt. James Ballard.

G. R. Bennett. J. W. Doane.

Hiram Alfred. J. S. Bloomfield.

G. W. Wainer. W. H. Nichols.

J. Outcalt. Samuel Southard.

O. Sexton, Jr. M. J. Cooney.

Perry Crabbs. A. Nicke.

James J. Doolittle. Stillman Eastman.

W. H. Moore. John Cunningham.

Lewis Mathias. John Kelley.

Henry Devlin. George Fordham.

David Walker. Daniel Moore.

Samuel S. Thorn. C. Kenny.

Alonzo Rogers. J. S. Lawrence.

Davis Lewis. J. Lang.

Geo. D. Whitmore. F. D. Ettin.

H. L. Sargent. John McCaul.

John Dibbeling. B. Webster.

Theo. J. Brown. J. W. Daniel.

A. T. Fite. Charles Davison.

Albert G. Clark. C. Crawford.

B. W. Rouse. T. Rooney.

Frank I. Smith. W. C. Geitter.

C. V. Jenison. P. Mitchell.

Thomas Dunlap. Robert Nicholas.

James Ceesick, Erastus Kenyon.

John Murphy, Sr. A. L. Mills.

Thos. Morrow. J. J. Downs.

Geo. P. Pricketts. B. B. Firchmond.

P. I. Latham. Robert Dunnigan.

Henry Merrill. John Galloway.

W. S. Isherwood. C. M. Fisher.

John Bullarston. N. Mortimer.

M. H. Gill. A. Morton.

F. S. Chandler. L. Hevnsling.

H. J. Rake. Moses T. Brown.

L. Fisk. Thomas Brown.

J. E. Lockwood. H. R. Haskell.

John Mills. J. R. Pinkerton.

Reuben H. Sholes. John D. Crennan.

Samuel Andrews. S. S. Ketly.

J. A. Laird. Thos. Armstrong.

Noble L. Stacy. S. H. Bergen.

Junius A. Flagg. F. W. Himes.

C. H. Harroun. J. H. Hampton.

W. W. Whitney. Chas. H. Soper.

Geo. W. Merrill. Charles B. Hall.

J. E. Cole. J. W. Toullerton.

John P. Lewis. Geo. McMonagle.

E. Bivins. Andrew Shurtz.

George Reichart. Chas. S. Beach.

O. Mather. Henry T. Cook.

Alonzo Cornell. John B. Murphy.

A. R. Martin. Gid. K. Pheatt.

Thos. Jackson. W. Hunt Walbridge.

A. G. Warren. William Clark.

Horatio E. Bangs. D. J. Coulson.

C. P. Leland. Chris. Marman.

Wint. Dunn. J. T. Southard.

J. R. Blanchard. J. V. Straight.

Wm. Chollett. N. T. Haskell.

A. O. Marsh. S. Earl.

Wm. Van Orden. W. J. Freatenborough.

Chas. B. Weaver. E. Thomas.

John M. McKee. John H. Moon.

P. H. Redding. Thos. C. Mayhew.

W. Wiesman. P. C. Whitehead.

Orlin Phelps. Geo. R. Rogers.

J. Haynes. Wm. Hoffman.

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Patrick McKay. Jacob Beach.

Berne Whitehead. Augustus Sechsler.

W. A. Titus. Geo. Myers, jr.

John Keller. Thos. Southard.

Mathias Seyler. J. B. Fisk.

Wm. W. Williams. Wm. C. Fisk.

C. B. Eells. Thomas Corlett.

Chris. Woehler. Ferd. Johnson.

W. Dittmore. Wm. Pelkey.

Wm. Jones. Geo. Milmine.

Hollis Hammond. Thos. B. Smith.

Wm. Brewster. E. C. Bodman.

G. H. Reippel. Berry Fitts.

Peter Blank. Peter Hubber.

John Gramer. L. M. Skidmore.

G. F. Meyer. M. W. Smith.

H. Van Karsen. Wm. F. Brome.

A. C. Moore. Henry C. Gilmore.

John C. Renthinger. John Woehler.

Wm. Burwick. J. F. Wilkol.

A. J. Machen. S. D. Curtis.

Thos. Carey. W. G. Cook.

Theo. Kirchmaier. H. M. Curtis.

Joseph Mark. M. Heyman.

J. S. Bowers. Jacob Wansel.

J. S. Mille. Mike Rabit.

J. B. Farnham. Oscar Wetmore.

Wm. C. Cheney. John Hilt.

Charles W. Hall. John Morris.

Charles Cleaves. Chas. Beuana.

G. L. Krite. H. Kohn.

Fred. Schigeizer. O. E. M. Howard.

John Ragain. Ed. H. Fitch.

Gotleib Hole. H. Burt Taylor.

J. Geo. Hege. A. H. Hunker.

E. O. Ross. J. L. Merritt.

A. Obergarten. E. W. Dickerson.

Fred. Witker. B. T. Blue.

R. Shehan. Otto Reidemeister.

John J. Leith. Robert Dederich.

Geo. Stebbins. H. A. Ensign.

D. S. Mead. Peter Eiserman.

A. B. Page. E. L. Cummer.

R. H. Rogers. Alfred Leonardson.

Lewis Dormer. P. Klahr.

Thomas Cherry. Chas. Meissner.

J. Pargo. Henry Levi.

A. H. Smith. Austin B. Waite.

Geo. W. Navaugh. Warren S. Waite.

David Fisher. Sam. Warren.

J. F. Curtis. Geo. Furney.

E. Hunt. Rudolph Brand.

John Chollett. Geo. Tanner.

P. Smith. Simon Jack.

Ralph Jenison. John H. Gherkins.

C. Thompson. E. W. E. Koch.

F. E. Osgood. Gustavus Goldsmith.

Geo. Brown. Bernard Tummers.

Robert Bentham. John Gorgen.

G. Singer. Andrew Horning.

Ira E. Lee. Chris. Unhekan.

Chas. Caughling. Frank Sekwest.

N. M. Lilleland. Calvin Chibb.

E. B. Raffensperger. Ulrich Fey.

D. S. Anderson. H. P. Whitney.

John J. Branigan. Luke Draper.

Daniel Keller. Sidney Bissell.

Dan. Y. Howell. Geo. Weidman.

N. H. Roberts. E. J. Fifield.

Hinkley Hurd. Richard Greenwood.

S. C. Sampson. James Cole.

Henry Spahn. J. A. Speyer.

Charles Cochran. Joseph Lieber.

W. M. Barry. Joseph Corey.

W. T. Allen. Wm. M. Coon.

John J. Hunker. A. F. Rutherford.

George Brown. Wm. Hoak.

Ed. McLeary, Jr. James Marry.

John Hunker. H. C. Nicholas.

M. Sausle. James L. Smith.

W. Scott. John H. Doyle.

M. Scranton. Richard Waite.

James S. Fifield. Alf. H. Clark.

John Cassiday. James A. Anderson.

O. Kingsbury. S. P. Halsey.

Lewis Deutch. E. H. Alley.

N. Brainard. Jonathan Wynn.

Samuel Brooks. C. M. Sanford.

Wm. S. B. Hubbell. William Miller.

M. C. O'Connor. Geo. M. Lilleland.

G. Frost. John Shull.

Pat. Cunningham. G. G. Randall.

Charles Pratt. Franz Zarang.

E. Putnam. John A. Fisher.

Elijah Clark. A. V. Stebbins.

N. M. Landis. C. Dittmary.

Robert Ackland. H. Hazenzahl.

Henry Reed, Sen. Lehman Kraus.

E. Gardner. John Dorter.

A. A. Gardener. Andrew Nesbit.

Ralph Tarbox. Lewis Page.

E. J. Woodruff. John A. Moore.

Israel Hall. G. E. Demise.

Samuel B. Campbell. L. Vincent.

John B. Fella. Coleman Keeler.

Chas. H. Eddy. Wm. A. Snyder.

Tyler Bush. P. H. Foster.

E. P. Shelley. Fred. P. Waite.

J. Lyons. D. B. Huff.

D. C. Holley. Guido Marx.

Richard Doolittle. Josiah Johnson.

Geo. C. Pepper. John Shecks.

G. J. Jones. H. Roesbert.

W. D. Ramsdell. Chas. Eggert.

Wm. H. Carl. Michael Fitzgerald.

Joseph Gittsky. Robert Bloomfield.

Henry E. Hill. Francis Fitzgerald.

B. H. Bayliss. Hiram Brown.

R. Gittsky. I. N. Poe.

Peter Scott. P. Koster.

Wm. Olrich. Benj. Gittsky.

John L. Tanke. H. D. Perry.

Theo. Tanke. S. Goldsmith.

G. Goldsmith. John Plessner.

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G. A. Chase. Henry Plessner.

John Kemme. M. Quigley.

Albert Johnson. Wm. Massey.

August Phillips. Eleazer Baldwin.

August Rall. Amos V. Barker.

George Albert. B. E. Warren.

Mark Edgar. M. H. Allen.

J. H. Tappan. R. G. H. Huntington.

W. A. C. Converse. John Hoyt.

W. C. Palmer. Frank Sladden.

F. M. Smiley. J. V. Warren.

D. Daggett. Benj. Ruther.

A. H. Garfield. David Howe.

Theo. Klemm. Thomas Wood.

E. Parry. Bernard Lancto.

Wm. Walcott. P. B. Porter.

C. Alexander. Daniel Wolf.

H. W. Gifford. Predom Martin.

Calvin Barker. Lewis Volade.

C. C. Warren. John Ryan.

C. A. Lemar. W. H. Ford.

A. W. Thompson. Charles B. Young.

Charles Wasson. A. Benedict.

M. C. Worts. Joseph Garner.

S. R. Brown. R. H. Barr.

James J. French. D. A. Brown.

Wm. Unthank. Joseph McPhillips.

H. Boyce. Anthony Lavine.

Charles H. Reed. F. D. Gleason.

Oscar H. Cole. Wm. H. Hamilton.

Orson B. Kingsbury. Chas. P. Curtis.

Watson Ropel. S. T. Howe.

James Lewis. John Thorpe.

Aug. Brown. Mars Nearing.

C. J. Culver. Wm. H. Smith.

Chas. Brown. Wm. G. Powers.

H. Rinal. John Tollman.

Hiram Hurlburt. Geo. A. Carpenter.

Wm. Taylor. J. P. Constable.

Levi Ruggles. H. L. Holloway.

T. Moon. Wm. C. Earl.

Lewis Dusseau. Wm. F. Church.

Henry Hinkley. John L. Peck.

S. W. Allen. David E. Merrill.

Richard Meim. Loomis Brigham.

Alf. Enders. E. A. Durbin.

E. Beckwith. William Baker.

A. E. Tynker. Geo. D. Claflin.

Sylvester Brown. Thomas Howells.

J. O. How. J. W. Howells.

B. A. Peterson. James W. Clark.

Anthony Bordeau. Henry Uhlman.

Joseph Doroy. R. C. Lemmon.

C. Gatee. S. A. Ford.

P. C. Conant. Louis A. Pike.

F. P. Beckwith. Geo. W. Gove.

Gabriel Crane. Orin S. Anderson.

B. Folsom. D. S. Fifield.

Ed. Chapin. J. S. Fifield, Jr.

Calvin Cone. Wm. Murphy.

H. D. Laylor. Dan. H. Miner.

James Gilmore. Thomas Van Stone.

J. N. Stevens. Chas. Hotchter.

Charles H. Stevens. James A. Eaton.

Wm. H. Raymond. Wm. Leahenny.

James Love. Wm. Schroeder.

John Wortz. J. W. Canneff.

Thomas J. Bodley. L. A. Hall.

R. Plessner. Thomas Tuey.

John Auth. John C. Klotz.

Charles E. Bliven. Geo. Shipman.

Win. P. Gardner. Henry V. Poulton.

J. Kent Hamilton. Samuel Jackman.

John R. Osborn. John H. Wood.

Silas Benly. Quinby Tappan.

Charles Dodge. Chas. Haynes.

Warren Colburn. M. McKissick.

Geo. R. Watson. John Shay.

Geo. W. Davis. J. H. Minnitou.

Calvin Bullock. W. G. Brimson.

M. R. Fassett. L. B. Symons.

R. Redington. P. B. Pratt.

Chas. C. Miller. M. Stabler.

C. H. Spear. Wm. Gorman.

A. W. Fischer. Thos. Sarber.

C. C. Hine. D. E. Peck.

James Coldham. John Harris.

M. K. Kunkle. Thomas Jackman.

Wm. T. Hall. D. F. Morgan.

John Kauffman. James Higgins.

Samuel McMeeken. James Kenyon.

C. J. Morgan. Henry C. Frentz.

Wm. E. Holdridge. A. Black.

N. W. Eddy. Samuel Tanner.

James Booth. P. F. Schneider.

Edwin Jackson. Henry Demmon.

John McAllyn. Caleb Blanchard.

Daniel Nitschke. Joel W. Crane.

A. B. Penfield. Thomas Carr.

H. J. Conovan. Geo. Meissner.

Geo. Spencer. J. A. Thompson.

Wm. Holmes. Wm. McKinley.

James W. Atkin. Thomas McGuire.

Geo. W. Hoglin. James Cowlett.

Joseph Meirr. Greenfield Dooley.

E. S. Hanks. Wilson Haynes.

Asa Boice. Frank Otto.

L. B. Van Hoosen. A. Spruss.

S. J. Locke. Isaac N. Hathaway.

S. P. Browning. John Slop.

H. Wilhelm. Wm. B. Thorn.

W. F. Essing. P. Hamblin.

Ed. P. McMahon. W. C. Raymer.

John L. Johnston. L. R. Jerome.

M. W. Hubbell. C. A. Rowsey.

Sewal Whittlesey. L. H. Johnson.

John Harbauer. James Sullivan.

Geo. Pezzy. M. Hay.

Melchoir Webber. J. W. Fahnestock.

Thomas Bolles. James Hebbett.

Jonathan Lundy. N. C. Pepper.

Willein Kneal. H. E. Flynn.

M. K. Draper. J. J. Leith.

Spencer L. Fraser. James Dority.

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Jacob Jayalz, Daniel Barrmatzel.

Wm. Durrell. Peter Yost.

T. Crampton. Julius Schenck.

James J. Wall. Geo. Tilbury.

W. F. Roberts. Ira Z. Settle.

P. H. Blake. Thomas Henry.

John C. Tluesfel. Charles M. Woodbury.

F. Diebel. John Golttell.

Geo. A. Wimpel. Joseph Merrill.

M. W. Hazenzahl. H. W. Goettell, Jr.

Ed. Avery, Jr. Horace Hertzler.

Hermann Wittstein. Calvin Barker.

Fred. W. Griswold. W. M. Steele.

Jere. T. Dewey. Jacob Landman.

H. Hohly. Henry Philipps.

M. B. Doyle. A. Schansenbacb.

Valentine Braun. Mayor Brigham.

Ernest Greiner. Wm. B. Messinger.

L. P. Smith. John Burns.

Cyrus H. Coy. Chauncy H. Buck.

Josiah Riley. John Henry.

Joseph Feust. Chas. A. Crane.

E. A. Durbin. Wm. Markscheffell.

Ignace Wernert. M. H. Austin.

Fred. Etaris. Theo. Wegener.

C. D. Woodruff. John A. Auth.

R. Stowe. A. Bunert.

B. Kern. Wm. Rawle.

Alonzo Smith. James F. Snow.

John Van Gunten. Fred. Eaton.

J. M. Kale. Martin Northup.

Frank W. Anderson. C. C. Wilson.

Edmund Knapp. Matt. Seyler.

J. S. Kunkle. M. C. T. Pleahorn.

J. B. Trembley. John Methias.

J. P. Smith. Ed. C. Smith.

Charles Matteel. Charles E. Poe.

A. Bust. D. D. Vannocker.

John Miller, Jr. John Devlin.

Wm. T. Huntington. E. A. Thomas.

J. Seyler. Andrew Stephan.

Declan Allen. John Ray.

D. D. Learie. Alfred Chesebrough.

M. B. Plummer. J. G. Burbank.

Lyman Wheeler. Denison Steele.

Dan. A. Brown. C. C. Cato.

Asa Backus. J. E. Carpenter.

S. B. Brown. W. C. Lyons.

John T. Newton. Fred. Schiller.

Uriah Gregory. H. W. Comstock:

A. D. Pelton. Charles R. Penfield.

C. Hitchcock. W. H. Lewis.

Ernst Kibbe. L. A. Fontaine.

George D. Claflin. Leander Burdick.

Fred. Severn. James M. Comstock.

Charles P. Boardman. Dexter Knights.

John T. Page. A. H. Hathaway.

Stillman Brown. H. G. Brown.

Henry Brown. J. A. Brown.

R. F. Russell. J. W. Gildersleeve.

John Wheeler. L. Cushing.

Timothy Tredwell. L. Hancock.

C. H. Flint. F. D. Gurley.

S. D. Chamberlin. Jacob Roemer.

Alphonso Stratton. Samuel Blanchard.

T. R. Gibson. Edward Hannin.

Michael Kaeihele. Wm. Laughlin.

J. Smith. Wm. Cunningham.

Lewis C. Thatcher. W. Chamberlin.

Silas Topliff. J. B. Russell.

Henry L. Phelps. J. Danzie.

Wm. Ryan. Waters Whitmore.

Daniel Lamb. Isaac Rideout.

Hiram Eggleston. Oliver Stevens.

George E. Buck. Charles Coy.

A. O. Smith. Daniel R. Stebbins.

Charles Raymer. John V. Van Orden.

Seymour W. Johnson. Patrick McCalliget.

George H. Ryan. Thomas Card.

E. Bloomfield. James C. Messer.

Asa W. Maddocks. Luther Whitmore.

A. H. Davidson. Lewis Consaul.

James S. Whitney. Elias H. Fassett.

Alfred W. Gleason. Thomas K. Crane.

Julius Chesebrough. Jacob Stevens.

Thomas Blackwell. J. C. Ketcham.

Edward Bissell. Joseph Berry.

Wm. A. Collins. Robert C. Drunia.

Edward P. Bassett. L. H. Roberts.

Edson Allen. D. W. Stancliff.

R. A. Brown. C. E. Roberts.

Ralph H. Waggoner. J. B. Hoag.

R. Carner. John C. Bonnell.

Ira B. Blondin. Gid. W. Weed.

James Raymer. Peter C. Moross.

Wm. W. Consaul. Joseph K. Secor.

M. T. Huntley. John F. Wallace.

R. I. Skidmore, Wm. Church,

E. J. Woodruff. John H. Whitaker.

James Secor. Aaron L. Kelsey.

A. Ketcham. Wm. H. Boos.

Wm. E. Parmelee, Sr. Charles Hennessey.

Charles Breshaver. R. W. Brown.

Jacob Whitmore. H. Case.

George Zerk. Charles R. Messinger.

Henry Schwartz. Robert A. Wason.

John Adam. A. B. Canfield.

Joseph Weishahn. S. T. Moore.

Sylvester Kronsberger. Wm. W. Bolles.

Henry Jones. S. P. Meng.

Martin Buck. Charles B. Scott.

Charles Werther. Wm. Wheeler.

Fred. Volkstaedt. John B. Ketcham.

John Clopes. W. H. Fish.

Charles Koester. Henry Williams.

Leo Schneider. Warren S. Waite.

Henry Strehle. Foster Ellis.

Valentine Horning. A. Ware.

Martin Yaeger. Byron Roberts.

Wm. Lutterbeck. Charles Ranno.

John Fick. J. Annis.

John Wolf. Charles Riebel.

Jacob Gherring. F. B. Case.

Charles Tene. W. D. Burgess.

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Mathies Niemeyer. Wm. Mack.

Jacob Ogg. John Mack.

Calvin Bronson. H. S. Bronson.

N. Montgomery Howard. R. J. Tubbs.

Louis Riebel. Victor Keen.

W. B. Hill. Thomas J. Webb.

C. B. Jones. Amos M. DeBolt.

H. Hurd. Thomas Reed.

W. H. Hamlyn. C. H. Langdon.

Wm. Sexton. P. Stevens.

James Crofts. K. R. Winslow.

Phillip Webber. N. Hoyt.

O. S. Brown. C. E. Parrish.

Stephen Raymer. John Gillrom.

W. S. Backman. D. Lester.

C. Hancock. Henry Williamson.

George H. Hiser. Fred. Jacobs.

Alex. King. John Nauman.

John Mason. Wendell Hazenzabl.

C. A. Gamby. Joseph Furst.

A. Smith. Henry Munday.

W. E. Tuttler. John Klomer.

George M. Crandall W. W. Englehardt.

Valentine Bargy. Paul Oberle.

Wm. Wilkison. Mendel Shultz.

Wm. Schirman. Joseph Pell.

Charles E. Winans. Chris. Rudolph.

W. R. Peck. F. F. Geigle.

C. A. Lewis. A. A. Belknap.

C. R. Faulkner. John P. Boice.

J. Rhodes. S. S. Hooper.

Lloyd Davis. I. K. Seaman.

H. J. Keep. W. A. Warren.

V. Hubbell. L. Cooper.

Theophilus P. Brown. Milton Blaford.

F. A. Ensign. T. Cooper.

Joseph Rancho. M. Foley.

T. G. Gamby. Joseph Kay.

MAUMEE CITY.

Geo. W. Reynolds. W. W. Wolcott.

Horatio Conant. H. C. Norton.

Amos Reynolds. Jacob Brahier.

James Woolley. Wm. B. Dicks.

P. N. Boyd. C. M. Norton.

John C. Allen. A. C. Potter.

H. Norton. E. Jervis.

Chauncey Merrill. W. R. Hull.

Wm. Burge. J. C. Kilbourne.

John W. Hiett. Almeron McKinney.

G. Norton. Richard Reed.

W. P. Homer. J. F. Allen.

David Perrin. A. T. Adams.

H. Burritt. Fred. Wolcott.

C. Richards. Daniel Phillips.

Curtis Perry. M. Navarre.

Mark Richardson. John A. Kreps.

E. Mitchell. Charles Reed.

James Howey. M. Phillips.

Homer Dalson. Geo. Mallett.

John S. Gregory. James S. Darling.

M. L. Crossett. Alex. C. Forsyth.

Geo. W. Dobson. J. W. Gillman.

Edward Pratt. Wheeler French.

Geo. H. Blaker. Robert A. Forsyth, Jr.

A. C. Winslow. A. D. Williams.

H. Wolfinger. J. Roposs.

C. A. Scott. Jacob Stoilyer.

M. R. Langell. Wm. Limbrick.

P. C. Holt. M. A. Patchin.

Jacob Spangler. S. Case.

Geo. W. Harvey. J. M. Lee.

Robert A. Forsyth. John E. Cobb.

Geo. W. Reynolds, Jr. Nicholas Angel.

Smith Gilbert. William Bates.

Henry Geiger. Robert Potter.

Caleb Goff. J. H. Kuder.

William Winters. A. H. Plant.

J. C. Wardwell. Francis Quiggle.

John Smith. John Van Horn.

Richard Small. M. Scranton.

Isaac Hull. Charles McCabe.

Andrew Fox. R. N. Reynolds.

Eli Carman. A. W. Gilbert.

Andrew Gessner. Curtis Hall.

Peter Ditzler. Frank T. Lane.

D. Leonard. Thos. Tonergon.

Rinal Robbins. Jos. S. Hull,

Jacob Neff. Thos. H. Phillips.

Franklin Hamilton. Isaac Stewig.

O. S. DeWolf. E. C. Hurdley.

John Williams. John A. Moore.

Wm. Robertson. Geo. Church.

John Farley. Alex. Munch.

William Burritt. Alex. H. Gere.

David Rodd. John Morris.

H. S. Clark. Geo. Steiter.

W. S. Holt. Peter Hopner.

E. H. Hunter. John Dodds.

E. C. Moore. Jacob Kreese.

Wm. P. Griswold. H. W. Horton.

P. McGovern. Nicholas Geiger.

Richard Estell. John Gersbirr.

Thos. Dale. John Kall.

Peter Bollner. Wm. Phillips.

Simeon Myers. G. G. Burkhart.

James M. Wolcott. Samuel Stewig.

L. Smith. John Midsot.

Jacob Zacbadus.

WATERVILLE.

James M. Brigham. G. W. Mallory.

Lorenzo L. Morehouse. Horace Honey.

Wm. H. Morehouse. James Craven.

Orin Smith. James Pollock.

Wm. Van Fleet. Aaron Highland.

William Smith. S. H. Thomas.

Elijah Dodd. L. Eastwood.

H. Starkweather. Jesse Huff.

J. B. Van Rennssalaer. L. W. Haskins.

Paris L. Pray. O. A. Ballou.

Thos. Pray. C. B. Judson.

M. W. Pray. John Pray.

Jacob Len. Whitcomb Haskins.

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J. A. Hutchinson. H. H. Wakeman.

G. H. Ultz. William Moorehouse.

E. W. Lenderson. S. C. Brainard.

F. Briggs. A. P. Brainard.

Aaron Cobleigh. John Doren.

Elias Shell. Elisha Whitcomb.

James B. Marston. Emanuel Heller.

Frederick Heater. Jacob Box.

William D. Mills. P. Boyer.

Elias Reed. John Butt.

David H. Carroll. John Restor.

H. B. Gray. Jacob Sander.

Ranatus DeMuth. E. R. Dyer.

Thomas T. Gray. Milo Smith.

E. S. Burchard. R. W. Gillett.

J. B. Cooper. Caleb Ellis.

J. E. Hall. James Cole.

James M. Stiles. Hugh Cole.

Andrew Elliott. Marvin Wade.

S. P. Rathbun. E. M. Dyer.

J. H. Scofield. Charles H. Reed.

James Cooper. J. E. Kilborne.

Benj. E. Barney. M. S. Stebbins.

A. Wolf. John Williams.

John P. Farnsworth. G. A. Harne.

R. Hall. O. F. Hall

SYLVANIA.

John U. Pease. Lewis Sears.

Haskell D. Warren. Wm. B. Warren.

Foster R. Warren. Henry Hassan.

H. Hawley. Wm. H. Ruling.

Henry Harwood. Garret Vroman.

John M. Wells. Andrew Printup.

Lewis Cacher. Isaac Washburn.

Samuel H. Decker. * W. A. Crandall.

S. M. Judson. John Polley.

Owen Hendrickson. Geo. Van Pelt.

Peleg T. Clark. Amos Hopper.

David Harroun. David P. Baker.

D. W. Frary. Hiram Hollister.

Joseph Zeigen. William Evison.

S. K. Wilcox. Lewis P. Smith.

A. A. Wilcox. W. H. Taylor.

Geo. P. Dolph. Wm. Vandeburg.

W. H. Warren. Robert Shoeppel.

A. O. Holloway. P. V. Moon.

Fred. Hartman. Timothy Bressner.

Crawford Smith. Thomas Probert.

B. R. Butler. John L. Hendrickson.

B. Smith. Samuel Young.

Amos Redding. H. Parker.

Nelson E. Shattock. William Crane.

N. Leonardson. Daniel Tuthill.

Wm. J. Phelps. Wm. R. Faxon.

S. T. Chase. Wm. Tuttlepen.

R. H. Alexander. Isaac M. Hatch.

Wm. A. Adams. Alden A. Roberts.

Wm. Clamflitts. R. Gridley.

James Mann. George Hattersley.

John H. Van Pelt. John Bertholf.

* Had no hands both lost in battle. Said "Amen," to the paper.

E. H. Eaton. Isaac Bertholf.

S. Perschall. David Brown.

E. N. Acres. J. J. Ritchie.

B. B. Comstock. J. H. Parker.

James H. Keller. Abram Jesup.

Isaac Farnham. D. W. Frary.

Thos. Brimercombe. Robert Deshong.

Joseph Smith. Oscar Collins.

Alonzo Hines. Henry Hubbard.

Geo. Hendrickson. S. H. Matthews.

John Phelps. Henry Frat.

John Gridley. B. Bellows, Jr.

A. Comstock. Edward Maloney.

S. B. McGlenn. Jacob Van Alstine.

A. Cherry. O. Holloway.

S. Collins. W. B. Butts.

C. H. Hagerman. Wm. Patton.

George Gerwick. N. Vickery.

Harmon Murphy. S. M. Judson.

Jas. P. Ostrande. Isaac Taft.

John Ken vole. Geo. W. Talbott.

Nicholas D. Young. W. Lenderson.

P. V. Moon. D. P. Gilson.

John M. Tubb. A. D. Blanchard.

Orris F. Tubb. A. Wintemart.

John Bellman. A. C. Granger.

D. Kruse. Benj. Joy.

Henry Vaughn. Ira Harriden.

Thomas Greenavey. John Showler.

C. M. Griffith. N. Dennis.

Perry D. Seager. Joseph Warren.

John P. Cornell. James Haskell.

Reuben Treadway. Geo. W. Clark.

Isaac Duncan. James H. Colden.

F. Bertholf. Wm. W. Wilson.

C. H. Gilchrist. J. J. R. Ingall.

D. Roberts. S. W. Bradley.

Samuel H. Nason. Edward Lester.

John Buskirk. E. Comstock.

D. S. Dalley. Alonzo Crandall.

A. Bowland. J. V. Moore.

C. N. Lewis. W. A. Crandall.

Henry H. Roberts. C. Dolph.

E. Green. B. H. Whitney.

P. Sealing. J. M. Thompson.

C. H. Kennedy.

MANHATTAN.

Thomas Wynn. Stephen Arguetts.

Peter Momeny. Charles A. Straight.

James L. Chase. John Perry.

S. F. Bailey. Andrew Custash.

John L. Brown. Ferdinand Rinaldi.

T. Tompkins. Francis Entew.

D. E. Ford. Henry Blackmeyer.

Warren Salisbury. Martin Blackmeyer.

Amos Brown. John W. Bitter.

A. H. Brown. John T. Kuber.

Jacob Carson. Henry Shields.

Montgomery Carson. Henry Hurzstadt.

Robert Carson. Jokam Haas.

S. M. Denman. John Brickman.

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Edwin Case. John Lalendorf.

T. W. Taylor. Fred. Mathers.

Wm. Hulest. E. S. Wynn.

John Koch. Charles Applegate.

Peter Koch. James McMurphy.

John Koth. Wm. McMurphy.

Peter McTague. Moses McMurphy.

David Springsted. William Kervis.

John Crucher. J. Dupont.

A. Jerome. John B. Dupont.

McKees Murphy. Samuel Wynn.

Gilbert Delye. Joseph Chinavarre.

Oliver Delye. Hubert Delye.

Augustus Crucher. Augustus Dusha.

William Ward.

SPRINGFIELD.

C. B. Holloway. Michael Sheehy.

Perry Wood. Bryan Sheehy.

Hiram Wiltse. Thomas Sullivan.

Harrison Hubbell. John Walker.

S. G. Cass. George W. Emerson.

James Wood. J. W. Rhineberger.

John Wood. George Fought.

M. S. Hubbell. Robert Irwin.

Jonathan Barlow. John Eiklor.

Rev. John Butler. Wm. Fletcher.

Elisha L. Wood. Levi Z. Leroun.

Nathaniel Hooker. A. Ramsey.

Wm. S. Jay. Joseph Walker.

John C. Delgart. Josiah Cressy.

Jacob Eagley. John Ironside.

Absalom Arn. William Elliott.

A. C. Dermott. Theodore Burt.

Edward Lees. Nathan N. Clark.

Franklin Y. Hall. Thomas Dunner.

J. Ain. Jacob Smith.

Samuel Dermott. David Smith.

Daniel Bailey. Samuel H. Jay.

D. D. Hodges. Robert Clark.

Philo Hall. Levi Manley.

Frederich Hoeht. William Manley.

James McDermott. Harrison Hubbell.

Samuel Rodd. Abram Van Wert.

Harry Gunn. Elisha L. Wood.

John Harrington. Patrick Delaney.

Calvin Pincnutt. Tarlyaze M. B. Rupal.

Oscar Stow. James Trumble.

J. Elliott. R. A. Haynes.

A. Brown. Ezra Holt.

George Wilber. Barnet Mills.

J. W. Jerome. Thomas Watts.

F. Hamilton. J. W. Cressy.

Robert Theo. Vhees. S. P. Lees.

Smith Edington. Charles Carroll.

John McNess. Osgood D. Cressy.

Nathan B. McNutt. Josiah Albon.

Wm. J. McNutt. John Elliott.

S. D. Hilcox. Elis DeMott.

James Jay. Aushorn Awyles.

James Carlis. Jacob Foulk.

Josiah Birchfield. Henry Cable.

C. Clark. H. J. Reed.

Isaac N. Reed. Charles Clark.

Joseph Rolph. Samuel Cable.

PROVIDENCE.

R. C. Quiggle. James Hutchinson.

Marvin Wade. Julius Richter.

F. Crosby. J. George Atkinson.

V. R. Crosby. Wm. Atkinson.

James Roach. David McCulloch.

James Roach, Jr. E. Hellon.

John Brown. D. S. Crosby.

John Plase. Alonzo Crosby.

Henry Killon. John Bartholl.

John Talbert. Albert Mayer.

Ed. Koenig. C. B. Demuth.

Wm. Hutchinson. Fred Cipher.

V. C. Whitcomb. Peter Diem.

Jacob Baumgartner. James Ford.

F. W. Whitcomb. O. Crosby.

R. D. Gillett. C. B. Mead.

Lewis Crosby. C. Bucklin.

R. F. Roach. A. Mead.

B. G. H. Ryder. G. W. Lamb.

Jacob Hertzfeld. W. D. Lamb.

Alvin Roach. J. Leunde.

David Crosby. A. Miller.

William Crosby. Levi Roach.

John D. Halsey. William Gill.

Henry Strayer. Samuel Miller.

Jacob Ness. W. S. King.

John Villman. John Sheets.

George Perry. H. W. Keeler.

John Needel. Isaac Boillatt.

Daniel Walter. Leonard Kury.

Absalom Arbogart. Jacob Box.

John J. Boillatt. Michael Ness.

William Miller. John R. Hight.

W. R. Wilson. A. J. Roach.

Charles Ryan. A. B. Mead.

J. W. Heller. Tamall Rocherstraw.

Seth Winslow. Isaac Boilet.

H. R. Winslow. Robert Wilson.

WASHINGTON.

Sanford L. Collins. H. P. Whitney.

John W. Collins. S. P. Whitney.

J. P. Collins. Joseph Gaper.

Peter C. Lewis. O. Kasler.

John Hazleton. H. G. Downer.

Amasa Bishop. George Baker.

Wm. Richards. John Gibbon.

Lyman Haughton. E. E. Andrews.

W. R. Richards. Samuel G. Lewis.

Wm. Laskey. Joel Nye.

Wm. Powlesland. Upton McLain.

J. W. Collins, Jr. John Byrne.

Charles Henrick. M. R. Johnson.

William Leybourn. Anson Trowbridge.

John Sonlier. Charles Hasty.

Toussaint Leroy. F. J. Cole.

Benj. Mallett. Geo. Stetter.

M. Mallett. Thos. Secor.

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David Walker. Elisha Whipple.

Geo. Walker. Sol. A. Stebbins.

Sam. Groesenbacher. W. R. Richards.

G. S. Martin. John W. Welch.

William Counter. Augustus Hartman.

H. Glenn. Edwin Richards.

Wm. P. Warren. Ransom E. Richards.

S. S. Ketcham. Henry C. Richards.

Henry Major. Ira Haughton.

Charles E. Burton. Albert Haughton.

George Carson. Orson Haughton.

George Whitwill. C. W. Ferguson.

Francis Coursin. A. C. Harris.

G. R. Bush. Richard Collins.

B. Holmes. Francis Granger.

A. Bersh. B. C. Gordanier.

Peter Lane. C. L. Phillips.

O. Bush. John Grinage.

G. W. Mallett. Solon Haughton.

A. Ware. Paul Kunkle.

James Wright.

SPENCER.

William Taylor. Abram Johnson.

J. C. Vaughn. Ezra C. Tunison.

Thomas Tunison. James Patten.

Peter Miller. Henry Williams.

D. C. Tunison. Adam Brown.

Emanuel Butts. Alonzo Fairchild.

Levi Munson. Prosser Coon.

Shubal Munson. Willard Barnes.

Caleb Crissey. Frederick Peters.

Phillip Dennis. William Collitt.

John Murbach, Sr. Charles Nichol.

Alex. Crissey. John Nichol.

Charles N. Curtiss. James S. White.

H. Murbach. Jefferson Fairchild.

C. Young. Elisha Bard.

John Miller. Isaac Dennis.

John Wairs. Joseph Cunningham.

M. Rohrbossy. David Dennis.

Sebastian Darker. Joseph Dennis.

Simon S. Pemberton. George Dill.

Wm. H. Morry. John All.

John Breick. William Brown.

John Clam, Jr. A. B. Johnson.

Andrew Miller. Fayette H. Coon.

John Clum, Sr. Francis S. All.

Peter Lumbriser. Solon Morei.

Abner D. Debolt. Harrison Farns.

Samuel Devine. Emanuel Shrock.

John Barnes. Ezra C. Tunison.

Peter Raab. Abram Seyler.

John Farmer

SWANTON.

B. T. Geer. Arthur Mills.

Sebastian Brown. Oscar F. Mills.

Abram Kaley. George Girdham.

W. D. Herrick. Wilber Brace.

Erastus Brown. Thomas Russell.

Adam Weizel. A. B. Waltz.

David Mills. Wm. McNamara.

James Pegden. Adam Brown.

James Egnew. Robert W. Taylor.

J. G. Holbrook. John Atkinson.

Jonathan Gilbert. J. W. Deck.

Jacob Brown. Thomas Tunison.

John H. Adams. Charles Lampman.

W. S. Mills. James C. Wales.

Abraham Deck. Daniel Allman.

Silas Zeigen. John Shepler.

Henry Kiser. Joseph Shepler.

William Allman. Jacob Herzig.

J. C. Mills. George N. Gardner.

James Herzig. John G. Wales.

Oscar Brown. Charles Brown.

Charles Brockway. John C. Sherwood.

George Curtis Woodruff A. Curtis

ADAMS.

Hiram Haughton. Harvey Kellogg.

J. G. Kellogg. B. F. Cunningham.

W. Woodard. C. F. Bates.

C. Dugan. L. Merickel.

J. Warner. John McMillen.

Daniel Kaley. G. W. Cunningham.

M. Carney. Frederick Newbitt.

James Patten. John Patten.

J. J. Dugan. Josiah Clark.

Robert A. Haynes. G. S. Monelly.

P. Vandenhoff. Jacob Hunt.

Isaac B. Ellis. Patsy Fotie.

Anthony Herrick. John Jeall.

Cyrus Davis. Frederick Hoffman.

Michael Phalen. Gilbert Jacobs.

John Halpin.

RICHFIELD.

Pliny Lathrop. Henry Chule, Jr.

C. C. Lathrop. M. F. Collins.

Henry Metcalf. Daniel Brint.

Asaph Ely. Peter Waterman.

George F. Ford. James Talva.

Levi Ford. William Gray.

Wallace R. Ford. George Polly.

Otis Ford. Jonas Wolfinger.

Eugene F. Ford. George Wickham.

Charles Ford. A. Bordeaux.

Lucius L. Ford. W. M. Whitney.

E. Buck. P. C. Turner.

M. P. Sanderson. R. Sawyer.

Menzo Grover. L. W. Hendrickson.

James J. Lathrop. David Hendrickson.

L. C. Lathrop. A. Buck, Sr.

Lorenzo Lathrop. G. W. Hughes.

Wm. W. Wilson. T. Vetter.

Henry C. Ely. Thomas Gorman.

James Wood. G. B. White.

M. Bennett. Martin Perky.

Alanson Bennett. Wm. L. Bennett.

William Swift. Charles D. Sprague.

James Farley. Elias Welch.

David Mangel. D. H. Farley.

Stephen Green. D. D. Hawes.

THE WAR OF THE REBELLION-HOME WORK. - 105

In this connection, the following admirable production, from the pen of Professor W. A. C. Converse, then Principal of the Toledo High School, is deemed pertinent and fitting for preservation:

THE SOLDIERS' APPEAL.
[Suggested at the Union Meeting, Toledo, March 2, 1863.]

Hear ye the voice that speaks afar,

From every blood-stained field of War

In strife-above the bugle blast;

In dying tones, when strife is past.

Hear ye, the words our Brothers speak,

Who stand for us within the fight

"O, for the helpless and the weak,

Ye Patriot Men, Unite-Unite! "

Brave Men from the Atlantic's strand

Meet Braves from the far " Golden Land;"

The Heroes from the Mountain side

Greet Heroes from the Prairies wide.

Behold them, partisans no more,

Contending side by side for right,

Oh, hear their million tongues implore

"For love of GOD, Unite-Unite! "

From Ellsworth's grave, from Baker's blood

From fields where fallen thousands stood

Thousands, who fondly hoped to be

Shrined in a Nation's memory

From twice ten thousand graves, there comes

The earnest voice we hear to-night

And twice ten thousand mourning homes

Echo the words, " Unite-Unite ! "

Nay, from graves the older Heroes fill

From Yorktown, Trenton, Bunker Hill

From Vernon's Tomb, from Marshfield's sage

From Ashland and the Hermitage

The gray-haired men from every tomb,

Potent where our shattered armies fight ;

List to the countless tones that come"

For Country, Home, and GOD, Unite ! "

Great God in Heaven! before Thee now,

We register our holy vow:

Our Party names-we spurn them all,

And swear, whatever may befall,

While Traitors raise a flag on high,

We'll aid our Brothers in the fight;

" For Union, we will live and die

So help us God, WE WILL UNITE! "

The purpose of this movement in response to the appeal of the Ohio Soldiers, was met in a high degree. Probably no popular movement in this section during the war, was more timely or more potent in arousing the spirit of loyalty, which for some time had seemed latent, and thus without proper influence in maintaining an active co operation at home, while tending to depress and discourage the Soldiers in the field. The effect of the appeal of the Ohio Soldiers was by no means limited to their own State, but it was accepted by loyal citizens throughout the country, as no less addressed to them, and with them it had corresponding influence in awakening a desired spirit of loyalty and activity. The result was a general stimulus to the Union cause through the North, whereby was made more free needed recruits for depleted Regiments, while the hearts and nerves of the Soldiers at the front were greatly strengthened by such timely assurance of home support. As a consequence largely of this state of things, the campaign of 1863 early developed features of renewed energy, and was marked with corresponding efficiency and success. Grant's Army was permitted to celebrate the 4th of July in Vicksburg. The brilliant success at Gettysburg, and the capture of Port Hudson, with other signal victories, united to mark the change in the situation which loyal citizens had so greatly desired ; the people Of Ohio having special satisfaction in the defeat and capture of John Morgan, on his mad raid within this State. The reverse in feeling which these successes produced, is indicated by two editorial articles in the Toledo Blade, the one of June 30th, when the culmination of long-delayed military operations in different directions had wrought the popular feeling to the highest pitch of anxiety and apprehension of defeat; and the other-just one week later-when Gettysburg and Vicksburg had electrified the North with their brilliant victories for loyal arms.

From the Toledo Blade of June 30, 1863

DON'T CROAK!

If we could utter but two words, at an hour like this, we think they would be, " DON'T CROAK!" Croaking does nobody good-especially the croaker. It sours his mind and feelings toward everybody, and the Government in particular, while it more or less discourages and disheartens all who listen to him. If there be a man in the community, whom we feel like going round a block to avoid, it is one Of these "birds Of ill-Omen "-these dog-in-the-manger characters who, seeing no good they can do, consider themselves as specially commissioned to carp and find fault with every one who tries to do good without consulting them. We submit, if this be the part Of patriots at a time like the present? The Government needs the best help the people can render, to extricate the Nation from its present difficulties. Does croaking furnish such help? We are not to stop here to wrangle about men or past mistakes, but to enquire where we can strike the most effective blow for our bleeding country. If errors in leaders would justify the Civilian in withholding aid from the Government, then would such also warrant the Soldier in abandoning his post; for the obligation Of the man in the field to stand by the Government, in defeat and in reverses, is no stronger than is that of the man at home. What would excuse the one, would excuse the other. The Soldier is daily called to make sacrifices and hazard his life to correct the errors of leaders. Why should not others do the same?

106 - HISTORY OF TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY.

From Toledo Blade, July 7, 1863

VICTORY !

Thank GOD, for the occasion for again writing that word! We never doubted that such grateful privilege would be granted us. Our faith in the darkest hours of recent dark days, never failed us. Still, the portentous, gloomy present, was painful and oppressive. And what a relief, to have it changed ! How the heart rebounds, when the weight of disappointment and reverses is removed, and faith gives place to reality ! How grateful to every true patriot, is the thought, that all the immense preparations and stupendous plans of the enemy for ravaging the peaceful, prosperous North, and seizing the National Capital, have been not only frustrated and safety restored where imminent danger threatened ; but the invading hosts terribly punished, if not totally annihilated. The lesson we desire to draw from this experience, is, that we should cultivate a more rational, and consequently, a more abiding faith in the ultimate success of our cause. We should, so far as possible, avoid extravagant expectations of success, and thereby be the better prepared for reverses which we have reason to expect. The authorities and the gallant men in the Army and the Navy, have enough to do to meet and thwart the consummate skill and desperate efforts of the enemy, without the "fire in the rear" with which unreasoning croakers harass them. If the latter cannot afford to do, can't they afford to wait?

In July, 1862, a series of public meetings were held in Lucas County, under the auspices of the Military Committee, for the purpose, chiefly of promoting enlistments in the Union Army. These were held in every Township, and were addressed by different citizens, including R. C. Lemmon, Wm. Kraus, E. P. Bassett, M. R. Waite, D. E. Gardner, F. Henig, Sr., Thomas Dunlap, S. A. Raymond, W. C. Earl, L. H. Pike, Nathan Reeve, J. R. Osborn, J. C. Hall, J. M. Ritchie, Wm. M. White, D. R. Austin, B. T. Geer, Wm. Baker, Rev. E. B. Morrison, Rev. Ambrose Hollington, R. C. Marksheffel, Geo. R. Haynes, Andrew Young, F. A. Jones, Wheeler French, John J. Manor, and A. G. Clark. The result of these meetings was materially to awaken a popular sense of the needs of the Government and of the obligation of loyal citizens promptly and effectually to meet such want.

March 20, 1863, in pursuance of a call signed by several hundred citizens of Toledo, a large meeting was held at White's Hall, when a Loyal National League was organized. The nature and purpose of the organization was set forth in the call, as follows:

We pledge ourselves to an unconditional loyalty to the Government of the United States-to an unwavering support to its efforts to suppress the Rebellion-and to spare no endeavor to maintain, unimpaired, the National Unity, both in principle and in territorial boundary. The primary object of this League, is, and shall be, to bind together all Loyal Men-of all trades and professions-in a common Union-to maintain the power, the glory and the integrity of the Nation.

The meeting was called to order by Wm. Baker, on whose motion Mayor Manor was made Chairman, W. C. Earl being appointed Secretary. Wm. Baker, Geo. W. Davis, Wm. Kraus, Chas. Pratt and Chas. Dodge, were appointed a Committee to prepare a constitution for the League; and A. G. Clark, D. E. Gardner, J. A. Scott, J. M. Ritchie and Jacob Landman, a Committee to recommend officers for the same. Mr. Baker read a letter to the Union demonstration of March 18th, from General J. B. Steedman, when three cheers were given for its author. The Committee presented the following list of temporary officers for the League, which was adopted, to wit President, Denison B. Smith ; Vice Presidents, Augustus Thomas, Wm. Baker, J. J. Manor; Secretaries, C. H. Coy, Ernst Greiner; Cor. Secretary, Wm. C. Earl; Treasurer, Denison Steele. John R. Osborn and Captain C. W. Moulton, upon call, addressed the meeting, when it adjourned to meet March 30th, at which time the constitution was adopted, and the League was addressed by E. D. Nye, Esq., then recently from the South. April 6th, the League again met, when permanent officers were chosen, as follows : President, Denison B. Smith; Vice Presidents, 1st Ward, Wm. Baker ; 2d Ward, Matthew Brown; 3d Ward, Peter Lenk ; 4th Ward, Wm. C. Huffman ; 5th Ward, James C. Hall; 6th Ward, Alonzo Rogers; Rec. Secretaries, C. H. Coy, Ernst Greiner; Cor. Secretary, Darwin E. Gardner; Treasurer, Wm. Kraus. A letter was read from Judge James Myers, Representative, at Columbus, approving of the movement.

Pursuant to the call of a number of German citizens, a large and enthusiastic meeting of that nationality was held at Philharmonic Hall, Toledo, March 28, 1863, of which Dr. Valentine Braun was President, and Ernst Greiner Secretary. Guido Marx read an address and resolutions from Company H, 14th Ohio Infantry, when the following committee was appointed to draft an address in response

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to the same, to wit: Dr. Hohly, Dr. Plessner, Geo. Weaver, Ignace Wernert and Guido Marx. Jacob Landman, A. Bunert and Guido Marx were appointed a committee to make arrangements for the organization of a German Loyal League. The meeting was addressed by Wm. Kraus, J. M. Ashley, Dr. Plessner, Andrew Stephan and G. Marx. The meeting was regarded as a success.

In 1863, for the purpose of provision for whatever demand might be made for men

in support of the Government, the State was thoroughly enrolled and largely organized as the Ohio National Guard, nine Districts having been created for such purpose, the Ninth consisting of the Counties of Lucas, Fulton, Wood, Williams, Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, Allen, Hancock, Seneca, Huron, Erie, Sandusky and Ottawa. In July, elections of Company officers were held in the several Counties, and Regiments organized. The following officers were chosen in Lucas County:

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Subsequently, Luther Whitney was elected Colonel, Geo. W. Merrill, Lieutenant-Colonel, and E. Kibbe, Major, of the 1st Regiment; Captain N. M. Howard, Colonel, C. C. Starr, Lieutenant-Colonel, and W. H. Dyer, Major, of the 2d Regiment; James Ford, Colonel, Stephen S. Kingsley, Lieutenant-Colonel, and W. H. Ruling, Major, of the 3d Regiment; and J. Farrington, Colonel, C. B. Holloway, Lieutenant-Colonel, and W. A. Scott, Major, of the 4th Regiment.

Camps for drill were established in the several Districts, that for the Ninth having been located at Toledo, the ground selected being out Cherry street, about two miles from Summit street, and the time September 18th-23d, inclusive. In camp were about 10,000 men, divided into three Brigades, commanded as follows : 1st Brigade, Colonel D. F. DeWolf; 2d Brigade, Colonel Stearns; 3d Brigade, Colonel Kelsea, the latter including eight Companies of 1st Regiment, Lucas County, Colonel C. B. Phillips. The staff officers of General Hill, as instructor of the Camp, were as follows: - Colonel C. B. Phillips, Chief; Colonel N. M. Howard and Captain Richard Waite, Aides-de-Camp; Colonel Luther Whitney, Inspector; Lieutenant M. H. Austin, AssistantInspector; Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. Starr and Lieutenant Fielding S. Cable, Acting Assistant Adjutant-Generals; S. S. Thorn, M. D., and Chas. Cochran, M. D., Surgeons. Other details were made, as follows : Lieutenant Chas. N. Stevens and Frank McGinniss, Clerks to General Commanding; Lieutenant James W. Clark, Clerk to Acting Assistant Adjutant-General ; Lieutenant Pomeroy, Postmaster; Lieutenant Jeffrey Wheeler and Wm. Clark, Orderlies to General Commanding; J. Burgoon, Orderly to Acting Assistant Adjutant-General; Sergeant S. W. Hart, Orderly to Inspector. On the 23d, the Camp was visited by Governor Tod, who there reviewed the troops and addressed them at some length, expressing his high gratification at both the numbers present and the progress made in their drill. He said it was possible, that before the season was ended, they might be called upon to cross the State to meet a Southern foe. If General Rosecrans should be compelled to fall back, the Soldiers then in camp would be needed, and he assured them he would give them an opportunity to " show their steel." This announcement was received with prolonged cheering, the men swinging their hats. He said, that in March previous, Ohio was found to he 30,000 men ahead of her proper quota. The Governor closed with a call for three cheers for General Hill, in recognition of his success as Commandant of the Camp, and of his prominent service in the inception and organization of the State Militia. From 10,000 to 12,000 persons were reported as present on the occasion. The Camp broke up on the 24th of September, and at 1 P. M. the troops marched to the Union Railway depot, passing through the City. The streets were very generally adorned with stars and stripes and other marks of respect for the soldiers. At the corner of Summit and Monroe streets, they were halted, when in an appropriate fare well order, General Hill took leave of them.

As a train on the Dayton & Michigan Railroad, bearing Volunteer Infantry on their way for drill at , Camp Lucas, Toledo, was passing around the curve in that Road, in East Toledo, in September, 1863, a " pony " engine collided with the train, killing John Scott and William Philo, of Wood County, and injuring many others more or less seriously. A fund for the benefit of the families of the deceased, was raised by contributions of the soldiers at the Camp, which amounted to about $725.

In August, 1862, Major Lewis Butler, commanding 67th Ohio, wrote a letter in which he said : "I will send our old flag to the citizens of Toledo at the first opportunity. It is so completely riddled, that it is no longer serviceable to us. Let it be preserved as a token of their generosity, and let all who look upon it, breathe a silent prayer for those brave defenders of their country, who fell fighting for its protection " October 1, 1863, this flag was formally delivered to the Toledo City Council, by Mayor Dorr, with a letter from Colonel A. C. Voris, making fitting mention of the scenes through which the banner had passed, without a stain or reproach on those who gallantly bore it. Appropriate resolutions were adopted by the Council, accepting the flag and recognizing the heroism of the Regiment.

March 31, 1864, the Toledo Board of Trade appointed the following named persons as a committee to visit Cleveland, to meet the committee on Naval Affairs of Congress, and to submit for its consideration the advantages of Toledo as a location for a Navy Yard, to wit:

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Harry Chase, T. C. Stewart, J. W. Scott, Richard Mott, M. R. Waite, Wm. Baker and S. M. Young. At this time Congress was seriously considering the policy of more adequate means of protection for the Lakes from attack by Rebel forces, Canadian sympathizers and disloyal combinations within the Northern States. The rebellion collapsed before definite measures were adopted to that end.

In view of apprehended raids by Confederates operating from Canada, attention was called to the policy of temporary defense at different points on Lake Erie. In accordance with such purpose, Colonel T. J. Cram, of United States Corps of Engineers, made report to the War Department in January, 1864, of a plan for the mouth of the Maumee River and harbor of Toledo. Among other provisions, he suggested for the outer harbor, 20, 30 and 100-pound Parrott guns, and 8 and 10-inch Columbiads en barbette, for Turtle Island ; a co-operative Battery at North Cape Ridge, and a Battery on Cedar Point. For the inner harbor, he recommended three Batteries, two one side, and one on the other, of the River, between its mouth and the Middle Ground in the City. November 10, 1864, Major-General Joe Hooker visited Toledo, and by invitation, briefly addressed the Board of Trade. The object of his visit was to examine the harbor and Bay, with reference to any defenses that might be feasible. He expressed the opinion that a Battery located on the bluff at the West point of Presque Isle, and another on a point opposite on the main land, would afford ample protection. This opinion was based on examination then made. No steps ever were taken toward carrying out either of the above suggestions.

Under an arrangement between the War Department and the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, these States were to furnish 85,000 men for 100 days' service. Pursuant to this arrangement, Governor Brough by proclamation called out 30,000 of the Ohio National Guard, for May 2, 1864. He said : " Our armies in the field are marshaling for a decisive blow, and our Citizensoldiery will share the glory of the crowning victories of the campaign, by relieving our veteran Regiments from post and garrison duty, to allow them to engage in the more arduous duties of the field." So prompt was the response to this call for 30,000 troops, that within one week 38,000 were ready, and nine days later, 35,000 were in and on the way to the field. In a letter of June 1, 1864, the Secretary of War wrote Governor Brough as follows: " This prompt and energetic action of yourself and staff and the loyal people of Ohio, exhibits an unmatched effort of devoted patriotism and stern determination to spare no sacrifice to maintain the National Government and overthrow the rebellion." The credit for such results was largely due to Adjutant-General Charles W. Hill, through whose foresight and energy, in a great measure, the National Guard were put in shape to make such prompt response possible. Pursuant to this call, Colonel C. B. Phillips, 1st Regiment Ohio National Guard, ordered his command to report May 2d, in Toledo, which was done, and the Regiment, as the 130th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, left for Johnson's Island, Erie County, May 12th. The force then included four Companies from Fulton County, and numbered over 1,000 men. It was officered as follows : Colonel, Charles B. Phillips; Lieutenant-Colonel, John Faskin; Major, E. B. Hall; Surgeon, S. S. Thorn; Assistant-Surgeon, Calvin Hathaway; Adjutant, Will. B. Dicks; Quartermaster, Minot I. Wilcox; Chaplain, James W. Alderman. Company A-Sylvester Brown, Captain; Wesley Chamberlin, First Lieutenant ; James C. Messer, Second Lieutenant; 80 men. Company B-Dan. A. Collins, Captain ; Wm. C. Cheney, First Lieutenant; Fred. Ingold, Second Lieutenant; 75 men. Company C-Richard Waite, Captain ; John J. Barker, Second Lieutenant; 81 men. Company D-L. Jay Carrell, Captain ; L. D. Mason, First Lieutenant; Erwin M. Fenner, Second Lieutenant; 79 men. Company E-Geo. W. Reynolds, Jr., Captain ; Louis Kaiser, First Lieutenant; 80 men. Company F-Louis Koeppel, Captain ; John C. Wuerful, First Lieutenant; Louis Rieger, Second Lieutenant; 78 men. Company G-Warren D. Moore, Captain ; L. W. Hendrickson, First Lieutenant; Jos. Warren, Second Lieutenant; 75 men. Company H-S. L. Spencer, First Lieutenant; J. B. Fashbaugh, Second Lieutenant; 82 men. Company ISamuel Leybourn, Captain; Henry Brown, First Lieutenant; Geo. Curson, Second Lieutenant; 72 men. Company K-Wm. O. Webb, Captain ; Geo. P. Bristol, First Lieutenant; Henry Lange, Second Lieutenant; 80 men.

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The non-commissioned officers of Company C, were as follows : Orderly, Fred. B. Shoemaker; Sergeants, Geo. Durringer, John Nagley, Henry G. Totten and Horatio S. Young ; Corporals, Fred. P. Waite, Ralph H. Waggoner, F. W. Moellenburg, Conrad Weil, Edward Sexton, Fred. A. Stevens, Elijah P. Crane, Chas. H. Coffin. For a time the Regiment did guard duty at that place, and while there ' the rebel prisoners attempted an escape by tunneling, but were discovered and defeated. June 4th, the Regiment left the Island for Bermuda Hundred, in the James River, via Washington, where it remained three days, calling on President Lincoln, who spoke to them as follows "Soldiers: I understand you have just come from Ohio-come to help us in this, the Nation's day of trial, and also of its hope. I thank you for your promptness in responding to the call for troops. Your services were nevermore needed than now. I know not where you are going. You may stay here and take the place of others who will be sent to the front, or you may go there yourselves. Wherever you go, I know you will do your best. Again, I thank you. Good bye." The Regiment was placed in the 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 10th Army Corps, Brig.-General O. S. Terry, commanding. It was ordered to Point of Rocks, on the Appomattox, and soon returned to the left of the intrenchments at Bermuda Hundred, where it was occupied in drilling, digging rifle-pits, and picketing the lines until June 21st, when it moved to Deep Bottom, again doing picketing and digging. June 22d, the Regiment participated in a skirmish with Rebel pickets, losing one man wounded. August 11th, it proceeded to Fort Powhatan, where it remained until mustered out, its term of service having expired. September 7th, it took the transport Keyport, on the James River, the boat encountering a severe storm, and barely escaping wreck. On the 12th, it reached Toledo, where it was enthusiastically, though informally received. The ladies of the National Covenant, under direction of Mrs. S. R. L. Williams and Mrs. Palmer, had made arrangements with Mr. R. P. Ainger, of the Island House, for a supper for such of the men as might desire it. Company A, Captain Brown, had already proceeded to East Toledo, where a supper awaited them.

Rev. Seth G. Clark, Chaplain of the 10th Ohio Cavalry, addressed a meeting in Toledo, October 30, 1864. He had then recently been ;leased from a rebel prison, having been capered near Lovejoy's Station, South of Atlanta,while with Kilpatrick on his raid.

In May, 1864, Governor Brough issued an agent appeal to the people of Ohio for supplies of fruits and clothing for the wounded Union Soldiers on the Potomac. In response that call, a meeting of citizens of Toledo was held May 20th, of which Chas. M. Dorr was Chairman and W. C. Earl the Secretary. Rev. F. Platt offered prayer. Two committees, each consisting of two citizens of the different Wards of the City, were appointed ; the one to cure money contributions, and the other to collect supplies. The Money Committee was constituted as follows : First Ward-David Smith, E. B. Hyde: Second Ward-T. C. Stewplt, Alex. Reed ; Third Ward-A. L. Kelsey, H. Miner; Fourth Ward-W. H. Dyer, Robert Cummings ; Fifth Ward-J. N. Drummond, J. T. Newton ; Sixth Ward-Alonzo Rogers, M. T. Huntley. The Committee on Supplies, were : First Ward-C. A. King, J. Osborn ; Second Ward-John Sinclair, M. Carrington; Third Ward-D. B. Smith, H. Walbridge; Fourth Ward-A. W. Barlow, in. Kraus ; Fifth Ward-James C. Hall, Matthew Shoemaker; Sixth Ward-A. Rogers, Richard Garner. An Executive Committee, consisting of R. H. Bell, Thomas Hamilton, and J. Austin Scott, was appointed. The meeting was addressed by Rev. Mr. Thomas, M. R. Waite, H. T. Niles and D. E. Gardner. The result of this movement was the provision of liberal supplies of both money and articles needful for the wounded soldiers.

The cause of the Union was called to a special crisis during the Summer of 1864, to meet which, President Lincoln, much against his choice, was constrained to call for additional reinforcements of men for the National Army. At the time no State had a better account with the War Department, than had Ohio; while no portion of the State was on better footing in that connection, than was the Northwest. These facts however, in no way lessened the patriotic response to such call, to be made in this section. Immediate steps were taken for supplying the requisite reenforcements. A meeting of the County Military Committee of this Congressional District was held in Toledo, August 26th, when it was resolved to issue an

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address to the people, urging prompt action in filling up the quota called for. M. R. Waite was invited to prepare such address, which he did. The character of the paper may be judged from the following extract:

This is no time to stop and enquire whether all has been done that could have been done with the men and means already furnished. It is enough for all true patriots to know, that the one great object of the contest has not been accomplished. The integrity of the Union has not been restored. All the old United States do not recognize the Constitution under which we have so long lived and prospered. Our flag does not float respected over the old Union. When that great end is attained, it will be time enough to enquire whether more remains to be done. The Government says it must have the men, and without them, we know our cause may fail. Shall we give them? Only a few days remain in which to do the work, but enough for the purpose, if each man in the District does his duty. Heretofore the Soldiers from our District have been Volunteers. Let them be such hereafter.

By proclamation of July 18, 1864, the President called for 500,000 additional troops, for one, two and three years. For these the Government offered bounties for Volunteers, of' $100, $200 and $300. To this, Toledo added $100 for Volunteers. Counting the quota under that call, the account of Lucas County stood as follows:

In December. 1864, the following local Committees were appointed for the purpose of correcting errors in the Enrollment lists, to wit:

TOLEDO- First Ward -S. W. Freeman, L. H. Pike, Geo. Platfoot. Second Ward -A. G. Clark, Charles Pratt, John Kessler. Third Ward -B. H. Hitchcock, D. H. Miner, M. I. Wilcox, John H. Gherkins. Fourth Ward -John Paul Jones, C. H. Eddy, Matthias Kessler. Fifth Ward -Mathew Shoemaker, Fred. Witker, Henry Brand. Sixth Ward-P. B. Porter, Augustus Brown. Washington Township-Samuel Blanchard, Joseph Chambers, Joel W. Kelsey. Sylvania-Peleg T. Clark, W. D. Moore, Isaac Thorp, J. Warren, R. C. Thompson. Richfield-C. C. Lathrop, H. C. Ely, Isaac Washburn. Adams-Harvey Kellogg, J. G. Cass, J. Reynolds, Henry Miller. Springfield -Perry Wood, C. B. Holloway, Hiram Wiltsey. Waterville James M. Brigham, Yarnell Rakestraw, J. G. Isham. Monclova-J. McDonald, F. J. Evans, - Metzger. Spencer -Wm. Taylor, Jacob Surbeck. Providence A. B. Mead, John Wilson, Frank Manor. Swanton Dr. W. A. Scott, James C. Wales, W. D. Herrick, B. T. Geer. Manhattan -Jonathan Wynn, Peter J. Shaw, Henry Martin. Oregon-Sylvester Brown, James Rideout, Henry Phelps, Anthony Reihing, J. Tippen. Waynesfield and Maumee City-Geo. W. Reynolds, R. B. Mitchell, Joseph Hull, Joseph Langenderfer.

The following exhibits the number of men due from the several Sub-Districts in Lucas County, March 1, 1865:

First Ward, Toledo, . 0 Sylvania, . . . . . . . 2

Second Ward,. . . . . . 0 Richfield, . . . . . . 6

Third Ward,. . . . . . . 0 Spencer, . . . . . .. 0

Fourth Ward, . . . . ..10 Waynesfield,. . . . .1

Fifth Ward,. . . . . . ..12 Waterville, . . .. . . 1

Sixth Ward,. . . . . . .. 5 Providence, . . . .. 3

Oregon Township, . 0 Washington, . . . 0

Manhattan, . . . . . . . 8 Swanton, . . . . . . 0

Monclova,. . .. . . . . . 0 Springfield, . . . . .0

March 13, 1865, the total deficiencies of Lucas County amounted to only 24, to Wit: Fourth Ward, Toledo, 9; Fifth Ward, 8; Manhattan, 3; Richfield, 3; Providence, 1.

This was the last showing published, and the account could not have been materially changed after that date. At that time the deficiencies in the other Counties of the Tenth Military Districts, were as follows : Wood, 29; Fulton, 42, of which 35 were in German Township; Henry, 29; Putnam, 43, of which 22 were in Blanchard Township; Williams, 101; Defiance, 50; Paulding, 57. Total for the District, 375, which may justly be regarded as a very creditable showing for Northwestern Ohio. Few if any sections of the country more promptly or more fully responded to the calls of the Government for Soldiers in its defense, than did this.

Two modes for promoting the raising of recruits for the Union Army, were adopted during the Rebellion. One was by providing individual substitutes, and the other by the co-operative efforts of loyal citizens. The latter class were not limited to those liable to

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military duty, but embraced also many who were exempt from such liability. Organizations for such purpose were formed in the several Wards of Toledo, in December, 1864, whose chief immediate object was to raise funds for use as bounty to Volunteers. In this way, enlistments were greatly aided, with the result, that with the other bounties paid, the City quota was kept exceptionally well complete. The reported operations of the several Ward Clubs, were as follows

FIRST WARD.-The Club for this Ward was organized December 28, 1864. Fred. A. Jones was the President, C. T. Wales the Secretary, and J. R. Osborn the Treasurer. The Executive Committee consisted of L. H. Pike, F. A. Jones, C. T. Wales, Wm. Baker and M. W. Day ; and the Finance Committee of T. J. Brown, H. Samson, Geo. Platfoot, Dennis Sullivan, Wm. Essing, John Tolman, M. Rall, R. Dunnigan, A. Rutherford, F. Licher, Joseph Wernert, and Geo. R. Rogers. The work of soliciting contributions of $25 and over not proving satisfactory, a meeting of subscribers to the fund was held in January, when a "Mutual Protection Society" was formed, under which the funds raised and to be raised were made available solely for the benefit of the members of the Club. Its Executive Committee consisted of Wm. Baker, F. A. Jones, C. T. Wales, L. H. Pike and Geo. Platfoot ; and its Finance and Advisory Committee of M. R. Waite, C. A. King and Col. J. S. Norton. The final report of the Treasurer, made May 27, 1865, showed the total receipts to have been $10,611.50, $7,811.50 from subscribers, and $2,800 from City bonds. The expenditures were-for 28 recruits, to fill quota, $9,680; and $273.20 for expenses ; total, $9,953,20 ; leaving a balance of $658.30. This balance was given to the wounded Soldiers and the families of Soldiers of the Ward.

SECOND WARD.-The Club of this Ward was formed December 28, 1864, with Chas. Pratt as President, and A. G. Clark as Secretary, and Nehemiah Waterman as Treasurer. The bounty fixed upon was $28 per man. This was under the call of December 9th, for 300,000 men. The Finance Committee consisted of Richard Waite(Chairman), John Sinclair, T. B. Casey, L. F. Hubbard, J. T. Southard, E. C. Smith, Henry Spielbush, Henry Williams, John Aschenbrenner, John Byer, Henry Pfefferly, Rev. Father Boff (St. Francis de Sales Church), John O'Farrell and John Gildea. The Recruiting Committee consisted of John J. Barker, A. J. Sprague, Ernest Kibbe, W. C. Cheney, Fred. B. Dodge, H. T. Cook, Geo. Tanner, W. W. Whitney, Fred. Eaton, S. B. Roshong, Fred. M. Burton, P. C. Moross, Chas. J. Burton, Robert A. Wason, James H. Maples, T. B. Casey, A. W. Colton, Ralph H. Waggoner. The final report of this Club was published February 10, 1865, showing the receipts from citizens liable to draft to have been $8,703; from those not so liable, $831; from City bonds issued as bounty, $3,000; and from other source, $15; making a total of $12,549. Of this sum, $10,620 was paid for 30 recruits to fill the Ward's quota on last 300,000 call; $25 for former recruits; $26 for expenses; and $60 as discount on bonds; making $10,731, and leaving a balance on hand of $1,818.

THIRD WARD.-For this Ward a Club was organized January 5, 1865, for the mutual protection of its members. Its officers were: President, H. S. Walbridge ; Vice President, Dr. J. G. Nolan ; Secretary, Don. A. Pease; Treasurer, James R. Strong. The Executive Committee consisted of M. I. Wilcox, R. H. Bell, Dr. J. G. Nolan, Edward Knapp and T. Wegener; and its Finance Committee of D. H. Miner, Calvin Barker and Milo Bashare. The final meeting of the Club was held February 11, 1865. At that time its funds amounted to about $7,500, in contributions, and $3,000 in City Bonds. Before final adjournment, the Club, in strong terms tendered its thanks to D. H. Miner, for his services on the Finance Committee. After all was closed up, this Club had a balance of $1,500, the disposal of which is stated elsewhere.

FOURTH WARD.-The Club in this Ward was organized in November, 1864, with John Paul Jones as President, and C. M. Woodbury as Secretary. A report, published January 5, 1865, showed receipts to the amount of $3,485, of which $2,485 consisted of subscriptions, and $1,000 of City bonds. Included in expenditures was $3,000 for 10 recruits. Owing to backwardness of subscriptions, a Mutual Protection Club was organized March 9, 1865. March 10th, the Club had published the names of 175 persons enrolled and liable to draft, who had not contributed funds for the provision of recruits to save the Ward from draft. The final report of the Club, made April 13, 1865, showed its receipts to have been $13,126.80, including $10,068 from members, and $3,000 in bonds. The expenditures embraced $12,572 for 30 recruits. There was on hand a balance of $137.44, which was turned over to the Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society. Wm. Markscheffel was Treasurer of the Club.

FIFTH WARD. " The Fifth Ward Recruiting Club" was organized February 1, 1865, with Win. Hall as President ; O. W. Dawson as Secretary ; J. T. Newton as Treasurer, and Fred. Witker as Assistant-Treasurer. The emergency of an impending draft, stimulated action. Of $8,000 needed, $4,000 was raised on the spot. February 4th, was published the names of enrolled men who had not contributed in aid of the Club. June 2d, was published the final report of the Club, showing receipts to the amount of $14,521.00, of which $10,781 was from subscriptions, and $3,300 in City bonds. Among expenditures, were $13,895, and $283 discount on City bonds. Of the contributions, $3,055 was from citizens of the Ward not liable to draft.

SIXTH WARD.-Two reports from this Ward were published. The first in February, 1865, showed receipts to the amount of $2,283, including $1,725 in subscriptions, and $558 as City bounty. Of this,

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$2,100 was paid for six recruits. The second report, in March, 1865, showed, receipts, $2,492.33, and expenditures, $2,712.50, including $2,655 for 14 recruits; leaving a deficiency of $220.17. The Treasurers of the Club were R. I. Skidmore and James Raymer.

In 1862, Provost Marshals were appointed at different points in Ohio, Charles Kent, of Toledo, being among those selected, who served until the close of the War.

On occasions of different drafts for Army recruits during the Rebellion, more or less of residents of the County, filed with Provost Marshal Kent, claims for exemption from Military Service, on the grounds of over-age, physical disability, subjection to foreign powers, Railroad employment and Government Civil Service.

To October 1, 1862, Lucas County had furnished 2,562 recruits for the Union Army; all of them having been Volunteers-a large portion having received bounties from public and private sources.

When the 14th Ohio Regiment passed through Norwalk on its way to the field, a private Soldier stepped from the car to the platform at the depot, when a young Miss, quite lame, approached and presented him with a bouquet of fresh flowers, to which was attached the name, "Nellie Mason." Deeply affected by this unexpected mark of respect from one so entirely a stranger to him, he accepted it gratefully, and, as he returned to the car, he said : ¹¹ You shall hear from me." He passed on to the camp and the field, and months elapsed before anything was heard from him. Finally he sickened, and after wearisome days he became satisfied that he never should return to his friends. But he did not forget his promise to Nellie, and when the end seemed near, his mind returned more and more strongly to the scene at the Norwalk depot, longing more and more that his pallid brow might feel the gentle hand that bore to him the sweet bouquet. And then, how could he redeem his pledge? When life was nearly extinct, and the honorable discharge so many gallant Soldiers receive was nearly his, he settled his accounts, and finding about $60 of his wages left, he placed it in the hands of a fellow-soldier, with his dying injunction to bear to Norwalk and personally deliver it to Nellie. Inquiry was recently made as to the donor of the bouquet, when it was found that she was the daughter of Alexander Mason, formally of Norwalk and Tiffin, and now of Lima; that her present name is Mrs. Nellie McConachie; and that she never received the Soldier's gift, nor otherwise heard from him.

November 14, 1864, Governor Brough issued an earnest appeal to the Military Committees of the several Counties of the State, in behalf of the needy families of Soldiers in the Army. In response to such call, the committees of Lucas met and resolved to take immediate action in the case. They appointed a special committee, consisting of General J. E. Hunt, D. E. Gardner, C. A. King, L. L. Morehouse, Wm. Taylor, and H. D. Warren, to prepare and issue an appeal to the people of the County in behalf of such object. This duty was performed. November 26th was set apart as a day of festival, for the distribution of such contributions of money, food, clothing and fuel, as should be made. Local Committees, in the several wards and townships, were appointed to solicit donations. These were as follows

TOLEDO- First Ward, Wm. Baker, C. A. King, Colonel J. S. Norton, A. Stephan ; Second Ward, T. B. Casey, E. Kibbe, Rev. E. B. Raffensperger ; Third Ward, H. S. Walbridge, D. B. Smith, Paul Jones ; Fourth Ward, Wm. Kraus, L. M. Skidmore, W. W. Griffith ; Fifth Ward, M. Shoemaker and J. J. Baird ; Sixth Ward, James Raymer and D. A. Brown.

Maumee-R. B. Mitchell, Joseph Hull and Wm. Limbrick.

Waterville-J. M. Brigham, C. C. Brainard, John Batt, Alex. Walp and Y. Rakestraw.

Providence-John Wilson, A. B. Mead and Mr. Crosby.

Swanton-W. A. Scott, W. D. Herrick and J. C. Wales.

Monclova-J. McDonald, John Weible and Louis Metzger.

Spencer-Wm. Taylor, Wm. Shaffer and - Cole, Jr.

Richfield-Pliny Lathrop, Isaac Washburn and Benjamin Farley.

Sylvania-Peleg T. Clark, Wm. H. Huling and E. Gordinier.

Springfield-Hiram Wiltse, Perry Wood and Dennis Sage.

Washington-S. L. Collins, J. W. Kelsey and N. Ashley Whitney.

Adams-Harvey Kellogg, Hiram Haughton and P. Larkins.

Manhattan-P. J. Latshaw, Jonathan Wynn and J. L. Chase.

Oregon-C. A. Crane, James Messer and Luther Whitmore.

On the 3d of June, 1865, at the Toledo Board of Trade rooms, and in the presence of a large

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number of members and other citizens, a gold watch was presented to Colonel P. S. Slevin, on behalf of the officers and men of the 100th Ohio Infantry, that gentleman having been compelled by a Severe wound, to relinquish the command of the Regiment.

No part of the grand and multiform work of the suppression of the Rebellion and the preservation of the Union, will Stand out in hiStory more noble and heroic, than. will that borne by the loyal Christian Women of the United States, in the moral and physical care of the Soldiers of the Union. It is without the approach of a parallel in human experience in the magnitude and munificence of its provision, It is due as simple justice to the memory of Florence Nightingale, and the true Women of England who co-operated in her heroic and unprecedented work during the Crimean War, to Say here, that their noble example operated largely in suggesting the more ample and extended service of their worthy American Sisters. This is not the place to attempt a hiStory of that branch of the country's patriotic Army ; but it is proper briefly to recognize Something of what was done in that direction by a few of the loyal Women of Lucas County, which may be taken as but a sample of like devotion throughout the loyal States.

On the 9th of October, 1861, a few of the Women of Toledo met and organized THE TOLEDO SOLDIERS' AID SOCIETY, under circumstances not the most assuring of success. It was a movement So entirely new in this country, that the mass of the people had to be educated to a just understanding of its importance and of its methods. But the Toledo pioneers had faith in both the merits of their plan and the final approval and co-operation of their neighbors. For means for operations, reliance was at first had on the membership fee of any sum over 25 cents; but this soon proved to be inadequate, when (November 5th) a festival was given, and on the 6th, a dinner. In the Winter a " Continental Tea Party " met with good results. In April following, $321.50 was collected, which, with other receipts, aggregated for the first year, $1,852.91. Before that year closed, the plan of the Society was made to embrace the care of Soldiers' families at home, as well as of the Soldiers in the field. Among the items of expenditure for the first year, were these : For hospital stores, $1,142.74; for articles for hospitals, $105.37; money to Soldiers' families, $112.98; money to invalid Soldiers, $34.50; hotel bills of invalid Soldiers, $89.22. Hospital supplies were Sent to the following Camps: Oliver, Toledo ; Worcester, Norwalk, Ohio; and Calvert, Ky.; to hospitals at Nashville, Louisville, Lebanon, and PittSburg Landing; to the Cincinnati Sanitary Committee, and the Ohio Relief Association, Washington, D. C.; and to the following Regiments The 14th, 25th, 27th, 38th, 49th, 67th, 84th, 100th, and 111th Ohio Infantry, and to the 1St and 2d Tennessee Regiments. In addition to the $1,852.91 stated, the County, through this Society, disbursed to Soldiers' families the Sum of $1,266.

The first year's trial was hopeful and encouraging in its results, and the Second year proved even more so. The popular appreciation of the work was increased, with corresponding readiness to aid, the total receipts being $3,652.84, of which $815.07 was from donations, including $500 from " a gentleman unknown," and $423.93 as proceeds of a Fourth of July dinner, prepared by the members of the Society, with assistance, This year closed with $1,163.27 in the treasury. During this year supplies were forwarded to the 55th, 27th, 111th, 67th, and 14th Ohio, and the Anderson Guards; to the Ohio Association at Washington ; to Union Refugees at Cairo (care of Chaplain John Eaton), for destitute "Contrabands;" to Union Refugees at Springfield, Mo.; to General Hospital, Lexington, Ky.; and to Cumberland (Md.) Hospital. Special mention is made of the fact, that Mr. John Gavin (with Bell, Holcomb & Co.) had, during the year, mailed and marked every box and barrel of stores sent away by the Society, refusing compensation for such Service.

At the Suggestion of the Toledo Soldiers' Aid Society, the citizens of Toledo furnished the 14th Ohio Regiment with a Superb Stand of colors, manufactured to order at Chicago, and costing $130. The Same was presented in March, 1862.

The Secretary's report for the third year (1863-64), said:

As members of the Toledo Soldiers' Aid Society, we may congratulate each other on the marked success which has attended our efforts during the year. The average attendance at the general meetings has

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been greater than ever before ; the donations have been larger and more spontaneous; and the work accomplished far beyond our expectations. Our Auxiliary Societies have been untiring in their efforts, and very liberal in their contributions, and have rendered most efficient aid, in the making of hospital garments. * * Barrels of Blackberry Syrup have been made by our Auxiliaries, they, in most cases, supplying the juice of the roots and berries, and we furnishing the sugar, spices and brandy.

Most of this year's contributions went to the Cincinnati Branch of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, but all special calls for aid were met. In November, 162 families of Soldiers were provided with Thanksgiving dinners, the cost of which was about $900. The rooms of the Society were kept open on Wednesdays and Saturdays throughout the year, with ladies in attendance to wait upon calls and receive donations. The receipts of the year amounted to $2,696,81, and the disbursements, $1,537.07, leaving a balance of $1,159.74. Shipments were made to the 55th, 67th, 100th, 111th, and 130th Ohio Regiments ; to hospitals at Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Camp Nelson ; to the Cincinnati Branch of the U. S. Sanitary Commission; to Ohio Military Agents at Washington and Louisville; and to QuartermasterGeneral of Ohio.

On Thanksgiving Day, 1863, the Toledo Soldiers' Aid Society furnished such of the 175 families of Union Soldiers in the City as were accessible, with a dinner. The donation consisted of 8 lbs. fresh meat (as preferred), 2 lbs. butter, 2 lbs. ground coffee, 4 lbs. sugar, 1 head of cabbage, 1 peck of potatoes, and 10 lbs. of flour.

January 8, 1864, a levee was held at the Oliver House, J. D. Bourne, Manager, for the benefit of the Toledo Soldiers' Aid Society, the net receipts of which amounted to $600. The thanks of the Society wore tendered to different parties contributing to the success of the occasion, including James C. Hall, proprietor of the Oliver House, and Misses Mary Hamilton, Lottie Steele, Anna Colton and Lottie Haskell, who acted as ticket-sellers.

With the fourth year of the Society's labors but half completed, the War, and with it, largely, the demand for such labors, had ceased; but its operations were maintained until the close of that year (1865). The Secretary's report very justly congratulated the members of the organization on the work accomplished. It said:

In all the demands made upon our time, our labor and our money-in all the inconveniences and annoyances, which, of course, are inseparable from efforts of this kind-we have had one great source of joy and satisfaction. We have never doubted the utility of this and kindred organizations. We know that our work was not in vain. We were strong in the consciousness that our "Boys" did enjoy the comforts we provided. We look back upon the days and weeks in which we have been associated here, as the golden period of our lives. The almost unbroken companionship of four years is now closed. Let us never forget those whose necessities have occupied so large a share of our time and thoughts. Let not the sight or the name of a Union Soldier ever fail to command our highest respect-our deepest gratitude. They all deserve a thousand times more than we gave them ; for they have secured for us the freedom of our bondsmen, the safety of our homes and country, and the respect of the civilized world.

In her final report, the Corresponding Secretary (Mrs. E. P. Osborn) said

Much of our success as a Society, is due to the untiring energy and singular self-devotion of our first President (Mrs. Samuel A. Raymond). Quick to devise and prompt to execute, she gave all her time and ability to the duties of her office. Her strength failed, and with health seriously impaired, she was compelled to see others complete the work she had so judiciously and faithfully begun. Her mantle fell upon worthy shoulders, and those who have since assumed the duties of the principal offices, have served faithfully and ably.

While eulogy is not a special work of the compiler of this volume, it cannot be improper here to say, that the above recognition of the services of Mrs. Raymond was just. Many names might properly be added to hers in the same connection; but those of two should not here be omitted. First, that of Mrs. E. Perigo, whose long, diversified and self-sacrificing works of labor and personal kindness, are in the memories and hearts of very many Soldiers and Soldiers' families. She has passed from the scenes of earthly needs and earthly cares, and it cannot be indelicate to say, that to no resident of Toledo were the Soldiers more indebted for the good offices of this Society, than to her. Second, it now becomes eminently fitting in behalf of the memory of the faithful, untiring and efficient Secretary who penned the foregoing testimony to the Society's first President's faithfulness, and who also has

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passed from earthly labors, to bear witness in this connection to her fidelity and great usefulness. The name of Mrs. Osborn will long be recognized by Soldiers and families of Soldiers, as that of a true and sympathizing friend. Many other true women-some dead and some yet living-though less prominent, were no less devoted to the cause of the Republic and to the support and comfort of the Republic's defenders.

The total of cash receipts of the Society for the four years, was $10,079.90, with disbursements amounting to $9,653.55; leaving a balance on hand of $376.35. Among the donations to Soldiers' families, and to sick and disabled Soldiers, was $1,923.62 in cash, and orders for provisions, $224. Included in the hospital stores prepared by the Society, were 239 bedticks, 295 pillow-ticks, 677 pillow-cases, 625 sheets, 2,448 shirts, 1,092 pairs drawers, 1,219 pairs socks, 16,210 yards (9 miles) of bandage, 145 rolls cotton and linen, 629 cans fruit, 25 barrels dried apples, 21 barrels blackberry syrup.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

PRESIDENTS.-Mrs. S. A. Raymond, one year; Mrs. J. T. Newton, one year; and Mrs. J. M. Gloyd, two years.

VICE PRESIDENTS.-Mrs. E. Perigo, four years; Mrs. J. N. Stevens, one year; Mrs. J. M. Gloyd, one year; Mrs. E. S. Phelps, one year; Mrs. Calvin Bronson, one year.

SECRETARIES.-Corresponding-Mrs. E. P. Osborn, three years; Miss Mary D. Chase, Secretary one year and Assistant one year. Recording-Mrs. Alex. Reed and Mrs. M. R. Waite, first year; Mrs. Alonzo Godard, two years ; Mrs. E. B. Atherton, one year.

TREASURERS. -Mrs. Chas. E. Winans, and Miss E. R. Bissell, first year; Miss E. R. Bissell and Mrs. M. R. Waite, second year ; Mrs. Waite, third and fourth years.

DIRECTORS.-Mesdames M. D. Carrington, Wm. Kraus, Chas. Cochran, Fred. Eaton, Geo. R. Haynes, S. H. Bergen, J. T. Newton, Calvin Barker, John J. Barker, Dr. Bigelow, T. C. Mayhew, Ebenezer Walbridge, C. A. Crane (East Toledo), H. A. Ensign (East Toledo), L. L. Morehouse (Waterville), John Sinclair, A. D. Pelton, Dennison Steele, E. P. Bassett, Wm. Baker, D. E. Merrill, M. Rathbun (Maumee), G. W. Reynolds (Maumee), Limbrick (Maumee), Perrin (Perrysburg), Westcott (Perrysburg), C. O. Brigham, Edson, Mary Walbridge, N. M. Landis, G. W. Davis, Wm. Taylor (Java); and Misses Cannie Mott, Dicks (Maumee), Tracy (Tremainsville), Emily J. Raymond, Belle Hammell, and Kate Shoemaker.

ON COMMITTEES.-Mrs. Nehemiah Waterman, Mrs. W. W. Williams, and Messrs. John Gavin, Geo. Haskell, J. H. Moulton, and D. H. Miner.

The following names of ladies contributing articles for the Soldiers' Aid Society of Toledo, in November, 1861, will show who then were among the friends of the Soldiers in that City

Mesdames Joseph K. Secor, Chas. E. Winans, J. J. Hunker, Lyman Casey, Fred. Eaton, Denison Steele, D. E. Gardner, J. G. Fulton, J. E. Hunt, Edson Allen, J. R. Osborn, F. J. King, J. McKenster, Mary Walbridge, H. S. Walbridge, Wm. Roff, W. W. Hunt, J. M. Gloyd, E. S. Banks, E. D. Nye, John Kauffman, E. B. Raffensperger, W. W. Sherwood, Geo. R. Crane, David Smith, T. C. Stewart, D. E. Merrill, Calvin Bronson, G. Bush, Alfred Wilkin, D. C. Baldwin, E. M. Smith, Luther Whitney, Geo. F. Dunning, B. F. Mallett, A. Godard, P. B. Truax, A. D. Pelton, Clark Waggoner, Mavor Brigham, S. H. Bergen, B. W. Rouse, A. H. Newcomb, Wm. Kingsbury, Henry Bennett, John Sinclair, F. J. Scott, H. D. Kingsbury, F. L. Nichols, J. N. Stevens, Harry Chase, Wm. Mack, Wm. Bolles, Chas. Kent, M. R. Waite, R. P. Ainger, Ira E. Lee, A. L. White, S. A. Raymond, T. B. Casey, C. B. Phillips, E. B. Hyde, Geo. Stebbins, D. B. Scott, C. S. Crossman, J. W. Walterhouse, A. W. Maddocks, Peleg T. Clark, C. H. Parsons, H. B. Hall, C. D. Woodruff, Thos. Daniels, Henry McHenry.

Misses Elizabeth R. Bissell, Sarah Brown, Jessie Jones, Alice Carrington, Julia Fitch, Tinie Bidette, Mattie Hoffman, Maggie Tredwell, Lena Morton, Mary Blackwell, Ann Sisson, Cannie Mott, Sophie Hill, Lottie Haskell, Carrie R. Waggoner, Hattie Mather, Eliza Spencer, Mary Kingsbury, Martha Biddle, Nellie Collamore, Julia Steele, Lottie Steele, Mary Hayes, Lucy Hamilton, Abbie Sexton, Maria Thomas, Maggie Tronsill.

The work of the Toledo Society after the first year, was materially promoted by the generous co-operation in labor and contributions from the several Auxiliaries, to wit Those of Maumee City, Waterville, Sylvania, Whitehouse, Swanton, Bryan, Monclova, Genoa, Washington Township (Districts Nos. 6 and 8), Springfield and Adams, Juvenile Aid, Young America Aid, and Excelsior Aid.

The untiring zeal of the ladies was also materially stimulated by the constant return to them of thanks for their unremitting devotion. These came in letters from both officers and men-in camp, in field, and especially in hospital. Among the articles forwarded to the Louisville Hospital in June, 1864, were a lot of "Comfort Bags," containing different articles useful to the invalids. These were contributed by young misses of Toledo, and one of them contained the name of the maker, with the request that the invalid into whose hands it

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might fall, should address to her a letter. In due time, such response came, from which the following is taken, to wit:

LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 30, 1864.

To Miss Maria Raymond, Soldiers' Friend, Toledo, O.:

Through the kindness of Captain Horn, the worthy Military Agent of the noble State of Ohio, your package, containing many needful articles, fell into my hands, and in accordance with your request, I now write to acknowledge its receipt. You can scarcely imagine how much it pleases us Soldiers, to see that we are remembered by our ever-thoughtful ladyfriends at home ; and when you contrast their behavior with that of the secesh ladies (?) in this and in every other Southern Town, can you wonder in whose favor we are prepossessed? If you could only sit in the office of your Agent here for half a day, and see the anxious crowds to whom he deals out your Sanitary stores, you and your co-laborers would be pleased with the results of your work. The sick and wounded are being sent here in large numbers from the Army of the Cumberland, and as a general thing, each one needs some little thing for his comfort; and if the giver could only see the smile that lights up his wan countenance, as he receives his share, all trouble would be repaid.

Hoping this will find you laboring in the good cause, I remain, in unshaken confidence in the integrity of the old flag,

Your Unknown Soldier Friend,

H. S. - Private, Co. G, 21st Wisconsin.

On the 28th of October, 1864, " Sergeant R. H. W." forwarded from Toledo to the Soldiers' Aid Society, Zanesville, Ohio, an empty "Comfort Bag," with a letter, stating how much good the contents of the bag had done to the sick comrades to whom he had given them, while serving about Petersburg and Richmond, the preceding Summer. The letter was published in the Zanesville Courier, with a reply forwarded to the Toledo correspondent, by Mrs. D. C. Smith, Secretary of the Zanesville Society, in which she said

When our men are bravely defending our homes and rights, I feel that we, too, have a work to do; and I believe the women of America are doing much to alleviate suffering humanity, so that it may be said of very many, " She hath done what she could." Our own Society has done well-so well, that the Secretary of the Christian Commission at Cincinnati writes me that we have done and are doing, more than any other Society in the State; and yet, nearly all the work devolves on about six ladies.

In January, 1865, the ladies of the First Congregational Church, Toledo, organized a Christian Commission, Auxiliary to the United States Commission, for the Army and Navy, and elected officers as follows: President, Mrs. Mary Walbridge ; Vice President, Mrs. J. Austin Scott ; Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Lyman ; Treasurer, Miss Carrie Eaton. The amount raised by memberships was $150, of which $140 was turned over to the Branch of the United States Commission for Northwestern Ohio.

In December, 1861, the ladies of Waterville organized a Soldiers' Aid Society, of which Mrs. W. C. Daniels was the President, and Sarah E. Morehouse the Secretary. Among the contributors to the Society, were Messrs. L. L. Morehouse, H. H. Wakeman, George Reed, John Batt, J. H. Stadden, John A. Flagg, C. N. Brewster, J. F. Taber, John Webb, Abner Brainard, A. Rakestraw, C. E. Schneider, R. W. Gillett, Jacob Christman, Geo. Beis, Oscar Ballou, Geo. Latham, Thos. Pray, J. E. Hall, James Marston, Paris H. Pray, S. C. Brainard, Wm. H. Dyer, Wm. Morehouse, Phillip Boyer, E. W. Lenderson, Henry Bernthistle, J. Winters, A. Cobleigh, R. Starkweather, J. M. Brigham, Harry Hanford, and E. Burchard; and Mrs. Mary Sly, Mrs. John Hain, Mrs. Dr. Pray, Mrs. E. Hutchinson, Mrs. Hilton, Miss Maria Haine, Miss Catharine Haine, Miss Alice Morehouse, and Miss Malina Whitcomb.

The loyal men and women of Washington Township organized a Soldiers' Aid Society, October 11, 1861, of which the following named were members:

Mary P. Whitney, Horace P. Whitney, Wm. Richards, Mrs. W. R. Richards, Noah A. Cone, Milton Whitney, Edwin Richards, Carrie Whitney, Henry Richards, Sarah Goodrich, Lucy Whitney, F. C. Bush, Libbie Bush, Maria Bush, Mary Richards, Dr. B. H. Bush, Mrs. Dr. Bush, Cornelia Stebbins, W. T. French, B. B. Roberts, Mary Bishop, Edwin Bishop, Charles Green, H. F. Sturtevant, George Jones, Frank Lane, J. W. Clark, H. C. Nicholas, Mr. Copeland, J. D. Pomeroy, A. H. Clark.

The officers of the Society were:

President, Mrs. Mary P. Whitney; Vice President. W. T. French; Secretary, F. C. Bush ; Treasurer, Amelia Bishop.

Committees.-Purchasing-H. P. Whitney, and Mrs. W. Richards. Cutting-Mary Bishop and Lucy Whitney.

The first anniversary of this Society was held in October, 1862. The annual report showed the following articles to have been sent to Ohio Regiments in the field:

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Bed ticks, 21; pillow ticks, 21; pillow cases, 28; sheets, 8 ; quilts, 3; filled pillows, 6 ; shirts, 87; arm pads, 20; socks, 5 pairs ; mittens, 25 pairs ; towels, 10; napkins, 4 ; handkerchiefs, 2 ; bandages, 3,024 yards ; lint, 92 boxes ; old linen, 12 rolls ; old cotton, 2 rolls ; dried apples, 58 pounds ; fruit, 14 cans ; concentrated chicken, 42 quarts ; grated horse radish, 10 bottles ; wine, 10 bottles; dried cherries, 8 packages; cloves, 1 package ; farina, 1 package ; soap, 1 package ; ginger snaps, half a bushel ; toast, 1 barrel ; volumes, 14; papers and magazines, 27 packages; stationery, 1 package.

In this connection the following list of articles contributed for Company K, 25th Ohio Infantry, chiefly by ladies of Washington Township, with assistance from Adams Township, in October, 1861, will be appropriate, as showing how such supplies were gathered for the Soldiers of the Union by their friends at home

Solon Haughton, 1 Soldiers' blanket, overcoat and shoes.

Miss Adelia Haughton, cash, $5.00.

Miss Ruth Haughton, cash, $5.00.

Lyman Haughton, 3 undershirts, 3 blankets, 1 pair drawers, 1 pair boots, pants, coat and 2 vests. W. Haughton, cash, $3.00.

S. Haughton, cash, $5.00.

Miss O. Haughton, cash, $1.00 and 1 blanket. O. Haughton, 1 flannel shirt and $2.00. Electa and Frank Haughton, 15c each. Hiram Haughton, $10.00.

M. Chittenger, cash, $5.00.

C. Waterbury, cash, $5.00.

D. Covert, cash, $1.00.

Mrs. Thomas Secor, 1 pair socks, 1 woolen blanket and 50c.

Mrs. Acres, 2 pair socks.

Mrs. J. White, 1 pair socks and 50c. Mrs. Comstock, 1 woolen blanket. Mrs. Foreman, I pair woolen blankets. Miss W. Parker, $3.00.

Mrs. L. Parker, 1 pair shoes.

Mrs. H. Miner, 1 quilt, 1 pair socks.

Mrs. S. Miner, 1 pair woolen blankets, 1 pair wool socks, and 1 neck comfort.

Mrs. Hoag, 1 pair socks, 1 wool quilt. F. Linencole, cash, 25c.

Mrs. Holcombe, 1 pair socks and 50c. Mr. Kellogg, 50c.

Joseph Kellogg, 8c.

Mr. Covert, cash, $1.00.

J. Hooker, cash, $1.00.

E. N. Smith, cash, $3.00.

Al. Morgan, cash, $2.00.

Mrs. Lane, 2 pair socks.

Mr. Schramer, cash, $2.00.

Wm. Richards, 3 blankets, 1 pair boots, and cash, $8.00.

Mrs. Bush, 1 quilt, 2 pair socks.

H. Brown, $2.00.

Samuel Blanchard, $1.00.

Mrs. Evans, 1 shirt, 1 pair drawers, 1 pair boots, 3 pair shoes, 1 blanket.

J. Aiken, cash, $1.00. C. Covell, cash, $1.00.

H. Leybourne, cash, $1.00.

J. Potter, 1 blanket, 1 pair socks, 2 shirts.

J. G. Cass, 1 quilt, 1 rubber coat, 2 pair socks, 1 pair drawers, 1 shirt, 1 quire paper, 1 package envelopes, 1 neck comfort.

C. Crabbs, cash, $2.00. E. Thomas, cash, 50c.

J. Glan, 1 blanket and cash, $1.00. H. Glan, 1 blanket and cash, $3.00. J. Hoag, $1.00.

Mr. Searls, $1.00.

Cone Brothers, 2 pair drawers, 4 pair socks, 2 shirts, 1 quilt, 1 undershirt and 2 yards of oilcloth.

Ira Haughton, 1 coat, 1 pair pants, 2 pair drawers, 1 quilt, 1 pair boots, 1 pair mittens, 2 pair socks. Mrs. J. S. Whitney, 2 wool quilts, 2 pair socks, and $1.30.

Mrs. Trowbridge, $1.00.

Mrs. Knights, 1 quilt and 25c. Mr. Green, 1 blanket.

Mrs. Porter Whitney, 2 oil capes, 2 quilts, 1 pair socks and $1.00.

Mrs. N. A. Whitney, 1 quilt, 1 pair socks.

S. S. Ketcham, 1 pair socks, 2 shirts, 1 pair pants, and 50c.

J. Lester, $1.00.

A. Johnson, $2.00.

M. Whitney, $1.00.

Mrs. Green, 1 blanket.

S. Green, $1.00.

E. Cone, $1.00.

Miss Miller, $1.00.

Mrs. West, $2.00.

R. E. Richards, $1.00.

Mrs. Bishop, 1 pair socks.

Mr. L. Bissell, 1 blanket.

J. Micham, $2.00.

Mrs. S. Ten Eyck, 1 pair socks.

Mrs. C. Ten Eyck, 1 quilt.

Mrs. B. F. Joy, $3.00.

Mrs. Hasty, 1 blanket.

Mrs. Wilson, 1 quilt.

Mrs. Barga, 1 quilt.

Mrs. D. Mills, 1 quilt.

Mrs. H. Miller, 1 quilt.

Mr. Etting, $2.00.

H. Stebbins, 65c.

W. R. Richards, 1 pair drawers, 2 pair socks.

J. Reynolds, 1 undershirt.

G. Goettell, 1 pair socks.

H. A. S. and A. M., 2 pair socks.

Mrs. C. F. Johnson, 11 pair socks; by contributions solicited, 18 pair socks, 2 pair drawers, 2 wool undershirts, 2 pair mittens, 1 scarf, pins, needles, thread, etc.

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Mrs. Merrill, 1 bundle, to son.

Mrs. Mulliken, 1 pair socks.

Mr. Sisson, 5 pair socks.

Mrs. Daum, 1 bundle, to son.

Mrs. Mulholland, 1 shirt, 2 pair socks, 1 neck comfort.

H. B. W. and W. R., 75c.

N. C. Kellogg, 1 pair boots, 1 shirt, 1 pair drawers, 2 pair socks, 3 pair gloves, paper, envelopes, and $1.00.

D. A. Merrill, 1 box and $1.00.

Mrs. Sprooleken, 1 shirt, 2 pair drawers.

Mrs. Baker, 1 shirt, 1 pair drawers, 2 pair socks, 1 pair gloves.

F. Whitney, 2 pair socks.

F. Lang, 1 pair drawers, 4 pair socks, 1 blanket, and $1.00.

L. Beoghold, 1 blanket, 3 pair socks, 1 pair drawers, and $1.00.

Mrs. Lang, 1 shirt.

Mrs. Graham, 2 blankets, 2 pair socks.

Mrs. Wilkinson (collected), 15 pair socks, 3 shirts, 9 pair drawers, 4 quilts, 1 oil-cloth, 6 packages, 1 overcoat.

Mr. Grant, 1 oil-cloth, 1 quilt, 3 pair socks, 1 pair drawers, 1 shirt.

Mrs. R.. A. Scott, 1 shawl, 2 pair drawers, 2 shirts, 2 pair socks, 1 pair mittens, 1 pair overshoes, 1 pound tobacco.

C. Woehler, 2 shirts and 25c.

Mrs. Love, 25c.

Mrs. J. Brown, 1 pair pants, 1 shirt, 2 pair socks, 1 pair boots.

Irwin Brown, 50c.

The express charges on these articles to Grafton, Virginia, amounted to $26.66, which sum was contributed by different persons.

In 1864, the President of the Washington Township Soldiers' Aid Society, received letters from Army Hospitals in the South, acknowledging receipt of supplies sent by that organization. Extracts from these will indicate something of the character of the work the loyal women of the North were then doing for the "Boys in Blue." A letter from Mary Jewett, of Division Eight, Nashville General Hospital, under date of March 27th, said

Would that you might know how acceptable were the pickles and apple sauce. I have just sat down from a tour through the wards, and the men all think there never were such pickles made before. The dried apples are furnished in part, at least, by the Commissary, but the other articles are luxuries indeed. Oh! you cannot know how it goes to my heart to have a patient ask for a thing I cannot give him, or how my heart gives a bound when he calls for something our little stores afford.

April 22d, the same writer said:

Yesterday came your nice, little tightly-packed box, in splendid condition. Miss Chase was unable to be up, so I went with an Orderly into the lower hall where we unpack goods, and it was not long before there was a circle around me of " our Boys." Contrary to our usual custom, I gave out some of them as I unpacked them. They were all most acceptable. Taking an armful of the horse-radish, I distributed the bottles around on the convalescents' tables, so the Boys had a good relish for their dinner. The papers I immediately distributed among the men. The socks are much nicer than those we get at the Commission, and are worth a dozen pairs of " Government." The currant wine (a little of it), I put with ice, and a poor low patient, whose father was watching anxiously by him, was cheered and strengthened by it. The barberry preserves put a "good taste" into the mouth of more than one patient.

The ladies at the North are doing more than they think or dream of. Many a patient from this hospital has been saved to friends and country by the thousand-and-one little articles prepared by Northern Aid Societies.

The stores from your Society have come through more directly than from other places. In the name of our many Soldiers let me thank you and your Society for the acceptable shipments already received.

A meeting of ladies of Washington Township was held at the Prairie School House, October 3, 1863, for the purpose of adopting measures for procuring a flag for Company G, 1st Regiment, O. V. M., raised in that Township. Mrs. A. C. Harris was President, and Mrs. H. C. Perry the Secretary. The chair appointed the following committee to circulate subscription papers for the purpose named Mrs. Geo. Mallett, Mrs. Giles Mallett, Miss Miranda Granger, Miss Sarah Dixon, Miss Anna Poseland, Miss Cobb, Miss Sarah L. Bailey, Miss Ann Aldrich, Miss Carrie Leybourn, Miss Clara Bush, Mrs. Thos. Secor, Miss Haughton, Miss Lucy Whitney, and Mrs. N. Haughton. A committee, consisting of Miss Haughton, Mrs. N. Haughton, and Miss Cousins, were appointed to make arrangements for the flag. Miss Ruth Haughton was the Treasurer.

The Ladies' Freedmen's Aid Society of Toledo was organized March 27, 1865, with the following officers: President, Mrs. W. W. Griffith ; Vice Presidents, Mrs. John Sinclair, Trinity Church ; Mrs. Matthew Brown, First Congregational Church ; Mrs. Geo. Tanner, German M. E. Church ; Mrs. Fred. Valentine, Ames Chapel; Mrs. R. R. Foulkes, St. Paul's M. E. Church. Treasurer, Mrs. Plympton Buck, St. Paul's M. E. Church. Secretary,

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Mrs. Alonzo Godard, First Congregational Church. This Society was auxiliary to the Western Freedmen's Aid Commission. At one time it forwarded goods and money of the value of $1,610.15, for the use of the Freedmen of the South. There was at that time also in Toledo, the Colored Ladies' Freedmen's Aid Society, which made contributions to the same object, as also did the Colored School, then separate from the Schools provided for white children, but which ceased to exist when colored children were admitted to all Schools in 1871.

From the beginning of the War until the Summer of 1862, the Government had been enabled, with the effective co-operation of loyal citizens, to fill its Army by volunteering. At the latter date, however, the demands for recruits became too great to be met in that way, and the coercive agency of the draft was found necessary, chiefly as stimulation to volunteering and the provision of substitutes by those liable to draft. On the 1st of July, the President had called for 300,000 three-years' troops, which call was in progress of execution, when, early in August, he issued a requisition for 300,000 one-year men. The effect of this last call, was greatly to alarm such persons subject to draft as had expected to escape through volunteering by others; and they were moved to devise ways and means for relief from such unpleasant situation. Along the Northern border, Canada at once became a locality of interest to this class; and soon a manifest tide of emigration Northward set in, which increased with the increasing danger of a draft. The Government, by the order of the Secretary of War, sought to check this movement, and to some extent succeeded in such object ; but it could not be wholly repressed. The "Skedaddlers," as they soon came to be called, in greater or less numbers found their way "over the border," under the flag of Britain. The local authorities of Cities on and near to the Canada line, did what they could to co-operate with the Government; but it was not practicable to accomplish very much in that direction. On the 9th of August, 1862, the Toledo City Marshal arrested at the Union Depot, 13 passengers arriving by the Dayton & Michigan Railroad, and took them to the Police Station. They were en route for Canada. At the Police Court, each gave an account of himself and the object of his journeyings ; but none confessed to " skedaddling." No evidence being presented that they were deserters from the Military Service, they were discharged.

This sudden emigration to Canada, was largely made up of Irish residents, some of whom were naturalized citizens, and many were not. For the purpose of relieving their nationality of such shame, a number of prominent Irish citizens of Toledo, August 11, 1863, had published the following card, to wit:

To the Public

The undersigned, citizens of Toledo of Irish birth, having heard that, in anticipation of a draft to fill the Armies of the Union, large numbers of persons are leaving or attempting to leave the country for Canada, take this method of expressing our utter condemnation and detestation of such conduct, so cowardly and treacherous.

Beneath the glorious flag of the Republic, citizens of Irish birth have enjoyed protection and immunity for life, property, and religious opinions and worship -freedom, which, in the oppressed land of their nativity, they could not expect to enjoy; and we recognize in its fullest extent, the duty of defending the honor of that flag, wherever or by whomsoever assailed. We hope that no Irishman has attempted or will attempt to evade the call of his adopted country, when his arm is needed to defend her.

The undersigned would advise and request the Irish citizens of Toledo to put their shoulders to the wheel, and help the great and glorious old flag-the Stars and Stripes-out of her present trouble, by raising one or more Volunteer Companies to fill the call made by the President. That flag has at all times stretched the hand of Liberty to the oppressed of all Nations. Irishmen ! come to her aid ! She has called for your help, to put down the Traitors who are ready to sell our liberties back to the hated of all flags-the British flag. Let there be no more saying, "This is an Abolition War." The President has stood, and is bound to stand by the Constitution, and like good citizens, let the Irish stand by the Constitution and the President in his noble effort to put down the Rebellion.

Dennis Coghlin. Declan Allen.

James McGallaghan. John D. Crennan.

Thomas Tuey. P. H. Blake.

Thomas O'Neil. M. Howard.

John Mulhenny. Wm. J. Finlay.

James Callaghan. Patrick Gavin.

Thomas Tiernan. Charles Sinclair.

John Gildea. Fred. J. Cole.

Dennis Hart. Patrick Clear.

Barney O'Farrell. Thomas Morris.

Wm. Larkins. Morrough O'Brien.

Patrick Flynn. Thomas Henry.

Edward Connelly. Charles O'Hara.

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John McKinney. F. O'Farrell.

John T. Maher. Thomas Gregory.

John H. Moore. Patrick Conlisk.

Edward Malone. Patrick Malone.

Michael B. Doyle. John Byrne.

Barney Mahon. Patrick Galloway.

Toledo, August 11, 1863.

The "Skedaddler " was recognized in verse by a poet of the time, as follows

LAY FOR SKEDADDLERS.
AIR- All the Blue Bonnets Over the Border.

Run, run, Yankee and foreigner

Run, run, my lads, never mind going in order.

Run, run, conscripts and colored men

All Skedaddlers en route for the border

Many a Copperhead,

Not liking steel or lead ;

Many a " Unionist," famous for bluster.

Mount and make ready, men ;

Here comes the draft again ;

Fly for security over the Border.

Run, run, etc.

Come from your homes where you are sure to be drafted

Trust to your heels to escape from the foe;

Come to the land where you will only be laughed at ;

Come where you still can continue to blow.

Trumpets are braying

Conscripts are praying ;

Gird up your loins and run in good order

Canada 'll many a day

Tell of the funny way

Many a Skedaddler went over the Border.

Here is an original contribution from the Toledo Blade of December 24, 1864, written at a point in the Rebellion when the final success of the cause of the Union was well assured

VICTORY !

We sing to Thee, O God ! this night,

A song of praise, that in Thy might

Thou strikest down the foes of right

And Freedom's cause ;

That from the chaos of the hour

Thou bringest forth a beauteous flower

An Olive-from the peaceful bower

Of higher laws;

That from the blood-stained battlefield,

Where centre hopes we'll never yield,

So long as Thy right hand shall wield

Thy Sword of Truth

Assurance comes that Freedom's stars

Shall still bedeck the crown she wears ;

While ' neath her lustre lurk no scars

To mar her youth.

Let mourner, who for hero weeps,

Who loves the spot where valor sleeps,

Or tender watch ' round loved ones keeps,

Come join our song:

God save the Union ! Save the land,

Blighted not by treason's hand,

Firm in Thee, a Sister band,

Forever Strong. QUIZ. *

The true poet could hardly have more fitting subjects or more inspiring incidents to awaken

* Judge J. H. Doyle, of Toledo.

his muse, than were furnished by the events of the struggle for the Nation's life ; and most frequently and fittingly were these improved. Among the products of the occasion, was the following, which made the rounds of the press without due credit to its author

SOMEBODY'S DARLING.

Into a Ward of the white-washed halls,
Where the dead and dying lay,

Wounded by bayonet, shells and balls,

Somebody's Darling was borne one day.

Somebody's Darling, so young and so brave,

Wearing yet in his pale sweet face,

Soon to be hid by the dust of the grave,

The lingering light of his boyhood's grace.

Matted and damp are the curls of gold,

Kissing the snow of the fair young brow;

Pale are the lips of delicate mold

Somebody's Darling is dying now.
Back from his beautiful blue-veined brow,

Brush all the wandering waves of gold;

Cross his hands on his bosom now

Somebody's Darling is still and cold.

Kiss him once, for Somebody's sake;

Murmur a prayer both soft and low ;

One bright curl from its fair mates take

They were Somebody's pride, you know.

Somebody's hand hath rested there

Was it a Mother's, soft and white?

And have the lips of a Sister fair,

Been baptized in the waves of light?

GOD knows best! He was Somebody's love:

Somebody's heart enshrined him there ;

Somebody's wafted his name above

Night and morn, on wings of prayer.

Somebody wept, when he marched away,

Looking so handsome, brave and grand,

Somebody's kiss on his forehead lay,

Somebody clung to his parting hand.

Somebody's waiting and watching for him

Yearning to press him again to her heart;

But there he lies with his blue eyes dim,

With his smiling child-like lips apart.

Tenderly bury the fair young dead,

Pausing to drop on his grave a tear;

Carve in the wooden slab at his head

" Somebody's Darling slumbers here."

Nor should the "Contrabands" of the South, who in 1864 had risen to the dignity of " Freedmen," be passed without recognition of the jubilant literature with which they gave expression to the joy which President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, brought to them. Here is a sample of such, which was sung by that class in Mississippi:

OLD SHADY.

Oh ! ya, ya ! Darkies, laugh with me;

For de White Folks say old Shady's free!

Don't you see dat de jubilee

Is comin', comin' ! Hail mighty day!

CHORUS.

Den away, den away; for I can't stay any longer;

Hurra, Hurra! for I am going home. [Repeat.]

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Massa got scared, and So did his lady !

Dis chile broke for ole Uncle Aby;

Open de gates out! here's old Shady

Comin', comin' ! Hail, mighty day !

CHORUS-Repeat.

Good-bye, Massa Jeff! good-bye, Missus Stevens!

' Scuse dis Nigger for taking his leabins'.

'Spec, pretty Soon, you'll see Uncle Abram's

Comin', comin'! Hail, mighty day!

CHORUS-Repeat.

Good-bye, hard work, and nebber any pay

I'm goin' up Norf, where the White Folks Stay;

White wheat-bread and a dollar a day!

Comin', comin' ! Hail, mighty day !

CHORUS-Repeat.

I've got a wife, and she's got a baby,

Way up Norf in Lower Canady

Won't dey shout when dey see ole Shady

Comin', comin' ? Hail, mighty day !

CHORUS-Repeat.

No less appropriate here, will be the following ditty, sung by Uncle Sam's Colored Infantry, on their joyous march into and through Petersburg and Richmond, early on the morning (April 19, 1865) following the surrender of Lee at Appomatox

Say, Darkies, hab you seen de Massa,

Wid de muffstash on his face,

Go 'long the road some time dis mornin',

Like he's goin' to leab de place?

He seen de smoke way up de ribber

Where de Linkum gunboats lay;

He took his hat and leab berry Sudden,

And I 'spose he's gone away.

De Massa run, ha! ha!

De Darkey stay, ho! ho!

It must be now de Kingdom Comin',

An' de yar ob Jubilo.

He's Six foot one way and four foot todder,

An' he weighs Six hundred poun',

His coat's So big he couldn't pay de tailor,

An' it won't reach half way roun'.
He drills so much dey calls him Cap'n,

An' he gits so mighty tan'd,

I spec he'll try to fool dem Yankees

For to tink he's "Contraband."

De Massa run, ha! ha!

De Darkey Stay, ho! ho!

It must be now de Kingdom Comin',

An' de yar ob Jubilo.

The song, "John Brown's Body," first became known soon after the opening of the Rebellion. This came about chiefly through the singing of the medley by Union Soldiers. It received a special send off from the Webster Regiment, made up chiefly of the more cultivated young men of Boston, who surprised the conservative people of that City by singing it through their streets in August, 1861. As then produced, it was as follows

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave;

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave;

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave;

His Soul goes marching on!

Chorus-Glory Hally Hallelujah ! Glory Hally Hallelujah!

Glory Hally Hallelujah !

His soul's marching on !

The substratum of the balance, omitting the repetition and refrain, was

He's gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord

John Brown's knapsack is strapped upon his back

His pet lambs they will meet him on the way

They will hang Jeff. Davis to a sour apple tree!

Now, three rousing cheers for the Union!

As we are marching on!

Cho.-Glory Hally Hallelujah ! Glory Hally Hallelujah !

Glory Hally Hallelujah !

Hip, Hip, Hip, Hip, Hurrah!

While it might be invidious and unjust to claim that any one State of the Union did more, in proportion to its means, than did any other State, for the defense of the Union in the hour of its sorest trial, it is deemed entirely safe to assert, that in such respect Ohio stands abreast the foremost of her Sisters. She did her duty, and that is all the best possibly could do. From the first signal of rebellion rung out at Charleston Harbor, the Buckeye State was alive with both indignation towards the treason and activity and earnestness for its suppression. And the sentiment of loyalty and promptness in action which marked her course at the outset, were not the mere ebullition of the moment; but were shown throughout the four years of persistent rebellion. While prompt in response to calls for men and means for the support of the Military operations of the Government, she was no less conspicuous in the maintenance of the no less essential aid of a sound public sentiment. No State did more to cheer the hearts of the Soldiers of the Union, by the assurance of an earnest sympathy and devoted co-operation, than did Ohio. It was claimed-with what justice cannot here be asserted-that the Fourteenth Ohio Volunteers, was the first Regiment accepted by the Government; while her force of Volunteers recruited for the three-months service, was fully one-fourth in number of the entire call of the President.

The report of the Provost-Marshal General, prepared after the close of the War, showed, that from April, 1861, the date of the President's first call, until December, 1864, when the last call (for 300,000 men) was made, Ohio had furnished 311,433 men. These were enlisted for different periods of service-from 100 days to five years-but reduced to a threeyears standard, they represented 237,076 men.

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Under the call of May, 1864, the State furnished 84,116 men, although her quota was only 67,365. Under the call of July 2, 1862, she furnished 58,325 men, when her quota called for but 36,858. The number of Colored men enlisted in the State was 5,002, and of Sailors, 1,016.

Of the 317,433 Ohio Soldiers, 78,219 suffered some casualty or left the field before the expiration of their terms of service, as follows Killed, 11,237; died of disease, 13,554; honorably discharged, 16,031; deserted, 12,609 (less than four per cent.); dishonorably discharged, 105 (less than one-third of one per cent.); discharged for disability, 21,880. Officers resigned, 4,804; officers dismissed, 157; officers cashiered, 16.

The citizens of Ohio paid $4,908,087.53 commutation to escape liability to draft and to avoid service when drafted. In addition to her share of $300,000,000, which it cost the General Government to obtain 2,500,000 of Soldiers, Ohio, in her State capacity, and through county and other organizations, paid $23,500,000. The total vote of Ohio in 1860, was 442,441. Comparing this with the number of troops furnished, it will be seen that the equivalent of about 75 per cent, of her voting population wore in the field in defense of the Union. Including those from Ohio who enlisted in other States, it would probably be found that the number would nearly, if not quite, reach the entire voting population.

During the War of the Rebellion, the readers of home papers were largely indebted to intelligent and observing Soldiers for reports of movements in the field, so far as these could properly be given. The Toledo Blade was highly favored in that respect. Among those who, to greater or less extent, sent such correspondence, were the following named persons

Chaplain John Eaton, jr., 27th Ohio, as "J. E. Jr."

Charles E. Bliven, as " Pen Lever."

Chaplain E. B. Raffensperger, 14th Ohio, as "E. B. R."

Samuel S. Read, Secretary of General J. B. Steedman, as "Erie."

Wm. A. Ewing, Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, as " Wanderer."

Captain Reed V. Boice, 67th Ohio, as " R. V. B."

Henry T. Bissell, Adjutant 111th Ohio Infantry, as "H. T. B."

Ralph H. Waggoner, 130th Ohio, as "Dolphus."

Lieutenant Geo. M. Ballard, 67th Ohio, as "G.M.B."

Captain John C. Cochran, 67th Ohio, as "J. C. C."

Chaplain Geo. A. Adams, 11th Ohio Cavalry, as "G. A. A."

Colonel J. W. Paramore, 3d Ohio Cavalry.

Major Lewis Butler, 67th Ohio.

Captain James A. Chase, 14th Ohio.

Dr. Robert Johnson, Assistant Surgeon 100th Ohio.

Rev. J. Crabbe, Chaplain 67th Ohio.

Jonathan Wood, 14th Ohio.

Colonel H. N. Howland, 3d Ohio Cavalry.

Henry G. Burr.

Martin B. Ewing, Battery Shields.

Wm. H. Perigo, Battery H.

Captain J. Kent Hamilton, 113th Ohio.

Captain Henry G. Neubert, 14th Ohio.

Rev. L. M. Albright, from Chattanooga.

Dr. Charles Cochran, Volunteer Surgeon, at Pittsburg Landing, April, 1862.

Captain Hartwell Osborn, 55th Ohio.

The surrender of Lee's Rebel forces at Appomattox, took place April 9, 1865. The next day a meeting of citizens of Toledo was held at the Board of Trade Rooms, to consult in regard to the manner of complying with the request of Governor Brough, for proper commemoration of the close of the Rebellion. Harry Chase was the Chairman, and Chas. T. Wales of the Blade, and Stephen J. Meaney of the Commercial, were the Secretaries of the meeting. Measures were taken for such object, but ere the time arrived for the proposed exercises, the assassin's hand laid President Lincoln in death, whereby the day of rejoicing and thanksgiving was suddenly changed to one of sorrow and sadness. Accordingly, the day appointed for celebrating the great National victory in the defeat of armed Rebellion, was devoted to an extent of mourning never before known in Toledo. The Blade's report of the occasion was substantially as follows:

The request of the authorities that the people of this City should observe a portion of the day in appropriate religious exercises, was complied with, but the time mentioned did not suffice for such an expression of the public feeling as the majority deemed appropriate, and, instead of a suspension of business for four hours during the middle of the day, from morning until night the stores on Summit street were closed, and employers and employes engaged in the exercises on the street and at the different houses of worship, and afterward refrained from all worldly pursuits for the remainder of the day.

From early morn until evening the City presented a most gloomy appearance. Nearly every building on Summit street was draped in black-flags in the City and of the shipping in the harbor floated at half-

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mast, and many of them were draped in mourning, while on all the back streets, the dwellings showed that the inmates partook of the general sorrow, and in whatever direction the eye turned there was evidence of universal grief.

At the hour specified the members of the First Regiment National Guards assembled at the corner of Summit and Cherry streets, and each company assumed its appropriate place in regimental line. While this was being done, citizens were arriving at the place designated for organizing the procession, and when the military arrangements were completed, there were several thousand on the ground awaiting assignment to places in the procession. Among these were several Fire Companies and other Civic Societies, some of them wearing the regalia of the Order to which they belonged, and all wearing crape on the left arm.

Under the direction of Colonel John R. Bond, Marshal of the Day, and his assistants, Colonels D. F. DeWolf and N. M. Howard, the procession was soon completed, and the word being given, the march commenced in the following order:

Union Silver Band.

Field Officers 1st Regiment O. N. G.

First Regiment Ohio National Guards.

Provost Marshal and Assistants.

Mayor and Council.

The Toledo Board of Trade.
Fire Department.

Wapaukonica Lodge No. 37. I. O. O. F.
German Saengerbund.
German Shooting Society.
Ancient Order of Druids.

Father Matthew Temperance Society.
Disbanded Fire Companies.

Citizens.

The procession marched up Summit Street to Perry, thence to St. Clair, down St. Clair to Monroe, Monroe to Summit, and thence to Madison street, in front of the Post Office, where it was massed for the purpose of hearing addresses. The streets through which the procession passed were densely crowded with men, women and children, all of whom seemed to partake of the solemnity of the occasion, for there was an entire absence of that frivolity and noise which usually attend large gatherings of the people. The bells were tolled between the hours of 9 and 11 A. M., and their melancholy tones, mingled with those of the Union Silver Band, added to the solemnity of the occasion. The various organizations, which constituted the larger part of the procession, made a fine appearance. The members of the First Regiment Ohio National Guard, by their martial bearing, showed that their military experience of last summer had not been forgotten, and, both as regards numbers and display, their turnout yesterday was exceedingly creditable. The different Civic Societies were out in full numbers. Having arrived in front of the Post Office, Mayor Dorr called the meeting to order, and Hon. J. M. Ashley, Rev. Father Edward Hannin, Capt. Charles Kent and Louis H. Pike, Esq., addressed the audience. The speaking concluded, the immense concourse united in singing " Old Hundred," the benediction was pronounced by Rev. E. B. Raffensperger, and the members of the different congregations repaired to their respective places of worship.

At the Churches the deepest solemnity prevailed. In each, the altar, pulpit and walls were draped in black, the effect of which, combined with the mournful state of the public mind, rendered the occasion the most impressive ever witnessed in this City. The discourses in the Churches were listened to with marked attention. The subject chosen by each Clergyman had reference to the loss which the Nation had suffered in the death of Mr. Lincoln, and the necessity of entrusting to Him who rules among the nations of the earth for the accomplishment of His own wise purposes, the guidance of our affairs, and looking to Him for the preservation of the Republic and the fulfillment of our long cherished hopes of a permanent peace.

In connection with the foregoing report, the Blade of April 20th had the following appropriate tablet:

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to the

Memory

of

Abraham Lincoln

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Who died a Martyr to his Country,
Falling under the hands of a Traitor Assassin,
On the night of the 14th day of April, 1865,
The Fourth Anniversary of the beginning of the great
WAR OF REBELLION,
Through which he had led the Nation to a Glorious Triumph,
Just completed, when the Dastardly Revenge of
Vanquished Treason was wrought in his monstrous murder.

The Great Republic loved him

As its Father,

And reverenced him as the Preserver of its National Life.

The oppressed People of all Lands looked up to him

As the Anointed of Liberty, and hailed in him the consecrated

Leader of her Cause.

He struck the chains of Slavery from Four Millions

Of a despised Race, and with a Noble Faith in Humanity,

Raised them to the admitted dignity of Manhood.

By his Wisdom, his Prudence, his Calm Temper, his Steadfast Patience,

His lofty Courage and his loftier Faith,

He Saved the Republic from Dissolution ;

By his Simple Integrity he illustrated the neglected Principles

Of its Constitution, and Restored them to their just Ascendancy;

By all the Results of his Administration of its Government,

He Inaugurated a New Era

In the History of Mankind.

The Wisdom of his Statesmanship was excelled

Only by its Virtuousness.

Exercising a Power which surpassed that of Kings,

He bore himself always as

The Servant of the People,

And never as its Master.

Too sincere in the Simplicity of his Nature to be affected by an elevation

The Proudest among Human Dignities,

He stands in the ranks of the Illustrious of all Time as

The Purest Exemplar of Democracy.
While Goodness is beloved,

And Great Deeds are Remembered,

The World will never cease to Revere

The Name and Memory

of

Abraham Lincoln.

" If God wills that this mighty Scourge of War continue until all the wealth piled by the Bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that the Judgments of `the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' "

March 4th, 1865. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.