(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 400 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. Lane, fourth corporal; A. Kibling, sixth corporal; F. D. Shaffer seventh corporal (G. A. Bisbee, substitute); Henry G. Mathews, eighth corporal. Privates: J. Park Alexander (substitute, L. R. Harper), Franklin C. Ackley, Watson C. Atwood, W. E. Allen, Joseph H. Alexander, William J. Atwood, Charles B. Bernard, James K. Butler, Charles W. Bonstedt (substitute, J. Gilbert Raymond, bass drummer), Mills H. Beardsley, Gates A. Babcock, George C. Berry, John R. Buchtel (substitute, W. S. St. John, fifer), James N. Baldwin, Cornelius A. Brouse, Charles A. Baldwin, Williams P. Babcock, W. G. Britton, George H. Bien, James Burlison, Morrill T. Cutter, John H. Christy, Horace G. Canfield, Orion Church, William H. Carter, George W. Camp (substitute, Henry E. Abbey), David Dressler, H. A. Grubb, C. W. Gunther, J. Goldsmith, G. Guyer, Henry C. Howard, George H. Helfer (substitute, Clinton E. Helfer), John W. Hutton, H. W. Hawkins, Charles W. Huse, John B. Houghton (substitue, Clarence L. Benjamin), Dwight A. Hibbard, L. A. Hastings, E. M. Hastings, (substitute, R. K. Moore), Asa S. Hanscom, H. Hine, W. H. Jones, Jacob Koch, Jacob A. Kohler, Robert Koehler, Andrew McNeil, William McMasters (snare drummer), Henry E. Merrill, John L. Noble, Jacob Oberholser, N. Osborn, D. W. Purdy, Wilson G. Robinson (substitute, Henry Crosby King), J. Rinehart, David Snyder, Henry M. Sanford, William Sichley, Dallas G. Steese, Charles P. Starr (substitute, A. G. Cross), Robert Turner (substitute, D. Baughman), John L. Taplin, G. Vogt, Henry C. Viele, Andrew T. Wilson, A. A. Washburn, Henry W. Wetmore, George Wellhouse, George C. Weimer, John Wolf, J. K. Weygant, Daniel Zeisloft—total 89. HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOURTH, 0. V. I.—On Thursday morning, May 5, 1863, the 54th Battalion, 266 strong, reported at Camp Taylor, where, the next day, it was consolidated with the Forty-Ninth 0. N. G. from Seneca County, the consolidated regiment being organized and mustered into the service of the United States May 11, 1864, as the Hundred and Sixty-Fourth Regiment, 0. V. I., with John C. Lee, (late of Toledo) as colonel, Charles B. Bernard, of Akron, (now of Cleveland,) as adjutant, and Rev. John Peate, (then pastor of the First M. E. Church, of Akron) as chaplain; in the new arrangement, the letters of the companies being changed as follows, A to F; B to H; C to D. On examination, by the proper officers at Camp Taylor, a number of men from each company were excused for disability, and other causes, and their places filled from the fragmentary companies reporting from Seneca county, but as to the exemptions and substitutions thus made, we are now without data. TALLMADGE-COMPANY D, 164TH 0. V. I.—Following is the roster of Company D, reported from Fort Woodbury, Va., May 20, and published in the BEACON, of May 26, 1864: Norman S. Keller, captain; Francis M. Wright, Jr., first lieutenant; Thomas E. Strong, second lieutenant; J. S. Upton, first sergeant; A. A. Hine, second sergeant; S. E. Barnes, third sergeant; Dennis Treat, fourth sergeant; J. D. Strong, fifth sergeant; W. H. Ashmun, first corporal; J. S. Sprague, second corporal; Robert Ellis, third corporal; William Bell, fourth corporal; G. F. Lyman, fifth corporal; Byron M. Allison, sixth corporal; S. W. Harris, seventh corporal; W. B. Crane, drummer. Privates: L. H. Ashmun, EN-ROUTE FOR WASHINGTON - 401 C. E. Barnes, F. N. Barnes, Bruce Baldwin, William H. Bronson, P. Hillman, J. Bowser, H. M. Camp, L. N. Camp, R. W. Clark, Frank A. Clark, H. Cochran, Christopher Callahan, U. F. Cramer, A. D. Crossley, J. Drake, William Denmead, ThomasDavis, J. Derr, W. Derr, D. Evans, J. Evans, W. Engler, F. B. Fenn, F. F. Fenn, S. P. Fenn, U. D. Fritz, J. Guingrich, R. Gettinger, Henry Harris, G. E. Hitchcock, E. Hope, H. L. Hart, J. Jordan, C. A. Lyman, Jeff. Limber, A. F. Means, John McNeal, W. Miller, William T. Owen, John Owen, Atkin Ogle, L. B. Pierce, L. B. Peck, J. Palmer, S. B. Pettibone, R. Pettinger, George W. Rice, William ipley, L. Rickard, J. Rowinsky, John Roudebush, 0. Sprague, P. C. Shenkenberger, C. A. Sackett, B. W. Skinner, Lyman S. Stone, F. Sperry, B. Strohl, L. Stouffer, E. Shoemaker, 0. S. Treat, J. C. Treat, W. L. Thomas, J. E. Upson, H. C. Upson, N. L. Upson, aniel A. Upson, J. Umsted, Daniel Vogt, W. W. Wetmore, H. Westover, George Young—total 88. GREEN AND SPRINGFIELD-COMPANY H.—From the same source is also compiled the company jointly furnished by Green and Springfield townships, as follows: Darius F. Berger, of Green, captain; William J. Schrop, of Springfield, first lieutenant; D. J. Mottinger, of Green, second lieutenant; N. N. Leohner, orderly sergeant; Cyrus W. Harris, second sergeant; Thomas Wright, Jr., third sergeant; Balsar Shriver, fourth sergeant; S. C. Marsh, fifth sergeant; William Buchtel, first corporal; Aaron Swartz, second corporal; F. G. Stipe, third corporal; S. Breckenridge, fourth corporal; Jacob Long, fifth corporal; J. A. Thompson, sixth corporal ; W. A. Chamberlain, seventh corporal; Jacob Weaver, eighth corporal; J. B. Kreighbaum, musician. Privates: J. B. Acker, W. Bender, H. Brumbaugh, J. W. Chamberlin, W. W. Coale, B. Chisnell, W. Cramer, E. Cramer, W. Dickerhoof, William Finkle, J. Foster, L. Fasnacht, G. H. Fasnacht, D. French, H. Foust, D. S. Foust, S. Foster, A. Fry, B. Goss, A. Grable, J. J. Grable, J. Grable, Jr., Ezra Harris, G. W. Hart, L. J. Hartong, L. Hartong, H. Henderson, W. G. Johnston, H. Jarrett, J. F. Kryster, M. Kline, Koons, E. Kuhns, David Kline, J. P. Kepler, 0. Long, I. Long, W. D. Myers, J. J. Marsh, J. S. Miller, W. Miller, D. Pontious, N. Pontious, M. Ritter, W. H. Rininger, L. Ream, G. D. Ream, G. W. Ream, U. R. Sefner, J. M. Schrop, G. Sweitzer, William Steele,. John Smith, H. Shriver, D. Stamm, R. S. Stout, P. H. Stout, D. H. Shutt, B. Strohecker, J. Stayer, D. G. Shutt, Ira Spidle, Hiram B. Smith, G. Shutt, J. T. Tousley, Robert Thompson, S. N. Weston, F. Winkleman, H. Yerrick, A. Yerrick, Alfred Yerrick—total 88. MOIST, MUDDY AND MERRY. — On Saturday evening, May 14, 1863, the 164th left Camp Taylor for Washington via Dunkirk, Elmira, Harrisburg and Baltimore, reaching their destination on the 17th. In speaking of the departure of the regiment from Cleveland, the Herald said: "As they marched down Superior street, at about 8 o'clock in the evening, the rain was descending in sheets, with an occasional blinding flash of lightning, and the boys were drenched with rain and covered with mud from the bottomless roads that formed the middle passage' between the camp and the city; yet they were in the best of possible spirits. The whole column of about a thousand men tramped along, singing as with one voice 'Rally Round the Flag, Boys' and marking the close of each verse with terrific cheers and yells." 26 402 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. DEFENDING THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.— " Ohio in the War," by Whitelaw Reid, says of the 164th 0. N. G.: "It took position in the defenses on the south side of the Potomac, and, during its one hundred days' service, garrisoned Forts Smith, Strong, Bennett, Haggarty and other forts. The regiment was very thoroughly drilled, both in infantry and heavy artillery tactics. During Early's invasion the regiment was kept on duty almost constantly and every night was spent either on the advance or beside the guns. At the expiration of its term of enlistment, the regiment received the thanks of President Lincoln for the service it had performed, and returned to Cleveland, via Baltimore, Harrisburg and Pittsburg, where it was mustered out, August 27, 1864." SICKNESS, DEATHS, ETC.—Letters from members of the several Summit county companies to the writer, and published in the BEACON, while on duty in front of Washington, show that Captain Everett's Company F occupied Fort Corcoran; Captain Keller's Company D occupied Fort Woodbury, and Captain Berger's Company H occupied Fort Woodbury, except about two week's sojourn in Fort Strong in May and June. Though no loss of life or limb occurred from actual contact with rebel foes, yet, being in a strange climate, in the most sickly season of the year, quite a number of sharp encounters with disease were experienced, with five sorrowful fatalities. The first of the 54th Battalion to die was a promising young member of Company D, Henry L. Hart (son of the late Henry Hart of 985 East Market street) who, from over-fatigue and exposure to the hot sun, in walking to and from and about the city, on the 24th of May, was seized with sudden illness, on his return to the fort in the evening, dying the next day. The second death, that of Christopher Callahan, of the same company, from a precisely similar cause, occurred on Monday, June 6, young Callahan, having visited the city on Saturday, performed guard duty on Sunday, returning to the barracks sick, at 2 o'clock Monday morning, and dying at 3:30 in the afternoon. Two deaths also occurred in Company H, at Camp Strong hospital, Jacob S. Holtz, of Seneca county, July 3, of typhoid fever, and Hiram B. Smith of Green township, of congestion of the stomach, July 24. The last death was that of Henry Crosby King, "Harry," as he was familiarly called, only son of the late Henry W. and Mary Crosby King, who was serving in Company F, as a substitute for Wilson G. Robinson, as elsewhere stated, his death, from typhoid fever, occurring on Thursday evening, August 11, 1864. The remains of all of the boys were sent home to their respective friends for burial. .1 ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME HOME. —The muster-out day being Saturday; and the boys being anxious to spend the Sabbath with their friends at home, the paymaster kindly cousented to visit Akron a week from the following Monday, to finish paying them off. That the boys were most heartily welcomed home, by th people of their respective townships, goes without saying, fo though they had not participated in any such bloody scenes o carnage as had laid so many of their comrades low in death, the had, at the most critical period of the war, given to the Unio army an equal number of trained and experienced soldiers, while THE NATION'S THANKFULNESS - 403 the same time affording ample protection to the National Capital, and other Union cities menaced by the rebel army. Many interesting reminiscences are rife among the boys of their "brief but brilliant" army life on Arlington Heights, but want of space prevents their repetition here. The 164th Regiment having thus subserved the purposes of its organization, the 54th Battalion again became a distinct entity, and us such fulfilled its destiny, Newell D. Tibbals being elected as major and becoming the commandant of the Battalion. The ladies of Akron organized a festival in honor of Company F, which came off with great eclat, at the company's armory, on Friday evening, September 2, 1864, with musical, oratorical, congratulatory and gyratory exercises, and doubtless there were similar manifestations of gladness, in the other localities interested. STATE AND NATIONAL THANKFULNESS. — In March, 1865, the Legislature of Ohio passed a joint resolution of thanks to the National Guard, and authorizing the Governor to have lithographed, printed and distributed to the Hundred Days' Men, an appropriate testimonial, but so far as can be learned, no such documents were ever received by any of the members of the 54th Battalion, which is perhaps accounted for by the fact of the issuance of a similar testimonial by President Lincoln, as follows: THE UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER SERVICE. [Picture of Eagle, Flags, Etc.] THE PRESIDENT'S THANKS AND CERTIFICATE OF HONORABLE SERVICE. Capt. Darius F. Berger, 164th Peg't Ohio National Guard: WHEREAS, The President of the United States has made the following Executive Order, returning thanks to the OHIO VOLUNTEERS FOR ONE HUNDRED DAYS, to wit : EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON CITY, September 10, 1864. The term of One Hundred Days; for which the NATIONAL GUARD OF OHIO, Volunteered, having expired, the President directs an OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT to be made of their PATRIOTIC AND VALUABLE SERVICES during the recent campaigns. The term of service of their enlistment was short, but distinguished by memorable events. In the Valley of the Shenandoah, on the Peninsula, in the operations on the James River, around Petersburg and Richmond, in the battle of Monocacy, and in the intrenchments of Washington, and in other important services, THE NATIONAL GUARD OF OHIO performed with alacrity the duty of Patriotic Volunteers, for which they are entitled to, and are hereby tendered, through the Governor of their State, the NATIONAL THANKS. The Secretary of War is directed to transmit a copy of this order to the Governor of Ohio, and to cause a CERTIFICATE OF THEIR HONORABLE SERVICE to be delivered to the Officers and Soldiers of the OHIO NATIONAL GUARD who recently served in the Military force of the United States for One Hundred Days. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Now, THEREFORE, this certificate of Thanks and Honorable Service is conferred on Capt. Darius Berger, in token of his HAVING HONORABLY SERVED AS A VOLUNTEER FOR ONE HUNDRED DAYS in Company H. 164th Regiment of OHIO NATIONAL GUARDS. 404 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. GIVEN under my hand at the City of Washington, this fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, By the President : President of the United States. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. Registered No. 33,430. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY–NINTH 0. V. I.—This regiment was composed of material gathered from different parts of the State, recruited for six months, and was organized at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, Ohio, August 10, 1863. Most of the officers and a large number of the men, had already seen service, so that the regiment, without spending any considerable time in drill, was started for the front on the day of its organization. Captain Josiah J. Wright, of Akron, having partially recovered from the disability by reason of which he had received an honorable discharge from the old 29th, October 1, 1862, re-entered the service as second lieutenant of Company K, of the 129th. At Camp Nelson, Ky., •the regiment was incorporated into the Ninth Army Corps, and on August 20, 1863, started for Cumberland Gap, sharing in the capture of that stronghold and the capture of over 2,200 prisoners, 14 pieces of artillery and an immense amount of all kinds of war material, the brigade to which the 129th was attached being assigned to garrison the Gap. SHARP FIGHTING—SEVERE SUFFERING, ETC.—Picketing, scooting, foraging, etc., in the vicinity of the Gap, until the morning of December 1, 1863, on two hours' notice, the regiment started in the direction of Clinch River, the next day acquitting itself with credit in a spirited engagement with Longstreet's corps. During the entire month of December, the regiment was constantly on the move, up and down Clinch River, with an occasional sharp skirmish with the enemy, suffering terribly from the inclemency of the weather, and the fact that the regiment had left the Gap with no baggage whatever, many of the men being poorly clad, and almost shoeless, with scarcely rations enough to sustain life, and those only obtainable by foraging through a region whose inhabitants had already been nearly eaten out of house and home by the contending armies. About the first of January, 1864, the regiment fell back to Cumberland Gap, where it remained until the beginning of February, when it started on a 130 mile march to Fort Nelson, from whence it immediately proceeded to Cleveland, where it was mustered out by companies from March 5 to 11, 1864. Besides Capt. J. J. Wright, Akron was represented in the 129th by Carroll W. Wright, (also an ex-member of the old 29th), M. C. Clark, Dempster Gifford, Marshall Gillett and Marcus B. Wright. THE HUNDRED AND NINETY–SEVENTH 0. V. I. — This, the last completed regiment sent into the field from Ohio, was mustered into the service of the United States at Camp Chase, near Columbus, March 28, 1865. After the expiration of his six months' service in the 129th, as heretofore stated, Captain J. J. Wright, again recruited a sufficient number of men to entitle him to a commission, but at the time when the men were forwarded to Columbus, the captain was detained at home by sickness and death in his family, "THE COLORED TROOPS FOUGHT NOBLY." - 405 and was consequently not counted in on the organization. Later he re-enlisted as a private, and proceeding to Tod Barracks, Columbus, was detailed in Major Skile's office, but was soon found to be so well up in military matters, that he was given a captain's commission in the 197th regiment, Company D, then being organized. The 197th was substantially a veteran regiment at the start, all of the officers but five, and more than one-half of the men, being experienced soldiers. April 25, 1865, the regiment proceeded by rail to Washington City, where on its arrival, its fond hopes of seeing active service were blasted, by the news of the surrender of Johnston's army. The regiment was attached to the Ninth Army Corps, on April 29, going into camp near Alexandria, Va., a few days later being transferred to Camp Harrington, at Dover, Del., and on May 31, to Havre de Grace, Md., and assigned to guard duty along the Baltimore railroad. July 3, regiment was transferred to Fort Washington, near Baltimore, in which vicinity it performed guard duty in camps, hospitals, forts, etc., until July 31, when it was mustered out of service at Camp Bradford, near Baltimore, and immediately transferred to Tod Barracks, Columbus, Ohio, where, on August 6, 1865, the men were duly paid off and discharged. Several other Summit county men were members of the regiment, among the rest Sebra Manley, of Akron. FIFTH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY.—Ulysses L. Marvain enlisted as a private in the 115th 0. V. I., in August, 1862; served as clerk in office of judge advocate at Cincinnati, until commissioned first lieutenant in the 5th U. S. Colored Infantry in August, 1863, as part of the 19th Army Corps; participated in the Peninsular campaign in 1864; commanded the skirmish line in the Burnside mine explosion; promoted to captain during the siege of Richmond; wounded at New Market Heights, September 29, 1864; on resuming his duties, two months later, being assigned to the staff of Adjutant General Shurtliff, was sent to Fort Fisher, from thence to Raleigh, N. C., and was at the final surrender of the rebel army. Breveted major at the close of the war for meritorious service, he was made judge advocate on the staff of Gen. Paine, being mustered out of service in October, 1865. The only names of Akron's colored patriots credited to this regiment, found on the assessor's books, are those of Absalom H.- Brooks and John W. Brooks (sons of our former well-known colored citizen John H. Brooks), Gustavus Edrington, (nephew of Mrs. Washington Martin), orderly sergeant of Company F., and Owen Hailstock, though the names of several others are found in other regiments herein mentioned. THE HUNDRED AND FIFTH O. V. I.—George Tod Perkins was among the very first to respond to his country's call for troops, entering the service as second lieutenant of Company B, 19th 0. V. I. sharing the glory of its brief but brilliant campaign in West Virginia, in 1861, as elsewhere detailed. In August, 1862, he entered the service for three years, as major of the 105th 0. V. I., recruited principally from Mahoning, Trumbull, Geauga, Ashtabula and Lake counties, and being emphatically a Western Reserve regiment. Mustered in at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, August 20, 1862, it arrived at Covington, Ky., on the morning of August 22, being the first regiment to leave the State under the call of August 4, 1862. 406 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. After many fatiguing marches and counter-marches through Kentucky, and much skirmishing with the enemy, its first full taste of the horrors of war was at Perrysville, Ky., October 8, 1862, when the victory was with the rebels, the 105th in its gallant defense, under the lead of Major Perkins, losing, two captains killed, and four other officers wounded, and 47 men killed and 212 wounded, many mortally. Space will not permit us to follow the 105th through all its gallant war history. The Ohio Roster, besides the Perrysville affair, gives it the credit of participating in the battles of Hoover's Gap, Tenn., January 24, 1863; Chickamauga, Ga., September 19-20, 1863; Chattanooga, Tenn., November 23-24, 1863; Mission Ridge, Tenn., November 25, 1863; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 7-30, 1863; Siege of Atlanta, Ga., July 28 to September 2, 1864. In speaking of the Chickamauga affair, on September 20, 1863, White-law Reid, in "Ohio in the War," says of the 105th: "At the word of command the regiment sprang to its feet, executed the change of front with as much precision as though on parade, and started forward with deafening yells on the double quick, to what seemed certain destruction. * * * This prompt movement of the 105th was highly commended by Gen. Reynolds, at the time, and afterwards by Gen. Rosecrans. Its gallant commander, Major Perkins, was wounded in this charge and conveyed to the rear, and was rendered unfit for duty for nearly four months." The other casualities, in that conflict, were: one captain, mortally, and three other officers seriously, wounded, and seventy-five men killed, wounded and prisoners. The 105th formed a part of Sherman's invincible army in its march from "Atlanta to the Sea," and, as showing the hardships to which it was subjected on that victorious march, Mr. Reid says that when reviewed by Gens. Sherman and Schofield, at Goldsboro, N. C., "full twenty-five per cent. of the men were barefooted; they were ragged and dirty; many in citizens' dress, and some in rebel uniforms." Major Perkins was promoted to lieutenant colonel, July 16, 1863, and to colonel, February 18, 1864, and after participating in the grand review, at Washington, May 14, 1865, was mustered out with regiment at Washington, June 3, 1865, the regiment, starting at Covington, Ky., and ending at Washington, including reconnaissances, counter-marches, pursuit of retreating rebels, etc.,, having marched more than 4,000 miles without a single foot of railroad transportation. VARIOUS OTHER REGIMENTS. Akron and Portage and Middlebury townships were, according to the assessors' returns for several years pending the war, represented in the following-named organizations, the achievements of which cannot be here given for want of space, but that they all, like those already enumerated, played well their parts upon the tragic stage of war, may be taken for granted. THE FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT 0. V. I.—Mustered in at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, September and October, 1861, for three years—James A. Garfield, colonel, Don A. Pardee, lieutenant colonel, George K. Pardee, adjutant; Company A, Aaron Teeple, (then of Franklin, now of Portage); Company B, Joseph Lackey, second lieutenant; resigned July 5, 1862; Company E, Albert L. VARIOUS OTHER REGIMENTS - 407 Bowman, second lieutenant, promoted from sergeant major, March 2, 1863, wounded July 16, 1863, at Jackson, Miss.; Company F, Thomas C. Foote, killed at battle of Black River Bridge, May 17, 1863; Company G, James McGuire; Company K, Franklin C. May, discharged for disability, June 16, 1863; Company A, Hial B. Hart, discharged March 22, 1862, to accept position as hospital steward in U. S. Army. EIGHTY-FOURTH REGIMENT 0. V. I.—Mustered in at Camp Chase, June 10, 1862, for three months; mustered out at Camp Delaware, September 20, 1862. Akron members: William H. McMasters, principal musician; Company H, Homer C. Ayres, first lieutenant; Eliakim H. Hastings, sergeant; William W. Kilbourn, corporal; Sylvester H. Beatty, Augustus T. Brownless, Julius G. Brownless, George H. Horn, Henry Clay King, James M. Malone; Company I, Alexander G. Maynes, first lieutenant. THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH 0. V. I.—Henry Ward Ingersoll, Esq., on the expiration of his three months' term of service in the original Ninteenth Regiment, united with the Second Ohio Cavalry, in September, 1861, as sergeant of the band. Returning to Ohio after one year's service, on October 20, 1862, Mr. Ingersoll was given a captain's commission by Gov. Tod, for the purpose of recruiting a company for the 125th regiment, then being raised by Col. Emerson Opdycke, of Trumbull county. On consolidation of fragmentary companies, in the final organization of the regiment at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland; it was found that others outranked Captain Ingersoll, in number of recruits raised, and he was consequently not mustered in under his commission, Mr. Ingersoll afterwards serving 100 days in the army of the United States, as first corporal of Company F, 164th 0. N. G., as elsewhere stated. HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHTH 0. V. I.—Mustered in at Camp Chase, March 4, 1865, for one year, mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., September 21, 1865, and paid off and discharged at Camp Chase, September 28, 1865. Akron contributed to this regiment: Jerome B. Clark, Henry Dreese, Frank Elliott, Christopher Gugle, Daniel Neal, Royal D. Potter, William Sichley, Elias W. Turner, Thos Viall. HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVENTH 0. V. I.—Organized at Cleveland, Ohio, in October, 1864, with a liberal sprinkling of men from the northern part of Summit county, and after an arduous service of nearly nine months, was mustered out at the same place, July 7, 1865. Akron's contingent: Company H, Frank Allen; Company E Jasper Oviatt; Company B, Clarence M. Peck; Company K, Hubert C. Peck, Nelson Sherbondy, died in service. SEVENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT 0. V. I.—Organized at Newark, Ohio, February 9, 1862, operating in the southwest, accompanying Sherman in his famous "March through Georgia," and from Savannah northward to Washington. Was mustered out at Columbus, July 24, 1865. Akron boys in the 76th, Joseph Bargold, John Fitzpatrick, Almon C. Goble, Alfred H. Goble, Charles Grubb, Patrick Grubb. MISCELLANEOUS REGIMENTS.—Akron also furnished men for sundry other organizations, during the war, as follows: Simon Perkins, Jr., served as private in Company B, 19th 0. V. I., for three months in 18612 afterwards, by appointment of President Lincoln, was captain and assistant quarter-master in the departments of the Ohio and Cumberland; 75th 0. V. I., John C. DeWitt; 408 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. 24th 0. V. I., Augustus Feederle, Matt Feederle; 16th 0. V. I., Dr. Byron S. Chase, assistant surgeon, promoted to surgeon 58th Colored Infantry, May 19, 1863; Frederick F. Falk, hospital steward 25th 0. V. I., Frank B. Adams, one year, discharged for disability, 124th 0. V. I., Darwin L. Goble, died in the service; 4th 0. V. I., F. J. Raymond; 124th 0. V. I., E. Wilhelm; 24th 0. V. I., A. E. Stewart; 57th 0. V. I., Solomon Bachman; 87th 0. V. I., Benjamin Fowler; 7th O. V. I., Martin Remmell, transferred to Company G, 5th 0. VA.; Lawrence Remmell, wounded at battle of Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862, killed in battle of Ringold, Ga., November 27, 1863; 72nd O. V. I., Company A., Thomas Rhodes, drafted, mustered out July 30, 1863, near Vicksburg, Miss., on expiration of term of service; 109th 0. V. I., Samuel S. Ward; 5th 0. V. I., George Lim ric, Company H, one year, mustered out June 5, 1865; James Frank, Company H, one year, mustered out June 5,1865; 77th 0. V.I.,Charles Cole; 76th 0. V. I., Charles R. Pierce, surgeon, entered the service January 9, 1862, for three years, died January 28, 1863; 23d O.V. I., Clarence M. Peck, entered the service May 22, 1861, mustered out on expiration of term; 89th Ind. V. I., John Winkleman; 45th Ind. V. I., John Binker; New York regiment, Conrad Fink; 24th N. Y. I., Donald Treat; 42d Pa. V. I., Alfred H. Goble; 3d Cal. V. I., Milton Lane; 22d U. S. Colored Infantry, Frank M. Hailstock; 27th U. S. Colored Infantry, Moses Jones, James Morrison; 3d N. J. Art., Alfred Wade; 25th Ohio Battery, James H. Golden, Henry Proctor; 22d 0. B., William Bloomfield, Stephen Bloomfield; 3d 0. B., J. M. Hotchkiss; Shields Battery, H. H. Remington, George H. Barber, Thomas J. Hudson; 10th O. Cav., Lester M. Biggs, Alexander G. Maynes; 6th O. Cav., George Bradley, Thomas Foley, Newton Thayer; 20th 0. B., Charles J. Keck; 11th Mich. B., Cyrenus Smith; 4th Pa. Cav., William H. Galbraith; 15th 0. V. I., James McNeil; hospital nurse, Thomas M. Sawyer; teamsters, Jacob M. Demas, H. H. Geer, George Iles, Charles G. Cleveland, Horace Hill, George W. Fairbanks; 3d Brig. Band, Newton E. Kent; chaplain, Rev. Robert Koehler; 193d 0. V. I., Eugene D. Smith, died in the service; 16th N. Y. Calvary, Philip A. Bierwirth, first sergeant, mustered out in August, 1865. UNDESIGNATED REGIMENTS.-The assessors' returns, for Portage and Middlebury townships, for military purposes, for the years 1863, '64 and '65, in a number of instances failed to designate the regiment and company to which the soldier was attached, the list of names thus found being as follows: John Benker, A. H. Botsford, W. W. Buck, R. A. Cowles, Samuel Codding, Delos Condine, Harry Clifford, William McCurdy, Arthur J. Perkins, Jacob Randall, William Smith. UNITED STATES REGULAR ARMY.-Gilbert S. Carpenter (eldest son of Judge James S. Carpenter), after three months service in Company G, 19th 0. V. I., enlisted in Company F, 18th U. S. I., at Columbus, September 14, 1861, as sergeant; promoted to first lieutenant; wounded at Stone River, May, 1863; appointed quartermaster and commissary November, 1863; June, 1864, in War Department at Washington; in 1865 sent on secret service to Dry Tortugas and later to Springfield, Ill., with Mr. Lincoln's private papers; promoted to captain December 20, 1866, and constantly on duty in the far Northwest, until transferred to Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, in the Summer of 1889, now (1891) being on recruiting PRESIDENT LINCOLN ORDERS A DRAFT - 409 duty in Cleveland—a most excellent soldier and officer. Dudley Seward, after four years' service in the 19th 0. V. I. and Second Ohio Cavalry, entered the regular service as captain and brevet major of the Eighth Regiment, U. S. Cavalry, serving in Oregon, California, Arizona and other western wilds, between four and five years. George A. Purington, after three months as a private in Company G, 19th 0. V. I., and three years as captain, major, lieutenant colonel and colonel in the Second Ohio Cavalry entered the regular army as a captain in the Ninth U. S. Cavalry, and is now major of the Third U. S. Cavalry, stationed at Fort Clark, Texas, being one of the most experienced officers in the army, with the brevet rank of colonel, for meritorious services in the late war. Samuel C. Williamson (late Probate Judge of Summit county), at the end of his three months' service as a private in Company G, O. V. I., in October,1861, enlisted in the 18th U. S. Infantry, serving as sergeant until wounded at the battle of Stone River in May, 1863; after recovery promoted to second and subsequently to first lieutenant; in January, 1867, being commissioned as a captain in the 42d U. S. I. Other Akron U. S. boys: Oliver Perry Barney, John Best, Martin Frank, Charles H. Hickox, George Ley, William H. Martin, James O'Neil; Navy—Frank A. Allen, Patrick Cummins, Patrick Delmore, Charles Fink, John Line, George Patterson, Joseph Stadden, Joseph Tallman. QUOTAS, DRAFTS, BOUNTIES, ETC. After the War of the Rebellion was fairly on, with a fair prospect of several years continuance, in order that each loyal State, county and township might furnish its fair proportion of the physical sinews necessary for its suppression, a census was taken, yearly, of all the male inhabitants, between the ages of 18 and 45, on which to base the quota of men to be furnished by any given locality, under the several calls of President Lincoln, for troops. The quota thus being determined-due credit being given for previous volunteers, and all proper exemptions, for disability or other cause, ascertained-a day was fixed for a draft, at which time, unless the quota had meantime been filled by voluntary enlistments, a sufficient number of names of the remaining inhabitants of the township, subject to military duty, would be drawn to complete the quota. In order to encourage enlistments and save any given locality from the disgrace of a draft, the plan of offering both private and public bounties was adopted. Pending the draft of 1862, in addition to the $100 bounty offered by the General Government, bounties were raised in every township by individual subscriptions, and on July 19, 1862, the commissioners of Summit county—John S. Gilcrest, of Springfield, Nelson Upson, of Twinsburg, and George Buel, of Akron--pledged the county to pay a bounty of $50, to each non-commissioned officer or private, to the number of 220, who should, within sixty days, volunteer to serve in the 104th 0. V. I. then being raised. As a sample of the alacrity with which the people contributed to this object, the BEACON of July 31, 1862, stated that between three and four thousand dollars had already been raised in Portage township, and the canvass not yet completed; that in Middlebury five parties—John Johnston, James Irvin, David E. Hill, Frank Adams and Kent, Baldwin & Co.-had agreed to pay $10 each, and 410 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. forty-four others from 50 cents to $2.00 each, to each and every man to the number of ten who should volunteer within twenty days; that at Cuyahoga Falls, Messrs. S. W. McClure and Thomas W. &men had each agreed to pay ten dollars to each volunteer of the township (being already in for about $200 each), and that the people of the other townships were making equally liberal contri butions to the praise-worthy object, the issue of August 28th, giving the names of 18 persons in Springfield, subscribing from 50 cents to $5.00 each, or an aggregate of $34.75, to each volunteer to the number of fifteen; while 51 persons contributed sums ranging from $1.00 to $50.00—or an aggregate of $325.00 to be distributed equally among all the volunteers from that township. THE FIRST DRAFT.-Henry McKinney, Esq., then of Cuyahoga Falls, was appointed drafting commissioner, and Dr. J. G. Stevens, of Twinsburg, examining surgeon for Summit county, by Governor Tod, commencing at Hudson, August 25,1862, for Hudson, Twinsburg and Northfield; Peninsula, August 26, for Boston, Richfield and Bath; Cuyahoga Falls, 27th, for Northampton, Stow, Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Falls; Akron, 28th, Copley, Coventry, Middlebury, Norton, Springfield and Portage; Manchester, 30th, for Franklin and Green, for the purpose of hearing and passing upon excuses of those who claimed exemption from military service under the draft. The day set for the draft to begin by Governor Tod, was Thursday, September 4,1862, to be continued from day to day until completed. As the day approached, the anxiety became very great and the exertions to raise recruits largely increased, " War Meetings" being held in the several townships and principal villages and school districts of the county, addressed by such speakers as S. W. McClure, Henry McKinney, George W. McNeil, R. 0. Hammond, John F. Earl, N. D. Tibbals, John R. Buchtel, Charles B. Bernard, -N. W. Goodhue, Jacob A. Kohler, L. V. Bierce, Arthur F. Bartges, Edward Oviatt, Edwin P. Green, William H. Upson, James S. Carpenter, S. A. Lane and others. RESISTANCE TO THE DRAFT.—By this time under the teachings of such men as Clement L. Vallandigham, opposition to the draft began to manifest itself, not only in the slums of New York City, but also in many of the more benighted rural districts in Ohio—notably in Holmes, Noble and Morrow counties, where it became necessary to reduce the recalcitrants to subjection to law and order, by military force. In Summit county, though there were several "copperheadish" localities, the only overt disloyal manifestation was at East Liberty,. on Thursday evening, August 21, at a meeting which was being addressed by Messrs. McKinney and McNeil. At this meeting, by concerted action, a disturbance was created, and every possible effort was made to prevent enlistments and to break up the meeting. The next day prompt measures were taken to suppress the incipient local rebellion, and nine of the offenders were arrested, and taken before the United States commissioner at Cleveland, six of whom were admitted to bail, and the remaining three, in default of bail, were committed to jail. The latter, as elsewhere stated, after sleeping over the matter one night in jail, experienced a change of heart, and enlisted in the 107th 0. V. I., all making DEALING WITH REBEL SYMPATHIZERS - 411 good soldiers, and all laying down their lives on the field of Gettysburg. On the final hearing before the commissioner, on Monday morning, August 25, the remaining six, on their promise to "sin no more," in that direction, were let off on the payment of the costs, about $350.00, and $120.00 to the Summit County Bounty Fund, incidentals and attorney's fees making the total expense of the experiment about $600. A "MOIST" BUT WHOLESOME OPERATION. - Apropos of this opposition to the draft and enlistments in 1862, an earlier local war incident will here be in order. Though, as heretofore stated, on the breaking out of the war, party lines were abolished, and the majority of the Democrats vied with the Republicans in their fealty to the Government and the Union, there was an occasional nest of "copperheads," as they were called, who were very violent in their expressions against " Lincoln's Abolition War," and "Lincoln's Dogs," as they contemptuously called the Union volunteers. Here, also, a definition of the term "copperhead" is in order. The copperhead snake, like the rattlesnake, is a very poisonous reptile, but, unlike the rattlesnake, instead of sounding an alarm and boldly attacking its enemy, face to face, creeps noiselessly and slimily upon him from the rear, and stings him in the heel. The appropriateness of the application is obvious, for while the south ern rebels themselves were boldly and courageously fighting for the dissolution of the Union, their northern sympathizers were doing their very worst to accomplish the same object by discouraging enlistments and withholding supplies for the prosecution of the war. In 1861, in the adjacent township of Sharon, in Medina county, a number of this class of persons, on the evening of the Fourth of July, after the day had been patriotically celebrated by the loyal inhabitants of that town, in secret conclave adopted, and published, a rebel-sympathizing pronunciamento, denouncing the "highhanded, unconstitutional and illegal usurpations of the party in power, which is subversive of sovereignty, freedom and independence," and a variety of other similar expressions, designed to discourage enlistments in the Union army, and to encourage enlistments in the rebel army, and resistance to the Federal authority. These resolutions having been published in circular form, by the authors, and afterwards copied into the BEACON, and other Union papers, had created considerable excitement, among the soldier boys then just returning from the three months' service, and those then recruiting and organizing under the three years' call, and when, on Friday, August 23, 1861, W. F. Hess and two others of the "Secesh Sharonites," as they were called, were observed upon the streets of Akron, advocating the doctrines of their resolutions, they were confronted by the indignant boys in blue, and invited to manifest their loyalty to the Government by waving the stars and stripes above their heads and hurrahing for the Union. Declining to do this they were unceremoniously treated to a plunge bath in the patriotism-inspiring waters of the Pennsylvania and Ohio canal, immediately south of the Market street bridge. Not the soldier boys alone, but a vast crowd, of both loyal Democrats, as well as Republicans, participated in the renovating process, several prominent members of the present Democratic 412 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. organization taking a lively hand in the affair. Two of the men thus submerged needed but a few minutes soaking to so far purity them of their secession proclivities, as to cause them to wave the starry emblem vigorously above their heads, and to loudly proclaim their love for the Union; but the ringleader—Hess—a man of powerful frame and of herculean strength, held out fully half an hour, when he, too, not only waved the flag, and shouted for the Union, but also, before emerging from the canal, took a solemn oath, administered by a notary public, to support the constitution of the United States and of the State of Ohio, and to sustain the Government in its efforts to put down the rebellion. A few local "suspects" were also invited to a similar manifestation of their loyalty, about those days, all of whom readily, if not cheerfully, complied, and though the methods employed were irregular, and in many respects reprehensible, the proceedings served a salutary purpose, in causing the element in question to be more circumspect in the public expression of their disloyal sentiments, though few of them, probably, ever permanently reformed. THE DRAFT POSTPONED.--In order to give the draft commissioners time 'to complete their examinations, and the various recruiting committees an opportunity to fill their respective quotas, if possible, Gov. Tod, by permission of Secretary Stanton, postponed the draft until September 16, and again, on account of the interruption to recruiting caused by the threatened invasion of Ohio by Kirby Smith, and the flocking of the "Squirrel Hunters" to Cincinnati, till October 1, on which day the draft finally took place. Notwithstanding the liberality of the people of Summit county in the payment of bounties, and the general alacrity with which enlistments were made, the ides of October found all of the townships of the county, except Boston, Cuyahoga Falls, Middlebury and Tallmadge, short of their respective quotas, as follows: Bath, 7; Copley, 27; Coventry, 49; Franklin, 57; Green, 26; Hudson, 8; Northampton, 7; Norton, 40; Northfield, 7; Portage, 49; Richfield, 29; Stow, 1; Springfield, 42; Twinsburg 7. PORTAGE TOWNSHIP PRIZE WINNERS.—Gates A. Babcock, Cornelius A. Brouse, George Bradley, William Burr, George Botzum, Edward A. Barber, Anthony Blimm, Morrill T. Cutter, John Chitty, Jr., George W. Crouse, Hezekiah S. Camp, John Cramer, John Dunn, Henry Dreese, Samuel J. Davidson, Peter Evers, James Flowers, Silas Fisher, Joseph Gonder, Daniel Graham, Christian Grad, Conrad Gahn, William F. Hageman, Horace F. Hickok, Andrew Koch, George Lalor, Lucas Libis, John Memmer, Sylvester B. Myers, Joseph Marsh, Nathan S. Means, Antony Meyer, Jacob Miller, Hugh McFarland, Jacob Orth, Christopher Overholtz, Adam Orth, Michael Paul, William A. Palmer, John Rottammer, Samuel Rhodes, John Spelman, George Sechrist, Jacob Smith, Reuben Sherbondy, Abraham Schaier, Algernon S. Wheeler, Jefferson Wise, William Zedder. REPORTING FOR DUTY.—In the BEACON of October 9, 1862, the writer editorially said: "The draft falls with peculiar hardship upon a number of persons, but all have promptly and cheerfully made arrangements to either furnish a substitute or go themselves and this morning, accompanied by Commissioner McKinney, GENERAL BIERCE AND THE "COPPERHEADS." - 413: they started for the rendezvous at Cleveland. * * * We feel proud of our conscript soldiers from Summit county, whose patriotic conduct, in cheerfully conforming to the requirements of the Government, is in striking contrast with the mutinous manifestations which have been made by some of the drafts in other counties, aided by a few of Jeff Davis' emissaries who are still permitted to pollute the soil of Ohio." We have no means of ascertaining how many of the drafted men above named rendered personal service, how many furnished substitutes or how many were excused; though inquiry has-revealed the fact that William A. Palmer was excused for physical disability by the examining surgeon, at Cleveland. George W. Crouse was then County Auditor, upon whom devolved the duty of preparing the tickets, and drawing them from the box, consequently drafting himself, among the rest. Reporting with the rest, at the rendezvous in Cleveland as stated, Mr. Crouse, in view of the difficulty of leaving the office, proposed to furnish a substitute,. but was confronted by an order from Governor Tod, that county officers should be exempted from the operation of the draft, and consequently returned to his official duties, doing his full sharer however, in the way of contribution; to bounty and sanitary funds and in 1864 giving to the Government 100 days faithful service in front of Washington, as a member of Company F, 164th Regiment Ohio National Guards. Edward A. Barber was excused on account of a broken leg, but subsequently, besides having two brothers killed in the army, furnished a substitute in anticipation of the draft of March, 1865. James M. Malone served as a substitute for Morrill T. Cutter; William Beatty for Cornelius A. Brouse;. Thomas Rhodes for his brother, Samuel Rhodes; Messrs. John Memmer, Gates A. Babcock, Reuben Sherbondy, John Spelman, Joseph Gonder, and very probably others procuring substitutes in Cleveland. The Cleveland papers of October 17, 1862, in a table comprizing fifteen counties of Northern Ohio, said of Summit: Number of men reported in camp, 292; number who furnished substitutes, 133; number substitutes enlisted, 87; number exempted by surgeon, 33; which would indicate that a little over 40 per cent, took their chances under the draft, none of the principals, as indicated in the table, having enlisted, while possibly some of them procured substitutes before being assigned to regiments and mustered in. PROMPT ACTION OF MAJOR LUCIUS V. BIERCE. Allusion has been made to Morrow county, as one of the few localities of the State where resistance was made to the draft. While the enrollment of those subject to military duty was being made, in certain portions of that county, in the Spring of 1863, the opposition became very virulent, the manner of dealing with which was thus described in the BEACON of June 4, 1863: Our late Senator, Gen. L. V. Bierce, now assistant adjutant general with the rank of major, received a telegram, on Wednesday last, from the provost marshal of Morrow county, that his enrolling officer was meeting with resistance, his life being threatened, if he proceeded with the enrollment, and that he had been twice fired at. Major Bierce immediately made a requisition on Gen. Mason, at Camp Chase, for a sergeant and a squad of ten men, with a supply of ball cartridges and two days rations, and at 4 o'clock P. M. started for the scene of operations. Reaching Gilead on the C. C. & C. 414 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. R. R., 52 miles from Columbus, he marched 14 miles on foot, captured three of the ring-leaders, searched all the secesh houses in the neighborhood, seized a lot of United States arms, and just at daylight started back with his prisoners and booty, delivering his prisoners to the United States Marshal at Mount Gilead, and ariving at Columbus at 11 o'clock A. N. The butternuts of the neighborhood were evidently thoroughly organized, for those pounced upon blew their horns, and sent their women to arouse the faithful, but nary a rescuer put in an appearance, the Morrow county rebellion being effectually squelched by the Major's prompt and vigorous action. GEN. LUCIUS VERUS BIERCE, - born in Cornwall, Conn., Aug. 4, 1801 ; at 15 came with father to Nelson, Portage county, 0., soon after entering Ohio University, at Athens, also engaging in the study of the law, later traveling, teaching and studying three or four years in the South, where, at Athens, Ala., in 1823, he was admitted to practice, a year later being admitted to the Bar in Ohio ; from 1826 to 1837 was prosecuting attorney of Portage county ; in 1836 changed his residence from Ravenna to Akron; in the Fall of that year was married to Miss Frances C. Peck, a teacher in Ravenna, who bore him one son—Walter—who died in infancy. Mrs. Bierce dying suddenly, of heart disease, June 23, 1839, Gen. Bierce was again married, to Miss Sophronia Ladd, a teacher in Akron, Jan. 1, 1840, who bore him a daughter—Ella S., who died Dec. 11, 1864. Taking a great interest in local military matters, he early became a brigadier general of militia, and in the so-called Canada Patriot War, of 1837-39, became commander-in-chief of the Patriot Army. Gen. Bierce served as State Senator from 1861 to 1863. In the War of the Rebellion, besides raising several squads of recruits for the artillery and navy, Gen. Bierce served two years as assistant adjutant general, with the rank of major, in office of provost marshal at Columbus ; in May, 1865, was sent to Madison, Wis., to muster out troops, and then to the command of Fort Washburn, at Milwaukee, being himself mustered out October 7, 1865. Gen. Bierce was mayor of Akron during the years 1839, '41, '44, '49, '67, '68, and President . of Akron's first Board of Education, in 1847. He was a prominent Mason, being elected Grand Master in 1853. Gen. Bierce died Nov. 11, 1876, Mrs. Bierce dying April 24, 1882, having, on September 15, 1875, deeded their homestead, corner High and Market streets, to the city, on condition that it should be forever called "Bierce Park," and that the city should pay them $1,500 a year during their joint lives and $1,000 to the survivor during life, the net cost to the city thus being about $6,500. cm A " BUTTERNUT " DEMONSTRATION. Hess and his rebel-sympathizing compeers evidently took the oaths and pledges alluded to with many mental reservations, for in 1862 they had so far taken partisan form as to put distinct candidates in the field for both general and local civil officers, on platforms of decided hostility to the government, while in 1863 they placed in nomination for governor, against that tried and true Democratic patriot, John Brough, the convicted and banished traitor, Clement L. Vallandigham, supporting him and his incendiary doctrines, both in their papers and upon the rostrum, with the most bitter denunciation of the administration and the brave boys who were fighting for the preservation of the Union. A HOME "BUTTERNUT" DISPLAY - 415 In the beginning of the war, the Union boys had nicknamed the rebel soldiers "Butternuts," from the fact that the majormiity of the southern people, and soldiers before being supplied with gray uniforms, dressed in butternut colored clothing--a sort of a yellowish brown—and, whereas the emblem of the old Jackson Democracy was the hickory tree, emblematic of the inflexible courage and firm tenacity of purpose which gave to Andrew Jackson the sobriquet of " Old Hickory," the bastard democracy, ignoring the Old Hero's hatred of treason, and to manifest their sympathy with traitors, adopted the butternut tree as its emblem, carrying butternut trees and boughs in their processions and wearing upon the lapels of their coats and shirt fronts pins fabricated from the central portion of the butternut shell. A UNIQUE PROCESSION.—In the early Fall of 1863, during the exciting gubernatorial campaign alluded to, headed by that lifelong and patriotic Democrat, John Brough, on the one hand, and by Ohio's expatriated traitor, Clement L. Vallandigham, from his safe retreat just over the border, on the other, the object of the local adherents of the " Martyr " was to make a big demonstration at the capital of "Abolition" Summit county. After several weeks spent in scouring Summit, Portage, Medina, Wayne, Stark and Holmes counties, said demonstration came off on Thursday, October 8i on the fair grounds, overlooking the city on the west, the Grand Army coming in two divisions, from the southeast and the southwest, the latter headed by the watermisoaked " Captain " Hess. The procession, mostly on horse back and in twomihorse lumber wagons, loaded promiscuously with men, women, boys and girls, by actual count just 1,453 persons, one-third of whom were Possibly voters. The horses and wagons were embellished with butternut saplings and every species of anti-administration and antimiwar mottoes, but not a single National flag, and nearly all the men and women wore the butternut pin—the latter being especially prominent in the disloyal display. Though the speakers were very bitter in their denunciation of President Lincoln and Governors Tod and Brough, and the soldiers then battling for the Union, they were quietly listened to by hundreds of true and loyal men, including many soldiers then home on furlough, and everything passed off peaceably, until the eastern division of the procession, in passing along Howard street on their return, commenced to jeer at the boys in blue, and to brandish the huge clubs, butcher-knives and revolvers with which many of hem were armed, with an occasional volley of stones from the agons, at the crowd of spectators upon the sidewalks-one large tone, evidently aimed at the writer, then editor of the BEACON, hitting a now prominent Democrat upon the knee. These wantonly hostile demonstrations were too much for the furloughed soldiers, many of whom had been wounded by real rebel missiles, and in spite of the efforts of many prominent citizens to prevent a collision, the veterans "sailed in," unhorsing and disarming their mounted assailants, stripping from horses and wagons rebelmisympathizing emblems and mottoes, and relieving a ood portion of the crowd, both men and women, of their butternut pins. At one time, at the corner of Howard and Market streets, a serious and bloody riot was imminent, but, happily the affair terminated without serious personal injury to either side. 416 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. Politically, the result of the campaign was, in Summit county a Union majority of 2,276, exclusive of the vote of soldiers at th front who cast 423 votes for Brough, to 11 votes for Vallandigham swelling the Union majority in the county to 2,688, while in th State the Union majority, exclusive of the soldiers' vote, was 61,752 the 39,806 majority given by the boys in the field swelling the pat otic Brough's majority, over his unpatriotic and disloyal coin petitor, to the grand total of 101,598. SUBSEQUENT CALLS, DRAFTS, ETC.—As the war progressed, call for additional troops became frequent and urgent, and the effort of our people to raise bounty money and recruits were correspond ingly increased. In 1863, however, owing to the fact that Ohio ha hitherto sent a larger proportion of men into the field for thre years, than other states, the requisition upon her was compara tively small, about 8,500 only. In the meantime, also, the govern ment had increased its offers of bounty to $300 for new recruit and $400 for re-enlistments, while the 'local bounty, in Portag township, raised by individual subscription, was at that time $150 the recruit being permitted to choose the regiment in which h should serve, with corresponding liberality in other portions of th county and of the State, so that not only Summit county's bu Ohio's full quota was made up previous to the day fixed for th draft, October 26, 1863. Under the call of October 17, 1863, for 300,000 more troops be raised by January 5, 1864, the special government bounties ever continued, President Lincoln closing his proclamation in thee words: "I address myself not only to the governors of the sever states, but also to the loyal people thereof, invoking them to len cheerful, willing and effective aid to the measure thus adopte with a view to reinforce our victorious armies now in the field, an bring our military operations to a prosperous end, thus closin forever the fountains of sedition and cruel war." PORTAGE TOWNSHIP UP TO TIME.-The time for raising th quotas having been extended, the BEACON of February 4, 1864, announced that the quota of Portage township, 65, had been filled with a surplus in the bounty fund of $550.00 In the meanwhile however, an additional 200,000 men had been called for. This had been rendered necessary, from the fact that the large number o soldiers in the field then re-enlisting as veterans, were credited on the quotas of their respective townships, thus reducing the 300, call in reality to about 100,000, whereas it was deemed necessa to put the full 300,000 additional troops into the field. In announcing this call Gov. Brough said: CITIZENS OF OHIO! Shall we hesitate in complying with the requisition laid upon us? Shall we falter in the good work as the end draws near Shall we be laggard under the call to man an army sufficient in a single season to strike the death blow to this rebellion? The loyalty of Ohio wa appealed to last fall at the ballot box, and her people returned a noble response. The patriotism of the State is appealed to now; the answer must not be hesitating or uncertain. SUMMIT'S SECOND DRAFT.—At the instance of Secretary Stanton Congress, by joint resolution, extended the special bounties of $300, and $400 till April 1, 1864, thus postponing the draft under the 200,000 call until that date, and afterwards until Saturday, May 7th, when the draft for Summit County came off at the provost marshal's office in Cleveland. Green, Richfield, Northfield and SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFT ORDERED - 417 Twinsburg, were found to be "out of the woods," and the rest the townships were found to be delinquent as follows: Bath, 2; Boston, 3; Copley, 14; Coventry, 1; Cuyahoga Falls, 5; Franklin, 11; Hudson, 4; Middlebury, 4; Northampton, 13; Norton, 13; Portage, 11; Springfield, 2; Stow, 6; Tallmadge, 4. AKRON'S ROLL OF HONOR.—Including Middlebury and Portage townships,. Akron's Roll of Honor in this draft, was as follows: Moses Huggins, * Russell H. Kent, Martin Tobin, Oliver Perry, George Davis, 2nd, Thomas Maloney, George Morris, Standard W. Hase, Ezra Leonard, Eber Hawkins, Frank Edgerly, John Sudbottom, Foster Tarbell, John Pinkney, Horace Hill, Jacob Shull, Corwin Hamlin, Patrick Costole, George W. Fairbanks, Orlando H. Wilcox, Thaddeus Schnell, Alvin Rice, Lucius Risden, Ezekiel S. Phinney, John Franklin Weygandt. In the previous drafts, fifty per cent more names than the quotas called for were drawn, to provide for exemptions and rejections on final examinations, but in this draft, the exact number called for only were drawn, so that all thus excused would have to he made up by a supplemental draft, or under subsequent calls. We have now no means of knowing how many of the above named drafts were excused (except Alvin Rice excused for defective vision) nor how many personally responded, but the probabilities are that the most of them furnished substitutes, or purchased immunity from service with commutation money. The Government had by this time provided, by law, that any person drafted, or liable to draft, might purchase exemption by the payment of a commutation of $300, the Government thus undertaking to procure substitutes wherever they could be had. To make matters as safe and easy as possible for each other, "pools" were formed-a given number paying a given amount, from $10 to $100, with the understanding that if any member of the pool should be drafted,. he could draw, the. amount of $300 from the common fund, to be used either as commutation to purchase exemption, or as a bounty, should he elect to go into the service himself. Geo. W. Fairbanks,. belonged to a pool of 45 members who chipped in $10 each, making an aggregate of $450. Being the only member of the pool drafted, after drawing his $300 from the fund, the remaining $150 was equally divided among the members, "Wash" thus getting out of the affair for the moderate sum of $6.66 2/3. SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFT.-To make up for those excused under the last draft named, a supplemental draft was ordered to come off early in June, 1864, Summit county's shortage being as follows: Boston, 3; Copley, 8; Cuyahoga Falls, 3; Franklin, 6; Hudson, 4; Middlebury, 1; Norton, 6; Northampton, 4; Portage, 7; Springfield, 2; Stow, 1; all the other townships being full. The deficiencies, however, were promptly made up by the several recruiting and county committees, mostly recruits obtained in Cleveland, and Summit county was again "out of the woods," the committees sent to Columbus, to secure a fair distribution of credits, announcing its success, and the fact that Portage township was for the time being secure from conscription lightning by the following telegram which will speak for itself: COLUMBUS, MARCH 30, 1864. To JAMES CHRISTY, AKRON : The original Muster Rolls of the 29th are received at Adjutant General's office today. Akron is credited with eighty-six men. Hurrah ! J. J. HALL. 27 418 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. COUNTY, CITY AND TOWNSHIP BOUNTY TAX LAW. In view of the fact that in the raising of local bounties, the patriotic and liberal were almost wholly the contributors, while the unpatriotic and illiberal, though enjoying equal benefits of protection to person and property, and the enhanced prices for their produce caused by the war, contributed little or nothing, th Ohio Legislature in March, 1864, enacted a bounty law, the firs section of .which, as follows, explains itself : The commissioners of the several counties, and the councils of sever cities, and the trustees of the several townships in this State, are hereb authorized (if they deem the same expedient), in the year A. D. 1864, to levy tax upon the taxable property of their respective jurisdictions, for the pur pose of raising a fund to pay bounties to volunteers who have enlist or shall enlist in the military or naval service of the United Stat under either of the requisitions of the President in October, 1863, or February, 1864. for 500,000 additional troops, in the aggregate not exceeding on hundred dollars to each volunteer who shall have enlisted or may hereafter enlist therein under the said requisitions, and to pay and reimburse th counties, cities, wards, townships and individuals, all monies paid, pledge or subscribed by them respectively, as and for bounties to volunteers enlisted or who shall enlist under said calls within their respective jurisdictions as aforesaid. A number of the townships of the county availed themselves of the provisions of this law, thus compelling the unwilling to share with the willing a small proportion of the extraordinary pecuniary burdens forced upon them by the exigencies of tho troublous times. SANITARY AND AID SOCIETIES. It will be utterly impossible to convey to the minds of the present generation the magnitude of the Soldier's Aid and Sanitary operations, among the people of the Northern States, during the war. Not only were the families of the soldiers at home to be assisted, according to their several necessities, but the sick and wounded soldiers themselves, in the hospitals, were to be nursed and supplied with medicines, food, clothing, etc., suited to their varied conditions. To this end Soldiers' Aid Societies were organized by the sympathetic and always patriotic women of almost every city, village and township throughout the entire North through which immense supplies were forwarded, monthly, or oftener, each society endeavoring, As far as possible, to send its contributions to those localities where its own dear ones would be most likely to be the beneficiaries thereof. Monthly reports of their contributions were published regularly in the BEACON, comprising many columns of solid nonpareil type, from which, as a sample of the whole, we quote as follow,. from the Copley District No. 3, report for August, 1864: Membership fees, $12.40; proceeds of dime parties, $11.60; grab parties, $7.25; Mrs. W. B., five pillow cases, two rolls bandages, outside for one quilt, one roll of cloth, one roll of cotton batting, three bottles of currant wine; Mrs. K., one quilt lining, batting and four blocks for quilt, four rolls bandages, one pillow, six pounds dried apples; Mrs. S., six bottles blackberry syrup, one roll old cotton, two wounds cherries, etc., the list containing the names of 57 ladies, ith similar contributions, embracing shirts, drawers, dried beef, cheese, soap, towels, books, papers, fans, pin balls, etc., filling tw good-sized packing boxes. PATRIOTISM AND PLEASANTRY - 419 A similar detailed report of the Akron Soldiers' Aid Society for the same month, summing up as follows: Two boxes sent to Cleveland, containing three shirts, thirteen pairs drawers, two boxes lint, one pair socks, five towels, twenty-five handkerchiefs, seventeen bundles rags, sixteen pounds dried fruit, one bag hops, two packages of papers, twenty-eight magazines, one bushel onions. Two boxes sent to Hospital No. 1, Nashville, Tenn., containing thirteen fans, twelve towels, two quilts, five pillows, sixteen magazines, twenty-six handkerchiefs, eleven shirts, one bag hops, sixteen pin balls, three pairs slippers, two quarts dried currants, books, papers and rags. GRAND WOOD AND PROVISION CELEBRATION.—As a further sample of the spirit which animated all our people, and of their desire to assist the families of ,those who were fighting for them at the front, a wood and provision celebration was organized, the glorious outcome of which can be best imparted to the reader of these pages, by what the writer then said of it, editorially, in the BEACON of December 24, 1863: " The wood and provision celebration, on Thursday last, proved to be a most triumphant success. Notwithstanding the awful condition of the roads, and the forbidding aspect, of the weather, the supplies began to arrive early, and at 11 o'clock, under the marshalship of George D. Bates, Esq., and his wide awake assistants, the procession was formed at the corner of Howard and Market streets, and, headed by the Akron Guards and their fine band of martial music, proceeded up Market to Broadway, up Broadway to Mill, down Mill to Howard and down Howard to Market, from whence the wagons proceeded to the several places designated by the committee for depositing their various contents. BANQUETING THE CONTRIBUTORS.—" On delivering his donations, each man was furnished with a ticket which admitted him to Tappan Hall, where the Ladies of the Soldiers' Aid Society had prepared a magnificent dinner, consisting of roast turkey, baked and stewed chicken, chicken pie, roast beef, pork and beans, mashed potatoes, turnips, cabbage, pickles and relishes in great abundance, bread and butter, pies, cakes, hot coffee, etc., etc. Not only were the multitude ' abundantly 'filled,' but there remained 'many baskets full' of choice provisions for those for whose benefit the affair had been gotten up. "The train consisted of from 80 to 90 wagons, mostly from our own township, though quite a number from Copley, Coventry, Middlebury, Tallmadge, Northampton and other towns generously united, hot only in swelling the dimensions of the procession, but the pile of supplies, also." A list of the contributors, with the articles donated, and their value, occupies fully a column and a half, which may be briefly summarized as follows: Cash, $375; wood, 40 cords; coal, 15 tons; potatoes, 200 bushels; flour, 8 barrels; meat, 800 pounds; apples, 25 bushels; cabbage, 100 heads; beets and turnips, 10 bushels; wheat, 7 bushels; corn, 9 bushels; beans, 3 bushels; chickens, 16; orders for goods, $50; with dried apples, apple-butter, pumpkins, etc., the aggregate value being between $700 and $800. PATRIOTISM AND PLEASANTRY.-Illustrative of the genial good nature with which these contributions were made, and of the 420 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. devices made for augmenting them, we quote as follows: " Mr. William B. Raymond banteringly proposed to Mr. Jacob Oberholser that he (Raymond) would contribute a barrel of flour if he (Oberholser) would wheel it around the square in the procession on a wheel-barrow, which challenge was promptly accepted, and duly executed. Messrs. James Mathews, George C. Berry and David A. Scott each proposed to perform similar feats, if the flour was furnished them, whereupon George W. McNeil, George Buel, John Memmer, John L. Noble, John J. Wagoner, W. G. Robinson, William C. Allen, Charles R. Howe, Jacob Oberholser and others, chipped in from one to two dollars each, and purchased the flour; Mr. C. G. Auble, then clerking for Milton W. Henry and Jacob Oberholser, offering to "tote" a hog upon his shoulder, in the procession, if his fellow clerks would pay for it. The hog was purchased and the four wheelmibarrows, and their plucky drivers, and the stalwart bearer of the " patriotic grunter," with festoons of red, white and blue ribbon depending from its snout and tail, elicited rounds of applause along the line of march; our late patriotic colored fellow-citizen, William D. Stevens, bringing up the rear, with a pole across his shoulder from the end of which depended a nice large ham labeled " The Union," and underneath a lean and haggled ham bone labeled "The Southern Confederacy Played Out." 1864—RECRUITING IN THE REBEL STATES. The experiences of 1864 were but a repetition of those of 1862 and 1863, only many times intensified, requiring the utmost exertion and vigilance on the part of the various military committees to secure correct enrollments and proper credits thereon, and to fill the various requisitions for men. Not only were the services of from 90,000 to 100,000 National Guards accepted and faithfully rendered, but on the 18th day of July, 1864, President Lincoln issued another call for 500,000 more men, who, under the then recent act' of Congress, could enlist for one, two or three years, as they might elect, and designating September 5, as the day for holding the draft in districts whose quotas had not previously been filled. The same act authorized the procurement of recruits, for filling the quotas of northern States, from the "contraband" and other loyal inhabitants of certain of the southern States, the third section reading as follows: SECTION III. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Executive of any State, to send recruiting agents into any of the States declared to be in rebellion, except the States of Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana, to recruit volunteers under any call under the provision of this act, who shall be credited to the State, and to the respective sub-divisions thereof which may procure the enlistment. GIVING THE NEW PLAN A TRIAL.—Under the provisions of this act, the trustees of the several townships of the county met at the Court House, on Friday, July 22, 1864, to devise ways and means for carrying it into effect. Col. Simon Perkins was called to the chair, and a resolution was adopted that, under the provisions of the township bounty tax, heretofore spoken of, the trustees of the several townships borrow upon their official bonds the sum of $100 for each man wanted by their respective townships, John E. Hurlbut, of Richfield, being selected as Summit county's OUR QUOTA AGAIN FULL - 421 agent to procure said enlistments, and preparations were immediately commenced for carrying this plan into effect, all the townships reporting on the following Monday, and placing in the hands of Col. Perkins the sum of $100 for each man needed to fill their several quotas under the call. In the meantime, however, it transpired that only one agent for each Congressional District was to be appointed, and on Saturday, July 23, the military committees of the three counties composing the Eighteenth Congressional District—Summit, Lake and Cuyahoga—met at Cleveland, and selected Mr. C. E. Wilson, of that city, as such agent. A NOVEL BUT PROFITLESS SCHEME.—At this meeting of the military committees, a Doctor DeLaney, of Pittsburg, submitted a proposition to fill the quota of the district for $100 per head, in addition to the Government bounty, the doctor to deposit $5,000, as a guarantee for the faithful performance of his agreement, and the bounty money not to be paid over until the recruits had been accepted and mustered in. The contract was closed with the doctor, and he and Mr. Wilson proceeded to Columbus, and obtaining proper authority from Gevernor Brough immediately started for the South, but with what result may be inferred from the following paragraph from an editorial penned by the writer, in the BEACON of August 11, 1864: Although we have nothing definite as to how the person who took the contract of filling the quota for this district in the rebel States, is getting along, we understand that the regular constituted agent, under whom the contractor was to operate has intimated that but little can be done from the fact that other localities, represented there, were offering from $100 to $150 greater bounties than he was authorized to pay. We would again beg of our people to urge forward the matter of obtaining volunteers at home, and of laboring, one and all, for reducing the quotas to the lowest possible limit by the 5th of September. A large number of volunteers can be obtained within the time specified, if the people, en masse, take hold of the matter in earnest. Let it be done by all means. AT WORK IN GOOD EARNEST.—Seeing the impossibility of securing our quota, (about sixty men), for Portage township, by the plan indicated, a rousing meeting was held at Tappan Hall on Monday evening, August 22, 1864, to take measures for securing the necessary recruits at home. To this end it was resolved that every enrolled man in the township should contribute $30 to a fund, which, with the amount provided by the trustees, would give each recruit a local bounty of $400, in addition to the Government bounty, and if the entire quota could not be raised by this means, each man drafted, who had thus contributed his $30, should draw the like sum of $400 from said fund as a bounty to himself, or with which to hire a substitute. A week later it was announced that Cuyahoga Falls, Richfield, Northampton and several outside towns had raised their full quotas, and that Portage township had recruited and mustered in about 40 men. Other portions of the State being equally vigilant and successful, the draft was deferred until September 24, 1864. Previous to the day named, Portage and most of the other townships of the county, had filled their quotas, and the others nearly so, the four or five townships finally drafted, all furnishing the requisite number of recruits before the examinations of the drafted men were completed, the BEACON of October 13, 1864, editorially saying : Every township in this county has filled its quota and not a 422 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. drafted man from Glorious Little Summit has gone into the army. Let us rejoice, not only that we are able to send our full proportion of soldiers to fight the rebels in the South, but that we have also a sufficient number of men still left to defeat the rebels at home, through the ballot box, by a largely increased majority." The draft throughout the State all passed off quietly, though in the midst of a very heated Presidential campaign, and in spite of the persistent threats of the "copperheads" that another draft in Ohio should never take place, the entire draft for the State being but 9,006 men, the excess of recruits raised in certain localities giving to the State a small credit on the final call. THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE! December 19, 1864, Secretary Stanton announced to the country, by telegram, that President Lincoln had issued a call for 300,000 men to make up for the deficiency occasioned by credits to the several states under previous calls; the requisition to be filled by February 15, 1865. Hon. Alphonso Hart, State Senator for Summit and Portage counties, introduced a bill, which was passed into a law, authorizing city councils and township trustees to levy a tax to the extent of $200 on each recruit necessary to fill their respective quotas, on any call of the President subsequent to Jul 18, 1864, and to borrow money upon city and township bonds in anticipation of the collection of such a tax. The several quotas of Summit county announced under this call were: Bath, 24; Boston, 15; Copley, 24; Coventry, 16; Cuyahoga Falls, 15; Franklin, 30; Green, 25; Hudson, 15; Middlebury, 6; Northampton, 9; Northfield, 14; Norton, 18; Portage, 115; Richfield, 13; Springfield, 25; Stow, 10; Tallmadge, 12; Twinsburg, 3. So great had been the strain upon the patriotic impulses and pockets of the people, that there was, for a time, a disposition to let the draft take its course, and let those liable to be struck by it either respond in person, or secure substitutes for themselves as best they could. WAKING UP AT LAST--GLORIOUS RESULT.-But, fortunately, there were a few "Never Say Die" fellows in Akron, like Simon, Perkins, John R. Buchtel, J. Park Alexander, George W. Crouse Charles B. Bernard, David L. King and others equally patriotic, and similar resolute men in all the other townships of the county, who determined to clear their respective townships, and, if possible the entire county, from a draft under the last call that would probably be made for troops, the rebellion being then upon its very "last legs." To this end, at a largely attended meeting at. Tappan Hall, early in February, 1865, a committee, consisting of, John R. Buchtel, George W. Crouse, J. Park Alexander and Charles B. Bernard, was appointed and given full authority to adopt such measures as they might deem advisable for filling the quota of Portage township without a draft. THE ASSESSMENT PLAN ADOPTED. —A careful canvass of the-village and township was had, and an assessment made upon every business and professional man, farmer and mechanic, according to his known or supposed ability to pay, which several parties were visited and kindly, but somewhat imperatively, A MAGNIFICENT OUTCOME - 423 invited to liquidate said assessments. Of course there were some demurrers and pleas in abatement interposed, and some deep down though not very loud, damnatory expressions indulged in, but as a general thing all promptly "forked over" the amount thus demanded of them. OVER THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS RAISED.—In less than a week, so energetic was the action of the committee, there was over $32,000 in cash in the hands of its treasurer, Charles B. Bernard, Esq. In the meantime it was found that by reason of not having received proper credits, and by the blunders of the enrolling officer in placing upon the list aliens and others well-known to be exempt from military duty, the quota for Portage township, as given above, was fully double what it should have been. Permission having been received from the provost marshal of the State, on Saturday evening, February 18, to correct the lists on which the final assignments were to be made at 8 o'clock on the following Monday morning, by telegraphic arrangement with the enrolling board a special train, with a large number of enrolled men claiming exemption for alienage, disability, etc., proceeded to Cleveland on Sunday afternoon, the final quota of the township being fixed at 68, which was still something like twenty more than it properly should have been, the other townships of the county remaining the same as stated above. ENTIRELY " OUT OF THE WOODS." — The draft, though not formally postponed, was delayed to give such localities as were earnestly working to fill their quotas, by voluntary enlistment, an opportunity to do so. The committee paid to each home recruit a bounty of $500, and to outsiders such sums as might be agreed upon, the BEACON of February 23, 1865, announcing that 54 recruits, mostly citizens of Portage township, had already been mustered in and the good work still progressing favorably. Suffice it to say, that the balance of the recruits needed were duly obtained and mustered in, with a surplus in the hands of the committee's treasurer of nearly $3,000, which, happily, not being needed for military purposes, having been mostly contributed by the citizens of Akron, was, with accrued interest, by request of the principal contributors, subsequently paid over to the Board of Managers of the Akron Library Association, as will be found stated in detail elsewhere, thus inuring to the intellectual benefit of the survivors of those of our citizens whose valor made such beneficent institutions among us possible, and to their sons and daughters. OTHER TOWNSHIPS ALSO UP TO TIME.—The assessment system was also adopted by the recruiting committees of most of the other townships of the county, being generally acquiesced in, though in certain localities creating considerable friction and bad-blood, a frightful example of which is given in the chapter on Stow, by which two reputable citizens were deprived of life and the third consigned to a felon's cell. "Bounty Jumping" so extensively prevailed, where men, after being accepted and duly credited and receiving their bounties, would desert before arrival at the front, to repeat the operation, under a change of name, in some other locality, it is very doubtful if one-half of those recruited outside of their own proper counties, ever reached the army, a condition of things largely or, 424 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY. encouraged by the swarms of 'unscrupulous "Bounty Brokers" that infested Cleveland, and the principal cities of Ohio and other States, during the latter part of the war. THE COLLAPSE OF THE REBELLION. Summit's last quota was thus filled, and all her military obligations to the imperiled Government fully canceled. We can not definitely determine the exact number of men put into the field, as a county, or as separate townships, for the reason that the assessors' returns include but few of the original Three Months' men or the Hundred Day men, nor any of the recruits mustere in under the last call, nor the number of men that were obtained in Cleveland and elsewhere, to fill our respective quotas, as above detailed. The Assessors' reports for 1865, purporting to give the name of all then or previously in the service from their respective town ships, foot up as follows: Bath, 71; Boston, 140; Copley, 124; Coventry, 77; Cuyahoga Falls, 107; Franklin, 118; Green, 108; Hudson, 105; Middlebury, 63; Northfield, 109; Northampton, 87 Norton, 73; Portage, 443; Richfield, 76; Springfield, 145; Stow, 83; Tallmadge, 120; Twinsburg, 108,—total for county 2,157. Allowing one half of the last call to have been filled with home material, and counting in the Three Months' men of 1861, the Squirrel Hunter of 1862, and the Hundred Day men of 1864, we have an aggregate o not far from 3,000 men—citizens of Summit county—while those recruited elsewhere, would swell the grand total to at least 3,500 to say nothing of the hundreds who, after serving their origina term of three years, re-enlisted as veterans, and were counted a so many recruits, in making up quotas, under subsequent calls. LITTLE SUMMIT IN THE VAN. The official report, at the close of the war, shows the status o the several counties of the State, in regard to the outcome of th final call, in which Summit compares favorably with her siste counties, as the following figures abundantly show: Summit—quota 363, recruits furnished 316, deficit (after receiving proper credit on former quotas) 4; Stark-quota 408, recruits 373, draft 5, deficit 30; Wayne—quota 357, recruits 279, draft 3, deficit 45; Portage—quota 264, recruits 214, draft 25, deficit 5; Cuyahoga—quota 669, recruits 407, draft 13, deficit 249; Holmes—quota 197, recruits 157, deficit 70; Tuscarawas—quota 380, recruits 252, deficit 128; Knox—quota 349, recruits 206, draft 8, deficit 144; sixty-five counties showing an aggregate deficit of 2,827, sixteen counties an aggregate surplus of 88 and seven counties coming out even, making a net deficit in the State of 2,739. BRIEF SPECIAL MENTION.--Many of Akron's volunteer soldiers, other than those mentioned in the foregoing sketch, deserve honorable mention for their devotion and heroism during the long and bloody struggle, but want of space and lack of proper data forbids. Without disparagement to others, however, may be mentioned the late Dr. George P. Ashmun, who entered the service August 14, 1862, as surgeon of the 93d 0. V. I.; captured, contrary to all civilized rules of war, while caring for the wounded and dying on the field of battle, and confined in Libby prison for