(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) THE MURDER OF LIEUTENANT WATERMAN - 375 arrested, with a view to being tried, as above stated, or sent beyond our lines into the lines of their friends. It must be distinctly understood that treason, expressed or implied, will not be tolerated in this Department." Learning that Vallandigham was posted for a public speech at Mount Vernon, Friday, May 1, 1863, Gen. Burnside detailed Capt. Means and Capt. Hill to attend the meeting, in citizens dress, and report the character of the speech. A large crowd was in attendance, both men and women having the lapels of their coats and the bosoms of their dresses ornamented with that rebel-sympathizing emblem, the butternut pin. Speaking from a platform, in the open air, Mr. Vallandigham was very bitter in his denunciation of the Administration and the military authorities, and was especially severe in his remarks about Gen. Burnside's order above quoted, saying that he despised and defied it and trampled it under his feet, and if any of Burn-side's minions were present, let them go and tell him .so. Captains Means and Hill, (the latter having taken full notes of the treasonable utterances), having made their report, Capt. Hutton, of Gen. Burnside's staff, with a squad of regulars, was sent to Dayton to make the arrest, the larger part of Co. C, 115th 0. V. accompanying the expedition for patrol duty, though taking no part in the arrest. The detachment arrived in Dayton between two and three o'clock in the morning, and on arousing Mr. Vallandigham from his slumbers and announcing their errand, that gentleman not only refused to surrender but from his second-story bed-room window, at the top of his voice, shouted, "Asa ! Asa! Asa !" which was evidently a pre-concerted signal for advising his friends of impending danger, for presently the fire bells of the city began to ring, and an excited throng of people soon made its appearance upon the streets. Capt. Hutton, fearful of an attempt at rescue, forced the doors. and taking Mr. Vallandigham into custody, hastened to the station and departed with him for Cincinnati, before the rapidly assembling crowd was large enough to make any effective show of resistance. COPPERHEAD MOB—MARTIAL LAW.—Mr. Vallandigham's political organ, the Dayton Empire, the following evening, gave such a bitterly partisan, and highly colored version of the arrest, that early in the evening a copperhead mob assaulted the office of the Dayton Journal, (Republican) not only breaking in and destroying everything accessible, but finally setting fire to the building itself, resulting in the destruction of several other buildings, the mob almost wholly thwarting the efforts of the fire department, by cutting hose, crippling the engines and assaulting the firemen. Gen. Burnside immediately proclaimed martial law in Montgomery county, and appointed Major Keith, of the 117th 0. V. I., as provost marshal, with an adequate military force to secure order, and conformity to law, among them being a portion of Capt. Means' command, Company C. A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.—While on duty, as provost guard at Dayton, the "copperhead" element there was very vindictive and as criminally annoying as it dared to be, one of its most dastardly acts being the shooting of Lieutenant George L. Waterman, of Peninsula, from the effects of which he died, September 9, 1863. Of 376 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY Lieutenant Waterman Captain Means writes: "I want to say of Lieutenant Waterman that he was one of the brightest young men in our regiment; had the confidence of all who knew him, and was a favorite in the company—his death being the result of just such sentiments as Vallandigham & Co., taught to all who would listen to them." Capt. Means adds: "Gen. Burnsides' Order, No. 38, did much to stop the treasonable course pursued by Northern sympathizers with treason, and the conviction of Vallandigham was the means of bringing those people to respect and have a little fear of the law." THE " SQIRREL HUNTERS." In the Summer of 1862, the fame of John Morgan and Kirby Smith, as rebel raiders, began to manifest itself in bold and successful dashes into Kentucky, with the evident design of attacking and capturing Cincinnati. So portentous had become the menace that not only was Cincinnati placed under martial law, and every able-bodied male citizen required to aid in building and manning defenses, and all newly formed and forming regiments in Ohio ordered to the point of danger, (see history of 104th, O. V. I. above), but Gov. David Tod also called for "minute men" from the border counties to aid in repelling the invaders, saying: "The soil of Ohio must not be invaded by the enemies of our glorious Government." A few days later, Gov. Tod, through the press, appealed to the patriotism of Northern-Ohio, as follows: COLUMBUS, September 10, 1862. To the several Military Committees in Northern Ohio: By telegram from Major-General Wright, Commander-in-Chief o Western forces, received at 2 o'clock this morning, I am directed to send al armed men that can be raised, immediately to Cincinnati. You will at one exert yourselves to execute this order. The men should be armed, each furnished with a blanket and at least two days' rations. Railroad companies are requested to furnish transportation for troops to the exclusion of al other business. DAVID TOD, Governor. A WONDERFUL UPRISING.—To this appeal thousands of farmers, mechanics and business and professional men in the northern part of the State as promptly responded as those in the southern part of the State had already done, the writer saying editorially, in the BEACON of September 16, 1832: "Among the two hundred, or more 'sharp-shooters,' who left Akron and vicinity for Cincinnati, on Wednesday last, was a fine squad from Tallmadge, among whom we noticed Dr. Amos Wright and Hon. Sidney Edgerton," the residence of the latter--then member of Congress from the Eighteenth District—being at that time in Tallmadge. Continuing the BEACON said: "Other towns in this neighborhood, and indeed throughout the county, responded to the call of the Governor, and although their services were happily not required upon the 'bloody field of battle,' the expedition will have taught the rebels the salutary lesson that after the '600,000 more' have been mustered into the service and assigned to duty, there are, as the razor-strop man would say, 'a few more left of the same sort,' ready to take a hand in, if necessary." THE "SQUIRREL HUNTERS" OF 1862 - 377 A portion of the boys from here, were armed with the old-style Harper's Ferry muskets, the property of the State, then in possession of the local militia, others preferring to trust to their squirrel rifles; added to which some of the boys buckled on the old-fashioned sheath, or "cheese" knife furnished by the State to the volunteer militia, in those "good old days." A second squad of men, who left a day later, only proceeded as far as Columbus, where they were ordered to "about face," and return home until further orders, Gov. Tod, telegraphing to Secretary of War Stanton, under date of September 13, as follows: The minute-men, or squirrel hunters, responded gloriously to the call for the defense of Cincinnati. Thousands reached the city, and thousands more were en route for it. The enemy having retreated all have been ordered back. This uprising of the people is the cause of the retreat. You should acknowledge, publicly, this gallant conduct: Please order Quartermaster Burr to pay all transportation bills, upon my approval. "DAVID TOD, Governor." ORGANIZATION, ROSTER, ETC.—It is to be regretted that the muster roll of the Summit County " Squirrel Hunters," has not been preserved. The names of the Tallmadge contingent, thirteen in all (including our present well-known citizen, Hon. Sidney Edgerton), is published in connection with the military history of that township. But in the absence of authentic record, the memory of certain of the "squirrels" themselves--treacherous at the best—will have to be relied upon for the reproduction of the few others that can here be given. So sudden was the departure, that there was no opportunity for organization before leaving home. But on the cars, between Orrville and Crestline, officers were elected as follows: Daniel W. Storer, captain; Charles R. Howe, -first lieutenant; Wilbur F. Sanders, second lieutenant; and J. Alexander Lantz, orderly sergeant—other non-commissioned officers not remembered. Among the Akron members of the "rank and file" were: J. Park Alexander, Henry E. Abbey, Milton Abbey, John W. Baker, William Bell, Mills H. Beardsley, Williams. P. Babcock, William E. Beardsley, Ohio C. Barber, Norman H. Barber, David Chambers, George A. Collins, David Dressler, Henry C. Howard, Henry Hine, Jacob Koch, Hiram A. Kepler, George W. Marriner, William B. Raymond, James Rinehart, John K. Robinson, Major Erhard Steitibacher, John H. K. Sorrick, George S. Storer, Charles Starr, William Seiberling, George C. Weimer, Harvey Wells, John Zwisler, Charles W. Huse, Delos Hart, William H. H. Welton, *Henry L. Montenyohl, Arthur F. Bartges. A number of persons from neighboring towns responding as soon as the exigency was made known' to them, did not reach Akron until the order was countermanded among them being Mr. Edward H. Viers of Norton. LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONIAL. —At the following session of the Legislature the appended resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representative's of the State of Ohio, That the Governor be and is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate out of his contingent fund, a sufficient sum to pay for lithographing and printing discharges for the patriotic men of the State who 378 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. responded to the call of the Governor, and went to the Southern border to repel the invader, and who will be known in history as the ' Squirrel Hunters.’ JAMES R. HUBBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives; PETER HITCHCOCK, President pro tem of the Senate. Pursuant to this resolution, a handsome lithographed discharge, eight by ten inches in size, was prepared, bearing upon the upper right-hand corner a portrait of Gov. David Tod, and upon the upper left-hand corner, a portrait of Adjutant General 'Charles W. Hill, while upon the right-hand lower corner is the figure of a hunter, with blanket strapped across his shoulders, and powder horn on his right side, in the act of loading his gun to shoot at a squirrel perched upon the limb of a tree in the left-hand lower corner, the intermediate space showing the Great seal of Ohio resting upon the National Flag. The document reads as follows: THE SQUIRREL HUNTER’S DISCHARGE. Cincinnati was menaced by the enemies of our Union. DAVID TOD, Governor of Ohio, called on the Minutemen of the State. and the Squirrel Hunters came by thousands to the rescue. You, J: Park Alexander, were one of them, and this is your HONORABLE DISCHARGE. September, 1862. CHARLES W. HILL, Adj. Gen. of Ohio Approved by DAVID TOD, Governor. MALCOLM MCDOWELL, Major & A. D. C. Taxing to the utmost the thinking powers of some eight or ten of those above named, only recalls about one-third of Captain Storer’s company, as above given, which is much to be regretted, for the Squirrel Hunters of Ohio are entitled to high honors for the prompt and prominent, though happily bloodless, part they took—if not subduing the Great Rebellion itself, at least preventing the rebels from subduing the Great State of Ohio. SECOND OHIO CAVALRY. This regiment was one of Summit county,s favorites, Company A being wholly, and one or two other companies partially, made up of Summit county boys. The regiment was organized, under special authority of Secretary of War Simon Cameron, in the Fall of 1861, at Camp Wade, near Cleveland, being mustered in October 10th of that year, with Charles Doubleday as colonel, and was purely a Western Reserve regiment. Company A was officered as follows: George A. Purington, of Akron, captain; Dudley Seward, of Akron, first lieutenant; Miles J. Collier, of Peninsula, second lieutenant; Henry 0. Hampson, of Akron, orderly sergeant; Augustus N. Bernard, then of Middlebury, sergeant. These officers were subsequently promoted, on merit, as follows: Captain Purington promoted to major September 24, 1861, to lieutenant colonel June 25, 1863, and to colonel, but not mustered as such, retiring from the volunteer service at the end of the three years, to take a captaincy in the Regular THE SECOND OHIO CAVALRY - 379 Army, being now major of the Third U. S. Cavalry, and after extensive service in the Indian Territory, stationed at Fort Clark, Texas, and one of the most efficient and highly honored officers in that branch of the service. COL. DUDLEY SEWARD,—born in Utica, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1819; educated in common schools ; in 1835 entered general store in Manchester, N. Y., clerking four years ; then worked on farm Summers and taught school Winters till 1842, when he came to Ohio, first locating in Middlebury, then Wadsworth, then Tallmadge and finally in Akron. In Fall of 1847, was appointed Deputy by Sheriff Lewis M. Janes, continuing also through the two succeeding terms of Sheriff William L. Clarke, and in 1852 he was elected Sheriff, serving two terms ; in April, 1861, enlisted in Co. G, 19th 0. V. I., of which he was sergeant. At end of three months' term of service, with Geo. A. Purington recruited Co. A., 2d 0. V. C., with Mr. P. as Captain and Mr. S. as First Lieutenant. He remained in the service until October, 1865, being promoted by regular gradation to colonel of the regiment, sharing in, all its marches and engagements, as elsewhere fully detailed. Two years after his discharge from the, volunteer service—meanwhile serving as assistant clerk of the Ohio State Senate one term—he was appointed captain in the 8th U. S. Cavalry, serving four years in the regular army, in California, Oregon and the Territoes. In 1873 was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he held until his death May 24, 1882. Mr. Seward was married Nov. 2. 1848, to Miss Lois Clarke, daughter of Sheriff William L. Clarke, who bore him three children, two of whom are living—Louis D., now practicing law in Akron, and Mary C. now Mrs. John L. Taplin, of First Lieutenant Dudley Seward was promoted to captain September 30, 1861, to major September 18, 1862, to lieutenant colonel May 9, 1864, to colonel June 20, 1865. Second lieutenant Miles J. Collier was promoted to first lieutenant May 10, 1862, ,afterwards mustered out, on consolidation, and commissioned as major of the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry. Orderly Sergeant Henry O. Hampson was promoted to second lieutenant July 22, 1862, and resigned July 23, 1863. Sergeant A. N. Bernard was promoted to second lieutenant December 20, 1861, to first lieutenant July 15, 1862, to captain February 17, 1863, transferred to Company K, and mustered out November 29, 1864. Levi J. McMurray, then of Franklin township, afterwards sheriff of Summit county, and a resident of Akron, appointed sergeant on organization of the company, was promoted to second lieutenant May 9, 1863,' and mustered out of the service at the end of three years, September 6, 1864. The first three months of the war, Messrs. Purington and Seward were members of the Nineteenth 0. V. I., the former as orderly sergeant and promoted to second lieutenant and the latter as third sergeant. Having been properly equipped and drilled at Camps Wade, at leveland, and Dennison, at Columbus, in January, 1862, the regi - ent was ordered to report to Gen. Porter at Platte City, Mo., and 380 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. at once proceeded thither. Scouting on the Missouri border, its first real war experience was a brush with the notorious Quantrill who attacked them at Independence with about an equal force and whom they defeated in fifteen minutes, with a loss of five killed and four wounded. At Fort Scott, Kansas, March 1, 1862, the regiment, in addition to its sabers, was armed with navy pistols and Austrian carbines. Moving into the Indian Territory early in May, at Baxter Springs, three regiments of loyal Indians, mounted on ponies, and armed with squirrel rifles, joined the cavalry forces, the Second forming a part of the force that captured Fort Gibson in the latter part of July. Early in August, 1862, the regiment went into camp at Fort Scott, many men being on the sick list, and many of their horses unserviceable. The latter part of August a forced march of ten days was made by a part of the regiment, in pursuit of a large force of rebel raiders and guerrillas, with almost constant .skirmishing. ORGANIZING A BATTERY.—About this time two officers and 150 men of the. Second were placed in charge of a light battery, and by order of the War Department were afterwards constituted the Third Kansas Battery, but on January 22, 1863, were organized as the Twenty-fifth Ohio Independent Battery. In September, 1862, the mounted portion of the Second, with the battery, went with Gen. Blount's army into Missouri, fighting at Carthage and Newtonia, Mo., Cow Hill, Wolf Creek, White River and Prairie Grove, Ark., capturing the rebel forces at the latter place December 7, 1862. The exploits of the Second Ohio Cavalry, during its first year of service, properly written out, would make a good-sized volume, and we must necessarily condense. IN CAMP CHASE FOR "REPAIRS."—Being by this time in need of recruits, both of men and horses, the Second was ordered to Camp Chase, where, during the Winter of 1862, ,63 it was furnished with fresh horses, new arms and equipments, and with 60 recruits. Here the original 12 companies were consolidated into eight, and four companies raised for the Eighth, were added to the Second. Early in April, 1863, the consolidated regiment, superbly mounted and drilled, went into camp at Somerset, Ky. Early in June four companies accompanied Gen. Saunders on a raid into East Tennessee, destroying a large amount of rebel stores and a number of railroad and other bridges. CHASING THE REBEL RAIDER, JOHN MORGAN.—July 1, 1863, the Second, as a part of Kautz,s brigade, started in pursuit of the rebel raider, Gen. Morgan, following him twenty-six days, through three states, a distance of over a thousand miles, and sharing in the capture of the rebel raiders in Ohio, near Salineville, in, Columbiana county, July 26, 1863, 336 men and 400 horses, with their arms and equipage. A WELL-EARNED FURLOUGH.—Returning to Cincinnati, nearly the entire regiment was furloughed by Gen. Burnside in recognition of its "endurance and gallantry." Reassembling and refitting at Stanford, Ky., on September 5th and 6th, 1863, the Second, with other cavalry regiments, made a forced march to Cumberland Gap, after the surrender of the rebel garrison proceeding to Knoxville, PART OF SHERIDAN’S CAVALRY CORPS - 281 and from thence up the valley, joined the army at Henderson,s Station, September 25. AT THE SIEGE OF KNOXILLE.--Receiving orders to report to Gen. Rosecrans, in charge of the Army of the Cumberland, after marching thirty miles towards Knoxville, the Second was suddenly ordered to "about face," on its return, taking part in an engagement then in progress and soon afterwards participating in the battles of Blue Springs, Blountsville and Bristol. On Longstreet,s advance, the latter part of October, the Second fell back to Russellville, and then to near Cumberland Gap, where it had a lively scrimmage with Wheeler,s rebel cavalry. During the siege of Knoxville, the Second operated upon the flank of the enemy, and when the siege was raised went in pursuit of the retreating rebels. December 2, a spirited engagement was had with Longstreet’s cavalry, at Morristown, and two days later the Second was the advance regiment of a brigade which attacked and for two hours fought eighteen regiments of rebel troops at Russellville, losing forty men, killed and wounded. RE-ENLISTING AS VETERANS.--In the thickest of the battle, for five hours, at Bean Station, on December 6, and almost constantly under fire for the next five days, crossing the Holstein river, the Second was almost continually skirmishing until January 1, 1864, when 220 out of 470 men then composing the regiment; re-enlisted as veterans, and were sent home on veteran furlough. IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.—Reassembling at Cleveland, March 7, 1864, with renewed health and spirits and with 130 new the Second was again ready for duty. Going first to Mount Sterling, Ky., so wide-spread had become the raiding and fighting fame of the Second, it was soon afterwards ordered to. Annapolis, Md., where, on the 13th day of April, 1864, it was reviewed by Lieut. Gen. Grant and other prominent officers. Remounted and newly armed and equipped at Camp Stoneman, D. C., crossing the Potomac and the Rapidan with Ninth Army Corps, under Gen. Burnside, the Second, 800 strong, had a sharp engagement with Rosser,s rebel cavalry, with slight loss. In the Wilderness campaign, the Second covered the right flank of the infantry, constantly on picket or skirmish duty, on May 28, 1864, at Newtown, capturing rebel commissary stores and forage. UNDER " PHIGHTING” PHIL. SHEIRIDAN.—By order of Lieutenant General Grant, the Second was transferred to Sheridan’s Cavalry Corps, and assigned to the First Brigade of the Third Division. Crossing the Pamunkey river, in the attack on the rebel fortifications at Hanover Court House, after a desultory fight, the brigade dismounted for a charge. The Second occupied the center, sustaining the brunt of the shock, not only driving the rebels from their front, but attaining and holding the crest and the court-house. The next day a portion of the brigade, sent to divert the attention of the enemy while the balance were engaged in destroying a railroad bridge on the South Anna river, on arriving at Ashland were surrounded by Fitzhugh Lee's rebel cavalry, and after fighting until sundown, our men withdrew, the Second covering the retreat. Picketing and fighting on the right of the army from Hanover, C. H., to Cold Harbor, the Second crossed the James, with the division June 17, 1864, and on the 22nd moved on a raid to the Danville 382 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. Railroad, fighting at Nottaway, C. H., Stony Creek and Ream Station, with a loss of 100 men and five officers, killed, wounded and missing. Late in July it did picket duty on the left of the army, near the Weldon Railroad; early in August went to Washington and from thence, a few days later, to the Shenandoah Valley. At Winchester, August 17, at three o’clock P. M., the Union troops were attacked by Early, and at sundown were obliged to fall back, the second battalion and two companies of the third battalion of the Second Cavalry acting as rear guard for the entire division, fighting the enemy in the streets of Winchester, in dense darkness, for three hours. In the fights with Early on the 19th, 22nd, and two or three subsequent sharp encounters with the impetuous rebel, the Second bore a conspicuous part, going with the division to Boonesborough on the 26th, camping en route, on the battle-field of South Mountain, and marching over the battle-field of Antietam. PLAUDITS OF SECRETARY STANTON.—August 30, the Second assisted in driving the enemy from Berrysville, Va.; in September did picket duty on the left of Sheridan,s army, frequently engaging the enemy; September 13 went on a reconnoisance to Winchester, where Early had his headquarters, drove in the rebel cavalry, and with the aid of a New Jersey regiment, captured a rebel infantry regiment, taking them to Berrysville, for which gallant exploit the Secretary of War made special commendatory mention. The Second aided, by four hours hard fighting, in carrying a line of hills between Opequan and Winchester; on Early,s retreat, joined in the pursuit; on the 20th drove Wickham,s cavalry through Front Royal; marched and skirmished four days in Luray Valley; fought against Fitzhugh Lee, at Waynesboro, the 29th, the Second acting as rear guard, being cut off by rebel infantry, charging through the line; fought and repulsed Rosser’s cavalry at Bridgewater, and during Sheridan’s march down the valley, being annoyed by Rosser in the rear, turned upon him, and defeated him, capturing eleven guns and eighty wagons; the Second, after fighting from eight till eleven A. M., pursuing the enemy until three P. M. SHERIDAN’S WINCHESTER VICTORY.—On October 17, the Second shared in the battle of Cedar Creek, being in the saddle from daybreak until nine P. M.; occupied the center on the Valley Pike, near Middletown, and aided in the shout of welcome to Sheridan, on his arrival at the front, on his.famous ride to " Winchester town," and participated in the charges which turned defeat into victory, the Second, with other troops, at nine o,clock at night, bivouacking, supperless on the field of battle. Performing routine picket duty for several weeks, on November 12, the. Second was attacked by Rosser’s division and driven in, the fight lasting all day, resulting in the entire defeat of the enemy; was hotly engaged with Early’s force at New Market, November 20; suffered terribly from cold en route to Winter quarters, near Winchester, (28 of the boys having their feet frozen). THE LAST RAID OF THE WAR.—Remaining in Winter quarters from December 23, until February 27, (except sending out an occasional scouting detachment), the Second, with Sheridan’s other cavalry', started on the last raid of the war, on March 2nd capturing the remains of Early,s army, the Second alone capturing five pieces of artillery with caissons, thirteen wagons and ambulances, seventy TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND MILES - 283 horses and mules, thirty sets of harness, 350 stands of small arms and 650 prisoners, for which magnificent exploit it received the hanks of the commander of the division, Gen. Custer, on the field. Leading the advance, at Charlottesville, the Second captured more artillery; in the campaign that closed the war, from March 27, until Lee’s surrender, April 9, 1865, capturing eighteen pieces of artillery, 180 horses, 70 wagons; large quantities of small arms and 900 prisoners. AGAIN IN MISSOURI.—After the surrender of Gen. Johnston to Gen. Sherman, April 26, 1865, the Second, with Custer’s division, moved to the vicinity of Washington, and after the grand review, was ordered to Missouri, remaining a month at St. Louis, when it went to Springfield to relieve State troops. Remaining there until September, the Second was transferred to Camp Chase, where, on September 11, 1865, it was paid off and disbanded. AKRON’S ROLL OF HONOR. Following, so far as the writer has been able to compile them, is a list of the brave boys furnished by Middlebury and Portage townships (including Akron), for the invincible and almost omnipresent Second Ohio Cavalry: Clinton Allen, Milton F. Abbey, Watson C. Atwood, Augustus N. Bernard, Christopher Bartges, C. F. H. Biggs, Townsend C. Budd, W. F. Ball, W. F. Benedict, James Brennan, Frank D. Bryan, enry E. Bryan, James H. Case, Joseph Cook, Gurdon Cook, Augustus Curtiss, Jordan Cook, John W. Crosier, Lawson B. Doyle, Abner Danforth, Edmund Foley, James B. Foote, Arthurton H. Farnam, George H. Falor, John W. Gilpin, Theodore Gambie, Marion Golden, Henry 0. Hampson, George W. Hart, James Housel, George Hanscom, John Hanscom, George Hart, George H. Henry, Carlton Jackson, James Kerns, Isaiah McNeil, Jackson Maple, James M. Malone, William McCloud, Dustin Marble (leader of band) David C. Montgomery, Daniel McNaughton, Eugene Pooler, George A. Purington, George Richards, F. A. Remington, John Roahl, Virgil Robinson, J. Gilbert Raymond, (musician) Dudley Seward, George S. 'Storer, E. W. Spelman, George Spelan, Christian Stroker, Henry H. Smith, Peter J. Smith, William Shaffer, John Scanlan, Charles Tifft, David R. Townley, William Turner, A. H. Thompson, James A. Viall, Benjamin F. Weary, W. W. Wise, S. B. Watkins. Other Summit county boys, connected with the Second, so far as they can now be ascertained, will be found in the lists of their respective townships. A GLOWING TRIBUTE TO THE SECOND. Whitelaw Reid, late editor-in-chief of the New York Tribune, now United States Minister to France, upon whose "Ohio in the War" we have drawn largely for the data for this chapter, in speaking of the glorious achievements of the Second Ohio Cavalry said: "Its horses have drunk from, and its troopers have bathed in, the waters of the Arkansas, Kaw, Osage, Cygnes, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Scioto, Miami, Cumberland, Tennessee, Holston, Potomac, Shenandoah, Rappahannock, Rapidan, Bull Run, Mattapony, Pamunkey, Chickahominy, James, Appomatox, Black Water, Nottaway, and Chesapeake. It has campaigned through thirteen 384 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. States and one Territory. * * * It has marched an aggregate distance of 27,000 miles and has fought in ninety-seven battles an engagements. It has served in five different armies—the Army o the Frontier, of the Missouri, of the Potomac, of the Ohio and o the Shenandoah—forming a continuous line of armies from th head-waters of the Arkansas to the mouth of the James, and it dead, sleeping where they fell, form a vidette line half across th continent, a chain of prostrate sentinels two thousand miles long. Even in their graves, may not these patriot dead still guard th glory and integrity of the Republic for which they fell? " FIRST OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY. This regiment, with 1,800 men and twelve batteries, was organ ized at Cleveland, under the militia law of 1860, and on the break ing out of the war, Col. James Barnett tendered its services to the Government, under the three months' call, which being accepted,. the regiment reported at Columbus, April 22, 1861, and was, assigned to duty in West Virginia. On the expiration of three months, the regiment was reorganized for three years, Batter A, with Charles S. Cotter, a Middlebury boy, as captain, an Battery D, with Andrew J. Konkle, of Cuyahoga Falls, as captain. CAPTAIN COTTER'S BATTERY. As before stated, Captain Charles S. Cotter, of Middlebury, recruited Company A, First Ohio Light Artillery, for the three years' service, which was mustered in at Camp Chase, Columbus, 'September 6, 1861, immediately leaving for Louisville, Ky., receiving its equipment while en route at Cincinnati, and was the firs Ohio Battery to report in that department. Moving with Gen McCook's Command to Green River, and from thence direct t Nashville, Tenn., it proceeded to Pittsburg Landing, (too late to b of service in that action, April 7, 1862), participated in the advanc on Corinth; marched to Florence, Ala., to Battle Creek and Jasper Tenn., to Dechert, to Winchester, Tullahoma, Shelbyville, and back to Nashville. Accompanying Buell's army through Kentucky, a detachment. of the battery, aiding in the defense of Munfordsville, September 21, 1862, was captured with the garrison by the rebel Gen. Bragg. The balance of the battery participated in numerous skirmishes en route to Perrysville, Ky.; was actively engaged at Dog Walk marched through Danville to Crabb Orchard, and joined the retr grade movement of Buell's army, reaching Bowling Green, Octobe 31, 1862, and Louisville November 7. In the disaster of Ston River, December 30, 1862, the battery saved two of its guns fro capture, after reaching the Nashville Pike doing effective servic during the remainder of the battle, until the last gun was disable and afterwards aided in working other batteries upon the field. BATTERY A REORGANIZED. — After the capture of Murfree boro, by the Union forces, January 3, 1863, the battery was reorganized and re-equipped, and, as part of the Second Division o the Army of the Cumberland, participated in the movements o Tullahoma, Liberty and Hoover's Gap, in June, 1863, and accompanied McCook over Sand Mountain. At Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, the battery did most effective service, and when COTTER'S AND KONKLE'S BATTERIES - 385 nearly surrounded, extricated its guns by a sudden change of front, its loss on that eventful day being 17 men killed and wounded. Entering Chattanooga with the army, it aided in its defense until October 16, 1863, when, under Gen. Speer, it marched through East Tennessee to Strawberry Plains, being almost constantly engaged with the enemy's cavalry until January 30, 1864. RE-ENLISTING AS VETERANS.—At Strawberry Plains, the battery re-enlisted as veterans, and left for home on a 30 days' furlough. On again reporting at the fort, Battery A participated in the entire Atlanta campaign, at the close of which it took a lively hand in the several engagements with Hood's rebel army, at Pulaski, Columbia, and other points, arriving at Nashville just in ime to haul the captured rebel artillery off from that hotly contested field, December 16, 1864. The battery was now sent to New Orleans, and thence to Texas, being at Gallatin at the close of the war, and was mustered out at Cleveland, 134 men, July 31, 1865. Of this battery Whitelaw Reid, page 894 second volume " Ohio in the War," said: " Battery A marched in the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, 4,500 miles, and was transported by Government 1,500 miles, making a total of 6,000 traveled; was in 30 skirmishes and nine heavy battles, and hurled from the cannon's mouth at the rebels, 30 tons of ammunition, 25 tons of which were fired in the Georgia campaign of 1864, under Gen. Sherman.” AKRON IN COTTER'S BATTERY.—Besides Captain (afterwards Colonel) Cotter, Akron's representatives in Battery A, First Ohio Light Artillery, so far as can be learned, were: Thomas Corwin (orKirwin), James Courtney (mortally wounded at Chickamauga September 20, 1863), Henry Geer (wounded in same battle), William Hill, Henry 0. Martin, Joseph S. Williams, Morgan M. Whitney; the Middlebury assessor, also giving the names of Wellington Brown, Jacob Demass, J. S. G. Slocum and William Yeomans, as belonging to this battery. CAPTAIN KONKLE'S BATTERY.—At the close of the three months service, as above intimated, Battery D, First Ohio Light Artillery, was recruited for the three years' service by Andrew J. Konkle, of Cuyahoga Falls, who was made captain of the battery, with William H. Pease as first lieutenant. Captain Konkle afterwards being promoted to major of the regiment, Lieut. Pease was promoted to captain and Henry C. Grant to second, and afterward's to first,' lieutenant. The battery was mustered into the service of the United States at Camp Dennison, Columbus, in September, 1861, with 150 men. PLUCKY BUT UNFORTUNATE.—In November, 1861, the battery went to Mount Sterling, Ky., and, under Gen. William Nelson, marched up the Big Sandy, to Piketon, at Joy Mountain, November ,9, 1861, having a sharp skirmish with the enemy and losing one an, killed, going from thence, by steamer, to Louisville, November 25, to Munfordsville, November 29, and from thence to Nashville, Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., Corinth, Miss., and on June 30, 1862, to Athens, Ala. Leaving Athens July 30, 1862, the battery went with General Nelson's command, via Columbia, Tenn., to Lebanon, Ky. In the battle of Munfordsville,.Ky., September 15-16, 1862, the battery was overwhelmed by the enemy, and all its men and material captured. 25 386 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. Though unfortunate in this regard, they were more fortunate than thousands of their fellow-soldiers, in that, instead of being immured in a rebel prison, they were then and there paroled and sent home, to Camp Chase, where they remained until exchanged, in January, 1863. After being duly exchanged, Battery D, was re-organized and newly equipped, going to Lexington, Ky., the latter part of January, 1863, and from thence, on April 18, to Mount Vernon, Ky. June 13, 1863, with thirty-one men, thirty-four horses and two guns, Lieut. H. C. Lloyd, under Col. Saunders, Chief of Cavalry, Third Army Corps, went on a raid into East Tennessee, and though the raid was generally successful—important bridges burned, a large amount of ordnance and commissary stores destroyed and other serious damage done to the enemy--the detachment from Battery D lost both its guns and had one man killed by guerrillas. In July, 1863, the battery marched with Gen. Burnside's army to Cumberland Gap, and participated in its capture, during the following two months, in connection with Col. Frank Woolford's Cavalry, raiding through Kentucky. December 2, 1863, seven of its men fell into the hands of the rebels, six of whom died in the prison-pen at Andersonville, Ga. During the' entire siege at Knoxville, Battery D was effectively engaged, and immediately after the siege was raised, the men re-enlisted and were sent home on a thirty-days' furlough. On the expiration of its veteran furlough, its ranks were filled at Cleveland and the battery returned to Knoxville early in 1864, moving with Sherman's army when the march on Atlanta began, and participating in all the engagements of that gloriously successful campaign; afterwards engaging in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, and after driving Hood's army across the Tennessee River,' went with the Third Army Corps to Wilmington, N C., and after the close of the war was mustered out, 99 men strong, at Cleveland, July 15, 1865. AKRON'S MEMBERS OF BATTERY D. — Attached to Battery D, First Ohio Light Artillery, were the following Akron and Middlebury boys: Daniel Ackerman, George H. Brown, William Delong, Versel Dreythaler, William Fink, Amos Griffith, Aaron Hart, William Hill, Zebulon McAlpin, George Smith, Charles Stair, Daniel Stair, Timothy R. Sanford, James Sangster, Jr., D. R. Townit f. THE FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT O. V. I. This was a German regiment, organized by Col. Valentine Bausenwein, at Camp Chase, in the Fall of 1861, leaving for the front in February, 1862, taking part in the Fort Donelson, Tenn., affair, February 14, 15 and 16, 1862; Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7, 18(i2; siege of Corinth, Miss., April 30, 1862; Milliken's Bend, La., August 1'8, 1862; Chickasaw Bayou, Miss., December 28-29, 1862; Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863; Deer Creek, Miss., March 21, 1863; Grand Gulf, Miss., April 29, 1863; Big Black River, Miss., May 17, 1863; siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18 to July 4, 1863; Lake Providence, La., June 10, 1864; Fort Morgan, Ala., August 5-23, 1864. The surviving original members, except re-enlisted veterans, were mustered out January 14, 1865, balance September 16, 1865. In this regiment, as per assessor's returns, Portage township is credited with the following members of Co. E: Joseph Bergdorf, THEY "FIT MIT SIGEL." - 387 Thomas Dill, George Fry, L. F. Grether, Charles Henning, Henry Rinehart, Joseph Schmidt, John Stark, Casper Treitinger, (Orderly Sergeant), John D. Viers. Philip A. Bierwirth, recruited part of a company for this regiment in September and October, 1861, and as appointed first lieutenant January 8, 1862, but resigned March 15, 1862, afterwards enlisted in the 107th, as elsewhere tated. Of the others Joseph Schmidt was discharged for disability t Camp Chase, August 8, 1862; Joseph Bergdorf, appointed corporal, transferred to Co. C, December 26, 1864, appointed sereant May 11, 1865, mustered out September 16, 1865; Thomas Dill discharged at Louisville, Ky., for disability, September 19, 1862; George Fry, mustered out on expiration of enlistment, January 14, 1865; Louis F. Grether, discharged for disability, at Camp Chase, July 1, 1862; Charles Henning, mustered out at expiration of term of service, January 14, 1865; Casper Treitinger, discharged for disability at Mound City, Ill., August 20, 1862; John D. Viers, transferred to Co. C, December 20, 1864—veteran.  THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH 0. V. I. This was also a German regiment, organized in August, 1862, under a special order from Ohio's Patriotic Democratic War Governor, David Tod, to "fight mit Sigel," Company I was in part composed of citizens of Summit county, Richard Feederle, of Akron, being elected captain, W. F. Bechtel, of Akron, second lieutenant, Captain George Billow, Akron's present well-known funeral director, enlisted as private, being promoted the following November to second lieutenant and soon after to first lieutenant and finally to captain, in which capacity he served to the close of the war. As showing the interest taken by the Germans of Akron, in the recruiting of this regiment, we find in the BEACON of July 31, 1862, an announcement, that the Akron Liedertafel will give a "War Fund Benefit Concert " on the evening of August 22, the proceeds to be applied as a bounty fund to assist Lieut. Richard Feederle and George Billow in raising their company for the 107th regiment. Tickets $1.00 per couple. Organized at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, in August, 1862, the first war experience of the 107th, was in aiding the National forces to repel the threatened attack of the rebel General Kirby Smith on Cincinnati, in September. In November, the regiment was transferred to Virginia and assigned to the Eleventh Army Corps, commanded by Gen. Franz Sigel, taking part in the battle of Chancellorsville. Being flanked in that battle, the 107th lost 220 officers and men, killed, wounded and missing. In the Fredericksburg campaign, in the battles of Hagerstown, Boonesborough, and other hard-fought contests in that vicinity, and in the Gettysburg campaign, the 107th took an honorable part, losing according to official report, 42 per cent of its men in the latter sanguinary struggle. SINGULAR FATALITY.—As will appear elsewhere in this chapter, at a public meeting held at East Liberty for the purpose of encouraging enlistments, while the 107th was being recruited, in the Summer of 1862, the " copperhead " element of the neighborhood undertook to break up the meeting, and made the most persistent efforts to discourage enlistments—six of the more  388 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. prominent offenders being taken before the United States Commissioner at Cleveland, and mulcted in fines and costs to the aggregate amount of about $600. Three of the younger me implicated in the affair, being unable to procure bail, were placed in "durance vile," and after sleeping over the matter one night in jail, concluded that the quickest and safest way out of the dilemma in which they had unwittingly placed themselves, would be t enlist, and all three at the same time enrolled themselves in th 107th, under Capt. Feederle and Lieutenant Billow. It is bu simple justice to the memory of the boys in question, to say tha they all made brave and patriotic soldiers, as is evidenced by th fact that all three fell by rebel bullets, on the same day, two killed and one mortally wounded, falling almost side by side, at the, battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. CAPT. GEORGE BILLOW,—born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, April 2, 1833; came to United States with parents in 1844, settling on farm near Sandusky, 0.; at 17 began learning wagon-maker's trade, finishing in Cleveland, later working in Akron and Tallmadge, until August 1862, when he enlisted as a private in the 107th 0. V. I., a German regiment, of whose services a full account is elsewhere given, Mr. Billow, besides being promoted by regular gradation to the captaincy of Co. I, doing duty as brigade commissary, and on the staff of Gen. Foster, at Fernandina, Fla., and later as local provost marshal at Jacksonville. On being mustered out, July 10, 1865, Captain Billow returned to Akron, engagin in the grocery business with Mr. C. J. Kolb for about two years ; then took charge of the co-operative grocery, afterwards for a year and a half traveling and selling stoneware. In 1870, Capt. Billow moved to Huntsville, Ala., and engaged in cotton planting, but finding the speculation unprofitable, in April, 1875, returned to Akron. Here he established himself as an undertaker, which business he is still successfully pursuing, also officiating as Notary and agent for ocean steamship transportation dealer in foreign exchange, etc Sept. 19, 1854, Capt. Billow was married to Miss Mary Fink, of Akron,. who has borne him eight children—Anna, George W., Charles Fernando, Ida, Albert C., Jacob L., Edwin M.,. and Claire. TRANSFERRED TO SOUTH CAROLINA.—In August, 1863, the 107th, was transferred to South Carolina, from thence, in February, 1864„ to Florida, and in December, 1864, back to South Carolina, where, and in Georgia, besides being for a while employed in provost duty, it took a lively hand in the closing scenes of the war, in that vicinity, after the consummation of Gen. Sherman's celebrated march from "Atlanta to the Sea," being finally mustered out July 10, 1865, at Charleston, 480 men. The Akron contingent in the 107th, so far as is now ascertainable was: George Billow, William F. Bechtel, Philip A. Bierwirth, Joseph Bimler, Joseph Decovey, Robert Deitzhold, Richard Feederle, Frederick Fischer, Christian Fischer, Peter Ginther, Theobold PROMOTIONS, CASUALTIES, ETC. - 389 Hassman, Frederick Landenberger, Simon Lamprecht, John Laube, John Ley, Adam Marsh, Conrad Metzler, Charles Remmy, Gordian Spreck, Jacob Weinert. The names of those from other parts of the county will appear in connection with their respective townships.  While in South Carolina and Florida, Capt. Billow had a severe attack of typhoid fever and on his recovery was detailed as brigade commissary, afterwards serving on the staff of Post Com. missary Gen. Foster, at Fernandina, and still later acting as local provost marshal at Jacksonville, afterwards returning to Fernandina, where he remained until the close of the war.  Lieut. William F. Bechtel, transferred to Company D, Oct. 21, 1862; Sergeant Philip A. Bierwirth, transferred to 16th New York Cavalry as first sergeant; Joseph Decovey, appointed corporal, October 18, 1863, promoted to sergeant November 24, 1864; Corporal Peter Carl, died at McDougal hospital, New York Harbor, September 28, 1863, of wounds receiyed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863; Jerome Ansbach, appointed corporal December 12, 1862, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863; Simon Lambrecht, appointed corporal, January 16, 1863; killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863; Gordian Spreck, appointed corporal April 18, 1863, mustered out with company; John J. Bussard, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863; Robert Deitzhold, transferred to company K, 25th 0. V. I., July 10, 1865; Christian Fischer, died August 2, 1873, at Newark, N. J., of wounds received at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863; Frederick Fischer, captured at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, returned to company October 20, 1863, and mustered out with regiment; Theobold Hassman, wounded at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, and transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, January 6, 1864; Frederick Landenberger, captured at Enterprise, Fla., February 4, 1865, exchanged and mustered out at Camp Chase, June 16, 1865; John Laube, discharged for disability, at De Kamp hospital, New York Harbor, November 11, 1864; John Ley, mustered out at Cleveland, August 2, 1865; Conrad Metzler, died at Jacksonville, Fla., May 10, 1864; Charles Remmy, discharged for disability, at Hilton Head, S. C., May 14, 1865; Jacob Weinert, discharged for disability, at Washington, D. C., November 26, 1862.  Besides the many minor engagements and skirmishes in which the 107th participated, following is the official list of battles in which the regiment was engaged during the war, as given in Ohio Roster: Chancellorsville, Va., May 1-4, 1863; Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3, 1863; Hagerstown, Md., July 11, 1863; John's Island, S. C., July 5-7, 1864; Deveaux Neck, S. C., December 6-9, 1864; Deveaux Neck, S. C., December 29, 1864; Enterprise, Fla., February 5, 1865; Sumterville, S. C., March 23, 1865; Swift Creek, S. C., April 19, 1865.  THE THIRTY-SEVENTH O. V. I. This was the third German regiment organized in Ohio, and was principally composed of patriotic German citizens of Cleveland, Toledo, and Chillicothe, with liberal accessions from Summit and other counties in Northern and Western Ohio. October 1, 1861, at Camp Dennison, near Columbus, the regiment, 800 strong, was mustered into service and duly officered, armed and equipped, and placed in command of Col. E. Siber, an accomplished German officer, of large military experience in Prussia and Brazil, the 390 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. minor officers being selected from those who had seen service under the three months' call. The regiment reported to Gen. Rosecrans in West Virginia, early in October, 1861, operating in the Kanawha Valley; in January, 1862, went on a raid to Logan, C. H., after hard fighting capturing the place and destroying war material an officer and one private killed; March, 1862, in a raid on the Virginia and East Tennessee Railroad, lost one officer and thirteen men killed, two officers and forty-six men wounded and fourteen men missing, the National forces retreating to Flat Top Mountain. At Wyoming, C. H., in April, 1862, a detachment was am buscaded and surrounded, but fought their way out with a loss of two men killed and one officer and seven men captured by the rebels; fought at Cotton Hill, September 1.1, 1862. After infinite marchings and counter-marchings, scoutings, raidings, etc., the 37th participated throughout the entire siege of Vicksburg-sharing in its disasters and successes from May 18 until July 4, 1863, with a loss of 19 men killed and 75 wounded, including its commander, Lieut. Col. Louis Von Hies singh; and taking part in the investment and capture of Jackson, Miss., July 9-17, 1863, and the battle of Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. RE-ENLISTING AS VETERANS.-March 8, 1864, three-fourths of all the men re-enlisted for another three years, and were sent home on veteran furlough. Returning to the field, the 37th took part in the three days' battle at Resaca, Ga., May 13-16, 1864; Dallas, Ga., May 25 June 4, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 9-30 (including the general assault, June 27th); successfully defended against Hood's first sortie from Atlanta, July 22, and second sortie, July 28, 1864; siege of Atlanta, Ga., July 28 to September 2,1864; Jonesborough, Ga., August 31 to September 1, 1864; marched with Sherman's invincible army from Atlanta to Savannah, encountering several sharp engagements with the enemy in South and North Carolina in the northward march of the victorious army; after the surrender of Lee and Johnston marching to Washington via Richmond, Va., and participating in the Grand Review, at the National Capital, May 25, 1865. After the review, the regiment was transported by rail, to Louisville, Ky., and from thence, the latter part of June, to Little Rock, Ark., where it remained until August 7, 1865, when it was mustered out, and transported to Cleveland, Ohio, where the men were paid off and discharged. AKRON IN THE THIRTY-SEVENTH.-Charles Groff, or Gropf, Co. D, captured at Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864, returned to company October 2, 1864-Veteran; Christian Koehler, mustered out with company, August 7, 1865-Veteran; Benjamin Stroker, died at Walnut Hills, Miss., July 10, 1863; William Sampsey, discharged at Flat Top Mountain, W. Va., for disability, July 1, 1862. NINTH OHIO INDEPENDENT BATTERY. This battery was organized at Camp Wood, near Cleveland, October 11, 1861, with Henry S. Wetmore, of Cuyahoga Falls, as captain, John M. Hinde, of Cuyahoga Falls, as second lieutenant. Captain Wetmore resigning December 12, 1862; John M. Hinde promoted to first lieutenant August 3, 1862, resigned December 3, 1862; Henry A. Tallmadge, of Hudson, promoted to second lieutenant August 3, 1862, to first lieutenant, September 11, 1862, resigned NINTH INDEPENDENT BATTERY - 391 June 7, 1864; William H. James, of Cuyahoga Falls, promoted to second lieutenant, May 9, 1864, to first lieutenant, November 16, 1864, resigned January, 21, 1865; George W. Church, of Hudson, promoted to second lieutenant, June 27, 1864, to first lieutenant, February 10, 1865, mustered out with battery, July 25, 1865. This battery was one of the most effective in the service, taking part in the battle of Mill Springs, January 19, 1862, from a hill commanding the ferry on the Cumberland River, over which rebel troops were being transported, by its well-directed shots, at a range of nearly two miles, setting fire to the steam ferry-boat and compelling the speedy surrender Of the rebel works. For this gallant service Gen. George H. Thomas, with the approval of Major Gen. Buell, presented the battery with two captured six-pound bronze guns, fitted out with captured horses and harness. The battery participated in the capture of Cumberland Gap; in the retreat of the United States forces from the Gap, in September, 1862, the Ninth taking the advance in charge of a train of one hundred wagons filled with ammunition, having several sharp encounters with the enemy on the way, the men running so short of provisions as to be obliged to gather corn from adjacent plantations for food, grating it by means of perforations in the bottoms of their tin plates. THE BATTERY RE-EQUIPPED.— Arriving at Wheeling, W. Va., the citizens fed and treated them with every kindness, and after arriving at Covington, Ky., the battery was reclothed and re-equipped with a complete new outfit of guns and horses, the Ninth now being recognized by the War Department as a six-gun battery and entitled to a full complement of officers. On October 19, 1862, sixty-six recruits were added to the battery, giving it a total of three commissioned officers and 156 men. Going from Covington to Nicholasville, Ky., in December, after considerable scouting after John Morgan, and other rebel raiders, the battery went to Nashville the latter part of January, 1863, remaining in that vicinity, with almost daily sharp brushes with the enemy, until September 5, 1863, when it marched to Tullahoma. A VILLAINOUS PERFORMANCE.—December 23, 1862, four members of the battery, while on a foraging expedition, in Lincoln County, Tenn., were captured by rebel guerrillas, who tied the hands of their prisoners behind their backs, and then deliberately shot them and threw their bodies into Elk River. Two of the men not being killed outright by the miscreants, managed to loosen their bonds and swim ashore, one of them dying the following day—the other, James W. Foley, of Hudson, being permanently disabled in the right leg. This barbarous outrage having been duly reported at Head Quarters of the Army of the Cumberland, General .Order Number Six, series of 1864, was issued, making an assessment on the neighborhood in the sum of $30,000 for the benefit of the families of the three men thus wantonly and inhumanly murdered. February 22, 1864, forty-one members of the original organization re-enlisted as veterans, and with Captain H. B. York and First Lieut. Henry A. Tallmadge, were sent to Cleveland to recruit its ranks. April 9, 1864, the battery reported at Tullahoma, Tenn., with 151 men and five commissioned officers, in May starting for 392 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. Atlanta with Gen. Sherman, and after the fall of that stronghold participating in the march of that victorious military chieftain through Georgia, and from Savannah through the Carolinas, and from thence, on the final collapse of the rebellion, to Washington, being mustered out at Cleveland, July 25, 1865. So far as now ascertainable, Akron's representatives in the Ninth Battery were as follows: Robert Cahill, Adam France, Charles Gifford, Martin Heiser, F. A. Patton, Frederick Potte Caleb Williams, Thomas Williams, and Camden 0. Rockwell, t latter being corporal and acting clerk of the battery, afterwards in 1864, being commissioned as second lieutenant colonel of Heav Artillery, on the recommendation of the examining board Nashville. THE SIXTY-SEVENTH 0. V. I. After the return of the Nineteenth 0. V. I, from the three months' service, 1861, Hon. Alvin C. Voris, then one of Summit County's Representatives in the Ohio General Assembly, enlisted as a private in the Twenty-ninth Regiment 0. V. I., then being. recruited by Major Lewis P. Buckley for the three year's service. Before the organization was completed, however, Govern() William Dennison tendered to him a second lieutenant's commission with authority to recruit men for an entirely new regi, ment, the recruits secured by him finally being consolidated with others, raised in other portions of the State, into the Sixty-Seventh Regiment, with Otto Burstenbinder as colonel and A. C. Voris as lieutenant colonel. The regiment was organized at Camp Chase and mustered into the service of the United States, December 22, 1861. With such zeal did the officers and men enter upon the task of preparing themselves for the arduous duties before them, that on the 19th of January, 1862, the Sixty-seventh was sent into the field in Western Virginia. After several weeks of desultory service in that vicinity, the regiment reported to Gen. Banks, at Winchester, Va., March 22, 1862, where, on the 23d, (Lieutenant Col. Voris meantime having been given entire command of the regiment), it had its first brush with the enemy, driving the opposing forces till past midnight as far south as Kearnstown. Lying all night on its arms, the Sixty-seventh was the first regiment to engage the enemy, commanded by Stonewall Jackson,. the next morning, and when the fight was fully on, being ordered to support a battery of artillery, under the impetuous lead of Col. Voris, crossed an open field, three-fourths of a mile, on a double-quick, exposed to the enemy's fire, forming his men on the left of Gen. Tyler's brigade, within point-blank range of a rebel brigade, protected by a stone-wall. In the effort to so arrange his force that the stone-wall would not protect the enemy from his fire, Col. Voris, himself, was wounded in the right thigh, notwithstanding which he seized the colors from his hesitating color-bearer and, supported by two of his men, he started forward, and after two or three well-directed volleys, ordered a charge, resulting in throwing the enemy into disorder and compelling his precipitate retreat—one of the very few instances in which the intrepid rebel leader, Stonewall Jackson, was thus discomfited in his brief but brilliant military THE SIXTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT 0. V. I. - 393 career. The Sixty-seventh lost in this battle, 15 killed and 32 wounded. PERILS BY SEA AS WELL AS BY LAND. —After marching up and down the valleys and over the mountains, from the Potomac to Harrisonburg, from Front Royal to Fredericksburg, from. Fredericksburg to Manassas, from thence to Port Republic, Alexandria, etc„ on the 26th of June 1862, the Sixty-seventh embarked on the steamer Herald, and the barge Delaware, to re-enforce the army of Gen. McClellan, on the James. During the night of the 30th, near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, in the midst of a heavy storm and gale, the hawser, connecting the barge with the steamer, parted, leaving the barge at the mercy of the wind and the waves. Men, horses and camp and garrison equipage, were washed overboard and lost. It was more than an hour before the steamer, in the darkness, could make connection with the barge, which had, by this time, become an almost perfect wreck. Col. Voris was himself upon the barge at the time of the catastrophe, and to his coolness and good management was largely, if not wholly, due the rescue of himself and the survivors of his command, the Colonel himself losing all his military trappings, and—the last one to leave the wreck—boarding the steamer sans sword, sans hat, sans coat, sans everything, but shoes, stockings, shirt, pants and vest. THE ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER, S. C.—Campaigning with the Army of the Potomac until the evacuation of the Peninsula the last of December, 1862, the Sixty-seventh was transferred to North Carolina, and thence, on February 1, 1863, to Hilton Head, South Carolina, and for several months endured all the hardships, dangers and privations of that prolonged siege, taking a commanding part in the disastrous assault upon Fort Wagner, on the night of July 18, 1863, with a very heavy loss, Col. Voris himself being very seriously wounded in the side, necessitating his return home for "repairs." AT BERMUDA HUNDRED.-At the end of 60 days, Col. Voris had so far recovered from the effects of his wound as to enable him to rejoin his regiment. In February, 1864, the regiment re-enlisted as veterans and returned to Ohio on furlough and to recruit. Returning to the front, the 67th joined Gen. Butler's forces at Bermuda Hundred, May 6, 1864. May 8, the regiment was sent to guard the left flank of the Tenth Corps, wmile destroying the railroad from Chester Station to Petersburg. The regiment, with a section of artillery, was stationed about eleven miles from Petersburg; on the Richmond turnpike, with instructions to hold that point at all hazards. On the morning of May 10, the rebels made a general attack upon them, but the 67th maintained a solid front against four successive desperate charges. A section of artillery inadvertently falling into the hands of the enemy, was recaptured by a portion of 'Company F. This 10th day of May, 1864, was both a glorious and a sorrowful day for the Sixty-seventh, for though gallantly maintaining its position against superior numbers, seventy-six officers and men were killed and wounded during the battle. Col. Voris, still suffering from his Fort Wagner wound, at the close of the exciting conflicts of the day found himself so 394 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. prostrated that he sank helpless, and almost unconscious, to the ground, and had to be assisted to his headquarters. Gen. Terry complimented him and his command, by saying that if he had 10,000 such men as Col. Voris, and his th Ohio regiment, he could  march straight into Richmond with them. For this day's work also, Col. Voris was recommended for promotion as a Brigadier General of Volunteers. WINNING A MAGNIFICENT TROPHY.—May 20, 1863, the 67th was designated, with other regiments, to recapture a portion of our lines which had fallen into the hands of the rebels, which was accomplished by a charge in which the 67th t sixty-nine officers and men, killed and wounded. In this engagement the rebel General W. H. S. Walker, was wounded and captured, Col. Voris relieving him of his sword, which he still retns as a trophy. August 16, at Deep River, four companies of the 67th charged the rifle-pits of the enemy with a loss of nearly one-third of their men, but capturing the pits before the rebels could reload their guns. During the balance of the Summer and Fall of 1864, the 67th was almost constantly in action, "and it is said," says Whitelaw Reid, "by officers competent to judge, that during the year it was under fire two hundred times" and that "out of 600 muskets taken to the front in the Spring, three-fifths were laid aside during the year on account of casualties." IN AT THE DEATH OF THE REBLION.—We cannot follow the 67th day by day, for want of space, but may say, briefly, that in the Spring of 1865, it was actively engag until the final collapse; leading in the charge upon Fort Gregg, Petersburg, on April 2, Col. Voris, being the first Union officer to enter the fort, nearly one-fourth of the rebel garrison defending the fort being killed; Col. Voris and the remnant of his regiment also sharing in the glory of Appomattox, being rewarded therefore by a stinging wound upon his left arm from a flying fragment of a rebel shell. POLITICO-MILITARY HONORS.—Brev. Brigadier General in 1864, and Major General in 1865, on the clos of hostilities, Gen. Voris was assigned to command the politico-military district of South Anna, Va., and, with his regiment, to perform garrison and police duty; for six months or more the General performed the arduous and perplexing duties of the position so satisfactorily to all parties as to call forth the following commendatory notice from the Charlottesville Daily Chronicle, of strong rebel proclivities "Gen. Voris has conducted himself in command here in the kind est and most considerate manner, and has shown himself a energetic, faithful and just officer. He leaves with the best wish of our people." AKRON IN THE SIXTY-SEVENTH.—Owing to the fact that th 29th 0. V. I. was being recruited here at the time, the most of th recruits furnished by Lieut. Col. Voris for the 67th, were raise elsewhere, two Akron boys, only, being the general himself, being members thereof— Charles W. Beecher and Jacob Alexander Lant of Company C, commanded by Marcus M. Spiegel, a former merchant of East Liberty, with relatives and friends in Akron, promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 120th 0. V. I., October 2,1862 to colonel February 18, 1863, and afterwards killed in battle Corporal Jacob A. Lantz lost his right arm at the battle of Winchester, Va., March 23, 1862, and was discharged for disability June WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE OF GENERAL VORIS - 395 30, 1862; Charles W. Beecher was discharged for disability September 16, 1863. THE MOST WONDERFUL CASE ON RECORD.—The rifle ball by which Col. Voris was wounded, at Fort Wagner, split upon the ring of his sword belt, and as, on probing, only a small piece of the hall was found, it was supposed that the larger portion had glanced off without penetrating the body. As the years passed by, after the close of the war, and his return to his professional duties, the general began to experience an abdominal trouble, which finally developed into what was supposed to be an aggravated case of stone in the bladder, and finally, despairing of his life, unless he could get speedy relief, in the Fall of 1873 he submitted to a surgical operation, when, to the surprise of the surgeons, his friends and himself, instead of a stone, three-fourths of an enfield rifle leaden ball, weighing an ounce and one-eighth, was extracted from the bladder. That the shot did not instantly kill him in the first place was simply miraculous, and that he could have carried that amount of lead in such a vital position for over ten years of a very active life, without fatal results, and finally to withstand the effects of so painful and critical an operation, not only evinces a remarkable degree of pluck, but a most vigorous constitution. It is supposed that the leaden missive, being checked by striking the belt-ring, lodged in the integuments of the upper portion of the bladder, gradually, by its own gravity, working its way through into the cavity of the bladder itself, from whence it was, happily, so skillfully and safely removed. HOME GUARDS, HUNDRED DAY MEN, ETC. During the earlier portion of the war, the old militia system had fallen into utter neglect, so that while tens of thousands of the patriotic sons of Ohio had voluntarily gone to the front, the State itself was virtually without organized military protection. Hence, in many of the cities and villages of the State unofficial local organizations were effected, composed of persons past military age, and others who, for any reason, had not entered the volunteer service, who, under the general appellation of " Home Guards," took lessons in military tactics, supplied themselves with weapons of defense, etc.—scores of the Henry sixteen-shooters being purchased by citizens of Akron about those days. THE " AKRON HOME GUARD."—There is no available roster of the "Akron Home Guard," but among the others, besides himself, the writer recalls such " braves" as Arad Kent, James Mathews, Joseph E. Wesener, David A. Scott, Charles A. Collins, Charles Cranz, Edwin P. Green, Nathaniel W. Goodhue, Newell D. Tibbals, Jacob A. Kohler, James %H. Peterson, J. H. Collins, Ferdinand Schumacher, John H. Chamberlin, Allen Hibbard, Robert P. Henry, John J. Hall, Charles B. Bernard, Justus Rockwell, Alfred R. Townsend, Richard S. Elkins, Joseph A. Beebe, Henry Purdy, George W. Manly, Morrill T. Cutter, Milton W. Henry, Charles Webster, Sanford M. Burnham, Edward Oviatt, Samuel G. Wilson, William L. Everett, Webster B. Storer, James B. Taplin, James M. Hale, Daniel Farnam, Enoch Adams, Stephen H. Pitkin, George H. Helfer, John W. Sabin, Jacob Chisnell, Emmit D. Dodge, Linus ustin, Charles W. Bonstedt, Henry W. Howe, Daniel M. Helfer, 396 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. David G. Sanford, George D. Bates, James Christy, George Thomas, Constant Bryan, Erhard Steinbacher, George W. McNeil, John L. Robertson, John H. Christy, J. Park Alexander, B. F. Wheeler, Henry S. Abbey, John R. Buchtel, etc. These, and others not now remembered, were drilled nightly, for many months, in Union Hall (Henry's block), by Captain Arad Kent and other experienced drill-masters, and it is safe to say that if John Morgan had extended his raid into Summit county while the "Akron Home Guard " was in existence, not a man would have been left to tell the tale—an appropriate motto, for some of us, being: In Peace, Invincible—in War, Invisible." THE HUNDRED DAY MEN. The alarm along the border, in 1862, especially the Kirby Smith demonstration against Cincinnati so gallantly thwarted by the "Squirrel Hunters,' heretofore spoken of, forced upon the people of the State the necessity of a thorough revision of the military laws of Ohio, and, on the recommendation of Governor Tod, the Legislature, April 14, 1863, enacted a law not only requiring a full enrollment and organization into companies, regiments, brigades, etc., of all able-bodied male inhabitants, between the ages of 18 and 45, but also providing for the organization of volunteer companies, battalions and regiments, who were to hold themselves ready for immediate call, such volunteer organizations to be armed and equipped at the expense of the State, the members to provide themselves with regulation U. S. uniforms, each company to draw $200 a year from the State military fund, for rent, care of arms and incidental expenses; to serve five years, and after that to be exempt from further military duty in time of peace; such volunteer companies to be first called out by the sheriff or mayor, in case of riot or insurrection, or by the governor, in case of invasion or to prevent invasion; in case of call by the governor, to be paid the same as volunteers in the United States service, when thus called out, and to be treated as deserters when neglecting or refusing to march as ordered, and when called by sheriff or mayor, to suppress riot, to be paid by county or city one dollar per man, for each day, and a like amount for each night, while performing such service. FIFTY-FOURTH BATTALION, 0. N. G.—Under this law Summit county furnished three volunteer companies, as follows: Akron, Company A; Springfield and Green, Company B; Tallmadge, Company C, which constituted the Fifty-fourth Battalion, Ohio National Guard. Gov. Brough authorized the military committee to recruit a full regiment in Summit county, but only the three independent companies named were ever organized. COMPANY A—ORIGINAL ROSTER.—The Akron Company was organized July 22, 1863, with one hundred members, as follows: J. Park Alexander, Joseph H. Alexander, Watson C. Atwood, W. E. Allen, C. P. Allen, F. C. Ackley, Charles B. Bernard, James K. Butler, Charles W. Bonstedt, Mills H. Beardsley, John R. Buchtel, John E. Bell, George H. Bien, N. H. Barber, James Burlison, James N. Baldwin, C. A. Brouse, C. A. Baldwin, Williams P. Babcock, W. G. Britton, Gates A. Babcock, George C. Berry, Morrill T. Cutter, George W. Crouse, George W. Camp, Join H. Christy, Horace G. Canfield, Orion Church, J. M. Cobb, William H. Carter, THE FIFTY–FOURTH BATTALION - 397 George A. Collins, F. C. Chapman, David Dressler, William L. Everett, H. A. Grubb, Gottleib Geyer, C. W. Gunther, J. Goldsmith, George D. Gardner, Charles R. Howe, Henry C. Howard, George H. Helfer, John W. Hutton, John B. Houghton, Asa S. Hanscom, H. Hine, Dwight A. Hibbard, Henry W. Howe, L. A. Hastings, E. M. Hastings, H. W. Hawkins, H. W. Ingersoll, W. H. Jones, Jacob Koch, Hiram A. Kepler, R. Koehler, Jacob A. Kohler, A. Kibling, William W. Kilbourn, T. G. Lane, Jehial Lane, Andrew McNeil, Wells E. Merriman, Henry L. Montenyohl, Henry G. Mathews, Henry E. Merrill, William McMasters, John L. Noble, Jacob Oberholser, N. Osborn, Ed ward Oviatt, S. E. Phinney, D. W. Purdy, J. W. Rockwell, William B. Raymond, Wilson G. Robinson, James Rinehart, L. L. Risden, Charles P. Starr, George S. Storer, F. D. Shaffer, D. G. Steese, William Sichley, Daniel W. Storer, George H. Simmons, David Snyder, Henry M. Sanford, Newell D. Tibbals, John L. Taplin, Robert Turner, George Vogt, Henry C. Viele, Andrew T. Wilson, George Wellhouse, George C. Weimer, John Wolf, J. K. Weygandt, Henry W. Wetmore, A. A. Washburn, Daniel Zeisloft. OFFICERS, FLAG FESTIVAL, ETC.—The commissioned officers, elected at the time of organization, were: William L. Everett, captain; Daniel W. Storer, first lieutenant; Chas. R. Howe, second lieutenant, with Edward Oviatt, as ensign. In speaking 'of the-organization of Co. A, election of officers, etc., the writer said, editorially, in the BEACON of July 23, 1863: " The company is composed of good fellows, and will be a credit to the town, and an honor to the service, should it ever be called into the field." On Friday evening, October 16, 1863, the young ladies of Akron held a festival at Empire Hall, for the purpose of raising funds to purchase a flag for the "Akron Guards," realizing the munificent sum of $120. On Monday evening, October 26, 1863, Empire Hall was-crowded with an interested audience, to witness the presentation ceremonies, a dime admittance fee, for the benefit of soldiers' families, realizing over $50. PRESENTATION AND RECEPTION SPEECHES.—Everything being in readiness, Miss Hattie Henry (then but nine years of age, now Mrs. Clement A. Barnes) addressing the officers of the company, said: AKRON GUARDS :—To you I come, in the name of the young ladies of Akron, not to present to you the olive wreath, emblematic of peace, but with the Flag of Your Country, the ensign of war. To you we look for protection while our fathers and brothers are fighting on the bloody field for the salvation of our common country. * * * To you I present this flat as a token of respect and love from those who have known you long and well. Let it never be disgraced, and when you look at it in your quiet drills at home, may it remind you of your country's greatness, and also of its present peril. And should you be called to the tented field, may it be your pride to protect it from the foul touch of rebel foes, that it may, with you, be returned to greet the eyes of your lady friends. Accept it, then ; be faithful, trusty and true, and may the God of Heaven bless you! CAPTAIN EVERETT'S RESPONSE.—LADIES: For myself and in behalf of my brother officers and members of this company, I return you our sincere thanks for this honor conferred, and for this beautiful tribute of the interest you have taken in us. To you and to all our ladies, are we and our country indebted for the encouragement you have given our soldiers, and for your untiring labors for their welfare. Ensign, to you belongs the honor of bearing this glorious emblem of our nation's liberty, and may the sight of its beautiful folds ever inspire you, and each one of us, with a higher sense of 398 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. our duty to our country, and may it fill our hearts with the spirit of resistance to all rebel foes,—aye, with a double contempt for all northern traitors, till they are haunted south of the line by the ghost of their own grandfather, Benedict Arnold. A GENUINE BUT JOYOUS SURPRISE.--At the close of Captain Everett's response, Miss Maria Ackley, (now Mrs. James B. Storer), confronted the three principal officers of the company, and presented each of them with a beautiful sword, in an appropriate address, from which we quote as follows: OFFICERS OF THE 'AKRON GUARD ' :—We meet you to-night, clothed in the habiliments of war, with words of greeting and good cheer, and extend to you a hearty welcome ! Selected by your compatriots, as well for your courage as your noble bearing, to instruct and educate them in the manual of arms, and if need be, to lead them through scenes of danger and death to victory and to glory, it becomes you to gird yourselves well for the task that you may acquit yourselves like men. Officers, accept from us these swords. Let them be drawn only in defense of the right, and may the God of Heaven ever bless you and your command. Each of the officers named briefly expressed his thanks for the beautiful weapons, and on call, Ensign Edward Oviatt and Corporal Newell D. Tibbals, each made stirring and highly patriotic speeches. James M. Hale sang an original song, to the tune of "Yankee Doodle," with several capital hits at "the man over in Canada;" the Glee Club sang the "Star Spangled Banner" and other patriotic songs, etc. PATRIOTIC ACTION OF WESTERN GOVERNORS. Meantime the critical point of the war was rapidly approaching. Grant's plan for giving the rebellion its death-blow, was by hurling against Richmond such an overwhelming force that it neither could be defeated nor driven back. This, of course, with the large contingent required by Sherman to reduce Atlanta and accomplish his contemplated " march through Georgia," and to hold Hood and other able rebel generals in check in the West, necessitated the calling into the field every available experienced soldier, as well as the large number of new recruits that were then being raised all over the country by draft and enlistment. At the same time, of course, an adequate force was required to garrison the forts surrounding Washington, and other exposed points, both in the East and in the West, and to give the great commander the benefit of the experienced soldiers thus occupied, Gov. Brough conceived the idea of temporarily supplying their places with the volunteer militia of Ohio and other western states. To this end, at his suggestion, a meeting of the governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, was held at Washington, and on April 21, 1864, a tender was made to President Lincoln as follows: Ohio, 30,000; Indiana, 20,000; Illinois, 20,000; Iowa, 10,000; Wisconsin, 5,000—total, 85,000 men—for the term of 100 days from date of muster into the service of the United States; to be clothed, armed and equipped, subsisted, transported and paid as other United States volunteers; to serve in fortifications, or wherever their services might be required, the entire number to be furnished within twenty days from the acceptance of the proposition. PROMPT AND NOBLE RESPONSE - 399 President Lincoln, through his Ohio Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, promptly accepted the tender, on being advised of which, on April 25, 1864, Adjutant General R. B. Cowen, in General Order, No. 12, called all of the regiments, battalions and independent companies of infantry, of the Ohio National Guard, into active service, to rendezvous at the nearest eligible places in their respective counties, on Monday, May 2, 1864. THE GRAND UPRISING IN OHIO While it was exceedingly difficult for many of the members of se organizations to leave their families and business, so great s the alacrity with which the men and boys of Ohio responded t, at half-past seven o'clock on the evening of the day named, Adjutant General Cowen had received reports that more than 35,000 men were in camp, clamoring to be sent forward. On May 3rd Governor Brough, issued an address "To the National Guard of Ohio," cordially thanking them for their noble response to the call made upon them for the relief of the army, and the salvation of the country. "This manifestation of loyalty and patriotism," said the Governor, "is alike honorable to yourselves and your noble State. In the history of this great struggle it will constitute a page that you and your descendants may hereafter contemplate with perfect satisfaction. * * * Go forth, then, soldiers of the National Guard, to the fulfillment of the duty assigned to you. I have entire confidence that you will meet all its requirements with fidelity and honor. The prayers of the people of the State will follow you; and may your return be as glorious as your going forth is noble and patriotic." The regiments were forwarded as fast as they could be made ready, the first regiments leaving on May 5, the last on May 16— four to Baltimore, Md.; two to Cumberland, Md.; fourteen to Washington; three to Parkersburg, W. Va.; three to New Creek; three to Harper's Ferry; one to Gallipolis, Ohio; two to Camp Dennison; two to Camp Chase; two regiments and a battalion to Johnson's Island. In response to Gen. Brough's telegram to the above effect, Secretary Stanton replied: "The Department and the Nation are indebted to you more than I can tell, for your prompt and energetic action in this crisis." SUMMIT COUNTY'S RESPONSE.—On Monday, May 2, 1864, the three companies composing the 54th Battalion, reported to Capt. Everett, in Akron—Company A, 89 men; Company B, 88 men; Company C, 88 men—total, with chaplain,, 266. Between the organization and reporting for duty, a number of changes had occurred, some having moved away, some already gone into the army in other regiments, and others being on the sick list, while the family and business relations of a few made it necessary for them to procure substitutes, the roster of Company A, as finally made up, being as follows: William L. Everett, captain; Daniel W. Storer, first lieutenant; Charles R. Howe, second lieutenant; Edward Oviatt, ensign; John E. Bell, first sergeant; William B. Raymond, second sergeant; George A. Collins, third sergeant; Newell D. Tibbals, fourth sergeant; George W. Crouse, fifth sergeant; Henry Ward Ingersoll, first corporal; Andrew C. Dunn, second corporal; Hiram A. Kepler, third corporal; T. G.